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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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| Title: | Foundling |
| Episode Number: | 17 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 17 |
| Production Number: | 455315 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday February 20th, 1994 |
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Clark awakens to a strange glow, coming from a box – the box in which he stashed the mysterious globe that made the long trip to Earth with him. It projects a life-sized hologram of Jor El, who identifies himself and tells Clark his true name is Kal-El. The projection explains that it is time Kal-El learned about his heritage, and says that it will appear a number of times to provide this instruction. Then a thief breaks into Clark’s apartment and steals the globe. When he inadvertently triggers part of the playback, he realizes he has something of great value and sells it – to Lex Luthor!
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| Jor-El: My name is Jor-El, and you are Kal-El, my son. The object you now possess has been attuned to you. That you now hear these words is proof that you survived the journey in space and have reached your full maturity. Now, it is time for you to learn your heritage. To that end I will appear to you five times. Watch for the light, listen... and learn...
| Clark: (realizing the globe that traveled from Krypton to Earth with him has been stolen) It’s gone!
Lois: What’s gone? What’s missing?
Clark: Just some... personal items. Trophies, keepsakes, irreplaceable stuff.
Lois: (working up an angle for her story about crime in Metropolis) That’s not bad! I mean, forget the monetary loss, it’s stealing parts of a person’s past! A sense of vulnerability, a sense of invasion, urban angst... (she realizes her friend is the victim, and her voice trails off...)
| Lois: (giving Clark a shoulder massage) Oh, you’re so tight... you’re like iron!
Clark: Steel.
Lois: What?
Clark: Still... I’m still trying to recover from my loss.
| Louie: (repeated line) I know guys who know guys...
| Martha: You have got to get that globe back before it gives up any more information about your past!
Clark: I know, I know, I know...
| Lex: The accumulated plunderings of a lifetime. The missing arms of the Venus de Milo. Gainsborough’s Yellow Boy, Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony, the... better self portrait of Vincent van Gogh. The... full figure Mona Lisa. Unknown, unseen by the world at large, they exist solely for my pleasure.
| Lois: I don’t think I can trust Clark any more.
Perry: Would you care to tell me why?
Lois: He lied to me.
Perry: Oh, well, don’t you lie to him?
Lois: Of course! I lie to him all the time!
Perry: Well, I’m just not going to go near that.
| Perry: Sometimes it’s easier to fix something while it’s still together than it is to, well, let it fall apart and try and fix it later – assuming that it’s still worth fixing.
| Lois: Don’t edit my tantrums, Clark!
| Jor-El: Remember us. Do not regret our passing. All is fate.
| Clark: I wasn’t abandoned by my parents. I was saved.
Martha: But why couldn’t they save themselves?
Clark: I don’t know. (He regards the globe.) Maybe it does. Maybe it will tell me, someday.
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| Lex’s private collection of artworks includes the missing arms of the Venus de Milo. Were these the actual missing arms the left hand should have contained an apple, yet it does not. Perhaps Lex’s collection is less authentic than he believes...
| Lex’s “better self-portrait of VIncent van Gogh” depicts a severed ear resting on a chair. On December 23, 1888, Vincent van Gogh severed a portion of the lobe of his left ear – not the entire ear, as commonly assumed and as shown in Lex’s picture.
| Jimmy bets Cat Grant a night of passion if they turn out to be related. When they do, she explains that because they’re related by blood, she can’t go through with it. However, when Jimmy explained how they were related, it was clearly by marriage: his relative was the second husband of one of hers.
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| Clark again mentions the mysterious Bureau 39 where artifacts stolen from him have at times ended up. This operation is clearly intended to suggest Area 51, long held by “UFOlogists” as the place where the United States government keeps a treasure trove of the mysterious, including space ships and other evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial aliens in its past.
| Lex’s collection of unknown artwork contains various speculative works. Among the items are the missing arms of the Venus de Milo (see Goofs), Gainsbourough’s Yellow Boy, Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony, the “better self portrait of Vincent van Gogh,” and the “full figure Mona Lisa.” All of these are parodies or references to real works. The Yellow Boy is (judging from the brief glimpse) a stroke for stroke copy of the famous Blue Boy that presently hangs in the Huntington Library in California. So far as anyone knows, there is no Tenth Symphony (Beethoven produced only nine symphonies) or full figured Mona Lisa... The “better self-portrait of van Gogh” is a picture of an ear on a chair, and refers to an 1888 incident in which van Gogh severed part of his own ear (see Goofs).
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