Blank Check — Patreon: Batman (1966)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Batman (1966)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley (producer, in the room).

Subject films: Batman (1966) (1966).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and overlapping crosstalk with the movie audio; speaker attributions are low-confidence guesses. The transcript includes film dialogue interleaved with the hosts, and box office section at the end.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Release descriptors for individual inferred titles (e.g. Batman Begins, Justice League, Hush) were added only as role context, not as said facts.
The 'Silence of the Lambs' target in the Calendar Man connection is inferred from 'Hannibal Lecter' (the speaker names the character, not the film).
'Lego Batman Movie' as the movie with the best Robin (0:27:53-0:28:15) is inferred from context; the film title is not said there.
'Hexxus' name and 'Batgirl' film as the Brendan Fraser Firefly project are my identification of unnamed references.

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industry (industry): Spider-Man (1970s live-action TV show and its European compilation movies) → The Batman. TV episode compilations as movies (Spider-Man, Battlestar Galactica) frame why Batman 1966 could be mistaken for stitched-together episodes.
“They would package together episodes of that and release it in like Europe and other countries.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:01:54 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Batman (TV series, 1966-68) → The Munsters (TV series). Batman premiering and eating the Munsters' timeslot is why that show tanked.
“And it was because Batman premiered and immediately Munsters like tank.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Munsters (TV series) → Spider-Man (1970s live-action TV show and its European compilation movies). Both shows had TV episodes repackaged as movies for Europe; Munsters movies came out after cancellation.
“And then the movies came out like a year after the show had been canceled.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Burgess Meredith → Grumpy Old Men / Grumpier Old Men. Meredith went on to play the grumpy old man in both Grumpy Old Men films.
“He also did like the fucking both of the grumpy old men movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:05:46 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Batman (TV series, 1966-68) → The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. ABC's executive wanted a glitzy primetime comedy adventure show, like the Man from U.N.C.L.E., with Batman.
“I want to do the man from uncle with Batman, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:06:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Lorenzo Semple Jr. → The Parallax View. Semple wrote Batman and later serious 70s thrillers like Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor.
“He wrote a lot of, you know, good 70s thrillers and stuff, but he's the main guy here.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:07:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Lorenzo Semple Jr. → The Batman. Semple says the show was a blast, intended and run as a comedy, and he was proud of it.
“It was intended as a comedy, is run as a comedy, like at the Emmys, at one Emmys, in the comedy categories.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:07:40 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Batman Forever / Batman & Robin. Griffin says Schumacher's Batman films are directly shaped by the Adam West show's pairing and cliffhanger style.
“Joel Schumacher is very influenced by the Adam West show.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:08:26 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Batman (TV series, 1966-68) → Doctor Who. Early TV was thrown away; the BBC burned old Doctor Who like ABC lost the Batman sets.
“I guess ABC was just like, well, there's so many early TV things like that with all those old Doctor Who episodes”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:09:10 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Batman (1943 serial). A New York screening of the 1943 Lewis Wilson serial caused bat fever and led Fox to greenlight the movie.
“someone screened that in New York City and it was such a phenomenon.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Monty Python. The opening dedication to fun lovers and the apology for overlooked lovers is compared to Monty Python.
“That's like Monty Python.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:14:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Conan O'Brien → The Batman. Conan reportedly calls this movie the peak of comedy writing.
“Conan O'Brien cites this movie as like the peak of comedy writing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:14:39 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Batman → Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. The humor peaks with the first film and declines across the series; Phantasm and Lego Batman are partial exceptions.
“humor peaks with the 1st one, just decline, basically.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:15:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → The Lego Batman Movie. Lego Batman keeps the humor alive as the exception to the trend toward seriousness.
“And Lego pops up, again, for Lego.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:15:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Adam West → Family Guy. West was reclaimed as a family-guy mascot, always happy to be in on the joke.
“Adam West became kind of a mascot of like family guy”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:16:24 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Adam West → Batman (TV series, 1966-68). West says the show hurt his career for a while because people assumed he was a bad actor.
