Top 10 Worst Episodes - Batman: The Animated Series (1992) Discussion

[–] jamieparsons1 8 years ago

Prophecy Of Doom
The Clock King
Terrible Trio
Fire from Olympus
Moon of the Wolf
Time Out of Joint
Lock-up
The Underdwellers
Worry Men
Tyger Tyger

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[–] justinboggan 8 years ago

For me the worst episodes of the original sixty-five are:

"Tyger Tyger"
"Moon of the Wolf"
"Fear of Victory"

Special mention to:
"The Underdwellers"
"The Worry Men"
"Lock-Up"

I'm tempted to also mention "Baby Dall".

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7703) 6 years ago

I will agree Fear of Victory was a weak one. They did make up for it though with the awesome episode Dreams in Darkness. Night of the wolf is one that I don't care for mainly because I don't think a werewolf is something that fits in Batman's world. Same with the Manbat episode. Maybe that's funny to some since I like Clayface which is also somewhat supernatural but it's how I feel.

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[–] daredevil1 (182) a year ago

I love Dreams in Darkness. FoV is pretty solid due to the animation- that scene where the guy walks through Arkham to confront Crane is nightmare fuel.

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[–] gcarras (2770) 6 years ago

This was a very interesting show..you got some Adam West (always a :) causer!), you get a lot of gritty, excellent 40s or deco,layout and IMMESENLY(!) interesting variety of radio type large casts! Even some "squeaky" voiced favorites Arleen Sorkin (from the 1986-1990 Duet/Open House, whose long lasting gift was the still big Ellen De Generes..imagine what "Dory" fish a now obscure 1980s show hjad wrung, and one of a handful of the decade's shows I loved, and as such was quite unerraed)..then you got Twin peaks's Kimmy Robertson, for another high pitch girl part, then aside from that character voice type once another girl part, you (for a show so late) even the otherwise non_WB , but very active 1970s Hanna Barbera teen-twenties actress Judy Strangis, for the girl parts..

Too many male parts, to mention, bhut I noticed two Alfred voices!! (Even radio used to do this..Duffy's Tavern, whcih Hannap-Barbera's private eye big city cat and mouth slueth Super Snooper got his voice (Daws Butler) from (the lead, the bartender, Archie) for the major female costar, the "unwed daughter/.spinster",(fill in choice term) had a handful of actors.)

Oh yeah, and relevant, my first paragraph, mentioned some..

The "Peaks" Kimmy one:
The Alice in Wonderland-relative one.

Arleen Sorkin was Harley Quinn..loved thsoe

and of COURSE ADAM WEST PLAYED A FRIEND OF BATMAN!! :) GUESS who HE PLAYED!!

In contrast, ironically, to the other shows WB had, for cartoons then, a GREAT show, even fun and always INVENTIVE!!

(no real overrated ones but I picked some that I like 1st.para.)

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[–] HarlemEagle42 (17770) 5 years ago

Yeah pretty solid countdown. The basement episode is something of a guilty pleasure though.

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[–] vitocorleone08 (37) 4 years ago

1.I've Got Batman in My Basement
2.The Cat and the Claw-weakest two parter, weak as introduction to Catwoman..one of the verz few things that i think this show could do better is Catwoman
3.Prophecy of Doom
4.Eternal Youth-morre meh than terrible
5.Tyger Tyger
6.Moon of the Wolf
7.Fire from Olympus
8.The Terrible Trio
9.Blind as a Bat
10.The Cat abd the claw part 2

there are few other episodes that are imo really weak, like Lion and unicorn, Batgirl Returns is kinda meh, but even the epsiodes that are not that great are still entertaining(for example, STange secret of Bruce Wayne, as Hugo STarnge epsiode, you can even argue that it's not god at all, but trio of villains make it much better)..Fear of victory to me was saved by scene in Asylum..sometimes just small touches can save epsiode from being worthless..

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[–] TMC-4 (20153) a year ago

The WORST Episode of Batman The Animated Series | I've Got Batman In My Basement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp6LtXJ6uKs

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:54 The worst parts
2:32 Its legacy
3:16 Bruce Timm's opinion
4:08 How did this happen?
6:40 The problem with The Penguin
7:38 Conclusion

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[–] daredevil1 (182) a year ago

That's actually a pretty decent list. I hated the 'monster of the week' ones because they ate up valuable time that could've been spent making a cool Riddler mystery, or the final fate of Two Face, etc. Baby Doll was annoying, Dini's worst excesses. He makes it cringe and then expects us to applaud the pathos in the last minute of the episode. Nah.

I will say I think 3/4 of TNBA is far and away worse than anything BTAS did, with ol' gargoyle Bruce Wayne and his pompadour. I really dislike Critters, Cult of the Cat, Girls Night Out, Chemistry quite a bit.

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