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Just researching a couple of lines from the script for "I've Got A Crush On You" and ran into this. Found it :

It's back to Luthor in the rest of the script, but it was a funny goof, as I pictured him dressed in all black leather strolling into the club.

All in all, it made me think we should keep a list of goofs, line mix-ups and slight variants from script to screen. If not to help keep track of what actually made it to canon, then just for kicks and giggles. Wasn't sure quite where to post this, so Labby, you're free to bump it wherever you like.

Also, in the same script, it has Clark pouring Toni Taylor's drink at super quickly and I don't think that's how it went down in the show, but would need to double check.
Any other slips you've noticed that were played out differently on screen?

*snaaaaaarf* I wonder if that made it into the hands of the cast. Bet they had a big laugh!!

No, he didn't make the drink at superspeed...but he did use superbreath to freeze the ice cubes.

*snaaaaaarf* I wonder if that made it into the hands of the cast. Bet they had a big laugh!!

Put Clark in the leather and we'll talk

Put Clark in the leather and we'll talk

One of the most obvious changes from Script to Screen is from The Prankster:

The memorable scene where we learn about Lois's Mel Gibson/Lethal Weapon fascination was completely different before it made it to air...
Then later on where on screen we would normally be hearing Clark ask Lois how he'd look with an ear ring as she falls asleep next to him...
Switching films from Woody Allen to Mel Gibson totally changes this aspect of Lois's personality. I've heard that in some of the dubbed foreign language versions, the Woody Allen dialogue is still used.


Also, in the Prankster script, Kyle Griffin was supposed to be arrested on Treason charges due to his weapons manufacturing:
On the screen the treason charges weren't mentioned, hopefully because he was let out of jail after a mere 5 years of "good behavior". Some of us would hope that a treason charge means more mandatory jail time.

In FlyHard, Willie was formerly known as "Bill" Robertson, but apparently the Maitre d'(Jimmy) of Dragonetti's Club didn't know this:

I once went through and found all the variations from the script to screen from "The Night Before Mxymass" and noted them down on a printout. However about a month ago I was cleaning things out and threw out the printout. Let me see if I can remember the main ones.

In the script, Lois is just randomly listing people with names we never heard before who she is giving presents to. In the show these are replaced by the mayor and the archbishop.

Also she mentioned explicitly about having been in jail in that babble in the script.

They also had Mxyzptlk taking credit for sinking the Titanic, and maybe another additional thing besides the fall of Rome.

In "Brutal Youth" the opening scene as contained in the script closed with Lois saying, after telling Clark they are not leaving the room "just don't roll over and go to sleep" They also seemed to have intended we not realize that Lois and Clark were on the ceiling until that point. I guess they decided that that line really did not fit with Lois and Clark really, really enjoying eachother, her suggesting he might nod off.

Brutal Youth's script also has Perry saying something like "Mr. and Mrs. Clark Ke-, of, have we decided on a name, of well, the happy couple" when they first got off the elevator. They totally drop anything like that in the show. In fact I am pretty sure they cut that whole set of lines and just lead with Jimmy asking about Hawaii.

Then when Benny Rockland shows up, in the script he says of Lois "hey, you weren't lying, she's a babe". They cut that line out as well.

Then when Lois and Klein are talking about what could have sucked out the youth, in the script Klein says what caused it could have been "intense radiation, a cell disruptor, any Patrick Swayzee movie". They don't have the Patrick Swayzee line in the show.

I just noticed at times in the scipts they refer to "the Blue Blur", which reminds me of the "Reb Blue Blur" in Smallville. In this case, it is when Clark in uniform is just seen as a blur.

In the script of House of Luthor Lois says Sam and Lucy won't be at her wedding because her father is in Africa and Lucy is in Nepal. In the episode they were not mentioned.

In NEB.. Tony Jay's character wasn't known as Nigel St John, but was called Albert, however when it aired only the two jumpers had names.

I was just looking up Cosgrove's dialogue in ASU when I found something surprising in the scene before Clark flies up to battle Nightfall (the first time, after he kisses Lois and is talking to Gen. Zeitlin):

Well, lookie there. Hello, Mr. President.

In the Season One CD, there is a brief promo film of Lex in a black leather outfit. Yummy!

In my fic Stranger in our Midst, there is a scene where he is wearing a black leather jacket on his date with Aykira Milan.

John's question 89a in the LnC Dangling Threads made me remember of a part of dialog that was not aired. At the ending of House of Luthor in the script there's this conversation between Lois and Clark:

I wish it had aired. It was important for Lois and Clark.

Andreia

Wish that had been included, too...just a little more conversation btw Lois and Clark about everything they had just been through would have been nice. Thanks for sharing this--interesting

Reviving this. Because I just found another line that was just perfect.

(From "Whine, Whine, Whine" script)

I'm sad they didn't go with that one, he sounds like he would have been a more imposing president than the one they got later on.

In "Supermann" just after Perry and the no story about a bomb interchange we get this in the script:

In the actual show they cut off "planning a wedding" and went straight into Jimmy with the Supermodel picture.