BATTASS: The Batman The Animated Series Show Podcast

“Make ‘Em Laugh” with a “Deep Freeze”! Make ‘Em Laugh: Using microchips stolen from the Mad Hatter, the Joker brainwashes famous comedians into committing crazy crimes in order to ruin their reputations. As it turns out, the comedians are the judges who tossed the Joker […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on The BATTASS Podcast, we’ve got one debut, and one more entry in our season-long trend of villains attempting to go straight, as Harley Quinn tries to navigate the pitfalls of trying to rejoin polite society, and a disgruntled cop thinks he can […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on The BATTASS Podcast, we continue the running theme on this season of Batman The Animated Series, namely looking at what happens with Gotham’s biggest baddies decide to turn over a new leaf. Are they being sincere? Are they really trying to turn […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on The BATTASS Podcast, Alfred heads out on his own to tie up some loose ends of his pre-Wayne life back in merry old England in The Lion and The Unicorn, and Batman gets relegated to a framing device in order to introduce […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Two brand new big bads hit the scene this week on The BATTASS Podcast, as Bane makes his move from comics to screen, and Babydoll makes her very first appearance in any media ever! One is a high profile comics character brought  to life in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

We’ve got two returning villains this week on The BATTASS Podcast! Clock King’s and Scarface are back for their second go-rounds in the Animated Series universe, and they’ve both brought with them some fun, yet extremely convoluted, head-scratching plans for their villainy! It’s “Time Out […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, Batman faces off against some truly underwhelming foes in half-assed animal dress up, and Harley gets driven to the brink by her love for the Joker in the episodes “The Terrible Trio” and “Harlequinade”! First up, in The Terrible […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, Batman has his first encounters with some truly inhuman foes, Ra’s al Ghul makes mouth time with a mummy monster, and Ivy grows her own family and becomes a monster’s mommy with Avatar and House and Garden! First up, in Avatar, An […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

We’re taking a quick break from our regularly scheduled Batman The Animated Series coverage to bring you some quick thoughts from Sean and Clay on the first trailer for Matt Reeves’ upcoming flick The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, and […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast covers A Bullet for Bullock and Trial! Sean and Clay also get into how Sean lifted his idea for White Knight DIRECTLY from the Animated Series. First up, in A Bullet for Bullock, After surviving several near misses, Gotham’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, Mad Hatter goes a really long way for a racist ham sandwich, and Killer Croc comes oh so close to turning over a new leaf with The Worry Men and Sideshow! First up, in The Worry Men, Veronica Vreeland […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, the villains get weird as a rich guy with delusions of godhood thinks he’s literally the Greek god Zeus, and a foul-mouthed, gangster puppet has designs on putting Batman in cement shoes in Fire From Olympus and Read My […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, the Demon comes to Gotham, and then goes to the middle east, and then goes crazy as Ra’s Al Ghul makes his grand entrance onto the Batman the Animated Series stage in “The Demons Quest”! In Demon’s Quest Part […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week on the BATTASS Podcast, the town is painted glowing-red in not one, but both episodes, Blind As A Bat and His Silicon Soul! Batman builds a fancy red-lensed vision booster after losing his sight in Blind as a Bat, and we see the […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

BATTASS has returned with “Shadow of the Bat”! When Commissioner Gordon is framed for taking bribes from Rupert Thorne, his daughter Barbara pleads with Batman to show up at a rally being put on in the commissioner’s behalf. But when Batman disappears after finding the […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Clay and Sean return to the podcast to discuss Sean’s new release, “The Curse of the White Knight“. It’s Castlevania meets Batman! Or is it? Listen as the guys discuss the history of the book and explain the behind-the-scenes process. They talk about issues with […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In this episode of the podcast, Clay and Sean discuss the episodes, “The Mechanic” and “Harley and Ivy”! In “The Mechanic“, thanks to a freak accident during a high-speed chase, the Batmobile is virtually demolished. After Batman takes the car to his personal mechanic, Earl […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In this episode of the podcast, Clay and Sean discuss the Batman: The Animated Series episodes, “Paging the Crime Doctor” and “Zatanna”! In “Paging the Crime Doctor“, Dr. Matthew Thorne (played by Joseph Campanella), losing his medical license and forced into becoming the crime doctor by […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss the episodes, “The Man Who Killed Batman” and “Mudslide”! In “The Man Who Killed Batman“, small-time gang member Sidney “The Squid” Debris (played by Matt Frewer) seemingly kills Batman by accident. He gets involved with gangs all over Gotham, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss the episodes “I Am the Night” and “Off Balance”! In “I Am the Night“, on the anniversary of the death of Bruce’s parents, Batman accompanies Leslie Thompkins to Crime Alley to place roses on the spot where they were gunned down. Meanwhile, Commissioner […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss “Birds of a Feather” and “What is Reality?” In “Birds of a Feather“, Veronica Vreeland is looking for a way to create a splash with her next party and arrives at the idea of having a former criminal in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss “Terror in the Sky” and “Almost Got ‘Im”! In “Terror in the Sky“, a giant-sized bat ransacks Gotham harbor and Batman suspects that Dr. Kirk Langstrom is up to his old tricks, taking the Man-Bat formula again. Batman isn’t […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Sean and Clay discuss “Moon of the Wolf” and “Day of the Samurai”! In Moon of the Wolf, Batman investigates the appearance of a werewolf-like creature in Gotham, not realizing that the monster happens to be one of Bruce Wayne’s associates — Anthony Romulus, ex-Olympic […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Sean and Clay discuss Joker’s Wild and Tyger Tyger! In Joker’s Wild, Cameron Kaiser builds a casino hotel modeled after the Joker, called “The Joker’s Wild”. The Joker sees this on the news and, enraged, escapes from Arkham again, with one thought on his mind: […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss the two-parter, “Heart of Steel”! In this episode, several robberies take place at major companies, including Wayne Enterprises, and Bruce Wayne, as Batman, discovers the thief to be a mechanical briefcase. Bruce meets with his old friend, Karl Rossum, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Sean and Clay return with coverage about two Batman: The Animated Series episodes that have extremely long titles! In The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne, a prominent judge is injured during a struggle with some thugs demanding money from her in exchange for a strange […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Sean and Clay discuss two more episodes of Batman: The Animated Series – “Night of the Ninja” and “Cat Scratch Fever”! In Night of the Ninja, a mysterious ninja is robbing Wayne Enterprise’s subsidiaries, and Batman discovers that the ninja is actually his equal in combat. […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, the guys discuss both parts of the two-parter, “Robin’s Reckoning”. During a fight with some gangsters at a construction yard, Batman and Robin learn the name of their boss: Billy Marin. While Robin looks forward to going up against Marin, Batman becomes distant, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

