Ep. 115: Best Batman Actor Ranked! Who Wins?

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Chitty bang bang. It's the every two weeks Sunday night chit-chat session. That's right. We get together, we hang out. It's our time that we just love to spend with us, ourselves, and you all. Yeah. So jump in the chat. We are going to be talking about... Uh, a lot about Batman tonight, just because again, yesterday was Batman day and I don't think we've done a Batman centric episode before. No, we've talked about our love for Batman and all things Batman. We're all fans of Batman. So yeah, absolutely. Hey, before we get started, I did throw a little video into the, speaking of the front porch on Facebook, you know, of King Chuck over there in England. He gave us a shout out, you know, Birmingham, Alabama. Oh, yes. Yeah. Did you put that in there? Did Bo? I did. Jess did. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I thought Bo did. No. I reacted to it. Yeah. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah. So we got a shout out from all the way over in England by the king himself. From Birmingham, England to Birmingham, Alabama. Yeah. Come over and see us sometime. Or don't. Can we get you on the podcast? What are you talking to him about? Why wouldn't you want a king on the podcast? I'd rather have King Booker. Well, that's my breakfast buddy. Shucky ducky. Maybe next time we're having omelets, you know, at the, at the hotel. Yeah. King Charles. How's your, how's your ears doing, man? Sir, you have a twin named Senator Tuberville. I didn't say that. I said, sir. I didn't call you out. Yeah. She didn't understand. Yeah. I'm cutting off your internet. Goodbye. You have disparaged the royal sire. okay don't do it again all right good so so uh yeah we're just uh we're gonna chit chat about the batman and uh please uh feel free to jump into the chat throw your two cents in we're gonna gonna we're gonna talk about all uh all the actors maybe some gadgets batmobiles just whatever comes to our mind we're just gonna shoot the breeze about the dark knight for for about an hour or so And I told, we were talking in our members only episode that we recorded beforehand. There's a, in the Birmingham area down around Hoover, there is a new, a new store that to us, new to us. Believe me, this place ain't new. It's called on a shoestring antique store. And I didn't show this off. I have not alluded to it, but I did find a, something i found a mug yesterday we were talking about coffee mugs in the members only chat we were talking about the store i did find a mug of the greatest detective dartwing duck no no found a warren baity dick tracy mug wow wow yeah that is incredible that's something that had to be at the disney store probably yeah it was made by applause yeah so but yeah got warren baity i had to show that one off that that was our purchase yeah that was the one purchase we did yesterday yeah so all right we will go that one doesn't look very practical to drink out of though no no it's i really i don't want to I don't want to get that close to Warren Beatty's face, honestly. Who does? Annette did. Madonna did, apparently. Yeah, well, a lot of women did. Warren was known for his womanizing. He got around much more effectively than Lenny Kravitz. Yeah. lennie mike i'm sorry ghostbusters reference or ghostbusters reference yeah hey so all right Oh, nice one. Yeah. Skylar Brock was going to get that mug sooner or later. That's right. Yes. I just, we were just walking around that antique store yesterday and I was like, I just, he was over in a nook. It's just like, there's that's Dick Tracy. Yeah. We were just talking about him at dragon con. I got to get that. Yeah. There's been a lot of Dick Tracy discussions going on the last couple of weeks. It's reignited. It's meant to be. Yeah. You want to tell them about what you got? Also your Dick Tracy, you know, I know you don't have it handy. I don't have a handy in order to see, uh, Dick Tracy in the theaters on opening night, you had to purchase a, uh, t-shirt that act as a ticket. It says I was there, uh, Opening night. Did they also tear it? Yeah. It's not Hulk Hogan. But no, I found one in my size that has never been opened. Oh, wow. And so I got it and the dude sent along the newspaper clippings from that night that had the ad in it. And even on the, uh, there's a ticket silhouette, a yellow ticket silhouette above it. And on it has his theater stamped on it. The address of the theater. Oh, that's wow. Yeah. I wish I would have thought to bring it in. I just now, I just now thought about it when we were talking about the coffee cup. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty cool though. So, yeah, I've gotten back on a Dick Tracy mild kick. Mild. So, but let's talk about the other. Well, it kind of coincides because they, you know, the whole Dick Tracy around the whole eighty nine Batman thing, you know, that was a discussion. So, yeah, it all kind of ties together. Yeah, sure. So we were just thinking, you know, talking about. Batman and the live action Batmans, you know, or, you know, a certain voice actor or two that's really good as Batman. Right. So I, you know, I kind of want Bo to kick this conversation off. Oh, you want me to start off? Hey, however you feel, sir. You get the ball rolling. I mean, of course, you know, if we're talking favorite Batman, just because, you know, that's, you know, he's the one of our age. I mean, and a lot of people are ages de facto. It's Keaton, of course. Right. One hundred percent Keaton. I mean. The guy that was originally not nobody really wanted him to play Batman has now become, I guess, the. He is Batman. Yes, he is Batman. That's that's a great thing about like a lot of these actors, you know, over time, you know, they get tired of it or whatever. He's cool with it. I mean, he many times he does something. He said he's Batman many times he can. I mean. Yeah. But yeah, Keaton, but I don't want to jump around. Like I said, we'll stay with live action. Like I said, then if we move to animated or whatever, but I mean. Oh, we will. It's okay. Yeah. I want to say Keaton. I like Keaton. Keaton, of course, Keaton's de facto. If we're doing ranking then. But like I said, the cool thing about. Well, let's. What if we just discuss them all and then give our. There you go. We can talk since he brought up Michael Keaton. We can start there. Hey, Game Freakness. Welcome back. Christian Bale is my favorite. He's a good one, too. He's fantastic. Uh-oh. We went quiet. We went quiet. Every time I see Christian Bale... Keaton's for our generation. He was the first, I guess, the... I don't know what you would say the pop culture Batman. He was the first pop culture Batman of our generation. He is the Batman that started the superhero. Yeah. Being okay. Yeah. In movies. I mean, you know, he was granted that, you know, When you think of Batman, no, you don't think of Michael Keaton. He's not the most physically imposing type of gentleman to be playing Batman. But I think psychologically, he was... He played it very well. Um, he was, I think he was, uh, you know, he's calculating, eccentric, tortured. I mean, it's, you know, while some Batman actors play Batman as the real guy, you know, he played Bruce Wayne. He, I think he did better on the Bruce Wayne side, um, of things. I would agree. Welcome in Bama, Freddie. Ken is my Batman, but Affleck was the best all around Batman and Bruce. Affleck was really good. yeah i i i don't want to jump around but i want to say athlete probably has one of the best fight sequences as a batman oh