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* AbsenteeActor: Lois (Creator/PhyllisCoates) does not appear at all in this episode.
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* AbsenteeActor: Lois (Phyllis Coates) does not appear at all in this episode.

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* AbsenteeActor: Lois (Phyllis Coates) (Creator/PhyllisCoates) does not appear at all in this episode.

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While on a fishing trip, Perry and Jimmy run into trouble at a rural hotel.

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While on a After an unsuccessful fishing trip, Perry and Jimmy run into trouble stop at a rural hotel. hotel, whose owner Perry knows. However, once they arrive, they quickly find that all is not well -- someone new who doesn't want visitors has taken over the hotel and, given the former owner's skeleton in the cellar, it didn't happen peacefully. When Superman notices something, he goes after them, but will he arrive before the three villains make his coworkers disappear permanently?


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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Superman doesn't originally display any aggressiveness when he turns up looking for his missing friends. However, when Colonel Brand tells him that Perry and Jimmy are already dead and tries to stab him, Superman [[AngryCollarGrab collars him]] as he demands their location. Upon finding the owner, he grabs him and threatens to break all his bones if he doesn't tell him where his friends are.
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* HandSignals: After the authorities have been summoned, Superman offers to fly Perry and Jimmy back to Metropolis. Perry turns him down. After waiting a few moments, Jimmy does the "come closer" gesture and quietly asks Superman if he can take him up on that offer later. Superman answers that it's fine any time.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this episode has more emotional moments between Perry and Jimmy than usual.



* EvilCripple: One of the titular three is a wheelchair-bound woman. Subverted in that she protests the other two's plans to murder Perry and Jimmy, if only because she "don't want no more [blood] on [her] conscience" after what one of the others did to his uncle.
* HeroesGoneFishing: At the beginning of the episode, Perry and Jimmy are on a fishing trip.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, unaware that Superman is invulnerable.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The villains say that the hotel is haunted to scare off visitors.

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* EvilCripple: One of the titular three is a wheelchair-bound woman. Subverted in that she protests the other two's plans to murder Perry and Jimmy, if only because she "don't doesn't want no more [blood] blood on [her] conscience" after her conscience than what she has from one of the others did to killing his uncle.
uncle to gain ownership of the hotel.
* FriendshipMoment: When one of the three appears as a "ghost" to scare their unwanted guests, Jimmy freaks out and screams for his boss. Perry rushes into the room and asks him what happened. After the young reporter tells him, Perry clearly doesn't believe the "haunting" happened but tries to calm Jimmy down.
* HeroesGoneFishing: At the beginning of the episode, Perry and Jimmy are on a fishing trip.
trip. Apparently, it didn't go very well as Perry's crabbiness and Jimmy's lack of experience caused the two to get on each other's nerves.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, unaware that Superman is invulnerable.
invulnerable. He gets audibly freaked out when the sword breaks and the Man of Steel grabs him.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The villains say that the hotel is haunted to scare off visitors. One of them even pulls a "haunting" to scare Jimmy, but this doesn't affect his boss in the slightest and they still go poking around.
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Never Say Die is not an Omnipresent Trope, so aversions aren't listed.


* NeverSayDie: Averted. Colonel Brand (incorrectly) informs Superman that Perry and Jimmy are dead and that he will be as well just before trying to kill him with his sword.
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* NeverSayDie: Averted. Colonel Brand (incorrectly) informs Superman that Perry and Jimmy are dead and that he will be as well just before trying to kill him with his sword.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this is one of the episodes where Perry and Jimmy spend less time at odds.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this is one of the episodes where episode has more emotional moments between Perry and Jimmy spend less time at odds. than usual.

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No sinkholing.


* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, unaware that Superman is invulnerable.



* [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Stab Stab Stab Uh Oh]]: One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, unaware that Superman is invulnerable.
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this is one of the episodes where Perry and Jimmy spend less time at odds.

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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this is one of the episodes where Perry and Jimmy spend less time at odds.
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example; this is one of the episodes where Perry and Jimmy spend less time at odds.
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* StaircaseTumble: When one of the villains finds the wheelchair-bound woman helping Perry and Jimmy, he pushes her wheelchair down the stairs.
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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jimmy struggling with one of the bad guys and the other knocking him out with a blow to the head is shown in the shadows thrown on the wall.

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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jimmy struggling with one of the bad guys and the other knocking him out with a [[TapOnTheHead blow to the head head]] is shown in the shadows thrown on the wall.
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Shooting Superman is for when they should know.


* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jimmy struggling with one of the bad guys and the other knocking him out with a blow to the head is shown in the shadows thrown on the wall.
* ShootingSuperman: PlayedWith. One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, but he's unaware that Superman is invulnerable.

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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jimmy struggling with one of the bad guys and the other knocking him out with a blow to the head is shown in the shadows thrown on the wall.
wall.
* ShootingSuperman: PlayedWith. [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Stab Stab Stab Uh Oh]]: One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, but he's unaware that Superman is invulnerable.
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* AbsenteeActor: Lois (Phyllis Coates) does not appear at all in this episode.
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* AntagonistTitle: The episode is named after the villains.
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* ShootingSuperman: PlayedWith. One of the villains tries to kill Superman with his sword, but he's unaware that Superman is invulnerable.
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* HeroesGoFishing: At the beginning of the episode, Perry and Jimmy are on a fishing trip.

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* HeroesGoFishing: HeroesGoneFishing: At the beginning of the episode, Perry and Jimmy are on a fishing trip.
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* HeroesGoFishing: At the beginning of the episode, Perry and Jimmy are on a fishing trip.
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* ScoobyDooHoax: The villains say that the hotel is haunted to scare off visitors.
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While on a fishing trip, Perry and Jimmy run into trouble at a rural hotel.
!! This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* CreepyBasement: The cellar of the hotel where Perry and Jimmy spend the night is shadowy and has the skeleton of the former owner chained to a wall.
* DistressedDude: Perry and Jimmy are the designated rescuees for this episode.
* EvilCripple: One of the titular three is a wheelchair-bound woman. Subverted in that she protests the other two's plans to murder Perry and Jimmy, if only because she "don't want no more [blood] on [her] conscience" after what one of the others did to his uncle.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jimmy struggling with one of the bad guys and the other knocking him out with a blow to the head is shown in the shadows thrown on the wall.
* WhenIWasYourAge: Perry tells Jimmy that "when I was your age, a few mosquitoes didn't bother me."
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Perry, talking to the terrified Jimmy, calls him "Jim" rather than "Olsen".

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