Holy Wall-Walking Cameo, Batman!
May 24, 2008 3:10 AM Subscribe
When you are ascending the side of a building with your Boy Wonder, you really don't know who is going to pop out of that window.
So I watched them all.
And then I turned my laptop on its side and watched them again.
I'm not sure which why I like them best.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:13 AM on May 24, 2008
And then I turned my laptop on its side and watched them again.
I'm not sure which why I like them best.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:13 AM on May 24, 2008
DAH-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-
DAH-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-
BAT-MAAAAAAN!
also, what rmd1023 said.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:14 AM on May 24, 2008
DAH-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-
BAT-MAAAAAAN!
also, what rmd1023 said.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:14 AM on May 24, 2008
I'd not seen any of these.
about as good a way as any to stick a 'celebrity' onto a show.
I, too, went right for the lurch-fest.
thanks
posted by Busithoth at 6:23 AM on May 24, 2008
about as good a way as any to stick a 'celebrity' onto a show.
I, too, went right for the lurch-fest.
thanks
posted by Busithoth at 6:23 AM on May 24, 2008
I will derive!
this is the thread for silly one-link youtube comments, right?
posted by DreamerFi at 6:44 AM on May 24, 2008
this is the thread for silly one-link youtube comments, right?
posted by DreamerFi at 6:44 AM on May 24, 2008
Great post. When I watched Batman as a kid, the influence of my older brother helped me appreciate the jokey campiness of it, but I was still young enough take it seriously as well. But at some point, I wondered why they couldn't just take the stairs.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 7:15 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 7:15 AM on May 24, 2008
When you are ascending the side of a building with your Boy Wonder, you really don't know who is going to pop out of that window.
If you know what I mean.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:23 AM on May 24, 2008 [5 favorites]
If you know what I mean.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:23 AM on May 24, 2008 [5 favorites]
So Col. Klink escaped after the war, and the authorities in Gotham City never did anything about the obvious Nazi war criminal living in their midst?
Wow. That's really a strike against Batman, in my book.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:49 AM on May 24, 2008 [10 favorites]
Wow. That's really a strike against Batman, in my book.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:49 AM on May 24, 2008 [10 favorites]
in the second one in the dark it looks like batman is pulling the rope through robin's ass
posted by doobiedoo at 8:01 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by doobiedoo at 8:01 AM on May 24, 2008
Ah! Hahahahahaha! So good to know that I hadn't imagined these!
Thank you, fearfulsymmetry.
(Also, PlusDistance? The spouse had the exact same response when we reached the Klink link.)
posted by squasha at 8:02 AM on May 24, 2008
Thank you, fearfulsymmetry.
(Also, PlusDistance? The spouse had the exact same response when we reached the Klink link.)
posted by squasha at 8:02 AM on May 24, 2008
Col. Klink escaped after the war, and the authorities in Gotham City never did anything about the obvious Nazi war criminal living in their midst?
Col. Klink wasn't a war criminal, was he? I'm sure Hogan would have put in a good word for him after the war.
posted by me & my monkey at 8:09 AM on May 24, 2008
Col. Klink wasn't a war criminal, was he? I'm sure Hogan would have put in a good word for him after the war.
posted by me & my monkey at 8:09 AM on May 24, 2008
Ha! I really didn't know who any of those people who popped out of that window were. Serves me right for being foreign, I suppose. Tremendous fun, nonetheless.
Who will it be in the forthcoming Batman movie, I wonder? Seems like a fellow could get himself elected President on the back of such a stunt.
posted by nowonmai at 8:11 AM on May 24, 2008
Who will it be in the forthcoming Batman movie, I wonder? Seems like a fellow could get himself elected President on the back of such a stunt.
posted by nowonmai at 8:11 AM on May 24, 2008
I'm sure Hogan would have put in a good word for him after the war.
Actually, Hogan would have been one of the few witnesses who could have testifed against him. Which was why Klink was the first suspect when the former POW was found bludgeoned to death. The former Sgt. Schultz was picked up and questioned, but he claimed to know nothing and was eventually released.
The murder is still unsolved.
posted by PlusDistance at 9:05 AM on May 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
Actually, Hogan would have been one of the few witnesses who could have testifed against him. Which was why Klink was the first suspect when the former POW was found bludgeoned to death. The former Sgt. Schultz was picked up and questioned, but he claimed to know nothing and was eventually released.
The murder is still unsolved.
posted by PlusDistance at 9:05 AM on May 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
"If you can't trust Santa, whom can you trust?"
I had no memory of Batman being so, well, learned. The dipthongs, the line about warming up your muscles on a climb: he's practically the Jeeves to Robin's Wooster. That's a dimension of the show I have no memory of from when I was a kid.
You know, except for the one clip where they're descending, it's almost Sisyphusean watching these all in a row. You get the impression they spent their whole lives on the sides of buildings, having these brief conversations with one another about nothing in particular which are inevitably interrupted by strangers, some foreign, some familiar, who, although providing a moment of levity, ultimately retreat back behind their windows to their own lives, leaving the two of them alone again, with no other choice but to keep on climbing higher, always higher. Since we don't see the end of their climb, we must speculate it never comes. Instead, they live out their lives sideways and in tights, wearing capes that miraculously dangle at a 60 degree angle to the ground, always in that order, Robin ahead, Batman behind, footstep after terrible footstep, arm over terrible arm.
It's Climbing for Godot.
posted by roombythelake at 9:23 AM on May 24, 2008 [41 favorites]
I had no memory of Batman being so, well, learned. The dipthongs, the line about warming up your muscles on a climb: he's practically the Jeeves to Robin's Wooster. That's a dimension of the show I have no memory of from when I was a kid.
You know, except for the one clip where they're descending, it's almost Sisyphusean watching these all in a row. You get the impression they spent their whole lives on the sides of buildings, having these brief conversations with one another about nothing in particular which are inevitably interrupted by strangers, some foreign, some familiar, who, although providing a moment of levity, ultimately retreat back behind their windows to their own lives, leaving the two of them alone again, with no other choice but to keep on climbing higher, always higher. Since we don't see the end of their climb, we must speculate it never comes. Instead, they live out their lives sideways and in tights, wearing capes that miraculously dangle at a 60 degree angle to the ground, always in that order, Robin ahead, Batman behind, footstep after terrible footstep, arm over terrible arm.
It's Climbing for Godot.
posted by roombythelake at 9:23 AM on May 24, 2008 [41 favorites]
Klink and Schultz were invited to the orgies? Who knew?
posted by squasha at 10:15 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by squasha at 10:15 AM on May 24, 2008
Lurch (host with the most) was VERY confident in his manhood, they were all invited, squasha. SammyD? come on in, baby!
posted by Busithoth at 10:19 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by Busithoth at 10:19 AM on May 24, 2008
I believe Santa Claus is played by Chill Wills, character actor in numerous westerns and featured in the Francis the Talking Mule series. Not that you care, or anything . . . .
Yes, citizen, you may return to your computer.
posted by birdhaus at 10:46 AM on May 24, 2008
Yes, citizen, you may return to your computer.
posted by birdhaus at 10:46 AM on May 24, 2008
Well said, roombythelake.
Was there a moment of unspoken jealousy and "what are you doing on my turf" between Batman and The Green Hornet before the professional courtesy kicked in?
posted by Grimp0teuthis at 10:47 AM on May 24, 2008
Was there a moment of unspoken jealousy and "what are you doing on my turf" between Batman and The Green Hornet before the professional courtesy kicked in?
posted by Grimp0teuthis at 10:47 AM on May 24, 2008
Whoa. Batman knew Colonel Klink on good terms? There's an untold story here....
posted by humannaire at 11:13 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by humannaire at 11:13 AM on May 24, 2008
I was sort of smirking at all of these until I got to the "of" link, and then I completely lost it.
posted by danb at 11:31 AM on May 24, 2008
posted by danb at 11:31 AM on May 24, 2008
First off, ya gotta love the Klemperer. He rocked. And his biography amazes me:
"Half-Jewish, Klemperer fled the Nazi regime with his family in 1933; they all made their way to Los Angeles, where his father obtained a conducting post. Klemperer began acting in high school and enrolled in acting courses in Pasadena before joining the United States Army to fight in World War II."
