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Batman: The Animated Series Season 3 Episode 4

Baby-Doll

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AIRED: 10/1/94

The starts of a former TV show are kidnapped and all the clues point to an innocent looking young girl. However, Batman soon finds out that she is not that innocent as she seems.

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A mediocre episode with a terrific ending that makes it all worth it.

8.0

By Horyzun, Apr 11, 2008

Baby-Doll is one of those villains that is hard to take seriously. She's not a physical threat and its hard to believe that she would ever be seen as an authority figure in a group of criminals. However, her mental state, being the sole captivating aspect of her, is the hook that keeps you watching this episode. "Baby-Doll" once again gives a showing of Batman's cleverness (he draws a crowd of kids and teeneagers towards him when Baby-Doll tries to blend in with the rest of the children) and also gives a peak into the humane side of Batman, especially towards the end, and its the ending that really makes this one worth viewing. It truly is one of the best finales in the series.moreless
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9.8

By DarthFreeza, Feb 19, 2008

Another great episode. Baby Doll was a dramatic funny character who added something enw to the table. They drifted away from all of the original Rogues Gallery from one episode and introduced someone new. Baby Doll. Her origin seemed great. I'd never heard of a disease that would stop you from aging but whether that is too far fetched or not I don't care. This episode had a perfect ending. One of the best. Baby seeing herself in the funky mirror was so sad. Baby Doll is one of my favorite villains. I havn't yet seen the episode with her in Gotham Knights and hope too soon.moreless
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Mary Louise Dahl was a famous child star of the hit comedy That's Our Baby. Striken with systemic hypoplasia, a disease that stopped Dahl aging at 6. She lose her tv show. And with it all her fans. Now Baby Doll taking it all back anyway she can get it.moreless

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By Serious, Aug 16, 2006

This episode is very sad. Mary Dahl isn't truly evil like a lot of Batman's villians. She very much misunderstood. She had an acting career that she loved. She felt she was capable of so much more. Yet due to the disease systemic hypoplasia. She was trapped in the body of a six year old. No one would take her acting serious. She fell into a deep depression and eventually insanity. She then started to believe that her show was real and that her tv family had abandonned her. She kidnapped them all back to a replica of the set from the show "That's our baby" However Batman and Robin come to save the other actors.

This episode has one of the most eloquent monologues as Baby Doll reverts to Mary Dahl when confronted by her own image in a funhouse mirror. Mary sees herself as a fully grown 20 year old woman. She then reveals the inner pain and anguish she feels in her adult voice. Screaming "Why couldn't you let me make believe!" She then starts shooting her gun not at Batman but at the mirror images that mock her with the body she will never have. and in a grief stricken voice she say her famous catchphase from her tv show. "I didn't mean to..." and sobbing into Batman's arms.

This episode is has a very humorous side and yet so full of deep emotions. Batman understands that Dahl isn't to blame for her actions. And seeks to help her. I can't find a single flaw with this episode. Its perfect.moreless
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Loren Lester	Dick Grayson / Robin
Bob Hastings	Commissioner Jim Gordon
Kevin Conroy	Bruce Wayne / Batman

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Judy Strangis	Tammy Vance	Guest Star
Tasia Valenza	Mariam	Guest Star
Robbie Rist	Brian Daily	Guest Star
Robert Costanzo	Detective Harvey Bullock	Recurring Role
Mari Devon	Summer Gleeson	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- When Baby Doll put the bomb in the cake, why didn't she or her goons make any effort to get away from it, given the size of the explosion it gave off?
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QUOTES (4)
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- Robin: I remember this show from when I was a kid. It still stinks.
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- Robin: (After watching Baby Doll's TV show) You remember the one time Poison Ivy tried to smother us with those vines? With the really sharp thorns?
  Batman: Yes?
  Robin: This......is worse.
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- Dahl: (to Batman) Why couldn't you just let me make believe?!
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- Robin: (Mariam kicks Robin around) Wow, lady! You're good!
  Mariam: It's a living...
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NOTES (2)
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- This episode is episode 20 on the Batman: The Animated Series Volume 3 DVD.
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- Baby Doll's disease is similar to the affliction suffered by the late actor Gary Coleman.
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ALLUSIONS (3)
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- The character of Spunky is very obviously modeled after Robbie Rist, who played the character of Cousin Oliver in the final season of the Brady Bunch and has since gone on to become a musician. Ironically, Rist did voiceover for a completely different character in this episode.
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- Baby Doll is a take off of the character Baby Jane Hudson from "Whatever happened to Baby Jane?"
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- Gilligan's Island Mary Dahl's goons look an awful lot like Gilligan and the Skipper from Gilligan's Island.
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