“He talks about that this show fucked up his career for a while after this because people assumed he was a bad actor and he was like out of touch.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:16:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → The Dark Knight Rises. The ocean bomb-disposal sequence is thought to be directly referenced in the final act of Dark Knight Rises.
“this sequence, a lot of people think, is directly referenced by the final act of Dark Knight Rises.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:18:49 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Fredric Wertham → The Batman. The 1950s comics-code panic over Batman and Robin being gay is why movies fear Robin.
“Batman and Robin are gay.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:25:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → The Batman. Burton tried to put Robin in both his movies and both times the character was cut.
“Burton tried to put Robin in both of his movies and both cases got cut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:25:56 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → Batman Forever. Schumacher made Robin a grown man and the dynamic got more homoerotic; the 1966 Robin is a child.
“In the Schumacher movies, they make him more grown up and it becomes more homeerotic.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:26:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Lego Batman Movie → The Batman. One movie has the best Robin and the only real angle on the Batman-Robin relationship (probably Lego Batman; title not said).
“Because it also is the one movie that I think actually has an angle on what is this relationship?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:28:08 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Dark Knight Rises → Tim Drake. Nolan's Robin take is basically Tim Drake, and a speaker wishes it had been 10 percent more obvious.
“And I wish Nolan had just gone 10%, you know, more obvious with it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:28:17 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → The Simpsons. Joke density, word jokes and visual jokes read as proto-Simpsons.
“it feels very Simpsons.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:29:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Zucker Brothers. The film's stacked visual gags (a joke in the foreground and another behind) are the Zucker Brothers style.
“And very Zucker Brothers, the like, Drebin can be saying something, but there's an additional gag behind him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:29:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Airplane! / Naked Gun (Zucker Brothers) → Marx Brothers. The Zuckers drew on airport-movie and cop-show parody plus Marx Brothers-era comedy.
“But also the comedy of their era, right? you know, Marks Brothers and all of that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:30:12 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Mad magazine. The film's comedy is Mad magazine style: cram in as many jokes as possible.
“it's this sort of mad magazine comedy where it's like fit in as many jokes as you can.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:30:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): The Batman → The Batman. The Reeves film has the most villains: Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin and Sal Maroni.
“Yeah, the Reeve movie has the most villains and Sal Maroni, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:41:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Batman Returns → The Batman. Villains scheming together in Batman Returns and Schumacher films echoes the 1966 team-up, but those feel forced.
“The team up does always feel a little forced”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:42:12 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Long Halloween (comic) → Silence of the Lambs (implied: Hannibal Lecter). Loeb turned Calendar Man into a Hannibal Lecter figure Batman consults in The Long Halloween.
“he turned Calendar Man into like a Hannibal Lecter villain in the long Halloween”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:42:58 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Long Halloween (comic) → The Batman. Every adaptation pulls from The Long Halloween but has not used Calendar Man.
“Everyone has pulled from the long Halloween, but not used calendar man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:43:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Frank Gorshin → Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey has said he worshiped Gorshin's Riddler and wanted to pay homage.
“I worshiped the Gorshon performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:47:15 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Frank Gorshin → Adam West. West and Gorshin supposedly got kicked out of an orgy for staying in character.
“I went into the Batman character and we were kicked out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:47:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Adam West → Burt Ward. West, Ward and Yvonne Craig could not get other parts and ended up at comic conventions.
“They just couldn't, you know, get another part, basically.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:50:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Batman (TV series, 1966-68) → The Simpsons. The Radioactive Man parody mirrors the fate of old Batman actors doing car-dealership appearances in costume.
“that's the kind of thing that the Simpsons parodies, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:50:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Alan Napier → Michael Caine. 1966 Alfred is a natty gentleman, while Nolan's Caine is quietly ex-service and later Alfreds are brawlers.
“Again, I think the Nolan movies handle it perfectly”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:52:53 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Frasier (butler episode) → The Batman. A Frasier episode with Victor Garber as a butler is recommended as the same butler-fantasy.
“there's one episode of Frasier.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:54:17 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Nicolas Cage → Adam West. Cage says he modeled his Kick-Ass performance on West and West teased him for it.
“Adam West was like, I saw you try to channel me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:00:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → The Batman. Burton made the Penguin literally half-penguin with flipper arms, versus the original gangster in a suit.
