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Batman (1966)
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Holy trope description, Batman!Batman is the campy, colorful, comedic adaptation of the titular comic book character, produced for ABC from 1966 to 1968. It featured Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) as they foiled a variety of daffy and innocuous criminals via detective work and slow fist-fights which were punctuated by large comic-style POW!s, BAFF!s and ZONK!s.Producer William Dozier and head writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. were assigned to create the series. Not being big fans of the comics, they hit on the idea of lampshading and parodying the over-the-top tropes of comics and the square humorlessness of superheroes. Children tuned in for the superhero adventures, while adults caught the campy jokes and satirical humor.With its intentionally absurd writing (particularly Batman's array of Bat-Gadgets, which seemed large enough to cater for any given situation — the legendary Shark-Repellent Batspray comes to mind) and low budget, this was more like a televised pantomime/vaudeville/burlesque than anything resembling portrayals of superheroes in modern day media. The series managed to become something of a cultural icon, but it is also partly responsible for the general public's dim view of comic book writing and comics in general today, as even at the time comic book writing was taken far more seriously.For most of its run, Batman aired twice a week, on successive weeknights (which was unusual at the time). The episodes were two-parters; a cliffhanger punctuated the end of the first episode and the narrator iconically told the audience to "tune in tomorrow — same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!" The series switched to airing once a week in the final season.Batman: The Movie, an original theatrical feature film based on the series, was released in 1966. Among other things, the movie's larger budget provided the Dynamic Duo with some additional vehicles that became available for the remainder of the TV series (by recycling footage from the film): the Bat-Boat, the Bat-Copter, and the Bat-Cycle.The series still tends to be polarizing. Many enjoy it for its sheer farce and surrealism — or for its nostalgia value — but at the same time, many modern Batman fans consider this Batman to be the opposite of the Batman they know and love. Many comics fans also consider the show to be responsible for tainting an entire medium in the eyes of the general public; to this day, mainstream news stories about comic books are likely to have headlines like "Pow! Zap! Wham! Comic Books Aren't Just For Kids Anymore!" The series is sometimes blamed for causing the Batman comic line to adopt a "campier" tone as well, but in truth the main difference between this series and the "New Look" Batman comics that immediately preceded it was that the TV show was intentionally funny. The series did play a key role in the continued existence of the entire Bat franchise, however; comics sales had been in a serious decline, but the series provided a great deal of publicity, which led to a much-needed sales boost in Batman comics. In addition, the series was highly influential: Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin and Burgess Meredith would become the template for future Jokers, Riddlers, and Penguins. The creators of Batman: The Animated Series even acknowledged the legacy of Adam West's Batman by paying him homage in one of the episodes.The show's legacy continued long after its cancellation. Almost a decade later, Adam West and Burt Ward would reprise their roles on The New Adventures of Batman, a Filmation animated series which competed with Hanna-Barbera's Superfriends. West would eventually wind up voicing Batman on the last two "Super Powers" branded seasons of Superfriends. (Robin continued to be played by his longtime Super Friends voice actor, Casey Kasem.) The show's style also influenced Superman: The Movie, the first ever big-budget superhero film.West and Ward would play Batman and Robin in live action one final time (joined by Frank Gorshin as the Riddler) in the 1979 TV Legends of the Superheroes specials. In the early 2000s, West and Ward (again joined by Gorshin) portrayed cartoonish versions of themselves in the CBS movie Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, consisting of a modern day plot to find the stolen Batmobile mixed with flashbacks to the events behind the scenes of filming the series in the 60s. In 2015, Ward revealed he and West would be returning for a full-length animated movie for the series' 50th anniversary in 2016. This was followed by a sequel in 2017, Batman vs. Two-Face, where Two-Face (who had never appeared on the show) was played by William Shatner. It was West's final outing as he passed away that year. Most recently, Ward made a cameo as an aged Dick Grayson in The Teaser of the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), establishing this show as Earth-66 of the Arrowverse's multiverse. We briefly see Earth-66 again during the climax of The Flash (2023).In 2013, DC announced Batman '66, a digital-first comic based on the series, with license to the rights for all the actors on the show, and written by Jeff Parker of Aquaman and Marvel's Agents of Atlas; it ended in 2015 with print issue #30. The popularity and critical success of this series led to a number of crossover miniseries, including Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman's Batman '66 Meets The Green Hornet, Ian Edginton's Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs Peel, Jeff Parker and Marc Andreyko's Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77, Jeff Parker and Michael Morici's Archie Meets Batman '66, and Parker's own Batman '66 Meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Parker also introduced versions of some characters who post-date the series. The Lost Episode, adapted by Len Wein from a rejected Harlan Ellison treatment, also features the first appearance of Two-Face in this continuity.For many, many years, the show was never given any sort of proper home video release, which was especially awful in light of the TV-on-DVD boom. Reasons for this varied, with some of the issues cited being music licenses, royalties for the numerous "Bat-walk" cameos, and the fact that Bat-media as a whole is owned by Warner Bros. while the series and its various elements were owned by 20th Century Fox (which, in a bit of irony, was bought by Disney in 2019 — meaning the series is now owned by the same company that holds DC rival Marvel Comics). In early 2014, Warner Home Video confirmed the entire series would be released in one gigantic box set later in the year. (It also has more affordable separate season sets for non-collectors.) Burt Ward later confirmed the release date for the set as the 11th of November 2014 – just in time to celebrate Batman's 75th anniversary.If you want Batman played Darker and Edgier than the Bright Knight, see Tim Burton's 1989 film (and its 1992 sequel), Batman: The Animated Series, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, the DC Extended Universe, and Matt Reeves' The Batman. For a more modern take on Batman that retains the Silver Age fun-factor/Camp absurdity combo of the series, see Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever. For Silver Age fun-factor with more tasteful Camp absurdity, see Batman: The Brave and the Bold. For a Darker and Edgier take nonetheless heavy on Camp, see All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder. And for camp absurdity minus the Silver Age fun-factor, see Schumacher's Batman & Robin. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity Batman and Robin's secret identities are a frequent plot point. Batman's identity is actually uncovered by King Tut on two occasions, but his Easy Amnesia saves the Dynamic Duo. Unlike many examples of the trope, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson seldom feign weakness. Wayne in particular is quite capable of handling himself in a scrap, although in one case where Bruce goes undercover as an ally of the Joker, he pretends to join ineptly in a fight against Robin and "clumsily" do more damage to the Joker's goons instead. In a later Joker caper, Bruce fights the mooks but pulls his punches just enough that they won't suspect him of being a fighter on Batman's level. Oddly enough, doubly played straight with Batgirl. Batman himself has no idea who Batgirl is and vice versa despite Alfred's knowledge of both parties' secret. Batgirl doesn't suspect Alfred knows who Batman is (and she can't think of two people more different than "Batman" and "Bruce Wayne") and Batman figures out that Alfred is keeping secrets from him about Batgirl but doesn't force Alfred to betray her trust. The Green Hornet and his sidekick. | |
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Adam Westing: No, Adam West doesn't do it here, but it's the source of his later Westing. | |
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Dirty Coward: Could be subverted or played straight depending on circumstance. Many of the (male) villains were not afraid to join their henchmen in the brawls and could fist-fight at least as well (certainly better than their movie or animated counterparts), but at other times they would try to run away, hide, whine, cry, beg for mercy, or just pull one of the molls in front of them. Never worse than when they would just stand there and watch their henchmen get knocked unconscious, effectively joining whatever Neutral Female happened to be standing by. | |
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Anyone Can Die: Generally avoided thanks to Batman being Crazy-Prepared (and the fact that the show aims to be family-friendly and thus Thou Shalt Not Kill generally applies). However, a few people, both good and bad, are killed in season one. | |
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Creator Cameo: Stanley Ralph Ross, a frequent writer for the series, appears at the end of "The Bird's Last Jest" as forger Barney 'Ballpoint' Baxter, with whom Penguin is trying to link up in prison. Ross begged William Dozier for a cameo, stating that he was funny. Dozier broke down and gave Ross his cameo, telling him, "All right, I'll give you a cameo, but if you think you're funny, see how funny you can be with no lines!" Indeed, Ross does not speak at all in his appearance. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed Mayor Linseed is a takeoff on the name of the mayor of New York City at that time, John Lindsey. Queenie (Nancy Kovack), the Joker's moll during his first appearance in the third episode, is a pretty obvious imitation of Marilyn Monroe: her voice, makeup, facial tics, and even some of the costumes she wears are direct or nearly direct references to her. | |
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Bloodless Carnage Double-subverted at least once. Batman and Robin burst into the Parker family's shack while they're eating dinner and pick a fight with Ma Parker's three sons. Ma then cries out because she notices one of the boys is bleeding, but Robin confirms that that's just a ketchup stain from the family meal. In "It's How You Play the Game," Shame shoots Robin in the foot, and Batman takes out the bullet, but we don't see any blood or wound. (More interestingly, Robin is up and running a minute later despite the injury.) | |
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Officer O'Hara: The whimsically Oirish Chief O'Hara was a prominent and recurring example, and he wasn't the only Irish cop to appear on the show, as seen above. (Amusingly, the role of O'Toole above was played by a real-life O'Hara: James O'Hara.) | |
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Nepharious Pharaoh | |
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Nepharious Pharaoh: King Tut, one of the supervillains. He wears clothing appropriate for a pharaoh and likes to use Egyptian-themed dialogue. He's actually Professor William McElroy, an Egyptologist at Yale University. Every time he gets hit on the head he develops a split personality that thinks he's a reincarnation of the original King Tut. Hitting him on the head again restores his original personality. | |
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Improvised Zipline: The Penguin and his henchmen in "The Penguin's A Jinx," and Batman and Robin in "Batman Sets The Pace." | |
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Tempting Fate What one of the train security guards says in "The Great Train Robbery." One of Lord Ffogg's goons refers to Batman as a slow bowler. No, he'll figure out your boss and spread-eagle the blighter's stumps. | |
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Villain Team-Up: The third season was built heavily on this. Two three-part episodes in the second season each had the Penguin team up with another villain (The Joker in the first one and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds in the second). Batman: The Movie had the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, and Catwoman all work together. | |
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In "Pop Goes The Joker/Flop Goes The Joker," Joker calls Batman "chickenhearted" for letting Robin show up alone to rescue hostages and later talks smack about him with Batman listening behind him and Gordon on the line. Leads to a Crowning Moment of Funny with the Joker Out-Gambitted and utterly humiliated. | |
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Cool Old Guy: Alfred, of course, especially when he starts to take an active role in some of the adventures (even donning the Batman costume and fighting on occasion). | |
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Genre Savvy: Despite normally being Genre Blind as mentioned above, a few criminals have caught on to some of Batman's tricks, like climbing up the wall to get into a hideout, and set up traps in preparation. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Actually a Well Done Daughter Gal - Legs in "The Greatest Mother of them All"/"Ma Parker" | |
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Comic-Book Time: The show runs on it — the standard prison sentence for a super crook is 10 to 20 years in Gotham State Penitentiary. In a few weeks time, they'll be back either having served their sentence or released early on parole or good behavior. | |
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Magical Database | |
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Magical Database: The Bat Computer and Batman's own impressive scope of knowledge, both general and esoteric. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "The Pharaoh's in a Rut," King Tut calls for "bat-music." A henchman sets a gramophone in motion, and we hear a brass-enhanced version of the show's theme. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: In many episodes (particularly during the second season), Batman and Robin often find an excuse to climb a wall. Inevitably, a celebrity will open a window and exchange dialog with them. A far-from-exhaustive list of "Bat-Climb Cameo" characters: Jerry Lewis Ted Cassidy, as Lurch from The Addams Family Edward G. Robinson as an art collector Santa Claus (played by Andy Devine) Dick Clark Werner Klemperer, in character as Colonel Klink Sammy Davis Jr. Comedian Bill Dana (as his stand-up character "Jose Jimenez") Newspaper society columnist Suzy Knickerbocker Howard Duff in character as the hero of The Felony Squad, another 20th Century Fox show airing on ABC at the time (this series started its run a few months before Batman, which would make this a plug for the other show). In a particularly memorable example, the Dynamic Duo encounter The Green Hornet and Kato in the window, greeting them as fellow heroes. In a later episode, these heroes are full-fledged guest stars, but now Batman and Robin believe them to be criminals - as they pretend to be in their own series. Oddly enough, this creates a Continuity Snarl, since in both series, the shows are Mutually Fictional: Batman is a fictional program in The Green Hornet, and The Green Hornet is a fictional program in Batman. The final "window cameo" is by Cyril Lord, a well-known British floorcoverings distributor of the time, who got a moment in the Bat-spotlight (using his nickname of "Carpet King") after selling TV producer Howie Horwitz a fine Persian rug, and did so at a discount in exchange for his time onscreen. | |
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Death by Materialism | |
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Death by Materialism: Happens to Catwoman in "Better Luck Next Time" where she falls to her death because of her refusal to let go of her loot. Luckily Cats Have Nine Lives. | |
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Visual Pun: The crooks' lairs are always shot in crooked angles. | |
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The Hyena | |
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The Hyena: Primarily Riddler, secondarily Joker. | |
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The Movie | |
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Adding another level of confusing, both the series and The Movie have numerous shots that are recognizably around Greater Los Angeles... | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1bf94a24 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1c3a639e | type |
Freak Lab Accident | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1c3a639e | comment |
Freak Lab Accident: Mr. Freeze's origin; see Create Your Own Villain. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1c3a639e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1c79ae8c | type |
Those Two Guys | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1c79ae8c | comment |
Those Two Guys: Gordon and O'Hara. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1c79ae8c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1cfd58fc | type |
Clown Car | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1cfd58fc | comment |
Clown Car: In the episode "The Penguin Declines," the Batmobile's trunk is spacious enough to hold The Joker, The Penguin, and six of their henchmen. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1cfd58fc | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1cfd9ec9 | type |
Never Recycle a Building | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1cfd9ec9 | comment |
Never Recycle a Building: Gotham City has some serious problems with abandoned factories and warehouses. It's almost like they want these places to be taken over by criminals... | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1cfd9ec9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e12b5b7 | type |
Lawful Stupid | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e12b5b7 | comment |
Lawful Stupid: Both Batman and the police. The Gotham cops are stupid in general, really,: When the Joker shows up at Woodrow Roosevelt High School just to taunt the Dynamic Duo, Batman is reluctantly forced to let him go. Not only is he out on parole and there's not enough evidence to justify his arrest on suspicion of vandalism, but Joker points out he can't even be picked up for loitering if he changes location every two minutes. Batman even hisses, "You jailhouse lawyer!" In another episode, Egghead becomes Commissioner (It Makes Sense in Context) and forbids the police to arrest any of his friends. The cops go along with this to the extent that when someone reports a theft, the officer in question charges him with jaywalking. Chief O'Hara even casually states that if he sees Batman and Robin, he has orders to shoot! In "Marsha, Queen of Diamonds," the titular villainess gets Chief O'Hara under her spell with a love potion. When O'Hara orders his men to allow Marsha inside the diamond exhibition, they are surprised but nevertheless follow his orders. The plot of "Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin" hinges on Penguin kidnapping Barbara Gordon and forcing her to marry him, with the expectation that as Commissioner Gordon's son-in-law, he'll be free to commit as many crimes as he pleases. Even ignoring that the marriage is transparently nonconsensual on Barbara's part, there's no explanation given as to why the Commissioner wouldn't be able to arrest his new son-in-law; all of the good guys, including the Commissioner himself, just assume they'll have no choice but to let nepotism prevail if the marriage goes through. It barely even qualifies as "lawful" stupid. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1e12b5b7 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e4ad177 | type |
Technicolor Science | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e4ad177 | comment |
Technicolor Science: Common, particularly in the form of colorful Knockout Gas. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1e4ad177 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e7487cd | type |
Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1e7487cd | comment |
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Several examples, such as the early episode "Zelda the Great" in which the show's first-ever female villain directly speaks to the audience about her plans. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1e7487cd | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fa5ae07 | type |
The Prima Donna | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fa5ae07 | comment |
The Prima Donna: Parodied with Dawn Robbins from The Penguin's A Jinx: | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1fa5ae07 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fb9a341 | type |
Revenge Is Sweet | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fb9a341 | comment |
Revenge Is Sweet: Alfred gets a chance to be a Battle Butler by dueling the Joker with fireplace pokers, with the Clown Prince of Crime trash talking him ("You Anglo fink, I'll smash you to smidgens!") during the fight. When Alfred proves victorious and the Joker ends up trapped on an "Emergency Batpole Elevator," the butler takes special delight in being a Troll by sending the elevator up and down repeatedly: | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1fb9a341 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fc325dd | type |
Do Not Adjust Your Set | |
| Batman (1966) / int_1fc325dd | comment |
Do Not Adjust Your Set: In "Batman Is Riled," the Joker broadcasts from his lair to the TVs of Gotham City, saying that he will kill the captive Batman and Robin unless he is given the ocean liner S.S. Gotham. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_1fc325dd | |
| Batman (1966) / int_20860a0e | type |
Punch-Clock Villain | |
| Batman (1966) / int_20860a0e | comment |
Punch-Clock Villain Zelda the Great only steals (and quite reluctantly) to pay for the amazing devices she uses in her act. She ultimately performs a sincere Heel–Face Turn. Chandell only commits crimes in order to pay off his blackmailing brother and seems deeply distressed at having to do so. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_20860a0e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_224c9aef | type |
Laugh Track | |
| Batman (1966) / int_224c9aef | comment |
Laugh Track Used in-universe by The Archer. He claims to have stolen it from a producer "of so-called comedies." Also briefly used out-of-universe when the producers of the show screened the first episode for a test audience with a laugh track, but wisely gave up on the idea after it got a negative reaction. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_224c9aef | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2292c854 | type |
Between My Legs | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2292c854 | comment |
Between My Legs: A shot of the Dynamic Duo framed between Shame's legs in "It's the Way You Play the Game." It was an homage to similar showdown scenes in Western movies. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2292c854 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_232e4ee0 | type |
Holding Both Sides of the Conversation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_232e4ee0 | comment |
Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: Batman and Bruce Wayne have a phone conversation. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_232e4ee0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2482df9c | type |
Companion Cube | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2482df9c | comment |
Companion Cube: In A Piece of the Action/Batman's Satisfaction, Pinky Pinkston much prefers to converse with her subordinate, Colonel Gumm, by pretending to talk to or explain things to her dog, Apricot. She even does it to Commissioner Gordon a few times. This gets a Lampshade when Pinky is taken hostage and tied up by Gumm in his office when she asks Apricot to chew through her ropes by prefacing it with, "And this time, I really AM talking to you..." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2482df9c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_251bce7c | type |
Cardboard Prison | |
| Batman (1966) / int_251bce7c | comment |
Cardboard Prison: Curiously, mostly averted. Gotham State Penitentiary has a few breakouts, to be sure, but you're more likely to hear "It's been X weeks since Y Super-Criminal was released", rather than reports of an escape. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_251bce7c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_25248a68 | type |