gosh yes yeah warehouse where they rescue martha yes like that's that's yeah you say what you will about that batman but that those movies but that that sequence was one of the strong points yeah yeah well and him facing off with with you know superman of course that was insane Yeah, we're going to jump around, guys. Yeah. Again, Freakness says, Pete Holmes is my second favorite. That's the one who did the college humor skits. He did the Batman voice. Oh, okay. I was like, I was trying to figure that out. Yeah, but like I said, I think, you know, while he's iconic, the Batsuit, the whole, you know, the vision, the visual of him in the Batsuit. I mean, I still think that he did better playing the Bruce Wayne side of it. Keaton? Yeah, Bruce Wayne. I mean, he played Bruce Wayne first and Batman second to me. The Batman identity was the means to an end. Other than that, like maybe Adam West. You know, I mean, he also did, you know, with the, with the, with the show. But I mean, I think he, I think the biggest thing about Keaton is he said he kind of set the standard for movies. Yeah. With that, you know, cause I mean, obviously that was what made superheroes. Okay. And the movies. Are you talking about his Bruce Wayne? Like I think Batman returns did a better job with that. His eternal struggle of, you know, especially like when he was trying to connect with Selena, you know, there are two people tore between two parts of their life. Yeah. Yeah. That's where, like I said, I think it was Bruce Wayne kicked in real heavy. It was in Batman Returns. Yeah. Yeah, Keaton was my... I mean, I have been a Batman fan ever since I can remember. Batman and Star Trek are the first two loves of my life. And, you know, I grew up watching the Adam West Batman, so I love him. But Keaton really... don't know there was just something about it that darkness uh and the black suit and and pairing him with with nicholson as the joker oh my gosh well and tim burton was perfect for that yeah because you know he was he just like that all of his movies are some sort of darkness you know he always has some sort of dark feel you know a theme to it so it's it just worked out really well like that that whole movie all those movies just synergized really well with all the characters Yeah. Game Freakness says, I hope you do a Joker ranking soon. Depends on how long this takes. We might do it tonight. We can do all kinds of Batman. It's Batman Day, but we can do Batman talk. That's a good point, Keaton. That is true. Because he kind of took over after because the only big exposure people had Batman was the zaniness of of of sixty six. Yeah. which was awesome. It was amazing, but it was comic book. It was zany. Then it got, oh man, this is serious. You're telling me that comic book characters can be serious? That's what started that. He was the campiness of the sixties too. What we saw from that era that it was presented in as well, I believe too. The Batusi. Yeah. Yeah. I, one of my biggest regrets is at Atlanta Comic-Con in twenty ten. They had Adam West and Burt Ward there. And I passed up meeting them. And I regretted that ever since because that's the only time I've been even remotely close to Adam West. Was that the same when we went for Ernie? Yep. That's probably why we didn't. We were all focused on Ernie. Yeah. That was the first time meeting Ernie Hudson. And, and, and, oh man. That's a regret I have. It's kind of like, I never got to see Phil Collins in concert. I didn't get to meet Adam West. Yeah. I mean, and looking at it now, I mean, this is where we're at, you know, here when we've come this far into, you know, the Batman universe and the people that play it. I mean, you know, you can feel it. Adam West's version of Batman is, is a bit outdated. I mean, but it, like I said, it was an embodiment of the era that it was presented in. That's what we expected from comic books. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they really expected. You didn't read comic books to sit down or if you wanted to read something serious, you'd have your kids sit down and read a serious book. You know, you read comic books because it kind of took you away and it was zany. Yeah. It was more seventies and like the late sixties and early seventies when comics got more thought provoking and serious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Batman in sixty six also didn't hurt to have Julie Newmar and Yvonne Craig in it. Julie Newmar is so statuesque. Yeah, she is. And you can you can order autographs off her site still. Yep. Yep. So I've got one of her. Yeah. So is a young, a young man watching red runs of Batman. Oh yeah. Julie Newmar or even Eartha Kitt. Eartha Kitt. Yeah. Uh, who's the last one? Oh, Yvonne Craig's Batgirl. Oh, it was the other one. Oh, it'll come back to me here in a minute. Yeah. I can't remember, but Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. Oh, please. I think that's the thing that made Batman, so much better. So good was the, the villains, the rogues gallery. Yes. Yeah. Then, I mean, also, you know, talking about that, it was like Tim Burke, he embodied the plot of Batman Returns from a two-episode Penguin arc of the show. So, you know, I mean, say what you will, but, you know, Wes, Batman has cast, you know, powerful pop culture waves that are still even felt, you know, this forward into the future. So, yeah. So, Bo, with your love of Batman Returns, Colin Farrell or Danny DeVito? Oh, man. Don't ask me that question. DeVito's better at playing the freakish character where Collins is more the mobster. Mobster. Gangster. Yeah. Yes. Mm-hmm. that's yeah i mean you know they're kind of the same thing but like i said though we're like i said that's where yeah danny devito's is the rejected freak where he's more of the society yeah i mean yeah cesar romero would not shave off that mustache even better yes but then oh gosh uh Yeah. Yeah, it's... I like Feral's Penguin. It is good, though. Yeah. But yeah, it's one of what you're wanting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I agree. It is... I mean... I think Danny DeVito did a really good job playing the part that he was given, but I have never considered that penguin. Honestly, it's, it's great. But I mean, penguins always was always like the, his whole deal was he, he was in a lot of, in a lot of the comics and stuff, he was established as like the anti Batman in the, in the sense of the, or the anti Bruce really, because he was kind of like, you know, he was, he was, you know, aristocratic like him and up there. And if they had kept with the Colin Farrell arc and kept it going, you know, at the end of, of, you know, spoilers, if no one's seen all of the penguin, but then at the end of it, he's getting his, he's, he's accumulating his wealth. He now has the, you know, the big penthouse apartment thing, and he has all that stuff established. So it wouldn't be too long after that, that he would actually be setting himself up to, to, to be directly against Bruce Wayne and Batman together, both. So, um, I don't know. That just seems he, not, not, not just that, but also just the fact that Colin Farrell, the way he plays him with the gimp leg and just the, it, it, oh my God. It's just, that is one of the best Batman things that's ever been made. I mean, really. I'm going to throw my hat in for Burgess Meredith. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My favorite things. I don't know if you've ever been to the, the Tennessee aquarium in Chattanooga. Long time ago. Well, they, you know, in one of their penguin enclosures, they have like a little penguin thing in there and there is a picture of Burgess Mary, this penguin there. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, we need to go. Hey, we're going to be up there next Sunday. Yeah, we are going to be in Chattanooga. About five or six years ago, last time I was there, I'm going to, like I said. Yeah, that sounds awesome. Hot take. The Tennessee Aquarium is a lot better than the Georgia. I can go along with that. Every time I wind up going to the Georgia Aquarium, it's like there's like a metric butt ton of kids there. It's like I can't get around. And it's like, I mean, Grant, I'm not an anti-kid, but it's like, I mean, come on, man. I can't even get around and do anything. And then I went to the Tennessee one, and I was like, there wasn't anything. So by default, it just feels like a better aquarium to me, just from experience. And I've gone to the Georgia Aquarium three times now, and it's been like that every time. And I'm like, what? can I call a number and find out when there won't be a lot of kids here? Apparently not. Apparently they don't, they don't, they don't take kindly when you ask that, you know? Well, just don't ask if you can let a kid get really up close with a beluga whale. Oh, so, um, Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer. Oh, we're going to go to Val next. Really? Okay. Val. Oh, hey, Mitchell. That's not a hot take. Tennessee beats Georgia. Don't say that around Ron. Them dogs. Them dogs. Yes, but Georgia doesn't have that horrible color. That's true. Yeah. Cause that orange is nasty. I'm sorry. So I am, I am, I am programmed like from birth to like hate that, that color. So it's great. It's almost time for the great pumpkin. Oh, Val Kilmer. Bless Val's heart. He had big shoes to fill. And I thought I loved him. I loved him. Batman forever is probably my second favorite. of that era. I agree. I do not. I mean, Val is probably like my, he's in, he's my third, I would say. Wasn't it Jim Carrey was the reason that he decided not to do that? Okay. That's what I thought. Well, yeah. What? The Keaton? No, when Val Kilmer came in to replace Keaton, I thought it was the reason Keaton didn't want to come back was because they brought Jim Carrey in. Oh, I don't know. I don't know that. I think a lot of things happened in between the production there. I think originally Robin Williams was considered for the Riddler. Oh, wow. Yeah, a lot of things changed. I think a lot of it was just... I forgot. There was a whole big falling out of why Keaton didn't get to do the third one. Was it because Burton wasn't going to do it? It might have been something like that. I can't remember because this was what? Ninety-five? Ninety-four? It was ninety-five. I always heard it was Jim Carrey was the reason. I have to look into that. I know Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones butted heads a lot. Because Tommy Lee Jones didn't get his humor at all. It was... Tommy Lee Jones, for the record, is my numero uno all-time actor. He is my favorite of all time. Yeah. So I loved Two-Face in this. I loved the campiness that they were trying to bring back to it. And hands down, Batman Forever is one of the greatest movie soundtracks ever created. Yep. That's what I will say of the, of the last two of the original run. Yes. The forever. And even, even Batman and Robin, the soundtracks are very strong. Yes. Yeah, this was a good soundtrack. See you, old baby. I mean, this is the point where, of course, you know, with the different director coming in, you know, the movie, you know, takes on a markedly different direction with this film. I mean, the darkness, you know, there's not as much darkness to this one as we were previously given with the two Burton films with Michael Keaton. Yeah. Yeah. And as Mitchell says, Keaton didn't want to sign on because Burton, from what I remember, Kilmer made a very handsome Bruce Wayne. He was probably the most handsome of all of them. Really? More so than Clooney? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. Wow. No, I say, yeah, he, he was the, yeah, he was the, he was the handsome Bruce. I go along with that. Yeah. Yeah. And Nicole Kidman was wonderful in this. I didn't start disliking her until the AMC ads. Yeah. And I, you know, and I also, you know, I think that he was, he did give depth, you know, to, to the Bruce Wayne side of it as well. I mean, other actors, you know, may have delved deeper into his psyche, but Kilmer kind of reminds us that he's more than just a billionaire playboy and kind of shows us why he has convictions to do what he does. Yeah. well there's also a big there's a big movement like special on like x where there's released the schumacher cut where apparently there's a lot of they cut out of the movie like there's the whole like the the the the big scene with the light with the flying bat towards it there's apparently they built a giant animatronic bat yeah it was part of this whole thing animatronic yeah there's there's like a whole thing like there's you ever get look into the release the schumacher cut there's a big movement behind it like they're trying to get it out there but like there's apparently there's about an additional i think it would have made the movie additional thirty or forty minutes longer wow oh i would love that yeah yeah would absolutely love that but they have to piece it together and have it make sense that's the kicker yeah who knows that they're gonna invest the time into that yeah i mean they did it for the snyder cut of the justice league but yeah they probably won't do that for schumacher And he was also a Batman that let his equipment and his detective skills do a lot of work in this movie, too. So, yeah. And I have to say, going back to Keaton, Keaton's Batmobile might be my favorite, but I want you to know the Batman Forever Batmobile is up there for me. I don't know something about it. Something about it. I mean, it has all the lights, but I don't know. I like the look of it. I think it's the overall shape of it. It's the one that looks the spaciest. Yeah. I like that. I mean, he even drove a horse. Yeah. That's her. Again, my mug. I've got some of them around behind me somewhere. We've got the other three up in the cabinet. She didn't want a quadruple shot at tonight. I just figured since you know bad, we'll just take one to one glass. We're kind of hopping around different Batman. Who do you guys feel is the greatest detective? The best detective. Robert Pattinson. Yeah, I was going to say Robert Pattinson. Yeah, me too. I'm glad you guys said that because I was about to fight y'all. No, no. Just take the version, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely the Batman for sure. I'll stay out of the forever debate. That's my good friend Dwayne, you know. oh yeah detective weiss pattinson's got that hands down and that movie is very like a film noir film noir detective style batman yeah yeah yeah and then just just being able to like make the suit because he's a younger batman right so yeah being able to make the suit terrifying the whole you're walking in slowly and doing the clock the clock clock like really slow and just building the terror and stuff that that was a really cool effect i think they pulled it a little they did a little long with it in the movie i think but it was it's really cool that they you know that he actually does a really good job of building the fear around the whole you know he's afraid of bats and i'm just gonna the same as uh you know what uh uh you know christian bells is like it's time that the enemies filled my dread you know he did that