LOTUS AND CLUCK: THE NEW MISADVENTURES OF STUPORMAN

LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
ABC 1993-1997

LOTUS AND CLUCK: THE NEW MISDVENTURES OF STUPORMAN
MAD #336, June 1995
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Angelo Torres

Series about Superman with he as Clark Kent (Dean Cain) and Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher) dating, while working together at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. She has no idea the two of them are the same person. The photographer is Jimmy Olsen (Justin Whalin) and the editor is Perry White (Lane Smith).

Note the splash panel has Dave Berg's alter ego Roger Kaputnik and doctor at the nursing home.

Superman's frenemy Lex Luthor (John Shea) has hair on the show, despite being bald in the comics. Gene Hackman played Lex Luthor in the Superman movie and also had hair. Lois' shirt in the second panel refers to an episode of Seinfeld where Hatcher played his girlfriend and he thought her breasts were fake. One of the women in the office is David Letterman's mother, who appeared in some of his sketches on his show. William Gaines and his wife Annie, who was the real publisher at that point, collected Statue of Liberty memorabilia.

The Jack Nicholson Joker saying “Hold the chicken” is a reference to a scene in a diner with Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces.

Superman/Clark often visited his parents (Eddie Jones, K.Callan) in Smallville. When Newt Gingrich took over Congress the big issue was the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy regarding homosexuality in the military. Many people pointed out how Gingrich divorced his first wife while she was bedridden with cancer.

From the Mexican version of MAD.

LOSER AND CLUCK
Cracked #300, August 1995
w: Andrew Osborne
a: Walter Brogan

Right before this series, the comic had a “Death of Superman” storyline that resulted in over-inflated sales.

Superman's apartment has posters of gay icons Judy Garland, Village People, and Barbara Streisand.

Saturday Night Live had a similar gag where at a superhero party it is the Hulk's girl friend that is in a body cast from sex. The co-worker is reporter Cat Grant (Tracy Scoggins).

The idea of Lois Lane and Clark Kent being lovers was used most often in the title Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, which there were 137 issues of.