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...roop. We're taking a look at the feature film outing of Batman and Robin from 1966. Just a fart. But if there was a custard pie fight in a Batman movie, they wouldn't use their batterangs.
They'd use batter meringues. And if that's not what you want to hear, you probably should switch off now. Yeah, I would if I would. My name's Colin and, gosh, drinking sure at filthy fingers, isn't it?
I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes. I did it one of us was going to do it. I had that one written down as well. I thought you were going to do it before me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My name's Paul and I had the strangest feeling down my boat to be utterly and madly carried away. In the box? I'll just...
Well, hopefully not yet. But... I think about a bit of what? 20 years in me?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I believe that, uh... I don't want to be the person of bad news, but... I think I'm going to go on.
Oh, right. OK. IMDB says the dynamic duo faces false supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people. Oh, a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
It must be Vt, one of your special park shops, Paul. You never let that go, do you? You never let that go. First I mentioned on the podcast, though.
That is probably true. And people are wondering, what is this thing about this pork chop now? It's a euphemism. It is.
We'll leave it hanging. Oh, you do? It's grizzled and shriveled up, wasn't it, Colin? Yep, it was.
Yeah. 1966 was a big year for removal of body fluids and chemicals in films and TV, because we also had the Stetraq episode, the Man Trap, that same year, which was about salt monster. That's right, yes, it was. I always forget.
I haven't been feeling that was a thing in the 60s about removing parts of the body of that way. Well, if it was, what a strange idea. Maybe catch on. People are just curious about the chemicals.
Possibly, or maybe it was just... maybe there was just lots of fluid being removed from bodies in the 60s. There were lots of chemicals being taken. There's lots of stuff going in.
A lot of stuff coming out. That's right. So Batman stars Adam West as Batman, but Ward as Robin, the Mary Weber as the Catwoman, Caesar and Merrow as the Joker, Burgess Merida for the Penguin, Frank Garshan as the Riddler, Alan Napier's Alfred, Neil Hamilton as Commissioner Garden and Stafford Red, but it's Chief Ohara. It's a great cast.
It is. I'm curious if you know more about Batman than I do. Is this your favourite Catwoman? Lee Mary Weber is definitely my favourite one, yes.
I do like you, Lee Numa, who was the one that did it the most in the TV series. And Earth a Kit was very good as well. But I don't know, there's just something about Lee Mary weather in that suit. Oh, I'm trying to get out the clearing, you're a throat bit though.
It sounds really good. Little eight-year-old Paul. Oh, what are you doing with this? I'm starting from his, I'm either calling it.
Little eight-year-old Paul. Is that when you call it? Yes, yes. She is my favourite.
No other replaced Lee Mary, she had a back injury at the time. Yeah, I heard another story as well. Do you know who I didn't actually hear about the movie until after she signed up for another film? Oh, another film.
Another different film. And then unfortunately, that particular film fell through, it was abandoned. And then by that point it was too late because it already cast Lee Mary weather. Oh, that's not nice.
It's not, is it? You're going to be gutted, aren't you? Yeah. So they wanted to do a film to drive interest in the second series of the TV show?
Yeah, that's right. I think it was already, it was originally planned as a pilot. This script was going to be the pilot for the actual series. But then eventually it was decided to position it between the first and second seasons of the show.
I think that didn't 20 of Century Fox didn't really want to do it because of the budget size. And they would have to burden the whole cast with the TV series. They could spread it around. Yeah.
And I mean, you can really tell if you watch the TV series compared to this movie, you can tell that this is a movie. Yeah. It doesn't look like a TV episode. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. It's not, are you being served up to Spain? Unfortunately, it's not, no.
There's only one of those colors. Yeah. It was directed by Leslie H. Martinson.
Go on. He also, you know very well. You might not know the name, but you know him very well. Do I know him?
I don't know. He might be dead. Oh, we just killed him right back to life about two seconds. Well done, Paul.
That's a record for the podcast, isn't it? He's going to just kill him. Wait. Yeah.
Well, don't know about your personal life. Are you stalking now? No, you do know him. You might have his name.
He directed episodes of The Briggy Bunch, Manimal, Fantasy Island, Wolf, TJ Hooker, and many, many other classic 70s and 80s TV shows that's numerous to mention. So to continue with one of our catch raises, you know a wheelhouse? Oh, he's definitely a wheelhouse. Yeah.
What is a wheelhouse? So how do we keep the wheels? Oh, I guess it's it. Is it, I don't know about?
