Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Fun and Games (1996)

Tim Daly: Superman, Clark Kent

Quotes 

• Lois Lane : Enjoying a leisurely afternoon, or have you been listening to the police band again?

  Clark Kent : Actually, Perry assigned me the park opening. Why? What's up?

  Jimmy Olsen : You haven't heard about the Toyman?

  Clark Kent : Who?

  Lois Lane : Uh-uh. Nice try, Smallville, but this one's mine.

• Clark Kent : Still haven't heard from her?

  Jimmy Olsen : Uh-uh. You think something's wrong?

  Clark Kent : I don't know. First Mannheim's missing, now Lois. If I only knew what the link was between Mannheim and Toyman.

  Jimmy Olsen : You know, you can cross-index with this system, like the names "Mannheim" and "Toyman". You mind if I take a shot?

• Lois Lane : Read it and weep, Kent. It's all here: the attack on the armored car, the attack on Mannheim, and as a finishing touch, a preliminary profile on the perp by a noted police psychiatrist.

  Clark Kent : Based on what?

  Lois Lane : He uses toys as weapons. We're talking about a guy with very serious issues. Like the shrink says: an emotionally stunted, amoral narcissist with paranoid delusions desperately...

  The Toyman : [in his playhouse, reading the article]  "... desperately seeking external validation through antisocial behavior."

• Clark Kent : [after saving Lois from Toyman as Superman]  You sure you're okay?

  Lois Lane : Yeah. He was a sicko, Kent, but I can't help feeling sorry for him.

  Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim : He was a loser, a walking freak show, like his old man. This is one funeral I'll skip.

  Cop : I'm not sure there's gonna be a funeral. My people still haven't found the body. However, they did find this.

  [showing them an evidence baggie containing the broken pieces of Toyman's mask] 

• Superman : Little boys shouldn't play with sharp objects.

  The Toyman : Who invited you, Superman?

  Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim : Superman? Superman, is that you?

  The Toyman : Don't think I haven't prepared a surprise for you. Here's something you can't break.

  Superman : [getting hit with a Play-Doh-like substance]  Very funny, Toyman.

  [it starts to mutate and envelop him] 

  Superman : Huh?

  The Toyman : Uh, maybe you should read the warning. Dopey Doh is a lethal biogenic organism. Contact with the skin can prove fatal. It won't stop growing until it asphyxiates its host. Not for children under three.

  Superman : [she approaches to help]  Lois, no! Don't touch it!

  Lois Lane : What can I do?

  Superman : Get back. Find something to hide behind. Hurry!

• Jimmy Olsen : Nothing yet.

  Clark Kent : Try cross-indexing "Mannheim" with just "toy."

  Jimmy Olsen : [getting a result]  Hey, look at this.

  Clark Kent : "Toymaker sentenced to ten years."

  The Toyman : [in his playhouse, showing Lois a children's pop-up book]  It's a very sad story, one most people have forgotten. Once upon a time, there was a kindly man who loved nothing more than making toys. He wanted to build the most wonderful toy factory in all the world, only he had no money to pay for it. Then one day, a man came along...

  [pulling a tab, devil's horns appear on Mannheim] 

  The Toyman : ...a very bad man. He offered to pay for the factory under one condition.

  Clark Kent : [at the Planet]  "The factory became the front for a numbers racket. Although Bruno Mannheim was named as a suspect, he was never indicted. Only the toymaker, Winslow Schott, was convicted."

  Jimmy Olsen : Sounds like Bruno played him for a patsy.

• Lois Lane : Mr. Mannheim, Lois Lane, Daily Planet. Any comments on this morning's armored car hijacking?

  Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim : Why would I have a comment? I'm a legitimate businessman.

  Lois Lane : Of course. And you have no knowledge of someone calling himself the Toyman?

  Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim : I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a respected citizen. And I don't appreciate your little insinuations.

  Clark Kent : [seeing toy planes buzzing in the air, which arm real machine guns]  Look out!

• Clark Kent : 2-1 Schott's our Toyman.

  Jimmy Olsen : I don't think so, Clark. Take a look.

  Clark Kent : His obituary.

  Jimmy Olsen : Poor guy. He died before making parole.

  Clark Kent : Yeah, but he had a survivor.