The Joker Is Wild

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired
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The Joker espaces after a prison baseball game where he Batman and Robin at a museum and at the opera. Batman and Robin are caught and The Joker makes a move to unmask them.
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  • The Joker as an opera singer...come on

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    By XMLarry, May 10, 2006 Report Abuse
    The Joker escapes from prison, furious that he was not named to the Gotham museums Hall of Comedians. He captures Batman in the museum. Batman escapes with the help of his utility belt which the Joker decries and swears he will never be defeated again by "that contraption". So he makes his own utility belt. But when he tries to unmask Batman and Robin in the opera theater before a TV audience the utility belt foils him again. The series is still a lot like the dark atmosphere that they comic books are; the campiness hasn't quite kicked in yet. All in all a fairly good episode.moreless

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  • The Joker escapes from prison to avenge his exclusion from a museum exhibit. After being thwarted by Batman's utility belt, he devises one of his own to combat the Caped Crusader.moreless

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    By jboehner, Aug 16, 2005 Report Abuse
    The best Joker outings of the series. Cesar Romero\'s portrayal is not nearly as goofy as later outings. He seems to be a touch more malevolent than he became in later episodes. The writers did a great job of expanding on the original comic book story. The death trap was not as bizarre as some of them.

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    • When Bruce and Dick head to the Bat poles, a clip from the pilot episode is used to show the book case revealing the secret Bat poles. This is evident as the bookcase prop was different in the pilot episode to the rest of the series (including this episode).

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    • This is one of the very few times when a villain, having Batman and Robin (or at least one of them) in their clutches, actually thought to remove the masks and expose them. Edit
    • As Chief of Police, O'Hara should know better than to give away evidence as souveniors, even if he didn't like the look of it. Edit

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    • In 1959, Cesar Romero had a run-in with another famous caped crusader, as Estevan de la Cruz, a guest character on the ''Zorro'' television series created by Walt Disney. Interestingly enough, the character of Zorro was the prime inspiration for the creation of the character of Batman. Edit

    • Heath Ledger would go on to portray the Joker in the 2008 movieThe Dark Knightprior to his death on January 22, 2008.

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    • Jack Nicholson played the Joker in the 1989 movie Batman.

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    • Narrator: Could this mean curtains?? Will the identities of our Dynamic Duo be revealed to the whole world?? Is this the end of their career as crimefighters?? Can they avert disaster?? Answers...Tomorrow Night! Same Time, Same Channel! Edit
    • The Joker: (Laughing) And now, people of Gotham City, the moment you have all been waiting for. (Still laughing) The grand finale! The climax of my performance! The zenith of my career! The unmasking of Batman and Robin the boy wonder! Edit

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