Backstory is very important to adventure stories and graphic novels. Additional information on the origin and nature of a character can add a great deal to the story, making it more enjoyable and involving for the fans.
You won't find any of that here.
This attempt at a sidebar to the well-known Batman and Company tales would be a stinker even if the acting were good. Which it isn't.
The title character just wanders around getting into one pointless scrape after another. There's a disgusting scene where she is captured by a devious scientist, and the way out involves wiggling of a preternaturally creepy sort. Trust me. Don't eat any large meals after watching this film.
It gets so bad that by the end, the 'Bots are literally screaming for mercy.
If you want to see bats in action, you'd be better off going to the zoo.moreless
Episode Summary
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Movie Plot: The Wild World of Batwoman Batwoman and her girls thwart the efforts of a mad scientist. Also riffed was the short: "Cheating". Intro: The crew plays blackjack and Crow keeps asking Mike to hit him. Segment One: Frank invents the Atomic Hair Dryer. Mike invents the Razorback, a razor for back hair. Dr. Forrester's hair turns out to be a mushroom cloud. Segment Two: Mike decides to have the 'bots write essays on cheating. Crow is not paying attention. Segment Three: The 'bots present essays on cheating. Crow copies Gypsy's word for word. Tom wants to stone Crow. Segment Four: The rest of the crew tries to decide how to deal with Crow's cheating problem. Tom cries out for severe punishment. Segment Five: Crow takes responsibility for his actions, sort of. Dr. Forrester's new hair causes Frank to run away screaming. Stinger: A batgirl puts the bite on a wormy guy.moreless
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Trace Beaulieu
Crow T. Robot [0-7] & Dr. Clayton Forrester [0-7]
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Michael J. Nelson
Mike Nelson [5-10]
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Mary Jo Pehl
Magic Voice [4-7] & Pearl Forrester [7-10]
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Kevin Murphy
Tom Servo [2-10], Professor Bobo [8-10] & Cambot
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Jim Mallon
Gypsy [1-8]
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Frank Conniff
TV's Frank [2-6]
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TRIVIA (1)
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When Tiger leads his batgirl through the caverns, the scenes switch to scenes from The Mole People, which Mike and the 'bots riffed on in season 8.
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QUOTES (31)
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Mike: (as the batgirls dance carrying guns) Now, this is how the NRA wants the world to look. And, frankly...
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Crow: (as Ratfink grabs a girl) When Gidget meets Zorro!
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Tom: (as the batgirls drink their 'blood') Vampirism, it does a body good!
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(as one of Ratfink's henchmen passes out some "spiked soup") Tom: LSD 25 for you, and you had the LSD 25, um, uh, here... Crow: Hey Hitler, we want our order over here!
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(during a drum scene) Mike: Just when I thought this movie couldn't get any worse Ringo's in it. Crow:(screams quietly)
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Tom: Kill me. Please kill me.
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(near the end of the movie, everyone dances for what seems like forever) Tom: Ennnnd!!!! Ennnnd!!!!!
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Man on phone: He's where? Mike: Up my what?
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(one of the Batgirls shakes her booty) Tom: Whoa, you oughta have that looked at. Mike: I'll look at it.
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Crow: (seeing a beach scene after the explosion) This is my favorite scene so far.
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Tom: (singing) I'll shoot myself if we ever meet again, doesn't matter where, doesn't matter when!!
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Crow: You know a movie is bad, bad, bad if it makes the Monkees look good!
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Batwoman: Stay where you are! Ratfink: All right, I will! Mike: The compliant villain. Can do!
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Ratfink: Never mind the monsters, Neon. Crow: Here's the Sex Pistols.
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(Ratfink's door buzzes) Ratfink: All right, Neon, I'll throw the door current! Tom: I'll do it now! I'm throwing the door current now! Mike: (as Neon, Heathcliff and Bruno enter)...Jingleheimer Schmidt. Hi, we're back from Camp Snoopy!
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(during the seance) Spirit Voice: I am... Crow: Ironman.
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Mike: I have a feeling Satan would regret making this movie.
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Tom: Yes, batgirls come running for the good taste of hot soup.
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Tom: (over a thunderstorm) It was a dark and st-(switches to another scene)...oh.
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Mike: (as Tiger tries to dance) I was going to get through this movie without thinking about his hips, and now this!
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Crow: The first year of bondage is the hardest.
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Mike: It's like a Warhol movie, except it's kinda weird.
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(scene switches from Ratfink's lab to Batwoman's pool with the girls cavorting) Crow: Meanwhile, in a completely different...movie. Tom: I'll say!
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Crow: They just put a bunch of movies in a blender and pressed the mix button!
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(seeing a buxom dancer) Crow: Hey, turn down the highbeams! Tom: Think she rafts much? Wow!
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Mike: (seeing a dancer from behind) That's 40 pounds of butt in 30-pound butt capacity pants!
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Mike: (describing the first dance scene) We're in the middle of a k.d. lang fantasy!
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Mike: (as Ratfink lurks outside ) There's a peeping Zorro outside.
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(as Batwoman answers the phone) Crow: Good morning, College Republicans. Batwoman: Batwoman speaking, who is this? Mike: Wow, it's casual day at Control Data.
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Crow: (in the short, as John picks up the phone) For depressing phone sex, call 1-900-Alfalfa.
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Crow: (as a question mark appears at the end of the short): Riddle me this, Batman!
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NOTES (1)
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This episode is available on VHS and DVD from Rhino Home Video.
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ALLUSIONS (3)
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Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Crow: Maybe it's Rope. Crow's comment is an optimistic reference that the movie they may be seeing is Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope. He is getting this idea because the opening of the film begins with a black frame that turns out to be the back of a characters clothes as she walks forward. In making Rope, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to try and make a movie that was one continuous shot with not edits. However, with the limitations of film reels at the time, it was only possible to have continuous shots of slightly over 10 minutes. This made it necessary to have approximately 8 'cuts'. However, instead of having traditional cuts, Hitchcock chose to end each reel but zooming in on the back of a characters jacket or blouse and then start the next frame by zooming out of the same characters jacket or blouse and continuing the scene as if there had not been any actual stop in the action. -
Sex Pistols: When Ratfink says 'Never mind the monsters, Neon,' Crow says 'Here's the Sex Pistols.' This is a riff on the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols.
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Dr. Strangelove: After the explosion, Tom sings 'I'll shoot myself if we ever meet again, doesn't matter where, doesn't matter when!' to the tune of 'We'll Meet Again,' used at the end of the movie Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
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