“That's what Burton's like, no, this guy has like flipper arms, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:02:13 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → Zodiac Killer. Reeves took the Riddler as a Zodiac-style killer, which is smart, vs the 1966 puzzle-lover.
“Obviously, Reeves goes for the zodiac angle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:02:35 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Batman (franchise) → The Batman. Reeves' film was well reviewed enough that DC may do more of it, the hosts hoping for fun elsewhere.
“I think we're now in Reevesville.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:03:19 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Batman (franchise) → The Batman. The hope is that the Keaton Batman side universe will allow a little more fun.
“I'm hoping that, if not silly, the Keaton Batman side universe will allow a little more fun.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:03:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → Harley Quinn / Margot Robbie DC films. The Harley Quinn stuff has the stylized tone but an edge-lordy element that leaves a bad taste.
“But it's that kind of, you know, you know, edge lordy element”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:03:44 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Batman (franchise) → The Dark Knight Rises. All the post-West movies are on a race to self-serious credibility.
“It's been this race to self-serious credibility.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:04:50 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Robert Pattinson → Bruce Timm. Pattinson's wide, straight mouth in the cowl looks like a Bruce Timm drawing.
“he looks like a Bruce Tim drawing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:05:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → Spider-Man (franchise). Spider-Man has the second-best rogues gallery but its villains read as criminals with a gimmick, while Batman villains are insane.
“They feel like criminals with a gimmick.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:08:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Sylvester Stallone → Burgess Meredith. Stallone reportedly called Meredith one of the all-time great stick men, a story relayed via Rapaport.
“One of the all time great stick men.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:12:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Burgess Meredith → Rocky (series). Meredith was already in his late 50s here and ten years from the first Rocky.
“This is 10 years away from the 1st Rocky, yes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:14:09 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → The Dark Knight Rises. The giant bomb, the film's most iconic image, is what Dark Knight Rises lifts.
“This is the thing that Dark Knight Rises kind of lifts.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:14:38 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Burgess Meredith → Batman Returns. Burton wanted Meredith to play the Penguin's father but he was too frail by then.
“Burton wanted him to play, the father of Penguin.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:15:32 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Batman → Airplane! / Naked Gun (Zucker Brothers). A brass band as the obstruction in the bomb sequence is the same shorthand humor Naked Gun uses.
“Obviously, naked gun always does that, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:16:02 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Burgess Meredith → Paulette Goddard. Meredith was married to Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin's wife, and was blacklisted.
“He was married to Paulette Goddard.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:21:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Burgess Meredith → Time Enough at Last (Twilight Zone episode). Meredith is the reader in one of the most famous Twilight Zone episodes.
“He's in a one of the most famous Twilight Zone episodes ever or time enough at last?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:22:07 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Burgess Meredith → The Day of the Locust. Meredith got an Oscar nomination for Day of the Locust the year before Rocky.
“he was nominated the year before for a different movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:22:42 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Batman → The Batman. The Burton Batmobile was a childhood toy; the 1966 car looks coolest but also most like a car.
“I certainly had the Burton Batmobile as a toy, and I played with it all the time”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:25:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Batman → The Batman. Reeves pulled the Batmobile back toward being a car, like the 1966 one.
“I like that Reed's turned it back into being a little more of a car again.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:25:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Batman → Batman v Superman / Snyder's DC films. The Snyder vehicles are CGI chaos, unlike the real drivable Nolan Batmobile.
“the thing with the Snyder version is, it's just a CGI thing that smashes around.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:26:01 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Dark Knight → The Batman. The Batpod reveal is called the greatest Batmobile moment of all time.
“I do think the greatest Batmobile moment of all time is when it's broken in the dark night and the Batpod comes out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:26:27 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Batman → Batman Forever. Burton had a plane and a boat which Schumacher updated in Batman Forever; Batman & Robin gave Robin a motorcycle.
“Burton has a plane and a boat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:27:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Leslie H. Martinson → PT 109. The Batman director's best-known other movie is PT 109, with Cliff Robertson as JFK.
