[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚‍♀️ #044 - Batman

Nicholson. Keaton. Prince. The year is 1989. Bruce Wayne is buying kooky life-sized collectible figurines from other cultures, Alfred's primary objective is to coerce his master into monogamy, Joker's worst crime is his dress sense and Commissioner Gordon is the symbol of blundering incompetence Gotham deserves. So begins our four-film Burton/Schumacher Batman journey. It's gonna be a loooong, dark knight. Discussed in this episode: Studios feeling the need to commission new, awful cover art for their physical releases instead of re-using the awesome original art they already have The most dry-retchingly sickening single-movie actor salarie$$$s Adam West Batman's origin story Compulsory gangster attire, to be worn for all secret missions The still-to-be-perfected smoke-bomb disappearing trick. (Doesn't work if you escape vertically and move outside the smoke screen) Alfred's desperate, line-crossing advocacy for Vicki Vale, culminating in a termination-worthy breach of security Pearl Alley - home to the most valuable slab of cement in Gotham Gotham Villain Services © Joker's impossible chemistry skills, which, if put to the use of good instead of genocide, could cure every disease and save the universe This film's connection to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Aliens Batman's incredible power of giant-toxic-gas-balloon-extraction forethought Batman mouth acting The mystery as to when exactly Joker figured out that Batman = Bruce Wayne Batman dipping a toe into the pool of cold-blooded murderer. Then diving in headfirst and discovering he has gills. (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 05:10) [Correction: @ 3:05 Joe says Batman Forever but he means Batman & Robin. A common symptom of the titles making more sense the other way round]