Yes. Oh, get technical now, aren't we? Yeah, it's where the wheel is. Yeah, it's where the wheel is.
It must be. It must be an article term. All right. But stay as the boat.
Yeah. You do steer a boat, don't you? You're okay. You were just trying to advise things steering wheel.
I could see it in your face. Yes. He was written by Lorenzo Simple Jr., who also wrote the movies The Three Days of the Condor. Nice.
Like that film. Yeah. The parallax of you. I kind of like that film.
It's not my favourite, the conspiracy frillers. It's very popular. I'm happy that you pronounced that one. That one.
No, it was good. We'll go then. Yeah. Flash Gordon.
Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. And never say never again. You can't win them all, can you?
No, well, that's a very varied career. It's very varied, isn't it? I can kind of understand why he was chosen to write Flash Gordon. Yes.
Yes. So can I, doesn't explain why he was chosen to do never say never again. But then, if you think about never say never again, that has got a very tongue in cheek attitude to it, hasn't it? I mean, you've got characters like what's the wronging acting some character called in that movie?
Is it something like small force it? Something like that, right? Yeah. Yeah.
So there you go. All right. Everybody knows about the Caesar and Mera having to refuse point blank to shave his mustache off so they had to cover it with makeup. I think that works better though.
It's funnier. It is. A lot of the time you don't even notice it anyway. Only like really close up shots.
Yeah. Yeah. Adam West stipulated that for this film that had to be more Bruce Wayne scenes. So we're requests?
Like what do you get out of there? He's not wearing a couple, is he? So he's facing the scream. Oh, got it.
Yep. Makes sense, right? I think in the middle of this movie where he's Bruce Wayne for quite a long time. I think he has two fights as Bruce Wayne as well, doesn't he?
He does, yeah. A little too much Bruce Wayne for my liking. You prefer him as Batman? Yeah.
Hi, that's face mate. Did you know that he was considered at one point for James Bond? Yeah, I did. Yeah.
But infernus, who wasn't? I know, that's true. You were in your line at one point, weren't you? Yeah.
Well, they didn't know I was their colleague. That was a problem. Oh, is that what he was? I just sneaked in.
I don't get it. I'm looking at him as Bruce Wayne in this and seeing him do the fight scenes. I can pitch him as a bit of a James Bond. It'd be very Roger Moore time, James Bond.
It would be more Roger, more Adam, Roger, more. It'd be more Roger. You can have a run with more Roger, can you? No.
I think we did that in the movie record episode. Oh, when does that stop to stop? I don't know. I'm sure we'll talk about Adam West's performance as we go on.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it later.
Well, one of the problems with this film is that you can't really pull anything apart from it because it's a silly film and it's meant to be silly. I know. That's what I can say. He's got cadence about the way he delivers his markings, hasn't he?
Yeah. I've always thought there's something very chateresque about Adam West's in Batman. Oh, can you imagine the two of them together in a film? I mean, oh, like the Persuaders kind of thing.
Oh, it would be great. And Western William Shatner. That would be amazing. You'd cream yourself, wouldn't you?
Oh, good. I've technically worked together. In what? There was a couple of animated Batman movies that they made a couple of years ago that continued the Batman TV show.
And when you're in the place, two face, those movies are really good, by the way. It's surprising you that. Yeah. I'm not surprised anything you pick up tangentially, Colin, you know.
Why did that sound rude? I don't know why. It was like I meant it to sound rude. No, I know you did.
But it just did. Yeah. Could you imagine it back in the 60s, though? They'd have got William Shatner to play two face and episode of Batman.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That would be good. That would have been amazing.
A sequel was planned, but it was abandoned because by that point the show's ratings with the decline. Oh, all right. It's a weird thing about the TV show because I always assumed that it went on for years, and it didn't. It was only three seasons.
Yeah, but the long seasons. Oh, the very long seasons. I think one season's got about 40 odd episodes of it. Yeah.
So that's probably why it felt it went on for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. It was a point when we were kids, and this was in the 80s where it was never not on television.
Yeah. Yeah. It's not like the Wumbles where that's always on, and then you find out the Zondi six episodes. That's a British thing, isn't it?
Yeah. Yeah. It's like faulty towers. Yeah.
I've had the engine. There's thousands of them. I've had the weird thing to pick out. I have all the engine.
I've popped into your head. Right. It always does. All right.
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Did you hear that apparently during the submarine fight at the end of the movie there was a stunt man that almost drowned? Oh really? Because clearly on a Fox studio set. That's right but apparently what happened was when he dived off the top of the submarine he hit his head on the bottom of the pool and patched out while under the water and didn't come back up and it was only when after about a minute passed and they thought oh he's not coming back up we're going to go and get him.
Wow. Yeah who just thought that someone almost died making this movie just to show you. And it was a strange incident around a film's premiere. It was supposed to premiere in Austin Texas on August 1st 1966 but it was postponed because earlier that day a student at the University of Texas climbed into the observation deck of the clock tower and killed 16 people with a rifle.
Oh yes I remember that incident well I don't mean I was going to be a bit of a bad guy. You're constantly like a tow traveler. It's a travel you didn't stop it. Wow.
You're the evil leaper is that what you're I could. Oh yeah evil leaper. I mean I'm to fall enough. That's why I could stop it.
I'm glad it was just your abs. Yeah so that was a weird one. Yeah. And just to say as well that how do you ever see a movie called Return to the Back Cave?
No. That's a movie that was made it was quite some time ago now. I think it was in the 90s or the early 2000s and it's that in West Burt Ward and Julie Neumeres themselves and I've actually got a copy of it here. I guess for our listeners Paul is showing me his knob.
I'll just I'll read you about the show me a copy of the TV. He's only available on DVD. You're not going to get this on the run. And I'll read you the back of it.
It says Batman series stars Adam Western Burt Ward reunite in a comedy adventure where they stumble upon a diabolical plot to steal the original Batmobile from a charity benefit while trying to unravel the details to find the Batmobile Western Ward flashback to the tumultuous times of those 60s television series to reveal a bizarre behind the scenes story of the creation of a television classic from the on the set explosions to the real life encounters with fans. So it's kind of a jokey story saying modern times and then it keeps coming back to kind of like a biopic about the making of the TV show with people playing them. I mean it sounds like a fan made thing but it's got the actual actors in it. That's right.
That's right. I don't think it was a fan like that. I think it was made for television. I think.
Yeah I would say it sounds like something of fun. Yeah it's interesting. It's fun. Alright so let's get on with the film.
Okay. We open with the 20th century Fox logo and then a search light gliding across messages chocked onto a brick wall acknowledgement we wish to express gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example. To the end man to lovers of adventure lovers of pure escapism lovers of unadulterated entertainment lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre two fun lovers everywhere this picture is respectfully dedicated then the searchlight reveals two lovers can noodle in a doorway before passing to another message and if we have overlooked any sizable groups of lovers we apologize the producers then the opening credits really begin. I can't think of a perfect way to open this film.
I mean that statement perfectly sums up what's going to be coming up doesn't it? Yeah I'll let you know where it's gonna go. Just a god little thing here the 20th century logo does this mean that this is the only DC movie that Disney now owns? Yeah I guess so.
I've changed isn't it? Yeah that is weird. Then the opening credits really begin each actor is outlined in a bright primary color and access that's been caught by the spotlight and the music is different from the show which uses a lot of the same underlying rhythms. It's very jazzy, chaotic, bigger, bolder, brazen.
It's not some riddle isn't it? Did he? Yes he did, color. Yeah it is.
Yeah it's great it's great music. I've got the soundtrack actually on vinyl. Have you? I'm fine.
I'm fine. I do like a bit of vinyl. I've told you this before. Yeah like rolling around on it don't know.
It's actually it's not a modern reproduction it's an old one from back then. We open up a shot of a ship and then Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson heading back to the house. We know this because the voice over tells us all. The artist is bringing a revolutionary scientific invention to Gotham City on a peaceful afternoon motor ride million in her Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward Dick Grayson having summoned back to Wayne Manor by an urgent but anonymous.
Called for help the invention and his custodian are reported to be in grave danger aboard the art. We see them jump onto the back poles down into the back gave, transforming into the superhero costumes along the way. They jump into the back car and power it up. It leaves the hidden exit.
I thought you were talking about it isn't? It's more hidden than where they keep the back back like they're in the room. At the back bar? Yes.
You can't deny that Adam Weston Burtwell can put you through themselves into this. Literally at times don't they? Well that's something I'm going to ask you. I noticed in the fight sequence there's no stunt doubles.
Which is weird because stunt doubles all the time in the TV show. But I'm pretty sure it's not here unless they're really good. You can see because there are times when it isn't them. There's some stuff coming up in a minute where Batman looks like he's aged about 30 years.
