|
What's in a
Name? (episode title
significance) "The
Eyes Have It" is an obvious pun on the voting outcome of "the
ayes (yes votes) have it (carry the vote)." LOCATION,
LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)
1- Daily Planet: newsroom:
…a- Clark’s desk, where he talks to Mayson, Perry and where the
Faraday device is located
…b- Lois’s desk, where she promises to tell Jimmy the secret to
success with woman, but instead spouts her first knowledge ‘leak’
2- Lois’s Apartment, where most of the episode takes place
3- Clark’s Apartment doorway, where the Kents try to break into the
apartment and Jimmy helps them
4- Leit’s Laboratory, where Lois is taken after being kidnapped off
the street
5- City Park meeting place, where Superman is blinded
6- Streets of Metropolis:
…a- Carter Street neighborhood, where Clark/Superman has a few
misadventures
…b- shopping district, where Lois is kidnapped as Jonathan watches
helplessly
7- STAR Labs exterior- where the real Dr. Bannergy is attacked, knocked
unconscious and locked in the back of his own car
POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
Flight- reaches Lois in time to rescue her
from the informant she went to meet in the park
Strength- accidentally pushes a parked car forward to crash into another
one
Invulnerability- puts out a cooking fire at Lois’ apartment
Speed- flashes through the newsroom to reach the breaker box for the
floor
Hearing- hears the Kents as they approach Lois’ apartment door
Vision- uses it to destroy the Faraday device
Breath- momentarily distracts Leit and Munch by sending them reeling and
blowing papers and other objects off desks as they search for the
Faraday pen
POWERS USED AS CLARK
Hearing- he listens in on Lois’ phone call
while Mayson is describing her cabin in the mountains
HINT! HINT!
(for the galactically stupid)
In this case, Mayson Drake is the one missing
all the hints: Clark is nowhere to be found while Superman has been
blinded and can’t carry on as usual; his parents show up and instead
of looking for their son, hang around Lois’ apartment helping Superman
with his problem.
Even people who don’t like Superman but love Clark can be galactically
stupid.
CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES
Apparently not a single one comes to mind for
why he was missing for three days during a Superman crisis.
DEVICES
1- a writing pen shaped invention capable of
transferring knowledge directly to the brain through the eye by way of a
beam of light
2- a flashlight-type of device which emits infrared and ultraviolet
light beams mixed with visible light to allow the user to aim the beams
3- lock picks and locks
BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)
N/A
SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)
N/A
HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS
CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
1- arrives at Lois’ and asks if she wants
the coroner to take a look at her, she does not
2- reading a scientific magazine, announces only 8 people on Earth are
capable of understanding Faraday’s theories- and he is not one of them
3- calls the magazine to see if they have any information on Faraday’s
whereabouts the past few years, but they can only tell him when they
last published an article about him
4- in his opinion one of the big problems with this world is disposable
products, relationships, lives
5- “If everything is expendable, what happens to friendships?” he
asks.
6- fiddles with the pen and discovers it’s “a flashlight”
7- is pleased to see Mayson but is distracted by Lois’ getting a phone
call, which he listens to using his hearing
8- responding to her suggestion, says, “That sounds great,
Mayson…” but is interrupted by Perry before he can say more
9- watches helplessly as Mayson leaves with his answer unfinished and
Perry launches into a story
10- knowing Lois wasn’t truthful about the phone call she received, he
apparently looks for her as soon as he gets away from Perry
11- blinded by the men with Lois in the park, takes her home, breaks her
window and asks if he can stay on her couch for the night
12- the following morning he tells her his blindness is newsworthy and if
the criminal element knew of it they would have a field day
13- when she asks, tells Lois she can tell
Clark about it “if you see him”
14- wonders if STAR Labs might have someone on staff who might help him
15- tells Lois when the bacon she is cooking for him is burning- it is
on fire and he puts it out by putting his hand over it
16- finds casual clothing somewhere and leaves the apartment to find a
public telephone and has a few mishaps on the street
17- calls his parents from a phone booth in front of Lois’ apartment
and changes out of the clothes he’s wearing and into the Superman suit
when he hears a mugging happening nearby
18- by luck and coincidence, he stops the mugging and helps the victim,
a blind man, but the mugger gets away
19- is trying to make hot chocolate when there is a knock at the door
and he answers it to find Dr. Bannergy and his assistant, Mr. Gomez,
have arrived, unaware it is the men who blinded him