he did a really good job of that too so yeah that's good I thought Kilmer was good detective-wise. I mean, he solved the Riddler's riddles pretty quickly, though. And I know he's got a detective mind and smart to things like that, but I was like... And then I know that in the Batman, it was... you know he's like the world's greatest detective but at the same time the riddler still got one over on him which just shows you how good the riddler is yeah which that was really good it wasn't just like yeah i just figured out all the villain stuff because i'm batman it was like you know this this guy is very very much a match for me because obviously he got one over on him in the movie so spoiler alert when are we getting the sequel do we know Apparently they finished the script and they were starting something. I think the resetting of the DC Universe kind of messed production stuff up. Yeah. I guess Gunn said he was going to let that continue. And I heard rumors today that James Gunn has apparently talked to a big celebrity about potentially doing Batman in the in the whole thing so it's like that so at some point there will probably be two batman you know there'll be robert pattinson's batman if they let it go after batman the batman ii um that would be that but i i mean if they want to keep this consistent they will probably i would i would guess unless the batman ii just absolutely just steals everything that they would probably just stop it after that and then just you know go with what batman they choose to be in the dcu yeah yeah um Which I really hope is... What's his face? The one who's the most popular one. The one who played Raphael in the... Oh, Out of the Shadows and the Bay Turtle. Alan Rixon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Alan Rixon would freaking kill it. Is he the guy that plays Reacher? Yes. Yes. Oh, my God. He would kill it. Yeah, he's good. Yes. And the thing is, I didn't think he had really good acting ability until I saw him in that... God, I'm like, I'm not remembering the name of it, but it was the one, it was the movie about the British super commandos or whatever during World War II. And he played like a Swedish guy and just hearing him talk. And I was like, okay, he has range. He actually has range. He can do different things. So I think he'll have the chops for it. I think he'll have the talent to do that. Okay. Yeah. Plus, he's massive. So he's going to play an incredibly imposing Batman, for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. George Clooney. The dark, brooding Batman. The man that there's no difference between his Bruce or Bats. He is the same either way, with or without the mask. I'm surprised no one in the movie walked up and was like, You're Batman, right? Because I can tell. Look, again, I'm just going to say, as we say in the South, less is hard. You know? I mean, again, it's another Joel. I would say probably Batman and Robin is very far down on my list as far as the movies go and how I feel about them. Yeah. I mean, you know, you thought, you know, everybody's thinking, well, you know, Batman forever and it's campiness. No, I didn't have nothing on Batman, Batman and Robin. I mean, we got film sets ranging from, you know, evil ice skating rinks to black light painted street alleys. And, you know, so you got a little good little mix of everything in here. I'm afraid he says, clearly was a good older Bruce, but he was in the worst movie with a horrible story and even worse script. Yeah. Yep. I agree with you on that. Completely agree. Yes, I mean, again, it's just like, I don't think, I just think that all the elements of the movie just kind of took away from what he could have been as a Batman. I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger stole the whole thing anyway, right? Yeah. See, there you go. Exactly. It's exactly what he says here. If you watch a big budget episode of Sixty-Six, you'll love it. It felt like that. It was real campy. It just felt that way. Now, I do remember when he pulled out the credit card. Don't leave home without it. Just, you know, it's, I mean, this, this movie, you know, it's, it's, it's filled with puns and, you know, I mean, Clooney, you know, even joke that he almost destroyed the Batman franchise with this movie. I mean, it was the Batman film I mentioned earlier, but it was the Batman film with the nipples. Yeah. First, first of the Batman suits to have nipples. Uh, no, Kilmer's did. Oh, it did. Yeah. Yeah. Kilmer and Chris O'Donnell. Yeah. Well, there we go. And they had, they had the big cod pieces too. And again, Joel Schumacher. Yeah. Yeah. Even, but I Batgirl, um, and Batman and Robin did have nipples as well. I didn't notice. I'm sorry. Yeah. They were supposed to look. Yeah. Only at the guys, okay? Yeah. I mean, I took notice of the men, so yeah. There you go. Gags galore. Gags galore. Oh, man. Well, okay. Next in line. We'll just keep going. Like I said, we're just going to run down these and talk about them. Christian Bale. Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. I love Christian Bale as Batman. Yeah. This dude can morph into any part. He is a great actor. This trilogy with Christian Bale is probably hand as much as I love. Eight and I, eight and nine is my favorite standalone Batman movie, but the dark night trilogy. Dang. Dang. Love. I love everything about this trilogy. My favorite Batman movie. Yeah. I mean that, that movie standalone, I can just watch it anytime. And it's amazing. Just on its own. And he does brilliantly bank playing both sides of the character, Batman and Bruce. I mean, you know, I, his acting chops allow him to be really, you know, dissect, you know, the character. It's just, he was a great, he played both sides very well. He was the most terrifying Batman. Yeah. I mean, just like, just, just overall, like, like the effect that you want to get across as Batman of being able to scare your foes, you know, he had, he definitely had that down better than anybody else. The Nolan trilogy was probably the most grounded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, yeah, it was, you know, it was, it, that's, that's why a lot of, it was the more, I guess it was the drama seriousness of it. I think that's why I guess that he did, he did such a good job with that. It was the farthest away from being a comic. Yeah. And we thought Eighty-Nine was the gold standard of being away from it. But it even had a little bit of campiness in it as compared to the Nolan ones because they had none of it. No, it was all very serious always. There might be a little joke thing here and there, but overall it was serious drama. Yeah. Well, I mean, it comes with, you know, of course the voice, you know, the, the voice is, is the, is the big mocking point of his Batman. I mean, and I, you know, I mean, if mocking his voice, you know, all you, you know, you do it all you want to, because if that's the worst criticism one can give, I mean, you know, you've got a great dark night. So yeah. Yeah. And Batman begins. I mean, Liam Neeson is Ra's al Ghul. Oh, perfect. Perfect casting. Oh, Oh, my gosh. Warner Brothers has a live stream on right now for Batman Weekend where they're going through and picking out scenes from different, you know, all the live action Batman things and then the animated series. And they're just showing scene after scene after scene. And they were showing the... Oh, heck, which one were they? They were showing Bruce training. Oh, we're nights here. This is coming from Twitch here. Welcome in. He says, as a barber, I love this show and the men's cams as well. Oh. It's