Ammunition Backpack | |
| Batman (1966) / int_25248a68 | comment |
Ammunition Backpack: Mr. Freeze wears a tank of freezing gas on his back to fuel his Freeze Ray. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_25248a68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_25248a68 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_259d5879 | type |
Anachronism Stew | |
| Batman (1966) / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: King Tut drowns Batman while quoting Shakespeare. Downplayed, as King Tut is really an amnesiac college professor, not the true Egyptian king, who could know Shakespeare as much as any other college professor. Done in-universe in "The Penguin is a Girl's Best Friend," where The Penguin is directing a movie set in Ancient Rome, yet Batman and Robin appear in the film in their usual costumes complete with their usual gadgets. The digital comic revival is full of this. In one story, camcorders are commonplace; in another, Lyndon Johnson will still be President. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_259d5879 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26ac510e | type |
Mythology Gag | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26ac510e | comment |
Mythology Gag: In "Pop Goes The Joker," mention is made of an in-universe painting called The Man Who Laughs, in named after the real-life film that inspired Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson to create the Joker. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_26ac510e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26d1f65f | type |
Verbal Tic | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26d1f65f | comment |
Verbal Tic: Mister Freeze as played by Otto Preminger really uses the word 'wild' a lot. A lot. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_26d1f65f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26fd153 | type |
Early Adaptation Weirdness | |
| Batman (1966) / int_26fd153 | comment |
Early Adaptation Weirdness: The series shows it age due to it using elements that were later dropped from the Batman canon, such as Batgirl starting off as a 20-something year old librarian instead of a teenage student, Dick Grayson's aunt, and the characterization of villains like Mr. Freeze. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_26fd153 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2719ab04 | type |
Special Guest | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2719ab04 | comment |
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl, of course, but also Special Guest Heroes The Green Hornet and Kato. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2719ab04 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_27adb17a | type |
Train Job | |
| Batman (1966) / int_27adb17a | comment |
Train Job: In keeping with his western motif, Shame pulls one. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_27adb17a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_27adb17a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_28114487 | type |
Bald of Evil | |
| Batman (1966) / int_28114487 | comment |
Bald of Evil Egghead, portrayed by Vincent Price. Mister Freeze, as played by Otto Preminger. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_28114487 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_28114487 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: The "Instant Costume Change Lever" that shows up near the Batpoles in the second season. How does it work? It just does. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2a090d00 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_2a090d00 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2a7e7af1 | type |
Limited Wardrobe | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
The villains' outfits were not always so outlandish at the beginning. In the very first episode, the Riddler is first shown wearing a suit instead of his acrobat tights and mask; he also doesn't jump around manically and giggles only rarely. In Joker's first appearance, he's shown playing baseball in a prison yard while wearing a standard blue prison uniform, while subsequent portrayals of the jailed Joker and all other incarcerated supervillains show them in their usual attire. (One memorable exception comes in the third season, where the Joker is dressed in a relatively conservative lavender suit while being released from prison.) | |
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1.0 | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2a7e7af1 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b2249a8 | type |
You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b2249a8 | comment |
You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses Several examples, most prominently the Bookworm episode, where Batman and Robin pause before the fight to allow all of Bookworm's henchmen to remove their spectacles. In Shame's first appearance, one of Shame's accomplices says to Batman, "You wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would you?" Batman points out that the man isn't wearing glasses and proceeds to punch him. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2b2249a8 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b75f9b3 | type |
Token Good Cop | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b75f9b3 | comment |
Token Good Cop: As actual deputized members of the police force rather than their usual clear cut vigilante selves, Batman and Robin stand out as the sole hope of Gotham City against any criminal threat. While Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara occasionally manage to do something relatively useful and proactive, generally, they are paralyzed without Batman and Robin to help them, and most of their subordinates make them look like the Caped Crusaders. Perhaps the only three Gotham street-level cops shown actually accomplishing something besides halting the occasional Villain: Exit, Stage Left are Policewoman Mooney (who infiltrates Catwoman's gang in one episode, although she eventually ends up as a Damsel in Distress) and a pair of courtroom bailiffs who hold a dozen henchmen at gunpoint and keep them from joining the melee in "The Joke's on Catwoman." | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b75f9b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2b75f9b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2b75f9b3 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2bdfcf74 | type |
OffscreenVillainDarkMatter | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2bdfcf74 | comment |
Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Used with abandon, considering the seemingly limitless amount of henchmen and wacky inventions all the arch-criminals have at their disposal. Batgirl arguably uses a heroic variant since it's not clear how a librarian (even one who is the Police Commissioner's daughter) could afford so many gadgets, including a motorcycle with a built-in Geiger counter. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2bdfcf74 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d4d16d9 | type |
I Know You Know I Know | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d4d16d9 | comment |
I Know You Know I Know: Used constantly. A good chunk of the screen-time in every adventure consists of Batman deliberately walking into traps and setups so he can find out what the villains are up to, and the villains counteracting that. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_2d4d16d9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d50bb66 | type |
Perp Sweating | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d50bb66 | comment |
Perp Sweating: In the episode "The Dead Ringers," Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara put Harry (Chandell's Evil Twin brother) under a bright light (which is labelled subtle interrogation lamp) while questioning him. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d50bb66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d50bb66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2d50bb66 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d75bf32 | type |
Creepy High-Pitched Voice | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d75bf32 | comment |
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Cesar Romero's flamboyant, silly portrayal of the Joker was helped greatly by the clownish voice he used for the role. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d75bf32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2d75bf32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2d75bf32 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2e338ce4 | type |
The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2e338ce4 | comment |
The Cavalry Arrives Late: If the Gotham police arrive at all, they always arrive after Batman and Robin have subdued the Guest Villain and his henchmen to take them into custody. From the episode "Rats Like Cheese": In the episode "Give 'Em the Axe", Chief O'Hara and several GCPD officers arrive after the Dynamic Duo have captured the Riddler and his henchmen in a historical museum. O'Hara explains that when Commissioner Gordon told him to go to the museum, he thought Gordon meant the wax museum where the Riddler's previous crime had occured. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2e338ce4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2e338ce4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2e338ce4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2ea916dc | type |
To the Batpole! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2ea916dc | comment |
To the Batpole!: The Duo usually enters the Batcave through hidden firepoles in Bruce Wayne's study. Furthermore, the poles were in the second season onward to have an elevator function to allow the Duo to ascend the poles back to the study so they do not have to explain how they are spotted outside it without being seen leaving through the room's only door. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2ea916dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2ea916dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2ea916dc | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2f8c5157 | type |
Rogues' Gallery Transplant | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2f8c5157 | comment |
Rogues' Gallery Transplant: The Clock King was originally an enemy of Green Arrow in the comics, and the villains Puzzler and Archer started out as minor Superman villains. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2f8c5157 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2f8c5157 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2f8c5157 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fb61faa | type |
Statuesque Stunner | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fb61faa | comment |
Statuesque Stunner: Catwoman, played by 5'11" (plus heels) Julie Newmar. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fb61faa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fb61faa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2fb61faa | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fc21a19 | type |
Distaff Counterpart | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fc21a19 | comment |
Distaff Counterpart In the comic book story that inspired the first Zelda The Great episode, the "magician" role was played by a man named Carnado. Batgirl to Batman, in-universe. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fc21a19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_2fc21a19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_2fc21a19 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3004e9c3 | type |
Convenient Eclipse | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3004e9c3 | comment |
Convenient Eclipse: In "The Cat and the Fiddle", Batman and Robin are tied under giant magnifying glasses so they'll be broiled to death by concentrated sunlight. An eclipse gives them time to move one of the glasses so it burns through their bonds and frees them. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3004e9c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3004e9c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3004e9c3 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_30d1e0df | type |
Full-Name Basis | |
| Batman (1966) / int_30d1e0df | comment |
Full-Name Basis: Bruce is almost always referred to by the narrator and other characters as "Millionaire Bruce Wayne" and Dick as "his youthful ward, Dick Grayson." Contrast No Name Given and Only One Name below. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_30d1e0df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_30d1e0df | |
| Batman (1966) / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
| Batman (1966) / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards Done with a Riddler Expy called Puzzler when it's suggested they sell a prototype plane to a foreign government: This may have been the basis for a line in the 1996 comic book crossover Batman & Captain America. When Joker discovers Red Skull's affiliation with the Nazis, he flat-out refuses, saying, "I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an American criminal lunatic!" In "Come Back, Shame," when his moll asks him why he can't just shoot the unconscious Batman and Robin plain and simple (see: Bond Villain Stupidity), Shame - who's an outlaw, but lives by the code of the Old West - says, it wouldn't be fair. Shame also says at one point that he isn't all bad, just mostly bad. Joker even shows signs of this by wanting to safely pump out the gas he uses in a Death Trap in case an innocent passerby runs across it. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_319e4a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_319e4a2f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_322d19f4 | type |
Abandoned Warehouse | |
| Batman (1966) / int_322d19f4 | comment |
Abandoned Warehouse Including, but not limited to, abandoned factories for surfboards, umbrellas and launching pads. For such a candy-colored town, Gotham City has an awful lot of abandoned buildings. It's no wonder there's such a rise in crime. Sometimes averted when villains like Joker and Penguin use active businesses such as a printing company and a restaurant respectively as a front. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_322d19f4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_322d19f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_322d19f4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_326a44a1 | type |
Create Your Own Villain | |
| Batman (1966) / int_326a44a1 | comment |
Create Your Own Villain: Batman to Mr. Freeze, as noted in the episode "Instant Freeze." (Freeze's origin here is strikingly similar to the Joker's origin in the comics — thrown into chemicals by Batman.) | |
| Batman (1966) / int_326a44a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_326a44a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_326a44a1 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_32e69b5f | type |
Dastardly Whiplash | |
| Batman (1966) / int_32e69b5f | comment |
Dastardly Whiplash: In the episode, "The Riddler's False Notion," the Riddler plans a series of crimes with a silent movie theme. During one caper, he is dressed as the stereotypical villain, wearing a black top hat and cape over his green tights, and wearing a false mustache and carrying a whip. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_32e69b5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_32e69b5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_32e69b5f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_332005d9 | type |
Third Wheel | |
| Batman (1966) / int_332005d9 | comment |
Third Wheel: As far as Catwoman is concerned, Robin is this to her and Batman, and she wants him gone. It's something of a dark Running Gag that whenever it seems like Catwoman is just about successfully persuade Batman to give in to his feelings for her, he inquires, "What about Robin?" to which her answer is always to kill him, which in turn invariably snaps Batman back to reality. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_332005d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_332005d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_332005d9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_339f6950 | type |
Paid Harem | |
| Batman (1966) / int_339f6950 | comment |
Paid Harem: If the villain of the week is male, expect him to have a pretty girl whose primary job is to be decorative hanging around his hideout. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_339f6950 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_339f6950 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_339f6950 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3429147e | type |
When the Clock Strikes Twelve | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3429147e | comment |
When the Clock Strikes Twelve "The Joker's Flying Saucer." When the Joker's henchman places a time bomb inside the Batmobile, he sets it to go off at midnight. "The Bookworm Turns/While Gotham City Burns." The Bookworm ties Robin to the clapper in the bell of the Big Benjamin clock. When the clock strikes midnight, the clapper will slam Robin against the bell and kill him. "An Egg Grows in Gotham". According to the Gotham City Charter, nine raccoon pelts must be delivered to Chief Screaming Chicken on a certain day. If he does not receive the pelts by midnight on that day, the ownership of the city reverts to him. "Batman Displays His Knowledge". Catwoman proposes to Batman that they have a meeting at midnight for her to turn herself in. Of course, it turns out to be a trick. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3429147e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3429147e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3429147e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_34f1b472 | type |
Mad Artist | |
| Batman (1966) / int_34f1b472 | comment |
In one of his episodes, the Joker styles himself as a Mad Artist and not only leaves Robin to be carved up by sculpting knives, but expects his blood to splatter everywhere and "paint" the gallery. When he returns and sees the "blood", he's overjoyed - but then Robin appears, free from harm, and says that it's just red paint meant to fool him. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_34f1b472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_34f1b472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_34f1b472 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_35195407 | type |
I Can Change My Beloved | |
| Batman (1966) / int_35195407 | comment |
I Can Change My Beloved: In one episode, the Penguin becomes engaged to a woman who's convinced of this. She's wrong. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_35195407 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_35195407 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_35195407 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_356b1efb | type |
Hammerspace | |
| Batman (1966) / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace Batman is able to store objects of any size in the small pouches in his belt or hide them under his cape, even the massive Bat-shield, or the Empty Alphabet Soup Bat-container and Batfunnel. Occasionally the pouches are briefly much larger or even suddenly covered in controls or labels if he has to use gadgets from his belt on-camera, but by the next shot, the belt is back to normal. Robin's and Riddler's belts/girdles on their costumes also seem to store things despite having no pouches and being flush against their skin. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_356b1efb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_356b1efb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_356b1efb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_362bdb30 | type |
Out-Gambitted | |
| Batman (1966) / int_362bdb30 | comment |
Out-Gambitted In one episode, both the Joker and the Penguin consider themselves victorious for seeing the inside of the Bat Cave, until Batman points out that they still have no idea where it actually is. The last half of "Flop Goes The Joker." | |
| Batman (1966) / int_362bdb30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_362bdb30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_362bdb30 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3660d4b7 | type |
Combat Aestheticist | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3660d4b7 | comment |
Combat Aestheticist: In group brawls, Batman and Robin will often set up ridiculous and unnecessary tag-team attacks when basic attacks would be a lot simpler and equally effective. In a less combat-direct example, whenever a character finds themselves tied up and moving toward their doom on a conveyor belt, they always seem to find some elaborate, daring, close-shave way to escape instead of just...rolling off of the conveyor. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3660d4b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3660d4b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3660d4b7 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_36ed3e1e | type |
Ascended Meme | |
| Batman (1966) / int_36ed3e1e | comment |
Ascended Meme: In the Beach Episode, Batman is attacked by a shark while surfing, but fends it off. After he wins the contest, he chalks it up to his Shark Repellent Bat-Spray - the same notorious one from the movie. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_36ed3e1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_36ed3e1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_36ed3e1e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37499c8 | type |
OnceAnEpisode | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37499c8 | comment |
Batman dancing the Batusi, likely because Batman had been slipped a mickey by Riddler's moll Molly and wasn't in his right mind. Despite what detractors and spoofers suggest, this wasn't a Once an Episode event; it would only pop up once more at the climax of King Tut's debut towards the end of the season, and it made far more sense there. Later episodes tended to avoid making Batman himself look this overtly ridiculous. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37499c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37499c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_37499c8 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37c6c0f3 | type |
William Telling | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37c6c0f3 | comment |
William Telling: Alfred attempts to show off his archery skills and places an apple on Dick Grayson's head. Bruce stops him saying it's not worth taking the risk so Dick places the apple on a stationary target. Alfred shoots and misses. Had they gone through with it the arrow would have hit Dick right between the eyes. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37c6c0f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_37c6c0f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_37c6c0f3 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_389b0e | type |
Title Theme Tune | |
| Batman (1966) / int_389b0e | comment |
Title Theme Tune: Indeed, it's the only lyric (if you don't count "Na"). Contrary to one rumor (believed and spread by Adam West himself, among others), the word "Batman" was indeed sung by vocalists, not created by horns. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_389b0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_389b0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_389b0e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit Alfred, Batman, and Robin pull one on Joker in "Flop Goes The Joker" with some paintings. The Penguin pulls one on Batman and Robin in "Fine Feathered Finks" and "Penguin's A Jinx" by using Batman's Bat Deduction against him. Leaving behind a purposely cryptic and bugged umbrella, he uses it to listen in on Batman and Robin, knowing that they will try to make sense of it. Using his knowledge, he is able to succeed with his scheme, with Batman and Robin only stopping him at the last minute. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38d02d44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_38d02d44 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38f3321 | type |
Compelling Voice | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38f3321 | comment |
Compelling Voice: The Siren, but it only works on men. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38f3321 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_38f3321 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_38f3321 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
| Batman (1966) / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion Alan Hale Jr. makes an appearance as a restaurant owner named Gilligan in one episode. It may be a coincidence, but Edward Everett Horton appears in the first Egghead episode as Chief Screaming Chicken; he played a similarly named Indian Roaring Chicken on the first several episodes of F Troop. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_392372f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_392372f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_392372f9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3bd0924c | type |
