I’m not sure I understand the Superman one. I know in the comics he was always changing in a phone booth, but they made fun of that in the 1978 movie. Has it been a thing in the 40 years since?
Is he 555man?
Is the joke that today a “phone booth” means a small store front for cellular phone plan?
And so Superman still changes in a phone booth?
Superman has never actually changed in phone booths with any regularity. And any time it was done after the 40s has been in a self-aware referencing or parodying way, referring to the times he did it in the Fleischer cartoons (where he did it twice). See here, or the CBLR it links to.
“Some Like It Hot” and “Superman” did it first.
The monster under the bed made me smile this morning. Thank you.
@chipchristian — with the difference that in “Some Like it Hot” they were trying to flee some mobsters, rather than the police.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I’m not sure I understand the Superman one. I know in the comics he was always changing in a phone booth, but they made fun of that in the 1978 movie. Has it been a thing in the 40 years since?
Is he 555man?
Is the joke that today a “phone booth” means a small store front for cellular phone plan?
And so Superman still changes in a phone booth?
Superman has never actually changed in phone booths with any regularity. And any time it was done after the 40s has been in a self-aware referencing or parodying way, referring to the times he did it in the Fleischer cartoons (where he did it twice). See here, or the CBLR it links to.
“Some Like It Hot” and “Superman” did it first.
The monster under the bed made me smile this morning. Thank you.
@chipchristian — with the difference that in “Some Like it Hot” they were trying to flee some mobsters, rather than the police.