every stage of beard growth. Hey, thanks for joining us. We're different versions of Wooly Willie. That is a first for this podcast. Thanks. Thank you. I like that. That's one of those ones where you go, thanks? I think. We're very thankful that Jess does not have the beard. No. I personally have a problem with that. Honey, it's time for electrolysis. Yeah. That's great. Welcome, Polar Knights. Thank you. Thanks for joining us. We've been talking about the side characters and the villains or whatever, but I think as far as the Christian Bale Batman in this series of movies, I think he also has the best relationship of any actor with Gordon, with Commissioner Gordon. Laughter Paul and I said the lady ain't included. She ate my mother-in-law. Oh, okay. Well. All right. Crunchy cunt. He said late, sorry, but Schumacher made some pretty good films. Lost Boys, Falling Down, The Client, St. Elmo's Fire. You're not saying anything bad about Schumacher. Not at all. No, he's an amazing director, amazing filmmaker. Yeah, we're not disparaging him. Yeah, not at all. And again, I loved Batman Forever. It's up there for me. I do love Batman Forever. That's one of my favorite ones. Yeah, Paul and I said St. Elmo's was so good. Totally agree with you on that. A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, but you're right, though. I think that the Christian Bale version had the best relationship with Gordon, for sure. Because, I mean, well, they had Gary Oldman to do it. Oh, well, come on, man. Gary Oldman, he's another one of those actors that could just morph into any role. Yeah. And that's one of my favorite. It has to be probably one of my favorite things about that trilogy is the Batman and Commissioner Gordon relationship in those movies. Yeah. Yeah. And I wish Katie Holmes, whatever happened there, would have continued to work out because I like both her and Maggie Gyllenhaal. You know what happened. You remember what happened. It had something to do with Tom Cruise and Scientology. That's right. I wish Katie could have kept going because I'm not crazy about when an actor changes, especially in something as... good as that, as that trilogy. Yeah. I agree with you on that. I think she could have done a lot better for this series going forward. Had she been allowed to, but Maggie was great. Don't get me wrong. Maggie was great. Yeah. But Anne Hathaway is Catwoman. I've got her hot toys somewhere. You know, you know, Bo, like when we were kids and then we saw, I don't know if it was the same for you, but we saw like, you know, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and you saw April O'Neil and that might've been the first woman you got the feels for. And you were like, Oh man, I know this. I bet you there were many, many, many kids that were like, Anne Hathaway. Many young men came into their own accord thanks to her Catwoman. Okay, so discussing Catwoman, you've got Anne Hathaway, you've got Michelle Pfeiffer, and you've got Julianne Moore. Oh, God. God, that's a tough one. Yeah, Zoe Kravitz, too. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. Is that the same? Man. That's a good run of Catwoman right there. Catwoman has always been cast really well. At least the movies go. Oh, my God. It's always been done so well. Michelle Pfeiffer is my favorite. Pfeiffer was the craziest one. Yeah. Oh. I'll let you go to Polar. Polar Knight says, I love Batman. He's the reason I can dress up in tights once a year. I live into one night. Please wear a dance belt. A bat dance belt. Of course, Curtis says Pfeiffer. You know, I have not watched that movie because I've heard how bad that movie is. I honestly have not seen that. I've never seen the Catwoman movie. There was a Catwoman movie? Yes. Yeah, Halle Berry. But Halle Berry... Halle Berry gets a pass for almost everything for me. She's gorgeous. She's the best storm. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hands down. How did we forget there was a Catwoman movie? Is it that bad? We all try to forget. It's okay. It's fine. It exists. It's there. Okay. It's around there. Yeah, Pfeiffer was amazing on that. Kravitz, I mean, for the time that she had in the movie, I mean, she was up there with Pattinson so far as the effect of the movie. She was incredible. Mm-hmm. Yep. But Pfeiffer is the most iconic, I think, honestly, of all the Catwomen. My favorite line is, hello, honey, I'm home. Oh, I forgot, I'm not married. Oh. I love that line. I don't know. That's one of my favorite lines from Batman Returns. That's what you need to know, Kev. Polar Knight says, I can't watch Halle Berry. Ah! It sucks. He's taking a cold shower after every movie. Especially the Flintstones movie. All right. That tells you what you need to know. Yep. That's all you need to know. But yeah. Golly. And Tom Hardy as Bane. Do you guys remember when he first came out, then they released the test? It was like the first IMAX trailer came out, and then some of the feedback they were getting from audiences was, we can't understand what he's saying. So they actually made his voice more British and took some of the machine away from his voice, you know? Okay. I take cold showers before every movie. I take cold showers before and after everything. Listen, fellas, it's not a competition. I take cold showers while I'm watching movies, okay? Boy, we get some real good insights. I enjoy it. Thank you. I'm so happy you're here, Dwayne. Paul and I says, don't tell me what movies. Ernest goes to camp. Oh, oh my. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Other, other, other cat woman, Lee Merriweather finally came to me. That's it. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But Julie Newmar wins out for me in that error. Julie wins out. All the time. Love Julie Newmar. Tons of cold showers. Yes. All right. Ben Affleck. Speaking of cold showers. Sorry. I don't know. Paul and I says, Bo, I asked. Don't tell me. So it's funny. We got right from the cold showers discussion into Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck. I mean, Ben Affleck had a tough act to follow. So he had to follow Christian Bell in his. So his was grizzled. He didn't take any crap off anybody. And he was probably the Batman that showed us that, yeah, I've got a way to beat all of you. It may not be the most effective, but I've got a way to beat Superman. I've got a way to beat everybody if I need to. He was the equalizer Batman. Yeah. Yeah. Ben was really good. I thoroughly enjoyed him as, as Batman and Bruce, especially as Bruce. Yeah. Um, I think Bama, Freddie, you said it earlier about him being the, his favorite and I, I can see why once they got past where they were, you know, they were just doing the whole, you know, he's, he's, you know, the whole Superman miscommunication type thing. Like, you know, I understand he was, they had him in protector mode, but this was a different version of bats and Superman. We normally used to. Mm-hmm. The way he fought, though, is still my favorite. Going back earlier, the fight in the warehouse, it feels like one of the Arkham games. I think that's what they were going for, honestly, with the feel of it. I think that's what Snyder was going for. I mean, come on, this is Zack Snyder. He probably played the game and was like, I'm not my Batman, it's that Batman. and i think also would also hurt him because you think about it that was the first time in live action that like i guess a movie wise at least batman and superman were together in a movie right live action wise yeah um yeah yeah yes huh well and he you know he tends to play he plays the batman