Jury and Witness Tampering | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3bd0924c | comment |
Jury and Witness Tampering: In one episode, a jury declares the Joker and Catwoman innocent in spite of their lawyer doing nothing to defend them. When the foreman's phony mustache comes off, Batman recognizes him as one of the villains' henchmen and pays enough attention to the other jurors to recognize them as other henchmen. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3bd0924c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3bd0924c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3bd0924c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: In "A Penguin Is A Girl's Best Friend," a movie-making Penguin puts a scene in his script that is censored at the last moment on grounds of being indecent. It's never made clear exactly what was there, but it involves a milk bath, Batman, and Marsha Queen of Diamonds wearing exactly three large diamonds on parts unknown. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3dfa74a8 | type |
Corrupted Contingency | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3dfa74a8 | comment |
Corrupted Contingency: One episode has Batman and Robin investigating the appearance of a crude statue of the Joker in a museum. Sensing a trap, Batman urges the curator to close the museum and remove everyone from the premises; once they're all outside, a security guard brags about how their new defense system makes it impossible for anyone to get in or out of the building once it is activated. Batman realizes—too late—that he's played into the Joker's hands: the Clown Prince of Crime and his cronies are already inside the museum, and now the heroes cannot get back in to stop them. Sure enough, Joker and his goons emerge from the sculpture gallery and head to the Rare Gems exhibit. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3dfa74a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3dfa74a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3dfa74a8 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eb0f889 | type |
Pun-Based Title | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eb0f889 | comment |
Pun-Based Title: Several episode titles contain puns. For example, "Ice Spy" ("I spy"; the episode features Mr. Freeze) and "The Purr-fect Crime" ("the perfect crime"; the episode features Catwoman). | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eb0f889 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eb0f889 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3eb0f889 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eee0728 | type |
Captain Obvious | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eee0728 | comment |
Captain Obvious: | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eee0728 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3eee0728 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3eee0728 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f1aadeb | type |
Strictly Formula | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f1aadeb | comment |
Strictly Formula Pretty much every two-part episode has the same basic formula: in part one, Batman and Robin try to thwart the latest scheme of a supervillain but end up in some kind of death trap. In part two, they escape the death trap, pummel the villain's minions, stop their plans, and turn him/her in to the authorities. Averted in "Zelda the Great" where it's Aunt Harriet who is in mortal danger for once. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f1aadeb | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f1aadeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3f1aadeb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f8239e4 | type |
Throw a Barrel at It | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f8239e4 | comment |
Throw a Barrel at It In "Ice Spy," one of Mr. Freeze's henchmen throws a barrel at Batman during a fight in Freeze's lair. In "The Foggiest Notion," Batman throws a barrel at one of Lord Ffogg's henchmen. "A Riddling Controversy": Batman throws a barrel at one of the Riddler's minions during the final fight scene. "The Spell of Tut": while the Dynamic Duo are fighting King Tut's goons, a goon throws a barrel at Batman but hits King Tut instead. "Pop Goes The Joker": during the fight with the Joker and his henchmen, Bruce Wayne (Batman's secret identity) throws a small barrel at a henchman. "The Thirteenth Hat": during the battle at the end of the episode, the Mad Hatter throws a barrel at Batman and knocks him into a wall. "Batman Sets the Pace": at the beginning of a battle between the Dynamic Duo and the Joker's gang, the Joker throws a barrel at Batman, and Batman throws it back at two of the Joker's minions. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f8239e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3f8239e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3f8239e4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina Anti-[fill-in-the-blank] pills were commonplace, including Anti-Penguin-Gas (taken before attending a town hall meeting held by The Penguin) and Anti-Hypnosis (to block the effect of The Joker's hypnotic music box) pills. "He Meets his Match, the Grizzly Ghoul," when Batman and Robin are strapped to electric chairs and about to be electrocuted when a rigged slot machine comes up three lemons. At the exact moment the electricity would have flowed, there is suddenly a power failure that lasts long enough for two cops to investigate the truck holding the Duo. Thus the Joker's gang has to escape, and the cops find the Duo and the power outage lasts long enough for the cops to free the Duo in time. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fca462c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fca462c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3fca462c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fdac1c6 | type |
Literally Shattered Lives | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fdac1c6 | comment |
Literally Shattered Lives: "Instant Freeze": Mr. Freeze does this to a employee at the Princess Sandra’s Hotel. Despite this, the next episode reveals that somehow he survived anyway. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fdac1c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_3fdac1c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_3fdac1c6 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_401d4116 | type |
Broken Aesop | |
| Batman (1966) / int_401d4116 | comment |
Broken Aesop: Batman explaining to students that nothing in life is free. This, coming from the guy who inherited his parents' fortune. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_401d4116 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_401d4116 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_401d4116 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40217655 | type |
Faux Action Girl | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40217655 | comment |
Faux Action Girl: Considering her skintight outfit, you'd expect Catwoman to be trained in gymnastics or the martial arts (and indeed, she is proficient at both in most other Batman depictions). However, her fighting skills consist entirely of either trying to scare people by hissing and/or flashing her claws at them, or (in The Movie) sneaking up behind people and pushing them off of something. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40217655 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40217655 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_40217655 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40f3b23a | type |
FilmOfTheBook | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40f3b23a | comment |
Film of the Book: Many of the early episodes are adapted very closely from stories in the comics. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40f3b23a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_40f3b23a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_40f3b23a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Usually averted with Batgirl. She got plenty of trouble, but she got herself out as often as not. Sometimes she even got Batman and Robin out of trouble | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4160410d | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_4160410d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4160410d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_41d9aaef | type |
Brainwashed | |
| Batman (1966) / int_41d9aaef | comment |
Brainwashed: It happens a few times with other villains, but it's the main gimmick for The Black Widow and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds. Averted with the Mad Hatter, who did not use mind controlling hats in the comics until years after the end of the TV series (his topper does contain a "mesmerizer," but this is more of The Paralyzer than a full-blown Hypno Ray). | |
| Batman (1966) / int_41d9aaef | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_41d9aaef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_41d9aaef | |
| Batman (1966) / int_421ae215 | type |
Mysterious Past | |
| Batman (1966) / int_421ae215 | comment |
Mysterious Past Averted with the Joker. His past is well-known to Batman and the police department, though the audience is only told that he was once a conjurer and hypnotist of repute. Batman and Robin are never given origin stories, oddly enough, aside from a brief mention in the pilot that Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by "criminals." Granted, their origins are pretty dark and likely unfit for a show like this. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_421ae215 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_421ae215 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_421ae215 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4284a7fb | type |
Notary Nonsense | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4284a7fb | comment |
Notary Nonsense: The criminal illusionist Zelda the Great always steals $100,000 from the bank every year on April 1. After failing to catch her, Commissioner Gordon asks Batman and Robin for their help. Batman crafts a plan where he plants a phony news story that the $100k was actually counterfeit money, being held in the bank until it could be destroyed, hoping to tempt her into stealing again while setting a trap for her. (She sees through the trap and instead kidnaps Aunt Harriet, holding her for $100k in ransom.) Trying to get her to give herself up and turn on her corrupt business partner, Gordon goes on live television to announce that the stolen money was real and holds up a phony newspaper story from the Gotham Times with a quote from the bank manager as proof, stating "Look, it's signed and notarized!" Even for a Batman/police ploy to catch a villain, notarizing a newspaper page falls well within the sphere of nonsensical. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4284a7fb | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_4284a7fb | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4284a7fb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43880337 | type |
Face, Nod, Action | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43880337 | comment |
Face, Nod, Action: Two of the Bookworm's henchmen in "The Bookworm Turns," before taking a swing at Batman. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43880337 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43880337 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_43880337 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43a46119 | type |
Surrounded by Idiots | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43a46119 | comment |
Surrounded by Idiots: Catwoman says this in "The Cat's Meow": "Why can't I get good help?" Mind you, this is while she has Batman and Robin in a Death Trap. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43a46119 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_43a46119 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43b154c9 | type |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Since the show relied primarily on stock TV actors even for foreign parts, this was inevitable. The California-born Elisha Cook Jr. plays a scientist from Iceland in the final Mr. Freeze episode - and never makes an attempt to sound Icelandic (kinda Norwegian, kinda Irish). Especially unforgivable since any stock Scandinavian accent would have worked better than no accent at all. In another Mr. Freeze episode, American actress Dee Hartford plays a foreign beauty contestant, also from Iceland, but speaks with her native accent as well. It happens in-universe and is Played for Laughs in "Shoot a Crooked Arrow" / "Walk the Straight and Narrow." The Archer and his two henchmen (Crier Tuck and Big John) speak with a Medievalesque British accent, which is part of their "show." However, his moll, Maid Marilyn, does not care for such theatrics and speaks with her usual American accent. She mocks her boss for his speech mannerisms and accent while he angrily tells her to "speak proper English." An inverted example: in the second Shame storyline, Hermione Baddeley doesn't try too hard to cover up her English accent while portraying (presumably American) Frontier Fanny. Meanwhile, Barry Dennen plays a Mexican bandito whose whole character is one big Brownface joke, down to the English accent and his initials spelling out "FRED." Double-subverted by Victor Buono, who was American but was fairly convincing as a supposedly British history professor. However, in his alter ego of King Tut, he sometimes lapses into stereotypical American (for laughs, probably). | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_43b154c9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43e573ad | type |
Frills of Justice | |
| Batman (1966) / int_43e573ad | comment |
Frills of Justice: A peculiar, Western, non-Magical Girl example: Batgirl's Batcycle. No, really.◊ You'd think the curvier fairing and purple paint job would be sufficiently femme... | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_43e573ad | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_43e573ad | |
| Batman (1966) / int_447d9e50 | type |
Xanatos Speed Chess | |
| Batman (1966) / int_447d9e50 | comment |
Xanatos Speed Chess: Batman's specialty. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_447d9e50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_447d9e50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_447d9e50 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44bed14c | type |
Hostage Situation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44bed14c | comment |
In "Pop Goes The Joker," Dick notices the Batpole signs are missing, as Alfred has removed them for repainting. "In "Flop Goes The Joker," Alfred traps Joker in the Batpoles after a Hostage Situation at Wayne Manor when he accidentally goes into Bruce's studio and finds the button in Shakespeare's bust. Not only are the signs still not there, but Alfred deactivates the automatic Bat costume change mechanism, preserving the Dynamic Duo's secret identity. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44bed14c | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_44bed14c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44f5d199 | type |
Pretty in Mink | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44f5d199 | comment |
Pretty in Mink: A few furs, such as a white mink worn by Marsha, Queen of Diamonds. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44f5d199 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_44f5d199 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44f6517d | type |
Beach Episode | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44f6517d | comment |
Beach Episode: "Surf's Up! Joker's Under!" features Batgirl wearing a sexy one-piece bathing suit...and Batman and the Joker wearing swim trunks over their regular suits for a surfing contest. | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_44f6517d | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_44f6517d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44fc28e8 | type |
Honor Before Reason | |
| Batman (1966) / int_44fc28e8 | comment |
Honor Before Reason: Batman's respect for the Gotham judicial system and belief in humanity's basic goodness — despite all of his direct in-series experience otherwise — often leaves him a reactive rather than proactive crimefighter. When Batman tracks down the stolen Batmobile in "The Catwoman Goeth," he receives vehicle citations for an incomplete registration, keys left in the ignition, and failure to report the theft. The dimwitted officer wants to impound the Batmobile and haul Batman back to police headquarters. Despite the absurdity of the situation, Batman is still willing to comply, but fortunately the officer's savvy partner returns Batman's keys to him instead. In "The Cat and the Fiddle," even though no Gotham cops would give them a ticket for it and the Dynamic Duo are rushing to a potential crime scene, Batman still takes the time to feed the parking meter and laboriously instruct the impatient Robin that it's the right thing to do, because that money goes toward maintaining civic infrastructure. This crosses with Lawful Stupid, as when Batman stops to follow the law, no matter how small or insignificant the law is, he also stops whatever he's doing to instruct Robin or a nearby citizen in why the law must be followed at all times and how said law benefits society, as it's a citizen's "good civic duty" to do so. The Bright Knight regards such instruction as his honorable duty not only as a duly-sworn agent of the law and Gotham citizen, but as Robin's legal guardian. | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_44fc28e8 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_44fc28e8 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_47325888 | type |
Latex Perfection | |
| Batman (1966) / int_47325888 | comment |
Latex Perfection: Although False Face is supposed to be an expert at this, pretty much anyone in this series can pull it off. Episode "Smack in the Middle": the Riddler's henchwoman Molly puts on a mask made from Robin's face and perfectly masquerades as him. Episode "Batman Sets the Pace": at the end of the episode, a mask is pulled off the face of the Maharajah of Nimpa, revealing him to be the Joker in disguise. | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_47325888 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_47325888 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4814d132 | type |
Big Fancy House | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4814d132 | comment |
Big Fancy House: Stately Wayne Manor, of course. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4814d132 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4814d132 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4814d132 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4856ac40 | type |
Stock Footage | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: The same footage of the Batmobile exiting and reentering the Batcave, and the Batmobile arriving in front of police headquarters, is recycled endlessly. After the film, all uses of the Bat-cycle, Bat-boat, and Bat-helicopter are also recycled from said film when used. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4856ac40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4856ac40 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4856ac40 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: Common. The Joker in particular is sometimes able to fool people by simply wearing a hat...while wearing his suit and clownface makeup, and without changing his voice. Gothamites are kinda dumb. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48b9731f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48b9731f | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_48b9731f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48dfb7e4 | type |
Stock Sound Effects | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: In "Fine Feathered Finks"/"The Penguin's a Jinx," the Penguin has a model African penguin that quacks like a mallard. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48dfb7e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_48dfb7e4 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_48dfb7e4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
| Batman (1966) / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Catwoman shows this at least once where she attempts to kill Batman straight by throwing him out a window instead of using a Death Trap. Needless to say, it doesn't work. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_49fb5ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_49fb5ccb | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_49fb5ccb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a0ec526 | type |
Harmless Freezing | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a0ec526 | comment |
Harmless Freezing: Partially averted with Mr. Freeze's Freeze Ray. In his first appearance, those who are hit by it are nearly killed. In later appearances, Freeze rarely uses it thanks to precautions taken by Batman. In his second appearance, Miss Iceland is put in a block of ice, and when she comes out, she's okay. | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4a0ec526 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When praising Batman, Commissioner Gordon often looks right into the camera. Batman sometimes does so as well when speechifying. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4a3e547f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a852458 | type |
Big Good | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: Batman is this for Gotham, owing to an extremely cordial relationship with the police and citizens, who hold him in awe. One episode in which he goes missing lampshades this, as Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara are paralyzed, reeling in horror at the prospect of actually having to try solving a case themselves. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4a852458 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4ae690ca | type |
Laughing Mad | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4ae690ca | comment |
Laughing Mad: The Joker (of course), but especially the Riddler. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4ae690ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4ae690ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4ae690ca | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4b4f6a2f | type |
Mood-Swinger | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4b4f6a2f | comment |
Mood-Swinger: King Tut and Riddler. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4b4f6a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4b4f6a2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4b4f6a2f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: A staple of the fight choreography for both heroes and villains. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4de1a4f7 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4e3b5209 | type |
Beeping Computers | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4e3b5209 | comment |
Beeping Computers: The Bat-computer. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4e3b5209 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4e3b5209 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4e3b5209 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4eddbc06 | type |
Animated Credits Opening | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4eddbc06 | comment |
Animated Credits Opening | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4eddbc06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4eddbc06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4eddbc06 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The pilot episode(s). Batman dancing the Batusi, likely because Batman had been slipped a mickey by Riddler's moll Molly and wasn't in his right mind. Despite what detractors and spoofers suggest, this wasn't a Once an Episode event; it would only pop up once more at the climax of King Tut's debut towards the end of the season, and it made far more sense there. Later episodes tended to avoid making Batman himself look this overtly ridiculous. This and many other early episodes end with "Same Time, Same Channel", no "Bat-", as the show didn't adopt the "Bat-Time/Bat-Channel" catchphrase as a staple until partway through the second season. In addition, the second half of the episode has the recap shown with still frames, when all the later second-part episodes' recaps would show an actual clip of every important scene before freezing it. Batusi aside, the first two episodes actually contain grim subject matter rarely if ever touched upon in later episodes. Bruce Wayne mentions his parents being murdered, which would only be mentioned once more in a season two Joker episode, and the Riddler's girlfriend dies a clumsy and needless death in the Batcave's nuclear reactor. Although characters would occasionally die during the series, this death stands out as being somewhat darker than the norm for this series. Sometimes in the first season, the villains' lairs are filmed straight, then later filmed crooked. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4f4372e9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4fc92b68 | type |
Suddenly Always Knew That | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4fc92b68 | comment |
