When Daytime TV host Harleen Quinzell is canceled from her television program for ambushing Bruce Wayne, Joker takes an interest and decides to groom her as his new partner in crime, Harley Quinn.
 Danielle Judovits |
Barbara Gordon / Batgirl |
Evan Sabara |
Dick Grayson / Robin |
Rino Romano |
Bruce Wayne / Batman |
 Hynden Walch |
Harley Quinn |
Guest Star |
Sean Donnellan |
Mr. Herbert |
Guest Star |
Christie Mellor |
Female Caller |
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 Kevin Michael Richardson |
the Joker |
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TRIVIA (6)
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Harley's persona before joining The Joker is different than her persona from Batman: TAS. In this episode, she's a TV psychiatrist, while in Batman: TAS, she was a psychiatrist at Arkham who fell in love with The Joker.
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When Harley detonates a bomb to threaten the studio audience, a young man is seen with the Superman logo on his shirt.
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Harley's costume, while based on the Batman: TAS original, has some noticeable differences. Both the clownish headdress and white color are much larger, the inverted diamond pattern scheme (seen on the original's thighs and shoulders) is nonexistent, and instead of a red and black motif, the checkered suit is more red and dark-red.
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The song that Joker and Harley sing, "Setting the Woods on Fire," was originally sung by Hank Williams.
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A hint of the abusive relationship between the Joker and Harley is shown in this episode.
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When Batman tosses Harley towards Robin, we see she is almost a head taller than him, a 12 year old boy, but in the close up they are eye to eye. Funny because she doesn't seem specially short for a young adult woman nowhere else in the episode.
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QUOTES (14)
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Joker: I don't know why, but this painting always makes me laugh. Punch, Judy, wrap it up. It'll look nice in the bathroom.
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Harley: It's bad enough the network executives said I wasn't a real psychiatrist. They said I was a joke.
Joker: I happen to like jokes. -
Harley: Has anyone ever survived a night out with you?
Joker: There's a first time for everything. -
Robin: The neighbors say they saw the doctor leave freely with Mr. J. I wonder what he could want with her.
Batman: He saw a vulnerable person he could manipulate. Someone good for a few laughs until he got bored.
Batgirl: (picking up a banana peel) ... And join us again next week when Batman analyzes the Freudian implications of Penguin's umbrella! -
Joker: Oh. So, you're stringing old Mr. J along just to write some tell old book?
Harley: I'll split the profits with you fifty-fifty.
Joker: (laughs) You've got moxie! ... I feed moxie to the hyenas. -
Harley Quinn: (to the network executives) So, you didn't like my show? Well, try this one! (calls the hyenas) When animals attack people I hate! It's a comedy!
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The Joker: Pop psychology at its worst! That girl's theories are unfounded, her professional manner's a joke and her training, if any, is shoddy at best. I love this show! The girl is more screwloose than me!
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Harley: You bats aren't gonna take down my show!
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Robin: Don't move.
Batgirl: (while trapped under debris) Very funny. -
Batgirl: (to Harley) You're canceled. Again.
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(Watching Harley Quinn attacking Dr. Blaine's show)
Bruce Wayne: Let's go.
Dick Grayson: What, we can't wait for the commercial? -
Harley Quinn: That's what I want! To get back at those jerks! I was trying to help people, and now I'm a bad guy?
The Joker: More of an accomplice, actually. -
Joker: I don't know why, but this painting always makes me laugh. Punch, Judy, wrap it up. It'll look nice in the bathroom.
Batgirl: Bathroom? (attacks Punch) I consider the bathroom to be more of a library than art gallery. -
Batgirl: He's faced some pretty nasty sneak attacks, but nothing like this.
Robin: We have to save him.
Batgirl: It's too late, Robin. There's nothing we can do.
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NOTES (9)
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The Joker's hyenas return. They were last seen in "The Laughing Cats".
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Commissioner Gordon makes a brief cameo in this episode when Punch and Judy are being arrested, but does not have any dialogue.
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This is the third origin story Paul Dini has written for Harley. The first was "Mad Love", a comic that became an episode for Gotham Knights, and the second was "Batman: Harley Quinn", another one-shot set during the "No Man's Land" storyline which formally introduced the character into the primary Batman comic book canon.
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The song Joker and Harley sing on their night out is "Settin' the Woods on Fire", written by Fred Jones and Ed Nelson in 1952.
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Alfred is absent for the fourth time this season.
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First time any characters in the show feature in a musical montage. A duet, too.
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UK airdate: 24th January, 2007.
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The Joker, Punch, and Judy all return for the second time this season. The first was in "Clayfaces".
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Harley Quinn is introduced.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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Bud and Lou, the Joker's pet hyenas, are named after famed comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
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Dr. Blaine is a parody of TV psychologist, Dr. Phil.
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