With the way Yvone Craig was built, her line about becoming flat and Howard Keel's line about it being a pity was a nice bit of adult humor thrown into a kid's show
Loved the dialogue in this scene. Batman:"Wh-wh-what are you d-d-doing to our b-b-bodies?" Robin:"Holy helplessness!" Batgirl:"I feel like I'm getting flat!" Batgirl was the only one who realized what was happening, which was no doubt the reason for the horrified tone of her voice when she talked.
4:00 Smart thinking Alferd take your departure before Batgirl recognize you and then she accidently connect the dots to Batman's&Robin's secret identity and figure out they are Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. There is one episode where Batman's&Robin's crime fighting days was almost finishing where Tut was mining the mines and it lead him down to the Batcave and secret identity of Batman and Robin since the Batcave right under Wayne Manor. If that Cave in didn't happened and cause Tut to turn back into the universe professor their crime fighting would been done for.
yeah they were crazy to hand them back. If I were the villain I would have kept them flat in my lair! Wish I was Robin or Batman flat next to Batgirl.....
Don't you just love how confident Batman and Batgirl are at 0:11 (Batman:I'm glad to have you flanking us, Batgirl." Batgirl:"I wouldn't miss it for anything!") and how newvous they are at 0:50 as they, along with Robin, are flattened by Dr. Cassandra's alvino ray gun (Batman:"What-are you d-d-doing to out b-b-bodies?!" Batgirl:"I feel like I'm getting-flat!")? The expressions on their faces as they are being flattened is priceless.
@@tomkerruish2982 Fifty-two-dimensional. But seriously, I kinda wished they'd said "either you come out as one universe or...no universe" during Crisis on Infinite Earths.
I'm no doctor, but it seems to me to be about 1000 reasons why this is the most ridiculous "peril" they're ever been in. Its not even remotely in any frame of reality.
be a great way to save on travel costs - just get zapped flat and mailed to your destination. Then again - you'd have to make sure you could be turned back into 3D!
@HypnoticPhantom Ida Lupino was married to Howard Duff not Keel. Howard Keel played Clayton Farlow in Dallas, and he also played Wild Bill Hickock in the comedy "Calamity Jane" with Doris Day. Keel was a terrific singer. There certainly was some "mature" humor in this show like you say! lol
She was introduced in the third season. She was actually supposed to replace Robin and be Batman's love interest to de-gay the franchise. Which is all pretty funny in hindsight.
What's funny for me is Dick and Barbara will both be off on their own as we go intot he 70s. The 80s will have Dick lead the Titans in more serious stories, which actually save DC. And Barbara, um, you know? You really shouldn't know too much about your future. Oh, but she does lead a government strike force of supervillains.
The Joker, Riddler, Penguin, King Tut, Egghead, and Catwoman all briefly appeared in this episode. Sadly they were all played by Doubles instead of the usual Actors.
My favorite third season, i like the pretty woman episodes like kathy kersh,Kershaw, was beyond gorgeous with the joker , , Linda Scott gray with the riddler, sexy outfit) super pretty
anyone think how ironic it was when chief o hara holds robin and batgirls backs saying i cant belive me eyes commisioner but i must belive what i feel and i feel there pulse especially with that ironic music plus on a side note commisioner gordon has no idea batgirl is his daughter.
+scooter167 It was great that Dr. Cassandra & Kabala weren't smart enough to take Batman,Robin & Batgirl with them for their own pleasure after the terrific trio were flattened. If they did,their evil plans wouldn't have been foiled.
I don't think the writers were on anything! They had to write in a way to restore the dynamic trio, otherwise the fans would've been highly disappointed. Since the Batcave is suppose to be the last word and since this is not suppose to be taken seriously hence the comedy, the three-dimensional bat restorer was one of the very things they thought of.
www.oocities.org/area51/Chamber/2517/arg/alvinoraygun2009.html The Alvino Ray Gun Batgirl and the boys were subjected to by Dr. Cassandra was going to be called the "Ronald Ray Gun," until the censors objected to naming a weapon after the Governor of California! So, instead, the gun was named after American swing era musician Alvin McBurney, better known by his stage name of Alvino Rey.
web.archive.org/web/20091026210024/www.geocities.com/twof1/alvinoraygunanaly.html My all-time favorite Batgirl-in-peril episode is a true groundbreaker, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra. Like the previous analyst, I'm a huge fan of the Alvino Ray Gun peril, but there are certain points that weren’t touched upon before. I'd like to overview them now. In essence, the three heroes are transformed into "living standees," cardboard cut-outs of themselves in their patented posed stances. This adds a mocking humiliation to their defeat. Curiously, in the original syndication kit synopsis of this episode, the heroes are zapped after Cassandra throws stolen jewels at their feet, causing them to slip and fall. At some point, someone decided it would be funnier (and less awkward to stage) if the Terrific Trio would be flattened standing in their familiar heroic poses. For Batgirl, of course, that means the adorable fists-on-hips power stance she instinctively slips into at every opportunity. I'd love to check out the original shooting script on this point [if anyone has one, please let me (and twof! ;>) know!] Perhaps it was the episode's director, Sam Strangis, who made the switch during filming. Deliberate camp or just an accident? As many of us maintain, there were at least two different costumes worn by Yvonne at this stage of the show's production. Amusingly, she's wearing the more purple, shorter-eared version when she is pre-zapped, and the more blueish, longer-eared version AFTER her Alvino-ization! Since she's standing in the same position (almost; her legs are farther apart after the flattening), the difference between these costumes is noticeable. Yvonne was probably photographed "as a standee" on a different day of shooting, and no one thought to match the outfits . . . or, for that matter, the way Batgirl's hair falls (behind her shoulders in pre-zapped mode; in front after the transformation.) Unless, of course, this was done for deliberate camp value. Either way, Yvonne never looked more scrumptious . . . especially since the actress added just the right look of wide-eyed surprise to her patented power stance. Batgirl gets punched-out?! It was against TV rules at the time for a female to be punched by a male - an open-handed slap was the limit.* Everything apparently changed, however, if the woman's opponent was invisible, and actual contact wasn't depicted. That's how Batgirl was able to get slugged in the face a couple of times during the climax of this episode. Yvonne [and her stunt double (Was one used in this scene? - twof)] simply threw their heads back as they were "hit," then fell onto the floor. This was the only time in the series that Batgirl was ever punched, and probably by a male opponent (Catwoman's part of this pummeling party, but she's more of a scratcher than a puncher). Was it the Joker who walloped Batgirl? Or Egghead? Maybe King Tut? The mind boggles . . .
Terrence Clay I thought Yvonne refused to have a stunt double (except for the male one in the 'A Horse of Another Color' climax). Did she agree about having one near the end of the series? Or her refusing to have a stunt double was just a lie?
That gun to make me completely Nylon and I love to be helpless to Nylon begging to be that way forever Nylon rules forever above God helplessness I love to be to Nylon