Batman has apparently mastered an Indian rope trick called RuszÃÃà Szidááá Rákóóó at some point in his past, in a case of Suddenly Always Knew That. It comes in handy in the third season. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_4fc92b68 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_4fc92b68 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_4fc92b68 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50ca4422 | type |
Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50ca4422 | comment |
Unresolved Sexual Tension Between Batman and Julie Newmar's Catwoman, much to her dismay. To a lesser degree, between Batman and Zelda. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50ca4422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50ca4422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_50ca4422 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: This is still Batman, you know, just with the emphasis more on the "crazy" than the "prepared." Every episode has him using something that seems specifically made for whatever ridiculous situation or ludicrous death-trap he finds himself in: a full-sized bulletproof Bat-shield, Bat-lube, a Bat-swat, Bat-cilin, and a Bat-speech Imitator are just a (very) few examples. He even carries fresh fish in his utility belt just in case he encounters a hungry seal! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50f66629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_50f66629 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_50f66629 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_521fb75d | type |
Put Their Heads Together | |
| Batman (1966) / int_521fb75d | comment |
Put Their Heads Together "The Penguin's A Jinx": During a fight, Batman takes out the Penguin and one of his henchmen by knocking their heads together. "The Joker Is Wild": While fighting the Joker's henchmen, Batman knocks two of their heads together to subdue them. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_521fb75d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_521fb75d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_521fb75d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5300b1de | type |
Invincible Hero | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5300b1de | comment |
Invincible Hero Each Cliffhanger leaves Batman and Robin in mortal peril! Yet they always ingeniously escape! This is double subverted at least once. In the episode where the Mad Hatter is using radioactive chemicals to terrorize Gotham, he locks Batman and Robin inside a "fluoroscopic cabinet" to have their flesh burned off by deadly radiation. His plan appears to have worked: we see two skeletons (actually dummies) wearing the heroes' costumes inside the cabinet. Once the "bodies" are discovered, a wave of horror and grief sweeps the entire world; even Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara burst into tears. Finally, Batman and Robin come out of hiding and explain that they had indeed escaped; they had merely left the skeletons behind as decoys in order to fool the Mad Hatter and his goons. Also Lampshaded in the beginning of the second season. After the customary near escape, Robin exclaims that this time, he was really worried. Batman replies that he himself was not scared one bit. Robin concludes that they must be smarter than the criminals. Batman says that he prefers to believe it's because they're pure at heart. | |
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-0.3 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5300b1de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_5300b1de | |
| Batman (1966) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| Batman (1966) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: The George Sanders version of Mr. Freeze. He makes sure that his henchmen and mountain butler are warm in his lair, rewards his henchmen by tossing diamonds on the floor ("chickenfeed"), and imposes a very strict Thou Shalt Not Kill policy. He also treats Batman rather cordially, as the only reason he wants revenge on Batman is because the Caped Crusader put him in the instant freeze accident, no more and no less. In the first half of the "Instant Freeze"/"Rats Like Cheese" two-parter, he even expresses regret at freezing the dynamic duo. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_537dd8fe | |
| Batman (1966) / int_541d9340 | type |
Foul Flower | |
| Batman (1966) / int_541d9340 | comment |
Foul Flower: Louie the Lilac makes use of mutant plants (including a carnivorous lilac bush) and gives his henchmen flower-themed names. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_541d9340 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_541d9340 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_541d9340 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5501256b | type |
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5501256b | comment |
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated Often, the villains make the mistake of assuming the Dynamic Duo have perished in a death trap and are stunned when they show up alive. The episode "The Bookworm Turns" begins with what appears to be Commissioner Gordon being shot on a bridge and falling to his death. As Batman and Robin show up at police headquarters to head up the manhunt for his killer, Gordon walks in, having been slowed by a fake policeman and is unaware of his "death." In "The Contaminated Cowl," the Mad Hatter puts the duo in a chamber to bombard with X-rays. They escape and put a pair of skeletons in spare costumes into the machine to fool the Hatter. It gets out of hand with word of the Dynamic Duo's deaths sweeping the world as the planet goes into mourning. They let it go for a bit before Batman calls Gordon and openly quotes the trope. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5501256b | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_5501256b | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_5501256b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5581b443 | type |
The Walls Are Closing In | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5581b443 | comment |
The Walls Are Closing In: In Catwoman's first appearance, she subjects Batman & Robin to the Spikes of Doom version. But the walls stop just before they'd impale Batman, and anyway the spikes are made of rubber. She was just toying with him (It wasn't the Cliffhanger of the episode). This was an homage to an actual cliffhanger◊ from the 1943 Batman serial. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5581b443 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_5581b443 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_5581b443 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55b1f9a1 | type |
Easy Amnesia | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55b1f9a1 | comment |
Batman and Robin's secret identities are a frequent plot point. Batman's identity is actually uncovered by King Tut on two occasions, but his Easy Amnesia saves the Dynamic Duo. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55b1f9a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55b1f9a1 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_55b1f9a1 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c | type |
Death Trap | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c | comment |
Joker even shows signs of this by wanting to safely pump out the gas he uses in a Death Trap in case an innocent passerby runs across it. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c | type |
Death Trap | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c | comment |
Deathtrap: You can rely on seeing one in the middle of every two-parter. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55ec42d7 | type |
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55ec42d7 | comment |
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: All over the place in the Archer two-parter; even the SFX cards get in on the act! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55ec42d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_55ec42d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_55ec42d7 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_56ff2e35 | type |
Bat Deduction | |
| Batman (1966) / int_56ff2e35 | comment |
Batman's Bat Deductions are often farfetched enough to rise to this level. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_56ff2e35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_56ff2e35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_56ff2e35 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_59907e4f | type |
Police Are Useless | |
| Batman (1966) / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Lampshaded in "The Devil's Fingers" when it seems like Batman and Robin aren't available to fight the special guest villain: Later in the same episode, it's shown that their idea of how to fight crime without Batman is putting snipers with machine guns in the boxes of a crowded theatre. On a handful of occasions they do try to be proactive and occasionally get to act as The Cavalry, but it's generally agreed that their competence had gone right into the gutter by season three. They can come through as truly stupid at times. In "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds," Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara believe without a shade of doubt that Marsha has turned Batman and Robin into toads (which is actually a trick done by her ventriloquist henchman). | |
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Batman (1966) / int_59907e4f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5a3d04fd | type |
The Great Whodini | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5a3d04fd | comment |
The Great Whodini: Zelda the Great, in her eponymous episode. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5a3d04fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5a3d04fd | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_5a3d04fd | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5b19cc1b | type |
Air-Vent Passageway | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway Episode "Smack in the Middle": the Riddler uses an air duct passage to infiltrate the Moldavian Pavilion party. Episode "A Riddle A Day Keeps The Riddler Away": Batman and Robin use air ducts to infiltrate a building where the Riddler is holding a kidnapped king hostage. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_5b19cc1b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5bf69547 | type |
Gang of Hats | |
| Batman (1966) / int_5bf69547 | comment |
Gang of Hats: Henchmen always have themed names and costumes related to the Special Guest Villain. In the case of frequently-recurring villains, the theme may be more related to the villain's latest scheme than to the villain's own motif. A few illustrative examples: In "Catwoman Goes To College"/"Batman Displays His Knowledge," Catwoman's henchmen wear Gotham City University sweaters and "freshman beanies," and are named Penn, Cornell, and Brown. In "That Darn Catwoman"/"Scat Darn Catwoman," her goons are named after famous literary detectives (Marlowe, Spade, & Templar). In "The Ring of Wax"/"Give 'Em the Axe," the Riddler's henchfolks have candle-themed names (Tallow, Matches, & Moth) in keeping with the wax-museum theme of the caper. Ma Parker and her sons from "The Greatest Mother of Them All"/"Ma Parker" are all named after notorious gangsters from the public enemy era of American history.note Pretty Boy, Machine Gun, and Mad Dog are the sons, while Ma Parker herself combines Ma Barker and Bonnie Parker. The Puzzler's gang, unusually for a one-shot villain, isn't named after puzzles, but rather various modes of flight, due to his plan to steal a high-tech plane. This actually isn't surprising if you know that his episode was originally written for the Riddler. The Mad Hatter's goons are a literal example. In "Joker's Flying Saucer," Joker's gang members are all named after different shades of green. Subverted in the pilot, where the henchmen are just generic gangster types. | |
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Wrong Bathroom Incident | |
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Wrong Bathroom Incident: In "Catwoman's Dressed To Kill", Batman and Robin exhibit one of their most Lawful Stupid moments when Catwoman flees into one. When Catwoman takes Batgirl hostage, they finally go in... with arms in front of their eyes. Cue the exasperated girls inside stating they covered themselves up already. | |
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Belly Dancer | |
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Belly Dancer Marsha, Queen of Diamonds (played by Carolyn Jones) performs an Arabic dance to keep the Gotham City treasury guards occupied in "Penguin's Disastrous End." A belly dancer (famed dancer Little Egypt credited as Herself) is part of the Penguin's mayoral campaign show in "Hizzoner the Penguin." The episode guest starring Liberace features a trio of female henchmen who on one occasion wear harem girl dancing outfits. | |
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There Was a Door | |
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There Was a Door: In a variant of Batman's usual Stealth Hi/Bye, Batman and Robin practically always enter buildings through the window, even if this is unnecessary. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation Presumably since exploring the origin as present in the comics would be too dark, Bruce Wayne's parents are merely stated as having been killed by "criminals" (possibly multiple ones), rather than going into detail. Curiously, Thomas Wayne is also implied to have been a lawyer, not a doctor, in the pilot. Given that the show is all about squeaky-clean heroes, the son of a doctor shouldn't be someone engaging in violence constantly. Sometimes present with some of the episodes that are based on actual comic stories. "Fine Feathered Finks"/"The Penguin's A Jinx," for instance, ditches the third act of the comic story "Partners in Plunder!" to give a somewhat more budget-conscious target. note In the original story, the jeweled meteorite IS the actual target in the climax, leading into a jet-umbrella chase that may have been a little beyond the show's budget. In the episode, the meteorite is quickly dismissed by Batman and instead he suggests (unwittingly) to the Penguin to target a visiting movie star, allowing for fisticuffs in and around her penthouse. They also shaved off a small subplot where Penguin trolls Batman by shifting his monocle to the other eye just to rile Batman's paranoia Similarly, "The Riddler's Strange Notion"/"Death in Slow Motion" was a rewrite of "The Joker's Comedy Capers," starring three guesses who instead of the Riddler. The reason for the change probably comes down to the fact that in both versions, the villain is impersonating silent film stars note Charlie Chaplin in both, and in the comics, Joker also impersonates Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harpo Marx (or at least No Celebrities Were Harmed versions) as well in other silent-themed crimes, and the Batman staff had a talented impressionist on the cast, just not playing The Joker. | |
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Parody Assistance | |
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Parody Assistance: An aversion: three years after Shelly Winters appeared in an episode of Batman as Ma Parker, spoofing Ma Barker (and the infamous Barker family shootout), Roger Corman cast Winters in the film Bloody Mama as Ma Barker. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: Averted. Warden Crichton is known for his earnest attempts to rehabilitate the inmates, though Batman and the police occasionally worry that he's not being strict enough given the nature of many of the inmates. | |
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So Last Season | |
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So Last Season: Happens to Mister Freeze's signature Freeze Ray. In Freeze's first appearance, Batman and Robin getting hit with the thing is considered a big enough deal to form that storyline's Cliffhanger, and they don't outsmart their way out of that one; they're only saved thanks to the Gotham City police thawing them out. By Freeze's final appearance in "Ice Spy," Batman and Robin know to be prepared with specially-treated suits. The Freeze Ray gets all of five seconds of screen time before Freeze realizes it's useless and tosses it aside. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
| Batman (1966) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Scenes of pure drama would pop up here and there. The Heel Face Turns of female criminals were handled completely seriously, with one reformed moll (in "Holy Rat Race") vowing that once she's out of prison she's going to join her brother on his ranch in New Zealand. Even a supervillain, Zelda the Great, is shown at the end of the episode to be reformed. Bruce Wayne promises her a job as a magician in a children's hospital after she serves her sentence. The very first Joker two-parter has a surprisingly downbeat scene in which a TV news anchor suffers a minor Heroic BSoD as a result of the Joker's crime spree and, directly addressing the (in-universe) audience, asks them in a grave voice to pray that Justice Will Prevail...until the silliness returns when the Joker and his gang storm the TV studio, gas the camera crew, and (non-lethally) shock the anchor with a joybuzzer. ("Have a laugh on me, Freddie!") Robin cries when it looks as if Alfred is about to be beheaded by the Archer, and everyone in the world cries when it appears as if the Mad Hatter has succeeded in killing the Dynamic Duo. | |
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Instant Costume Change | |
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Instant Costume Change: All Bruce and Dick have to do is slide down the Batpoles and it's "Holy costume change!" | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Adding to the menace of Gorshin's Riddler is the way Gorshin portrays him as seemingly always on the verge of snapping completely. | |
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Falsely Reformed Villain | |
| Batman (1966) / int_63f9d3d2 | comment |
Falsely Reformed Villain Very common, particularly with the frequently recurring Special Guest Villains. Sometimes played straight (e.g., "Catwoman Goes To College"), but frequently, the trope is only implicit. At the beginning of one episode for example, the Joker is allowed to move about freely and lay the groundwork for his next scheme, Batman and Robin being helpless to act until he commits an actual crime. The details of Joker's parole status, rationale for lack of outstanding arrest warrants, etc. are generally unspecified. Most of Penguin's appearances tend to use this trope to one degree or another, all under the guise of being reformed, and always as a front for some criminal scheme. Two notable occurrences are when he becomes a crime fighter and when he runs for mayor. | |
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Politicians Kiss Babies | |
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Politicians Kiss Babies: Played straight when the Penguin runs for Mayor of Gotham and kisses babies. Averted by Batman, who is running against him and refuses to kiss babies because he doesn't want to spread germs. This winds up giving Batman an anti-children reputation and hurting his campaign despite the fact that the very reason he doesn't kiss them is because he's concerned about their health and wellbeing. Again...Gothamites are kinda dumb. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: In this adaptation it applies to the heroes and villains alike. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: Alfred was never given a last name (since the character's official last name of Pennyworth wasn't established in the comics until 1969). Commissioner note James Gordon and Chief O'Hara had no first names, nor did recurring characters Warden Crichton and Mayor Linseed. | |
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Militaries Are Useless | |
| Batman (1966) / int_68148dc | comment |
Militaries Are Useless: In "Penguin Sets a Trend," they turn out to be even more useless than the police (which is quite an incredible feat). Despite working in high positions at "the Hexagon," General MacGruder and Major Beasley are incredibly stupid and narcissistic. They allow the Penguin inside top secret areas when he promises them movie contracts and are completely baffled when the arch criminal steals confidential documents. They summon a group of troops who turn out to be completely useless against the Penguin's thugs. | |
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Film Felons | |
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Film Felons In a three part adventure, the Penguin is pretending to be producer and director of a film. Batman is not fooled for one second, but plays along to find out what his ultimate scheme is. Played with in "Death in Slow Motion": The Riddler has an evil filmmaker shoot his crimes so he can screen them for a Hollywood producer as a silent-movie comedy. | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside | |
| Batman (1966) / int_6994b346 | comment |
Human Outside, Alien Inside: Mr. Freeze in his first appearance, where (when not wearing his protective suit) he is simply a middle-aged German man who must be exposed to subzero temperatures at all times (and Batman even refers to him by his "human" name on two occasions). Subsequent appearances (by different actors) show him much more grotesquely, resembling the redeemed Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi in his second episode, and being almost vampiric in appearance in his third and final episode. One suspects that either Freeze's condition must have worsened, or his body mutated in order to more comfortably adapt to his surroundings. | |
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The Commissioner Gordon | |
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The Commissioner Gordon: Actor Neil Hamilton plays Gordon, who, unlike other portrayals, is completely dependent on Batman to catch the villains of the show, to the extent that during the few times where Batman is reported as unavailable when needed, Gordon reacts with abject horror that he, O'Hara, and the Gotham Police Department will have to deal with catching crooks themselves. | |
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Adipose Rex | |
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Adipose Rex: King Tut thinks he's an Ancient Egyptian king and happens to be overweight. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Batman (1966) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Tons. A few examples: Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Mrs. Max Black, widow; Pat Pending, the richest inventor on Earth; etc. | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: In "Rats Like Cheese," Mister Freeze have Batman and Robin as dinner guests. | |
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True Art Is Incomprehensible | |
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True Art Is Incomprehensible: "Pop Goes the Joker"/"Flop Goes the Joker" is all about this. Joker raids an art gallery and randomly sprays paint all over the artwork, only for the artist to proclaim the results much better than the originals. This goes on throughout the story (with Joker, naturally, taking advantage of people who are convinced he's a genius). At the end of the second episode, a gallery patron looks at one of the Joker's works and says, "I don't understand it at all. It must be very profound." | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: William Dozier, the show's executive producer, provides the memorable yet uncredited narration. | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
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Deconstructive Parody: The first season and The Film of the Series Batman: The Movie: In the pilot, the Riddler deconstructs the Super Hero by tricking Batman into falsely arresting him so he can make a Frivolous Lawsuit for a million dollars, exposing Batman’s Secret Identity. The second episode shows the Penguin taking advantage of Batman’s Bat Deduction to commit crimes. Batman: The Movie ends by lampshading Reed Richards Is Useless when Batman refuses Robin’s idea to alter the personalities of the world leaders for the betterment of the world (and then exactly that happens unintentionally). | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: Episode ""He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul." At the end of a radio transmission between Batman and Robin, Batman (who is a duly deputized officer of the law and should know better) tells Robin, "Over and out." | |
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A Foggy Day in London Town | |
| Batman (1966) / int_6f9da277 | comment |
A Foggy Day in London Town: In one series of episodes of Batman ("The Londinium Larcenies"/"The Foggiest Notion"/"The Bloody Tower"), Batman and Robin travel to Londinium (the Bat-universe's analog to London; actually the Roman name for London) to battle Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. Not only is Londinium depicted as very foggy much of the time, but Ffogg's weapons are also all fog-based. | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye: Unusually, not Batman but Batgirl is a master of this trope. | |
