So, Cracked got me to thinking. Are there any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series that's less than great?

So, Cracked got me to thinking. Are there any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series that's less than great?

Pic related because they're wrong. I've Got Batman in my Basement is a great episode.

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>So, Cracked got me to thinking.

You must not have a lot going on upstairs.

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>Are there any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series that's less than great?

The Catwoman episodes were a fucking mess. Nobody knew what to do with her.

>cracked
Sup Forumsumblr is real, your looking at it.

The best episode with her was the one where she's tied up on a conveyor belt.

the one with the genetic cat people?

Oh God. The one where she turned into an actual cat woman? I remember being really confused at the time cause I was like twelve, and I couldn't understand why an episode of Batman was boring.

Shit yeah. Lots. BTAS was a series of very high highs and some pretty low lows. People just like to gloss over them. And to its credit, there were definitely more highs than lows. But consistency was not one of its strong suits.

Now STAS, on the other hand... that shit was pretty goddamn consistent. It didn't rocket to the heights of BTAS's best, but it was a fucking solid ride all the way through.

Anything with an animal villain was bad

>Thinking that I've Got Batman In My Basement is a good episode.
Holy fucking shit. Do you have a brain tumor? I'm so sorry user.

Came here to post this. Who the fuck still reads Cracked?

They managed to get it right in a short
youtube.com/watch?v=Vt_27bqy8S4

I remember liking that red claw arc
Does that count as a Catwoman episode?

Damn, that's really good. Love the music.

How come Harly Quinn got all the spotlight while Red Claw never got featured in the DC Universe?

The mentally disabled, male feminists and the Cracked staff.

I thought of this one immediately. Just hold on until the fight scenes for unintentional laughs

dailymotion.com/video/x50oeyz

This, STAS is criminally underrated. I would also argue it did manage to achieve the same highs as BTAS, but less often. It also has one of the best series finales.

Old Cracked was great, but around 2014 it turned into a numale shithole. You can see it reflected in its Alexa records with an almost amusing clarity.

Nothing in BTAS comes CLOSE to this.

F

I still like reading some of the old history articles now and again. And to get to those, I always pass the front page which is almost always depressing.

he was a bitch and died like a bitch

Shit, sorry. I linked the wrong episode.

watchcartoonsonline.eu/watch/batman-animated-series-v2-ep-16-day-samurai/

Skip to the 18 minute mark

>Cracked

Kek

>I've Got Batman in my Basement
I didn't appreciate it as a kid because "WHERE'S MUH BATMAN" but then I grew up and now it's cool.

Darkseid frying Turpin was the single most surprising thing I have seen in western animation.

The image of Alfred in a kimono make the entire episode worth it

>says "Cracked got me to thinkin" while claiming I've Got Batman in my Basement
Yeah that seems about right.

In all seriousness it's not the worst episode of the show, the Catwoman episodes were probably worse.
But I still hate Batman in my Basement mostly because of what a lousy way to introduce The Penguin it was

Holy shit, was that honestly the first episode to feature Penguin?
Jesus Christ, I never even noticed.

The Terrible Trio

Red Claw is boring as fuck.

Yup. The opening notes for "The Heist", which is the song that plays in the title card, became his theme for the rest of the series.
youtube.com/watch?v=MHXvltN6IMo
youtube.com/watch?v=lR2NqQTTSBM

I have a suspicion that this is one of the main reasons why Penguin was not featured prominently in more episodes despite the momentum he had going post-Batman Returns and the phenomenal casting picked for him (even Paul Williams was not as great as usual in that episode, probably because he was poorly directed).
First impressions are pretty important, and while characters like Two-Face, Clayface and Riddler had phenomenal introduction episodes, poor Oswald got saddled with the most widely disliked episode.

Of course, eventually he'd be redeemed thanks to Birds Of A Feather as well as episodes like The Mechanic and Almost Got Im, and these are the ones that people like to remember, so he did much better than Catwoman in that regard (who had no good episodes for some reason).
But it's a rough patch on his history within the show.

Oh wait, I said The Mechanic (which is a really forgettable episode).
I meant to say Blind As A Bat, which is probably the episode where he is at his most effective and villainous, and in my opinion a much better version of the premise used in The Penguin Affair.

This really should be his definitive "almost got im" moment.

