Boom Crunch, DC

So, the other day I watched an episode of Desperate Housewives. I think it was the third episode I've seen since I gave up on the show part-way through Season Two. I've been loosely keeping up with events thanks to the ads, but I don't really know who half the characters are or why they're likely to die soon.

This was the episode where the plane crashed into the Christmas block party and Dana Delany's character, Katherine, completely flipped and accused Mike of stabbing her.

My mother, who had never really watched the show, was also watching, due to the fact that we were both exceptionally tired and couldn't be bothered reading or trying to engage in conversation.

At one point, Katherine was curled on the floor of the hospital as nurses tried to sedate her while sobbing at her daughter that she'd asked her not to come. Susan, Terri Hatcher's character, was holding the daughter and comforting her.

“Poor Lois,” I said, referring, of course, to Dana Delany.

“You mean the other one,” said my mother, “Susan was Lois.”

“Yeah, but she was Lois, too,” I replied, and my mother seemed surprised, even though I know I have previously mentioned Dana Delany's role as Lois Lane in the animated series. My mother choses not to remember these things.

Terri Hatcher played Lois Lane for four years in Lois and Clark, but Delany provided her voice for over twelve years throughout various cartoons. Which kind of makes the last few seasons of DH Lois vs Lois.

While the two Loises have been fighting over Mike, Superman and Deadly Nightshade were about to start fighting over Bree. Kyle MacLachlan (Orson) provided Superman's voice in Justice League: The New Frontier while Richard Burgi (Karl) played the bad guy in an episode of The Flash. Oh, and Carlos (Ricardo Chavira)? He provides the voice for Major Force (another bad guy) in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Just to make that particular episode more interesting, the guy flying the plane was Dan Castellaneta. Apart from being Homer Simpson, he has also provided several voices for DC characters and villains over the years in various animated series. In the same year he appeared in this episode of DH, he also guest starred on an episode of Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion was once on Desperate Housewives playing opposite Dana Delany. He was also the voice for Steve Trevor in the animated Wonder Woman telemovie.

Both Richard Burgi and Doug Savant appeared with Fillion in episodes of Firefly, which featured Gina Torres (who is woefully underused in TV land at present). Torres provided the voice for Superwoman in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and was Vixen in several episodes of the Justice League animated series.

Castellaneta was also recently on Bones, sharing screen time with David Boreanaz, who provides the voice of Green Lantern in Justice League: The New Frontier, starring alongside Kyle MacLachlan. That particular movie featured Lucy Lawless as the voice for Wonder Woman. Lawless has, to my knowledge, never been in Desperate Housewives - but she should be. Preferably in the same episode as Gina Torres and David Boreanaz.