20- when Lois arrives she recognizes the men and calls a warning, and
Superman grabs the man in front of him and hears a struggle between Lois
and the other “Gomez”
21- calls her to see if she’s safe and when she doesn’t answer, he
lets go of his prisoner and calls her again, but she doesn’t answer
until both men have run out of the apartment and she has closed the door
behind them
22- tries to defend Clark’s absence to an angry Lois until she reveals
she thinks Clark is in the mountains with Mayson Drake and stuns him
into silence
23- later he tells Lois the Kents are about to knock at her door- he
hears them approaching in the hallway
24- tells Martha he and Lois are always glad to see them, then asks Lois
if she has oolong tea
25- paces restlessly at Lois’ apartment while waiting for Mayson Drake
to arrive
26- recognizes Mayson’s description of the
Faraday device after she explains how it works and what it looks like
27- refuses to tell her where it is, and won’t let her call the police
28- knows the kidnappers will make Lois tell where it is and having the
police show up will put her in more danger
29- throws himself out of Lois’s window and crashes to the ground
30- gets to his feet and whistles for a passing taxi, telling the driver
to take him to the Daily Planet
31- knowing the layout of the Daily Planet building so well, he is able
to make his way to the newsroom, find the junction boxes for the floor
and shut off the lights
32- zips quickly by his desk and takes the penlight from the pencil
holder and retreats to the elevator area
33- uses the darkness to his advantage in helping Lois escape and by
throwing the Faraday device far enough away from the kidnappers to make
them look for it
34- as his eyesight clears, thanks to Lois, he sees Leit and Munch
exchanging possession of the penlight and zaps it with his vision,
causing it to light up brightly and apparently fill both men with
electric shocks before it is destroyed
35- apparently his parents never mentioned his supposed “date “ with
Mayson, because he arrives at work Tuesday morning and is puzzled by the
behavior of Lois, Perry, Jimmy- and Mayson
LOIS LANE
1- takes her trash out late at night when most
of her neighbors are in bed
2- tells Clark she prefers doctors who have live patients
3- repeatedly asks Mayson who the dead man is and is finally told he is
Dr. Neal Faraday
4- the name means nothing to her but she assures Mayson it will because
she’s going to learn all there is to know about him
5- takes the Faraday penlight from her pencil holder and puts it in her
briefcase
6- finds quite a bit of information on Faraday but nothing to explain
his disappearance three years earlier
7- wonders why no one has ever heard of Faraday if he is famous in
scientific circles
8-bewilders herself and Clark when she seemingly explains an excerpt of
one of Faraday’s theories after he reads it aloud
9- tosses the Faraday pen into the trash when it doesn’t work for
Jimmy, but gives it to Clark when he chastises her for throwing away a
perfectly good pen that might just need a refill
10- answers her telephone while listening in on Clark and Mayson and
finds it is a caller who wants to meet her in Metropolitan Park with
information about Faraday
11- tells Clark the call was not important and leaves the newsroom
hurriedly
12- arrives at the meeting place in the park to find she is alone and
calls out
13- two men appear from behind a tree and a light is suddenly shone in
her face and she identifies herself
14- a male voice asks her for the “Faraday device” but she doesn’t
know what it is
15- the voice then asks where Superman is and she dismisses the question
to remind the voice he promised her information about Dr. Faraday
16- becomes nervous about being there after the voice asks if it’s
true Superman always comes to her rescue when he’s needed
17- tells him it’s a theory she doesn’t want to put to the test just
as Superman drops to the ground between her and the other two men
18- after a gunshot she is grabbed by Superman and they fly away from
the scene
19- asks Superman why he is flying so slowly, not that she is
complaining, and discovers he can’t see
20- directs him to the open window of her apartment and alights safely,
but has trouble giving accurate directions to him
21- once he is inside, she leads him to a
chair and offers to call someone for him
22- is surprised when he asks to sleep on her couch- “You sleep?!”-
but quickly assures him she didn’t think he was some kind of, “I
don’t know, bat that flies around all night”
23- though he breaks a lamp with an expansive gesture, she tells him he
is not imposing on her and can stay
24- fixes breakfast for Superman- orange juice and burned bacon- offers
him Pop-Tarts in place of the ruined bacon
25- Matt, her contact, tells her Dr. Bannergy is the best at STAR Labs
and she calls her apartment to tell Superman Bannergy is on his way
there
26- tells Perry that even Clark will get all feeble-minded when a kind
of attractive woman like Mayson bats their eyes at him- adding, “If a
spin wheel’s geared internally with a pinion, the wheels rotate in the
same direction.”
