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wealth. One of Penguin's first successes as the sentinel of aristocracy is to
nab Batman and Robin while they are switching Sophia Starr's real jewelry for fakes. Marks the series' first use of the Batcycle. The end of that episode utilizes a Hitchcockian traveling camera which begins on Penguin/Gordon/O'Hara and finishes on the Doomed Duo, suspended behind a shooting gallery.
WONDERGIRL'S COMMENTS: Nice butt shot as Robin hangs suspended, waiting to be shot in a different way.
HOT OFF THE GRIDDLE/THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE
Catwoman hits the Gotham Guardians with her paralyzing Catatonic cat-darts and tosses them out of a 12th story window. At the Pink Sand Box club the Duo is surprised when their table suddenly spins around, throwing them into a metal chamber with super-heating floor.
WONDERGIRL'S COMMENTS: Tell the rest of the story, okay? This is also easily in my top three. First, the duo fall for the old "There's someone behind you/I'm not falling for that old gag!" trick, and are knocked unconscious. Second, the duo seem genuinely panicked as they jog and prance wildly around the super-heated floor, and hey, they get knocked out again!
But the real fun…proof that the show had it's kinky side…comes after that. The duo are tied up on giant frying tins on top of a building in the middle of summer. Catwoman sprawls out between them, letting them know she's covered them both in Margerine ("Holy Oleo!" my hero cries! "I didn't know you could yodel," Catwoman retorts.). Just the thought of greasing up Robin with a big handful of oily margerine…well, let's just say this is a favorite of mine. Finally, two giant magnifying glasses are brought in to fry and sizzle our greased-up heroes. Only a woman could be this kinky…a Catwoman, that is…
THE MINSTREL'S SHAKEDOWN/BARBECUED BATMAN?
The Minstrel, a lute-playing electronics genius, threatens to
sabotage the computerized Gotham City Stock Exchange. The Dynamic Duo is captured and hoisted onto a rotating spit over an electronic radar grill.
WONDERGIRL'S COMMENTS: First in a series of great package shots, starring Robin, of course. He's stretched out on a spit, tied up like a thanksgiving turkey, and there was nothing they could do to hide his little Boy Wonder. If they'd basted him, I think I would have melted…This is also a great episode because Robin panics as the spit starts turning. "Batman! Is this the end?" he cries. I LOVE it when he does that!
COME BACK, SHAME/IT'S HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME
Shame and his cohorts are stealing car parts in order to soup up their
truck so it can outrun the Batmobile. Batman and Robin track the car rustlers
to their hideout, but the Duped Duo end up staked to the ground with
stampeding cattle bearing down on them.
WONDERGIRL'S COMMENTS: Robin hogtied. Close to being a good package shot.
THE CAT'S MEOW/THE BAT'S KOW TOW
Catwoman plots to appropriate the voices of Chad and Jeremy with a
Voice Eraser when the singing duo stop over at Wayne Manor. She locks the
Dynamic Duo inside a huge echo chamber where the sound of a dripping faucet is magnified ten million times.
WONDERGIRL'S COMMENTS: Another favorite, and I hardly ever see this one anymore! Robin writhes on the floor, in what must have been indescribable agony. I know the show is campy and silly, but some of the torture scenes are just exquisite. I feel so sorry for him, watching him roll around, grasping his head in pain…and all I can do is watch…and watch…
THE SANDMAN COMETH/THE CATWOMAN GOETH
Catwoman and Euro-crook Sandmakna, disguised as Dr. Somnambula,
plot to relieve billionaire noodle queen J. Pauline Spaghetti of some of her
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