The Official Batman TAS Thread - Part 1

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/66855440970/the-worry-men-x-batman-the-animated-series

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

Loved the Gorshin Riddler "cameo" in this one!

 

[zeo5]

That was my first (watched on VHS) episode fo BTAS!!! One of favourites...

 

[Kane52630]

I believe the first BTAS I watched...that I remembered was Harley & Ivy.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I think my first episode was 'On Leather Wings', which was on this VHS...

It's very possible that I saw a number of episodes before that (Read My Lips and It's Never Too Late in particular) but these two episodes seem the most prominent that to the video.

 

[Travesty]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing The Cat and Claw first. For some reason, I think that was the first episode to air? I tried looking it up, but all I could find were the DVD orders.

 

[Kane52630]

BTAS Episode: Paging the Crime Doctor

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/66895427901/paging-the-crime-doctor-x-batman-the-animated

Trivia

• While at Leslie Thompkins's home, Bruce Wayne picked up The Caduceus, a book that contained the photographs and names of all the medical graduates from Thomas Wayne's, Leslie's and Matthew Thorne's year. The book had a caduceus sign on it with only one serpent instead of the traditional two. The Caduceus is often confused with the real symbol of medicine, the Rod of Asclepius.
• The orderly who Batman struggles to fight slightly resembles Lucas from "Prophecy of Doom".
• Thomas Wayne's note to Leslie in the yearbook misspells "Leslie" as "Lesley".

 

[Kane52630]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing The Cat and Claw first. For some reason, I think that was the first episode to air? I tried looking it up, but all I could find were the DVD orders.

Yup, part 1 was the first episode to air. I have all of them listed on my page via air date.

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/BatmanTASTags

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/66902806168/paging-the-crime-doctor-x-batman-the-animated

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing The Cat and Claw first. For some reason, I think that was the first episode to air? I tried looking it up, but all I could find were the DVD orders.

Yep... September 5th 1992.

That was another early one for me here in the UK. Speaking of the UK, heres a pretty cool early promo for the series on cartoon network:

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[Darkness Falls]

i remember seeing that ad in comics

 

[Kane52630]

The Batman vs Superman movie the world needs.

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/66917166108/paging-the-crime-doctor-x-batman-the-animated

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Two-Face]

That's great ^ Conroy is BATMAN.

I saw this and I thought I share.

Making of MOTP Par 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlEfSO6Yops

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS2hi4Xsm0

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

Yep... September 5th 1992.

That was another early one for me here in the UK. Speaking of the UK, heres a pretty cool early promo for the series on cartoon network:

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Dude massive nostalgia attack! I remember those ads (it was the same summer Batman and Robin came out I believe) and the first episode started the night before I had to go back to school.....man I feel old.

 

[Joshua_B]

I keep hearing that Mark Hamill's retired from voicing the Joker, but different reports conflict. Has he made any official statement about it recently?

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I keep hearing that Mark Hamill's retired from voicing the Joker, but different reports conflict. Has he made any official statement about it recently?

He did state that Batman: Arkham City was his swan song... but he's also recently claimed ''Never say never'' and that he'd love to do The Killing Joke.

So yeah, he's pretty much done. Only Rocksteady, and adaptation of The Killing Joke or Bruce Timm on his knees will bring him back.

What's weird is that Injustice: Gods Among Us was the first Batman property featuring Kevin Conroy as Batman that did not feature Mark Hamill as The Joker. And that just felt wrong.

 

[Kane52630]

BTAS Episode: House & Garden

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/67027754043/house-garden-x-batman-the-animated-series

Trivia

• Last full appearance of Poison Ivy in Batman: The Animated Series. She later appears in "Harley's Holiday", but had no dialogue.
• An issue of the later Batman Adventures (Volume 2) comic series suggests that this is the last appearance of the "real" Poison Ivy and that the revamped version seen in The New Batman Adventures was merely another copy produced to keep Batman off her trail, whilst she went into hiding for good. None of this was ever incorporated into the animated series.

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/67170574346/house-garden-x-batman-the-animated-series

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/67293451776/house-garden-x-batman-the-animated-series

 

[Elevator Man]

^That was some creepy stuff for a family friendly animated show. Batman was even freaked out by it.

 

[Kane52630]

BTAS Episode: Sideshow

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/67342243934/sideshow-x-batman-the-animated-series

Trivia

• First appearance of Brad Garrett in the DCAU. He would go on to voice Lobo and Bibbo Bibbowski on Superman: The Animated Series.
• The episode is based on the comics story "A View from the Grave!" (Detective Comics #410, April 1971) by Dennis O'Neil. That story did not feature Croc, but Kano Wiggins, a death row escapee.
• This and "The Demon's Quest, Part II" are the only two episodes in the series to take place completely outside of Gotham City.
• Croc is quite correct: Crocodiles exert the strongest bite pressure of any member of the animal kingdom.
• Richard shares his name with King Richard III, the lead character of Shakespeare's play of the same name. Both Richards are "rudely stamp'd" (i.e., born hunchbacks).

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Some stunning animation in that episode.

 

[Drakepool]

Eh, aside from Croc trying to kill Batman with a rock, a weak episode.