That her parents were a little unemotional and stand offish and so now we're supposed to feel sorry for her?

How did this episode resemble a bottle episode? Like, at all?

I figure this is a joke post, but it's worth saying that Yael Stone (Morello) is also Australian.

Oh gosh, I misread. Soz.

The Joker's a completely reprehensible representation of mental illness, generally speaking. His illness is deliberately broad and uncharacterisable medically speaking, but is certainly a reactionary characterisation of the mentally ill. Why the Joker do it? Oh, because he's crazy.

It's a running joke about the Penguin, I think. He's the only one who's been subject to them. (Maroni previous called the guy a goose, hilariously).

There's Captain Essen, and the Doctor they introduced this week.

Then what would she eat? Sunlight?

Or a tilt, an oblique, a German Angle, ect. ect.

I don't think it wants to have the Batman turn up. It's not that kind of a show. It's never claimed to be that kind of a show. If you want it to be that kind of a show, then you're going to be disappointed.

They're different interpretations of the same mythos, and neither the games nor this show are under no need to maintain fidelity to their source material.

Perhaps, but I don't think the show is intending to evoke that, and I don't think camp works the way you're suggesting it does. Camp is an approach to understanding narrative, as much as it is a way of telling a story.

As far as I understand it, completely mismatched tones is an inherent facet of camp. Look at any example of high camp from back in the 70's or 80's, and you can see that their tone is completely all over the place.

I've not seen those episodes, thought they're on the list, but I don't think you need to go any further than Joker or Harley to see that Batman's always had a problem with depicting the mentally unwell, and in the latter case, demonstrates notable anti-psychology tendencies too.

This show knows it's campy. Look at nearly any of the villains.

She's not currently taking drugs, as I understand it. Montoya rejected her because she's worried the two will end up relapsing if they stay together.

Yeah, I think the implication of the scene in the car is that, while he swindled his friend, he felt no inclination to do that to Fish.

It's unfortunate — and certainly something that needs to be challenged — but this kind of representation is par for the course for the Batman mythos.

There is no way that Bernadette Peters didn't have that entire string section memorise the solo. She's too controlling to do otherwise, and despite whatever faith she has in Rodrigo, she implies in this episode that she has none in his choice of soloist.

I dunno, I always felt that the Hodgman character was interested in Hailey. A lot of the jokes in this episode rely on an audience having picked up on this fact — otherwise, what are we meant to make of the all the reed blowing and stuff?