I don't think Henry Rollins was in the original batch of Batman episodes… unless I miss my mark, he didn't get involved with the DC animated universe until he played Mad Stan in Batman Beyond.

Thanks for posting that. I've never seen all the footage from that game, and even with the limited colors, it looks pretty slick. I wish Warner Bros. would make this available in DVD quality, and maybe drop in some Michael McCuiston music to replace Spencer Neilsen's tracks.

I'm pretty sure that was MALCOLM MacDowell. You know, the dude from A Clockwork Orange and Time After Time. He does find his way into a few episodes of Batman and its successor, Superman, though.

Or even worse, when they take a great two parter and split it between the A-student and the kid who rides the short bus to school.

This episode certainly explains why criminals were able to escape Arkham so easily. The only person they were able to restrain for more than fifteen minutes was the guy who could have saved Gotham from descending into insanity. Way to go, guys.

Wasn't he also Snowball the evil hamster in Pinky and the Brain? I don't know why I feel compelled to mention that, but it somehow seemed appropriate.

I had detective mode turned on so often in that game that ALL my enemies were skeletons.

Rootboy: I hate the way Catwoman's pet looks like a monkey in that episode. Compare Isis to the freaky cat/primate hybrid in Tyger, Tyger… they're really not much different.

I think Terry McGuinness is a worthy successor to the original Batman… better than whatever they're doing in the comics right now, anyway. The old Robin is the new Batman and Bruce Wayne's son is Robin's replacement, or something like that? Whatever. I'll take Terry over that nonsense any day of the week.

Those reset and crash fake-outs are the worst. Eternal Darkness on the GameCube pulled similar hijinx, and who could forget the first X-Men game which forced the player to actually press reset on the Genesis console to proceed?

Perverse desires seem to be a specialty of Lewis Carroll from what I've heard.

The Scariest Scarecrow…
…was the one in Batman: Arkham Asylum, who had syringes for fingers and who frequently gave you horrifying, mindbending hallucinations. It's not QUITE part of the DC animated universe, but it had several of the same voice actors and the same writer, Paul Dini.

Also, a nitpick.
"he uses the tape inside the cassette to create a line that the box can be slid across, then Bataranged to blow up the door while Batman takes cover behind bags of coins. If Batman had to pick up the box to get it on the line, I don't know why he didn't just put it by the door and forego the whole…

Voice of the Clock King
Alan Rachins' performance is almost certainly inspired by William Redfield in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents… episode The Manacled. Seriously, watch it! The resemblance is uncanny; so much so that it can't be just a coincidence!

So hey…
…anyone get a distinct Gargoyles vibe from the second half of this episode? Some of the animation tricks are straight from that series, probably because TMS worked on both of them.

Penguin: Hoo hoo, I know which one you're talking about! Oh Annie, we hardly knew ye.

If that's the improvement, I'd had to see how he looked before.

Dino: Yeah, I think he's pretty cold emotionally, and selfish too. He's the same way with a female scientist who tries to reverse his condition in Mudslide. He gets violent with her, until reciting a few touching lines from one of his movies in the hopes of bringing her back under his control. Any relationships…

As I mentioned in last week's review (and I'll mention it again, because nobody responded the last time and I need the attention), Ed Begley Jr. did several characters for the Batman cartoons, including a lovestruck cyberneticist in Batman Beyond. He was conned by his fiancee into turning a bunch of gangbangers into…

It's kind of weird that the fat lady Clayface uses as a disguise sounds just like Ms. Beakly, the maid from Ducktales. I can't help but imagine Uncle Scrooge as Roland Daggett!