# What was your favorite peril from the 60s Batman TV show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420 "2005-03-07T20:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/1 "2005-03-07T20:15:00Z")
Who was the villain? And how did they escape certain doom? My favorite was the time they were hung from their wrists over a vat of boiling - um, oil? Wax? Acid? I’m not really sure, after all these years. As the credits rolled, they were slowly lowered toward death by - um, “something wet and unpleasant”. The escape? I didn’t see it - I may have been grounded for the next episode, or I may have been sick, but I missed it, dammit. I’m told they swung themselves back and forth, reaching the edge of the vat in the nick of time. Sure woulda liked to have seen that . . . I figure this one’s my favorite 'cause I never got “closure”. So, how about you? What’s your favorite deathtrap? How much of it do you \*really \* remember? ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/2 "2005-03-07T21:41:20Z")
I don’t remember the villian, nor the escape. But I do remember one episode where the caped crusader and his sidekick are tied to parabolic, sun reflecting dishes on some rooftop. And the only reason I remember this episode is because the villian further informs them that the dishes have been coated with margerine to increase their reflectivity. To which, Robin gets to quote the line… “Holy oleo, Batman !” Now if I could just get this erased from my memory… ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/3 "2005-03-07T21:41:24Z")
I think getting seduced by Poison Ivy’s(?) love dust would be my favorite peril. [MPatHG] “Oh, let me have a little peril for a change” “No! It’s too perilous!” [\MPatHG] ---
**Author:** ![19ForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/439d5e/32.png) [@19ForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19ForMe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/4 "2005-03-08T00:09:33Z")
I give you the [Siamese Human Knot.](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2517/transcript.html) No description on my part can do it justice. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/5 "2005-03-08T01:24:31Z")
Being fed to a giant clam, which was illuminated by ugly red l9ights, & festooned with obviously rubber seaweed. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/6 "2005-03-08T01:29:26Z")
Aunt Harriet. Brrr. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/7 "2005-03-08T01:30:54Z")
Moving this from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/8 "2005-03-08T01:32:50Z")
holy rising water, batman–the water’s rising! ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/9 "2005-03-08T02:28:46Z")
> [@19ForMe](#): > > I give you the [Siamese Human Knot.](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2517/transcript.html) > > No description on my part can do it justice. You can tie me up with Batgirl any day of the week. Rowrr. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/10 "2005-03-08T02:30:14Z")
“Holy Oleo, Batman” was a great line but Catwoman’s retort was a classic: “I didn’t now you could yodel, Robin” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/11 "2005-03-08T02:31:55Z")
“Holy Oleo, Batman” was a great line but Catwoman’s retort was a classic: “I didn’t know you could yodel, Robin” ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/12 "2005-03-08T02:33:09Z")
> [@19ForMe](#): > > I give you the [Siamese Human Knot.](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2517/transcript.html) > > No description on my part can do it justice. Definitely the Siamese Human Knot, no question. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/13 "2005-03-08T03:16:01Z")
Holy crap, the Siamese Human Knot is both the worst and best thing to ever happen to old Batman I’ve ever heard of. Bend your fourth finger indeed. How about the other three? ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/14 "2005-03-08T15:42:59Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Being fed to a giant clam, which was illuminated by ugly red l9ights, & festooned with obviously rubber seaweed. Damn, I’d forgotten about that one. That was one scary-looking clam. Of course, I could never figure out how the thing got Robin in its mouth, as it was floating on top of the water. . . ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-peril-from-the-60s-batman-tv-show/293420/15 "2005-03-08T17:05:00Z")
Catwoman had the Dynamic Duo tied up and suspended over a pit of hungry tigers. As they were being lowered into the pit Robin looked up at her and said “Catowman, you are _not_ a nice person!”