The WORST episodes of Smallville
Every episode of Smallville ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Smallville!
Superman's teen years as Clark Kent find him agonizing over his shy, uncertain persona while dealing with his evolving powers and an infatuation with classmate Lana Lang.
#1 - Plastique
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2008
Chloe invites an injured 15-year-old to move in with her. Meanwhile, Clark experiences his first day of work with Lois.
#2 - Fracture
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/2008
Lex tracks the amnesiac Kara to Detroit, where Lois follows him. An obsessive busboy infatuated with Kara shoots Lex, and Chloe has to determine whether to heal him or not.
#3 - Visitor
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2003
After a schoolmate claims to be an alien and proves it by using heat vision, Clark investigates and believes the boy is from Krypton. Meanwhile, Helen confronts Lex over the locked room in the mansion that holds his investigation of Clark's secrets.
#4 - Transference
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2004
Clark is drawn to the state penitentery by one of the kryptonian crystals, which Lionel is using to switch bodies with Lex. Clark intervenes and Lionel enters his body instead. While Lionel uses his newfound super-powers to regain his lost fortune and alienate Clark's friend, Clark must convince his parents that he is the "real" Clark and reverse the processs, while avoiding murderous convicts.
#5 - Precipice
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2003
After Lana is almost assaulted by a college student, Clark injures the boy while helping her. When the Kents are sued for damages that could cost them the farm, Clark tries to find a way out of the lawsuit. Meanwhile, Helen's obsessive ex-boyfriend comes to Smallville to win her back but when she turns him down, he stabs her, prompting Lex to take the law into his own hands.
#6 - Arctic
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/2008
Lex is taken to the Fortress to fulfill his destiny, while Lana awakens from her coma and Chloe is arrested by the government.
#7 - Sacred
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2005
After Clark receives a message from the recently-deceased Dr. Swann, he and Lana follow Jason and Lex to China in search of one of the kryptonian crystals. Lana is tortured, causing Isabelle to emerge and wreck havoc in her search for the crystal.
#8 - Thirst
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2005
Lana joins a sorority to get housing for her last-minute college registration, but the sisters have a deadly agenda which involves turning Lana into a vampire like themselves and sending her against Clark. Meanwhile, Chloe applies to become an intern at the Daily Planet and runs up against the editor-in-chief, Pauline Kahn.
#9 - Lucy
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/2005
Lucy Lane, Lois' younger sister, comes to Smallville but Clark catches her stealing money from the Talon to pay off a European crime syndicate. Lex offers to help but everything is not what it seems. Meanwhile, a thief breaks into Lana's apartment and steals the crystal, and Jason suspects Lionel.
#10 - Truth
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2004
When Chloe accidentally inhales a mysterious krypto-gas, she discovers it acts as a truth serum to anyone who comes in contact with her and decides to take advantage of her new power by going to the Kents to find out Clark's secret. However, her new power comes with fatal consequences and Clark must find an antidote before she discovers the truth about him or worse, dies.
#11 - Noir
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2007
Lana and Lionel have a secret meeting, after which Lana is shot. While Jimmy is observing photos of the encounter, he is knocked unconscious. While unconscious Jimmy dreams about what life in Smallville would have been like in the 1940s. Clark is a reporter at the Daily Planet, Lana is a siren who planned the demise of her magnate husband Lex, and Lois is a singer at a bar that Lionel owns.
#12 - Requiem
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2009
An explosion at LutherCorp injures Oliver and kills all the board members.
#13 - Ageless
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2005
Checking out a crater in a cornfield, Clark and Lana discover a baby with no parents and take him back to the Kent farm. However, when the baby, Evan, ages from a newborn to a 7-year-old in less than a day, it becomes clear he is aging at a rapid rate and they turn to Lex for help. Meanwhile, Genevieve suspects Lex has the Chinese Kryptonian artifact and orders Lionel to either recover it...or risk putting Lex in danger of his life.
#14 - Persona
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/31/2008
Chloe begins to notice that Clark's not acting like himself. Bizarro enlists the help of Brainiac.
#15 - Turbulence
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/2009
Tess invites Clark to a press conference in New York but when an explosion rocks the private jet they are on, Clark must figure out how to save them without Tess learning his secret. Unbeknown to Clark, Tess orchestrated the explosion to get Clark to reveal his powers. Meanwhile, Davis discovers a surprising way to control the monster within.
#16 - Resurrection
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/25/2004
While his father is awaiting surgery, Clark befriends a young boy, Garrett whose brother Vince just died from liver failure. However, everyone is shocked when Vince shows up alive and seemingly well - until his liver starts failing again. In a desperate attempt to keep his brother alive, Garrett straps a Kryptonite bomb to himself and demands that Vince be given Jonathan's liver or he will blow up the building.
#17 - Hug
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2002
His Kryptonite-infused handshake seals the deal! A manipulative, wheeler-dealer entrepreneur exerts a mysterious power over Smallville residents - and even convinces Clark's dad to sell the family farm.
#18 - Gemini
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2007
A mysterious man who claims to be a product of Lex's latest project plants a bomb on Chloe and uses her to force Lois to get the truth from Lex.
#19 - Labyrinth
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2007
Clark is in his barn one moment... and the next finds himself in a psychiatric hospital where he discovers he's been suffering from delusions that he came from another planet and has super-powers.
#20 - Infamous
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/2009
Linda Lake returns to Metropolis and threatens to expose Clark’s secret unless he promises to give her exclusive information on the red-blue blur so she can become a star reporter again. Refusing to be blackmailed, Clark tells Lois his secret and asks her to write his story for The Daily Planet.
#21 - Toxic
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2008
When Oliver is poisoned, he starts having flashbacks to the period when he gained his archery skills... and met Tess. Meanwhile, Chloe has to make a decision which surprises Clark.
#22 - Shimmer
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2002
A servant is supposed to be invisible to his employers. But someone at Lex's mansion takes that axiom literally when he uses an invisibility potion to cloak himself during a manor-wide terror spree.
#23 - Bulletproof
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2009
Clark learns that John Jones was shot while working as a police officer; Lana tells Tess that Lex isn't the man she thinks he is, forcing Tess to re-evaluate her position as head of Luthercorp.
#24 - Injustice
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2009
Chloe returns and begs Clark to kill Davis, claiming he can no longer keep the beast under control. Tess has assembled a team of meteor freaks, including Plastique, to track down Davis so Clark can kill him. However, things get out of hand once Tess’ team discovers she is double-crossing them.
#25 - Metamorphosis
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2001
Is Lana fated to a cocoon of doom? A nerdish bug collector is transformed into a monster by the irradiated bugs of Smallville - and he wants Lana for his bug-world queen.