As a small kid, I had no idea what camp or satire meant, so I had no clue what Penguin was talking about in this scene. I was taking his words at face value, so I thought Penguin was expressing a real desire to rescue Batman. Those were more innocent days.
Would have been wonderfully gory if they had dissolved " In a few more seconds we're going to be in the soup Batman' "And in a few seconds after that we will BE soup Robin!" Batman bites at the cuff of his glove, tearing some stitches and retrieving a capsule. He swallowed it. "Batman! My feet and ass are burning! We're going IN!" " The ropes aren't dissolving Robin! It's going to be a slow end!' It BURNS Batman!" "Robin,! Take the pill hidden in the cuff of your glove. It is a painkiller from the venom of the cone conch. The most thorough painkiller ever discovered.,," "It, it's working Batman! But we are still going to die." "Yes, I know old chum, the p pain. Kihh lerrr wihhhl also paralyzzzzz...." OH NO! Is this the END for our heroes? ....will they be totally dissolved away to nothingness? Batman and Robin sink slowly into the vat as bubbles froth around their bodies. Their heads sink slowly into the cloud of vapors and into the boiling acids Eventually the impervious basket rises back above the tank. Without the weight of the dynamic duo the scales are now equal. Strings of a gelatinous goo stretch out, all that is left of the digested duo. Later that week, a caterer hired for a Gotham event serves everyone a special gelatine desert in the shape of a bat and a bird. Two days after the caterer has disappeared, an anonymous note informs the guests of the ingredients for the delicious gelatine.
@Ben Jerry WELL that's what I WAS ALWAYS disappointed about that Batman and the Boy blunder THEY ALWAYS got out of those contraptions you could say that I am a baddie As I was ALWAYS rooting for the baddies
I saw this for the first time when I was 17 in 1985, on a Sunday morning. I didn't see how they escaped the trap until a few years later. This 2 part story when the Penguin runs for Mayor against Batman is my absolute favorite.
Adam West was to Batman what Sean Connery was to James Bond and Tom Selleck was to Thomas Magnum. They were Born for the Title Character Roles!!! It's was in their DNA. Screw the rest!!!!. Adam West the best Batman ever. Screw what anyone else says about the later Batman films crap the Actors and Actresses in the 1960s Batman TV Series were the best ones ever for the Batman Storylines.
At 2:19 you can see how Penguin (Burgess Meridith) sticks his umbrella into the vat of acid and just moves his hand slightly to grab another "acid eaten" umbrella to create the illusion that the original umbrella was eaten up by the acid
How I have always wished that Batman's enemies would each have episode where they take on the Green Hornet and Kato and have some nice long fights with that Batman music playing in the background. And the bad guys discover that Kato can put up a much more fierce fight than Robin or Batman!!!! After a Batman fight Chief O"Hara and his men escort the bad guys to jail. After a Green Hornet and Kato fight the bad guys have to be carried out on stretchers because Kato has broken their arms and legs and need immediate medical attention!!!!!
luckily Alfred insisted on make making these costumes from acid proof material. why would he do that i wonder. the old saying seeing is believing..I've seen this and i still don't believe it.
Yeah, but then the show would be over! One episode ends with B&R glowing inside a fluroscope cabinet, trapped by the Mad Hatter. The next episode begins with skeletons wearing B&R's costumes, standing in the same position. Of course it's a ruse to fool the Mad Hatter, but it's still a shock that misleads the audience for a moment.
Because then the show would be over if Batman's identity was revealed. You see, one of the (if not the) most important things for a person being a superhero is their identity being a secret. If the goons did that, like I said, the show would be over.
I would have loved to have seen This trap work. Imagine Batman and robin squirming as they sink lower and lower. Penguins henchmen taunting the dynamic duo as the sink into the acid.. Then laughing and cheering at the caped crusaders demise.
I favor an encasement in cement. The Dynamic duo wake up from knock out gas to find themselves in a big acrylic box, their feet already encased to mid shin level in hardened concrete.They are bound and and tied to a piece of rebar that will prevent them from moving from their standing positions. Then another pour of concrete SLOWLY engulfs their bodies. All the while the henchmen taunt the duo, telling them how they will be in a giant concrete pedestal that will support the statues of the Duo ,that Gotham had made of them. yes, the people will see the statues of the dynamic duo, and never realize they are actually looking at the block that contains them. The block they are in will itself be encased in an acrylic seal, so that no air will ever get in to allow decomposition.And then the whole will be encased in another layer of concrete to which the marble dressing slabs will be attached.