Roxy rocket appeared and B:TAS didnt she? She was the worst part of both shows

Why does Catwoman always gets the worst episodes of any show she's in (except the Adam West series) ?
Fuck, even her solo comics tend to be shit, people only talk about the bad ones. That is, when she is not making an appearence in a good comic that has nothing to do with her.
And outside of Batman Returns she always gets the worst movies too.

It's a trade-off: best ass, worst episodes.

is the form hall of fame thing still up cuz if it is from what i remember most of it is filled with stuff from the forms that is funny as fuck

Use fucking commas.

Could it be she's just not that great of a character to begin with? Not opining here, it's an honest question from someone who only knows her from non-comics media.

was meant for

You know, I can't think of a single time Shirley Walker wasn't spot on with the character motifs in this series. Every one just fits their respective character perfectly.

She really was the best. The Danny Elfman of WB Animation. RIP

The problem with her is she is pretty psychological normal compared to other villains and despite being a criminal, she gets always special treatment from Batman and the writers

>she gets always special treatment from Batman and the writers

You would get special treatment if you were Batman's girlfriend, too.

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I genuinely didn't realize cracked was still a thing

Hey, look at the comedian here! Everyone laugh for the comedian!

>spends he night waiting for Selina to show up
>she tries to steal from him
>both have a romp on the town
>ultimately gives up having a good time to do the right thing
>resigns himself to just dancing at the gala while she's hauled off
Also nice Black Canary cameo.

Catwoman's episodes were bad because the majority of them were story edited by Sean Catherine Derek, who was put on the show by WB fresh off of... Captain Planet. She's the reason Catwoman was a glorified animal rights activist.

hey

fuck you

>spends he night

>Sean Derek
never trust anyone with two first names

The general problem with Catwoman is that her character relies very, very heavily on sexuality, and there's only so much sensuality you can get away with in a cartoon that still needs to be appropriate for children.
There's a reason that Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman was such a popular take on the character with the general audience. She was allowed to ooze sex appeal throughout 80% of the film's run time while being just campy enough to be fun. Hell, she's the reason so many artists draw Selina with blue eyes instead of green.
Same goes for all the versions of Catwoman from the Adam West series. Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Meriwether were all allowed to be as sexy as a woman was allowed to be on 1960's television.

It's also why TDKR version of the character was so fucking forgettable. She had all the sex appeal of a rock.

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Maybe.
I've read a shitload of Batman comics, I love the majority of the Batman rogues and Batman himself, and sometimes I even kind of tolerate the Batfamily, but in all this time I swear I don't think I've read a single great Catwoman comic. I've read passable Catwoman comics and I've read comics that were good and she happened to be in them, but not a single one that is great because of her. Her stories are so repetitive, the character's motivations are non-existant and she's not entertaining enough to subsist even without them (unless you count sex appeal), and so on.

And I don't like to admit this because Batman Returns is my favorite Batman movie and I absolutely love Catwoman in it. She is not just sex appeal, I love Selina's character arc and even the relationship she has with Batman, usually a plot tumor in other stories, here complements the story and both characters perfectly. I'd even call her the true protagonist of that movie.
But every other appearence of her, with the exception of Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar's antics in the Adam West show, just seem to fall flat.

I'd love to be proven wrong on this subject and that maybe she has some fantastic and underrated stories out there that make her warrant her iconic status, but so far I haven't found any.

>non-existant

*non-existent

dang user that's a lot of effort for low quality bait

the Genevieve Valentine DCYou run is pretty great but she's also not really being Catwoman

Photofact, After Hours, and the three podcasts are alright.

But yeah; the site has gone downhill, and I'm a liberal. Cracked just ended up getting way too preachy for a site that's suppose to be about witty humour. Leave that shit for the "True Life" section.

>that's suppose to be

*that's supposed to be

Catwoman needs some love in the comics. They need to elevate her beyond "Greedy thief who's a passive aggressive bitch to Batman when she's not sucking his cock".

I feel like that's what King is trying to do on his run, but there needs to be something more lasting to her character that won't just get retconned when a new writer takes over.

It's not a good episode at all but it is Batman Meets Encyclopedia Brown so I can't bring myself to dislike it.

The werewolf episode was one of the worst ones.

>She had all the sex appeal of a rock.

Does not stop Steven Universe porn.

Nothing stops porn.

