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Tyger, Tyger

Season 1, Episode 30, Aired Oct 30, 1992

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- Batman: So, you can talk.
  Tygrus: My father taught me.
  Batman: Your father was a test-tube.
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- Catwoman: Won't you come with us? There's nothing for you here.
  Tygrus: There's nothing for me anywhere.
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Notes
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- This episode is episode 14 on the Batman: The Animated Series Volume 2 DVD.
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- Second appearance of Kirk Langstrom in the series. Here he ends up in a position opposite from his first appearance as a villian to an expert sought by Batman.
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- Although he isn't credited for it, Jim Cummings obviously does the gorilla man, Garth.
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- This is the first real sign of "Splicing" in the DC Animated Universe, a concept more thoroughly explored in the spin-off show Batman Beyond.
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- Marc Singer reprises his role as Dr. Kirk Langstrom from "On Leather Wings."
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Allusions
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- Bride of Frankenstein Dr. Dorian's abducting Selina Kyle to turn her into a mate for his creation Tygrus smacks of Bride of Frankenstein, in which the scientist in that piece also tried to give his "homemade creation" a mate.
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- H.G. Wells's Island of Dr. Moreau The idea of a scientist experimenting on the animal inhabitants of in one island, creating proto-humans, is reminiscent of the science-fiction novel written by H.G. Wells in 1896.
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- William Blake's "The Tyger" This episode is named for a very famous poem by William Blake entitled "The Tyger" which Batman quotes at the end: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
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