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Dressed Like a Dominatrix | |
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Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Another early example of this trope. This 1966 version of the Femme Fatale villainess Catwoman wears a tight, black, leather catsuit with gloves, high-heeled boots, and often wields a whip. Her comic book version at the time didn't yet wear anything like that (and wouldn't for more than 20 years). | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: Here it's very notable. As Bruce Wayne, Adam West uses a more laid-back, natural delivery, as opposed to Batman's intense, melodramatic manner, but it's still very recognizably the same voice. Furthermore, Dick Grayson and Robin sound and act almost exactly the same. No one seems to do the math that the two men are almost always together, just as Batman and Robin are. Because Batman's costume had no pockets, Adam West developed an 'arms folded' stance so that he could still look dignified in the costume. Occasionally (notably when on his date with Kitka in the movie), he forgets and uses the same body language as Bruce Wayne. It gets a little unbelievable when even Aunt Harriet, who lives with Bruce and Dick, doesn't even suspect a thing when they walk into the house and give her a kiss for her birthday, saying that "Bruce called in a favor." Alfred also qualifies since, though not wearing a costume, he is both Bruce Wayne’s butler who answers his phone for him and the man who answers Batman’s phone for him, too. He doesn’t appear to make any attempt to disguise his voice while doing this. One episode ("The Curse of Tut") even has the Commissioner calling Bruce Wayne, Alfred answers and then goes and gets Bruce, then straight after they're done the Commissioner calls Batman, and Alfred answers again and gets Batman. Then there's Batgirl. Batman and Robin are continually perplexed at how Batgirl manages to keep turning up where the action is, and it never once dawns on them that Commissioner Gordon has a daughter who's the right age and size to be Batgirl, speaks with the same voice, and above all, who shows up in Gotham City at the exact same time Batgirl does. Does the red wig really fool them that much? | |
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Deducing the Secret Identity | |
| Batman (1966) / int_723943a9 | comment |
Deducing the Secret Identity: Egghead, the World's Smartest Criminal, is able to deduce Batman's secret identity. First, he reasons that the enormous "egg-spense" involved in producing Batman's various gadgets would point to only one of three Gotham City millionaires, and then he deduces which two of them cannot be the Caped Crusader (one has a French accent, which Batman does not have, and the other is left-handed, whereas Batman is right-handed). He concludes that the last, Bruce Wayne, must be Batman. | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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Villain Has a Point: During the mayoral election debate, Penguin points out that Batman wears a mask, concealing his true identity and past from the voters. This is a perfectly valid point (at least until Penguin proceeds to segue into Insane Troll Logic, arguing that since Batman is frequently in close contact with criminals he's probably a criminal himself). | |
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Hats Off to the Dead | |
| Batman (1966) / int_73b87208 | comment |
Hats Off to the Dead: Averted. In his autobiography, Adam West talks about how they initially wanted Batman to remove his cowl when a character died in front of him as a mark of respect, but it took too long to remove the tightly fitted costume piece on camera, so the idea was nixed. | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7431b974 | comment |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show Unlike the creepy but sympathetic portrayal of the character in other continuities, David Wayne's Mad Hatter is a humorlessly vicious psychopath who tries to flay Batman and Robin alive to make hats out of their bodies and then attempts to burn the flesh off of their bones with concentrated radiation. He's easily the series' nastiest villain. In one of his episodes, the Joker styles himself as a Mad Artist and not only leaves Robin to be carved up by sculpting knives, but expects his blood to splatter everywhere and "paint" the gallery. When he returns and sees the "blood", he's overjoyed - but then Robin appears, free from harm, and says that it's just red paint meant to fool him. Two villains - the Riddler and "Commissioner" Nora Clavicle - attempted mass murder as part of their criminal schemes, albeit because of Greed than hate or misanthropy. Especially heinous in Clavicle's case because she tried to blow up all of Gotham City, which in-universe was said to be home to more people than New York City. And the Riddler's plot involved making buildings throughout the city semi-permanently disappear with an antimatter ray gun, thus bordering on a Class Z Apocalypse! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7431b974 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_74ef476c | type |
Kneel Before Zod | |
| Batman (1966) / int_74ef476c | comment |
Kneel Before Zod: In "The Spell of Tut," King Tut does this to Robin. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_74ef476c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7570a10c | type |
Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7570a10c | comment |
In "Come Back, Shame," when his moll asks him why he can't just shoot the unconscious Batman and Robin plain and simple (see: Bond Villain Stupidity), Shame - who's an outlaw, but lives by the code of the Old West - says, it wouldn't be fair. Shame also says at one point that he isn't all bad, just mostly bad. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7570a10c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
| Batman (1966) / int_762b9223 | comment |
Double-subverted by Victor Buono, who was American but was fairly convincing as a supposedly British history professor. However, in his alter ego of King Tut, he sometimes lapses into stereotypical American (for laughs, probably). | |
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Batman (1966) / int_762b9223 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77939ae1 | type |
Hollywood Glass Cutter | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77939ae1 | comment |
Hollywood Glass Cutter: Used often by various criminals. For one example, in "The Purr-Fect Crime," Catwoman uses her glove/claws to carve a hole through a museum display case. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_77939ae1 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Almost every villain that appears on the show, since characters like Batman and Gordon frequently mention having dealt with the episode's villain before, even when it's said villain's debut. Notable exceptions include the Minstrel and Ma Parker. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_77b03c0a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77cd64fa | type |
Abled in the Adaptation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_77cd64fa | comment |
Abled in the Adaptation: Commissioner Gordon doesn't need to wear glasses like his comic counterpart. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_77cd64fa | |
| Batman (1966) / int_78c85191 | type |
Grapes of Luxury | |
| Batman (1966) / int_78c85191 | comment |
Grapes of Luxury: King Tut gets this treatment at one point. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_78c85191 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_792e11ec | type |
Dance Battler | |
| Batman (1966) / int_792e11ec | comment |
Dance Battler: Batgirl, as portrayed by former professional ballerina Yvonne Craig. Almost a required trope given that Batgirl was not allowed to throw punches, confining her fights mostly to kicking. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_792e11ec | |
| Batman (1966) / int_79eb1e2e | type |
Neutral Female | |
| Batman (1966) / int_79eb1e2e | comment |
Neutral Female The typical gun moll in the series usually stands around during the fights like a complete ninny. Even Catwoman and the other female villains (as well as older villains who wouldn't be expected to be physical) stand back and let the Mooks do the fighting. The only woman who actively participates in the fisticuffs is Batgirl, (or footicuffs, since as noted above she was limited to kicks). Averted once with a moll who steals a cop's gun and tries to shoot the Dynamic Duo, and in the pilot where the Riddler's moll, Molly, actually tries to shoot Batman. Chandell (Liberace)note or, technically, Chandell's Evil Twin brother, being savvier than your average criminal mastermind, has a trio of female henchmen. When it comes time for Batman and Robin to fight the male Mooks, the women do everything they can to get between the Dynamic Duo and the mooks. Batman and Robin have to pull their punches to avoid hitting the women, leaving them open to the mooks' attacks. Averted in several more episodes where instead of standing around, a moll runs away during the fight, or at least tries to. Shame's moll Oakie Annie averts this. She has a gun like the rest of Shame's gang, and during the first fight with Batman, she contributes heavily to Shame's victory by shooting a chandelier that drops on Batman's head. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_79eb1e2e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7a3dd888 | type |
Real Men Wear Pink | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7a3dd888 | comment |
Real Men Wear Pink Louie the Lilac (well, technically purple). The Joker, of course. (This version also wears obvious lipstick!) | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7a3dd888 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7c4ae6b0 | type |
Hot Librarian | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7c4ae6b0 | comment |
Hot Librarian: Barbara Gordon. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7c4ae6b0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7c4f6612 | type |
Comic-Book Adaptation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7c4f6612 | comment |
Comic-Book Adaptation: In 2013 DC Comics launched an actual comic book version of the TV series, titled Batman '66, as well as releasing a trade paperback of the original issues that episodes were based on. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7c4f6612 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7d163c9c | type |
Dating Catwoman | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7d163c9c | comment |
Dating Catwoman: Only fitting considering Catwoman was played by Julie Newmar. Meow, indeed. Compared to other takes on the Bat-mythos, it's actually kind of subverted, or at least one-sided. Newmar's Catwoman is colder and crueler than just about any other incarnation of the character (a holdover from The Silver Age of Comic Books, where the Comics Code forbade villains to look too sympathetic), and regularly arranges violent deathtraps for the man she supposedly loves. When she does show attraction to Batman, it's more the Stalker with a Crush kind (in one episode her deathtrap-du-jour is designed to more or less lobotomize Batman, with the implication that she plans to keep him as a sex slave afterwards). This disappears entirely once Eartha Kitt steps into Catwoman's boots. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7d163c9c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7f9b12a6 | type |
Chairman of the Brawl | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7f9b12a6 | comment |
Chairman of the Brawl: Episode "That Darn Catwoman." After Robin is placed under Catwoman's control, he breaks a chair over Batman's head while fighting him. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7f9b12a6 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7f9b4510 | type |
Human Knot | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7f9b4510 | comment |
Human Knot: Batman, Robin, and Batgirl are tied in a "Siamese Human Knot" by Nora Clavicle. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7f9b4510 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7fc4e9ce | type |
Freeze Ray | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7fc4e9ce | comment |
Freeze Ray: Mr. Freeze uses one of these in every episode in which he appears. His standard weapon is a rifle-like device that spews out a stream of freezing gas at short range. In the episode pair "Ice Spy"/"The Duo Defy," Mr. Freeze creates an ultra-powerful version called the Thermodynamic Ice Ray Gun that can freeze large areas of effect at long range. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7fc4e9ce | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Batman (1966) / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Adam West often cited a moment from the show's pilot as cementing the show's characterization of Batman and its style of humor, and what got him excited about the project when he first saw the script. When Batman arrives at the discotheque, the bartender asks him if he wants a table in the middle of the action. In response, this 6'2" man in a full-body costume, cape and cowl says "No thank you, I shouldn't wish to attract attention." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_7febc23b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Batman (1966) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking In the classic form of List of Transgressions, the list of Joker and Catwoman’s crimes includes “overtime parking.� King Tut's line in one episode: "My Queen is disloyal, my handmaiden is a traitor...and everybody's being mean to me!" It's made all the better by the fact that Victor Buono is one of the hammiest hams in the entire series. Tut's crimes are at one point listed as "Kidnapping, murder, grand theft, and malicious mischief." The latter is a term for willful or wanton destruction of other people's property (i.e., vandalism). | |
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Batman (1966) / int_808cbaeb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Batman (1966) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham Everybody. That's right - EVERYBODY. Even Batman himself, despite (or perhaps because of) being The Comically Serious. Not so much with Alfred, though he does have his moments. Penguin's comparatively subdued, too, and comes off as more of a serious threat because of it. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_823c6e3e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_82ab88c5 | type |
Percussive Pickpocket | |
| Batman (1966) / int_82ab88c5 | comment |
Percussive Pickpocket: "The Joker's Last Laugh": the Joker (a "master conjurer," according to Batman) bumps into Commissioner Gordon on the subway and manages to not only switch his cufflinks but also wrap several feet of antenna around Gordon's waist and down his pants leg! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_82ab88c5 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_836a968e | type |
Plunger Detonator | |
| Batman (1966) / int_836a968e | comment |
Plunger Detonator: "While Gotham City Burns": the Gotham City police use one to blow open a giant, steel book replica and free the Dynamic Duo. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_836a968e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Batman (1966) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon while under the influence of the Siren. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_83a903f6 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin Try to count the number of buildings, sets, and objects humorously labeled with the same titles the dialogue just gave them. You will give up. This even occasionally extends to henchmen with "Henchman" written on their shirts. Occasionally subverted, as in the Liberace episode, where a strong bare bulb in police headquarters is labelled "Subtle Interrogation Lamp." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8409a385 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8448fdd0 | type |
Superhero | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8448fdd0 | comment |
Super Hero Batman, Robin, and Batgirl, of course, but also Special Guest Heroes The Green Hornet and Kato. This trope is deconstructed in the pilot episode when the Riddler makes a Frivolous Lawsuit for a million dollars after he cleverly tricks the Dynamic Duo into falsely arresting him. Batman will have to reveal his Secret Identity in court, ruining his Super Hero career. The plan would have worked, too! Riddler goes missing and is presumed dead before the court date! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8448fdd0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8504b817 | type |
Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8504b817 | comment |
Where the Hell Is Springfield? For the most part, Gotham City seems to be New York under an assumed name. It seems to be in Gotham State and is adjacent to New Guernsey. It has a Queen of Freedom statue which is an Expy for the Statue of Liberty. Gotham's Mayor Linseed is an expy for New York City's Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966-73), and the state's chief executive Governor Stonefellow is a pun on New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (1959-73). Establishing shots of the city are often Stock Footage of recognizable New York locations like Central Park or the Flatiron Building. But there's also evidence pointing to alternate locales, and at least one reference to New York as another, separate, city from Gotham. Adding another level of confusing, both the series and The Movie have numerous shots that are recognizably around Greater Los Angeles... | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8504b817 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Batman (1966) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite False Face promising Batman that "it's not over" at the end of "Holy Rat Race", he is never seen again. note Creator William Dozier disliked the False Face two-parter, and decided not to bring back the character for further appearances. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_863fa679 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8657c5 | type |
Rhyming Title | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8657c5 | comment |
Rhyming Title: If the series feature a two-parter, the consecutive episodes will almost always have titles that form a rhyming couplet, such as "The Joker Is Wild"/"Batman is Riled." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8657c5 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8679c2a6 | type |
A Spy at the Spa | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8679c2a6 | comment |
A Spy at the Spa: The finale has special guest villainess Zsa Zsa Gabor reading billionaire spa-goers' minds with her special "Eggplant Jelly Vitamin Scalp Massage." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8679c2a6 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: A meta-example from Adam West: | |
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Batman (1966) / int_86b21114 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86daf505 | type |
Parental Bonus | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: The show's initial success was based on this. The early episodes were full of Lampshade Hanging, Deconstructive Parody, and Fanservice for adults, but also worked as straightforward superhero adventures for kids. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_86daf505 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86ee8070 | type |
World of Ham | |
| Batman (1966) / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: It would be easier just to name the characters who don't constantly ham it up to eleven. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_86ee8070 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_87bb6874 | type |
Villain with Good Publicity | |
| Batman (1966) / int_87bb6874 | comment |
Complete inversion: Nora Clavicle, a female politician, is the only "normal" guest villain during the series's entire run and never adopts an alias - not that she really needs to, since she has the backing of the mayor's wife and has her coerce her husband into making Clavicle the new Police Commissioner! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_87bb6874 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Batman (1966) / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: "Flop Goes the Joker": using a fire poker, Alfred utterly schools Joker at fencing, then traps him on the Batpole elevators and sends him shrieking up and down for a good five minutes. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_890d4ef2 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8966382e | type |
Bank Robbery | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8966382e | comment |
Bank Robbery: Not unknown on the show, though the various Special Guest Villains generally prefer more elaborate extortion schemes. "Penguin's Clean Sweep" has one especially memorable instance where, seconds after a successful job, a gang of bank robbers reverses and returns the money upon learning that the Penguin infected the local mint with sleeping sickness germs. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8966382e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_89b3c0d4 | type |
So Once Again, the Day Is Saved | |
| Batman (1966) / int_89b3c0d4 | comment |
So Once Again, the Day Is Saved: "Tune in tomorrow! Same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!" | |
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Batman (1966) / int_89b3c0d4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_89fb838b | type |
Cold Ham | |
| Batman (1966) / int_89fb838b | comment |
Cold Ham This show's take on The Riddler. He alternates between cold as ice and leaping with excitement, and is a ham through and through. Batman himself is sometimes this, especially next to the youthful exuberance of Robin, but he does have his Large Ham moments. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_89fb838b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: The Batmobile, almost to the point of being a metal Iconic Outfit. There have been plenty of other Batmobiles before and since, but in car-guy circles the George Barris version for this series is the Batmobile. Even cooler if you see the real thing in person, since EVERYTHING on the car is meticulously and hilariously labeled, like the bat-accelerator, bat-radio, bat-emergency brake...it's cool because audiences watching would never be able to see the various labels and buttons. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_8a295a46 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8c9cad1e | type |
Psychic Static | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8c9cad1e | comment |
Psychic Static: Egghead tries to use a mind reading machine on Bruce Wayne, looking for proof that he is Batman; instead, all he reads is inane trivia, so he decides Bruce can't possibly be Batman. | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_8c9cad1e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8e9c055d | type |
Dress-O-Matic | |
| Batman (1966) / int_8e9c055d | comment |
Dress-O-Matic: Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson had a device via the Batpoles that put them into their costumes as Batman and Robin. | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_8e9c055d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_901dbf9a | type |
Cliff Hanger | |
| Batman (1966) / int_901dbf9a | comment |
Each Cliffhanger leaves Batman and Robin in mortal peril! Yet they always ingeniously escape! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_901dbf9a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9151375 | type |
Cool Garage | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9151375 | comment |
Cool Garage: The Batcave. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9151375 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_91f9c100 | type |
She Will Come for Me | |
| Batman (1966) / int_91f9c100 | comment |
He Won't Come For Me: Catwoman once holds Batgirl captive to lure Batman out of the way. Batgirl says he won't save her because stopping Catwoman would be a priority. Although technically true, Batman still sends somebody else to rescue her. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_91f9c100 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_931fc523 | type |
Back for the Finale | |
| Batman (1966) / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: A rather odd example. French Freddy "The Fence" Touche, a one-off associate of Catwoman's from season two, returns in the final episode helping Minerva. He's the only non-lead villain to make a second appearance. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_931fc523 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9350a0b9 | type |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9350a0b9 | comment |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: In "The Great Escape," when Commissioner Gordon calls the hotline with Bruce Wayne right next to him, Alfred hooks it up to an answering machine that then carries on a conversation with Gordon. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9350a0b9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