27- arriving home, and after a brief confrontation with the men who
blinded Superman in the park, she tells Superman she is angry at Clark
for not being here when his two best friends need him most
28- is puzzled why Clark’s parents have come to her apartment, but
politely invites them in
29- angrily tells Jonathan she can’t understand why Clark would go
away for a weekend with a women he hardly knows, now of all times- but
admits he doesn’t know what has happened and apologizes, saying she
knows Clark is a good person and a good friend
30- as she talks to Jonathan, a car screeches to halt beside her Jeep
and a man jumps out and grabs her, forcing her into the back seat
31- she tells her kidnappers she would tell them where the device was if
she knew because Superman is more important to her than that “stupid
thingamajig”
32- realizes Dr. Faraday used his device on her and that is why she is
aware of things in her brain that “I don’t know how they got
there”
33- refuses to tell her kidnappers, Dr, Leit and Munch, where the device
is even under threat of death
34- tells them the Faraday device is at the Daily Planet after learning
all she can about Leit’s device
35- escapes from them at the newsroom and manages to grab Leit’s
device away from him
36- while Leit and Munch search for the Faraday device, she uses the
infrared spectrum of the bigger device to restore Superman’s sight
37- greets Clark coldly at work on Monday, thinking he’d just spent
the weekend with Mayson
37- demands to know where he’s been for the last three days after
discovering he WASN’T with Mayson
PERRY WHITE
1- sees Mayson Drake talking to Clark and
approaches to ask her how the investigation is going
2- tells her his reporters are having trouble tracing Faraday’s
whereabouts for the last few years, too
3- jokes that he sometimes thinks his name is “Perry but” due to his
reporters telling him “Oh, I tried, Perry, but…” or “I’m
sorry, Perry, but…” or “Oh, I wish, Perry, but…”
4- reminds him of when he first became an editor and there was a
reporter who was very much like Clark and, in fact, they could have been
brothers…
5- asks Lois where Clark is the next day and assumes they are fighting
again when she tells him no, she isn’t his keeper
6- is worried because Clark is never late without calling in, though
Jimmy suggests he might have gone on his weekend date early- if Jimmy
had a babe like Mayson Drake interested in him, he would
7- dismisses Jimmy’s idea because Clark isn’t the type to chase
after some babe
8- exchanges an amused look with Jimmy when Lois tells them she
doesn’t think Mayson is such a babe
9- asks Jimmy to process some film for him
10- is nonplussed and disappointed with Clark for standing up Mayson
Drake, declaring, “I thought Clark was a bigger man than that.”
11- tells Jimmy he probably got cold feet because when you let a woman
do the chasing, you’re buying a tux and walking down the aisle before
you know it
12- tells Lois and Jimmy it was for the best that the Faraday device was
destroyed- technology and human nature are a volatile mix
13- teases Lois that he might not be able to get used to her information
leaks- answering questions with obscure, semi-related technical jargon
JIMMY OLSEN
1- approaches Lois’ desk while repeating a
phone number and takes the Faraday pen from her bag and tries to write
with it but it doesn’t work
2- asks Clark what it means when a girl gives you her phone number
without you asking for it
3- walks past Clark’s desk as he and Mayson are talking and stops at
Lois’ desk and both of them eavesdrop on the conversation
4- is impressed by Mayson’s invitation to Clark and quietly gives him
an eager ‘yes!’
5- wants to talk to Clark, who is not at his desk yet, about a guy
thing, but is convinced to ask Lois instead and she offers to tell him
the secret of success with women
6- knocks over Clark’s pencil holder when she is interrupted by a
phone call and tells him nonsense instead, and he leaves the Faraday
device on the floor (“The secret of the universe yanked out from under
me like a cheap rug.”)
7- helps the Kents pick the lock on Clark’s apartment door after first
asking them if they knocked
8- reveals to them that Clark is believed to be on a weekend date, and
knowing this is better than not knowing, right?
9- rushes back to the Daily Planet to tell Perry that Clark was so
anxious to start his weekend date with Mayson that he forgot his parents
were coming to visit over the weekend!
