With a BANG, POW, THWAP, and ZAKOW – it’s the original live-action Batman!

In this episode, we discuss the film’s greatest gags, its surprising self-awareness, the compelling choice to make Batman’s first live-action outing a straight-up parody of Batman, and what this version of Batman has on the ones that have come since.

As of this recording, BATMAN is available to stream on HBO Now. If you don’t have that or don’t want to use it, click here: https://archive.org/details/batman-the-movie-1966_202211

A COLLECTION OF BAT-LABELS, collecting the explanatory labels on everything in the 1966-1968 Batman TV series: https://batlabels.tumblr.com/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Opening credits theme by Nelson Riddle from the BATMAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 202: BATMAN (1966)

1:52 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:28 - When Batman was a piss take on Batman

18:05 - Stupid jokes that are also very sharp and funny

24:45 - The villains who just want to get their bits out

33:54 - Location location location

38:13 - Comparing this to other Batman films over the years

41:03 - International politics, respectability politics, and Robin is a eugenicist

47:18 - The Junk Drawer

51:28 - Cody’s Noteys: Superhero Scrapbook (Batman movie trivia)