You better watch your ass.

Do I Look like An Idiot?

If you aren't Adam West, then - yes, yes you do.

Oh, and the "Batman Power" hand gesture doesn't help at all.

What does that button do?

The Emergency Bat-Turn Lever releases the twin emblem-sporting Deist parachutes to perform the awesome Bat-Turn.

The Parachute Jettison Button does just that — jettison those parachutes to be picked up later by the Batmobile Parachute Pickup Service.

Every citizen, even Batman, must do their part to curtail pollution and litter.

Arsenal Against Crime

I've got my wallet, my phone, my Chapstick, a micro uniball pen, and $2.48 cents in change in various pockets. I had to leave my laser torch and rebreathing apparatus at home 'cause I don't have any room for them on my person. Not to mention the two-way radio and the Batarang...

I guess Batman really doesn't need a wallet - obviously he doesn't want you to see his ID, and I guess millionaires just don't need money or receipts or a Starbuckscard.

Meet "Jan And Dean Meet Batman."

I'd love to write this working on the assumption that everyone agrees that Jan & Dean are geniuses and everything they ever touched was brilliant. But some people say this is the worst record they've ever heard.

Back in 1966, Jan Berry loved the Batman show and it inspired an entire LP of songs and skits.

Trouble was, a weird legal mess made Batman-inspired songs OK, but the sketches couldn't refer to the Dynamic Duo. So the record places sketches about Captain Jan and Dean The Boy Blunder in-between songs about the Caped Crusader. It's a little disjointed, but it presents a type of comedy that Firesign Theater would later do so well.

A few months later, Jan would have that tragic wreck in his Corvette.

There's a bootleg out there that contains the original Batman-themed sketches.

Ever Wish...

...you were Michael Rennie?



From Wikipedia:

"The British actor Michael Rennie worked as a car salesman and factory manager before he turned to acting. A meeting with a Gaumont-British casting director led to Rennie's first acting job - that of stand-in for Robert Young in Alfred Hitchcock Secret Agent (1936) . He put his film career on hold for a few years to get some acting experience on the stage, working in repertory in York and Windsor. Afterwards, he returned to films and achieved star status in I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945). In 1951, he was brought to Hollywood by Darrel Zanuck at 20th Century Fox, cast in arguably his most popular role as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), now considered a science fiction classic. After that he worked as a supporting actor for eight years until his return to England in 1959. At that time, he took the lead role of Harry Lime in the television series "The Third Man" (1959). Throughout his career, he made numerous guest appearances on television, particularly on American programs."

Like "Batman."

He died of emphysema in 1971.

And once, he said this:

"I suppose women find me attractive because I am polite, charming, courteous...a gentleman. My romantic reputation is an exaggeration. The realities are a bit different."

AND - and most importantly, he got to hang out with Catwoman...

And for that, I wish I were him. Jus' sayin'.

Holy Crayola!

When I was a kid, I really dug Batman coloring books. I'd have them out while watching the show every afternoon at my grandparents' house in Strawn, Texas. The trouble with coloring Batman is you gotta have a fancy box of crayons to get the gray one.

Here's a couple I remember, and a couple I don't. This is by no means all of them.





In the 70s, a series called Giant Comics To Color came out, where basically you got a big black and white comic book, which you then screwed up by trying to color it. And there was a mask on the back cover!