Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series)

Twas the Night Before Mxymas (1996)

Howie Mandel: Mr. Mxyzptlk

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• Mr. Mxyzptlk : Let me tell you what this Superman really is. Superman is a symbol of hope. That's his whole thing. So you take away hope and he's the symbol of nothing. See in a world without hope, he's powerless. It's as simple as that.

  Bartender : Get rid of hope. Haha, how do you plan on doing that?

  Mr. Mxyzptlk : Simple. Take away tomorrow. No tomorrow means no hope for tomorrow.

• Mr. Mxyzptlk : Well it's up to you. Do you stay and become the ruination of all of these mortals? Or do you accept banishment and leave their world to me and spare them the suffering?

  Clark Kent : I love these people. And that's why... I'm not going anywhere.

  Mr. Mxyzptlk : What? Do you have to be hit over the head with a shillelaghly? Don't you get it? It's hopeless.

  Clark Kent : There's always a little bit of hope left in the human spirit. And I'll find it.

  Lois Lane : You heard him gnome, scram!

  Mr. Mxyzptlk : How, how? You're supposed to be frozen.

  Lois Lane : Yeah well I thawed out. And Clark's not going anywhere mazel tov.

  Mr. Mxyzptlk : Mxyzptlk. Mr. Mxyzptlk. Fine, have it your way.

  [Restarts the day at noon] 

  Mr. Mxyzptlk : [Lois and Clark come out of the elevator and see things have gotten worse but there is one change...] 

  Clark Kent : ...Lois, you remember?

  Lois Lane : Everything. Even Mxyzptlk, what a name.

  Clark Kent : How?

  Lois Lane : It was you. I could feel you rejecting hopelessness. It hit me like a wave. That's what broke me free. And you are not going anywhere!

  Clark Kent : No way. But if I'm not going that means he has to.