I could actually see Christian Bale starring in an Adam West style Batman movie. Bale's pretty hammy as it is.
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No love for Eartha Kitt?
Adam West has love for her. On The Simpsons, he said the only one true Catwoman was Kitt, Newmar and Meriwether.
My favorite part is when they reason out that its all 4 villains. "It happened at sea! See? C for Catwoman!"
Except Egghead hadn't been created yet when the movie was made.
MeanJoePhaser
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Oddly enough the voice of The Brave and Bold Batman, Diedrich Bader, and Adam West once shared a t.v. show (though not appearing together!).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Theatre
(I was one of the few people who watched it.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Theatre
(I was one of the few people who watched it.)
I'd recommend that to fans of any era of Batman, since it manages to incorporate elements from all of them. Not just in terms of the characters it features; it manages to blend the colorful goofiness of the Silver Age (which the West sitcom was spoofing) with the more sophisticated storytelling of today, and on occasion it gets surprisingly dark (at least in contrast to the comics era it's mostly inspired by).
The main thing Meriwether had going for her was the way she writhed and caterwauled, which was probably sexier than you could've gotten away with on TV in 1967. In all other respects, Newmar reigns supreme.
Hey, that's a good catch! I watched that show too, but I didn't make the connection. Each was the lead of his own 15-minute segment, spoofing '70s action shows. That was the first show I saw Bader in.
Bader also played the lead in The Zeta Project, a spinoff of Batman Beyond, so he's shared episodes with two other Batmen, Kevin Conroy and Will Friedle. Friedle is the voice of the Blue Beetle, one of Batman's most frequent allies, in TB&TB. And Friedle acted opposite Adam West in a Kim Possible episode that was something of a Batman Beyond parody, with Friedle's character becoming the successor to a washed-up, elderly superhero played by West.
One of my favorite moments is when the bat-copter lands in the very convenient pile of foam rubber at the foam rubber convention...and then they proceed to run to the UN to keep up their fitness.
You can't watch without remembering that scene at least.
Somedays you just can't get rid of a bomb
MeanJoePhaser
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Robin: "When you think, Batman, with those 4 supercrooks hangin' around, it's amazing somebody hasn't already reported this place to the police!"
Batman: "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions."
Robin: "Gosh, drinking's sure a filthy thing, isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes!"
I like how Batman handles failure.
"Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single service ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuously, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished. "
Yeah, inconspicuously walk down the side of a skyscraper.
Batman: "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions."
Robin: "Gosh, drinking's sure a filthy thing, isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes!"
I like how Batman handles failure.
"Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single service ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuously, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished. "
Yeah, inconspicuously walk down the side of a skyscraper.
In that show, Gotham City's PD was useless!
MeanJoePhaser
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Of course, how else could a masked weirdo and his teenage companion be dually deputized agents of the law?
And I love how he explains it away that he saw it out of the corner of his eye.
Didn't the Bat-Signal mysteriously work in the daytime on that show? Or am I imagining more silly things into an already silly show?
wow... that actually works.
It's always cloudy in Gotham.
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