By RM
monday, april 14, 2025 at 10:09:00 p.m. edt
Best moment from the Batman TV series:
The Penguin launches a mayoral campaign.
Batman and Robin are riding in a crowded elevator, and Robin is concerned that Penguin might win the election. Batman starts pontificating to the effect that there's no worry, the citizens of Gotham City are too intelligent and have too much integrity to be taken in by such an obvious scoundrel.
They exit at their floor, and we see that ALL the other passengers are wearing "Penguin for Mayor" buttons!
Ain't it the truth?
-RM
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There was much sarcasm in that show,lol.
--GRA
These days in nyc,not only are Batman and Robin needed,but the entire Justice League. Nothing close to that solution in real life or real time. The city is a lost cause.
--GRA
An eternity ago: At a "film club," where buffs gathered to watch 16mm showings (long before home video), there was a serial called "The Spider's Web," based on a pre-Batman-type character from the old pulp magazines. When the masked hero said that when it comes to fighting crime, "The police are too handicapped by rules and regulations," the audience cheered!
-RM
Now they're handicapped by the race of their employees--non-White.
--GRA
Just to clarify: The serial was made in 1938, the screening was around 1972.
-RM
There's another good clip from the Gotham City mayor's race on Youtube. Batman and The Penguin are having a debate. The Penguin starts and says he won't play dirty. Then he immediately smears Batman: Batman is constantly seen in the company of criminals while The Penguin is always surrounded by the police.
The undermining of law enforcement in this country pre-dates integration by quite some time, in both mass media and reality. Probably goes back to the beginning of Communist infiltration of this country after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The classic movie BRUTE FORCE (1947), made by Commies Jules Dassin and Richard Brooks, depicts violent prisoners as wonderful guys who are only there due to circumstance, and compares incarceration to being in a Nazi prison system, complete with a sadistic warden who is an implied homosexual. The 1960s DRAGNET, though enjoyable, is sometimes painful to watch due to its depiction of those "rules and regulations" the cops are saddled with- having to file a report every time you fire your gun, the absurd "Miranda Rights," not being able to lay a finger on a "suspect." There's one episode where a cop gives a taunting lowlife a mild shove, and Friday gives him a dressing down as if he had beaten the guy in an alley!
The Leo Frank affair had a lot to do with the breaking down of Justice as well, besides establishing the incessant drumbeat in popular culture against "lynching" and "vigilantes."
-RM
There was a reaction by some people to the Brute Force movie. They said sarcastically one presumes, "There seem to be a lot of nice people in prison."
Even Red Eddie Muller when introducing Brute Force remarked on the inmates being portrayed as "wonderful guys" not exactly realistic.
Crooks and thugs need police(and d.a.)protection or they couldn't commit all the crimes they do.
--GRA
I thought the best moment was anytime Julie Newmar showed up onscreen. Never got around to offering my 3 cents on the actual topic until this here moment y'all.
--GRA
Beautiful Julie is still alive, though rather old. I thought her series MY LIVING DOLL was charming, and gave her a chance to show some comedic flair not usually evident in her other roles.
The idiot producer threw the negatives away when the show was cancelled after one season (64-65), but about half the episodes survive. The one about "Alice In Wonderland" throwing her circuits out of kilter (she's a robot!) is very clever.
https://www.youtube.com/show/SCB4DmrStq4zAVvoYBljTJig?season=1&sbp=CgEx
Bob Cummings clashed with her and left the show late in the season.
-RM
A few years ago,I wrote a story about Andy Rooney being reincarnated and as Christmas approached,he remembered his past Christmases.
From 2020:"My track record for receiving what I want at Christmas is very poor--in fact,I've never received the one gift I've always wanted to see under my Christmas tree since 1957--Sophia Loren.
"I hope she doesn't show up now."
Same with me and Julie Newmar--no disrespect intended. Ditto for Tina Louise.
--GRA
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