Near the end, Yelena asks about the exact value of Pi. Cluemaster, noting that it is non-terminating, is willing to recite "the first 50 - no, 100 digits... 3.14159265..." His next 86 digits are omitted as the Batman fights off his cronies, but Cluemaster's "triumphant" final five digits were "46375." He was pronounced correct and attempted to plunge Yelena and her teammates in a vat of acid, only to be thwarted by the Batman. The problem is that, like Cluemaster's performance in the original "Think, Thank, Thunk" 30 years earlier, he was dead wrong! Digits 96-100 are, in fact, "17067," although had he rounded up from the 101st digit ("9") "17068" would likely have been acceptable. Do the digits "46375" appear in "Pi"? Actually, yes. Digits 1156-1160 of Pi are "46374" unrounded, and since the 1161st digit is "6" the rounded digits are indeed "46375." And the exact digits do appear in unrounded form eventually, although I don't know at exactly what point.
Cluemaster's diet wouldn't let him get as tall as he did. With his weight, he should have died a long time ago from a heart attack, or severe diabetes.
Even given the show's license with physics and the such (like Penguin's martial arts), Cluemaster's build and short legs would prevent him from getting up and walking over to Batman without having his legs or hips shatter under his weight.
The show mentions that Yelena's family defected from the Soviet Union, meaning that the time when Artie got his Kremelos was, at latest, in the 1980's. However, we later see him eat some of them. How did he keep them fresh for so long? (Reply: He should be smart enough to overcome such a simple problem such as food expiration, or they might just simply have the shelf life of uranium.)
In the teaser clip at the beginning, we see Cluemaster behind the wheel of the garbage truck. However, his girth would render him incapable of driving any sort of motor vehicle.
Yelena, during her computerized opening chess match, declares that she is moving her bishop. She then proceeds to check a black square, followed by a white one. This is an impossible move for a bishop, and in fact the move is precisely how a Knight would move in chess.
Artie claims that the show cheated him, but Jupiter's moon (Lysithea) was discovered by S. Nicholson in 1938, not 1937. This means that the game show was right, and Artie really was wrong. (Reply: He's a really sore loser and won't accept the facts. His claim was also based on the fact that Yelena was given easier questions because the producers wanted him to lose.)
When the checker board is set up at the end of the episode, the red checkers are on the black squares, and the black are on the red. There's no way either Alfred or Bruce can win because they can't jump each other. Not to mention the fact that they're playing on a 6x8 board!
Herbert: Who are you? Cluemaster: The man you cheated! (He reveals his face, but there is a long silence as the victims are puzzled) Arthur Brown, from the show!!!
Cluemaster: Relax, Ross. In the spirit of gamesmanship, I'm giving you all a chance to walk away scot-free. If you can defeat me in a re-match.
Cluemaster: At this point of the show, we would usually break for a word from our sponsor -- don't you wish.
Cluemaster: Money will not take away the pain that you have caused me, not even my lifetime suplly of Kremelos! Even though they are creamy and delicious.
Bruce: (about his childhood; why he couldn't play) There was work to do. Alfred: Play is the work of a child.
Alfred: Arthur Brown was undefeatable. Bruce: And obnoxious.
Mrs. Brown: Are you one of Artie's friends? Batman: Uh ... yes. Mrs. Brown: My, you're a big one.
UK airdate: August 3, 2005.
Cartoon Network airdate: May 28, 2005.
Cluemaster was not in any other animated Batman series.
Some of you might know that Glenn Shadix had played another Kids' WB animated villain. He played Tso Lan, the Moon Demon from Jackie Chan Adventures.
Ms. Vintrup from "Call of the Cobblepot" can be seen two seats down from where Bruce was sitting at the concert.
Cluemaster is introduced.
Detectives Yin and Bennett are absent in this episode.
Kremelos: Name An obvious reference to Krispy Kreme donuts.
Sign: Man vs. Machine This is a reference to the 1989, 1996, and 1997 match between world champion Garry Kasparov, and Deep Blue, a 1.4 ton computer built to play chess.
n/a: The Italian Job
The getaway car driven by the Cluemaster's henchmen closely resembles a classic Mini Cooper, and their escape makes direct reference to the movie The Italian Job (1969), in its means of escaping by going into a drainage tube, and weaving around in said tube. In fact, in the 2003 remake, the underground drainage tube was written in to explicitly reference the scene from the original. Also, in the remake, the three Minis make their getaway rolling from a drainage tube, into an above ground drainage ditch.
Batman: Knight takes Bishop.
This is an obvious reference to the Dark Knight himself.
Visual: Batmobile coming out of the fake bus's side
This is a reference to Knight Rider.
Alfred: Like those newfangled extreme game shows from Japan.
Sounds like Alfred's been watching a lot of MXC, a Japanese extreme "game show" where people humiliate themselves and have whatever they say dubbed over with incredibly hilarious and irrelevant comments.
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