__NOEDITSECTION__[[Category: 1978, ]] [[Category: Season 4| , 1978, ]] File:Information-silk.png File:Challenge of the Super Friends.jpg [[#Season 4| Season 4]] #1[[:Category:1978, |]], File:Harvey2.jpg Jeffrey Scott Previous Episode Next Episode Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: Invasion of the Fearians File:Quote1.png Without the use of my muscles, my super-strength is useless! File:Quote2.png --Superman
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| - __NOEDITSECTION__[[Category: 1978, ]] [[Category: Season 4| , 1978, ]] File:Information-silk.png File:Challenge of the Super Friends.jpg [[#Season 4| Season 4]] #1[[:Category:1978, |]], File:Harvey2.jpg Jeffrey Scott Previous Episode Next Episode Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: Invasion of the Fearians File:Quote1.png Without the use of my muscles, my super-strength is useless! File:Quote2.png --Superman
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| - * At the beginning of the episode, Lex Luthor introduces each member of the Legion of Doom. Several Legion members even take time to demonstrate their abilities. Captain Cold uses his freeze gun to destroy a ceiling lamp; the Riddler nearly starts a fire with an exploding deck of Super Friends playing cards; Grodd punches his fist through the conference table; Sinestro creates an animated yellow cobra and Cheetah rakes her claws across the table. Oddly enough, Luthor doesn't react to the arbitrary damage committed against his new headquarters.
* The Cheetah's voice is patterned after the dialect used by Julie Newmar as the character of Catwoman from the live-action Batman television series.
* Bizarro has very little in common with his comic book counterpart. Whereas the comic Bizarro was more of a good-natured nuisance, the animated Bizarro is clearly a villain with evil intentions. The comic Bizarro also spoke with backwards grammar, lacking conjugated verbs. The animated Bizarro simply uses a stilted pidgin dialect.
* Aquaman does not have a single line of dialogue in this episode.
* There are at least two references to the 1977 movie Star Wars featured in this episode. The Hall of Doom closely resembles the helmet worn by the film's antagonist, Darth Vader. Robin also uses a bat-laser cutter which closely resembles a lightsaber.
* The alarm claxon at Fort Knox utilizes the same sound effect used for the red alert signal on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series.
* The Hall of Doom resides within a swamp in an undisclosed location. A crocodile can be seen lumbering past the half-submerged headquarters. This crocodile appears every single time the Hall of Doom rises from the swamp .
* The actual quantity of gold held at Fort Knox is not particularly impressive. Superman manages to fit all of it onto a single piece of sheet metal.
* In this episode, [[W:C:DC:Green Lantern
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| Recommended
| - * Super Friends
* Super Powers (Volume 1)
* Super Powers (Volume 2)
* Super Powers (Volume 3)
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| - * Super Friends article at Wikipedia
* Challenge of the Super Friends article at TV.com
* Challenge of the Super Friends entry at the Internet Movie Database
* Super Friends article at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
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| - Criminal mastermind Lex Luthor appears at a podium inside of a menacing headquarters known as the Hall of Doom. Gathered around him are twelve of the most sinister villains ever assembled - the Legion of Doom. Luthor introduces each villain in turn, several of whom take the opportunity to demonstrate their fantastic powers for their peers. Luthor then declares that the first step in global takeover is defeating Earth's protectors – the Super Friends. To this end, Luthor has created a dream machine, which will force the Super Friends to commit various acts of crime.
The first victim of Luthor's invention is Superman. While dozing at the Daily Planet, Clark Kent suddenly rises from his chair, changes into Superman, and flies out the window in a daze. Enslaved to the hypnotic command, he breaks into Fort Knox and steals the entire Federal Gold Reserve.
At Wayne Manor in Gotham City, Batman and Robin likewise submit to Luthor's brainwashing device. They travel to Washington and steal millions of dollars from the United States Treasury.
The rest of the Super Friends suffer their own sleepwalking episodes as well. While Wonder Woman robs the Louvre Art Museum in Paris, Black Vulcan raids the pyramids of Egypt, and the Flash steals the Crown Jewels of England.
The following day, all of the Super Friends meet at the Hall of Justice. They tell each other of their dreams, until Wonder Woman opens a special vault containing evidence of their crimes. Superman suggests that the Super Friends should voluntarily turn themselves in to the authorities, and the rest of the team agrees.
They arrive at the police station, where they are promptly incarcerated. They soon discover however, that the prison guards are actually Bizarro and the Cheetah wearing rubber masks. Their prison cell is booby-trapped with a force field and rocket thrusters. Bizarro and Cheetah subject their prisoners to a special gas which restricts physical movement. Lex Luthor maniacally preens over his victory and launches the prison cell into outer space with coordinates set for the heart of the sun.
With the Super Friends out of the way, Luthor embarks upon Phase II of his master plan. Using another of his fantastic inventions, he generates a wave of energy that stretches across the globe turning hundreds of innocent civilians into doppelgangers of Bizarro and Cheetah. The new Bizarros and Cheetahs begin to conquer the world.
In outer space, Superman uses his telescopic vision to notice a meteor heading on a direct path towards them. Wonder Woman telepathically commands her magic lasso to rope the meteor and angles it in such a way so that it disrupts the force field surrounding the prison cell. Superman flies out of the cell and begins pushing it back towards Earth.
Back on terra firma, the Super Friends are amazed to see multiple copies of Bizarro and Cheetah running amok. Even Batman's loyal butler Alfred has been transformed into a Bizarro. Batman recalibrates the bat-computer so that it can counter the effects of Luthor's duplication ray, returning all of the Cheetahs and Bizarros back to normal.
The Legion of Doom meanwhile attempt to take control of the Hall of Justice. Now that the doppelgangers are out of the way, the Super Friends are prepared to face their true enemies. Superman manages to confiscate Luthor's dream machine and attempts to use it on the Legion. Luthor laughs heartily, boldly clarifying that the dream machine will not work against the Legion. The Legion of Doom is forced to flee from the Hall of Justice, but they also manage to escape custody.
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| - __NOEDITSECTION__[[Category: 1978, ]] [[Category: Season 4| , 1978, ]] File:Information-silk.png File:Challenge of the Super Friends.jpg [[#Season 4| Season 4]] #1[[:Category:1978, |]], File:Harvey2.jpg Jeffrey Scott Previous Episode Next Episode Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends Super Friends (TV Series) Episode: Invasion of the Fearians File:Quote1.png Without the use of my muscles, my super-strength is useless! File:Quote2.png --Superman
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