So I got to thinking about the ‘girls’ in the old Batman TV show. They’d always go off camera asking Batman something like
“But…I thought I was on the right side, Batman. Is that wrong?”
To which he would reply “Poor confused girl.” or somesuch and have the cops take her away.
My question: Do you think the Batman was justing posing there? Or did he actually believe them just misled and attempt to intervene later?
If so how much time did he spend in court testifying for these poor girls?
C’mon. In the universe of the Batman TV series, the courts actually dispensed justice, and confronted with a poor, confused, trusting minion would undoubtedly put her in a secure facility where she could receive counseling from trained professionals who would help her see the light.
In short, Batman didn’t testify in court on their behalves, he didn’t HAVE to – the courts could be trusted to do the right thing.
I still remember—30-some years later!—an episode where a glam henchgirl fell into Batman’s nuclear power plant, and he sighed, “poor deluded girl.”
I heard that as “poor diluted girl,” which is what I thought you get when you mixed a girl with water.
I’d add that the courts dispensed “rich, steaming bowls of justice” and that the minion’s treatment would undoubtedly have included electroshock therapy, lots of time spent in a straitjacket in a padded room, and possibly a lobotomy as well – but they would have HELPED her.
Well, if they weren’t deluded, then they were evil, and if they’re evil, Batman has to punch them, and he couldn’t do that, so they were deluded.
I have wondered this myself. A guy on that show could jaywalk, and Batman would flatten him, but a woman who helped poison the water supply to Gotham City, turned Robin into a potted begonia, and drowned kittens? Deluded.
hey, tough love reigns at Arkham Asylum! G
I should really know better than to read an Eve post while drinking Coca-Cola.
IIRC Batman mentioned in one of the later episodes that perhaps the poor, deluded girl could be helped by a rehabilitation program sponsored by the Wayne Foundation.
Here’s a question. Many of the villains returned to Gotham City for even more attempts at evil. Did any of the poor deluded girls ever make a second appearance?
And eve, I believe you’re remembering Molly, the henchperson for the Riddler in the very first Batman episode. I’m pretty sure she was the first - and last - person ever to meet with death in the series.
IIRC the original Catwoman fell to her death at the end of season 2, Batman made some remark about cats having 9 lives, then in season 3 there was a newcatwoman played by Eartha Kitt.
There was also at least one person definitely killed by the Joker’s electric hand buzzer.
This would be the rehabilitation program featuring regular spankings, right?
[sub]Mmmmmmmm…1966 Batman hench-girls…[/sub]
If the Michael Keaton Batman movie had instead starred Adam West:
JOKER: “You wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses, wouldja?”
BATMAN: “Curses! You got me on a technicality.”
I remember a number of references made to the Wayne Foundation, and not just the one for Wayward Girls either. But I’ll bet that was the one where Bruce Wayne spent most of his time. 
Of course, it was much better than sending them to the maximum security wing of Gotham State Prison, where they’d be in a cell next to the Joker and across from the Penguin and just down from Riddler.
Perhaps that’s why the villians came back time after time, but we never seemed to see the same girls twice–because Gotham State Prison’s maximum security wing was so easy to break out of!