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Super House of El

McFly Media Groupwww.supermantvtalk.com
Your Fortress for Fandom since 2005 - the internet's original Superman podcast, celebrating 20 years online. Commemorating The Man of Tomorrow's legacy with humor, analysis and nostalgia. Smallville fans may know us as Starkville's House of El, Superman and Lois fans might know us as Superman and Lois TV Talk - we are The House of El.
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Episodes

Smallville | 10x11 – ‘Icarus’

December 10, 2010 – Clark proposes marriage to Lois and she accepts, but shortly after their engagement party Oliver is attacked by Metropolis citizens which sparks a manhunt for Queen and the rest of the heroes. Realizing General Slade is still alive, Clark orders all heroes underground until he can find a way to stop Slade. Subsequently, Slade brings in Emil, Tess, and Lois for questioning to find out where the Blur is. Carter Hall arrives and rescues Lois, but sacrifices his own life in the p...

Dec 10, 20102 hr 52 min

Smallville | 10x10 – ‘Luthor’ feat. Bryan Q. Miller

December 3, 2010 – Clark learns that there is another Lex clone in existence, and that Tess has been keeping him alive behind everyone’s back. Clark also discovers that Tess has a Kryptonian box, and when he activates it, it sends him to a parallel universe where Lionel Luthor is his adoptive father and not the Kents. While on the alternate Earth, Clark learns that Tess is actually a Luthor, that his doppelganger goes by the alias Ultraman and murders anyone that gets in his way, including Lex L...

Dec 03, 20102 hr 1 min

Smallville | 10x09 – ‘Patriot’

November 19, 2010 – Oliver registers for the new vigilante registration law, now being overseen by Col. Slade Wilso n , in order to protect the rest of the team and find out what the government is planning. Oliver’s suspicions are confirmed when the registration location is revealed to be a trap designed to locate and arrest superheroes. Clark teams up with Arthur Curry, now aware of his Atlantean heritage, and Arthur’s wife Mera, to track down the superhero prisons the government has built. Aft...

Nov 19, 20102 hr 42 min

Smallville | 10x08 – ‘Abandoned’

November 12, 2010 – Lois watches a video tape left by her mother, where Ella Lane tells Lois not to let the loss of a loved one keep her from living up to her full potential. Subsequently, Lois goes to the Fortress of Solitude and pleads with Jor-El to reconcile with Clark so that Clark can be the hero he needs to be. Meanwhile, Clark helps Tess uncover the truth about a dream Tess had about being in an orphanage. Tess eventually learns she is the illegitimate child of Lionel Luthor, who abandon...

Nov 12, 20102 hr 39 min

Smallville | 10x07 – ‘Ambush’

November 5, 2010 – General Sam Lane and Lucy Lane, Lois’s father and sister, come into town to celebrate Thanksgiving with Lois and Clark. While visiting, the General reveals that he is a proponent of a new vigilante registration law, much to the dismay of Clark and Lois. Tess and Oliver discover that the team is being tracked by Rick Flag, who is reforming the Suicide Squad and has sent out an assassination order for the General. Flag launches a missile to kill the General, but it detonates nex...

Nov 05, 20101 hr 34 min

Smallville | 10x06 – ‘Harvest’ feat. Al Septien and Turi Meyer

October 29, 2010 – Clark and Lois get a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, so Clark goes to the nearby town to fix the tire while Lois stays behind. Lois meets a young girl who takes her to a village where the water supply has been contaminated with blue kryptonite. Clark returns to find Lois missing and sets out to look for her. Lois discovers the villagers are planning to sacrifice her to bring continued good crops and health. She and Clark, who is powerless next to the villagers who emit blu...

Oct 29, 20101 hr 13 min

Smallville | 10x05 – ‘Isis’

October 22, 2010 – Clark contemplates telling Lois his secret, while Lois also decides to reveal to Clark that she already knows he is The Blur. Before either can say anything, Lois unwittingly becomes possessed by the Egyptian Goddess Isis, who sets out to resurrect her long lost lover Osiris. Clark and Oliver look to Tess for help in trying to stop Isis, as Osiris’s return will unleash Hell on Earth. Clark sets out to stop Isis, but instead almost becomes the vessel for Osiris before Oliver ar...

Oct 22, 20101 hr 48 min

Smallville | 10x03 – ‘Supergirl’

October 8, 2010 – Radio personality Gordon Godfrey becomes possessed by the dark force Clark was warned about, and begins waging a crusade against all super-heroes. Kara comes back to Earth and tells Clark that Jor-El has sent her to take care of the evil that is coming, as the doubt in Clark’s heart will allow it to possess him and use Clark’s powers as the ultimate weapon. Lois returns from Africa and learns that Godfrey is planning to reveal Green Arrow’s identity, and create doubt all over t...

Oct 08, 20101 hr 43 min

Smallville | 10x02 – ‘Shield’

October 1, 2010 – Lois takes a Daily Planet field reporter position in Egypt, so Clark sends Carter Hall to look after her. Subsequently, Carter and Lois discuss her running away from Clark in order to protect his secret. Oliver discovers that Chloe erased all records of herself before she disappeared, so he sets out to track her down. He discovers that she traded her life for his, and afterward faked her own death during the interrogation to escape. Back at the Daily Planet, Clark is assigned a...

Oct 01, 20101 hr 54 min

Smallville | 10x01 – ‘Lazarus’

September 24, 2010 – Following in the previous season finale, Lois removes the blue kryptonite dagger from Clark’s body and hides as he heals. Chloe uses Doctor Fate’s helmet to see her future and later swaps herself for Oliver’s return from captivity. Tess wakes up healed in Cadmus Labs and discovers Lex Luthor clones. One clone escapes and forces Clark to choose between saving Lois or Metropolis; Clark pushes himself harder than before and saves everyone. Jor-El informs Clark that the darkness...

Sep 24, 20101 hr 56 min

Big Honkin’ Steve

It wasn’t known at the time of recording, but this is the last episode featuring Steve Glosson as a regular host here on Starkville’s House of El. And as sad as that is, there’s not a more fitting time for it to be released than one hour before the final season premiere of Smallville.

Aug 22, 20101 hr

San Diego Cluster Con 2010

Many SHoEligans died to bring you this episode. Rumors of SHoEligans deaths are highly exaggerated. We’re back with an all new episode, featuring the SHoE Braintrust and TV Guide’s own Damian Holbrook who were in attendance at SDCC 2010 and specifically at the Smallville s10 panel as well as the press junket afterwards.

Aug 01, 20102 hr 34 min

‘Twas the Night Before ComicCon

On the eve of ComicCon, Steve and Joe tackle all the latest Smallville news, including hopes for who will be returning season ten and more! Plus news on the rumored Christopher Nolan Superman movie and the upcoming season nine Smallville DVD.

Jul 21, 20101 hr 14 min

Smallville | Exclusive Interview with Cassidy Freeman II

May 31, 2010 – Here is our exclusive interview with Smallville’s own Tess Mercer, Cassidy Freeman. Cassidy talks about her sophomore season on the show, gives some great insight to specific episodes (especially the season finale ‘Salvation’) as well as where she’d like to see the character to go for season ten.

May 31, 201040 min

Smallville | 9x22 – ‘Salvation’

May 14, 2010 – Zod appears to Lois claiming to be The Blur and accusing Clark of trying to reveal Zod’s secret. Tess confronts Zod at the Fortress, in an effort to save Clark, but Zod gets the upper hand and uses his heat vision to burn her and leave her for dead before destroying the main console of the Fortress. Clark takes Tess to the hospital, where she tells him there is a second console that will activate the book. Later, Tess is pronounced dead at the hospital. Zod attacks Lois when she d...

May 14, 20101 hr 18 min

Smallville | 9x21 – ‘Hostage’

May 7, 2010 – Maxwell Lord kidnaps Tess in an effort to find the Book of Rao. Tess escapes only to be caught by the Red Queen, and is forced to give the book to her. Martha returns to Smallville with Perry White, whom she is dating, to the surprise of Clark. Lois informs Clark that they should break up, as she needs to find her true calling in life. Subsequently, Lois and Perry team up on a story about the Book of Rao and the Red Queen that could help Lois regain her job at the Daily Planet. The...

May 07, 20101 hr 11 min

Smallville | 9x20 – ‘Sacrifice’

April 30, 2010 – Checkmate breaches the Watchtower computer firewalls and begins stealing information. Clark, needing to find Zod, sends Oliver to the Luthor mansion to look through Tess’s things to see if he can find any information. At the same time, Clark talks to Faora and reveals to her that Zod has had powers for weeks and that he was the reason Krypton was destroyed. Armed with this new information, Faora attempts to organize the remaining Kandorians to seek out peace with humans, and sta...

Apr 30, 201047 min

Smallville | 9x18 and 9x19 – ‘Upgrade’ and ‘Charade’

We’ve got a huge episode to make up for being a week behind (that will also line us up with Salvation being our 150th episode) with some amazing surprises awaiting you inside. We’ve got two special guests to help us cover the last two weeks worth of episodes, plus lots of news surrounding the end of season nine.

Apr 23, 20102 hr 17 min

Smallville | 9x17 – ‘Checkmate’

April 9, 2010 – Tess and other agents from Checkmate successfully kidnap Green Arrow and transport him to the Checkmate organization. While in transport, Amanda Waller attempts to recruit Green Arrow, unaware that he is billionaire Oliver Queen, to a government cause designed around preparing for a potential alien invasion. Green Arrow declines and escapes. With Oliver still missing, Clark and Chloe begin searching surveillance feeds. John Jones is also investigating and he discovers the locatio...

Apr 09, 20101 hr 20 min

Smallville | 9x16 – ‘Escape’

April 2, 2010 – Clark and Lois head to a bed and breakfast for the weekend, but when they arrive they find Chloe and Oliver having their own romantic getaway. While settling in, Lois unwittingly releases the spirit of Siobhan McDougal, who was cursed and sent to live in the underworld, from a painting at the bed and breakfast. Known as the Silver Banshee by the villagers, the spirit transfers from one woman to the next, looking to murder any men who come into her path. Eventually, Chloe discover...

