sometimes the meta just leaps up and bites you

[buggery]

So Cartoon Network is showing the episode of New Scooby-Doo Movies (that's the series with the improbable guest stars, including Abbot and Costello, the Addams Family, and Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas) wherein Scooby and the gang meet Batman and Robin.

(Yes, "Robin" was voiced by Casey Kasem for this cartoon, so if that squicks you, just don't think about it. Imagine it was Burt Ward, or Loren Lester, or, hell, me.)

One of the other colourful characters in the episode was a little old lady named Mrs Baker. Batman, Robin and the gang encounter her several times. Like everyone else in Scooby-Doo-verse, Mrs Baker has only one outfit of clothing: a light-purple dress and a hooded purple cape she wears over it, almost always with the hood up. At the end of the episode, just before being unmasked (and watch me refrain from spoiling a twenty-year-old episode of Scooby Doo), one of the bad guys is wearing this same purple-hooded-cloak-over-more-purple-clothing outfit and has a black stocking head mask on as well.

Yes, I think you see where I'm going.

The little old lady's outfit looks rather like our modern Stephanie Brown's Spoiler costume.

There's even a moment early on in the episode where Mrs Baker and Robin, who are of a height, are standing next to one another, talking. It's a prolonged moment and ideal for taking a screenshot, if I can get my hands on a DVD (or torrented) copy of this episode and put it in a computer that can play it.

There are also many, many scenes showing off Robin's bare legs, and if the little green panties were ever visible I somehow missed it. Most of the time it looks as if he simply isn't wearing any pants and Batman's just too polite to mention it. (He was raised by Alfred, after all.)

Bat-cookies and milk are consumed in the Batcave at one point, but sadly Alfred himself does not make an appearance.

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Alas, I only have it on video, not DVD.

I also have an episode that features Penguin and Joker.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I think that's the same episode. Those two were involved in the counterfeiting ring that the mystery gang and Dynamic Duo first discovered evidence of at Mrs Baker's house.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, there's definitely two eps featuring Batman and Robin, because the video's called 'Scooby-Doo meets Batman and Robin!' and has two eps. *g* I haven't watched it for ages, though, so I could very well be confused.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Might it be part one and part two of what I'm calling one episode? It's an hour long all told, and I'm sure it was often broadcast as separate half-hour episodes back in the day.

While I'm thinking about it, though... if there's been an "official" home video release, there's a good chance it is or will be out on DVD as well.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

do I watch too many cartoons?

Given that I just finished the first season of Gargoyles, I would have to say the answer is no, probably not.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Gargoyles wasn't just a cartoon, it was a masterpiece of animated literature.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

HOLY MANHOLE BATMAN.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

MANHOLE.

::dies::

[sharpest_rose.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Robin forewent panties so as to avoid people remarking that his costume was seasonally festive, with the red'n'green color scheme going on.

If for no other reason, I have to track this down so I can point and screencap and type 'STEPH!' in capitals with an exclaimation point, but I also admit that those guest-star Scooby storylines are a background feature of a number of my early adolescent memories, and I don't think I've ever seen the Batman and Robin one.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I only saw it once when I was a kid myself, I think.

Perhaps Robin forewent panties so as to avoid people remarking that his costume was seasonally festive, with the red'n'green color scheme going on.

Except that he still had little green sleeves peeking out from under his tunic, as well as the gay, gay green pixie boots of gayitude.

Mainly the panties (if they were there) hid behind the buttocks-length cape or the front of his tunic, which did not split below the belt as we're accustomed to seeing. Sensible design, really. Perhaps one too many Gotham super-criminal remarked on how excited Robin seemed after a fight...

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Cripes. The Toys R' Us at my mall is going out of business, and I saw that video on the shelf while I was looking for deals, and I ALMOST bought it. I'll have to go back and see if it's still there. *G*

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh! That would be very cool if you could get it indeed.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I don't think my chances are very good-- omg the chaos of a Toys R Us going out of business the week before Christmas is *horrific* -- but I will definitely look.

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Dive! Dive! Sacrifice yourself! You owe it to fandom! (because you've never, ever, ever [and I include the Bruce/Clark kiss manip in this] done anything for fandom okay, hit me now)

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

So you don't have a Toys R Us near *your* house? *blinks* *G*

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

I have nephews that turned 22 months and 4 months old on Christmas Day. I am no longer allowed into Toys R Us as per court order.