The Weekly Planet - Adventures of Superman - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

2025 is quickly becomming the year of Superman with the DCU reboot courtesy of James Gunn. So over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at THREE classic Superman TV shows, starting with Adventures of Superman from 1952 starring George Reeves. It's a hell of a show propelled the character to new heights and lead to the increased populatiry of both Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane before tragically concluding with the passing of it's lead actor after six seasons. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.coQm/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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a look at some iconic Superman television series. It's just occurred to me that perhaps when we speak about this particular topic We're gonna attract maybe an audience that is in our regular audience people who are dead Yes, precisely. They're gonna rise from their graves and they're gonna be like how dare you besmirch the memory of this one of ours You're a garbage first of all, yes, we are a garbage. That much is true. But also, this is a series that pokes a gentle amount of fun at various things, including many things that we like.

That's right. It's just, we're just doing a little recap, perhaps of a hidden gem or something like that. That being said, these are... They're of their time. They're of their time, aren't they? I found a lot of this quite charming. You can say charming, I'll say hokey.

I did have fun watching these. These are, this is, oh, we haven't even got to it. This is The Adventures of Superman, the American TV series from the early 50s, 1952? Well, it started with Superman and the Mole Men, the feature film in 1951, which ran for 58 minutes, and was actually theatrical. and then there was six seasons Uh-huh starting from 1952 and boy what a run it had and what what a tale

Just behind the scenes of this which we'll get into please leave a like by the way because we are we are here We're you know scurrilous in here for the gossip because we are a garbage correct as our viewers know yeah That's right But it's interesting because watching a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff and reading about it They did find an element of this really tricky which some Superman writers do that if you make him invincible And can see anybody from anywhere and do anything. Yeah, where's the peril you make him stupid? You make him stupid a lot of the time is how you do it because your other option is create or use villains from the comics that are just as invincible as him and then

you have you know sort of anime style laser battles in the sky above Metropolis but that's expensive. You could just put a guy in a lead helmet. You could do that. There are no comic book villains in this and you might be like, are you exaggerating? No, there are literally no comic book villains in this. Some of them may have become later. Yeah, but the three episodes we watched specifically, and you chose these? Well based on kind of the different eras of this show, because it went through a few iterations and a few casting changes and it made the switch to colour. So we of course looked at the pilot called Superman on Earth. We then looked at the stolen costume from season 2 and perils of Superman in season 6

Yeah, right, uh-huh and also I dabbled in and out of other kind of oh, yeah episodes and clips, etc Yeah, yeah, but no so the idea was that a lot of the writing in this yes He is stupid, but also you have to put somebody else in peril that he has to save. Who's even more stupid. Yeah, so he doesn't know what's happening or where they are and he has to kind of be somewhere at a certain time. Sure, sure, sure. Etc. Yeah, I get it. So forth.

Superman is of course played by George Reeves. Mm-hmm. No relation to Christopher Reeve. That's right. Different last names. Different set of movies that we already looked at all of them. That's right. Except for The Flash, he is technically in that. and so is George Reeves. We'll get to it

So yeah, I guess we just start with the origin story of Superman on Earth and a lot of it is just what you know Yes, council of Kryptonians being like we don't think the planet's got to explode and one guy's like I think it might Well, what you know, you're just a scientist're just a scientist yeah presumably up to this point we've believed in your Scientific research, and that's why you're in this council, but on this particular We mock you look what I would say is they've they've got 25 minutes and $25 and a ham sandwich to make to cover the entire Superman origin and for that I think they did a pretty good job absolutely there is a moment of course where it is pretty much stated outright that there would be room in the rocket for both the baby

Kal-el and his mom and his mom's just like nah, I'd rather just explode here Yeah, just I'd rather just die on Krypton with my husband Well, Jor-el also was initially like what are you getting the rocket and she's like don't we have a baby? He's like, oh, yeah, but I get the she's like, don't we have a baby? And he's like, oh yeah. Better get the baby. Better get the baby in another room. And let me tell you, that baby's room is spectacular. Didn't spare a Kryptonian cent on that.

It's just, boy it's luxurious. Not this room, which is white. Well, you did a bit of research on the cost of this show. I did. This was low budget even for its time. On average each episode cost $15,000 and if you adjust for inflation that's $180,000 an episode which sounds like a lot but when you consider the CWs Superman and Lois cost $5 million an episode. Exactly. You know. Yeah. It looks a little bit better. They look the same to me because I'm caught up in the magic of it. Absolutely. Well, they got around a lot of the cost-cutting methods

of this by obviously reusing a lot of shots of Superman flying. Initially, they did a lot of wire work with George Reeves, but he fell once, a wire snapped, and he went, I'm not doing that. So they just have him bust in and out of walls. That's right. Like leap on a little trampoline,

either in frame or out of frame, which I think absolutely works. I mean, in frame is worse, especially if you can see the trampoline either in frame or out of frame, which I think absolutely works. I mean in frame is worse, especially if you can see the trampoline. Sure, but also for the season what they do, they'd shoot all the dialogue scenes for the entire season at once and then you kind of you capture all that at the one time and then you spread it out over the season and that's why they're always wearing the same clothes. Yeah, sure. Because then you can kind of chop and change what you're doing And then they did the more special effects kind of stunt heavy kind of work

All the stunt heavy work All the stunt heavy work Mason But yeah, but I tell you what again the origin is pretty much the same well his parents are called Eben and Sarah Kent This is his Earth- His Earth origin I should say yeah And it even has Eben Kent having a heart- or Eben Kent having a heart attack. That actor, uncredited in the show. What?

Yeah. Other people uncredited, little Geoffrey Silver who plays little Clark Kent. He's quite good actually. I thought he was acting his little heart out. He's got his little greaser denim dungarees and his little leather jacket. Why am I different? Yeah. Why am I strong?

What can I see through this rock? Shut up. Okay. I mean it'll be a whole new universe It wouldn't if they continued the continuity of Clark Kent's parents being Ebon and Sarah Mm-hmm, because then when when Batman is on the verge of murdering Superman in that movie we all know about with a kryptonite spear. How's he gonna relate to him? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My mum also had a name. You know? Different. Sure. But still, you know. A name. Some people have mums without a name. So true.

So after season one though, there was a slight casting change, which you probably noticed because she looks dramatically different and her hair is a different colour. You don't know that in black and white, do you? Well, eventually you do, but Lois Lane, played by Phyllis Coates was taken over by Noelle Neal. Her and Kirk Allen actually played Lois Lane's parents in Superman the movie. You see them on the train together. Kirk Allen of course played Superman in the previous iteration of this character. Yeah huh. I think the actor who plays Jimmy Olsen is also in a subsequent thing.

Oh interesting. I think he's in, he's in, he's in, it's on the screen. It's on the screen, there it is. Could be related or it might not be related. There's the clip. But the reason also they got Noelle Neal. Cheaper? No, she also played Lois in the Kirk Allen version. Oh I see. So they're like this is a seamless transition, I guess it is. James, here's a seamless transition for you. I just forgot to note, I love the opening sequence to this. You know, it's got the classic opening of like, he's faster than a speeding bullet, he's more powerful than a locomotive.

He can leap tall buildings in a single bounce. Should we show Superman doing any of those things? Nah, just the stock shot of a gun firing I guess building should we have him flying past the bullet really fast? No, don't worry about it. Should we have him pushing the train back? No, just show a train. It's fine buildings People have said but this is all relatable stuff. The trains also not going that fast. Well, it's yeah, but it's going powerfully Isn't it? I guess it is. That's a really good point It wasn't faster than a train it was more powerfully than a train than a train and then he's there and he's big in his big Suit with his big shoulders that you find, you know, he finally graduates to being adult Superman and I like God

He I mean, he's a very adult man this version of Superman Yeah, I know one of the things that George Reeves didn't like about this, especially towards the end I mean he took on the role I think initially at like 38 and it was like mid 40s by the time it wrapped up and it wrapped up because he was potentially murdered and or killed himself. We will get to that but yeah it definitely got to the point where he's like I don't know man I don't know about this you know jumping around all the time and did this have an audience of children and adults? It did but he perceived it as just kids right but that was also something he took really seriously. There is talk that he didn't like it

and he got typecast and there are other things that he wanted to do. But he always, he wouldn't smoke around kids. If they thought he was Superman, he wouldn't take that away from them. That was difficult in the 1950s to not smoke around kids, my goodness. Absolutely, yeah.

I used to cut off the S of the old Superman costumes and they got worn down and like give them to the kids So Jack Larson who played Jimmy Olsen He said he only heard him complain about it once When he said being dressed as Superman was like being in a monkey suit But most of the time very professional genuinely respected what he was doing and the audience which wasn't just kids also He only complained once but he did it for six years. He started, and then he stopped. All of a sudden. Yeah, boy you would have.

So my favourite episode of the three we watched. Okay, well we watched the first one obviously, the origin story. You get it, et cetera. Pretty good, and then he shows up and the periwites like, who's this young kid, I'm not giving you a job. And then he's like, what if I reported on something really amazing and then by chance there's a guy hanging off he's hanging off a balloon and then Superman shows up and then Lois Lane's like you son of a bitch

how'd you get there first and get this scoop I'll kill you well good luck yeah try and shoot him he'll just stand there yeah I'm indestructible but I'm stupid so you know good luck for the next. Is this because this continuity She would never have does she discover a secret? I don't believe so No, and she would have also I mean that was also the comics at this point, right? Yeah Yeah, I mean they didn't get Superman and Lois didn't get married to like the 90s, you know So at this point these characters and therefore the actors are trapped in this yeah kind of limbo of This status quo limbo where nothing ever changes.

There is an episode where Lois Lane dreams that she marries Superman. That's the entire episode and then she wakes up but even in that, Clark N and Superman are different people to her. I mean everybody had a hat and glasses in the 40s. What does anybody look like? They were obscured by cigarette smoke all day. Anyways, again the second episode we watched was the stolen costume Where Superman arrives home to discover that his secret closet has been raided? Oh my god, and what has been taken his special Superman suit, which is indestructible we find out That's right

It was made from his baby blanket that he arrived to earth on which is true in a lot of these Superman continuity It's it's a really big closet to hold just one thing. Yeah, and the guy's just like There it is there it is and then he gets shot on his escape and he goes to his criminal buddies And they're like we got Superman suit. Let's find out who Superman is more blackmail him. Yeah, we'll blow him up with a bomb Maybe blow him up with a bomb and if he doesn't die from the ball Well, no, he's Superman give him a call. We'll give him a call. But of course, Superman, you know, he's- He's ahead of them. Don't worry about that. If you think Superman is gonna drop the ball on this- Because he's got inherent Kryptonian super intelligence. So, you know, this isn't a problem for him.

Yeah. So what he does- And he can see through anything. He can see through walls, he could see across the city, he could- couldn't he just, you know- He could listen out. He could listen out for the- For the rustling- Of his Kryptonian fabric. It'd be the only one on earth Yeah, but he takes the wise first step as he engages the the services of a private investigator

And he goes oh my my papa got robbed and I need you to find the thing that they took when they take Clark I can't say from where? Just just around my house just around it, so what am I what am I? I can't say what am I looking? Where am I going? No, I can't say It's just this this this grown-ass man this 38, but looks 50 man Just just panicking also bearing in mind that they do become more family-friendly as they go They thought they were too dark and it was because of episodes like this,

like trying to kill Superman with a bomb. I mean, it hasn't gotten that dark thus far, James. No, that's true. Well, there is that moment also where he finally catches up with the criminals and his friend, the detective, is in there. So what he does, he runs in at super speed. And I thought it was quite a good super speed for 1952,

whatever. Really good. And instead of knocking out the two criminals behind this wall, he just socks his friend in the jaw. So he's unconscious and then he's like, you two know I'm Superman, so I'm gonna maroon you on the top of an arctic mountain of some kind. Until you learn a lesson or I'll just leave you here. Or until I figure out what to do with you next. Because they're like, Superman doesn't kill, you can't kill't kill us and he's like well, yeah, I guess technically Yeah, what about a fight worse than death about that? But no, he's like there's a cabin up here

You can't see it because we'd have to build one for the show and we don't want to do that We don't want to get a guy to draw a matte painting of it. So there's a cabin over there Yeah, I'll come up and I'll bring you some firewood and stuff and what is it means? Yeah, you can live here for years until you know I think of something but until my Kryptonian super intelligence finally kicks in what it's got to eventually yeah, and I'll be back and then he leaves and they're just like we're gonna escape down this It's this mountain that this Superman told us we couldn't escape from let's do it Let's try it anyway, and then it cuts to Then it cuts to Clark Kent in the room with the detective the detectives like so they fell off a cliff

Hey, he's like yep. They did The detective's like, so they fell off a cliff, hey? He's like, yep, they did. Yep, they fell off a cliff. And you might be like, oh, is that actually what happened? Yes, it turns out it is. Also, terrible move by them. To their death, by the way. To their death, yeah, terrible move by them also

because if they did get down, he would just put you back. Right? Yeah. This episode is brought to you by Oracle 3 Murder at the Grand View. The latest installment of the hit Oracle series, Oracle 3 Murder at the Grand View is available now exclusively on Audible featuring a chilling solo performance by Joshua Jackson. Joshua Jackson returns in a gripping solo narration that has become a fan favourite since Oracle One. The suspense-filled plot follows Agent Nate Russo as he investigates a deadly mystery in a haunting, abandoned island hotel.

Start listening to Oracle Three now, only on Audible. It was like that scene in one of the Nolan Batman movies where the Wayne Enterprises employees like I think Bruce Wayne's Batman and Lucius Fox is like he's a billionaire who beats people up. What do you get? Why are you doing this? It's the worst mistake of your life. You want to tell everybody you should yeah He'll put you on top of a mountain. Yeah, he'll put you on Superman's death mountain So a few things happened after this season. They started filming in colour.

But we learned they didn't broadcast it in colour. They just filmed it in... Until 1965. Yeah. It was basically future-proofing the series. I see, right. But that meant also they had to rebuild all the sets because certain things show up in monochrome,

not as well in colour etc they also gave him a different suit with more foam rubber padding in it and the cape sort of hangs off at the back it's a deep V it's a deep V but at the back yeah and apparently also this suit because of the foam rubber he could only be in it for like half an hour at a time and then he'd break out in a sweat and a rash I mean nowadays you're you're sewing Ben Affleck into a Batman suit he doesn't pee for three days when he's in that Yeah, the Superman Batman suits have never been comfortable. Yeah, it's good to know and they smell of pain now. That's right Yeah, and you also feel the distinct shift because also at this point Kellogg's were sponsoring episode

I brought to you by Kellogg's the cereal brand that wants you to stop touching yourself, but you won't stop The cereal brand that wants you to stop touching yourself, but you won't stop And what's interesting they ran a series of commercials for this starring Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent having breakfast together and being like I love Kellogg's Cornflakes and I love not touching ourselves. Wait. Or each other. Where are they in breakfast? Whose house? That's a great question. At the Daily Planet? Good question. No. At Jimmy's house? I guess. At Clark's house? Maybe. Jimmy staying over? I guess. That's great They're pals. I agreed. Yeah. Sub guess house maybe Jimmy staying over. I guess that's great. They're pals. I agreed Yeah, immense pal Jimmy Olsen I want to talk about that but also Lois Lane couldn't appear in that because that would imply that she was sleeping with Clark Kent That's right, but Jimmy also it isn't Clark Kent's house

secret closet Something to think about I was just gonna say that's the opposite of the 1960s Batman TV series. Yes. Where they had to introduce a woman so it didn't seem like they were gay. Mm-hmm. Wow. They'll never get it right. No, I don't think so. They're all gay.

Get it in your heads. All these DC characters are gay and we love that. Every single one of them. We love that. We do love that. That's right. Yeah. So the last episode we watched was Perils of Superman. In which Clark Kent and the other members of the Daily Planet news crew are menaced by a series of what I would consider to be silver sperms? Are these the bad sperms you're

always talking about? I'm always talking about it. We're both talking about it. Yeah, we're both talking about it. It's true. So in this episode, a man shows up. We don't see his face. He shows up at the Daily Planet planet and but surely Superman can see his face. Well, he can see through anything No, because it's revealed. Yeah. Well at first the secretary the the personal assistant is she shocked couple I did she by this guy. We can't see his face. Who is this guy? And then he shows up he goes into Perry White's office and they're all shocked cuz he's got a big lead mask on Looks like a sperm. Yeah, or a dong or Or a big dong. Big dong. And he's like Superman kind of, I know Superman's powers, I can't see through lead. He captured all

my mates, put them in prison and they're like, well, weren't they bad? He's like, yeah, but I didn't appreciate that. Principle of the thing, obviously. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna get revenge on him and I'm gonna get revenge on all you guys. And I'm here right now. I'm here right now. And there's a lot of you. And I'm just a man in a metal dong helmet, just in regular clothes. I've got a plan. There's other guys dressed exactly like me.