“Leslie Martinson made a movie called PT109.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:30:38 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Cliff Robertson → PT 109. Robertson plays JFK in PT 109, and was also the TV show's parody of Shane.
“Cliff Robertson plays him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Leslie H. Martinson → Hot Rod Rumble. His other credits include hot-rod pictures and a Lassie ripoff.
“Made a movie called Hot Rod Rumble.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:31:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Leslie H. Martinson → The Atomic Kid. Martinson also directed Mickey Rooney in The Atomic Kid.
“He did a Mickey Rooney movie, but in the 50s called the Atomic Kid.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:31:41 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Burgess Meredith → Mickey Rooney. Meredith, Rooney and Dudley Moore are grouped as short-king Hollywood Lotharios.
“Dudley Moore, Mickey Rooney, Burgess Meredith.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:31:54 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Conan O'Brien → The Batman. Conan's brand of obvious-shorthand humor is why this humor lands for the hosts; Conan echoes it.
“Conan is actually probably a crucial reason this humor lands for us because Conan is echoing it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:37:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue → George C. Scott. The sentient cloud of drug smoke in the anti-drug cartoon special is voiced by George C. Scott.
“He's played by George C. Scott.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): FernGully: The Last Rainforest → Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Smoke the drug-cloud villain prompts a comparison to FernGully's poisonous-cloud villain.
“Fern Gali is around the same time that has a sort of poisonous cloud.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Tim Curry → FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Tim Curry voices FernGully's smog villain (named Hexxus).
“Is that Tim Curry?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:41:08 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Robert Morse → Batman (TV series, 1966-68). Morse is a guy you are surprised never played a Batman villain on this show.
“He's a guy you're surprised never played a Batman villain on this show, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:42:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Morse → Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. Morse voices Santa Claus on Teen Titans Go! and in the Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans film.
“He played Santa Claus in 10 episodes of Teen Titans Go.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:44:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Batman → The Truman Show. The submerged water-tank photography against a painted backdrop looks like The Truman Show.
“I was about to reference the Truman show.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:45:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Lee Meriwether → The Avengers (1960s British TV). The skin-tight-bodysuit actress everyone had a crush on is a 60s TV trope shared with The Avengers.
“obviously that's the sort of 60s trope, the Avengers, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:48:11 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Batman: The Brave and the Bold (animated) → Batman (TV series, 1966-68). The cartoon closest in tone to the West show: a Batman not haunted by anything.
“this is a Batman who is not haunted by anything.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:55:35 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Batman → Rocky and Bullwinkle (Fearless Leader). The UN delegates scene includes a Soviet delegate with a Nazi vibe like Rocky and Bullwinkle's Fearless Leader.
“Fearless leader from Rocky and Bullenkle.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:56:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Batman → Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Number one at the box office the week the film opened was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:59:18 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? → Mike Nichols. It was Mike Nichols' directorial debut, a big hit despite expecting scandal.
“Of course, the directorial debut of Mike Nichols.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:59:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Dr. Zhivago → David Lean. Number two was David Lean's Dr. Zhivago, a huge hit from Christmas 1965.
“David Leans, Dr. Javago, which was released Christmas of 1965.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:00:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Dr. Zhivago → Omar Sharif. Omar Sharif stars as Zhivago.
“Omar Sharif.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:00:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): The Sound of Music → Julie Andrews. Number three was The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, in its 73rd week.
“Julie Andrews. Sound of Music.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:02:16 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): The Sound of Music → Robert Wise. Wise directed The Sound of Music; a speaker thinks it may suit a musicals skeptic.
“Robert Wise.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:03:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Batman → The Sound of Music. A UK sing-along Sound of Music (Prince Charles Theater) turned into a Rocky Horror-style costume event.
“It became this rocky horror adjacent thing”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:03:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming → Dr. Strangelove. Hosts place it near but not as acidic as Dr. Strangelove.
“Not Doctor Strangelove, but you know, like that kind of thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:04:56 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming → Norman Jewison. Number four is a Norman Jewison comedy with Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint and Alan Arkin.
“It's a Norman Jewish and film in 1966.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:05:16 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Offer (Godfather making-of series) / The Godfather → The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. A tweet about no one having the courage to make The Godfather today came up alongside Jewison's The Offer-era bit.
