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Aaron mentioned fan casts that may be too old. Mine were for Batman villains. Batista wanted to play Bane but he feels he’s aged too much since then & I always wanted to see Willem Dafoe as the Joker. Maybe they can still pull it off since DCU Batman will have gotten to the age of training Damian’s Robin, unless they skip some of the first ones.
This episode was always so genuinely stressful to me even as a kid. Hamilton Hill didn’t mean any harm when he suggested Fugate change up his schedule for once, but it’s so tragic to see a man actually try to break out of his obsessive habit, only for it to immediately ruin his whole life.
This episode completely reimagined Clock King from a pun-filled relic of the Silver Age in a bodysuit covered with clock imagery to this devious and meticulous strategist in a classic suit. Most iterations since have drawn from this version, with the notable exception of the Brave and the Bold.
@@brucesimmons5517 exactly. For everyone who tries to adapt the brooding and dark Batman it’s important to remember that Adam west’s Batman had his fans too-there is a place for a wisecracking lighter Batman.
One of my favourite episodes and villains of the whole series, the fact that the writers managed to turn clock king into a legitimate threat to batman is amazing to me
I just love the Batman Reactions. Aaron cracking jokes the whole time, Calvin applying real life physics and logics to everything and Eric being amazed by the show and seeming to be just reminded of good times in his youth. It's a great fun show and the reactions are pure entertainment every week. :D
7:26 "Toth" Street is a reference to American cartoonist Alex Toth - known mostly for his Hanna Barbera character designs (Super-Friends! Space Ghost!), I think he was a big influence on the BTAS creators
Guys, Batman The Animated Series does not take place in the 50's. It's just that the aesthetic give it that old feel. While there is no definitive time frame, based on other media in the DCAU that I won't go into for spoiler purposes, the show more than likely take place during the 90's when it originally aired. At most the beginning is mid to late 80's.
@@CynderSpirit fair point, but to be honest it's not our universe, not even kinda close like marvel sometimes is. Tech could develop differently. It could be any year past, present, or future.
@@engineer4854 Batman Beyond is confirmed to take place between 2039-2040, Bruce is confirmed to be in his 80s at that point and Terry is 17 and still in High School, Bruce was 55 when he quit being Batman in the year 2019, and Epilouge takes place 65 years in the future from Justice League's timeline making Bruce in his late 90s to 100s and Terry is 31 which means the events of Epilouge take place between the years of 2050-2060, if you subtract 100 from 2060 that would make Bruce born late 1950s to early 1960s, In this timeline Bruce became Batman at the age of 25 by the time of Batman Animated Series, Bruce is confirmed to be in his early 30s. That would make Batman Animated Series take place in the early 90s. Static Shock is also in the DCAU timeline and he is confirmed to take place in the early 2000s, not to mention his show had guest stars such as Little Romeo, Aj McLean from The Backstreet Boys, and Shaquille O'Neal all stars who were popular between the 90s and early 2000s.
@@engineer4854 If it's not our universe then there's no reason to assume it's the 40s either - it could be the 2160s or the 810s or w/e. Nor could one make an argument for any particular time. Which at that point, might as well just assume it's the "present" whatever that means.
I saw a psychoanalysis video on the Clock King once, and he doesn't have OCD. The rituals and fastidiousness of OCD cause the person distress. Fugate likes the structure, and thrives with it. This is called Obsessive Compulsive PERSONALITY Disorder. Steve Jobs was that type.
I always like it when B or C Tier villains get the spotlight like this. Seems like a lot of modern Batman media only focuses on the most popular rogues, which I definitely understand, but when done right, characters like Fugate can be just as cool.
I think having this episode play out during the day was a well planned choice. During the day is when the greatest amount of patterns and schedules in Gothams behavior would be predictable enough for Clock King to use. Furthermore this timing forces Batman to work outside his usual element and patterns.
I am so happy to see you guys reacting to this one. this was always one of my favorites. clock King is such an incredible villain he's not as bombastic as the joker but he is cold and calculating as Mr freeze. I absolutely love him and this episode.
The guy has incredible range in voice and live action acting. From the pompous, uptight, butt of jokes managing partner Douglas Brackman on L.A. Law to the spacey, paranoid hippy burnout father Larry Finkelstein on Dharma and Greg, he's always memorable.
my god I can relate to Clock King so much. While I'm better about it now I use to be a complete nut job about schedules and routines. If anything starts getting out of place I start to lose it. Granted I'm not tracking every freaking minute of my day but I can understand this. we all think it's bad what happened with him in court I can easily see how this just completely snapped the guy
Just to note for Calvin and the rest... Concussive Force propagates through air even in an enclosed room so if the room was actually losing air like Clock King said there would be less force that could reach Batman when the bomb went off. If not for that then the physics would agree with Calvin but with it being the way it was here then Batman had a plausible reason why he may not have died from the blast. This would also be why Batman moved the bomb closer to the door since the explosives force would not have the air to transfer the force to the door from the middle of the room more force would reach the door with the bomb closer to it and what little force could reach him would be dampened by the distance and bags to him. Keeping the explosive off the ground also was to keep the blast closer to the door rather than the floor so the force would transfer there. This is why when he throws the Batarang it knocks the bomb into the door as it explodes not because it detonates when struck. The limited force wave produced like most things would propagate to the nearest easiest path which would be the solid door guaranteeing that more damage was done to the door. Not saying he may not have still died but it at least gives some chance of doubt on it being 100% fatal like Calvin claims.