Apr 02, 201052 min

Smallville | 9x15 – ‘Conspiracy’

February 26, 2010 – Bernard Chisholm, a doctor who was experimented on by Kandorian scientists, begins kidnapping those same Kandorians in order to expose them to the world. Chisholm tries to persuade Lois to write the story, but when she refuses he kidnaps her and forces her to write it. Clark attempts to locate the missing Kandorians and is confronted by Zod, who knows that Clark destroyed the solar towers. Meanwhile, Oliver discovers that Chloe has been stealing money from his company in orde...

Feb 26, 20101 hr 37 min

Smallville | 9x14 – ‘Persuasion’

February 19, 2010 – Clark is unknowingly exposed to a new form of kryptonite that gives him the power of hypnosis. As a result, Lois quits her job at the Daily Planet and moves in with Clark after he tells her he wants a more traditional relationship. Once Clark finds out about his new power, he goes to Zod to see if he can force Zod to reveal who killed Jor-El. Zod tells Clark that Tess murdered his father, and tries to convince Clark to seek vengeance. After refusing to kill anyone, Clark acci...

Feb 19, 20101 hr 43 min

Smallville | 9x13 – ‘Warrior’

February 12, 2010 – After stealing an enchanted Warrior Angel comic book, adolescent Alec is transformed into a super-powered adult. With his new abilities, Alec saves Chloe’s life. Thinking that Alec, who calls himself “Steven Swift”, is another superhero, Chloe tries to get to know him and recruit him to Clark and Oliver’s super-powered team. At the same time, Zatanna returns and informs Clark that her father was the one who cursed the comic book that turns Alec into Warrior Angel, and enlists...

Feb 12, 20101 hr 32 min

Smallville | 9x11 and 9x12 – ‘Absolute Justice’

February 5, 2010 – After former superhero Sylvester Pemberton—also known as Star-Spangled Kid—is killed by supervillain Icicle, Chloe and Clark begin investigating the murder. The pair discover that Sylvester was part of a group known as the Justice Society of America, which was led by a man named Carter Hall who went by the name Hawkman. They also learn that Carter Hall and the rest of the Justice Society of America have been monitoring Clark and his super hero friends. Another member of the JS...

Feb 05, 20102 hr 34 min

Smallville | 9x10 – ‘Disciple’

January 29, 2010 – After a date with Clark, Lois is shot with an arrow by a man dressed as the Green Arrow. Later, Chloe is attacked by the same individual. Oliver begins investigating and discovers that an old mentor, named Vordigan, is the one behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Zod tells Clark that the Kryptonians are waiting on Clark to help them all get their powers, and that they will resort to anything to get them. Oliver’s old mentor kidnaps Mia, Oliver’s new apprentice, and uses her as bait ...

Jan 29, 20101 hr 14 min

Jen

January 2, 2010 – Welcome back! It’s the first SHoE of 2010 and we’ve got some catching up to do. First off, this episode was recorded before the disastrous earthquake in Haiti and the announcement of the Telethon that will take the place of “Disciple” on 1/22.

Jan 02, 20101 hr 27 min

Charity Trivia Off

We’ve got a quick episode to give you all the details regarding the upcoming Charity Trivia Off between Kryptonsite’s Craig Byrne and Starkville House of El’s Derek Russell that will be moderated by host Steve Glosson next week.

Dec 05, 200913 min

Smallville | 9x09 – ‘Pandora’ Part II

It’s your official episode for the mid-season finale “Pandora” with Derek and Steve taking a look back at the episode a week later, to delve more into the questions we were left with and the answers you’re looking for.

Nov 28, 20091 hr 13 min

Smallville | 9x09 – ‘Pandora’ Part I

November 20, 2009 – Tess kidnaps Lois and uses a memory reading machine from Sommerholt Institute to try to discover Lois’s lost memories. In order to see how Zod “saves humanity”, Tess synchronizes her brain with Lois’s so that she can live through the memories. In the future, the solar powered energy plant LuthorCorp builds is used to harness the solar radiation from the Sun—turning it red and stripping Clark of his powers—and provide Zod and his troops with all of their natural powers. Clark ...

Nov 20, 20092 hr 21 min

Smallville | 9x08 – ‘Idol’ feat. Allison Scagliotti

November 13, 2009 – In an attempt to fuel the legend of the Blur, twins Jayna and Zan — who have the ability to morph into animals and water-based forms, respectively—begin performing saves around Metropolis and painting Clark’s shield at the scene of the crime. Unfortunately, mistakes made by the twins push the Blur under scrutiny from the District Attorney, who challenges the Blur to reveal himself. Meanwhile, Lois accidentally hears Clark’s voice while talking to the Blur, and goes out of her...

Nov 13, 20092 hr 24 min
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