Batman The Animated Series | REACTION | Episodes 3 & 35
Added 2024-03-28 04:27:13 +0000 UTCI always get excited to see Poison Ivy in any version
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So I think next month, presuming you're going to hit all the "pilot" recommendations again, I'm gonna go with the comedy special I mentioned. If not... I may still put it forward, or I may go back to the next episode of "Life"? We'll see how I feel. I'm not sure a great copy of "Man on the Moon" exists on youtube (I've seen a few but the quality is middling, and the final joke is cutoff a little early)... I may just give you access to a gmail google drive I have with it (and various other movies) on it... if I can partition it off safely, I may just post it here for everybody to use, why not? (Akira, Aladdin, Batman '89, The Big Lebowski, Blades of Glory, Brian Regan - CCP (I guess I'll have to swap that out for "Man on the Moon"?), Brick, Burn After Reading, Ernest Scared Stupid, GI Joe: the Movie, Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lucky Number Slevin, PoolHall Junkies, The Princess Bride, Ravenous, Superbad, The Big Bounce, Walk Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Zoolander)
Eric
2024-03-30 05:57:14 +0000 UTCDeciding upon the 2nd episode was harder. Lots of great choices; "Heart of Ice" being only the 3rd episode of all-time, I thought about choosing an episode later in the series when the writers and voice actors had more of a handle on what the show was and who the characters were... but it's widely regarded as one of the best episodes - really impressive to be that good pretty much right out of the gate... it's an iconic story that became the definitive Dr. Fries origin story (he was really pretty generic/boring before that episode made him a much more interesting, nuance, sympathetic character)... interestingly, Mark Hamill wasn't yet voicing the Joker, he actually voiced the slimy businessman who sabotaged Dr Fries' project (I forget the dude's name, not gonna look it up). I'm glad you enjoyed it; I was pretty confident you would. I'm honestly not a huge Batman fan - nor a big Tim Burton fan - but Batman '89 and even more this cartoon is just such a favorite of mine... the soundtrack, the characters and stories, the tone and animation style, just iconic.
Eric
2024-03-30 05:52:27 +0000 UTCSo... "Almost Got 'Im" was an obvious choice, to me. It's just so fun, all the big villains get to have their moment so it's a great one to watch if you aren't going to watch the whole series, or even just a whole season (I think I'd like us to get you to watch the first 3 seasons - the 4th was by a different studio, different writers, voice actors... it is "technically" the 4th season but it just has no continuity to the first 3, so... skip it - at some point... but no big rush on it). The Two Face puns in particular are great, that Harley Quinn rimshot is an iconic GIF, Catwoman as an anti-hero even full-on hero in this ep... I love Killer Croc's "...it was a BIG rock" (even though it's not Croc)... and the shadow revealing Croc-as-Batman is fucking amazing, what an incredible visual. Might be the most fun episode of the show.
Eric
2024-03-30 05:42:38 +0000 UTCThis was quite the treat. A couple of great episodes of an all time classic show. Fun fact about our beloved Harley Quinn: She was actually created for this show then eventually adapted to the comic books. It is kinda fitting that you checked out these episodes because some of the characters shown in these episodes are going to come into play within the next few episodes of Harley Quinn (besides the characters we've already seen; obviously😅)
David Cleveland
2024-03-28 07:15:09 +0000 UTC
