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

[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.