10- is very disappointed when Clark does not report for work and so
misses his “date”
11- wonders why Clark gave it up after she came on to him
12- crestfallen, he takes Perry’s film and goes to the dark room,
unaware he has kicked the Faraday device into the room as he entered
13- as he leaves, he sees it and picks it up and returns it to Clark’s
desk, then leaves the newsroom for home
14- shamelessly eavesdrops on Clark and Mayson’s talk and shocks Lois
by telling her the couple didn’t go away for the weekend, that Clark
stood her up
MARTHA KENT
1- frustrated at the failure of her attempts
to pick the lock on Clark’s door, mutters a child of four could
probably pick it, but laughs when Jonathan wishes that child was with
them now
2- explains to Jonathan a shear point is when the tumblers open up at
the top of the lock cylinder, but knowing that and getting them to do it
are different things
3- when Jimmy Olsen asks if she wants him to try, accepts the offer with
relief
4- is as surprised as her husband when she learns Clark’s absence from
work is believed to be because he has gone away with a date
5- apologizes to Lois for coming to her home but when Clark wasn’t
home, she and Jonathan thought Lois might know where he was
6- pretends surprise at seeing Superman there and asks how he is- his
expression says it all
7- as soon as Jonathan and Lois leave for their brief shopping trip,
rushes to wrap her son in a heartfelt hug, surprising him a little
8- tells him they had to be here with him because “your dad and I love
you more than anything on this Earth.”
9- scrutinizes Mayson Drake closely, upon introduction, before telling
her she might know her son, Clark
10- with relief, tells Mayson that Superman is OK after he jumped out of
the apartment window- he IS Superman
JONATHAN KENT
1- waits patiently outside Clark’s apartment
while his wife tries to pick the lock on the door
2- says he knows why they can’t go to Lois’ apartment, but why
couldn’t they have left their suitcases at the airport?
3- when she asks if he wants to try, declines saying he has no idea how
to do it
4- after Jimmy Olsen arrives and tells him how, admits he still has no
idea how to do it
5- reminds Martha that when they get to Lois’s apartment not to treat
Superman as their son
6- goes with Lois to buy oolong tea, giving Martha some time alone with
Superman to talk, and giving a longing look at his son before closing
the door
7- assures a worried Lois that Superman is a strong young man, inside,
where it counts, and he knows they are all “here for him”
8- watches helplessly, along with several passersby, as Lois is
kidnapped on the street and is gone in seconds
9- introduces himself and Martha to Mayson Drake, whom he has called
about Lois’ kidnapping
10- tries to stop Superman from jumping out the wrong apartment window,
then observes that he apparently misjudged the distance to the ground
11- constructs a safety barrier by tying pillows around Lois’ bookcase
so a certain son of his won’t accidentally break the glass
MAYSON DRAKE
1- responds to the break-in at Lois’
apartment after hearing about it on her scanner
2- reveals the identity of the dead man in Lois’ apartment
3- comes to the newsroom the following morning to speak to Clark, making
it plain to Lois that she wants to talk to him alone
4- tells Clark she really likes him and though she doesn’t want to
appear forward, invites him to spend the long weekend with her at her
cabin in the mountains
5- when he hesitates, tells him to hear her out before he answers and
goes on in a quiet tone about her invitation
6- is interrupted by Perry White and listens politely to his joking
until she gets a call on her mobile phone
7- taking the call, she signals to Clark she must leave
8- returns on Friday looking for Clark
9- is irritated to discover she has apparently been stood up by him and
leaves abruptly
10- called to Lois’s apartment and told of her kidnapping, reveals all
she knows about Dr. Faraday and the man financing his research, Dr.
Harold P. Leit
11- agrees with Martha that the device would allow the person who has it
to control the world and Dr. Leit is definitely the wrong person to have
it
12- finally shows some concern for Superman after he jumps out of the
apartment window
13- does not go close enough to the windows to be able to look for
herself to see what has happened even though there is room to do so
beside the Kents
14- tells Clark that though she felt humiliated by him standing her up
for their weekend date and thinks it was a rotten thing to do
15- is willing to believe what happened was a misunderstanding because
his parents are such wonderful people she is certain no son of theirs
would do it deliberately
16- doesn’t ask for an explanation, promises to never be the one
asking for a date again, assures him she won’t say no if he were to
ask her, and gives him a kiss before she leaves
DR. HARRY LEIT
1- leads the chase, with another man, after
the fleeing Dr. Faraday, turns off the power for the entire building
from the fifth floor to mask the activity when Faraday is cornered in
Lois’ apartment
2- reveals he is searching for the penlight device Faraday was carrying
3- calls Lois, pretending to have information on Faraday and asks her to
meet him in Metropolitan Park, easy of the pond
4- as soon as Superman arrives, uses his weapon to shine a bright red
light in the superhero’s eyes
5- tells Munch, his accomplice, he doesn’t know if it worked
6- later poses as Dr. Bannergy and gleefully examines Superman’s eyes,
shining his harmful light into them again, at Lois’ apartment
7- tells him when ultraviolet light is shined on some transparent
substances, they can turn opaque
8- says the man who came up with the method of blinding Superman was a
genius
9- assures Lois his reasons for wanting the device are altruistic: to
give everyone equal access to knowledge
10- reveals the transfer is a two step process: the knowledge is
transferred, then it must be activated
11- finally, he reveals it looks like a silver ball point pen
12- tells Lois there is an antidote to Superman’s blindness in an
effort to make her cooperate after she refuses to tell him anything
13- demonstrates his own device to her and explains how it worked-
ultraviolet light to blind Superman, infrared to cure him
14- accuses Lois of lying to him when they reach the Daily Planet and
the device is not in Clark’s pencil holder
15- underestimates Lois Lane- a lot- and is angered when she escapes and
ruins his plans
MUNCH
1- corners Dr. Faraday in Lois’ apartment
and as they struggle Faraday is killed
2- escapes via the fire escape when the police arrive
3- doesn’t want to shoot Lois in the park to attract Superman (“Come
on, Doc, do I really have to shoot her?”)
4- does shoot at Superman when he arrives moments later and runs forward
to grab Lois but is pushed away
5- wonders aloud if the light weapon worked after all that- and repeats
the other man’s answer with dry sarcasm, ‘You don’t know’
6- quietly searches Lois’ apartment for the Faraday device while Leit
examines Superman, stopping to finish making the hot chocolate on the
stove and drink some of it
7- sarcastically calls into question Dr. Leit’s uncertainty about
important points in their plans
8- by the end, is getting tired of being the underling in his
partnership with Leit
9- has a funny moment when he and Lois have a battle of wills, so to
speak, as he pushes her into a chair and she stands up, and he pushes
her down and she stands up, he pushes her again and she stands up…
OTHER CHARACTERS
Dr. Neal Faraday
- a genius scientist whose theories can be understood by only a few
people on Earth
- was chased through the streets of the city and took refuge in Lois’
apartment building where he knocked on doors seeking help
- forced his way into Lois’ apartment, shined the light from a
penlight into her eyes and caused her to freeze for several minutes
- was caught and killed in her living room after hiding the penlight
device among pens and pencils on her desk
- there is no record of his whereabouts for the last three years
- cut all ties to family and friends and disappeared
Police Officer
- arrives at Lois’ apartment to investigate after the lights go out
and finds Lois frozen in place inside her apartment, and a dead man on
the floor
- tells Mayson Drake he found Lois in some kind of trance
- shook her and yelled at her to no affect, but she came out of it on
her own after a few minutes
Male Tenant
- during the uproar on the fifth floor, he goes to the circuit breakers
and discovers the power has been shut down from there and turns it back
on, shaking his head dismissively at the crowd gathered around Lois’
door
Blind Man
- is accosted by a robber in the small park across the street from
Lois’ apartment bldg.
- saved by an equally blind Superman who somehow recovers his cane for
him, but is unable to point him in the direction of West 57th Street
Matt
- a source Lois has at STAR Labs
- calls Dr. Bannergy the best scientist working at STAR Labs
McClain
- a staffer who works in the photography department and called in sick
- mentioned by Perry White to Jimmy Olsen
NAME THAT TUNE
N/A
PERRY-ISMS
- “Clark, I understand how you feel, son,
but I want you to remember that women are people, too. They deserve fair
treatment.”- to Clark, thinking he stood up Mayson Drake because of
cold feet. . .too bad he never reverses the advice and tells Lois men
are people, too, who deserve fair treatment
NOT-SO SUPERMAN
- much of the story concerned Superman’s
inability to use his powers effectively because of his blindness, and
while he has a few less than helpful accidents and causes unintentional
damage, in the end he manages to stop a mugging, as well as capture
Lois’ kidnappers and destroy a dangerous weapon prototype
LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)
N/A
MISCELLANEOUS
1- L.B. Doherty & Co., Architects, a firm
in Lois’ neighborhood which is next to an unnamed, small café with
limited sidewalk seating- both businesses have entrances a few steps
below street level
2- though there is a small corner market just a block or so from Lois’
apartment bldg., she drives Jonathan to a larger gourmet market to buy
oolong tea, fresh scones and other items
3- there is a bus stop, a telephone booth and a newspaper vending
machine on the sidewalk outside Lois’ apartment bldg. – or there
used to be until Superman jumped out her window and misjudged the
distance to the ground and fell on them, breaking them, before bouncing
or rolling across the street
4- 555-0648, the number of a girl who voluntarily gave it to Jimmy
5- West 57th Street, a street in Lois’ neighborhood- could this mean
numbered streets run east and west in Metropolis, and named streets run
north and south?