They're in the city. But I cannot stress enough, I'm here right now. And there's like four- This is my idea. This is four of you. And I don't know this, but one of you is Superman. And you could easily take me, but you're just not going to for some reason. And then he leaves, and Superman's like, oh, I better figure out what's going on here.

And then he goes down. And in an interesting sort of cowboy switch-esque thing, they've clearly only got like two guys. Oh, that's very clever. And they just come in and out of, you know, they've got two paper mache sperm dong heads. Yeah. And they just sort of come in and out of different doorways and alleyways and stuff. It's pretty impressive but it's like, man you've got superhuman speed. Yeah. I reckon you could take them all right now. Also you could identify these dudes from their dongs, you can see through their clothing. I think they're not gonna have the same dongs, Mason. Oh I thought you meant the dong head. No dongs. They're regular dongs. I think you could also find them in the city

by just X-raying in a sort of a wide swath and looking for the dong-shaped metal structures that you can't see through. Yeah. Right? Absolutely. Or let your friends get kidnapped. Classic traps.

Classic traps. Train tracks. Yep. Vat of acid. Vat of acid tied to a big turd going into a buzz saw. That's right. I gotta say, I love- Acid in the, acid in the car.

Acid on the brakes as well. Jimmy Olsen acid in the car, that's right. That's right. I love Clark Kent captured, tied up, dipped into a vat of acid, reappear as Superman. I think that's so cool. Yeah. Cause you know, the Kryptonian suit,

as we've established from season two, Yes. It's indestructible I wonder if he was gonna emerge like shirtless little something little something for the boys for everybody for the boys certainly Yeah, but no he didn't it's the one time he wore that he didn't leave it in his closet It was the one time he wore it under his regular. Yeah. Yeah. Well after what happened to him, I guess I guess that's probably true He's never taken that off. This is also when I noticed that at this point they've switched Jimmy Olsen from like an enthusiastic cub reporter. It's

the same actor but they're like we need a real dumb guy. We need a real dumb Jerry Lewis style guy who's all, well, hey, hey. When he's driving and the steering wheel comes off and he's fumbling with the pedals like they're covered in butter and grease. It's so funny. I love it I think Jack Larson is fantastic as Jimmy Olsen and his performance and the popularity of this character It led to the comic Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen. That's great. That's pretty cool. Which led to Dark Side What? He debuts in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen. Get out of here. I didn't know that. That's a Jack Kirby joint.

Huh. I was thinking to myself, because you know how Batman 66 has a spin-off comic that's been made in the present day and he's encountered modern day versions of his own villains like there's a Bane 66 and so on and so forth. Isn't George Reeves in that version? That's the Christopher Reeve version. No, Christopher Reeve version is in the Keaton universe. Oh yeah! Yeah. Oh maybe then. I would just love to see, give me a comic book version where it's George Reeves fighting modern day versions. So he's fighting Doomsday, but it's

just like a guy roughly his size in like a 50s boxing warm-up outfit with a bucket on his head or whatever. Absolutely. You know? Yeah. Oh, that's good stuff. So let's talk a bit about George Reeves. Okay. Oh, he rescues everyone. Let's talk a bit about George Reeves. Easily. Yeah. So he wanted to quit after the third season and they thought, well, let's bring back Kirk Allen, who's already played Superman. He's a familiar face. Okay. And if that doesn't work, Kirk Douglas. Yeah. If that doesn't work, Michael Douglas. That doesn't work. Doug Douglas that doesn't work Doug Mulray sure from Australia's naughty so videos correct okay he apparently turned it

down and Reeves also he tried to produce his own series called port of entry but he couldn't get financing for it so he eventually he agreed to go back and continue with Superman and he was then paid $5,000 per week but they only shot eight weeks a year so decent salary for eight weeks a year But then of course and and you know this was the very much the era of typecasting Yeah, you know these studios felt that once an actor was cast as a you know Particularly iconic role as he was yeah He's one of the most notable examples of you know he found it then quite difficult to get work after that so you know

