Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Overheard in Front of the TeeWee...

A commercial comes on with a bespectacled young man who looks like a young Clark Kent...
RX: "Superman had a kid! But he never had a wife..."

Me: "Kryptonians reproduce by parthenogenesis."
Hey, it's xenobiology; it could happen.

13 comments:

Mike_C said...

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex .

Comrade Misfit said...

Mike beat me to it.

JavaMan said...

Mike_C, And I thought I was the only person that knew about that monograph.

Yup, first thing I thought of when seeing this post.

Tam said...

"I thought I was the only person that knew about that monograph."

Look where you are. I'm a little surprised if someone doesn't.

Scott J said...

I'm trying to push all the various off color man of steel jokes out of my mind.

Scott J said...

Wow, I think Mike_C's link covered all of them and then some.

Rob said...

He married Louis in Louis & Clark...

And had a kid with her in the first new movie. Might have had a kid with her in the TV show, too, but it's been too long since I watched that one.

rbmcmjr said...

He married Louis in Louis & Clark...


Please God, don't let that be a Freudian slip!

Jeffrey Quick said...

Well, then, he would definitely not have kids, even ignoring the Supersperm.

Joseph said...

There's a problem with "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." How do we know Superman is a "he"? We might assume that Superman has something resembling male genitalia, but that might be an ovipositor.

JohninMd.(HELP?!?) said...

"Able to leap tall IUDs (and other contraceptives) in a single bound..."

Derfel Cadarn said...

Perhaps along the lines of sprouting out of the head, like Zeus's children or the "golden shower" thing he was fond of

mikee said...

Ditto the first comment, I read it in the early 1980s when it was already in a collection of short SF found during my lazy days browsing a university library for idle entertainment.

God I miss doing that.