Craving 

Overweight Jodi submits to a diet of meteor-infested vegetables from her father's greenhouse. They magically make her thin, but she has an intense craving for body fat. Anyone in her vicinity is in danger, including her date, Pete.

Director:

Philip Sgriccia

Writers:

Jerry Siegel (character created by: Superman), Joe Shuster (character created by: Superman)

Stars:

Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Eric Johnson	...	Whitney Fordman
Sam Jones III	...	Pete Ross
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
Annette O'Toole	...	Martha Kent
John Schneider	...	Jonathan Kent
Amy Adams	...	Jodi Melville
Sarah-Jane Redmond	...	Nell Potter
Malcolm Stewart	...	Mr. Melville
Joe Morton	...	Dr. Steven Hamilton
Alejandro Rae	...	Dustin (as Alex Rae)
Damonde Tschritter	...	Dustin's Friend
Jeff Seymour	...	Dr. Vargas

Storyline

Overweight teenager Jodi Melville is obsessed to lose weight. She feels rejected by her schoolmates except Pete, who defends her. Planning to attend Lana Lang's birthday party, Jodi submits herself to a radical diet: only vegetables planted in her father's greenhouse... but with soil full of kryptonite. Jodi immediately achieves a wonderful shape, but has a huge and uncontrollable starvation and needs human body fat as the side effect, threatening whoever is closest- her next potential victim is date Pete. Clark again is forced to break his date with Lana to try to save Pete and somehow stop Jodi. Whitney tries to get back together with Lana by informing her about being accepted to Kansas State University. Meanwhile, Lex views Chloe's 'Wall of Weird' at Smallville High's school-paper The Torch, to study meteor rock mutants, and he later approaches meteor rock expert Dr. Steven Hamilton to investigate the meteor shower to determine if 'something else' came down that day.

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Plot Keywords:

fat girl | birthday | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

First appearance in the series of Joe Morton as Dr Steven Hamilton.

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Goofs

When Jodie is making her shake she adds some ingredients, blends them, then adds some more, but does not blend them again. However, when she pours the shake, there are no large lumps in it.

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Quotes

Dustin: Oh, man. You'd think someone that big would have a thicker skin.
Chloe Sullivan: [ball hits Dustin's head] You'd think someone that stupid would have a thicker head.

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Connections

Featured in Smallville: Blank (2005)

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Soundtracks

Hero
(uncredited)
Written by Paul Barry, Enrique Iglesias and Mark Taylor
Performed by Enrique Iglesias

User Reviews

Decent episode

This episode was OK. It didn't feature much towards the overall plot with Clark discovering who he's meant to be. It was more mutant-of- the-week centric. The mutant in this episode was pretty freaky as it was a girl who couldn't lose weight so she starts drinking green shakes...of the meteor rocks from the soil in her greenhouse. She realizes that through that she becomes skinny but has to keep eating.

A side story they had was Lex wanting to fund research into the meteor rocks to find out if anything else besides the meteors came down 12 years ago. He is getting closer to Clark's secret bit by bit. Love Lex's story.

I like the Lana/Clark relationship. He is really trying to get in Lana's favor. He missed her birthday party but he got her a present that she deeply wanted. He really listens to Lana and wants to make her happy. He is really Superman.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 November 2001 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver Technical Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar Gough Ink, DC Comics

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1