“no one would have the courage to make the Godfather today.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:05:36 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming → It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. As a kid, the speaker watched it as 'another thing like' Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
“it's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world that my parents were like, here's another thing like that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:07:00 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Khartoum → Dr. Zhivago. Number five is a David Lean-esque epic that is not remembered and not as good.
“It's a David Lean-esque epic.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:07:36 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Khartoum → Zulu. Zulu is the wrong guess for the siege epic; Michael Caine is incredible in Zulu.
“Michael King's incredible in it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:08:07 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Khartoum → Basil Dearden. The director is Basil Dearden.
“It's directed by Basil Deirden.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:08:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Laurence Olivier → Khartoum. Olivier plays Muhammad Ahmed in brown makeup; Heston plays Gordon.
“Lawrence Livia plays Muhammad Ahmed, and let us never speak of this again.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Cary Grant → Walk, Don't Run. Grant's last film is a charming comedy set at the Tokyo Olympics.
“Carrie Grant's last film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:53 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Modesty Blaise → Joseph Losey. Joseph Losey adapted the Modesty Blaise comic in 1966.
“there's also the 1966 Joseph Losey adaptation of Modesty Blaze, the famous comic”
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programming (programming): Batman: Mask of the Phantasm → The Batman. The 'Not All Batman' series continues with Mask of the Phantasm in 20 days.
“Tune in for Batman Maska Phantasm for the thrilling conclusion”
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fun, about Batman (TV series, 1966-68): Batman premiered and the Munsters tanked within four months; the Munsters movies came out after cancellation.
“Right, it was like within 4 months of Batman premiering.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Griffin Newman: Griffin's Supergirl bit: Burt Ward and other legends in the opening credits made viewers think Crisis would tie in The Tick.
“For 5 seconds, I think people thought Crisis on Infinite Earth was gonna tie in the tick universe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:05:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Batman (TV series, 1966-68): During NBC's attempt to poach the show, they discovered most of the Batman sets had been destroyed.
“they found out that for some reason, most of the Batman sets had been destroyed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:09:05 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: Semple wrote the screenplay in a week and they shot it in a month.
“simple writes the screenplay in a week.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:11:54 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Cesar Romero: Romero refused to shave his mustache, so makeup covered it; on a movie screen it still pops.
“The movie, the mustache is pretty clear.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:12:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: The opening dedication sends up lovers of the ridiculous and apologizes to any sizable group of lovers it overlooked.
“We've overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:14:32 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Batman (TV series, 1966-68): Mr. Freeze was played by three people (Preminger, Sanders, Wallach), whoever was available that week.
“Three different people play Mr. Freeze.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:20:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: Rubber shark visibly leaking water, then Batman reaches for shark repellent bat spray.
“Water leaking out of the shark, the rubber shark, you can see.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:21:52 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Burt Ward: They had to round out his underwear bulge because it was too prominent.
“they had to, uh, round out his bulge in his underwear because it was too prominent”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:26:55 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Adam West and Frank Gorshin: The legend that West and Gorshin went to a Hollywood orgy in character and were expelled for doing too many bits.
“Too many bets. Too many bets.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:47:39 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Frank Gorshin: Gorshin's first language was Slovenian, spoken at home.
“He was this of Slovenian ancestry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:47:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ben Hosley: Ben has knocked out a wall in his apartment and is building a Batcave-style computer room.
“Ben, to be clear, just knocked out a wall in his apartment.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:53:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: Alfred drives the Batmobile in a harlequin mask so nobody connects it to Bruce Wayne's butler.
“A little harlequin mask.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:54:59 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jason Todd (comics): Readers phoned in a 900 number vote on whether the second Robin would live, and he died.
“They do a thing where you had to call in on the phone if Robin should live or die.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:58:10 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: The Riddler's lazy branding: binoculars with a single question mark.
“I think it's a little lazy of him to just get a pair of binoculars and put one question mark on them”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:59:39 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Nicolas Cage: Cage told a Reddit AMA his Kick-Ass performance was modeled on Adam West, who later teased him.
