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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

The House of Luthor (2)

Season 1, Episode 22, Aired May 08, 1994

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Clark, Perry, Jack and Jimmy begin to search for the truth about the downfall of the Daily Planet. They are sure that Lex is guilty. Lex gets some Kryptonite, captures Superman, and locks him in a cage with Kryptonite bars. The wedding is about to start, but Lois has doubts about what she really wants to do. Lois realizes that Clark is the man she loves. When the Archbishop asks if she takes Lex as her husband, she says she can't, and at that moment Perry interrupts the wedding with Inspector Henderson and they tell Lex they know he is a criminal. Lex escapes, and goes to the room where Superman is trapped, but Superman has escaped. Lois walks out of the building crying, and hugs Clark (he just escaped from the cage). Lex throws himself off the top of his building, but Clark can't save him because he is weak from Kryptonite exposure. The Daily Planet is bought a by a rich man, who promises to make it better than ever. Before Lois can tell Clark she loves him, Clark says that he was lying to Lois about being in love with her and that he would say anything to keep her away from Lex (but he was crossing his fingers behind his back).moreless

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Richard Belzer

Inspector Henderson
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James Earl Jones

Franklin W. Stern
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Phyllis Coates

Ellen Lane

Michael Landes

Jimmy Olsen (season 1)
Teri Hatcher

Lois Lane
Lane Smith

Perry White
John Shea

Lex Luthor (season 1)
Dean Cain

Clark Kent/Superman

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Lex Luthor has finally killed the Daily Planet and has put all of Lois's friends out on seprate and unproserious paths. All to be able to have Lois for his own, but little knowing that this villiany will be his own downfall.moreless

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By sh811a, Jul 13, 2006

This is a fitting conclusion to "The House of Luthor" two parter. We have seen the lengths he has gone but as the rule of fame goes, "The higher you climb, the faster you fall." And he falls big time, it's rewarding to see the good guys take revenge against a man that betrayed them. But most of all just seeing more of Luthor being more villianous as he finally has Superman's life in his hands and gives a venumous slightly mocking monalogue toward Superman, all this happens before the wedding. Through this final action we know Luthor is obvously not the one for Lois, and throughout the episode and final act we wait in anticipation for Lois to make the right chose and Luthor getting his taste of what is called poetic justice.moreless
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TRIVIA (2)
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- Lex: She's beautiful, therefore to be wooed, she's beautiful, therefore to be won. That's Henry the Fifth. Actually, that's from another play by Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
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- Nitpick: In the opening scene, (Super) Lex is flying through Metropolis. The cityscape they used is Chicago's instead of NYC's.
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QUOTES (5)
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- Lois: (seeing who will be performing the ceremony) The Archbishop?! Lex: Yes, I'm sorry, the Pope had a previous engagement.
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- Superman: (within the Kryptonite cage) Luthor! Lex: Oh, how strange to hear you say my name and know that it may be for the last time!
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- (talking to Superman) Lex: Have a nice death.
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- Lex: (standing on the ledge) Lex Luthor will not live in a cage. Did you know this was the highest building in Metropolis, top of the world? (he jumps)
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- (After being discovered) Lex: Lois, I am sorry, we'll have to take a raincheck, something has come up.
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NOTES (6)
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- Tracy Scroggins, who plays Cat, does not appear in this episode.
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- There is an easter egg on the sixth DVD of the first season. From the disc's Main Menu select "Special Features". Once you're on the next menu screen, highlight the menu entry "Taking Flight" and press your Left. This will highlight the words "Extra! Extra!" in red. Press Enter button and you will be treated to a 30-second interview clip with K. Callan about how she is still recognized as Martha Kent.
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- Last episode with Michael Landes as Jimmy Olsen.
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- Phyllis Coates was television's first Lois Lane. She played Lois from 1952 to 1953 on Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves. She also appeared in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, also starring George Reeves.
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- John Shea (Luthor) leaves the regular cast after this episode.
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- This episode is a sequel to "Barbarians at the Planet" and both are the two part season 1 finale.
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- The Fall of the House of Luthor This tabloid newspaper headline evokes Edgar Allen Poe's 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher , a Gothic tale of a sinister country home and the decadent family living within it coming to a catastrophic end at the same time.
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- When asked about who framed him for the explosion, Jack responds, "Pete Black and his brother John". The character of John Black is very well-known from the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives.
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- Lex: Et tu, Mrs Cox?! Lex is paraphrasing the famous last words of Julius Caesar as he was being assassinated on the floor of the Roman Senate. When he saw that Marcus Junius Brutus, who had been like a son to the Dictator was among those stabbing him, he asked, "Et tu, Brute?" which translates as "You as well, Brutus?". Unlike Lex, when Caesar saw Brutus amongst his murderers he resigned himself to his fate and died without further struggle.
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- Lex: (singing) Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night... Lex is singing the song "Tonight" from West Side Story. But Lex is singing his fate more than he knows- Tony dies at the end of West Side Story.
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- Jimmy: Checking the Mailbox: When Jimmy finds the mailbox of John Black, an envelope is in the large mail slot below and the bottom of an upside down Batman symbol is visable. Clearly, this is a nod to Superman's fellow DC hero Batman.
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