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This week, we tackle the darkest episode from the already dark The New Batman Adventures! We open with Batman and Robin on the run from Commissioner Gordon—who already knows their secret identities—and close act one with the shocking death of Barbara Gordon. From there, things only get more hopeless, leaving us asking, "How's Batman gonna get out of this one?" While that answer isn't particularly satisfying, it's still fun to watch them do everything they're not supposed to do—especially in a Saturday morning cartoon. So listen in, and remember: if things don't seem to make sense, just tell yourself "a Scarecrow did it."

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Frank Grimes

One of my fave eps ever.

Joe Hodgson

I always liked this episode because it is a bit of a fantasy, or an odd form of wish fulfillment, to see how things could happen if the whole Batman thing was blown open. And it's shocking the level the episode goes to for what is a children's cartoon. For that reason, I think it totally earns the whole dream thing and the added punch of the plot works better to not make it as obvious from the onset as an episode like Perchance to Dream. It also works because as the episode nears its end even the viewer is looking for a way out of this because it is dark and unpleasant. We don't want this for the characters we love! The ending is also a nice touch because it does give Gordon more agency. I like the reveal that he's not an idiot, he has this stuff figured out, but he basically acknowledges he needs someone like Batman so he allows himself to look the other way. A great episode and definitely my favorite of The New Adventures era.

16_oz_mouse

Batfish would be a great name for the BatBoat! It's a real fish with a Batman color scheme. There's a great dive site on the Great Barrier Reef that is full of Batfish, which is how the area got its name: Gotham. https://blog.mares.com/get-know-batfish-11858.html

Anonymous

Cried when Barbara dies. Amazing episode thank you guys for the great show

Burt Stanton

Uncircumcised dicks look terrible and I am against them.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This is such a good episode that freaked me the hell out as a kid. I love this Scarecrow redesign, and the episode earlier in the third season where he takes away Bruce's fear is a favourite of mine. The fact that he's voiced by Jeffrey fucking Combs in it doesn't hurt either - he would've been a GREAT live-action Scarecrow, even up to the point of Batman Begins. Scarecrow is one of my top 5 Batman villains and I'd really love a movie focused ENTIRELY on him, not one that pushes him aside to focus on a half-assed Ra's al Ghul like we got with Begins (though I do still like Cillian Murphy in the role there).

Sean Ryan

The late 90s seemed to have a trend in some of its hit shows where there'd be one episode that was, "What if we got to see the future of this world and it was all fucked up?" Gargoyles did one a couple years before Batman, called "Future Tense", and like the "Over the Edge", was one of the best animated in the entire series. Not only that, there was no cop-out that it was only a dream--it was a real possible future. Hopefully if you guys revisit Gargoyles for What a Cartoon!, "Future Tense" will be high on the list of possible episodes to explore.

Stephen C. Nedell

Simply a super master piece from a show filled with master pieces! I was always a sucker for these dark fantasy episodes. I'm old enough to have seen the original airing of the Challenge of the Super Friends, whose run was wrapped up with not one but two of these types of episodes. The first one, Super Friends Rest in Peace opened with the shocking reveal that the JLA was in a cemetery standing over the grave of Batman. It turns out the Legion of Doom found the deadly Noxium Crystal that posses the ability to kill each member of the Super Friends. The episode is surprisingly bleak for most of it as the Super Friends are killed one by one (yes--they actually say the words "kill" and "dead"). The scene where Superman's cape drapped coffin is solemnly carried from a military helicopter is pretty emotionally powerful. Of course, being Hannah Barbera crap, it had to wrap everything up with the most facepalmingly stupid solution imaginable. The Legion of Doom in reality only killed the robot duplicates of the Super Friends who were programmed to fail so the villians would throw away the Noxium Chrystal. Meanwhile the real Super Friends were hiding out in the Justice League Sky Lab the whole time. Interestingly enough right around the same time of the first airing in December 1978, DC released Adventure 462, with the death of the Earth 2 Batman. To try to top themselves in dark followed by stupidity, the next and final episode of the Challenge run featured the literal end of the world, only for aliens to reverse time and then move the Moon itself to block the earth destroying solar flare. Lots of drugs at ol' HnB.