6- Metropolis Souvenirs, a shop near the market which Lois frequents,
with post cards and gift wrap among their items for sale
7- 8, the number of people who understand Faraday’s scientific
theories on the properties of light
8- Metropolitan Park, an area of the city with a well known pond within
its limits
9- I didn’t add this to the powers used by Superman because we seem to
have seen a new way in which he can use his vision powers. When he
destroys the Faraday device his vision causes it to glow an extremely
bright white, and while the bad guys each have a hold of it they react
to what is happening to it as if they are being shocked by electricity,
yet their fingers don’t burn as they hold tightly to the device. They
only let go as it seems to disintegrate. Whatever Superman did to it
didn’t hurt Leit and Munch except to expose them to an extended
electrical type of shock. And, in a case of poetic justice, the bright
light leaves them blinded.
10- Lois’ “Information Leaks:”
….“Bulgaria
adopted the gold standard in 1897.” to Mayson after an embarrassing
moment
…“The result would be amplified waves with frequencies equal to the
sum and difference of the original frequencies.” to Clark, explaining
something he read from a Faraday theory
…“Alternating current is deadlier than direct current.” to
Superman after he puts out the bacon fire
…“The Pacific box jellyfish is the most dangerous animal in the
ocean.” to Jimmy after promising to tell him the secret of success
with women
…“If a spin wheel’s geared internally with a pinion, the wheels
rotate in the same direction.” to Perry and Jimmy, explaining
Clark’s behavior
…“In bodies of uniform density, the position of the center of
gravity depends only on the shape of the body.” to Perry and Jimmy as
they discuss the end of the case
11- even though the leaks seemed random, on second thought, or repeated
listening, they did relate in totally left field ways to the subject at
hand
12- Metropolis is a very green city with many trees and potted plants on
every block outside businesses as well as residential buildings
13- “Daily Planet Archives Online Service”- a wealth of information
for the reporters working for the newspaper
14- Pop Tarts, second choice for breakfast at Lois’ after the bacon
she is frying literally burns
15- Carter Street ends in a T junction at the end of the block on which
Lois’ apartment is located, and there is a small park across the
street.
16- Someone puts a sign on a dead plant on Lois’ desk. “Lois
Please” is all that can be read as she pours water onto it.
17- the dark room Jimmy uses to develop film for Perry is just a few
feet away from Lois and Clark’s desks in the newsroom
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING
When Lois and Superman arrive at her
apartment, after he has been blinded, Lois climbs into her apartment
through an open window, then tries to guide Superman into the room with
faulty directions. Why didn’t she just reach out, grab his hand and
pull him into the room?
OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE
Apparently all of his senses go haywire after
Superman loses his sight, or he just forgets how to use them. He
doesn’t hear a man talking on a public telephone or hanging up the
receiver seconds before asking the man where the nearest phone booth is.
As he is making hot chocolate he doesn’t smell the overheating burners
on the stove smoking after he misses the pan and pours chocolate syrup
on the stovetop.
|
The
most iconic, yet ironic, bit of Superman visual lore aside from his
costume, is the notion that he often changed into that famous costume
via the use of a phone booth for concealment purposes. Even though phone
booths have become extremely rare around the globe, finding instances
where Superman actually used phone booths to change into his costume are
equally rare.
The
most confused person in all of Metropolis must have been the postal
worker who delivered Lois Lane's mail. During the series first season
Lois Lane clearly lived on the ground floor of what appeared to be a
three story brownstone walk-up. However, by "The Eyes Have
It," her apartment building grew nearly ten more stories. 
This
bit of Lois leaked info: