Batman TAS

[ratcreature]

Because I rather like the Justice League Cartoon, I thought I'd give the Batman Animated Series a try too. So I now have copies of most of the episodes of Batman The Animated series, plus the first season of the Gotham Knights series. Almost 100 cartoon episodes, yet with no real time for a cartoon marathon of watching all episodes in order in my immediate future. Hence I've been wondering which episodes are the highlights? Which ones are essential for cartoon continuity, the mytharc episodes so to speak? Any recommendations which eps I should pick from those of you familiar with the cartoon?

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[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

As mentioned above, "Mad as a Hatter" is one of my favs, as I'm a long-time collector of Alice in Wonderland ephemera and books. It first debuted on Dec 8, my birthday, which was something of a little over-the-moon fangirl prezzie for me that day. ;) Roddy McDowell did the Hatter's voice, not Malcolm. More trivia: he also played a character on the original Batman series, he was a second-string Evil Bad Guy, The Bookworm.

But my absolute favorite episode is The Gray Ghost episode, which had Adam West (squee!) doing the voice of the has-been actor who played The Gray Ghost, Bruce Wayne's favorite TV show when he was a kid. We see that Bruce got his inpiration for Batman from that show (YES!! BRUCE WAS A FAN!!!) This episode actually makes me cry, and it has the best ending ever.

God, the entire series was a-freakin'-mazing. You can get it bootleg on eBay, but I would much rather buy the DVDs from Warner Bros, if they'd get off their clueless butts and put them out in series form for us to buy instead of a couple of eps here & there.