Episode Summary
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The Clown Prince Of Crime, The Joker, attempts to undermine student morale at Woodrow Roosevelt High School in order to recruit high school dropouts for his gang of Bad Pennies by rigging the school vending machines to give out silver dollars and negotiable stocks and bonds instead of milk. Alerted by Commissioner Gordon, Batman races out to the school. An immediate assembly is made by the school's student leaders: including Richard "Dick" Grayson, Pete, and Susie, the school's head cheerleader. Batman shows up to show slides of mug shots of The Joker, when suddenly, out of the blue, he pops up right in full view of everyone! The Batman attempts to arrest him for loitering on school grounds, but The Joker manages to get off on a mere technicality. Meanwhile, across Gotham City, a bar is held up by a gimmicked jukebox which when activated spouts a double-barrel shotgun; then two stocking-masked hoodlums, actually two of Joker's Bad Pennies, Nick and Two-Bits, rush in to rob the bar's receipts from the register!
The Joker reconvenes with Nick and Two-Bits at their hideout, The One-Armed Bandit Novelty Company; unbeknownst to everyone else, Susie is also a member of The Joker's Bad Pennies! She arranges to swipe some important exam papers to that The Joker can use them in a blackmail scheme, and also leads The Dynamic Duo into a trap set by The Joker. The Homicidal Harlequin and his Bad Pennies snag The Duo with one of the rigged vending machines which, instead of giving out silver dollars, locks them in shackles and emits sleeping gas! Batman and Robin are transferred to the inside of an insidious moving van, where they are strapped to electric chairs; on the wall is a one-armed bandit, which when activated will release instant and inescapable 50,000 lethal volts of electricity should it turn up three lemons!!!!moreless
The Joker reconvenes with Nick and Two-Bits at their hideout, The One-Armed Bandit Novelty Company; unbeknownst to everyone else, Susie is also a member of The Joker's Bad Pennies! She arranges to swipe some important exam papers to that The Joker can use them in a blackmail scheme, and also leads The Dynamic Duo into a trap set by The Joker. The Homicidal Harlequin and his Bad Pennies snag The Duo with one of the rigged vending machines which, instead of giving out silver dollars, locks them in shackles and emits sleeping gas! Batman and Robin are transferred to the inside of an insidious moving van, where they are strapped to electric chairs; on the wall is a one-armed bandit, which when activated will release instant and inescapable 50,000 lethal volts of electricity should it turn up three lemons!!!!moreless
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Donna LorenSusie
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Kip KingNick
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GUEST STAR
Greg BenedictTwo Bits
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Adam West
Bruce N. Wayne/Batman
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William Dozier
Narrator
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Alan Napier
Alfred Pennyworth
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Stafford Repp
Chief O'Hara
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Madge Blake
Aunt Harriet Cooper [Seasons 1-2]
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Burt Ward
Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin: The Boy Wonder
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TRIVIA (1)
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This is Cesar Romero's 3rd appearance as the Joker. He previously appeared in The Joker Is Wild & Batman Is Riled.
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QUOTES (4)
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Narrator: Horrors!! One Lemon!! Double Horrors!! Double Horrors!! Two Lemons!! And if it's a third...instant and inescapable 50,000 volts!! Close your eyes! Who dares to see it?? Try us tomorrow! Same Bat-Time!! Same Bat-Channel!!
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Joker: (Answering his phone) Hello, hello? Give me the sign. Susie: How do you stop a dog from barking in July? Joker: Countersign. Shoot him in June. (laughs) Susie: Listen Joker, Batman and Robin just pulled up. Joker: What?! The Dynamic Duo at school? Susie: That's right Joker. What should I do, take it on the lam?
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(After Bruce is asked to run for mayor) Aunt Harriet: It's funny. He comes to you with the same offer every two years. You'd think they'd get it through their heads you're not interested.
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Batman: And if it comes up 3 lemons, which the odds are most likely it will? Joker: If it comes up 3 lemons, 50,000 volts of electricity. Robin: Holy fruit salad! Batman: No thanks, I don't believe in gambling.
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NOTES (4)
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Donna Loren main claim to fame was the fact that she was the only real teenager in the Beach Party films. Donna co-starred with Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon in the following 1964 movies Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party & 1965's Beach Blanket Bingo.
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Linda Harrison later portrayed Nova in the 1968 20th Century-Fox Sci-Fi Classic Planet Of The Apes with Charlton Heston. Ironically, they were the only 2 people that returned to the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg.
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In November 1965, Semple concocted a new villain named The One-Armed Bandit, "whose peculiar kick is gimmicked coin machines of all sorts." The idea ultimately wound up in these episodes with Joker in charge of the One Armed Bandit Novelty Company and vending machines that churned out silver dollars, quarters, answer sheets to exams and knockout gas.
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The Joker originally was scheduled to be the first "Bat Villain" to appear, but a scheduling conflict prevented Cesar Romero from appearing on the debut episode.
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ALLUSIONS (0)
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