And so this is Robin. But I think that when the villains are fighting a lot of it isn't them because obviously some of them are quite old at this point. But yeah it is a lot of it is definitely Adam Weston. Yeah that's what I thought.
Robin calls the airport for the bat's copter to be prepared. Gotta tell you 1960s helicopters look like death traps don't they? It looks like something made out of mccarno doesn't it? Yeah I love how everything's got wings attached to it as well.
Yeah that's true yeah. I wonder if that made it worse to fly. I wouldn't imagine it helped. They jump onto the copter and take off a fly over the city.
People from below wave up at them. Policemen lower the hats in salute. The closing on the yacht. I do look another thing that I like is how it is so different than what we used to.
I mean kids today they looked at this and they've never seen this before. The idea of Batman that he's dark and he's buried in and he's a vigilante. In this mode is a Batman. He's fully deputised isn't he?
Yeah he has to say that later. Yeah when they're over the art they drop the bat ladder. Batman descends a ladder as a helicopter moves over the art. Batman tells Robin to ease off the power.
Suddenly the art vanishes. And Batman is dumped into the ocean. Robin flies a helicopter higher and his bat managed to drag down to the water. A shark grabs hold at a ladder.
Batman frantically punches it. Oddly the shark sounds rubber. But I've never punched a shark. That could be very well the sound they make.
I did tickle a trout once and they just giggle like a fat man in a round-treats fruit-gone factory. Where were you tickling trout? Where it likes it? Black bull.
Was that thing where they're doing like water ins? Oh I was just making it up. I know I have to ask out to... A stingray.
I know a stingray. Yeah yeah yeah I've done that as well. Because they sort of talk to you don't they? What?
Yeah. We used to smoke it. It was like oh pal. What a robot.
No I mean they look at you don't they? They sort of like a... So we did. Let's get back to Batman just going now.
You're doing fish faces. They don't talk to your pal. Ah I thought he was talking to me. Batman calls for Robin to bring down the shark repellent spray.
Who's job do you think is to label all these products? Albert. Robin's. Yeah it's going to be Robin's.
It keeps him busy. He keeps him off the streets. Yeah because you know he's not busy. You know what those teenagers are always doing don't you?
Yeah. Hanging upside down Robin's hands into spray. Batman gives the shark a dose of it. It lets go the ladder and when it hits the water it explodes.
The shark's blown. Oh. Oh no. We got to Batman giving a press conference with Commissioner Garden and the police chief Ohara.
The first reporter asks about the art simply vanishing but Batman says a yacht can't simply just disappear. The next reporter says that the boat was owned by Big Ben Distilleries and wasn't the owner of Commodore Schmidlach. Supposedly bringing a fantastic new invention above the art. Batman says no more questions about the art.
He could be a politician with these answers. He says a bit like a politician with the way he talks as well. Yeah. Then a lady steps forward.
She identifies herself as comrade Katanya Arrhenia Tatiena Carrenska alasov from the Musco Bugle. Creepy. Just Batman to take off his mask for a photograph. Everybody's horrified.
But Batman says it's impossible for him and Robin to remove their masks. They must retain their secret identities. Not even Ohara or Commissioner Garden know who they really are. These are real masks Paul.
Not the mask of civility that you hide behind. I don't. Not anymore. No.
We've pulled it off. I beg your pardon? Yeah. That's right.
Robin says even the relatives we live with don't know superhero identities does to reveal their lives with his relatives. That's true. I never thought of that. Speaking of relatives, did you know that apart from that time there was one shot where you see Aunt Harriet on the lawn with Alfred?
Yeah. She's not in a rest of the movie and she's got absolutely zero lines. Well, yeah. She imparted.
Well, she's in a lot of the TV show, isn't she? Oh, she is. I do another thing as well. Do they've got some police actually do anything in this city?
Well, we'll talk about that in a second. Okay. So she could present to Vigilantes but they deny this. They are fully depotised by law and support the police.
They call an end to the gathering. What was the point of this press conference? It was to give exposition to the audience. Colin, that was only really.
No, no other purpose. Well, actually, we're going to do a press conference where I'm not going to answer a single question. It's strange though, isn't it? But even though that's what it is, it's still so well written because it's got a little knowing wink to the audience that you know what we're doing.
We know what we're doing. Just go with it. It's fun. That's why Commissioner Garden says like, oh, you handled those press, you know, something like that.
