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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark

Season 4, Episode 8, Aired Nov 17, 1996

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Lois and Clark finally make new friends... Bob and Carol Stanford... who seem as much like them it's uncanny. They like the same books, the same foods, have the same hobbies... and they seem to have much more than that in common, as Bob is secretly the assassin known as Deathstroke.moreless

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Antonio Sabàto Jr.

Bob Stanford
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Kenneth Mars

Grant Gendell
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Sydney Walsh

Carol Stanford

Dean Cain

Clark Kent/Superman
Teri Hatcher

Lois Lane
Lane Smith

Perry White
Justin Whalin

Jimmy Olsen (seasons 2-4)

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- At DVD timestamp 8:34 it is very easy to see that the alley they used is the same set as the ambulance bay in the show ER.
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- We learn some of Lois' favourite foods: homemade chocolate eclairs, baked meatloaf, jellied madrilene, double loin lamb chops vert pre, spring chicken, fresh fruit supreme, smoked salmon, crab meat cocktail, creamed holland herring, bluepoint oysters on ice, little neck clams on ice, cold mulligatawny with apple, soup or comsomme du jour and chicken cacciatore.
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- Superman: Deathstroke. Deathstroke: Superman. Lois: Carol. Carol: Lois. Lois: Bob. Deathstroke (whispers to Carol): She recognizes me! Carol (whispers): I've always said that glasses weren't enough of a disguise.
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- Lois: Oh, I get it. These aren't really street people. They're undercover bodyguards? Denzler: No, They're street people. Lois: Well, where is your security? Denzler: Our security is in only hiring people we can trust. Lois: But you don't trust anybody. Denzler: Exactly.
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- Denzler: Is anyone in your life familiar with the use of plastique, AK-47s, strychnine, or similar explosives, weapons, or poisons? Lois: Only my mother. Gendell: Ha ha ha! I do like this girl! Denzler: Yes. Are you now, or have you ever been employed by Gendell Technologies or any of it's subsidiaries? Lois: No. Gendell: Or are you acquainted with any employee, past or present? Lois: Not until today. Denzler: Aha! Gendell: She means you, you idiot!
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- Gendell: Have you visited a foreign country in the last 7 months? Lois: Does New Jersey count?
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- Pete: What I'm about to tell you is off the record... for now. Clark: Ok. Pete: Normally, we could handle this ourselves, but... You see anybody standing next to me? Clark: No. Pete: That's because there isn't anybody. They fired my partner. They fired everybody's partner. Took away my car with all the cool stuff in it. Had an ejection seat, you know? A real one. Clark: I'm real sorry about that, Pete. Pete: Budget cuts.
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- This isn't the only time Antonio Sabato Jr. has played a supernaturally powered hitman. He also played Bane Jessup in the Charmed episodes "Ms. Hellfire" and "Give Me a Sign".
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- Kenneth Mars is credited as Special Guest Star in the credits.
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- In the final scene of the episode as Lois, Clark, Mr. Gendell, and his date walk out, Clark asks Mr. Gendell if he likes the Buffalo Bills. Dean Cain played for the Buffalo Bills before suffering a sports injury.
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- The "fly in some girl's chardonnay" song that Mr. Gendell is referencing is "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette.
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- Deathstroke Deathstroke the Terminator (Slade Wilson), also called simply Deathstroke, is a fictional character appearing in the DC Comics Universe. He is a mercenary and assassin.
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- The title is a paraphrase of the title of the 1969 film Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.
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- While describing a walk that he and his girlfriend took through the subway, Jimmy tells Lois that he almost expected to meet the Mole people. This is undoubtedly a reference to Superman and the Mole-Men, the 1951 feature film that later became a two-part episode "The Unknown People" of The Adventures of Superman with George Reeves.
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