| Batman (1966) / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Special Guest Villains Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_96144372 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9723e2cd | type |
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9723e2cd | comment |
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Egghead used this as a clue when he correctly guessed that Bruce Wayne was Batman; he abandons the idea when his attempt to confirm it fails. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9723e2cd | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9843be73 | type |
As You Know | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: Utilized heavily when discussing villains, especially the few who have origin stories (namely, Mister Freeze and King Tut). Few, if any villains are "introduced" in the series, as even when the audience meets them for the first time, it's established that Batman and Robin have had many previous encounters with them. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9843be73 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9abe931d | type |
Quicksand Sucks | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9abe931d | comment |
Quicksand Sucks: Subverted. At the end of the episode "Batman's Anniversary," Batman and Robin are caught in a Death Trap consisting of a 15-foot-deep pool of quicksand. At the beginning of the next episode "A Ridding Controversy," Batman realizes that they won't sink deeply enough into it to drown. The Dynamic Duo escapes by using the experimental "heel and toe Bat Rockets" in their boots. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9abe931d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9aeabf25 | type |
The Family That Slays Together | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9aeabf25 | comment |
The Family That Slays Together: The Parker clan. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9aeabf25 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9b945875 | type |
Bronson Canyon and Caves | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9b945875 | comment |
Bronson Canyon and Caves: Used for exterior shots of the Bat Cave. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9b945875 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Hanging around Batman and Robin, you probably become Badass by osmosis. Aunt Harriet of all people during the two-part Chandell episode where she pulls a gun on his evil twin brother Harry! Talk about guts! Alfred, at the end of "Flop Goes the Joker!" Not only does he single-handedly beat the Joker at Wayne Manor while demonstrating his fencing skills, he also gives the Joker his most humiliating defeat (see Humiliation Conga, above.) Alfred had already shown off his badassery several episodes earlier, when he (disguised as his own security-guard cousin... don't ask) holds the Joker and his gang at gunpoint and forces them to eat their own time-reversing pills. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9bcd82c0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9bf3470e | type |
Santa Claus | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9bf3470e | comment |
Santa Claus (played by Andy Devine) | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9bf3470e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9d0f2549 | type |
Public Secret Message | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9d0f2549 | comment |
Public Secret Message: Batman talks to King Tut over a broadcast radio station, but he requests that all other citizens of Gotham switch off to avoid hearing his private message. Naturally they oblige. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9d0f2549 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The early episode "Zelda the Great" features a dialogue reference to Catwoman months before the character made her first on-screen appearance. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: Remembering that it was common for syndicated episodes to be broadcast in random order (albeit with the two- and three-part storylines kept together), the use of direct callbacks of this nature were rare for this era. In "The Ring of Wax," Riddler is careful to deactivate the Batmobile security system before driving it away. This seems to nod to his intro episode, in which he sets off the security system trying to steal it. The Joker/Penguin team-up three-parter during the second season also references the fact that it's not the first time that Joker has tried to contaminate Gotham's water supply - previously, he'd tried to do it in "The Joker's Provokers". In "Fine Feathered Finks"/"The Penguin's a Jinx," Robin freaks out when he sees Alfred doing maintenance near the Batcave's nuclear reactor, which is where Molly, the Riddler's girlfriend, was killed in the previous week's storyline. It's revealed that there is now a safety shut-off to make it safer. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9dab0a6e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9ecbcb36 | type |
ComicallySerious | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9ecbcb36 | comment |
Comically Serious Batman's defining characteristic in this portrayal. He rarely has any idea that anything he's saying is funny. Adam West has said that the key to the comedy of the show was saying the ridiculous lines with a straight face. (Leslie Nielsen followed that advice.) Neil Hamilton's portrayal of Commissioner Gordon practically runs on this trope. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9ecbcb36 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f1b0b39 | type |
Counting Bullets | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f1b0b39 | comment |
Counting Bullets: Batman and Robin have been known to do this; once Batman even counts the number fired from a machine-gun! | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9f1b0b39 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: Most of the major characters (including the villains) have one. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9f6fb586 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f970427 | type |
Secret-Keeper | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Alfred. Not just for Batman, but also Batgirl. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9f970427 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Batman (1966) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check In "The Penguin's Nest," Penguin opens a hugely popular restaurant, which by all indications positively rakes in the cash. However, Penguin chooses to use it as the front for a forgery scheme instead of simply living off the restaurant's proceeds. In "The Joker's Flying Saucer," the Joker creates a flying saucer that can (based on the Joker's comments) travel through outer space to other planets. He decides on the standard "conquer the world" strategy when he could have just sold the design to NASA for billions of dollars. Also applies to Catwoman, who, if she used her intelligence productively (or, let's be honest, became a model or movie star with her looks) — or even simply give up crime and married Bruce Wayne — could easily become as rich as she desires. Batman and Robin even comment during the Minstrel's appearance that he could make a good living just by selling records. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_9fbf8969 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a07afea2 | type |
Random Events Plot | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a07afea2 | comment |
Random Events Plot: Common in many episodes, since the emphasis is always more on spectacle than story. Gets especially bad around season three, where many of the writers simply stopped caring. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a07afea2 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a0eeac39 | type |
Odd Name Out | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a0eeac39 | comment |
Odd Name Out: "Marsha, Queen of Diamonds" features police officers O'Hara, O'Toole, O'Rourke, O'Leary, and Goldberg. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a0eeac39 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a1575551 | type |
Living Prop | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a1575551 | comment |
Living Prop: Large Ham King Tut madly screams his dialogue into the ear of one of the beautiful mute Living Prop slave girls of his harem. She doesn’t change her indifferent expression. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a1575551 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a195379b | type |
Murder by Cremation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a195379b | comment |
Murder by Cremation: Episode "Fine Feathered Finks": the cliffhanger ending has Bruce Wayne captured in a net, rendered unconscious by Penguin gas, and put on a conveyor belt to be run into a 10,000 degree furnace. In the next episode, "The Penguin's a Jinx," he wakes up and barely escapes by flinging a cigarette lighter into the furnace, creating an explosion which knocks him off the conveyor belt...instead of just, you know...rolling off of the conveyor belt himself with minimal effort. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a195379b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a293102a | type |
Eek, a Mouse!! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a293102a | comment |
Eek, a Mouse!!: In "Nora Clavicle and The Ladies' Crime Club," Nora exploits it by replacing the men on the police force with women and releasing mechanical explosive mice all over Gotham City. All the policewomen can't do anything about it since they either faint or hide on high furniture in fear. Somewhat justified as the women chosen for the police force are all housewives, while an episode from a previous season shows the force does have women on it. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a293102a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a3597c29 | type |
Magic Countdown | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a3597c29 | comment |
Magic Countdown: In "While Gotham City Burns," Batman and Chief O'Hara have only a minute to save Robin from being killed in a Death Trap. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a3597c29 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a46eb25d | type |
Election Day Episode | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a46eb25d | comment |
Election Day Episode: In "Hizzoner the Penguin"/"Dizzoner the Penguin," the Penguin runs for Mayor of Gotham against incumbent mayor John Linseed, who withdraws from the race and instead runs as the running mate of Batman. Batman wins the election and then immediately resigns, making Linseed mayor again. | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_a46eb25d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a60e3252 | type |
Rule of Funny | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Rule of Funny: This series practically runs on it. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a60e3252 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_a60e3252 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: The Riddler. Before 1966, he had only appeared in three stories total, two of which were in the 1940s, but his 1965 revival story caught the eye of the TV producers who made him the series' first Special Guest Villain and ultimately one of the top four. Also in a meta sense - the popularity of Gorshin's Riddler led to the character becoming a prominent member of Batman's Rogues' Gallery in the comics, where he remains to this day. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a65288e2 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face, 2016 and 2017 direct-to-video animated films set in the series. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a68421bb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a7faec8e | type |
Written Sound Effect | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a7faec8e | comment |
Written Sound Effect: Originally optically superimposed over the action in the first season and The Movie; in later seasons, to save money, this was replaced by cutaway title cards. Not consistently used; there are occasional episodes where fight scenes come and go without them. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_a7faec8e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a8a04f6f | type |
And I Must Scream | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: The Paralyzing Fog inflicts this on Batgirl. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_a8a04f6f | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_a8a04f6f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: In the third and final season, they were hitting viewers over the head with constant "hip" reminders that it was The '60s, and in seemingly every scene too. The most triumphant example is probably the series' penultimate episode, "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra", where half the villain's gimmick consists of speaking in painful amounts of Hippie slang. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_aa42306e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aa96059e | type |
Disabled in the Adaptation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aa96059e | comment |
Disabled in the Adaptation: In the inverse of Commissioner Gordon, this Alfred is shown wearing glasses. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_aa96059e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aba8065b | type |
Fatal Flaw | |
| Batman (1966) / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Catwoman's greed leads her to death in her first appearance as she refuses to give up her loot even though it could save her life. Since cats have nine lives, she gets better. She nearly makes the same mistake in her second appearance, except this time Batman helps her come to her senses. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_aba8065b | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac06a60c | type |
Think of the Children! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac06a60c | comment |
Think of the Children!: Invoked by name by Aunt Harriet in protest to the Marsha/Batman love scene in Penguin's film. | |
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| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_ac06a60c | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac4ac8e5 | type |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Two-Thirds of the Time/The Titles Would Rhyme. This was dropped in the final season due to the format changing from two-parters to mostly one-off episodes. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ac4ac8e5 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac8b2810 | type |
Concealing Canvas | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ac8b2810 | comment |
Concealing Canvas In the episode "The Duo is Slumming," the plans for an airplane are in a wall safe concealed by a painting. In the episodes "That Darn Catwoman" and "Flop Goes The Joker," stately Wayne Manor has a wall safe hidden behind a painting. Hilariously lampshaded once where a safe is concealed behind a painting of the safe. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ac8b2810 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_acecb17d | type |
Chekhov's Skill | |
| Batman (1966) / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Batman has apparently mastered an Indian rope trick called RuszÃÃà Szidááá Rákóóó at some point in his past, in a case of Suddenly Always Knew That. It comes in handy in the third season. Robin's bird call skills save them from a balloon in "The Duo is Slumming." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_acecb17d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ad03437f | type |
Reverse Cerebus Syndrome | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ad03437f | comment |
Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: While comedic elements were there from the start, early episodes of Batman come off at least a little more serious. Characters could and did die in the early days. In the first episode alone, Bruce makes two references to his parents being murdered, the Riddler's henchwoman Molly is vaporized after falling into a nuclear reactor, and the Riddler himself appears to have been blown up at the two-parter's climax (though of course he returned as good as new about a month later). A few weeks later, in "A Death Worse Than Fate," two gangsters with tommy guns, having prepared an ambush for Batman and Robin, are tricked into shooting each other. We don't see any blood, but the Egyptian mummy casings in which they've been hiding both keel over, assuring us that they're good and dead. In "Instant Freeze," Mr. Freeze apparently kills a servant of Princess Sandra, who tries to stop him from stealing the Princess's precious diamond. However, in the next episode, they reveal that the unfortunate guy managed to survive somehow. The villains' outfits were not always so outlandish at the beginning. In the very first episode, the Riddler is first shown wearing a suit instead of his acrobat tights and mask; he also doesn't jump around manically and giggles only rarely. In Joker's first appearance, he's shown playing baseball in a prison yard while wearing a standard blue prison uniform, while subsequent portrayals of the jailed Joker and all other incarcerated supervillains show them in their usual attire. (One memorable exception comes in the third season, where the Joker is dressed in a relatively conservative lavender suit while being released from prison.) Scenes of pure drama would pop up here and there. The Heel Face Turns of female criminals were handled completely seriously, with one reformed moll (in "Holy Rat Race") vowing that once she's out of prison she's going to join her brother on his ranch in New Zealand. Even a supervillain, Zelda the Great, is shown at the end of the episode to be reformed. Bruce Wayne promises her a job as a magician in a children's hospital after she serves her sentence. The very first Joker two-parter has a surprisingly downbeat scene in which a TV news anchor suffers a minor Heroic BSoD as a result of the Joker's crime spree and, directly addressing the (in-universe) audience, asks them in a grave voice to pray that Justice Will Prevail...until the silliness returns when the Joker and his gang storm the TV studio, gas the camera crew, and (non-lethally) shock the anchor with a joybuzzer. ("Have a laugh on me, Freddie!") Robin cries when it looks as if Alfred is about to be beheaded by the Archer, and everyone in the world cries when it appears as if the Mad Hatter has succeeded in killing the Dynamic Duo. | |
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Outlaw | |
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Outlaw: Shame and his gang, as well as Ma Parker and her kids. | |
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Knockout Gas | |
| Batman (1966) / int_adf58b7a | comment |
Knockout Gas: An extremely common weapon on the show, in a variety of forms and colors. Most often used by the villains, but Batman and Robin use it as well in the form of "Bat-Sleep," most often to transport characters to and from the Batcave without them learning its secret location. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Julie Newmar's Catwoman is very sassy. | |
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Expo Label | |
| Batman (1966) / int_af32bbdd | comment |
Expo Label: The series takes this trope and runs with it. Almost everything in the Bat Cave has a label on it, especially with the "Bat" stuff. The Batmobile even has a fake label: whenever Batman and Robin get out of the car, they cover the label of the "Anti-Theft Activator" with another one reading "Start Button." It's shown working at least once, against the Riddler. Episode "Ma Parker." The cells of Ma Parker and her criminal children each have a label featuring the occupant's name. Someone created a Twitter account documenting the show's use of this. | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase "Holy [insert word relevant to the current circumstance here], Batman!" "It's the Batphone, sir." "To the Batmobile!" "Whoever he is behind that mask of his..." "Stately Wayne Manor, home of millionaire Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward Dick Grayson." Officer O'Hara has a trio of "Saints preserve us!", "Begorra!", and "Mother [insert Irish last name here]!" "Wild!" - The Preminger version of Freeze. *waughwaughwaugh* - The Penguin's laugh. Did you forget, "old chum"? Narrator, in the part 2 episodes: "So far, we have seen..." and, "The wildest is yet to come!" Surely the most famous of the narrator's is "Same bat-time, same bat-channel." | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b0218885 | comment |
Mickey Mousing: The fight scenes tend to feature brash, brass-heavy music, which provides a stinger chord for every heavy blow that lands. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice Batgirl was added in the third season in large part for this. One shouldn't discount any of the three Catwomen (Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and in the movie, Lee Meriwether) either. Many villains have one female henchperson who provides nothing to the circumstances other than eye candy. Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, nearly ends up naked in her second appearance - and onscreen, too, with only a flimsy veil protecting her modesty! | |
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Tap on the Head | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: Straightforwardly used often on mooks, villains, and heroes alike. Subverted for Tut when getting hit on the head actually carries serious results beyond temporary unconsciousness. Played with for Chandell when he pretends to have been knocked out with a broken bottle. | |
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Tracking Device | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b1c2112 | comment |
Tracking Device "The Joker's Flying Saucer". When Alfred is forced to help the Joker assemble the flying saucer, he puts several Bat tracking signals inside the saucer so Batman can learn its location after it lands. "Batman Stands Pat". The Mad Hatter is kidnapping members of the jury that convicted him and stealing their hats. Batman has Alfred plant a Bat Homing Transmitter in the hat of the last juror so he can trace the Mad Hatter's location when he steals the hat. "The Penguin Declines". The female villain Venus deserts the Joker and falls in love with Batman. However, the Joker anticipated that she would do so and planted a tracking signal in her shoe. He later uses the signal to find Venus's location and send the Penguin (?!) to seduce her. | |
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Static Stun Gun | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b2441a13 | comment |
Static Stun Gun: In "That Darn Catwoman," Catwoman's goons use electric cattle prods to stun Batman into unconsciousness. | |
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Colorblind Casting | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b48396cc | comment |
Colorblind Casting: When Julie Newmar was unavailable for the third season, Eartha Kitt was cast as Catwoman in her place. | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues: Inverted by the Penguin when he runs for Mayor of Gotham City, as his campaign features "plenty of girls and bands and slogans and lots of hoopla, but remember, no politics. Issues confuse people." | |
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The Ace | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: This series's version of Batman certainly qualifies; he's one of the most unerringly competent and knowledgeable versions of the character, equally skilled in bareknuckle fistfighting and surfing competitions (even if he is prone to getting caught). At times, he borders on Parody Sue. | |
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High-Heel–Face Turn | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b63019a5 | comment |
High-Heel–Face Turn: Constantly, though usually only with molls. The digital comic continuation undoes several of these, sometimes without explanation. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: When the Duo briefly bumps into The Green Hornet and Kato in "The Spell of Tut," Robin tells Batman he can't understand what they're doing in "those ridiculous costumes." | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: The Riddler after season one. Frank Gorshin was trying to get more money since the Riddler was arguably the most popular villain of the first season — which led to a planned Riddler arc being rewritten for the minor Superman villain the Puzzler, and later a story where the Riddler was played by John Astin instead. Eventually Gorshin appeared for one final episode in season three. | |
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Notably Quick Deliberation | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b8e42c35 | comment |