It did a great press conference. And yeah, I wouldn't have thought second about it if I wasn't doing notes for a podcast. Yeah. Yeah.
They were just just a flumbar. After the press have left, Batman says that Commodore Schmittlach is in danger and that the whole yacht business was to lure Batman into a trap. In fact, the real yacht was someplace else being hijacked. Batman as a Commissioner, what known Super Criminals are at large now.
My TV set is revealed from behind the wall. The Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler, the Catwoman are all free right now. So yeah, does the police do anything because Gotham doesn't seem to be able to hold anybody in prison? And he's quite worrying that they didn't even know that these criminals were out on the street.
Except the world person is gathering the information. Is he not telling anybody? These shots actually of the criminals looking into the camera, they're all from the trailer that they made for it. You think the trailer's made from those shots?
No, they shot an actual they shot a special trailer. Oh, the shot. Because the trailer actually has Batman and Robin addressing the audience. Yeah, but I think they shot those bits and the other bits are from the film part.
No, no, I read that it was a special trailer shot. They filmed the trailer and then they cut the trailer bits into the film. Yeah. All right.
They run through who it could have been. What happened to Batman in the ocean was fishy, could be the Penguin. But Robin says it happened at sea sea for Catwoman, but it exploded shack with plenty's leg, the Joker. It all adds up to us.
It's the riddle. The Riddler. Like all these things are so purposefully bad. Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. It's not it's not. I was going to talk about this label. You think you take the Joel Shrewmaka movies, particularly Batman and Robin.
The best one. I know that's how you feel. I'm just joking. He's clearly going for this kind of vibe in those films.
He was trying to recreate the 60s TV show for a modern audience. But he doesn't work. And it doesn't work because that movie is played completely for laughs, whereas this movie, as ridiculous as it is, it's played completely straight. And the humour doesn't come from bad puns or stupid silly one-liners that people say.
The humour comes from the situation being completely outrageous and you're in on the gag. Right. Although there's one gag about when Robin that I could imagine working in a straight from the 60s TV show. It's the gag where Batman pulls out his back credit card and tries to pay for something.
That would have worked. I could imagine them doing that gag in this. Yeah. Yeah.
But that's why there's movie show work and this does. Right. The commissioner is horrified. Could it be older?
Have they joined forces? Batman tells Robin that they should hurry to the Batcave. He thinks he has a clue. We got to a dock.
Attack your eyes with Comrade Catania. She enters a reality bar in which a fight is taking place. I feel like there's just fights continuously in that bar just 24 hours a day, seven days. It looks like it.
He's kind of like a freaking out. Oh, it's just less sick. That's true. And I'm a sadie night.
I'm pretty much every night. She heads upstairs. One of her men greets her. Hello Catwoman.
She slaps it. How many times have I told you not to use my real name in public? She enters a room. Inside the joke is dancing in front of a mural that shows an octopus squeezing the life out of the world.
Around it is written today. Gotham City. Tomorrow. The world.
United. Underworld. It speaks straight. I got a cartoon, isn't it?
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. The riddler in Penguin are also there. Riddler is complaining about the Penguin shacks scheme not working.
They continue arguing. Catwoman throws a cat on the table. Scratch out their eyes. She says, the cat looks quite unimpressed by the whole of the idea.
I'll just say it's a cat. It doesn't again quite a few times in this film. That cat, doesn't it? Yeah.
Worst acting the whole thing. It's a cat though at the end of the day. I mean, you know, good luck. It's all I'm saying.
She marks them. United Underworld. We're about as united as a UN. It's agreed that they have to swallow their pride and hang together so they don't hang separately.
It's a nice line. It's a lot of good lines. Yeah. It's a good one.
Catwoman says her plan is going well. It's revealed that Kabunar Schmidt-Lap doesn't know he's been kidnapped. He just keeps asking for his tea. He thinks that he's fogbound on his ship and that the Joker bringing his tea just needs to get out of the sun a bit more.
He's a stereotypical British character, isn't he? Yes. Yeah. Although there is a worse one.
Towards the end of the film. Outside, one of those men is making fog-hole noises on a shell, using a flipper in a pan of water for water noises and moving a picture of the sea up and down. All very convincing. That's a cracking job, aren't you?
Oh, yeah. Dangle a flipper in a bit of water and pull a string and blow it on a whole day. Fantastic job. Would you not get tired?
