"Game Over"

[DJ Doena]

When Clark explains his intentions to break up with Lana to Chloe, she warns him using the following phrasing

You just need to know that if you do this that's it, game over, there's no more quarters left. I mean, you're saying goodbye forever. It will crush her, Clark. Please just think long and hard before you end this for good.

Now that I'm randomly rewatch a few episodes (and this is a Marsters episode, I can't leave that out!), for the first time I noticed that there was a second interpretation of her pun.

I always assumed she was referring to Clark's former football career and a game being devided in four quarters.

But it just randomly occured to me that the same is true for the old video game machines into which you have to feed "quarters" or else it's "game over".


Just a random observation of mine...