I remember, that's actually addressed. The warden explains he allows them to wear their normal clothes on their last day. Help with the whole reintigration thing.
@@terradraca Last week actually. But then in Season 3, the Joker has a gray suit on when he's released and Catwoman somehow had his purple suit jacket and pants ready for him at her hideout.
He's actually doing an impression of FDR. mostly just cause The Penguin was written as a dirty politician. Burgess didn't think FDR was dirty, Burgess was actually a life long democrat. But FDR was one of the most famous presidents in recent memory. So thats why he chose him to parody.
I love how, as early as his first episode, Penguin was able to turn Batman's detective mind against him, and get him to plot a whole bird-themed crime from a totally senseless clue! He was always one of my favourite Bat-villains!
INDb states 'Burgess Meredith had given up smoking some twenty-odd years earlier, but his character was required to smoke with a cigarette holder. The smoke would get caught in his throat and he would start coughing. Rather than constantly ruin takes in this matter, he developed the laugh to cover it up'. What a great character Penguin was, all down to Mr Meredith's (RIP) fine acting skills.
Burgess Meredith a man who can play a penguin like villain, a worker finding a job in the great depression with a man who's slow and a Philadelphia boxing trainer well
His acting in "Rocky" was fantastic. My favorite line of his is when he begs Rocky to be able to train him for the big Bicentennial fight with Apollo Creed, concluding with, "...I'm 76 years old..."
I really wish they'd bring back this style of Penguin for the Batman movies. It really, really wouldn't kill the Batman films to lighten up and have a little more fun.
Great actor, you don't think he's the same guy at all when he played Mickey Rocky's trainer. He has a cool tiny part as an old Irish Hells kitchen guy who owes the mob money in State of Grace, an excellent hard to find movie with Sean Penn.
The more I watch these old episodes, the more I like the Penguin. Burgess Meredith was well liked by the crew too. They always had a script ready for whenever he was available.
Alan Alda says Meredith worked super hard at everything, even bit roles. Someone who takes his work so seriously would probably be pretty easy to crew for.
He showed him as a little intelligent criminal, and he acted as a confident master criminal, and the way he smoked and all his expression hand eye, body coordination was amazing depending on the situation of his roll , one never tired of watching him every time, even all the group, frank, LM whether, joker are class act, whereas ridler was also superb.
Rip Burgess Meredith also best known for playing Mickey Goldmill in the classic Rocky in 1976 along with sequels Rocky 2 and 3 and back in Rocky 5 in 1990 and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men films.
I am thankful that I remember Burgess Meredith during my childhood in the 80s. Rocky III, and the BatMan in syndication. He was TRULY an actor’s actor indeed. Carl Weathers spoke very kindly of him in a SAG interview in the recent years.
2:23 The actor playing Penguin's henchman "Sparrow" is Walter Burke. He also played "Alfred Swanson" in the Munster's episode, "Movie Star Munster." That distinctive voice tipped me off! 😀
The first bit makes me feel like villains used to do these kinds of things just for the attention. Crook: I dunno, Penguin. Couldn't we just knock over a candy store and call it a day? Penguin: We could. We could. Wouldn't be really unique though. Anyone can do that. I want to do something really dazzling!
@Matt Wilson it’s because he made a name for himself decades before we were born. I don’t watch a lot of movies from the 1930s through the 1950s. and if it wasn’t for Batman, Rocky, and Grumpy Old Men I wouldn’t know how awesome Burgess Meredith was. He was sure great, wasn’t he?
My favorite Penguin episode was when he was running for mayor of Gotham City. He had just embarrassed Batman when Batman wouldn't kiss a voter's baby. Then he said to Batman: "Politics is wonderful!!! I can use all my dirtiest, slurpiest tricks but now they're all legal!!LOL
Watching this show on TV in Black and wHITE ON A B/W TV SCREEN as a child in the 1970's AND BEYOND WAS AWESOME...however nothing beats the dynamic colorization of it All!
Later in the series in the episode "Dizzoner the Penguin" he gives my favorite line. A pollster tells him he is losing the mayoral race to Batman. Penguin says, "You better pray my lead holds or you'll be taking random samples of river water... from the bottom."
You can see in these early episodes, they hadn’t nailed down some of the more iconic aspects of Penguin’s character, such as the quacking laugh, which Meredith said he used to cover when the cigarette would make him cough.
The worlds of 8 year old kids watching this everyday at 3 o'clock, rushing home from school, for the totally real. Go figure. The unreal. In 1975 re-runs.
The 4 original Criminals of the Adam West BatMan series were my favorites: Burgess Meredith Cesar Romero Lee Meriwether Frank Gorshin Danny Devito and Jack Nicholson were a good Penguin and Joker but no one can beat the originals.
That was explained in an earlier part of the scene. They are allowed to wear their own clothes for the last week of their sentence to help acclimatise them to outside life again.
This was an Incredible Video for My Second Favorite Villain In The Batman 1966 Series and My Second Favorite Version of Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin. The Late Burgess Meredith (1907-1977) did a Phenomenal Performance Being The First Actor to bring Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin to Life.
The guy named Hawkeye also appeared on another episode of Batman playing the henchman of the Penguin once again! I guess he stayed in touch with the Penguin while they were both in prison!
If there's a camera in their cell wouldn't they notice it panning and tracking them earlier on? In addition to that, the damn cameras were freaking huge!!!!!.
Actually Burgess Meredith never smoked and it's where comes the penguin laugh from. The actor would cough while smoking and cover it with squeaky birdly laughters
What a incredible iconic actor Burgess Meredith was, and still remains to this day!!! A Magical Healing Shaman he was!!! When your re-watch these old scenes, and these giants of actors come on the set and do a over the top performance, plus adding in how the "set" is "Masterfully Dressed", for that total dramatic effect for the scene, and the star performance of these iconic actors this is not likely to be captured like say Mr. Burgess Meredith ever again, and you are just thankful to be in the now moment, and yes in that now moment that you are tangibly in you experience dramatic healing, your star becomes your healer, no joking here folks, their great, and natural, and innate abilities as a actor directly transcend time, and space to dissolves tumor's diseases within our own bodies. You send, We send, we all send to Mr. Burgess Meredith our Magical Healing Shaman, 1,000,000 Thank You (s) and Salutations!!! Re-watch your Healer video throughout your life, not every day, only when you truly need major, and total intervention with a disease,, and if need be, turn off the tv, radio, don't read the paper, and watch your Shaman for the most powerful results imaginable!!! okay? Good!!! Kelly
Swear to God....hand over my heart...I feel Burgess Meredith is to The Penguin something akin to what Heath Ledger is to The Joker. He's the best this show ever had..
