# What's your favorite "Holy \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, Batman!" line? (60s TV show) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601 "2010-10-28T00:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/1 "2010-10-28T00:54:17Z")
I was just reading [this thread about the 60s “Batman” TV show](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=582753), and it made me think about all the times Robin said “Holy (insert word or phrase here), Batman!” There must have been a bunch of them during the show’s run. What’s your favorite one? Please limit yourself to ones that Burt Ward actually said, rather than ones you WISH he’d said. Here’s my favorite, for the sheer absurdity of it: **“Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, Batman!”** ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/2 "2010-10-28T01:02:22Z")
No specific examples come to mind, but can we also include the 1977 animated “The New Adventures of Batman”, in which Ward and Adam West reprise their roles? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/3 "2010-10-28T01:08:52Z")
“Holy ‘Wizard of Oz’ Batman! That twister’s…gonna somethin somethin” ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/4 "2010-10-28T01:20:07Z")
[For some ideas.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nltVuSH-lQM) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/5 "2010-10-28T01:37:39Z")
Without Looking at the **athelas** ’s link: When Batman and Robin are about to get broiled in the sun, Robin says: “Holy Oleo” and Catwoman responds: “I didn’t know you could yodel”. Off to see if it is in the link. Nope. Darn ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/6 "2010-10-28T01:41:34Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Without Looking at the **athelas** ’s link: > > When Batman and Robin are about to get broiled in the sun, Robin says: > > “Holy Oleo” > > and Catwoman responds: > > “I didn’t know you could yodel”. > > Off to see if it is in the link. > > Nope. Darn You left out a piece. Catwoman explains how the reflector that is about to fry the dynamic duo is coated in margerine. To which Robin exclaims “Holy Oleo !” ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/7 "2010-10-28T03:49:38Z")
There was an episode where Robin fell off a building and Batman threw him a Batarang on a rope, saying: “Robin! Catch this in your _teeth!_” Of course, Robin did and was rescued. He then said: **"Holy molars, Batman!** It’s a good thing I brush my teeth!" Then, Batman said, with a completely straight face: “Yes, Robin. _You owe your life… to dental hygiene._” I think it took me at least 2 minutes to stop laughing at that line. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/8 "2010-10-28T04:16:11Z")
“Holy rusted metal, Batman!” Whoops, wrong Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/9 "2010-10-28T04:22:35Z")
On the other hand, that WAS my favourite. ‘There’s rusted metal…and it’s full of holes…’ ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/10 "2010-10-28T10:29:18Z")
I love that show. No examples come to mind at the moment, I’ll have to get back to you… Holy amesia, Batman! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/11 "2010-10-28T11:03:00Z")
Not necessarily my favorite, but a memoral one nonetheless was when Batman saved Catwoman and they had a tender moment. As the two walked away, Robin yelled “Holy mush.” ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/12 "2010-10-28T12:58:07Z")
I doubt they ever risked offending a religion in the show, but I’ve fantasized about the Dynamic Duo investigating thefts from the Vatican, and Robin finding a stolen statue of the Virgin: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Batman!” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/13 "2010-10-28T14:21:10Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > I doubt they ever risked offending a religion in the show, but I’ve fantasized about the Dynamic Duo investigating thefts from the Vatican, and Robin finding a stolen statue of the Virgin: > > “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Batman!” 😃 Or one of the crooks hideouts is in a bakery, and he screams “Holy Donuts” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/14 "2010-10-28T14:24:15Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > 😃 > Or one of the crooks hideouts is in a bakery, and he screams “Holy Donuts” Or they bust up a Rastafarian gathering: “Holy Smoke!” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/15 "2010-10-28T15:55:11Z")
Or if Robin spotted Storm of the X-Men on a beach in Honolulu: “Holy Halle haole!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/16 "2010-10-28T16:04:14Z")
I still have, somewhere (I think it’s in the rag box now) an ancient T-shirt from the 80’s with Robin on it with the one caption he never said – “Holy shit, Batman!”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/17 "2010-10-28T16:17:21Z")
My favourite was always “Holy interplanetary yardstick!” ---
**Author:** ![cblackhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@cblackhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cblackhand)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/18 "2010-10-28T16:49:05Z")
My favorite is [“Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmn0k-WrkiA). ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/19 "2010-10-28T17:00:40Z")
My fake one is a scenerio where the Dynamic Duo are chasing the Joker through a warehouse, and he escapes by dumping a crateful of condoms on them- leading to the remark “Holy prophylactic Batman!” ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601/20 "2010-11-07T01:23:34Z")
Great ones, everybody! “Holy mucilage” is a new one on me and takes second place, but nothing will replace “Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods” in my heart. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holy-___________-batman-line-60s-tv-show/558601.md?page=2)