This seems very wrong to me. Calling through a method object should behave the same for super as calling directly or calling through an alias: class Foo def a; puts 'Foo a'; end def b; puts 'Foo b'; end end class Bar < Foo def a; puts 'Bar a'; super; end alias b a end Bar.new.a # => "Bar a\nFoo a" Bar.new.b # => "Bar a\nFoo a" Bar.new.method(:b).call # => "Bar a\nFoo b" It seems incorrect for method objects to change the behavior of super. If I super in 'a', I want super's 'a' to be called, without exception. Can someone confirm this is a bug? In JRuby we always super up the same-named chain, so this represents an incompatibility. - Charlie