Yeah, great five grand a week for two months of the year Yeah, yeah, which is worth a lot of money. I guess because when you look at the oh, maybe when you crunch the numbers like we did earlier That's right. We definitely did that if you put that in a mutual fund You'd have enough to make an episode of Superman and Lois these days the later seasons when they drop the budget. Yeah, obviously Yeah, but of course as mentioned famously he passed away so they were gearing up for the seventh season Mm-hmm seven stars the charm Great and again like he was pretty much in it at this point and Apparently he was talking about directing episodes and those around him said that there wasn't really this kind of ever

Malancholy about him which is not to say that he didn't kill himself because people often are like I'm sad I'm gonna kill myself. I am. Well yeah. Yeah, but I'm doing it for attention. And we love you for it. Yeah, thanks man. People will stick around to the end of most of these where I'm just sooking and going,

I bet no one would care if I just never cared about garbage. We care Mason. I bet no one would care. So yeah, he shot himself. Well that is the story and there's also other stories And if you've seen the movie Hollywood land they cover a bit of that in this where of course Ben Affleck plays George Reeves Superman's in it! He's with a picture of Superman and Batman!

Superman and Batman! And Martha's in it as well And the accountant He was the accountant and um payback paycheck. He was in paycheck. Yes. Yeah, not payback. It's another iconic guy He's been some of all fears. He was Jack Ryan Yeah, there we go. It was summer all fears So yeah, like there was rumors that maybe had mob ties. There was also talk. It was an accident it was ruled a suicide, but apparently there were no fingerprints on the gun or

Gunpowder residue on him. But also this was an era where detective work was bad. Correct, yes. And they just probably went in the room and went, oh yeah, he probably shot himself. And maybe he did. Maybe he did. But we don't know at this point. So yeah, there you go. But in the aftermath of this, producers weren't like, let's wrap this show up. They were like, let's do a spin-off, right? Well, there was a number of things that they tried. First of all, they were like, why don't we make Jimmy Olsen the main character and then use stock footage of Reeves and a stunt double.

But Jack Larson, of course, who played Jimmy Olsen was like, I don't want to do that. Yeah, perhaps my stupid alter ego, Jimmy Olsen, would do that, but I am a man of principle. That's right. They also tried an Adventures of Superboy spin-off in 1961 starring Johnny Rockwell Only the pilot of that was filmed. It was similar in tone to this and then they tried and The pilot for this was never broadcast and it looks absolutely insane

It's the Adventures of Superpup where it's little people in dog costumes on the same sets as the series and it's just the same thing but everybody's a dog? Huh. They did one episode. Just- Never broadcast. Was it crypto? Just a dog.

Just a dog. But he's Dog Superman. Yeah. Dog Lois Lane. They're all dogs. Okay. Yeah. Dog Perry White.

I can't stress enough, Mason. They were all dogs. Okay. Yeah. Dog Perry White. I can't stress enough Mason, they were all dogs. Dogs with dongs. Dogs with metal dongs. Just dogs, straight up. Okay, alright. Yeah. It's really interesting.

I agree, it is really interesting. But they were actually little people. Yeah. Wow. What a world we lived in. That's right. And continue to live in. Yeah.

Anyways, you know what it's time for? What's it time for? It's time for the adventures of trivia Superman adjacent trivia They hadn't quite gotten the john williams score. Yes, they hadn't gotten that all the hans in the one correct They hadn't gotten to either of those yet. That's right. That's right. You're not wrong all the three doors down song kryptonite Yeah, so here's somebody who this had a big influence on mark hamill huge fan of the series So yeah, that's a lot of fun isn't it? He's the voice of the Joker baby

He's the voice of the Joker baby Superman also guest starred in an episode of I Love Lucy, which is a bit of fun Right It's Lucy and Ricky Ricardo and Superman's like I'm here too Pretty cool. I mean that was like the biggest show of the time as well So yeah makes sense And she she produced Star Trek. She did!

That's right. Making all sorts of things happen. Look at all these links to other pop cultural icons. We can do it. We didn't even have to think about it. We don't have to think about it. You know some people like, sometimes you make mistakes. Well sometimes we don't. Sometimes we make incredible links.

