The Greatest Mother of Them All

Season 2, Episode 9, Aired

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Gangstress Ma Parker and her fiendish brood--sons Pretty Boy, Mad Dog, and Machine Gun and daughter Legs--have invaded Gotham City and begin their wave of crime by disrupting Gotham's Ladies Auxiliary's Mother of the Year Awards Ceremony and robbing the entire audience. Batman and Robin are called into action. They quickly locate the fiendish family at their home on Cherry Blossom Road, where, under the cover of a smoke bomb, they evade apprehension, save for Pretty Boy. Later, Machine Gun is also captured, after The Parkers pilfer money from a theater's box office. Then Mad Dog is foiled in his attempt to hold up a drugstore. They finally trace Ma and the last of her delinquent children, Legs, at an old ladies' home, where, after Ma's high-speed rocket-wheelchair race ends at a well-placed wall, they are arrested. The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder quickly take Ma and Legs to Gotham State Penitentiary to join the rest of their family. As Batman and Robin leave the prison, they notice a trustee examining The Batmobile's Batengine. Writing off his rather suspicious behaviour as curiosity, they start on their way. Unfortunately, back in Warden Crichton's office, Ma reveals that she has been secreting sympathetic guards into the prison for some time, so it is easy for her gang to take over; she also brags that Batman was her unwitting pawn in capturing her and her crooked kids, for now she's in total control of The Gotham State Pen! Furthermore, unknown to The Dynamic Duo, that "curious" trustee planted a timebomb inside The Batmobile, thus it has been rigged to explode once it reaches 60mph!moreless
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      • Ma Parker and her felonious family are loosely based on the real gangstress Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Fred. They teamed up with Alvin Karpis and several other criminals forming The Barker-Karpis Gang which rampaged across the Midwest from 1931 to 1935. While the Parker family characters are based on "Ma" Barker's sons, the names of those sons come from a variety of sources. The Mad Dog Parker name is lifted from the 1941 movie classic High Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart who played the desperate gangster Roy "Mad Dog" Earle. Machine Gun Parker's moniker comes from Machine Gun Kelly , a notorious criminal during the Prohibition Era who spent 17 years on Alcatraz Island into his old age where he became known as "Pop Gun Kelly." Pretty Boy Parker comes from Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a notorious American bank robber who was gunned in East Livermore, Ohio by local law enforcers and FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis on October 22, 1934.

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      • Narrator: Ma Parker ruling the Pen! Dynamite in the engine! Will the Batmobile be blasted? Will the Boy Wonder be bombed? Will Batman be blown to bits? It can't be true! Or can it? Don't miss the next Bat-Episode! Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel!

      • Batman: This criminal record is incredible. How, gentlemen, how has this Ma Parker remained at large? Gordon: She's crafty. She's clever but most of all, she's motherly.

      • Batman: Ma Parker's girl is more dangerous than her three boys. Robin: Her legs reminded me of Catwoman's. Batman: You're growing up, Robin. But remember, in crimefighting always keep your sights raised.

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      • Mad Dog Parker shoves a sliced piece of grapefruit into his sister's face. This act alludes to a scene in the 1931 gangster film Public Enemy , where Tom Powers (played by the late legendary James Cagney) pushes half a slice of grapefruit into the face of Kitty (played by the late Mae Clarke). This piece of screen history was improvised by Cagney and Clarke as a practical joke on the set for the crew, but Director William Wellman eventually kept the shot in the film. At the time that scene caused a public outcry for it to be censored.

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