“Adam West was like, I saw you try to channel me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:00:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Burgess Meredith: Stallone supposedly called Meredith one of the all-time great stick men; the phrase became a running gag.
“One of the all time great stick men.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:12:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Burgess Meredith: Meredith was blacklisted and then, jokes Griffin, quack-listed for years for being the Penguin.
“He was also, unfortunately, I must mention, placed on the quack list for being the penguin.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:21:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: The mattress truck under the falling Batman is the classic funniest-obstruction shorthand.
“It's the classic like the fucking mattress truck.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:28:30 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Condiment King: Mandela effect: people assume Condiment King was a real comics or 1966 villain; he was a 90s animated series parody.
“they introduced Condiment King as a parody of this type of villain.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:34:28 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about School Marm (hosts' villain pitch): Ben pitches a villain who assigns deadly science homework; Griffin names her The School Marm.
“Here's the name.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:36:35 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue: The anti-drug cartoon special's villain is a sentient cloud of smoke voiced by George C. Scott.
“His name is Smoke.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:40:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Batman's belt: All the pouches on West's utility belt are upside down.
“all the pouches on his belt are upside down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:49:19 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: The UN joke: the dust is rehydrated but everyone speaks a different language.
“So basically the joke is, everyone has been physically reconstituted, but just speaks a different language.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:57:02 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Khartoum: Worst decision: applying makeup to the wrong actor (Olivier as Muhammad Ahmed).
“Worst decision to apply makeup to the wrong actor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:41 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Batman: The commentary ends with a tease for the next Not All Batman episode in 20 days.
“same bat Patreon, same bat feed, RSS feed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:11:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves the self-aware comedy of the Adam West show and the density of its gags, and recounts comics lore (Robin lineage, Damian Wayne) with relish. Can't stand lazy branding on villains like the Riddler's single question mark. A sucker for gadgets, vehicles and Conan-style shorthand humor.
David Sims (host): Admires the film's production value and its comedic precision, and is the one reading box office data and quizzing. Can't stand the self-serious trend in Batman movies; a sucker for 60s epics and trivia about directors and casts.
Ben Hosley (guest): Ben Hosley, producer, in the room. Adores the fake-computer Batcave and the idea of a butler like Alfred; asks what villains actually do all day and pitches new villains (a DJ, the School Marm). Hasn't seen several classics like The Sound of Music or Mask of the Phantasm.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

'Dr. Javago/Chavago/Chivago' = Doctor Zhivago
'Yale Udoff' = ABC executive (probably Yale Udoff/Yale?) as transcribed; uncertain
'Mask of the Fantastic' (0:22:59) = Mask of the Phantasm
'Lawrence Assemble/Lawrence simple' = Lorenzo Semple Jr.
'William Dozier' accurate; 'Back roll' = Batgirl, 'Yvonne Craig' correct
'George Saunders' = George Sanders; 'Hon Premature' = Otto Preminger; 'Sean Aston's dad / John Aston' = John Astin
'Victor Bueno' = Victor Buono; 'Brody McDowell' = Roddy McDowall; 'Colonel Gum' = Colonel Gumm
'Wortham ... perversion of the innocent' = Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent
'Bruce Tim' = Bruce Timm; 'Jeff Loeb' = Jeph Loeb
'Michael King' (2:08:07) = Michael Caine; 'Basil Deirden' = Basil Dearden; 'Cartoon' = Khartoum; 'Monica Beatty' = Monica Vitti; 'Modesty Blaze' = Modesty Blaise; 'Norman Jewishan' = Norman Jewison
'Carrie/Kerry' (Jim Carrey, 0:47:15); 'Cheetah/Kera Knightley' = Keira Knightley
'Fern Gali' = FernGully; 'Texas' = Hexxus
'Robert Wool' = Robert Wuhl; 'Glen Heady' = Glenn Headly; 'Don Stufflin' = Donald Sutherland
'Have you seen like a Batman before, Ben?' (0:27:53) = probably 'Lego Batman'; 'Reeb movie' = Reeves movie
'Batman Brave and the Bull' = Batman: The Brave and the Bold; 'Cartoon all source of the rescue' = Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
'Firefly in the back row movie' = Batgirl movie

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