Favorite batman: the animated series episodes

[Guest Judas14]

What's everyone's favorite episodes of B:TAS?

 

My list includes:

 

01. The Harly Quinn/Poison Ivy team-up

02. The Jonah Hex versus Ra's Al Ghul episode

03. The Count Vertigo/Talia episode

04. The Joker-Fish episode adaptation

05. The Riddler debut episode

06. The Clayface debut two-parter

07. The Poison Ivy debut episode

08. The "Mr. Freeze is kidnapped and forced to turn an evil millionaire into a frozen immortal just like Freeze" episode

09. The "Harly Quinn/Batman Team-Up" episode

10. The "Poison Ivy Reforms" Episode

[Guest starvenger]

My faves were the ones where Harley Quinn was the main focus.  The Jonah Hex episode was also quite cool, in that he was the one DC character that you'd never expect to be in TAS.  And finally, the Batgirl debut.

[Guest]

This is a tough one, especially since I'm bad with titles. I'm fond of the one where Batman's disillusioned with himself and questions wether he's done any good. I dug the Bane episode, since Bruce avoided the crippling blow, and the episode that retold Robin's, origin as well.

[Guest Vyce]

I love this show.  I consider it to be the best animated program of ALL TIME.  I have such a love and fondness for this show, that I cannot possibly pick one out of them all and label it the best.

 

One of my favorites, though, was "Perchance to Dream."  The Mad Hatter gives Batman the perfect life as Bruce Wayne - but Bruce refuses to accept his utopian reality.  There's such intense sorrow on both ends:  from Bruce, who is unable to live any other sort of existence other than the tortured one of the Batman, and the Hatter, who is so haunted and terrified of his adversary that he would do anything to be spared his wrath.

 

The writing and drama on this show, I swear, was better than most prime-time network shows then and now.

[Guest Sassquatch]

I see that somone *coughjudascough* has been lurking around WDI...

[Guest pochorenella]

Those Harley Quinn episodes were great. For some reason, the "World's Finest" episodes with Superman come to mind, even though I'm not too fond of Supes.

Darn, I've never seen that Jonah Hex episode. Was it like the comic book team-up where the creators were involved in the adventure?

 

Peace.

[Guest Judas14]

Those Harley Quinn episodes were great. For some reason, the "World's Finest" episodes with Superman come to mind, even though I'm not too fond of Supes.

Darn, I've never seen that Jonah Hex episode. Was it like the comic book team-up where the creators were involved in the adventure?

 

Peace.

Not really.

 

The episode begins with RAG and his troops kidnapping an old man from an old folks home. Batman tries to stop him but fails. As RAG leaves, he tosses Batman a cassette tape to play (which he does as he drives to the airport in order to keep RAG from escaping). The tape has RAG telling Batman a story about how in the 1800s RAG attempted to destroy the transcontinental railroad with a gigantic mechanical battleship. The only person who stands in his way is Jonah Hex, who's after RAG's second in command, who's wanted by the law after he butchered a prostitute. Hex stops RAG and captures RAG's second in command after he decides to stay behind and kill Hex rather than flee with RAG.

 

Batman arrives to the airport and sees RAG, who promptly asks Batman if he played the tape. Batman says yes and tells RAG he'll let him go on his way. Robin (who's with Batman during all of this) asks why he's doing this and Batman and RAG reveals that the old guy he kidnapped is RAG's second in command from the tape. As RAG leaves, Batman asks RAG why he was rescuing his former flunky who obviously failed him and RAG reveals that the man was his son....

[Guest chirs3]

My favorites were the Clay-Faces.

 

I like the show, but I'm not a real big fan or a regular watcher. If I find it, I watch it.

[Guest muzanisa]

The Hex episode wasn't that great but it was just the fact it was Jonah Hex in the Batman cartoon. Me and all my geek friends were calling each other when it was on.

The Harley stuff was great, my favourite was when she sung the song about how the Joker is always trying to kill her.

The Creeper episode with Harley doing the Marilyn Monroe out  of the cake bit.

And all time was the one where the kids say what Batman is really like. In one he's like the 50's Dick Sprang Batman, in another I think it might have been the 70's Batman and at the end it's Carrie from Dark Knight telling the story of the Gang fight from Dark Knight. I watched that and just thought wow and then the next show was the Superman cartoon which was the tribute to Kirby with Darkseid and the Deathwish of Terrible Turpin.

At the end of it I just thought that was the best hour of TV I've ever seen.

Since then there's been Father Ted and Black Books but it's still up there.