"Smallville" Jinx (2004)

Director:

Paul Shapiro

Writers:

Joe Shuster (characters) &
Jerry Siegel (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

3 November 2004 (Season 4, Episode 7)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A mysterious bookie with powers of manipulation has a strange, even dangerous, effect on Clark and his friends. Meanwhile, Lex causes friction by using his influence on Jason and Lana's relationship.

Plot Keywords:

Smallville | Power | Kansas | Meteor Shower | Alien

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Jensen Ackles	...	Jason Teague
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
John Glover	...	Lionel Luthor (credit only)
Annette O'Toole	...	Martha Kent
John Schneider	...	Jonathan Kent
Trent Ford	...	Mikhail Mxyzptlk
Kevan Kase	...	Danny Crozer
Rob Freeman	...	Coach Quigley
Graham Young
Karina Christianson	...	Cheerleader
Adam Thomas	...	Blues Player
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Emy Aneke	...	Robert Pontius

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Smallville Films

Trivia:

In this episode, a character named Mikail Mxyzptlk appears with mind control powers. He is overcome by a tip from a Google search that asks if "KLTPZYXM" was meant. In the Superman comics, Mr. Mxyzptlk was a being from the fifth dimension that occasionally annoyed Superman and could only be temporarily defeated by causing him to speak his name backwards.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Clark is in the barn throwing footballs through the tire. He starts out with four footballs on the rack, but after he throws two, there's only one ball left.

Mr. Mxyzptlk

A famous Superman villain takes a whole different form in this great episode of the fourth season.

Mikhail Mxyzptlk is a foreign student attending Smallville High on a prestigious Luthor scholarship. As an average student in the Balkans, Lex is suspicious as to why Lionel awarded the scholarship to Mxyzptlk. As it turns out, Mxyzptlk can control other's physical actions through the power of suggestion. He tries to throw the high school football semifinal game to make Smallville High lose, which causes Clark to brutally injure an opposing player, who breaks his collarbone in two places. As a result, the issue comes up between Clark and his father over whether it is safe, and right, to play football. Jonathan doesn't want Clark to play in the championship game with the concern that a similar thing could happen, especially with Mxyzptlk around. In the championship game, Clark must not only worry about leading his team to the winning drive, but also saving Chloe's life from Mxyzptlk at the same time. Also, Lana's boyfriend Jason Teague is fired from the school after the game, and Lana blames it on Clark.

In addition, at the end of the episode Lex takes Mxyzptlk to an interesting LuthorCorp level called 33.1 to show Mikhail "people who are just like him." This episode is awesome because it involves a Superman character from the comics, has a great save scene at the end during the football game, and because of the 33.1 revelation at the end of the episode.