# Adam West died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594 "2017-06-10T15:42:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/61 "2017-06-11T00:11:29Z")
16 sodium atoms walk into a bar, followed by Batman. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/62 "2017-06-11T00:12:30Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Who the hell’s Robin? Dick Grayson. Shhhh. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/63 "2017-06-11T00:44:04Z")
When I watched Batman in it’s original run some of the villains were making their first appearances to me. For a long time Burgess Meredith was the Penguin to me, and Cesar Romero was the Joker. And when I watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, that one bride, Dorcas, was CatWoman in a long dress. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/64 "2017-06-11T00:44:43Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Ummm–that was Ron Ely, as Doc. > He also played Tarzan, on TV. Son of a gun! I’m very sorry; I could have sworn I remembered seeing Adam West performing that role. Well…it had some similarities, anyway: the same overall friendly goofiness. Adam West would have played it much the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/65 "2017-06-11T00:55:00Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 16 sodium atoms walk into a bar, followed by Batman. Been there, done that, have the [t-shirt](http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/15e1_sodium_batman.png) to prove it. 😉 He did some softcore porn in the '80s; totally ruined my image of the squeeky-clean superhero. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/66 "2017-06-11T01:34:57Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 16 sodium atoms walk into a bar, followed by Batman. I’m asamed to say, that I get that. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/67 "2017-06-11T01:59:59Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’m asamed to say, that I get that. > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk I didn’t get it until **Spiderman** posted the t-shirt picture. RIP Mr. West. Thank you for the many laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/68 "2017-06-11T02:29:07Z")
Wait, Batman is an isotope of cobalt with negative eight neutrons? ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/69 "2017-06-11T03:05:56Z")
RIP Mayor West Thanks for the inspiration for my own cat, Paul. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/70 "2017-06-11T03:08:28Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Burt Ward put out a very ugly self-published autobiography. He is the polar opposite of Adam West. I think there was one part where he talked about filling dozens of Batgroupies with Batsperm. :eek: My favorite Burt Ward story is when he was being interviewed by some magazine (_ **TV Guide** _, maybe). He was complaining that no one would take him seriously as an actor. It went something … like this… \*The other day on the set, I asked "All right, what’s my \*\*motivation \*_in this scene?" Everyone just kind of looked at me, and the director said "Motivation?!? Aw, come on, Burt, just do the scene!_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/71 "2017-06-11T03:42:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wait, Batman is an isotope of cobalt with negative eight neutrons? If he’s prepared. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/72 "2017-06-11T04:18:38Z")
I will run a rope down my driveway and pretend to climb a building in his honor. Truly, he was one of deadpan camp’s greatest luminaries. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/73 "2017-06-11T04:27:09Z")
Thank you for so many wonderful memories. From Batman to The Happy Hooker to Mayor of Quahog. Rest In Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/74 "2017-06-11T04:38:43Z")
[_Variety_ has a great obit article](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/adam-west-dead-burt-ward-seth-green-remember-1202461567/). I thought these were wonderful tributes: > [@Burt Ward](#): > > I am devastated at the loss of one my very dearest friends. Adam and I had a special friendship for more than 50 years. We shared some of the most fun times of our lives together. Our families have deep love and respect for each other. This is a terribly unexpected loss of my lifelong friend. I will forever miss him. There are several fine actors who have portrayed Batman in films. In my eyes, there was only one real Batman that is and always will be Adam West. He was truly the Bright Night. > [@Seth Green](#): > > He was a true hero of mine — grew up watching him as Batman, and got the privilege of both working with and directing him. He’s generous and always classy. Very sad to think of the world without our beloved Mayor. How lucky we are he left so much behind. > [@Julie Newmar](#): > > Stellar, exemplar, a king to the end. He was bright, witty and fun to work with. I will miss him in the physical world and savor him always in the world of imagination and creativity. He meant so much to people. A friend said: ‘The father that we wanted.’ That is a great gift, no matter how you live it ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/75 "2017-06-11T13:48:06Z")
That “Bright Night” thing from Burt Ward has to be a typo, right? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/76 "2017-06-11T13:48:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Looks like the sand-shark finally got him. > [@wolf\_meister](#): > > A reference to “The Invisible Enemy”, The Outer Limits, 1964? I haven’t seen much of _The Outer Limits_. I thought it was a reference to _Robinson Crusoe on Mars_ (although Adam West’s character was killed when his escape pod crashedso he wouldn’t have met the sand-sharks). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/77 "2017-06-11T14:37:17Z")
I thought it was a reference to [this](http://batman-news.com/2013/07/16/10-strangest-batman-movie-moments/), from the Batman movie. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/78 "2017-06-11T16:01:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Funny; when I was in fifth and sixth grade, I never thought of West’s \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*as a comedy. To me, it was deadly serious, scientifically accurate, true-to-life detective work. My childish view of the series was destroyed when Batman decoded a message left behind in uneaten letters of alphabet soup with the ‘Bat alphabet soup’ analyzer. My six-year old self went, “Wait a minute… this isn’t a crime drama…” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/79 "2017-06-11T16:14:43Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > My childish view of the series was destroyed when Batman decoded a message left behind in uneaten letters of alphabet soup with the ‘Bat alphabet soup’ analyzer. My six-year old self went, “Wait a minute… this isn’t a crime drama…” Must have been a third-season episode… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594/80 "2017-06-11T16:31:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Must have been a third-season episode… ☹ Nope. It is, as it happens, the linked clip from a little earlier in the thread – from the second-season episode where Batman and Robin fight the Green Hornet and Kato. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-west-died/788594.md?page=5)