A genuinely excellent piece of television. Of course the entire DCAU is excellent television, but this took mostly original characters and built them out. Great writing, great voices, great design, great everything.

“You don’t know your way around, a lot of things have changed!”

Return of the Joker was the perfect end to Batman: The Animated Series. And, considering how ridiculous the plot is, it is so much better than it has any right to be.

Look man, I know it’s a different series and all, but the Batman Beyond finale they snuck into JLU needs a mention here.

Episode is titled “Epilogue,” 2x13.

You might also bring up “The Once and Future Thing Part Two: Time Warped,” 1x13, which also features Terry. It’s considerably less essential from a Batman Beyond…

It really is a shame that Return of the Joker was out of bounds, because that final confrontation is so great.

There was a rumor floating around in around 2020 that a Batman Beyond animated film would be made as a sort of answer to Spider-Verse, but the funnel between ideas for DC movies and execution of DC movies is especially narrow.

Supposedly WB tried to develop it into a movie before Batman Begins.

I’m shocked that Batman Beyond hasn’t been on DC’s liist of “lets make this into a movie”...It feels like such a no brainer. A Batman story but Bruce isn’t the main character....They could’ve even done it with Keaton instead of throwing him into Flashpoint...

To blow your mind further, there’s an episode of Justice League Unlimited where Luthor and Flash get Freaky-Fridayed, so Rosenbaum gets to voice Lex in Flash’s body:

Let`s not forget the full on bonkers last episode of Justice League Unlimited “Epilogue” which so happens to be the real last episode of Beyond.

That “... and you hit like a girl” line to Ra’s is like one of my top 10 favorite DCAU zingers.

The Call Part 2 has one of my favorite Bruce/Terry interactions (and possibly favorite jokes in the series). Terry is being chased in the Batmobile by a mind-controlled Superman, which leads to

And here I was just talking about BATMAN BEYOND in the comments recently! Rebirth is a faultless intro to the world of New Gotham, and I could sing the praises of BATMAN BEYOND all day - this is a really good list, although I’d add the ‘Earthmover’ episode where Terry discovers a guy’s corpse has mutated into a network…

““Meltdown” boasts the surprise return of Dr. Victor Fries, whose unique physiology (i.e., he has to stay really, really cold) has caused his body to deteriorate to the point that the only thing that remains is, alarmingly, his head.”

I think Ansari and the writers definitely knew the fictional character Tom was carrying out behavior that was wrong, but the social mores of the time were that people found it funny to show characters so brazenly being offensive (see Barney on “How I Met Your Mother” for a more extreme case). We were laughing at how…

I don’t like how Ansari and Louis CK are always compared-and-contrasted. They did different things. It’s like comparing a jaywalker to Ted Bundy.

“...Ansari seems content to hold up a mirror to everyone but himself.”

Ansari needs to book a parallel tour where’s always playing across the street from Louis CK. Call it the “Hey, At Least I’m Not That Asshole Tour.”

Yeah this is an interesting one. I found it more impressive as a tightrope walk than an actual comedy special (though there were still some points that really made me laugh). All stand-up is calculated, but you’re more conscious of it when it’s done in the wake of a controversy. And it puts you even more on edge when…