Remember Product Placement Pete? He"s back to pitch a whole new annoying thing/product: Stride Gum. Pete is a roadie for the band One Republic (which somehow still has roadies even though they don"t seem to tour, according to this show). But he"s terrible at his job, as is evidenced when a set of speakers falls and almost lands on Kara, who is on a date with Jimmy Olsen. Pete saves Kara by stretching his arms, Plastic Man-style, and pulling her out of the way. What powers Product Placement Pete (P to the 3)? Kryptonite-enhanced Stride Gum, of course. And you thought the ground-beef factories had lax safety protocols. Pete revisits his old stomping grounds and is none too pleased with what"s transpired these last few years. (Join the club, Pete. You should post on our forums.) He"s pissed that Clark is friends with Papa Luthor and that everybody and their super dog knows about Clark"s powers. Pete decides to go public with his abilities, especially since Jimmy has photographic evidence of his stretchy-stretchy. Before Pete can become a superstar, though, Lex reveals that he knows about Chloe"s healing ability and will expose her to the world. He"s also been snooping on Chloe"s work computer, but he owns the whole newspaper, so it"s a fair point. Pete gets pulled into the whole mystery of Kara"s Kryptonian bracelet, which Lex asks him to retrieve from Papa Luthor"s not-so-secret hiding place. When Clark confronts Pete about what he"s doing, Pete nails him with some Kryptonite. But instead of taking the bracelet to Lex, Pete decides to kill him instead, which is a slightly different, and not as well-thought-out plan. The Stride Gum flies out of Pete"s mouth and Lex and his henchman promptly beat him up. It"s a sticky situation. Clark saves the day and Pete decides to slink off into the guest-star purgatory from whence he came, but not before giving Chloe a really long hug and apologizing to Clark. He also chews more Stride Gum just so that we know that there is NOTHING TO FEAR FROM THIS PRODUCT. That we know of. So far. We"re still doing tests. Meanwhile, on an even more boring show, Kara is trying to find out why Clark and Lana are lying to her. She concludes that they"re just douchebags (we know, we know) and goes and asks Lex if she can live with him. Lex, who was researching a strange constellation in his family crest (with the letter "V" for Vendetta. Or Veritas, I guess), is like, "Oh fuck yeah you can." He closes the doors so that presumably they can chew Stride Gum together and Stride the Stride away for the rest of the Stride. What we don"t know: what Stride does the Stride Stride in Stride Stride Stride Stride Stride. Stride?