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  1. fun, about The Batman: Chris picks it because his favorite meme of the century is Paul Dano losing his mind behind the Arkham cell; Dano as the Riddler is a gift.
    “one of my favorite memes of the century.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:45:47 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (actor persona): The Batman → Prisoners. Chris jokes Dano's Riddler is what the Prisoners guy would be if he grew up and moved to Gotham.
    “This is if the prisoner's guy grew up and moved to Gotham”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:46:01 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. people (performance): Paul Dano → The Batman. Chris calls Dano a fantastic villain and Pattinson a solid Batman.
    “he's he's a fantastic villain in it.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:46:06 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (source of rumor): Gilda → The Batman. A speaker says watching Gilda will help understand the next Batman, with Scarlett Johansson rumored as Gilda Dent.
    “And then you'll be able to understand the Batman too.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:49:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): The Batman → Matt Reeves. Fennessey names The Batman as Matt Reeves's movie, due late next year.
    “the Batman, which is Matt Reeves's Batman movie”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The Batman: Each Batman movie should be a different director and genre set by the villain: Killer Croc horror, Joker noir.
    “Killer Croc is a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:38:21 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (borrowing): Seven → The Batman. The speaker had forgotten how indebted The Batman is to Fincher, mostly to Se7en.
    “I had forgotten just how indebted the Batman is to...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:28:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. theme (detective comparison): The Batman → Seven. The Riddler is a bad serial killer next to John Doe; Batman a worse detective than Mills and Somerset.
    “the Riddler is a bad serial killer in the Batman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): The Batman → The Lego Batman Movie. Pattinson's eye treatment is the smartest live-action answer to the expressive-mask problem the Lego movie solves.
    “No, the thing they do with Patinson is probably the smartest.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:39:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The Lego Batman Movie → The Batman. Studios worry how to do a serious Robin; this film makes Robin the lighter contrast point instead.
    “I think Matt Reeves and Nolan, all these people freak out about like, how do you do the serious version of Robin?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:51:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. programming (programming): The Batman → The Flash. The Batman is not in the same world as the other Batmen; DC is carving out separate zones.
    “Matt Reeves comes in and is just like, I don't really want this Batman to be in the same world as the other Batman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. 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)
  29. 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)
  30. 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)
  31. 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)
  32. 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)
  33. 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)
  34. 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)
  35. 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)
  36. 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)
  37. 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)
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. 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)
  42. 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)
  43. 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)
  44. 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)
  45. 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)
  46. 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)
  47. 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)
  48. 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)
  49. 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)
  50. 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)
  51. 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)
  52. 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)
  53. 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)
  54. 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)
  55. 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)
  56. 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)
  57. 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)
  58. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:11:56 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): Robert Pattinson → The Batman. Telling the 2010 Comic-Con complainers that Pattinson would play Batman a decade later.
    “a decade from now, this guy's going to play Batman and you're going to be amped about it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:41:49 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)