(More than) Five thoughts after watching "Cash for Toys" and "The Apprentice"
1) LOL WOT Is that a child in a anime-esque fox suit BURSTING INTO FLAMES?!
1a) Oh, thank goodness, it's a toy.
1b) Also also, the idea of Batman, of all people, pulling the hand-wringing "OH NOES DANGEROUS TOY" bit is hilariously ironic.
1c) "Refills sold separately." So it's going to be that kind of an episode, is it?
2) I think in all it took me five nights from start to finish with this episode. It's not that it was bad, I just kept trying to watch it when I was well beyond the point of exhaustion, and I've been a little preoccupied this week.
3) I know he's yonks away from the currently-accepted "canon" version of Bruce Wayne, due largely to his extreme lack of tragic broodypants, but godsdammit, I sorta love Rino Romano's portrayal. From a strictly "I kind of want to marry him" point of view, I think this may be my favourite Wayne. When it comes to the Wayne that is my overall favourite version of the character, it's pretty much always going to be Conroy, but Romano* is *likeable* in a way that no other Wayne I've encountered really is.
3a) Now I have this sick urge to contemplate "Marry, Shag, Cliff" with the various Waynes... I don't know WHY I have this urge, because this is not a thought exercise I have ever been much of a fan of, but... Well, it's pretty much a no-brainer with the live action movie Waynes (Keaton's, Bale's, the other two, respectively), but I find that, once I get beyond the obvious choice of Marry = Romano's** with the animated telly ones, I'm at a bit of a loss and find I don't really care anymore. I guess Shag would have to be Conroy's, because I'm not Cliffing him...but I'd rather just watch him interact with Supes all day, really. And I don't really feel like it's fair to Cliff Bader's when I haven't seen but a handful of episodes... Whatevs. This is silly. I'm just going to leave it at the bit where I admitted I had a crush on Romano's Wayne.
4) So...is Adam West, like, a member of the main cast, now? The mayor has been in several episodes at this point... Maybe I should actually commit his name to memory or something.
4a) Rob Paulsen's Talkin' Toons guest last week was Kevin Michael Richardson, who said that he didn't want to audition for Joker and was a little bit upset that they pressured him to do it, so some of the character comes from his own initial annoyance and anger. While telling this story, he also discussed his concern that Mark Hamill wouldn't appreciate him taking "his" role. Well, "discussed" isn't the proper term; what really happened was Richardson did a rather impressive impersonation of how he imagined Hamill might passive aggressively question his ability to play the part.
4b) Donnie almost sounds like Seth Green.
5) "Two heads are better than one...when they're on separate bodies." BARB. I LOVE YOU.
5a) So...Prank is a morris dancer?
Bonus thought) For some reason, Joker's "Idea Factory" made my mind instantly go to Troy and Abed's Dreamatorium.
Bonus bonus thought) So...The Killing Joke origin story is unambiguous canon in The Batman? Interesting, particularly given the shot of Joker aiming a gun at Batgirl. Also, Joker is kind of Gambit...?
Bonus bonus bonus thought) Kid, don't stand that close to Joker, even if you think you've knocked him unconscious. ESPECIALLY if you think you've knocked him unconscious.
Bonus bonus bonus bonus thought) So...instead of actually making any progress in getting Bats to accept her as a legitimate sidekick, we end with, "Our relationship looks better all the time," which is another way of saying, "Well, okay, since you're not as bad as Joker, I'll put up with your avoidance and fear of responsibility and commitment. Because the fact that worse mentors exist in the world absolves you from treating me better than you have been."
* IMDb has just informed me that Romano is the narrator in the current Curious George series that also features Jeff Bennett as the Man in the Yellow Hat, and he was Caramon in that DTV Dragonlance movie from a few years ago with Jason Marsden, Michael Rosenbaum, Phil LaMarr, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Lucy Lawless. Holy hell, I'm going to have to watch both of these things, aren't I?
** Of course, if we were discussing *Batman* instead of Wayne, Marry would be Terry all the way. IT IS ALWAYS TERRY TIME.
Part of my dream last night involved a sandwich maker at a delicatessen - where, I would like to add, they had no normal bread, just fancy shit I had never heard of before that looked more like different kinds of cheese and, for some reason, nori - who repeatedly insisted that I was a sex worker he saw advertising on late night television commercials. I tried to explain to him (without coming across as being judgmental about sex work) that I was a youth soccer coach (?) and I didn't even live in the area, but it escalated into a loud argument, and I wound up storming out without my sandwich. Then I went to a Dr. Seuss-themed amusement park and lost my sunglasses on one of the water rides. I realized after getting off the ride that the whole point of me going to the town with the deli and amusement park was that one of the players on my soccer team *desperately* needed a Superman costume - the whole game was riding on it - so I had rushed off in the middle of the second half to buy one at the gift shop of the amusement park. They didn't have one there, but they did have a scavenger hunt set up throughout the park that would lead you to one...unless, as I discovered just before waking up, you get chased out of the park by a Woset, first.