Cat Scratch Fever, the one where the businessman guy wants to spread a disease so that he can earn money on curing pets and Catwoman tries to stop him. It's cliched, generic, has nothing that made BTAS great and the animation was so shit it got the studio working on it fired. You know what I'm talking about if you've seen it. At least the transformation Catwoman episode had a nice arc for the furry guy monstrocity.

I just want you to know that this is a quality joke and I laughed at it

Just because Sacred Cow Bruce Timm screwed her up doesn't mean she's an inherently bad character.

she's not good, though. She's had maybe two or three good runs across her existence, and she's rarely if ever a good villain on the scale of Joker or Two Face.

Didn't Dini & Timm make more fun of her after she got fired from the show's staff by making Poison Ivy creepy as all shit while being the environmentalist villain?

Also nominating the episode where Killer Croc tries to rob a retired circus troupe living in the mountains for something less than great from B:TAS.

>STAS
Whats that?

gee, user what could they possibly be talking about, in a thread about BTAS, that starts with S and ends with The Animated Series

I'll give you a hint: it's not Sengoku: The Animated Series.

FPBP

>I've Got Batman in my Basement is a great episode.

See attached picture.

Goddamn, this is an underrated post.

STAS had som great episodes like but they were few and inbetween. Most of the time you'd have to deal with writers trying to be like BTAS but failing because they never bothered to write good dialogue. The prime example of this is the Mercy episode, the idea is fine but the execution sucks balls. She realizes Lex doesn't care for her yet comes back anyway but there's no proper pathos and no proper dialogue to make that powerful, it just happens.

This. Fucking this.

I tried watching BTAS from the beginning and gave up after sitting through an episode about Jokers grand plan of making Gotham smell like garbage.

> Are there any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series
overwhelming majority of BTAS episodes are aggressively bad

the ones that aren't bad reuse the same plot: "normal dude is fucked over, becomes villain, tries to kill the man who did him wrong, batman stops him".

Whats the deal with Cracked anyways?

She's also responsible for the shit King Kong show on Netflix.

All 3 of my names are last names. Can I be trusted?

>an episode about Jokers grand plan of making Gotham smell like garbage.
What?

Remember when Cracked was good?

Their turning was one of the first public signs of the SJW rot.

The fuck are you on about? It was April Fools Day, and he was using a garbage barge to spread Laughing Gas throughout the city. It wasn't about smell, it was a cover for his toxin.

Besides, that episode had Captain Clown. You don't like Captain Clown? YOU DON'T LIKE CAPTAIN CLOWN!?

Seanbaby stuff was great.

...

No, it was never good. Always a shitty try-hard normie humor site.

I liked his silicone soul.

The werewolf episode is fucking atrocious.
>choppiest and most inconsistent of animation in the whole show
>boring story for anyone even remotely aware of the Wolfman
>a fucking wailing guitar on the soundtrack for no reason, making it the worst score of any Batman episode

10/10, capped

Hey now user, it's OK to like an artist's work even if you despise their hatefilled politics. see

Legitimately, I have no idea what politics they might have gotten into because I never read past their early stuff that was clearly shit.

If you actually liked it I'm assuming you were young enough to not realize it was shit though, like watching Family Guy or South Park.

Why are you pretending the early stuff wasn't funny? Trying to out contrarian the contrarians?

>So, Cracked got me to thinking.
kek
>Are there any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series that's less than great?
Oof, that grammar
>I've got Batman in my Basement is a great episode
Oof, that shit taste.

Proving once and for all that animated series Batfag normies are the worst.

>And to its credit, there were definitely more highs than lows
This is more true of the New Adventures of Batman & Robin, which had a very high concentration of amazing episodes, but the knee-jerk reaction from plebs is to hate it because "not muh artstyle"

Not pretending, it legitimately wasn't funny and it sucks that it influenced a generation of also unfunny "nerd humor" bloggers.

People here used to rightfully shit on reposts from it back 10 years ago because it was cringey as fuck.

The guitar was fun. Timm confirmed that whenever they knew they had a really lousy episode, they'd do their best to make it worthwhile with the music. I've Got Batman in my Basement has a great score as well, mainly because of its frequent use of the Penguin's leitmotif.

You're entitled to your opinion user

>People here used to rightfully shit on reposts from it back 10 years ago because it was cringey as fuck.

But not to rewrite history.
That's what CRACKED does now, and part of why people hate it.