Who Wants to Be a Superhero ep. 4

We're down to the last 5, and the real drama has started. Tonight on Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the waterworks will begin in earnest.

After the recap, we see our beloved superheroes helping people on the street. Feedback and Major Victory attempt to help people cross the street. Fat Momma chastises a parking cop about breaking rules while he rights tickets. Creature makes people pick up trash, gets clothing to give to the homeless and almost gets hit by a car while jaywalking. Lemuria...umm...well, she wandered around.

Back at the lair, Stan Lee appears on his monitor again, still hiding from our superheroes as if they were carriers of the Avian Flu. He wants to talk to them about what just happened, but the Dark Enforcer appears on his screen with some bad news. He's talked to the family and friends of our superheroes, and they spilled some secrets. He begins showing the footage, and I realize I'm watching a TV with a TV on the screen and on that TV is another TV, and I'm pretty sure that in at least one of the interviews, there was a TV in the background there. It's close the best demonstration of infinity I've ever seen. Of course, I'm thinking about things like this because the big secrets they tell are not that impressive. We find out that Creature once littered, Feedback has a messy office, Fat Momma isn't always happy with her weight, Lemuria likes to tease guys at bars, and for the 5000th time we hear that Major Victory used to be a stripper (this does at least give the Dark Enforcer a chance to wave a dollar bill at Major Victory). Stan decides to eliminate Creature, making her the first person kicked off a reality show for jaywalking.

The main challenge tonight is to perform a secret task while talking with an inmate. Of course, somehow the superheroes don't seem to realize that these aren't real inmates. Lemuria must sit on an inmate's lap for 10 seconds. She goes for a far too direct approach and throws herself onto the woman's lap. This gets the inmate to jump up and scream at her, ending the session. Fat Momma must push and inmate's hair out of her face three times. She manages, despite the inmate repeatedly telling her to stop touching her. Major Victory must rub the inmate's shoulders three times. He manages to almost sneak the shoulder rubs in and completes his task. Finally, Feedback must manage three hugs. He does amazingly well, not only completing the task, but doing so in a sincere way. He may be boring, take the competition way too seriously and need to stop walking around with his mouth hanging open, but he earned some major bonus points on that challenge.

It's time for an elimination, and it really isn't much of a competition this time. Sure Stan complains again that Major Victory keeps taking off his cape, but only Lemuria couldn't complete the challenge. As she turns in her costume, she begins to cry as do her fellow superheroes, who come to comfort her.

Before we end, Stan tells the final three how proud he is of each of them. They all weep in response. When we get to Feedback, he is truly moved by Stan saying that he is proud of him and calls Stan the father he never had. Everyone cries and we see scenes from the next episode in which we are promised an elimination so hard, it makes Stan cry. Either everyone is getting really close on this show, or Stan is just really upset about having to create a comic with one of these people. To find out, I guess we'll have to wait until next week.