you know that's that's closer to you know the frank miller's version as well oh yes the dark yeah so i mean which if you haven't watched the animated version do yourself a favor and watch that the dark knight returns animated because you got peter weller's batman old batman you ever watch that yet No. Yeah, you need to watch it. Oh, yeah. Peter Wheeler is old Bruce. It's wonderful. Very wonderful. Okay. I need to. Polar Knight says we need Robin back as the Lone Ranger. Have Tonto. Batman needs a sidekick. Okay. Well, I heard... there are rumors that in the next the batman movie that we may get robin back i'm in that so i don't know how that's going to be if it'll be like the origin story again where he becomes his sidekick or whatever but there's rumors that we're going to have that but you know rumors yeah like they teased the what was it the jason was the jason todd batman was the one they tried to do for affleck um All right. Joker. My best Joker. Are we doing villains yet? We still got Robert Pattinson. We still have two more I'd like to bring up, but go ahead. You want to go to P-Raz? Crunchy says the animated Dark Knight Returns is really great. Well, it's perfect as old Bruce. I do need to watch that. Yeah, but Robert Pattinson, I mean, he obviously doesn't have as long of a run as Batman as much as anybody else, but I mean, for a new take on Batman as being a younger Batman, up and coming, it's huge. What's that? Polar Knights, man, come on! Where'd you got your bow? Polar Knights over here. I'm used to getting teased, either by the movie companies or... Oh, we've got the witty ones in here tonight. Making fun of how old we are. Oh, I love it. Love it. Yeah, where's our buddies that always make fun of our age? I've been playing with my phone to see if he would say that I've been gambling. Dang it. Babuji, where are you? Yeah, Pattinson's Batman. Yeah, he's the, like you said, he's probably the best, like, in the form of the detective. Yes. And he's easily the most angst-ridden version of himself. Yeah. That's why they got Robert Pattinson to do it. I mean, come on. Right. He plays a good angsty character. I mean, I mean, he's actually a good actor. Like, don't he is. Yeah, he is. He is a really good actor. He is. And if you haven't seen him in Mickey seventeen, you should watch it for sure. Yeah, I need to watch it. That's on there. That is so good. He does such a good job of, you know, acting against himself and stuff. And it's it's really cool. Spoiler night says, Brock, you ain't as old as, or you ain't old as long as you remember your name. You're good. I appreciate that. Thanks. Give me about ten years. Riddler in The Batman was phenomenal. absolutely phenomenal that was definitely the best Riddler I mean I'm a huge I mean you guys seen the shirts I wear I'm a huge Jim Carrey fan I love him but so far now as so far as a comic book ask Riddler Jim Carrey still yeah hands down yeah a real Riddler like a real like oh my god Yeah, that's definitely... Deeply disturbed, you know, psychopath. Oh, the whole thing where he's behind the glass and he's, you know... You mean you haven't figured it out? You don't know? Oh, man. Just, oh. And then the whole scene of him at the end of, you know, Riddler being off to one side and the Joker being in the other one and they're talking to each other and you know that there's going to be like a team up and it's like, oh my God. Yeah. And you know, another thing about the Batman is like when we, you know, we went to see it and it was just like, Oh, this movie ain't over yet. They're still like, you know, you, you think you're getting to the end of the movie and then you realize, no, we still got some more to go here. You know, there's still more to this. What the crap? Yeah. We're not doing that. Okay. Um, I will say also cool things on Patton. One of his good things, he had an awesome Batmobile. Oh, yeah. His Batmobile was the one you felt like you could actually build. Yeah, exactly. I could get my garage out back and it's like, you know what? I'm on Facebook Marketplace. I can get enough cars. I can put this thing together. So along those same lines, before we hop to Joker, All the Batmobiles. Where would you put them? We're talking just live action or in general. Let's talk live action. I like Michael Keaton's is number one. Yeah. Yeah. Much better. The fiddler. Thank you. Oh yeah. The, the eight and nine Batmobile. For sure. Eighty nine and ninety two. I'm going to say second for me is actually the Adam West. Adam West. I mean, that was just iconic. Yeah, absolutely. I'll be honest because of just the way they used it. The Batman's Batmobile. Yeah. Yeah. Granted. And that it's tough for me because I also love, you know, Christian bells. Yeah. That, that is, that one was just, just the fact that, you know, when it, when it slows down, it roars and just, that was like, it felt like the toughest one. up until up until the batman and then just the fact that that batmobile was more relatable to a real car made it feel more closely like okay this batman is starting out and this is still a intimidating batmobile uh just the way it was and just the fact that it did the whole scene where it jumped over through the fire after the people and then i was like come on man this is amazing Yeah. That, that chase scene in the Batman was incredible. Was that when y'all, we saw it, didn't we? We saw it in the IMAX and that's when it freaking rumbled. Like, yeah, I got you. I got you. You see him jump over and it's like, Oh my God. Oh man. But again, like, like Bo said earlier, the, the Batman forever Batmobile, I loved, there was just something about that look that I really, really loved. Um, Definitely the, I liked, uh, I liked Affleck's Batmobile, the, the Batman and Robin one. Hmm. Yeah. Again, that one kind of unfortunately tends to fall down to the bottoms of the lists. But, but I mean, also if we're going to favorite Batmobiles, I got to go to my asterisk there to the T the animated series Batmobile. Absolutely. We got to push in that one now. Yeah, you do. And speaking of animated series, I mean, Batman actors can also be voice actors and there is Kevin Conroy. That's the voice of Batman who has played. He's actually played Batman more than anyone. You want to know who's played him the most? It's that man right there with the iconic voice of Batman. Rest his soul. Man, it's a shame he's no longer around. He was fantastic. but i mean i'm gonna show this your poor mother-in-law yeah well you know if we're talking about batmobiles guys you can't leave out lego batman Will Arnett. Will Arnett, who is also an epic Batman. Will Arnett is really good. He is incredible. Granted, it's kind of cheating because it's Legos and you can build any Batman in Batmobile. You have the Bat submarine, the Bat spaceship, the space shuttle or whatever. And for our audio listeners, what we were laughing at, Polar Knight said, I have a Batmobile every time I pick up my mother-in-law. Oh, my. Yeah, Will Arnett is a fantastic Batman. I love Lego Batman. Dietrich Bader is a great Batman. Yes, he is. Yep. I will fully admit I never had lobster Thermidor before. And I went and tried it. I was like, you know, this is actually pretty good. We talk about Adam West with his comedic style of it. That's what Will Arnett brought to the table with his Batman. I do. I love Lego Batman. I didn't think I was going to like it as much, but it sold me. It sold the show with me. If you love Lego Batman, you need to watch the Lego Masters series. Where they build Legos and stuff because Will Arnett hosts it. He goes in and does Batman voice all the time and it's so funny. If you... And if you were really looking for an actor that can, you know, bring out that cocky side of Batman, he was absolutely the person for that role. When is the new Lego Batman game, the legacy of the bat? Is that what it is? Uh, I think it's sometime here soon, but yeah, it's like, like, I think it's like, what is it? Like, kind of like it takes part across like all the, all the movies. Yeah. Oh, God. And they're going to have Will Arnett do them all? Oh, I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. Oh, good Lord. That'd be amazing. That'd be great. As long as he can get his Let's Get Nuts mix out. Yes. Let's Get Nuts. Yeah, that probably has the best opening of any Batman movie. I'll go along with that. Who pays your taxes? Not Batman! And I have to say, Lego Batman has the second best... Alfred. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, absolutely. First best. We're all going to say Michael go. He, he was the only consistent thing through the four live action, the big, the original four. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. He was the, you know, he was the template for Alfred. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Um, the one Batman we left out outside of the old cereals back in the forties or whatever. Um, Oh, David, um, Oh, what's his face from Gotham? Oh, Gotham. I still only watched like the first season of Gotham and I never picked it back up. It's a good show. It's a good show. I've heard good things. I just, it didn't grab me. Cameron. Uh, what's a Cameron. He was Cal Kessison. In the Star Wars games. Gotham TV show. Here we go. I'll Google it. David Mazzuz. M-A-Z-Z-O-U-Z Mazzuz. Mazzuz, yeah. Yeah, as a young Bruce Wayne. I'll see myself out. But Cameron, Cameron Moynihan, is that his name? That sounds right. Yeah. Yeah. Cameron, uh, Monahan. Yeah. He, he was the Joker, um, in, in Gotham and I thought did a fantastic job. Ben McKenzie though. I mean, as, as Gordon, as Gordon was. Yeah. One of the best. Is it Sean, Sean Pettery, John Pettery son that played Alfred? Sean Pertwee. Sean Pertwee. Okay. Yeah. That was Alfred. He was a great Alfred. Yeah. From the first season, I liked him a lot, yes. The whole run, he was a really, really, really, really good Alfred. And you had a chance to meet an Alfred, Beau. You stood in line many, many hours for Mr. Andy Serkis. Yes, I did. I was about to ask what you guys thought about Andy Serkis. He's a good Alfred. I like him. I like this performance. Jeremy Irons was a good Alfred. Who's that? He says, sadly, I have a wife I love. I can't watch every Batman cartoon like Bo. Give me a few years. I'll be Bo. All right. Stop sucking up to the moderator. All right, here we go. Mitchell's order. There we go. Mitchell says, my favorite live-action Batman in order. Keaton for nostalgia, Affleck all around, Bale's most realistic, West and Kilmer for best camp, Pattinson for best seriously tortured, Clooney absolute worst. Oh, I agree. That's a good list. Good list there, Mitchell. Very good. Well, the Flash has been out long enough now, but you got to give Clooney his flowers for... For that movie. Yeah, for his appearance in it, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was good. That was very unexpected. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Something that was not expected. Yeah, they're right there at the end. Hey, Game Freakness, are you still in here? I think we're going to run through the Jokers. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, he was wanting us to rank the Jokers. I think we're about to. Um, right. The jokers, the jokers, the hardest one for me, I can tell you right now, my top two is that Jack Nicholson is number one and Heath Ledger is number two. Yeah. What about Mark Hamill? Yeah. Mark Hamill third. I mean the voice wise. Yes. He's the best joker. I guess I'm just thinking more live action. What are y'all looking at? Mitchell says Clooney and Keaton was about the only good things about the Flash movie. I agree with you on that. That's really the reason that kind of drew us to go see the Flash was mostly Michael Keaton and got surprised by the Clooney thing. I believe that's the only reason why that movie still got released. Now that the leadership under DC has changed, I've heard rumblings that they're going to release the Batgirl movie that has Keaton in it. Yes. Really? Okay. Cause it was, it was a hundred percent complete and they shelved it. Well, like I said, I know that I said that the coyote versus acne, that one was got shelved and now they're doing it. And like, cause I mean, I was like, I was looking forward to seeing it. Cause you've got a Brandon Frazier. He's going to be firefly in that movie. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice. So if we're talking jokers, you can't think you can't forget Joaquin Phoenix too. That's true. A different kind of Joker. A different kind. And then there was an Oscar involved in that one too. That is right. You are correct. So for me, Uh, Nicholson will always be number one. I just, I love him that much. That was, he was, he is the Joker that got shot into my veins at just the right time in my life. I did not, I was not a fan of Heath Ledger when they announced him for the dark night. I was like, eh, really? And I have never been more happy in my life to have been proven wrong. Mm-hmm. Ledger is my number two. He was just, to me, perfect in that movie. Hamill's up there as well. Hamill's a solid three. You're not going to find a better voice for the Joker. I can tell you this. Cesar Romero. You've got to give him his flowers. Love him. Jared Leto falls at the very bottom. Oh, golly. I totally forgot about him. Thanks for that. Gangster Joker. I love Margot Robbie as Harley. Yeah, Leto. Well, I mean, they just approached it wrong. They wanted to do a different version of Joker and it just like, that's not Joker. That's not Joker. No. And just the way he did his laugh and everything. God, the laugh. It's my dreams. It really does. It's horrible. I agree. I think, I think Nicholson's the, is the most iconic of all of them for sure. I think, I mean, granted my argument would be that I think the best performance overall is ledger overall. I think performance. Yeah. I'll give you that. Yeah. Just like, God, that is, I mean, he just stole that movie. He really did. And again, too, I guess I would also say like, you know, maybe follow along with how Mitchell did his list. You know, Nicholson is, is a nostalgia to me, but he's, he's got it. He's, he's iconic. And I would say that, that Heath Ledger is more the realistic joke. Yeah. Yeah. The more realistic side of Joker. Yeah. Because Nicholson had a campiness to his as well. Yeah, that's like the Riddler and the Batman. That was kind of the Joker in Dark Knight. Ledger's Joker was, they were in parallel. It's just being psychotic. Just the portrayals of them. Before, they had both been portrayed more campy and more comicky and more lighthearted. Now they're being portrayed as more serious characters. in that sense so it seems to be the way to go it's like you know let's find the ones that were portrayed as campy and then let's now portray them as more serious yeah mitchell says phoenix's joker was so awesome because it was the best realistic interpretation of what it would be like if you were around the joker in the real world very disturbing yeah yeah absolutely um Yeah, the first movie, the first Joker movie was phenomenal. I loved it so much. But that second one? He fell asleep watching it. I did. He did. I have yet to watch it. I'll watch it one day. I don't know. I have yet to watch it. When you have nothing else to do. We have nothing else to do. I would rather rewatch Truman show. So, I mean, it's, I mean, I guess it's all kind of like, what do you, what kind of Joker do you want in a sense? I loved it. And what, you know, it's like, what, what are you looking for in that character? I think kind of helps you define your rank. You know, Dwayne, you're right. Yep. Anyone seen the animated under the red hood, Joe DiMaggio, excuse me, Joe DiMaggio's take on, uh, the jokers are really great. You're right. Well, that's like seen it once, but it was really good. And that's like when you watch the dark night animated Michael Emerson, you know, from like for most recently fallout, he's, he's the joker in it and he's really good. Okay. Troy Baker was the joker where? I'm trying to remember which one he was. Was he the one that was in Arkham Origins? Arkham Origins, yes. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Yeah. Oh, now you're talking about complete Jokers. Hamill's Joker's just on those Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Oh, my gosh. And even Arkham Knight, the game trilogy there. Yeah. Mark Hamill's more to play Joker. Yeah. You think his biggest thing was Luke Skywalker? No. No. It was his portrayal as the voice of Joker. He is like, voice-wise, he's the most iconic. Yeah, he's perfect. He's just, oh my God. And if you have him in an interview and he just dips into that voice for a second, you're like, whoa, there's Joker. You just like pick up on it immediately. Yep. Yep. Oh, goodness. I have thoroughly enjoyed this. This has been a great discussion, everyone. I mean, you see, we're all big Batman fans. Yeah. Do we want to do Bane? Tom Hardy is the only Bane. Gotham? You don't want to talk about the Batman and Robin version of Bane? Come on. Bomb! Bomb! You got to love Batman. I watched it the other night. We got talking about this. I watched the animated version of Hush that DC did finally. It's got me going back to reread it because there's a lot of things I don't remember happening. It happens in the animated version that it happened in the book. Hold on. Where did I miss it? They came out with an animated Hush. It's been out for a while. It's on the YouTube movies for free right now. How did I miss that? That's one of my favorite arcs in the comics. I thought you'd seen it already or I would have brought it up to you before now. I guess you've got to watch it now. Well, I'll get to it before Labyrinth probably. We've got stuff to do before Labyrinth. That's all right. Don't worry about it. There's a reason why we haven't done Labyrinth yet. We've got to put some pieces together. We're seeing the people we need to see in mid-October for that. Um, golly. Yeah. Batman, like I said earlier, Batman was my first comic love Batman and star Trek from the time that I have a memory. Uh, those two franchises are number one for me. Um, I, I hope that, I hope the James guns Batman's going to be up there. I have high hopes. If they get Alan Rickson for it, then I think we're going to be in for a fun ride. Yeah, I think it'll be great. And just this brief discussion we've had is really just scratching the surface of the depth of the Batman in all the different universes, the iterations of it all through the years. I mean, you could spend hours and hours diving into different parts of just this one character. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Excuse me, man. The Batman eighty nine. Let's see. All right. Dwayne says I'm Labyrinth. You know, I'm an expert witness. Yes, he's a very he's a very Henson world. It's a running joke on the podcast. I have not seen Labyrinth ever. And so that's one of the movies that we're going to cover at some point. But we've got some people who have been connected with it that we're trying to get on. Yes. Yeah. And he has yet to go to unclaimed baggage and see. Yeah. We have, we have some pieces to, to put in this puzzle before we get to that discussion. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, you know, I was huge in the eighties collecting the toys and stuff from he man and GI Joe and stuff like that. But I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I A lot of people have said that. Yeah. I get my chops busted quite a bit for not seeing Labyrinth. We had a whole episode a while back about all the movies that Brock has not seen that was just shocking to many people. If you ever get bored, go back and watch our Maximum Overdrive episode. Well, you know, earlier we were talking about Batman's with cod pieces. When you see Labyrinth, you get to see David Pooey with his interesting ones. That's what I hear. But I was just getting out of the toy phase when Batman came back and sucked me right back into it. collected all the, the, uh, was it the toy biz figures and Batmobile and the bat wing and all that jazz. And, uh, for Christmas that year, I remember in my stocking, um, the, there was a round purple Joker laugh ball, you know, when the Joker is, you know, tragically I cried, um, when he was, yeah, when he was unalived at the end of, at the end of Batman, that laugh that he's doing, there's a, there was a round ball that had the Joker logo on it and you had two metal strips and you press that just started that laugh. And, um, yeah. Mm-hmm. I wish I could find that thing. It's a, it's, it's been long gone, but I had posters of the Joker everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. And we've, we've talked about it, you know, when, when it came out in eighty nine, it was an event. It was just something that was a monumental event that was taking place, you know, all the merchandising and the, all the stuff that you mentioned, the toys. And actually in my seventh grade yearbook picture, I'm wearing a Batman t-shirt. So that tells you anything. yeah and i dressed up as the as the nicholson joker and for halloween in the yeah um going back to the batmobiles mcfarlane has released all the all the versions of the batmobile i bought every one of them i couldn't help it yeah he's uh yeah he has i got a lot of batmobiles sitting around Kind of like a lot of the Ectos and a lot of the DeLoreans. We've got a lot of those. Yeah. Crunchy says, I saw Eighty-Nine in the theater at least five times that summer. Yeah, I did too. A hundred percent. Such a good movie. Yeah. Golly. Eighty nine was just the best year for movies. It really was. That's why we had to do the roller panel, because, I mean, there was even stuff we left off of that. You go back and look at the list of movies that came out in nineteen eighty nine. And it's just amazing what a fantastic year that was. Yeah. Yeah. So are we, uh, yeah, yeah. Crunchy UHF. Yeah. We discussed that a couple of episodes back. My mom, my mom. But anything else we want to talk about with Batman before we wrap it up? No. Just remember the, the bat signal is not a beeper. Same bat time, same bat channel. Take it right in my love machine, baby. Oh, man. I love Batman. Crunchy Kong, we could do a whole episode of UHF. I think we've talked about UHF a bit. Absolutely. One of the best movies ever. So, yeah. Yeah. I think I'm done. Yeah. This has been good. Enjoyed every bit of this. Thank you. We thank you all for joining in the chat tonight. We've had... We have people from Twitch, people from YouTube. I still don't know why the interactions on X have not come through, but you'll have to show me how that works. There's no, there's no, there's, I don't know. 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