Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Lois & Clark Things I didn't get.

Just because I'm bored.

1. Why does Clark say "Thank you, I appreciate it" When Lois tells him he wouldn't be her first choice for bodyguard in Witness?

2 What do Lois say when the phone starts ringing while she drinks milk in the Prankster? It's not in the script, it sounds like "I gonna get some good chow"

3 Who is Mike, in the wedding episode?

I can't answer the first one for sure, I just always thought it was sarcasm.

As for number 2, what Lois says is "I have gotta get some control."

And number 3, I believe Mike is supposed to be a guardian angel of some sort.

Hope that helped!

I always saw it as him being ironic. He puts so much effort into making himself the 'mild-mannered', unflashy, unheroic figure so that no one notices he's the superheroic, Superman. To make sure no one sees him as extra couragous or muscular or whatever and puts two and two together.

So when Lois tells him he wouldn't be her first choice as a bodyguard - in other words that he isn't the first person to spring to her mind when she thinks of a tough guy - well, I think Clark feels it's kind of a compliment in a way to how good he's been with the deception.

And, yes, Mike is supposed to be a guardian angel. Don't get me started. :rolleyes:

LabRat

Thanks a bunch,

"I have gotta get some control"
hear it now.


2. Sarcasm, irony, Obviously. Why otherwise would Clark appreciate Lois lack of faith in his abilty to look out for her? Especially if he wan't her to be interested in him. If it was just "hey my disguise works really well" I'd expected a hint of self mocking bitterness.
I can understand that he thinks it funny under the circumstances. But then why not pretend he hurt his feelings, or some teasing comment "Perhaps you should give me a chance".

3. Mike. I thought it was some american in joke. Like the basketball player Boo. Has the actor played a guardian angel? There has been no mentioning of angels before that, so I don't see how that could be anything but bewildering to the audience.

Arawn, the actor played on the 1970's TV series, "Charlie's Angels." He was the physically-present liaison between Charlie, who never appeared, and the three women.

By the name of Mike?

So this a symbolism of marriage made in heaven? I just find it strange since religion hardly took any part in the series.

Another thing,

4. Griffin Senior with his intestinal telephone.

"I'm callin you back, get it?" I didn't. wordplay on colon?

Well, actually the actor who played Mike was called "Bosley" in the Charlie's Angel series. And *laughs* as far as I know, there's nothing religious with the name "Mike". I could be wrong of course.

So, my theory is that just picked a name at random. Mike the guardian angel might as well have been a "Bob", "Johnny" or a "Bosley".

-Cherry (Who've watched a total sum of four(!) Charlie's Angels episodes...over and over again)

Yes that was a play on the word colon but that was one terrible joke.

The Archangel Michael does come to mind.

There's an Archangel named Michael? Are you sure? I mean, err, I knew that.

The three archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael. (Or, if you prefer the original Hebrew: Michoel (the "ch" is a sound that doesn't exist in English - sort of a guttural "h"), Gavriel, and Rephoel.)

That particular episode was directed by Michael Lange. So it could have been a in-joke...

James

And it's a common name. Why, almost every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named Mike!

So no one hear knows the official answer to who the Mike guy was?

I thought you were fans!

Asked and answered, Arawn! He was a guardian angel.

If you're asking why the character was included in the episode - well without the benefit of psychic ability or a crystal ball, the only people who'd know that are TPTB on the show. And unless they choose to share that info....guess we'll never know.

LabRat

Ok, so it says in the casting list. But the purpose of the part should have been something the producers have had to explain at some point.

It's just something, I would have thought FoLC's had asked about.

This was the best I could find with some google-fu.

"Mike" could be interpreted as representing the producers; he may also be thought of as a play on competition "Touched By An Angel." David Doyle, who played Mike, died in February 1997.

I just figured with all of the crazy, life threatening stuff Lois and Clark go through on a weekly basis, a guardian angel would make sense.

I think it's more that Lois & Clark are "destined", "soulmates", "fated", whatever/however you wish to put it, to be together, and that, shall we say "beings" or in this case a "being" of a higher nature (god, angel, hyper-developed alien, whatever) took steps to ensure that they would finally be together and have at least a moment of happiness.

My personal take is "Mike" is supposed to be the Archangel Michael. But for my overall thinking, see above satetment...

*grumbles*

What I don't get is why they didn't go back and save their past lives from isolation and being married to Tempus. WOE the torture!

Catherine, you need to read S6, in which Phil Atcliffe did exactly that in the episode, "Hand of Fate." There were a number of loose ends left when the series stopped, and that was one of them.