Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series - Perchance to Dream

Bobs Batman voice is second only to his Frasier!

Matthew Hansen

That’s a Maltese Falcon reference, Bob! Not Casablanca! It wasn’t paaaaaaaarrrrt!!!!

Man so many Batman poddy episodes 😵‍💫 You're spoiling us mi Lord!

David Louis

I just got it when Bob was going over the plot but capper building = hatter building. Such obvious tells but you miss them sometimes on first viewing.

Burt Stanton

Coincidentally I had a dream last night where I wasn’t reading exactly, but I was debugging code. There seemed to be clear concepts and some syntax I had to interpret on the screen, although it was all mixed together incoherently. And even though there were some words, it’s probably more accurate to view them as symbols that my brain reproduced instead of actual reading, since the code itself was ALL LIES!!!

Scott Scallion

One of my favorite episodes, I watched it again last weekend, this time I noticed the jewelry store has the dream gibberish above it a full five plus minutes before the reveal. Selina's glove-drop move almost has to be out of a 1940's movie, it's such a specific piece of animation. Hatter is clearly the villain from the title card, but when I first saw the ep on TV, I hadn't seen his first episode and didn't recognize his theme, so I was completely thrown by it as a kid. Y'all already touched on the Freudian stuff with Catwoman voicing his mom, but I think his rejection of the dream world isn't just that he doesn't want to be happy, it's that he'd be fundamentally unhappy as Bruce Wayne, billionaire. I recently read an old Earth 2 story where Batman tells the story of how he got in a relationship with Catwoman, and one of the most interesting parts was he goes to a wedding and is mingling with other rich people and absolutely *hates* it, and he thinks to himself how he's become trapped in this alter ego he made up to mine police and society connections, which is part of what causes him to admit his love for Catwoman and move on with his life. Obviously the Earth 1 Batman has to be 30 years old until the end of time, so he can't grow up, but I think this story is getting at the fact that subconsciously, Bruce wouldn't want a frivolous life and is happier having a purpose. And I've definitely never read anything in a dream. My dreams are basically just poorly plotted movies, so sometimes someone will be in a library with their face over a book, but that's about it.

Chris Dobson

I’ve carried that “You can’t read in a dream” line with me to this day despite, in retrospect, the entire premise being based on erroneous pop culture interpretations of brain lateralization (and I think I’ve had dreams where I’ve read things, to boot). Ah well, still a great moment.

SomeBloke

my fave BTAS episode

Frank Grimes

However, the VR helmet was on top of Batman’s masked head, so maybe they can’t take his mask off perhaps? - Henry

Talking Simpsons

So the Hatter could have unmasked Batman at any point when he was dreaming, but just...didn't

Tyler