Notably Quick Deliberation: One episode ends with the Joker and Catwoman being tried. Their lawyer doesn't cross-examine any witnesses brought by the prosecution and doesn't try to introduce any evidence that could help his clients, so it's not much of a surprise that the jury's leader declares there's no need to step out of the court to deliberate. The surprise is that they decide to acquit the defendants. When said juror's mustache starts falling off, Batman figures out Catwoman and the Joker had their henchmen put on the jury and they end up being arrested. | |
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Balloon of Doom | |
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Balloon of Doom: The Puzzler's episode has him associated with balloons, from using special "puzzle balloons" to fill a room with paralyzing gas, to sending up Batman and Robin in a hot air balloon as the episode's midpoint death trap. | |
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Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
| Batman (1966) / int_b9918c48 | comment |
Nobody Here but Us Statues: Used by Riddler and co. to surprise the Dynamic Duo in a wax museum. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ba236071 | comment |
Alfred had already shown off his badassery several episodes earlier, when he (disguised as his own security-guard cousin... don't ask) holds the Joker and his gang at gunpoint and forces them to eat their own time-reversing pills. | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound | |
| Batman (1966) / int_baeb2d6f | comment |
Glass-Shattering Sound: Batman and Robin get trapped in a special glass in the second season which amplifies sound waves. They break the glass by using their voices. | |
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Undercrank | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bbaebc | comment |
Under Crank: Used frequently, particularly in Batmobile scenes. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Bookworm is an author variant. His Berserk Button is his inability to get published due to his lack of originality. | |
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Weirdness Magnet | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bcb452a9 | comment |
Weirdness Magnet: Gotham City sure has a lot of colorful characters. | |
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Cowboy Episode | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bcfc7495 | comment |
Cowboy Episode: The two Shame appearances. | |
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Negative Continuity | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bd8aa92a | comment |
Negative Continuity: The show doesn't take much seriously, and continuity is no exception. In particular, one could almost make a drinking game out of how many times the arch-villains meet Alfred "for the first time." | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bdc0a18e | comment |
Idiosyncratic Wipes: The "Bat Signal over a spinning background" wipe is one of the show's most distinctive and oft-imitated features. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
| Batman (1966) / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: The Dynamic Duo, the Caped Crusaders, etc. The Penguin is especially fond of alliteration, calling Catwoman a "felonious feline" and the Joker a "pompous popinjay." Batman also engages in it a lot. | |
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Hollywood Torches | |
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Hollywood Torches: In the episodes "The Bloody Tower" and "Marsha's Scheme With Diamonds." | |
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Diamonds in the Buff | |
| Batman (1966) / int_bf64595b | comment |
Diamonds in the Buff: The Penguin seems to have had this trope in mind for the movie he directs starring Batman and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds. However the local censors put a stop to it before he can even begin filming the sequence. | |
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Invisible Monsters | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c0b66f61 | comment |
Invisible Villains: For when your budget is just too damn small to hire the characters' actual actors or stuntmen to play them in a fight. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c145f69b | comment |
This sometimes subverted, where the villain will remove the utility belts, stay to watch, or both. In these cases, Batman has to work harder to get out of the trap. | |
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Mooks | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Mooks: They're lousy fighters, with only the occasional one ever landing a punch. On the other hand, they ARE snappy dressers, with cute Halloween costumes and even nicknames that play off the villain's gimmick or the theme of the show (resulting in a Gang of Hats). However, they do often manage to get in decisive blows when it counts, i.e. when it's near the end of part one and the Caped Crusaders have to be knocked out and placed in the deathtrap du jour. | |
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You Just Ruined the Shot | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c59c953e | comment |
You Just Ruined the Shot: Batman and Robin foil a bank robbery... but it turns out to be part of a completely legal and authorized location shoot for the Penguin's movie. The Penguin shot the scene specifically to invoke this trope and entrap Batman. Batman told Robin he intentionally fell into the trap to find out what the Penguin was up to. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic Batman's Bat Deductions are often farfetched enough to rise to this level. The villains also have their moments. In one classic moment, Batman and the Penguin are running for mayor of Gotham City, and the Penguin argues that he is more trustworthy because Batman is often in close contact with criminals while he himself is often surrounded by police. | |
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Midseason Replacement | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c62d8f4c | comment |
Midseason Replacement: This series was one of the first significant examples. | |
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Ret-Canon | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c6898a73 | comment |
Ret-Canon The Riddler This series actually invented Riddler's "less silly" bowler-hat-and-suit look.note Specifically, it was designed by Frank Gorshin, the actor who played the Riddler. He seriously hated the tights he was originally forced to wear. In fact, it's only because of Frank Gorshin's Emmy-nominated performance on this show that you've ever heard of the Riddler, who appeared a grand total of twice in the comics (both in 1948) prior to 1965. The Riddler's other iconic accessory, his question-mark cane, was also invented on this show - in John Astin's fill-in appearance, to boot!note That said, the cane wasn't really codified as a must for the character until the one-two punch of Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Forever. The show brought Mr. Freeze, a formerly obscure villain originally named Mr. Zero, back into the comics and gave him a new name. In much the same way, Batman: The Animated Series brought Mr. Freeze back into the modern comics decades later after a long absence, and introduced the tragic characterization that's defined him ever since. Viewers of Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance in Batman & Robin might be amused to hear English actor George Sanders adopting a very similar accent when he introduced the character to TV decades earlier. | |
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Bedlam House | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c6c5ce4 | comment |
Bedlam House: Averted. Arkham Asylum was not introduced in the comics until several years after the TV series's end. In any case, the show typically represents the villains as flamboyant but sane crooks (even the Joker!), with King Tut (who has a form of insanity that presents itself as a Split Personality) being the only notable exception, although the Riddler may have also been an exception as he generally acted like the Joker should have, complete with insane giggle. The Joker did put white makeup over a mustache, so there is that. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_c6c5ce4 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out In "The Cat and the Fiddle," Catwoman's thugs are crawling around the outside of the Gotham State Building. Commissioner Gordon says ,"Are they birds?" and Chief O'Hara says, "Are they planes?", a reference to the signature line from Superman, "Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's Superman!" "An Egg Grows in Gotham" Chief Screaming Chicken is the sole remaining representative of the Mohican tribe, making him "The Last of the Mohicans" (a reference to the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans). At one point, Chief Screaming Chicken says the phrase "Kemo sabe." When Egghead's goon asks him what it means, he says he doesn't know, he just heard it on the radio. This refers to the The Lone Ranger radio show, in which Tonto regularly uses that phrase. An unnamed police detective played by Ben Alexander tells a woman to "Give me just the facts," a reference to Sergeant Joe Friday's "Just the facts, ma'am," line from Dragnet and to Alexander's character on the show, Frank Smith. "Fine Feathered Finks": when the Penguin sees a camera observing him in a prison cell, he says, "Goodnight, Big Brother," and pokes it out with his umbrella. This is a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which (among other things) had devices in people's homes that were used to spy on them. The symbol of the government was Big Brother, the Party leader in charge of the country. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_c75df49a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c85c20f6 | type |
Super Hero Origin | |
| Batman (1966) / int_c85c20f6 | comment |
Batman and Robin are never given origin stories, oddly enough, aside from a brief mention in the pilot that Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by "criminals." Granted, their origins are pretty dark and likely unfit for a show like this. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_c85c20f6 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Most of the villains, mooks, and molls go exclusively by their villain names, even when they supposedly reform (the Penguin runs for Mayor as "Penguin"). The real names we know from the comics (Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma, Selina Kyle, etc.) are never used. Notable aversions: King Tut, whose harmless professor alter ego is named William McElroy. The Mad Hatter, who is frequently referred to by his real name, Jervis Tetch. Mr. Freeze is identified (only once) as Dr. Shivel (it was Batman: The Animated Series that coined the Victor Fries identity). Black Widow is Mrs. Max Black, widow, though this is something of a double subversion as Max Black was her late husband's name, and it's not uncommon for wives to sometimes go by "Mrs. (Husband's Name)." Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup have no villain names at all, although they hardly need them. The ice skater Glacia Glaze (one of Mr. Freeze's molls) was born "Emma Strunk" and is outraged and humiliated when Batman mentions the name as she's being arrested. Lola Lasagne, the Extra Special Guest Villainess from Penguin's second season three appearance, is a similar case in that she was born Lulu Schultz, but changed her name upon her short-lived marriage to Luigi Lasagne. Complete inversion: Nora Clavicle, a female politician, is the only "normal" guest villain during the series's entire run and never adopts an alias - not that she really needs to, since she has the backing of the mayor's wife and has her coerce her husband into making Clavicle the new Police Commissioner! Non-villain example: Miss Iceland is only ever referred to by her title, not her name. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cb87452d | type |
Reverse Polarity | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cb87452d | comment |
Reverse Polarity: Happens a lot, but for one example, Batman does it in the first season episode "Better Luck Next Time." | |
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Batman (1966) / int_cb87452d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In one episode when Robin gets put under Catwoman's control by a drug called Cataphrenic, he assaults freakin' Chief O'Hara. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_cc4d190a | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ccb3498d | type |
Escape Artist | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ccb3498d | comment |
Escape Artist: Zelda the Great. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ccb3498d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ccb3498d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ccb3498d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cd0637d2 | type |
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cd0637d2 | comment |
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: A very old newsboy is cleverly used to Hand Wave a Plot Hole in "Zelda The Great": | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cd0637d2 | featureApplicability |
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Batman (1966) / int_cd0637d2 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cd7a8af8 | type |
Amnesia Episode | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cd7a8af8 | comment |
Amnesia Episode: In almost every episode featuring the supervillain King Tut, the Egyptologist Professor William McElroy is hit on the head and forgets who he really is, thinking he's the historical King Tut instead. At the end of the episode he's hit on the head again and reverts to his standard personality. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_cd7a8af8 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: As well as brighter and more colorful. The irony is that, given the state of the comics at the time of the TV series, this was a very accurate adaptation, or even Darker and Edgier.note For example, the second episode has a character die by falling into a nuclear reactor, a more gruesome end than anything that would've been depicted in the comics at the time. It was only in later adaptations that Batman would be Serious Business. | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ce6555f0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ceb854cb | type |
The Door Slams You | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ceb854cb | comment |
The Door Slams You: In "King Tut's Coup," two of Tut's henchmen do this to Robin, knocking him silly. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_ceb854cb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cfd50a9 | type |
TheHitFlash | |
| Batman (1966) / int_cfd50a9 | comment |
The Hit Flash: The on-screen fight sound effects, one of the show's defining tropes, as The Dynamic Duo would hit the bad guys so hard that "KAPOW!", "ZAP!", "BLAMMOW!", "ETC.!" would spontaneously materialize on-screen as colorful cue-cards. Due to the show's popularity, children of the 1960's-1980's often cited the show in English classes as an example of onomatopoeia that they could easily identify with. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_cfd50a9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d080f396 | type |
The Napoleon | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d080f396 | comment |
The Napoleon: The Penguin, played by Burgess Meredith. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d080f396 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_d080f396 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d1111c08 | type |
Palm-Fist Tap | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d1111c08 | comment |
Palm-Fist Tap: Robin does this quite often, usually accompanied by a "Holy ____!" exclamation. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d1111c08 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d1b4f0ef | type |
Everybody Lives | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d1b4f0ef | comment |
Everybody Lives: The only exceptions are "Smack in the Middle," "A Death Worse Than Fate", and possibly "The Bookworm Turns" as well as Batman: The Movie. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d1b4f0ef | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d22af219 | type |
Domino Mask | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d22af219 | comment |
Domino Mask: Robin wears one, as do some criminals (Riddler, Catwoman). | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d22af219 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d22af219 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_d22af219 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d25b27c3 | type |
Criminal Amnesiac | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d25b27c3 | comment |
Criminal Amnesiac: King Tut, owing to a simple blow to the head. Unlike most cases of this, the "good" identity knows what happens when bumped on the noggin and takes steps to avoid it...not that it helps. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d25b27c3 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: Death bee beehive trip wire. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d2c0e2ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d2c0e2ed | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d332bf54 | type |
Lampshaded | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d332bf54 | comment |
Also Lampshaded in the beginning of the second season. After the customary near escape, Robin exclaims that this time, he was really worried. Batman replies that he himself was not scared one bit. Robin concludes that they must be smarter than the criminals. Batman says that he prefers to believe it's because they're pure at heart. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d332bf54 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d394829d | type |
Frivolous Lawsuit | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d394829d | comment |
This trope is deconstructed in the pilot episode when the Riddler makes a Frivolous Lawsuit for a million dollars after he cleverly tricks the Dynamic Duo into falsely arresting him. Batman will have to reveal his Secret Identity in court, ruining his Super Hero career. The plan would have worked, too! Riddler goes missing and is presumed dead before the court date! | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d394829d | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d3b02ffb | type |
I Know Your True Name | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d3b02ffb | comment |
The ice skater Glacia Glaze (one of Mr. Freeze's molls) was born "Emma Strunk" and is outraged and humiliated when Batman mentions the name as she's being arrested. Lola Lasagne, the Extra Special Guest Villainess from Penguin's second season three appearance, is a similar case in that she was born Lulu Schultz, but changed her name upon her short-lived marriage to Luigi Lasagne. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d3b02ffb | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_d3b02ffb | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d51263b9 | type |
Fake Shemp | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d51263b9 | comment |
Fake Shemp: Dr. Cassandra springs Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, King Tut, and Egghead from prison to form her criminal gang. This being the low-budget third season, all are played by stand-ins, nobody's face is shown clearly, and none of them have any dialogue (though audio clips of Riddler's maniacal giggling and Penguin's squawking are recycled from earlier episodes). On top of that, they're all given pills which turn them invisible...and then the episode's Batfight takes place mainly in the dark. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d51263b9 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_d51263b9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d7b34c31 | type |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Miss Iceland from Green Ice / Deep Freeze is never addressed by her real name. She just might have been the inspiration for the Ice Princess in Batman Returns, who is also never referred to by name, even on the TV news. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d7b34c31 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d842e380 | type |
Love Redeems | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d842e380 | comment |
Love Redeems: Batman really wants to use Catwoman's feelings for him to turn her good. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d842e380 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d842e380 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d842e380 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d87ed408 | type |
Short Teens, Tall Adults | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d87ed408 | comment |
Short Teens, Tall Adults: Teen sidekick Robin (played by 5'7" Burt Ward) is towered over by most adult characters, including Batman (played by 6'2" Adam West), The Joker (6'3" Cesar Romero) and even Catwoman (5'11" Julie Newmar). | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d87ed408 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d87ed408 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_d87ed408 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d8d22bb0 | type |
Dutch Angle | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d8d22bb0 | comment |
Dutch Angle: Used extensively. The wall-climbing scenes were filmed at an angle to make them look convincing. Meanwhile, the scenes set in villains' hideouts were filmed at an angle to emphasize how "crooked" the criminals were. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d8d22bb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d8d22bb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d8d22bb0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The citizens of Gotham City were pretty blasé. The Batmobile could screech to a halt in front of City Hall and the Caped Crusaders dash up the steps in their colorful costumes without so much as a second glance from passersby. Even looking out a window and finding Batman and Robin walking up the side of your building was treated as routine. Then again, given how often they climb buildings... | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d99a228f | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Averted in several more episodes where instead of standing around, a moll runs away during the fight, or at least tries to. | |
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| Batman (1966) / int_d9cf40fa | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_d9cf40fa | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9d8fd35 | type |
Battle Butler | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
Alfred, at the end of "Flop Goes the Joker!" Not only does he single-handedly beat the Joker at Wayne Manor while demonstrating his fencing skills, he also gives the Joker his most humiliating defeat (see Humiliation Conga, above.) | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9d8fd35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9d8fd35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) | hasFeature |
Batman (1966) / int_d9d8fd35 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9e9ad7e | type |
The Cavalry | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
On a handful of occasions they do try to be proactive and occasionally get to act as The Cavalry, but it's generally agreed that their competence had gone right into the gutter by season three. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_d9e9ad7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_d9e9ad7e | |
| Batman (1966) / int_da4300b9 | type |
Mayor Pain | |
| Batman (1966) / int_da4300b9 | comment |
Mayor Pain: While Mayor Linseed is rarely seen doing much (or seen, period), he's generally painted as not much more competent than Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara. In Season 3 he replaces Gordon with Special Guest Villainess Nora Clavicle, who's much, much worse than Gordon. The Penguin promises to be this if he's elected Mayor, threatening to replace Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara with Riddler and Joker. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_da4300b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_da4300b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Batman (1966) / int_da4300b9 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db08fb56 | type |
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db08fb56 | comment |
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: In "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill," Batgirl says this to Catwoman after she chases her into a dressing room; naturally, that's Catwoman's cue to appear behind her and capture her. | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db08fb56 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman (1966) / int_db08fb56 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_db08fb56 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db2f3581 | type |
