Article 1443 of alt.sysadmin.recovery: From: Steve VanDevender Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Some people definately need a clue... Date: 08 Aug 2001 22:08:27 -0700 Organization: CC University of Oregon Lines: 52 Sender: stevev@localhost.efn.org Approved: Here I come to save the day! Message-ID: <87vgjxstv8.fsf@localhost.efn.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: hexadecimal.uoregon.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: platform.uoregon.edu 997333720 15949 128.223.142.97 (9 Aug 2001 05:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@platform.uoregon.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:08:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!platform.uoregon.edu!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:1443 random writes: > Why does this sound like one of the ways the Special Guest Villian tried > to kill Batman in the series[0]? > > [0] Is it just me, or does someone else wish they'd made an episode where > Burt Ward (as Robin) said "Holy shit, Batman, we're fucked!" when they > were about to be killed in some feindishly complicated manner? When I was in college, one of my friends who lived on my floor would get up every Saturday morning to watch Pee Wee's Playhouse[1]. Somehow I heard about the Ralph Bakshi version of Mighty Mouse[2], which happened to immediately follow it. Pee Wee's Playhouse was surprisingly surreal for a Saturday morning kid's show, and The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse turned out to be every bit as good as I had heard it was, so getting up at the awful hour of 9:00 on Saturdays became a habit. One morning one of the Mighty Mouse episodes featured, not Mighty Mouse himself, but a superhero named Batbat and his sidekick the Bug Wonder facing the supervillain The Cow[3]. It was basically a send-up of the campy 60s Batman and left a lasting impression on me. They made sure to work in the line "Holy Oleo, Batbat!" for The Bug Wonder, when he discovered The Cow's evil plan to misflavor all the dairy products in the city -- "Ice cream tastes like aluminum siding!" In the obligatory about-to-be-killed-in-a-fiendishly-complicated-manner scene, The Cow had Batbat and The Bug Wonder wired up to a Corny Jokeometer which would lower them into a milk dehydrator when it topped out. "How did you escape your death?" The Cow asks Batbat later, to which he replies "I told it a USO monologue and it blew up." Finally, when they defeat The Cow and he breaks down sobbing, Batbat consoles him with "Everybody makes mistakes. That's why they put rubber on the ends of pencils." Ah, sweet memories of recovery. [1] Featuring Paul Reubens before a certain hiatus in his career. [2] Anyone got an MP3 of the nifty a capella theme song? [3] "Moo! Moo! Moo!"[4] [4] Not to be confused with The Man-Eating Cow, who is silent. And Joseph Stalin isn't really Joseph Stalin, but a graduate student from Stalingrad. -- Steve VanDevender "I ride the big iron" http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~stevev stevev@efn.org PGP key fingerprint=929FB79734DF8CC0 210DA447510FF93B Little things break, circuitry burns / Time flies while my little world turns Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes