The Greatest Joker Moments in TV History - Share your favorites!

[Hyper Venom]

Seriously, I think he's had the coolest moments/stories of any comic book villain who has ever appeared on television. So, spanning from as far back as Ceasar Romero's interpretation, all the way up until The Batman, what were your favorite Joker moments on television?

I'll only name one for now, the very reason I was inspired to start this thread: The Justice League episode, Wild Cards. Joker plants 25 bombs on the Vegas Strip, places cameras everywhere, then broadcasts the League's attempts to stop the bombs and turns it into a reality show, complete with a counter in the corner to let us know how much time they have left to stop the explosives.

He also slaps Harley again.

 

[jabbatheridge]

I loved the whole Harley/Joker relationship throughout BTAS, I thought it was very cleverly written.

Anyway one of my favourite Joker moments comes from "Joker's Millions" where Harley is in prison and Joker has to higher a new henchgirl to replace her. She's referred to as "fake Harley" throughout the whole show and there's a whole line up of people wanting to be fake Harley.

He walks down the line up and there's a really tall woman, an old woman and finally he comes to this big fat guy wearing a Harley Quinn leotard, he stares at him in disbelief for a moment and then just says "ummm... no!"

Great moment.

But the Joker had loads of great lines and moments in various episodes to list them all would take forever.

 

[SoulManX]

I loved the whole Harley/Joker relationship throughout BTAS, I thought it was very cleverly written.

Anyway one of my favourite Joker moments comes from "Joker's Millions" where Harley is in prison and Joker has to higher a new henchgirl to replace her. She's referred to as "fake Harley" throughout the whole show and there's a whole line up of people wanting to be fake Harley.

He walks down the line up and there's a really tall woman, an old woman and finally he comes to this big fat guy wearing a Harley Quinn leotard, he stares at him in disbelief for a moment and then just says "ummm... no!"

Great moment.

But the Joker had loads of great lines and moments in various episodes to list them all would take forever.

I love the line about the IRS...classic Joker.

 

[jabbatheridge]

Yeah that was a good one.

What about The Laughing Fish where he poisoned Gothams River with Joker toxin and then tried to copyright the infected smiling fish as being Joker fish.

"Colonel what his name gets chicken and they don't even have moustaches".

Or the line in The Man Who Killed Batman about putting the fun back in funeral.

Im a bit of a BTAS junkiet:

"They're finny and funny and oh so delish"

 

[Hyper Venom]

Yeah that was a good one.

What about The Laughing Fish where he poisoned Gothams River with Joker toxin and then tried to copyright the infected smiling fish as being Joker fish.

"Colonel what his name gets chicken and they don't even have moustaches".

Or the line in The Man Who Killed Batman about putting the fun back in funeral.

Im a bit of a BTAS junkiet:

"They're finny and funny and oh so delish"

The Man Who Killed Batman was a classic. I especially loved the funeral/Syd's execution. Joker just locks Syd in a casket and drops it in acid, pretends to be in a completely solemn mood, then turns to everyone else in the room and is like, "Well, that was fun! Who's for Chinese?"

 

[jabbatheridge]

The Last Laugh wasn't one of the greatest Joker episodes from the series, but there was a good line where he beat Batman up locked him in a metal canister, punched holes in it with a knife and then throws him into the river.

Then he says disapprovingly "tut, tut I never knew Batman could sink so low!"

Great one liner.

Mark Hamill is the definitive Joker as far as I'm concerned, I loved his relationship with Lex in World's Finest and the Justice League two parter Injustice For all.

 

[SoulManX]

The Joker: What's the matter, Batman? No witty comeback? No threat? Then I'll provide the narration...
[the screen flickers to life and "Our Home Movies" appears]
The Joker: I'll begin with how I peeled back the layers of the boy's mind. Oh, he bravely tried to fight it at first. You would've been proud to see him so strong.
[on the screen, the home video of Joker electrocuting Robin appears]
The Joker: But all too soon, the shocks and the serums took their toll, and the boy began to share such secrets with me. Secrets that are mine alone to know... Bruce. It's true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it's sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and bat-o-rangs, you're just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
[pause]
The Joker: Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway. HA HA HA HA HA HAA!

 

[Warhammer]

The Joker in Beware The Creeper was hilarious.
That episode has to be my 2nd favorite TNBA episode after Over The Edge.
Also, his grand entrance in Injustice For All (Justice League) was hilarious.
Lex was like "Get out of here!", then Joker hugs him and rubs his head.

 

[Bat Attack]

All of the BTAS episodes with Mark Hamill voicing the character.

 

[JackBauer]

The Man Who Killed Batman was a classic. I especially loved the funeral/Syd's execution. Joker just locks Syd in a casket and drops it in acid, pretends to be in a completely solemn mood, then turns to everyone else in the room and is like, "Well, that was fun! Who's for Chinese?"

I was gonna mention that one. it was f***in great!

 

[cabel]

"If you don't like the movie, I've got slides."

 

[Ceb-Man]

In BTAS I liked the Joker on The Laughing Fish, Christmas With The Joker, Beware The Creeper. JLU was Injustice For All.
The Batman was when he kidnapped Ethan Benett and was trying to drive him insane and then made him into Clayface. Kind of homage to The killing Joke, using Benett instead of Gordon.

 

[jabbatheridge]

I didn't think The Joker in The Batman was parictularly funny but he was ok in the recent Harley Quinn episode.

I enjoyed the montage of them going out and causing havoc to "setting the woods on fire" it was pretty decent.

 

[Silver Sable]

"You killed Captain Clown............YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!"

 

[November Rain]

The laughing bat in The Batman I think trounces anything hamill has done. That ep was pure pure genius and so well done...

C'mon peeps, a whole ep of the joker parodying batman, how can that not be him at his finest?

 

[The Joker]

"DON'T TOUCH ME, OLD MAN!!!!! I don't know where you've been"

- The Joker to Sal Valestra in MOTP

 

[Roughneck]

I liked the episode where kids were telling Batman stories and the first one was about Joker robbing a music Museum and it was all designed off of 50s art.

That Joker was awesome looking and funny as hell.

Also Hamill is a Joker God, and yes I know it wasn;t Hamil in that ep.

 

[jaydawg]

The laughing bat in The Batman I think trounces anything hamill has done. That ep was pure pure genius and so well done...

C'mon peeps, a whole ep of the joker parodying batman, how can that not be him at his finest?

Dude, you've offically proved you have no taste.

 

[batnkevlar]

IN the shortlived crappy Birds of Prey liveaction series, thery had a scene where the Joker busts in and paralyzes Barbara... credit has to be given where credit is due...

 

[November Rain]

Dude, you've offically proved you have no taste.

the laughing bat is up there with the best of dcau.

he takes down the mayor's wife for having too many items in her shopping bag and queing in the wrong aisle, that's ****ing genius



hamill's joker may have some nice lines but he really doesn't do that much, his best bit are really in return of the joker but he does get pwned big time by terry in that and it just nulifies all his great efforts, shame...

 

[GL1]

The Joker: What's the matter, Batman? No witty comeback? No threat? Then I'll provide the narration...
[the screen flickers to life and "Our Home Movies" appears]
The Joker: I'll begin with how I peeled back the layers of the boy's mind. Oh, he bravely tried to fight it at first. You would've been proud to see him so strong.
[on the screen, the home video of Joker electrocuting Robin appears]
The Joker: But all too soon, the shocks and the serums took their toll, and the boy began to share such secrets with me. Secrets that are mine alone to know... Bruce. It's true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it's sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and bat-o-rangs, you're just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
[pause]
The Joker: Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway. HA HA HA HA HA HAA!

By FAR.

 

[jaydawg]

the laughing bat is up there with the best of dcau.

he takes down the mayor's wife for having too many items in her shopping bag and queing in the wrong aisle, that's ****ing genius



hamill's joker may have some nice lines but he really doesn't do that much, his best bit are really in return of the joker but he does get pwned big time by terry in that and it just nulifies all his great efforts, shame...

Hamill's Joker is better than any Joker interpertation ever. Only he could be a trickster, hilarious and psychotic at the same time. His Joker has variety, while TB's version is nothing more than a poor man's trickster. The Laughing Bat was certainly a good episode, even trumphing some Timmverse Joker Moments (That one Captain Clown episode was awful by any standards, Wild Cards from JLU was terrible Joker-wise), but episodes like Mad Love, Laughing Fish, ROTJ and even the vinette of Almost Got Em completely destroys anything else Joker related.

And Terry made for a fantastic Batman and that fight was one of Timmverse finest, it wasnt even a big time pwning. Terry was losing that fight till he got lucky finding that buzzer.

 

[November Rain]

For me, dressing up and parading as the batman was a stroke of genius, I don't think it had really been done before in animation and i think he pulled it off well even managing to parody other media forms of the batman. The fact that he got some sort of role reversal with bruce cracking the gags at the end was fairly flawless, besides i think the joker and the batman have a closer relationship since they've both been in each other's minds as well as the strange relationship they had when dracula came around and bruce kept the joker alive with his own blood (not animal blood). Not to mention joker's jealolusy of bruce having partners and taking on a few of his own. The fact that this joker mentions parts of his origin and you get to speak to the real dude who says 'all i wanna do is make people laugh' is something that appeals to me.


oh don't get me wrong, Terry is awesome but when he did something bruce never did, he got to the clown and he did it his own way. Terry wasn't losing, he completely had control of the situation. I find it hard to believe that in such a highly powered suit, a human and a table would be enough to incapacitate him. He was merely buying his time for the deadly blow.

Joker got kneed in the balls, Made fun of and got casually laughed at in the face by the guise of his greatest enemy reborn in a new form for his final curtain. In my eyes, he got pwned bigtime...

my only grip is that i wished the fight had lasted longer but back in the day that was a pretty long fight for the dcau but it's fairly short by the new jlu fight lengths...meh...

 

[jabbatheridge]

Was The Laughing Bat an episode from the Batman Beyond series? I've seen all the BTAS episodes and the Batman Beyond animated movie but I've not seen many episodes of that show.

Sounds like I may have missed out on a good one

 

[November Rain]

it's from the batman hold on, i'll post links to it...

Part 1

part 2

Part 3