All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys While Batman and Robin are only ocassionally seen romancing anyone (and usually in their civilian identities), many of the male villains are usually accompanied by sexy female assistants, and the fact that they're more than "just friends" is not always very subtle. Inverted with Catwoman. It's heavily implied the duo both have interest in her, at least until Eartha Kitt took over the role and the studio overruled Adam West's wishes to continue. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_db2f3581 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db38d6ca | type |
Torture Technician | |
| Batman (1966) / int_db38d6ca | comment |
Torture Technician: Parodied (?) when Mr. Freeze lowers Miss Iceland body’s temperature, convinced that she will fall in love with him when she hits fifty degrees below zero. When that fails, he subjects her to Harmless Freezing. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_db38d6ca | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Often, the Dynamic Duo escape deathtraps not by anything they did, but by simple pure luck. The Joker has the pair locked into a truck in electric chairs with a slot machine that will deliver 50,000 volts of electricity when it hits three lemons. Just as the third is about to hit, Gotham City is hit by a massive blackout. A passing cop car scares off the Joker and his goons, and the officers free Batman and Robin. Catwoman has them strapped down under huge magnifying glasses that will focus the sunlight onto their bodies and burn them alive. By chance, a solar eclipse comes about, giving Batman the chance to knock one glass aside so when the sun comes back, it will burn through their bonds. Semi-justified in that the episode's intro has Bruce and Dick looking at the eclipse and discussing it, so it doesn't come completely out of nowhere. | |
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1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dc579c91 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_dc579c91 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd3d1f69 | type |
Wicked Witch | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd3d1f69 | comment |
Wicked Witch: Marsha's sidekick, Aunt Hilda (Estelle Winwood). | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd3d1f69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd3d1f69 | featureConfidence |
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Batman (1966) / int_dd3d1f69 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd6ce5db | type |
Artistic License | |
| Batman (1966) / int_dd6ce5db | comment |
Artistic License: Quite a bit was taken (who are we kidding? all the artistic license was taken) with Pengy's gold tank from "Penguin's Disastrous End", all pretty much absolved because the show runs on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny, and let's face it, a solid gold tank rumbling down the street with a tophat-wearing supervillain, a villainess wearing all the diamonds in the turret and a witch gleefully firing off the main gun is both of those in spades...: Artistic License – Physics: Gold is extremely heavy and malleable. Building a tank out of pure gold would have had a number of problems, including the tank not being that bulletproof and it either collapsing under its own weight or collapsing the streets it was driving on, and that's before we get into the problems with having a solid gold BFG that can fire real shells...; Artistic License – Engineering: To build the tank (a replica of a M5 Stuart — in reality, a real M5 painted with gold paint note on the outside, they didn't bother to paint the interior hatches and areas where they'd show on camera, spoiling the illusion a bit) would have needed advanced machining tools and infrastructure above the one acyteline torch they brought in. Also, they would have needed high-temperature crucibles to even melt the gold in the first place; Artistic License – Cars: Well, engines at the very least — where exactly did Pengy get the gas to run the tank's engine? Also, Aunt Hilda looked like she was firing the main gun from the bow machine gunner's compartment, not the turret. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_dd6ce5db | |
| Batman (1966) / int_e0aced16 | type |
Giggling Villain | |
| Batman (1966) / int_e0aced16 | comment |
Giggling Villain: Strangely enough, The Riddler more so than The Joker. This is the portrayal on which Jim Carrey based his own performance of the Riddler. | |
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Batman (1966) / int_e0aced16 | |
| Batman (1966) / int_e1636077 | type |
Schrödinger's Canon | |
| Batman (1966) / int_e1636077 | comment |
Schrödinger's Canon: Which of the continuations, if any, are actually canonical with the TV show? The comics, the the two animated films, the Legends of the Superheroes specials, and Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) all conflict with each other in some way or another. | |
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Descended Creator | |
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Descended Creator: The No Indoor Voice narrator was executive producer William Dozier (billed as "Desmond Doomsday" on the show's soundtrack album). | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy: Batman (played by 6'2" Adam West) and Robin (5'7" Burt Ward) can qualify as this, but it's most prominent in the case of Catwoman (5'11" Julie Newmar) and her one-time henchgirl, Pussycat (5'2" Lesley Gore), even more exaggerated by Newmar wearing heels and Gore being in flats. | |
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Bash Brothers | |
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Bash Brothers: Batman and Robin, even more so in this adaptation than in most. This trope could have easily been called "Dynamic Duo." | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: The Batman '66 comic series essentially does this when False Face is revealed to be Basil Karlo and gets turned into this universe's Clayface. Two-Face's real name is Harvey Dent, but the script was based on Paul Sloane's first appearance, resulting the character in "The Lost Episode" being an amalgamation of the two. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: The series's use of exaggeration and straight-faced absurdity popularized the use of the term in the mass media. | |
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Expy | |
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For the most part, Gotham City seems to be New York under an assumed name. It seems to be in Gotham State and is adjacent to New Guernsey. It has a Queen of Freedom statue which is an Expy for the Statue of Liberty. Gotham's Mayor Linseed is an expy for New York City's Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966-73), and the state's chief executive Governor Stonefellow is a pun on New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (1959-73). Establishing shots of the city are often Stock Footage of recognizable New York locations like Central Park or the Flatiron Building. But there's also evidence pointing to alternate locales, and at least one reference to New York as another, separate, city from Gotham. | |
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Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': The Penguin, acting as a respected restaurateur as part of a Falsely Reformed Villain scheme, has considerable difficulty when he actively tries to get thrown in prison so that he can consult an expert forger criminal colleague. (Although this is because Batman recognizes that he's trying to get sent to prison and convinces the cops not to arrest him.) When he finally succeeds in getting sent to prison, the criminal he wanted to hook up with gets released. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: It is (almost) always "Stately Wayne Manor". There is one exception: in "Penguin's a Fink," it is just called Wayne Manor. In "Fine Finny Fiends"/"Batman Makes the Scenes," even the surveillance camera monitor for stately Wayne Manor is labelled "Stately Wayne Manor." | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
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Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup have no villain names at all, although they hardly need them. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil Bizarrely, male and female criminals are kept in the same prison, and sometimes even in the same cell blocks! The latter does not go unremarked by Batman in the "Ma Parker" episode, though by that point, Ma Parker had taken over the prison. A few of the villains are pretty enlightened in their treatment of the molls. The Archer's girl, Maid Marilyn, wears pants, speaks in a butch voice (although she's still quite pretty), and serves as the gang's truck driver! | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: In one episode, the Joker disables Batman and Robin's utility belts, then asks if they're good swimmers. He locks the pair in a tight metal chamber and promises that, if they can stay afloat for an hour, they're free to go. Then the Clown Prince of Crime's goons begin filling the chamber...with toxic gas. As the Joker points out, he never said that he was going to flood the tank with water! | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Many of the female villains, but especially Catwoman. | |
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Rousseau Was Right | |
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Rousseau Was Right: In the Election Day Episode, Batman has to run against the Penguin for Mayor of Gotham City. In that campaign, the Penguin uses every dirty trick and theatrical tactic he can to popularize himself and lure the electorate to his side, while Batman runs a quiet, boring, unpopular campaign. On election day, with the poll numbers showing a dismal result for Batman, the Caped Crusader refuses to give up hope with a firm belief that the votes will vindicate him. All his allies treat this as naïve Stupid Good, especially when the early results have the Penguin on his way to victory. However, the full voter turnout turns out to be firmly in Batman's favor, winning by a commanding margin. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: This happens quite a lot to several characters throughout the course of this show. The Dynamic Duo are often tied up during the cliffhangers, although they're gagged only a few times. After being introduced at the beginning of the third season, Batgirl is tied up (while sometimes being gagged) quite a few times as well. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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The comic has had a crossover sequel to The Green Hornet episode by Kevin Smith, and a crossover with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by regular writer Jeff Parker. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: The Penguin is shown at a table in a nightclub scene in an episode of The Monkees, and 40 years later in a Family Guy episode for a nuns/penguins joke. The series itself had a two-part crossover with The Green Hornet. Most notably, at the end of Part 2 of the crossover, Batman and Robin square off against The Green Hornet and Kato. The fight ends on Bruce Lee whooping the ever-loving shit out of Burt Ward...I mean: a "tie"... The comic has had a crossover sequel to The Green Hornet episode by Kevin Smith, and a crossover with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by regular writer Jeff Parker. The comic has also crossed over with the old '60s spy series The Avengers (1960s), though renamed to "John Steed and Mrs. Peel" to avoid trademark issues, as there is another franchise called "The Avengers," and the owner of that mark wouldn't be particularly willing to share with DC... | |
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Big Electric Switch | |
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Big Electric Switch "King Tut's Coup." King Tut throws a switch to lower Batman (who's in a sarcophagus) into a pool of water using an unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism. "The Cat and the Fiddle." Catwoman throws one to turn off an elevator so Batman can't easily reach a high floor in a building. "The Joker's Hard Time." The Joker uses one to drop a net over the Dynamic Duo. "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill." One of Catwoman's henchmen throws one to activate the pattern cutter saw that is supposed to slice Batgirl in half. "The Duo is Slumming." One of the Puzzler's henchmen pulls one to activate a shower of balloons on the Dynamic Duo, which allows the Puzzler and his henchmen to escape. "A Riddle A Day Keeps The Riddler Away." One of the Riddler's henchmen throws a switch to drop a net on Batman and Robin, and one is later thrown to start the spinning Death Traps to kill the Dynamic Duo. "A Piece of the Action." Colonel Gumm throws an electric switch to activate the machine that will turn the Green Hornet and Kato into giant stamps. "Scat! Darn Catwoman" When Commissioner Gordon tries to trace the Batphone line to the Batcave, Batman throws three electric switches to activate Diversionary Batphone Lines to thwart the trace attempts. Just before a fight between the Dynamic Duo and the villains, Batman throws an electric switch to turn on the lights in the room. "The Catwoman Goeth". After Catwoman sends Robin into a maze, she flips a large electric switch to activate the electrical traps in the maze. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Batman figures out that Commissioner Gordon has been replaced by False Face when he wipes his face with the wrong hand. | |
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Slouch of Villainy | |
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Slouch of Villainy: Catwoman is always lounging around instead of sitting up straight, no matter the situation. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: The attitude taken by almost every guest villain toward the criminal lifestyle, even those who are traditionally grim or loners in the comics. Even Mr. Freeze, the most tragic of the TV villains, enjoys the fine life now and then | |
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List of Transgressions | |
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In the classic form of List of Transgressions, the list of Joker and Catwoman’s crimes includes “overtime parking.� | |
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No Seat Belts | |
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No Seat Belts: That was an early criticism about the show, with the Dynamic Duo never belting up in the Batmobile in the early episodes. Considering that kind of car safety feature was still relatively new, the producers thought the heroes taking the time to belt themselves would be funny enough to fit their goodie two-shoes shtick and later included a quick scene of them doing so in the car. As it happens, the joke's effect was lost and the show was praised widely for encouraging the use of such an important auto safety function. | |
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Sideways Smile | |
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Sideways Smile: The semi-animated opening credits feature one of the characters doing this. | |
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Artistic License – Cars | |
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Artistic License – Cars: Well, engines at the very least — where exactly did Pengy get the gas to run the tank's engine? Also, Aunt Hilda looked like she was firing the main gun from the bow machine gunner's compartment, not the turret. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: Despite living in Wayne Manor, Aunt Harriet has no idea the Batcave is under it or that Bruce and Dick are Batman and Robin. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Mr. Freeze as played by Eli Wallach. | |
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Cats Have Nine Lives | |
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Cats Have Nine Lives: Catwoman dies on two occasions, including her very first appearance because she considered her loot more important than her life. The second time is when she willingly falls to her death when she realizes a life with Batman as his wife would be impossible. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Chandell (Liberace)note or, technically, Chandell's Evil Twin brother, being savvier than your average criminal mastermind, has a trio of female henchmen. When it comes time for Batman and Robin to fight the male Mooks, the women do everything they can to get between the Dynamic Duo and the mooks. Batman and Robin have to pull their punches to avoid hitting the women, leaving them open to the mooks' attacks. | |
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Billions of Buttons | |
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Billions of Buttons: Devices in the Bat-cave have tons of buttons on them. | |
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Not My Driver | |
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Not My Driver: Egghead does this to Bruce Wayne in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." | |
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MoodKiller | |
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Mood Killer: Episode "The Bat's Kow Tow" concludes with Batman and Catwoman almost kissing when Robin, offscreen, shouts out something along the lines of "C'mon, Batman! The police are here!" Catwoman, in a contained fury, grumbles, "Boy Blunder!" | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Batcave gets invaded by quite a few villains over the course of the series (the Joker even manages to smuggle a bomb in there once). Stately Wayne Manor is likewise paid many visits by the criminal set, though fortunately none of them ever put the two together (except King Tut. Thank goodness for Easy Amnesia, eh?) | |
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Never Found the Body | |
| Batman (1966) / int_f516f938 | comment |
Characters could and did die in the early days. In the first episode alone, Bruce makes two references to his parents being murdered, the Riddler's henchwoman Molly is vaporized after falling into a nuclear reactor, and the Riddler himself appears to have been blown up at the two-parter's climax (though of course he returned as good as new about a month later). A few weeks later, in "A Death Worse Than Fate," two gangsters with tommy guns, having prepared an ambush for Batman and Robin, are tricked into shooting each other. We don't see any blood, but the Egyptian mummy casings in which they've been hiding both keel over, assuring us that they're good and dead. In "Instant Freeze," Mr. Freeze apparently kills a servant of Princess Sandra, who tries to stop him from stealing the Princess's precious diamond. However, in the next episode, they reveal that the unfortunate guy managed to survive somehow. | |
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"On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase | |
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"On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase "Same bat-time...same bat-channel!" Episodes featuring Catwoman altered the phrase to "Same cat-time...same cat-channel!" In Shame's first appearance, it was "Shame time...shame channel!" The cliffhanger of the Minstrel episode had the Dynamic Duo roasting on a spit. The line became "Same hot-time...same hot-channel!" | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fa6bfde9 | comment |
Have a Gay Old Time: In "The Joker Trumps an Ace," Joker labels his van as "Let Gayfellow Take You To The Cleaners!" to disguise it. Obviously 'gay fellow' was meant to be a pun on the Joker's cheerful nature, but given that his actor was a "confirmed bachelor," it can make one chuckle. | |
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Tranquillizer Dart | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fb1327b2 | comment |
Tranquillizer Dart: "The Ring of Wax." The Riddler takes down Batman and Robin with anesthetic darts fired from a blowgun. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fbba5e98 | comment |
Gadgeteer Genius Batman, probably even more so than his modern counterparts. Batgirl has an impressive repertoire as well. Not to mention the fact that all the villains can get their hands on or design weird gadgets and assemble deathtraps. The Joker in particular has this as a gimmick. A few of his plots involve some new invention of his, such as a box that controls time and a way to emulate an alien invasion. The Penguin is this, but only with umbrella-themed devices. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Gold is extremely heavy and malleable. Building a tank out of pure gold would have had a number of problems, including the tank not being that bulletproof and it either collapsing under its own weight or collapsing the streets it was driving on, and that's before we get into the problems with having a solid gold BFG that can fire real shells...; | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Strongly enforced at all times (hence the lack of a Batfight in "Zelda The Great" and "Nora Clavicle And The Ladies' Crime Club"). In addition, Batgirl could neither throw nor receive punches (But nobody said anything about kicks). There was one exception to this: Batgirl took several punches in one fight... against Dr. Cassandra's invisible henchmen. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Aunt Harriet is often incorrectly thought to be a Canon Immigrant, but she was introduced in 1964, replacing the dead Alfred (he got better.) | |
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Gallows Humor | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fcd9b657 | comment |
Gallows Humor: Surprisingly enough, this happens in "An Egg Grows in Gotham," during the Bat-climb scene, no less. As Batman and Robin climb down the building, a jury foreman note Bill Dana, playing his famous Hispanic character Jose Jiminez sticks his head out the window and informs them that they've almost decided on a criminal's sentence. A few seconds later, he pokes his head back out, and asks the Dynamic Duo, "Can you leave the rope?" | |
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Trrrilling Rrrs | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fd4a9c9d | comment |
Trrrilling Rrrs King Tut. The Joker, particularly when he enunciates "Batman and Robin" (probably due to the fact that the actor playing him was Hispanic). Catwoman purrs hers, especially when Eartha Kitt plays herrrrr. Lord Ffogg also has a propensity for this. | |
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Master of Disguise | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: False Face. Joker is described as such in his first appearance. He uses it later to good advantage, imitating a rich, corpulent Maharajah. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fdf22cfd | comment |
Evil Is Hammy: Perhaps no Batman incarnation defines this trope as much as this series. Everybody, from the heroes to the villains to the innocent bystanders, are ham sandwiches, but it's the villains that invariably chew the most scenery. The Joker is Laughing Mad with extra laughing, and a side of Trrrilling Rrrs for good measure. The Riddler goes through fiendish schemes like a kid in a candy store, even managing to out-ham the Joker! And where to even begin with King Tut, who has No Indoor Voice at all? | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Batman (1966) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: In "Pop Goes The Joker," Dick notices the Batpole signs are missing, as Alfred has removed them for repainting. "In "Flop Goes The Joker," Alfred traps Joker in the Batpoles after a Hostage Situation at Wayne Manor when he accidentally goes into Bruce's studio and finds the button in Shakespeare's bust. Not only are the signs still not there, but Alfred deactivates the automatic Bat costume change mechanism, preserving the Dynamic Duo's secret identity. From the same two-part episode, Bruce mentions The Man Who Laughs before the opening credits. Later, that's the only painting that Joker doesn't damage at the art gallery. | |
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Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"! | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ff5b39d0 | comment |
Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: West's Batman is unusually susceptible to this, since unlike his cross-continuity brethren, he's a public figure who needs a sterling reputation. In "Pop Goes The Joker/Flop Goes The Joker," Joker calls Batman "chickenhearted" for letting Robin show up alone to rescue hostages and later talks smack about him with Batman listening behind him and Gordon on the line. Leads to a Crowning Moment of Funny with the Joker Out-Gambitted and utterly humiliated. Similar taunts lead to Batman's (reluctant) participation in both the boxing match in "Ring Around the Riddler" and the infamous surfing contest from "Surf's Up! Joker's Under!" Batman actually uses this tactic on Shame in "The Great Train Robbery" after all other ways to find Shame's gang have failed. | |
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Villainesses Want Heroes | |
| Batman (1966) / int_ffa5e87d | comment |
Villainesses Want Heroes: Catwoman got's it bad for Batman, to the point where she'd give up being a criminal if he would marry her. Sadly, her desire to murder Robin (out of jealousy, perhaps?) put the cork in that proposal. | |
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