In either "Forget Me Not" or "Oedipus Wrecks" there is a lighted, electronic stock market ticker (in the office at the Planet) listing what has happened to stock prices and one of them
is something like"FoLCs" +7/8. Were they making a reference to "Friends of Lois & Clark?"

Hi, Pete and welcome!

Can't remember that one specifically, but I would imagine so as there were several references to fans on the tickertape over the years, IIRC. And elsewhere too. I can't remember them all - maybe other 'veterans' <g> can?

I know that there was a plaque on the wishing well in Ultrawoman that had a fan reference. And there was an African statue in Clark's apartment that had been sent into the production office (or given to Dean personally, can't recall now) by a fan, which appeared in a few episodes.

LabRat

LabRat-Thanks. I will watch for other references.

Of course I am not really Pete Ross. I am surprised no one took that name already.

I might still have articles on those references - or some of them - somewhere among my LNC archives on CD.

I'll have a scout around and if I find anything I'll post them here.

LabRat

The ticker-tape reference was in Oedipus Wrecks, and I *think* it was "FOLCS +3 7/8"

We also claimed that several other things were nods to the fans. In Tempus Anyone, there was a character referred to as "Majordomo" -- at the time, we had 2(?) very active lists on a "majordomo" type server.

And "Swear to God, This Time We're Not Kidding" (the final real wedding ep) was full of stuff. For one thing, the name of the episode! The producers of the show had caught a *lot* of flak about the previous season's non-wedding arc, so when they tried to do another wedding episode, there was much skepticism. My favorite bit is near the end, when Clark asks "Mike" for reassurance that this is real, right, because otherwise, there will be *riots* <g> And he was so right...

There were a few others, too, I think. There was an active Internet list since at least the middle of second season, which is when I came in, but it might have started a year earlier. Some of the show's production staff reportedly subscribed and lurked on the list, and would print out comments to share with the crew. So they definitely knew we were out there.

PJ
who thinks somebody ought to write all this stuff down, somewhere, because her memory isn't quite what it used to be