4:14 I'm 90% sure the woman who rescued the cat is Maven, Catwoman's assistant from the first two episodes. (Small spoilers) Despite being a relatively minor member of Batman's rogues gallery, Clock King is one of only a handful of BTAS villains to appear in non-Batman centric DCAU shows or movies; even some of his most iconic rogues like Catwoman, Riddler, and Mr. Freeze don't get that honor. Also, the show is set in the 90s, it's just that their world isn't exactly like ours.
While Fugate is known for his Ludicrous Precision, he actually gets the math wrong during the climax when he explains to Hill that the latter will be crushed by the clock's hands at 3:15. Between every two sequential numbers on a clock, there are 4 tick marks, and since a clock takes 60 minutes to go from one number to the next, that means every 12 minutes, the hour hand moves to the next tick mark. So at 3:12, the clock's hour hand would have moved to the next tick mark, and thus the hands wouldn't have fully closed together until 3:16. The Schedule Fanatic was off by a single minute.
1:40 LMAO! That's hilarious. Calvin was trying to explain Aaron something but as soon as the title of the episode appeared Aaron got distracted and Calvin got practically ignored! WASTED! and Calvin at that point just looks like he is done with life.
The Animated series is actually set in the same years as the initial broadcasts so the early 90s. The show is an Anachronistic timeline like Archer where the tech and timeline is both retro & modern. There's a term for that, it's like Urnachism or something, I'm having a hell of a time trying to remember it.
Yeah, I've gone from excited they're doing this series to getting bummed about it. I swear Calvin's being harder on this show's physics than he is on pretty much any other I've seen them watch, and it's getting old.
I really love how they turn this very silly villain from the comics into an actual sympathetic person who is not only capable, but a believable threat in his own way. The villains of this series vary a lot in the different kinds of threat they pose to Batman and Gotham and it's always so interesting to watch. I also just feel really bad for Clock King though. Especially, when he was on the train and he looked so scared at what Hill was saying about how the Judge would perceive him and then with how tense he was sitting on the bench, having only changed his schedule a little bit.
Rogues appearances so far... - Joker: 2 - Clayface: 2 - Catwoman: 2 - The Mob: 2 - Harley: 1 - Scarecrow: 1 - Poison Ivy: 1 - Mr Freeze: 1 - Manbat: 1 - Clock King: 1 - Evil business men: 1 21:00 Batman has body armor on with a cloth uniform over the top. The outfit being the armor was more a thing from the movies.
“I know how long it takes you to throw a punch Batman…..That shouldn’t really help me to be any faster or better at dodging, I’m still an untrained middle aged man. I should have died with that train stunt”
I wonder if the lack of air in that bank vault would have protected Batman from the effects of the shockwave, so long as there was a barrier between him and the source of the blast.
I love you guys and i realize being loud is your thing; but of your things i tend to prefer the overanalyzing. Occasionally, as in this video, the shouting match is a bit much lol 😂 Can't fault you all for enthusiasm though. I'm glad the Clock King was a hit. Such a surprisingly good episode.
This episode showed you that one bad day can make a normal person into a mad one.... also i always remember a movie when someone talks about Clock King... "Falling Down (1993)" if you havent seen it, watch it and then do something relaxing... trust me you'll need it
Late comment. Another villain that i was not aware of at the time. The treatment of his personality was very real. To be too obsessed with time does have it's consequences. This was the first of only 2 episodes that The Clock King would appear in.
He was a cool villain for a guy who’s power was telling the time and persistent schedule management But talk about holding a grudge, he should have blamed the kids who threw the ball at him or the judge
There is something a little bit uncanny about feeling like 3 bearded dudes staring straight into my soul for 30 minutes while watching an episode of batman with them...
"If you're in a starship, and you open a hole, that shit's going out quick." "Yeah, because it's under pressure." "Yes pressure, so he has pressure on him." "NO!" "From the lawsuit-" "NO!" "The timing-" "NO!" "The OCD, it made the vacuum cleaner-" "NO!" I swear, 2 months later, and this still one of my favorite arguments y'all have had regarding Calvin's need to prove cartoon physics wrong.
I love when they get confused about when this takes place. It's really simple: tommy guns and 40s style cars are common, so it's the 40s, laptop computers exist, so it's the 80s or later, Matt Hagen was on the cover of a magazine dated 1990-something but became famous for movies that were in early 20th century styles, and Bruce watched black and white TV as a rich kid, so it's not earlier than the 60s or later than the 80s. Asking what decade BTAS is set in is like asking what state the Simpsons is set in.
1:15 How is that something Columbus didn't understand? The common myth is he was the only one who DID think the earth was round. And while that's not true either his whole thing was about trying to reach the east by going west. Which by the way, he did quite successfully. He navigated correctly and knew exactly where he was the whole time. He just didn't expect there to be another landmass in between. (And no he never thought he was in India) Also his idea to navigate to Asia while travelling west is far more plausible given the incorrect dimensions of Asia presented on the most accepted maps of the time.
This one is weird, almost like a parody of your typical Bat-rogue origin with how minor Fugate's grievance is. Only if you look at the details does it get interesting. The impact was major but then the question arises as to how things got so bad at Fugate's company where one missed appointment bankrupts it. Could it be that his fanatical micromanagement was actually harmful to his business? At least Fugate did learn one lesson; in a much later episode in the DCAU, he creates a looser schedule for someone with 'pad time' built-in to account for unexpected variables. Certainly an improvement over the original comics villain.
Guys stop questioning the stuff that you say doesn't make sense, it's an animated show that is based from comics anything is possible so just roll with it and enjoy the ride
Some people seem to be enjoying that, but I'm not finding it enjoyable. I have to skip around parts of the after-show discussion so I don't have to listen to all the raging about irrelevant details 😕
If these guys are nitpicking the physics of this apart, they really should never react to Looney Tunes. Which is also WB, by the way, so there's a continuity of creation there.
