And for that matter, Lois' too. Just because I'm too lazy and busy to look it up anywhere and need it just for a small tidbit. (For some reason, I want to say that Clark's birthday is some time in august, and Lois' might be in autumn too... but I'm absolutely guessing there).

Thanks!

As always, my memory is fairly suspect these days - but I'm fairly sure Clark says his birthday is February 29th in the Baron Sunday episode.

Here it is in the script:

LabRat

FoLCdom wiki:
http://folc.wikia.com/wiki/Clark_Kent
http://folc.wikia.com/wiki/Lois_Lane

Michael

The problem is that 1966 is not a leap year. Or... maybe it is if you come from Krypton.

ML

Clark's should be Feb. 28th, no? And I don't think Lois' birthday was ever given an exact date. But she does say that she is a Libra. Personally, I'm tempted to give her a birthday of Oct. 15th. *cough*cough*mybirthday*cough*

Clark's birthday takes place during "AKA Superman" which aired 3/16.

I personally always put his birthday in February. He was found 5/17/16 and he looked about 3 months old in "Tempus Fugitive". So I usually put it around 2/17. (Or perhaps Valentine's Day, but I don't know if Martha and Jonathan would be *that* cruel to Clark.) Clark doesn't know his correct birthday because he was born off-planet, so any date could possibly work.

RE: Lois's birthday. Yep, Libra (per "Contact"). I move her birthday around. In Missing Lois it was at the end of Sept. to coincide with her jailtime. In Green-Eyed Monster or more correctly Nightfall Honeymoon I change it around so that their wedding date is towards the end of Sept. and make her birthday 10/6 (canon L&C's official wedding date).

Thanks guys! Now I can (maybe) incorporate those into my story. I owe you guys one.

Oh, believe me, there was plenty of fan comment on that birthdate after Never On Sunday aired.

Really, it makes very little sense. But then, dates on the show were generally all over the place - Martha and Jonathan had three different wedding anniversary dates depending on the episode, IIRC - so you could practically pick the one that suited you and still be right. :rolleyes:

Or...considering that Clark was showing some antipathy to Baron Sunday in that clip, there's always the possibility that he was downright lying about those dates just to be irksome. Maybe he wanted to see if Sunday was smart enough to point out that 1966 wasn't a leap year.


LabRat

Love your theory, Labby.

Other than what was said on Never On Sunday, I'd always assumed Clark's birthday was Feb 28.


According to the Superman Homepage, his birthday has traditionally been February 29th (or 28th).
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-superman

An interesting theory, Labby. I would whole-heartedly accept that, because I can picture Clark doing that and the leap year thing makes sense. Only I like the idea that Clark, a child who actually wasn't born on planet Earth, also wasn't born on a day that exists in the year 1966. It makes some odd sort of sense. He's technically untraceable in all aspects.

Plus, then I don't have to come up with another date.

This would explain why he never seems to age. Only having a birthday once every 4 years.

Of course, even if February 29th existed in Krypton in 1966, for his Earth birthday you'd have to trace his birthday back on an Earth day... which would make it February 28th again.

And I totally just wrote the above mostly needless explanation to justify posting the following, really short, comment:

Ah, but then he should have looked like a little boy of seven on the show.

A paradox. A paradox. A most ingenious paradox.

Joy,
Lynn

I had to comment on this. I know the comics always put Clark's birthday as February 29, but I can't see this happening. People who are born on leap days are always given special attention, especially when it’s a leap year. Attention on when their son was born would be the last thing the Kents want... Just my two cents!

It's been awhile since I've seen the episode, but I believe that in "Never On Sunday" Clark actually said his birthday was February 28, given there was no February 29 in 1966. I don't think the script was ever changed.

Oh, I thought you guys would get a kick out of this. This is actually the way that my roommate likes to tease me. She's the only one who knows that I like (am obsessed with) LNC. We'll be in a group of friends, and she'll randomly say that there was no February 29 in 1966. I'll be grinning and blushing like crazy, and she's the only one who knows why.

You know, since Clark's birthday has been guesstimated after his arrival on Earth, some stupid government person (who had to put down the date) might have messed up and used Feb 29, even though that day doesn't exist in 1966. (Maybe the government person was drunk/high/stupid/whatever.)

Incompetant? Sounds plausible to me.