Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)
Mxyzpixilated (1997)
Tim Daly: Superman, Clark Kent
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Quotes
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[while Clark is shaving, Mr. Mxyzptlk appears in his bathroom mirror]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Hi, guy!
[throws his head out of the mirror, which reforms into a new body]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Your three months are up! And this time you're not gonna cheat me out of my fun!
Clark Kent : Oh, it's YOU again, Mr Kltpzxym.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Not Kltpzxym, Mxyzptlk! Now, the first thing I'm gonna... ah, nuts!
[vanishes]
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Clark Kent : What do you want?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Laughs! You see, for centuries now, I've been pitting my interdimensional magic against schmoes who thought they could go 15 rounds with the old master! You know the stories about genies, imps leprechauns?
[Mr Mxyzptlk levitates Streaky the cat, which Clark flies up and catches]
Clark Kent : You?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Yep. After a while, I became bored with your basic rank-and-file human dolts. But then YOU showed up, SUPERMAN!
[Clark turns into Superman with a flash]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : You, my friend, are the ultimate challenge! We're going to have very merry games, you and I!
[starts flying around in circles]
Superman : A game has rules! Your stunts are just random idiocy!
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Okay, I'll give you a rule! If you can make me say, spell or otherwise reveal my name backwards and I'll split, until our dimensions come into alignment again in... oh, three months, give or take.
Superman : I can't even say your name forwards - how am I supposed to say it BACKwards?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : No, dope, *you* don't have to say it, you have to get *me* to say it!
Superman : Say what?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Kltpzyxm! Gosh, you're thick! Now, for the last time... ah, nuts!
[vanishes]
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[Mr Mxyzptlk appears in the Daily Planet just as Clark Kent prints out an article]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Ha, ha! You think you're pretty smart, don't you?
Clark Kent : Look, little man, I'm tired of this! If it's a fight you want...
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Oh, it is! It is!
Clark Kent : Fine! First let me proofread this article, and I'll meet you on the roof in twenty minutes...
Mr. Mxyzptlk : No stalling! I'll edit the rag for you!
[grabs Clark's article and magically picks out its spelling mistakes]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : There! Hey! What...? NO!
[vanishes]
Lois Lane : [passing by, glancing up the article] You're getting sloppy, Smallville. This sentence is cluttered with typos.
[gives the article back to Clark and leaves]
Clark Kent : K, L, T, P, Z...
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Clark Kent : What's it going to take to get rid of you, for EVER?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : You always trick me into doing the same thing once, but this time you're going to have to make me do it TWICE, in a row! Which means I can say Kltpzyxm all I want, as long as I break it - KILL-PIX-YEEZ-SUM - up! HA! If you beat me, then I'm history! Gone! Finito! Bye-bye! But if I win, then I got me a new stable boy! Deal?
Clark Kent : Whatever you want. I quit.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Huh?... You don't mean it.
Superman : Oh, yes I do. Shut off the lights when you're done, will you?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : [pulling on Superman's cape] Hey! HEY! You can't just walk out! If you do, your friends will stay mindless beasts!
Superman : They don't seem to mind.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : [turns into a newspaper boy] You better come with me, Little Boy Blue! If you don't cooperate, I'll tell the world your secret!
Superman : Big deal. I'll find another disguise.
[flies away]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : [thinking, words form above his head] ¡*%#!
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Clark Kent : [trying to pronounce Mxyzptlk] Hmmmm... MICKS-ILL-PLIK...
[Mxyzptlk pops out of a comic]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : No! Repeat after me, bright boy: it's MIX...
[turns into a mixer]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : YEEZ...
[turns into an album cover]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : SPIT...
[spits in Clark's face]
Mr. Mxyzptlk : LICK!
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Lois Lane : Don't you look happy. What's wrong? Bad news?
Clark Kent : [depressed] You could say that. I'm expecting a visitor from out of town.
Lois Lane : The guy's kind of a pest, is he?
Clark Kent : The worst!
Lois Lane : I hear ya. Every time my sister visits, she moves right on in and stays and stays and...
[a penguin suddenly waddles by]
Lois Lane : Was that a penguin?
Clark Kent : [bored] I'm afraid so.
[Lois turns into a horse and neighs]
Clark Kent : Here we go.
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Clark Kent : It's been going on all week. Impossible things keep happening and I'm the only one who sees them. Am I going crazy?
Jonathan Kent : Now, Clark, I'm sure it's not that bad.
Clark Kent : I can't keep being Superman if I keep wigging out like this.
Jonathan Kent : Now, son, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this.
Martha Kent : Yes, it's obvious that a brilliant, god-like lifeform from a dimension twice removed for ours is testing your powers.
Clark Kent : [suddenly skeptical] And what makes you say that?
Jonathan Kent : [chuckles] Oh, that's not important, son. What *is* important is following through with a nice, firm peck when scracthing up corn.
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Mr. Mxyzptlk : I skywrote my own name, BACKWARDS!
[his right leg fragments]
Superman : Twice.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : You were just toying with me! Even from the start!
[his left leg inflates and bursts]
Superman : Pretty much, yeah.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Never had you fooled for a second?
[his arms tear off and vanish]
Superman : Sorry.
Mr. Mxyzptlk : You are the superior being after all!
[his torso shrivels up]
Superman : Well...
Mr. Mxyzptlk : And now I'm gone... gone forever!
[his head deflates into his hat, which vanishes]
Superman : WHEW!
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Lois Lane : You look happy. What's up?
Clark Kent : I was expecting a visitor from out of town, but he can't make it.
Lois Lane : The guy's kind of a pest, is he?
Clark Kent : Not anymore.
Lois Lane : [picking a carrot up off her desk and taking a bite] Guests are the worst. Every time my sister visits, she just moves right on in and stays and stays and... why am I eating this?
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Clark Kent : Who are you?
Mr. Mxyzptlk : Like Mummy said, I'm a superior being from the fifth dimension!
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Lois Lane : Is that a penguin?
Clark Kent : I'm afraid so.
[Lois turns into a horse]
Clark Kent : Here we go...