That's right. And we have brains like Beautiful Minds. We're always drawing on glass with chalk. Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe. Jor-El. This is, this is good stuff. We made another beautiful mind link. And that's beautiful. Mind. Mind. Bill Kennedy received $350 for performing the opening narration used in all episodes. One time. One time, yeah of course, yeah. That's pretty stock standard for any, you know, financial deal involving the Superman characters. Absolutely. You don't get a goddamn thing.

That's right. Yeah. Probably the contract he signed got auctioned on eBay for like $400,000 a few decades later. Also, if we're talking cameos, Mason, like we were earlier. We were. Noelle, Neil and Jack Larson, they also had minor roles in the 2006 Superman film, Superman Returns. That's what I'm thinking of. I think he was the bartender. Yes, he plays a bartender.

That's what I thought. And Noelle, Neil plays bartender. Yes, he plays a bartender and Noel Neal plays the multi-millionaire wife of Lex Luthor. The one he steals the inherent boat from. The boat from etc. Correct. Superman has gone off into space and he's he has carte blanche to do whatever evil he wants. Mm-hmm. And he he just just manages to get an old lady to Will him a boat, but he still has to fake her signature. God, he's good, isn't he? Kevin Spacey, do you think he's good? Oh no, he's bad.

But at least he's back. Which is also bad. I agree. I agree. God. We should have a crook bloke alert. Yep. Just in case we forget to say it.

The alarm just sounds. I think it should be a silent alarm. Okay, yeah, yeah. Because people listen to these to go to sleep And stuff. Yeah, we just have it in the corner. Just a little wink. Yeah, we should get that ready for when we do Morbius Yeah Anyways, you might be like what's the future of George Reeves as Superman? What do you mean? Well, he's in the flash Oh, yes, isn't he?

Yeah, ghoulish cameo horrible fucking movie. Which also established that the Jay Garrick version of The Flash is in his universe, I think? Correct. Now he was modeled after editor Jason Ballentine. So he's not based on a particular actor who played The Flash. How'd they build him, AI? It's CGI. It's all CGI.

I mean, George Reeves is also CGI. It's just a, I mean, just the idea of like taking the legacy of this man Who clearly suffered for his art form but took it seriously? Met a tragic demise and just went fuck. I was put him in the answer That'll be good content. Yeah, that'll be a little Easter egg for the boys, and you know people also love Christopher rave They do but as a ghoulish CGI monster you hate it. Yeah fucking hate it

But as this? Also a ghoulish CGI monster, yeah. Hate it. Yeah. Fucking hate it. Disrespectful. Yeah. The most disrespectful thing in the last few years? Probably not.

Off the top of my head I can't think of something else. Put it in the comments, folks. The Alien Romulus one, but I think... Yeah, I mean at least that one had like, family approval. And I guess the Reeve one did also, but yeah, it's all bad. I like any of it. Anyways, if you do want to see these videos early, guess what? What? the Reeve one did also, but yeah, it's all bad. I like any of it. Anyways, if you do want to see these videos early, guess what?

You can see the one we're doing early next week on Lois and Clark, the new adventures of Superman. If you head over to bigsandwich.co. I say that, but I watched every episode when I was a kid. Oh wow, then you're gonna love watching every episode again. Oh no, how about that Terry Hatcher, hey? I tell you what, Mason, what a pistol. Desperate Housewives etc also. Agreed. James Bond, Other Things, Seinfeld

episodes. That's right. Yeah yeah yeah. Not only do early videos go up there, we also have movie commentaries, we do video game let's plays, we do bonus podcasts if you're interested in any of that. It's a lot of fun isn't it? It is. And it helps support this channel and keep it ad free. There's no sponsors coming in here. There's no Kellogg's cereal. There's no anti masturbatory cereal ads that we do here. Yeah, we would refuse. No we wouldn't. Kellogg's, just don't. You know what we're talking about. Don't do it. Keep your hand off it. Keep your hand off it and on a spoon eating a cornflake.

Anyways, thank you so much to Ben and Lawrence for the edits. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. And we'll see you in the next one, up, up and away or whatever. Oh, Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives. Yeah. John Wick producer. Whoa, you're a beautiful minding it right now. Thank you, I'm beautiful minding it right now.