>Gets told the show's reputation for being campy is mostly the fault of the movie>Decides to actually watch the first two-parter>Part one of the Riddler's plan is to plant a small explosive inside the cake of a visiting prime minister so he can trick Batman into arresting him while doing something harmless that just happens too look incriminating, all so he file a lawsuit.>Part two of his plan is to make Batman go clubbing and leave Robin behind because he's underaged, allowing both of them to get drugged and Riddler kidnapping Robin.>Part three of his plan is to make an imprint mask of Robin and disguise his henchgirl as Robin so that Batman takes her to the batcave to kill him, only for her to walk into a nuclear reactor for no real reason and die, prompting Batman to go save the real Robin and seemingly gets trapped.>Part four of the plan is to steal a taxidermy mammoth the prime minister had on display by filling the room with laughing gas as the Riddler tells jokes to speed up the process.>Then Batman and Robin bust out of the mammoth revealing that they knew about the plan, one of the onomatopoeia fights ensues, Riddler fakes his death and the lawsuit is dismissed because he can't show up in court.>Nevermind how this whole sequence of events is pointless, Riddler is a known career criminal and is undeniably guilty of planting the explosive at the start, his next action being harmless shouldn't matter and there is still plenty of reason to arrest him anyway. Even if not, he clearly commits several crimes throughout and the lawsuit was clearly just a setup anyway. Why he went through the trouble of abducting Robin but not bothering to learn his true identity by simply unmasking him, which is supposedly what the lawsuit was going to be used for, is a mystery.I'm sorry, why exactly are there people who try to say this show isn't as campy as others make it out to be? If anything it was even more cringeworthy than I expected it to be.
>>151059706>I'm sorry, why exactly are there people who try to say this show isn't as campy as others make it out to be?nobody ever said the 60s batman wasn't campy you lying fuck
>>151059706Besides legal issues, this is why DC Comics tried to bury homages and mentions of that show. The brass considered it ruining of the Batman's image.
>>151060085It was the right thing to do because the franchise wasn't in a healthy spot in the 80's. The shadow of the show hung really heavy and sales of Batman comics were abyssal. like, bad even by modern day standards. Like in the 60-70 thousands range, which is below what they sell now even as comics became more niche.Stuff like Brave and the Bold or Lego Batman could only happen because the franchise became stronger and could support parodies of itself alongside serious work.
>>151059706>If anything it was even more cringeworthy than I expected it to be.Anon, it was a comedy. People watched it at the time as a comedy.The only people who took it seriously were little children.It's a very funny comedy too. I love the dead pan nonsense, it's like a child-friendly version of The Naked Gun
>>151059706Just stop being a retard.
>>151059706I'm not reading all that. I'm sorry that happened to you.
>>151059706I’ve heard people say the early episodes aren’t as campy as the later ones (the pilot does give Riddler some menacing moments and has an actual death), but I’ve never heard anyone say it wasn’t campy. Lorenzo Semple Jr., who wrote the pilot and the movie and many other episodes, based this pilot on a story from, I think, a reprint issue (which is why he used the Riddler, a character who barely appeared in comics, and Alfred, who was dead in comics at the time), but he deliberately played up the silliness and made fun of Batman for being such a square.The iconic moment in the pilot is when Batman walks into a nightclub in full costume and says he’ll just stand at the bar because “I shouldn’t wish to attract attention.” The whole point is to make a show based on kiddie comics that adults can enjoy because it’s self-aware about how absurd Batman is.
Read the Official Batman Batbook, it's on The Internet Archive.
>>151059706Long words, yo.