It's a bit more than what you normally do. Oh, Colin, I walked into that one. I noticed the background of picture frames. None of them straight or something without pictures in it.
There's a lot of fog on into this. Yeah. Riddle is still fuming that Batman is still alive. Things get rid of him before the plan can progress.
Penguin orders a submarine to be made ready. Back at the Bat Cave, they realize that the yacht was an illusion of projection. And one of the photos that the Bat cop to snap they can see a bell boy are buoy, as are colonial cousins. Although they say boy in this.
Okay. Okay. I'll give a location for the projection. It's determined that the boy is an illegal one and they rush out to see if they're our fingerprints on it.
Although, why do any fingerprints if they've already decided who's behind it? Don't think about it. There's also some super bat typing as well, doesn't it? When they touch the computer?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Like Scotty and Sturti.
Yeah, there are attempts at realism whatsoever. No. They drive to a dock and jump onto the Bat boat, which just just considering that they're in Gotham City and it's like I've got all these super criminals running around. They just leave their boat tied up.
Yeah. As they roar through the waves, Robbie wants to know what happened to the real yacht. Batman surmises that it's taken to some secret hideaway, but he's not sure why they need Commodore Schmidt lap or his invention for their baffling scheme. Under the ocean, Penguin's submarine is traversing the deep depths.
Inside, they are still shouting at each other, but Penguin is the captain. In the water, he's in church. They are approaching the boy, but they identify small craft also approaching. They raise the periscope and see Batman and Robin climbing aboard the boy.
Batman just goes an underwater shout cage. Riddle was the fire topios. Penguin others unloaded. Batman just goes that salt corrosion has washed away any fingerprints, but they discover a loose screw on the panel.
He removes the panel and it reveals a powerful lens. But Batman spots the periscope. I had, as a kid, I had the corgi batmobile, the corgi, they came to set. It was a corgi batmobile, the corgi bat helicopter and the corgi batboat and it was all based on this film.
Oh, I had the batmobile. Everybody had that batmobile. They were little figures that fit in it. Oops.
Oh, sorry. I was in no grade in your yacht. Let's see. Hands up who stood next to the original batmobile.
After the next day, we've also been saying that A batmobile. We've also been saying that that car was everywhere. It was massive. Yeah.
It was about 162 scale or something. Doing a lot of work in interthings. I also like in this scene, you can see the creases in the fake sky. Bluray isn't coming to it.
Is it? No, that's true. Yeah. Well, Batman spots the periscope.
Penguin activates a magnet in the boy that locks Batman and Robin to its side by the metallic objects in the belt. Batman tries to pry loose his utility belt transmitter. Penguin fires the torpedoes. Robin sees the missile speeding towards him.
Batman tries to reverse the polarity using his transmitter. It works at the top. He explodes before reaching the Penguin fires another one. The Cape Crusaders transmitter destroys this one.
Another torpedo is fired. But the batteries in the transmitter are now dead. He can't stop it. The torpedo closes in.
Inside the submarine, we hear it explode. Penguin, Riddler and the Joker celebrate. They finally killed Batman and Robin. They raise the periscope to observe their victory.
But the Cape Crusaders are not there. And the boy is still intact. We see Batman and Robin speed away in their boat. It's revealed that a valiant power-poise threw itself into the old coming torpedo thus saving the lives.
It gave its life for theirs. I guess it gave propoys to each life. Oh, save my dolphin. Yeah.
It's great in it. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Why can't they just take their belts off? What can they just unhook the belt?
The belt would stay attached to it and they could just step out of their belt. The buckles are metal. The buckles are at the front. Yeah, but you can't lift it off because it's pushing against the stomach.
Oh, OK. Okay. Reverse the polarity of things is to go to solution for a lot of people in the especially in the 60s. Yeah, it is.
Back on the dark, Robin calls the Pentagon. The naval attaché is playing a bar game with his secretary. I think he's playing tingly wings, isn't he? Is it tingly wings?
They should have been playing battle ships. That would have been more sense, wasn't it? It's the only time that playing tingly wings with your secretary. Isn't it a euphemism?
He's playing tingly wings. Yeah. And behind them is a bin with classified waste written on it. So it's not just Batman that has labels on everything.
Everything's labeled in this universe. Yeah. Batman asked the naval attaché if they've sold any surplus submarines recently and they did last Friday to a man called P. N.
Gwyn. It does. It must be the riddler, right? So now they know that Penguin has access to a pre-atomic submarine.