# Funniest Scene From the Original "Batman" Series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693 "2013-01-29T05:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/41 "2013-01-30T00:30:43Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Yes, and they [met 12 other celebrities.](http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/all-the-window-cameos-from-the.html) They met Ron Jeremy in _Batman XXX_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/42 "2013-01-30T01:17:15Z")
I so hope someone else remembers this as I can’t find a reference anywhere but I swear I saw it. For some reason the Batmobile was out of commission, or otherwise unavailable and Alfred gave Batman a ride on the back of his “Three speed English Racer” bicycle. I distinctly remember batman standing perfectly straight up on a platform at the back of the bike while Alfred rides him out of the Bat Cave, over the road barricade, and ends up dropping him off in front of City Hall (or whatever) just like they do with the Batmobile. I was the perfect age for this show… 5 or 6 when it originally aired as an amazing action show, and a late teen when in re-runs they they somehow re-tooled it into an amazing comedy. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/43 "2013-01-30T01:19:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > P.S. The elderly woman was actually a confederate of the villain of the week, but I can’t recall if it was the Riddler or the Penguin. > [@cochrane](#): > > Wasn’t the Joker the villain in that episode? > > Ah, yes. The Joker’s Flying Saucer. > > ["Batman" The Joker's Flying Saucer (TV Episode 1968) - IMDb](http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0519533/) Yeah, well as I said, I couldn’t recall… ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/44 "2013-01-30T01:26:38Z")
They called it the “Alf Cycle”. I thought it was going to to _ **some** _ sort of motorcycle – Vespa, hell maybe Alfred rides a Harley on his days off. Nope. A tricycle. And as they pass a crowd, Batman says, “Thank you, citizen.” Yes, thank you for a ride on your tricycle, individual I have never met before. What’s with this “citizen” crap? How’s that a proper address? Are they all citizens of Batmanopolis? I had to laugh when i found out years later the French addressed each other as “Citizen” just after the Revolution. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/45 "2013-01-30T01:26:52Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I was old enough to know that they were joking around, but young enough that none of it seemed shocking. I loved the times when they were walking up the side of a building and a random celebrity would lean out of a window and swap a few comments with them. Sadly, I don’t remember any of those lines. > > My Dad was completely disgusted with the show. It was part of the Media Conspiracy to undermine America by mocking heros and the police. It wasn’t bad enough to be forbidden (unlike the Smothers Brothers), but we had to be reminded as often as he noticed us watching it. Heehee. My parents had a similar attitude toward the show, although I’d characterize theirs as eye-rolling quasi-tolerance. One of the presents under the Christmas tree in 1966 was addressed to the Family, and turned out to be a large and fancy dictionary (the only non-telephone book that we had ever had to rival the family Bible in physical size). Dad remarked that if he ever found the words “POW!” “BLAMMO!!!” “OoooFFF!!” or “KAZOWIEEE!!!” in that dictionary, it was going straight into the fireplace. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/46 "2013-01-30T01:36:56Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > They called it the “Alf Cycle”. I thought it was going to to _ **some** _ sort of motorcycle – Vespa, hell maybe Alfred rides a Harley on his days off. Nope. A tricycle. And as they pass a crowd, Batman says, “Thank you, citizen.” Yes, thank you for a ride on your tricycle, individual I have never met before. Thank you… that was enough for me to find this. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/k2lpahN8aY0/hqdefault.jpg "alf cycle in the batman series 1966") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2lpahN8aY0) The bike is what I remember, but I swear they did the whole exit of the Bat Cave and arriving at City Hall bit. Maybe (hopefully) there were more than one times they used this. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/47 "2013-01-30T01:40:50Z")
Missed the edit window: [The alf-cycle!](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=batman++ALF-cycle&view=detail&mid=B5BE7DFE4965A329D5B2B5BE7DFE4965A329D5B2&first=0) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/48 "2013-01-30T01:59:22Z")
> [@FrankJBN](#): > > “but I thought, there’s no WAY that bomb goes off; Batman’s not gonna break the speed limit!” > > So you subscribe to the theory that Gotham is indeed NYC? Because prior to 1974, only New York had a 55mph highway speed limit. Good call. Considering the city was run by Mayor Lindseed and the state by Governor Stonefellow, I’d say that was the intention. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/49 "2013-01-30T02:06:26Z")
I always remember seeing the Liberace episodes as a kid without knowing anything about who he was or his lifestyle and wondering “who is this man and why does he act so strange”? Was there any criminal that Chief O’Hara and his police force didn’t need to call the Dynamic Duo for? An 86 year old woman jaywalking? Special kudos to the bat climb where they discuss the Mona Lisa with Edward G Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/50 "2013-01-30T02:25:49Z")
Isn’t there a Catwoman episode (Julie Newmar was the only real Catwoman) where at the end where she is captured, she starts playing up to Batman. She tells him that if they were together, he could straighten her out and keep her away from a life of crime. Flustered, Batman says “What about Robin?” Catwoman responds “I know, we could kill him”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/51 "2013-01-30T02:27:55Z")
> [@FrankJBN](#): > > “but I thought, there’s no WAY that bomb goes off; Batman’s not gonna break the speed limit!” > > So you subscribe to the theory that Gotham is indeed NYC? Because prior to 1974, only New York had a 55mph highway speed limit. Good call. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Considering the city was run by Mayor Lindseed and the state by Governor Stonefellow, I’d say that was the intention. For those less familiar: [Mayor John Lindsay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay) and [Governor Nelson Rockefeller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller). ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/52 "2013-01-30T03:21:15Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > In the pilot, Batman and Robin make it back to the U. N. to rehydrate the world leaders who instantly pop back into place and resume their arguing exactly where they had left off. As they debate and yell at each other, Robin something to the effect “Maybe we should leave them to their good work” and starts to walk out the door. Batman, being wiser, says, “Let’s not be so conspicuous.” And then they walk over to the window where they climb out with their bat ropes. > > Love it! Nitpick: Not the pilot. That was the 1966 theatrical movie. It was shot between the first and second season of the TV series. Although I understand the movie did serve to introduce the series overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/53 "2013-01-30T03:39:04Z")
PBS is showing a new episode of _The Pioneers of Television_ about ‘Superhero shows’ including interviews with West & Ward… ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/54 "2013-01-30T03:52:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Nitpick: Not the pilot. That was the 1966 theatrical movie. It was shot between the first and second season of the TV series. That said, the pilot episode has Batman in full costume at a nightclub, acting like a plainclothes cop: _“I’ll stand at the bar; I shouldn’t wish to attract attention.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/55 "2013-01-30T03:55:12Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > So that’s why the Joker has a mustache under his face paint? Actually that wasn’t the show. That was Cesar Romero’s decision. He refused to shave it off. Really obscure trivia: Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. that Domino Daredoll…Batgirl!) lived in apartment number 2B…as in the second Bat. In the episode with the Siren (Joan Collins), she mesmerizes Bruce Wayne and orders him to give him complete control of his estate, including ownership of Wayne Manor. Bruce retrieves the legal deed from a wall safe hidden behind a portrait…of a wall safe. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/56 "2013-01-30T04:09:44Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > If the movie counts, the funniest line is “Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.” My favorite scene and clearly one of the greatest. There was another scene in the movie where Batman and Robin get to the UN building and Batman reads the label for the up button in several languages. “Up… auf… jusqu’à…” ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/57 "2013-01-30T04:34:32Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > I was watching a Batman marathon on TV a few years back, and one of the episodes ended on a cliffhanger: some villain had planted a bomb on the Batmobile, rigged to go off when the speedometer hits 60 mph. Batman gets called to stop a crime, and as Batman and Robin are leaving the Batcave, Robin says, "Hurry, Batman! We’ve got to stop (whoever it was) Of course the voiceover is building up the tension as we watch the speedometer needle steadily climb upward, and leaves the viewer anticipating an explosive conclusion… but I thought, there’s no WAY that bomb goes off; Batman’s not gonna break the speed limit! Sure enough, the start of the next episode, Batman levels off at 55 mph, prompting Robin to say, “Batman, we can go faster than this, can’t we?” To which Batman replies something to the effect of, “See those signs on the side of the road, Robin? The speed limit is 55 mph, and we must obey the law, for everyone’s safety.” Classic. That episode starred special guest villainess Shelley Winters as Ma Parker. FYI—Tisha Sterling as “Legs” was absolutely HOT in that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/58 "2013-01-30T04:35:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Batman and Robin are summoned to the Commissioner’s office to hear a witness statement from an elderly woman. She says that she was in Gotham Central Park when she was confronted by a flying saucer landing in the bushes, and some little green men from Mars emerging and speaking to her in an incomprehensible language. She claims that she does not know what the aliens meant (“How should I know? I don’t speak Marsish!”), and that she only came forward because she saw it as her civic obligation to do so. > > Batman’s remark (paraphrased): "Yes, it is the duty of every citizen of Gotham City to report sightings of little green men emerging from flying saucers in Gotham Central Park! > > “Gotham Municipal code Three Zero Five, point 2, section A, subsection iii.” > > P.S. The elderly woman was actually a confederate of the villain of the week, but I can’t recall if it was the Riddler or the Penguin. And that elderly woman was played by none other than Ellen Corby aka “Grandma Walton.” I guess she got rehabilitated by the time she made it to Walton’s Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/59 "2013-01-30T04:37:24Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > If the movie counts, the funniest line is “Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.” THE FUNNIEST LINE in the entire movie! ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693/60 "2013-01-30T04:39:39Z")
I was only 6 or 7 when I watched this show in syndication in the early 70s so the camp humor and ridiculousness was completely lost on me. I just watched it as a cool, action superhero show. I can specifically remember watching the above scene and hearing my older brothers & sisters laughing their asses off and not understanding why! The same thing actually happened to me. However as I began watching it again in syndication as a teenager in the 70s, my best friend and I started laughing at each episode. I looked at him and said, “I don’t remember the show being that funny.” We soon realized that it was a comedy, and in my opinion, one of television’s most brilliant comedies ever! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-scene-from-the-original-batman-series/648693.md?page=4)