I saw it on VHS, and the director’s cut was a bit of an adjustment as a result. I was like, “Why is this movie so quiet all of a sudden?”
But poor Harrison Ford sounds even less enthusiastic in that voiceover than he does in the Holiday Special.
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Arkham Asylum? Amygdala? Where is Alan Grant when you need him?
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The Joker, right? He’s the one who poisons the water supply.
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I feel bad for Batman in this episode.
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“The hallucinations were getting stronger. I suddenly imagined myself as Admiral Ackbar.”
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“I was raving, incoherent.”
insert obligatory Grant Morrison comment here
And good on Bart for keeping the secret identity alive.
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Jack Napier reference!
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Bart, is what Batman is saying about this plot REALLY so crazy?
And I think this is the only time that they mention the name Jack Napier in the show.
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Also, the orderly with Bart looks JUST like Bruce. Is it just me?
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But Mask of the Phantasm does show that the Joker used to be a mobster, so BTAS is weirdly Burtonverse-adjacent.
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Henchman: So you set Batman up?
Scarecrow:
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“I sense a retelling of the Wayne murders!”
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I love how the censors said they couldn’t so the Waynes being shot, so they made up sequences that are probably even more fear inducing to children.
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Fun fact: the Wayne murders were first depicted outside of the comics in another animated series (the last incarnation of Super Friends).
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Props to Bart for actually checking on Scarecrow, but yeah, saying Arkham has tight security is…pretty funny.
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Actually, now that I think about it, how many escapes have we seen in BTAS?
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I think this is probably the best/creepiest Scarecrow design in the first three seasons of this series.
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It is interesting that both Super Friends and BTAS decided that the Scarecrow was the perfect excuse to bring in the dead parents. (BTAS even did it more than once: gotta love giant floating skeleton Thomas Wayne!)
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I kinda have a soft spot for Potato Sack Scarecrow from his first appearance, though. 
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You can always tell when they couldn’t get the voice actors for the other rogues in.
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