So, he was half-jewish, fled Germany to escape the Nazi regime, then joined the U.S. Army to fight against his Nazi homeland, and will now be forever famous solely for pretending to be a bumbling Nazi. Crazy!
Secondly, I really must start calling people "citizen" more often.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:43 AM on May 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
"Half-Jewish, Klemperer fled the Nazi regime with his family in 1933; they all made their way to Los Angeles, where his father obtained a conducting post. Klemperer began acting in high school and enrolled in acting courses in Pasadena before joining the United States Army to fight in World War II."
So, he was half-jewish, fled Germany to escape the Nazi regime, then joined the U.S. Army to fight against his Nazi homeland, and will now be forever famous solely for pretending to be a bumbling Nazi. Crazy!
Secondly, I really must start calling people "citizen" more often.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:43 AM on May 24, 2008 [1 favorite]
I believe Santa Claus is played by Chill Wills...
Nah, it was noted horse opera character actor and children's show host Andy Devine. It's the voice what gave it away. Plunk your magic twanger, Citizen!
posted by Kinbote at 6:44 PM on May 24, 2008
Nah, it was noted horse opera character actor and children's show host Andy Devine. It's the voice what gave it away. Plunk your magic twanger, Citizen!
posted by Kinbote at 6:44 PM on May 24, 2008
the obvious Nazi war criminal
But Klink was neither (remember all his grudgingly dutiful Hitler salutes?). He was a Luftwaffe commander of a POW camp (not a death or even just concentration camp) which demonstrably never executed anyone for escape. (Counterpoint.) As such he would have been eligible for rehabilitation. He might even have continued as an officer in the Federal Republic. (If he were in the Democratic Republic, to the contrary, he probably would have fit in about as well, explaining why he emigrated to Gotham City.)
Now, as to why Klink was still concerned about Hogan's escaping, all these years later, I think exegesis requires looking into the oeuvre of Bob Crane. And they said Batman was a family show.
posted by dhartung at 11:03 PM on May 24, 2008
But Klink was neither (remember all his grudgingly dutiful Hitler salutes?). He was a Luftwaffe commander of a POW camp (not a death or even just concentration camp) which demonstrably never executed anyone for escape. (Counterpoint.) As such he would have been eligible for rehabilitation. He might even have continued as an officer in the Federal Republic. (If he were in the Democratic Republic, to the contrary, he probably would have fit in about as well, explaining why he emigrated to Gotham City.)
Now, as to why Klink was still concerned about Hogan's escaping, all these years later, I think exegesis requires looking into the oeuvre of Bob Crane. And they said Batman was a family show.
posted by dhartung at 11:03 PM on May 24, 2008
LOL Dick Clark, almost looking young!
Allow me a moment to indulge in confession, while admitting it is only to lighten my own burden. I took Batman very seriously as a kid, and never realized it was at all campy. Yes, even I was once a 9-year-old. (And I don't remember at all these scenes, and I can't imagine I missed very many Batman shows).
posted by Goofyy at 6:15 AM on May 26, 2008
Allow me a moment to indulge in confession, while admitting it is only to lighten my own burden. I took Batman very seriously as a kid, and never realized it was at all campy. Yes, even I was once a 9-year-old. (And I don't remember at all these scenes, and I can't imagine I missed very many Batman shows).
posted by Goofyy at 6:15 AM on May 26, 2008
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