A jealous Dick decides to show Mary how funny he is after she asks another professor to emcee a college fund-raiser she's organizing. Meanwhile, Harry loses his beloved coat, and Sally builds a shelf to hold her shoes, providing lots of unnoticed slapstick humor.

Perry gets promoted to a job upstairs and picks Lois to be the new Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Planet. She ends up killing one of Clark's stories and they have their first fight after marriage. And Superman must deal with Ethan Press, a man who wants to kill him because of Lex Luthor's death, and with the (forced) help of his brother Eric, Ethan creates a powerful weapon, and now, only the sun light can save Superman.