Best way to watch this show as an adult

Some people need it to handle the absurdity of the show, hehehe. Young kids are immune to the cheesiness, so they can watch with no booze like you can ;)

Ditto.

If you need alcohol for something, you're probably an alcoholic.

I don't know what there is to resent. It like many other shows from the 1960's are a product of the time. The way stories are told changes over time. What we see as humor changes over time. As immense as Seinfeld was 30 years ago most people are not that amused anymore over it. Nobody constructed Batman as an attempt to offend anyone. Further, it had to draw ratings to insure its remaining on television then. Sometimes intellect is sacrificed to a degree to make a show relatable to the widest audience possible. Also, fiction seldom matches the intelligence of real life. Shows such as All in the Family were huge ratings successes because they pretty much reflected real life. Father in law bumping heads with not like minded son in law. Happens all the time in everyday life. Start talking about a man chasing crooks while wearing a cape and tights. 99.9 percent of the public does not know how to construct a believable story from week to week and that often includes the people in charge of producing the program. Sometimes a person can sit back and enjoy the ride and sometimes they cannot.

What's ironic about this series was, it helped inspire more things like the 1989 Batman film, and the early 90s cartoon series.

Exactly This is proper batman as the comic books intended!
(I imagine)

all that later gravelly voice serious stuff is just a bolt on .
hence they have to stick with the cheesy cartoon villians

Interesting thing is the massive popularity of the show helped save the Batman comics.

Readership was way down so DC was going to stop publishing them. But when the show became a hit, readership skyrocketed.

I think it would depend on the rules of the drinking game.