An overall so so episode. The actor who played the Riddler didn't have the style that the previous one did. He tried to but it fell flat overall. Don't get me wrong, he tried but the actor has the look that suits more of an old fashion tough guy than the Riddler.
The moll of the week was also so so. Just a little too bubble headed for my tastes.
The plot is somewhat confusing, but alot of these eps can be like that. Having he dynamic duo running from spot to spot was kind of funny though.
Sets were kind of bla too. It just deserved a little more. I think the end of the season was fast approaching and they just didn't hit this one right.
And I swear that the Riddler's laughing was dubbed in.moreless
Episode Summary
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The Riddler steals box office receipts and Batman & Robin trace him to a bakery. With only the riddles that are given, Batman and Robin track the Riddler down only to be separated with Robing on the splitting block.
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Virginia WoodSylvia
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Judy PaceCashier
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Walter Woolf KingTheater Manager
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Madge Blake
Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]
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William Dozier
Narrator
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Adam West
Bruce N. Wayne/Batman
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Burt Ward
Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin: The Boy Wonder
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Alan Napier
Alfred Pennyworth
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Stafford Repp
Chief O'Hara
Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (1)
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Goof: Notice during the party fight, Batman calls out to the crowd to stop fighting while his lips are not moving.
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QUOTES (5)
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Narrator: After many gassers...here's a real buzzer!! Is Robin going to wind up as his own double?? Incredible but true...Batman will not arrive in time! Will we see the Boy Wonder sawed in two? Tune in tomorrow! Same Bat-Time! Same Bat-Channel...!
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Alfred: You don't fancy, sir, that this famous desperado intends to stoop to the robbery of a lemonade stand?
Batman: You've hit it! It fits like my glove. -
Batman: (Reading the riddle on the wall) Batman! As one baker to another, How can you make a dishonest shortcake?
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Robin: (Reading a riddle) Why is a musician's bandstand like an oven? Because that's where he makes his bread!
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Riddler: (The Riddler has strapped Robin to a conveyor belt leading to a buzz saw) Riddle me this, my criminal crew! When does the Boy Wonder rhyme with "bubble"?
Molly: When he's in trouble?
Ridder: Wrong! When he's double! (laughing fiendishly) Split in two halves, right down the middle! (Riddler continues to laugh as he turns on the buzz saw) Camera ready to roll C.B.
C.B.: Rolling, Riddler baby.
Riddler: (Riddler laughs again) How do you like your sideburns, Boy Wonder? Long or short? Robin: Batman will get you for this, Riddler.
Riddler: But will he get you? I believe you said he'd be here in no time. Question. Is no time in time? (Riddler then uses a knock-out spray on Robin as Riddler laughs)
Narrator: After many gassers, here's a real buzzer!! Is Robin going to wind up as his own double?? Incredible but true, Batman will not arrive in time! Will we see the Boy Wonder sawed in two? Tune in tomorrow! Same Bat-Time! Same Bat-Channel!
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NOTES (4)
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This is Frank Gorshin's 7th appearance as the Riddler. He was previously seen in Hi Diddle Riddle, Smack in the Middle, A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away, When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play, The Ring of Wax & Give 'em the Axe.
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At the end of this story, only Robin has a cliffhanger, while Batman is somewhere else.
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Francis Xavier Bushman was a silent film star who was voted most popular leading man in American films from 1914-1917. On August 23, 1966, just a couple of months after his appearance in this episode of Batman, he passed away of a heart attack resulting from a fall. He was 83.
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Based on "The Joker's Comedy Capers!" from Detective Comics #341 (July 1965) by John Broome.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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Von Bloheim refers to the Batman as Die Fledermaus, German for The Bat or literally; The Flutter-mouse, a comic operetta composed Johann Strauss II.
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Riddler's henchmen have names that refer to silent film characters or people of that era. Van Bloheim is a take-off on director-actor Erich Von Stroheim, CB refers to Cecil B. De Mille and Pauline from the 1914 movie The Perils of Pauline.
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