To honor the 30th anniversary of 1989’s Batman, you can’t ignore the fact that it was a strange production. Mr. Mom as Bruce Wayne? Nicholson as The Joker? And directed by the guy who did Pee Wee’s Big Adventure? In this episode, the guys discuss […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, the guys discuss The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy and The Laughing Fish. In The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy, Baron Jozek, furious at Batman for humiliating him at a dinner party (over Jozek’s underworld connections), hires Josiah Wormwood, a master in setting traps for […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, the guys discuss Eternal Youth and Perchance to Dream. In Eternal Youth, several rich industrialists are invited to the Eternal Youth Health Spa, and that’s where they are last seen before disappearing. The only connection: they had something to do with the death […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In this animated feature set in the 1940s, the troubled yet heroic Batman (Kevin Conroy) is pitted against a mysterious figure who is rubbing out Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, and who many believe is the caped crusader himself. Batman’s alter ego, millionaire Bruce Wayne, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Mad as a Hatter, miserable Wayne Industries scientist Jervis Tetch is unable to pursue the girl he loves, Alice the secretary. When she splits up from her boyfriend, he makes an advance and develops a fast friendship with her, until her boyfriend reconciles with her […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In The Clock King, after his company goes bankrupt, Temple Fugate becomes the Clock King. Fugate sets out to seek his revenge against the man whom he blames for his misfortunes: Mayor Hamilton Hill. Fugate kidnaps Hill, intending to do away with him to accomplish […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Vendetta, Detective Bullock is arrested for kidnapping. Batman, who dislikes Bullock but nevertheless believes him to be a good man, investigates, and discovers the identity of the real criminal: Killer Croc, who harbors a vendetta against Bullock for capturing him once. Batman must clear Bullock’s name […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Prophecy of Doom, Batman investigates a cult, called the Brotherhood, founded by the “mystic” Nostromos, after hearing about a number of stories from his colleagues about his ability to predict the future. Batman finds out that Nostromos is actually a con artist who was rigging […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Feat of Clay, Bruce Wayne is framed for the attempted murder of Lucius Fox. The real perpetrator is an actor and master of disguise named Matt Hagen, who was disfigured in a car accident years ago. In order to keep his fame, he secretly started working […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In See No Evil, Lloyd “Eddie” Ventrix is on the verge of losing his daughter, Kimberly, to his ex-wife, Helen, due to his past as a con artist. Determined not to lose Kimberly, Ventrix dons a suit, stolen from where he used to work while on parole, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In The Cat and The Claw, Batman encounters a new cat burglar calling herself Catwoman, and around the same time, meets a woman named Selina Kyle (as Bruce Wayne), to whom he is visibly attracted. When Selina runs into trouble with a terrorist group known as The […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

This week, Clay and Sean discuss “I’ve Got Batman in My Basement” and “Heart of Ice”! During a fight with Batman over a stolen Fabergé egg, the Penguin incapacitates Batman with poison gas. The Dark Knight is rescued by a teenage amateur detective named Sherman Grant and his […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Two Face, Mobster Rupert Thorne attempts to use Harvey Dent’s secret split personality to blackmail him. But when Dent meets with Thorne at a chemical plant, “Big Bad Harv” takes over, and the resulting confrontation leads to an explosion that horribly scars half of Dent’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In Be a Clown, Mayor Hamilton Hill‘s miserable son, Jordan, becomes even sadder when his father uses his birthday party as a political gathering rather than a normal celebration, and ends up stowing away in the truck of the party clown hired by Hill for the party, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

In POV, a botched police operation results in the suspension of those involved: Officer Wilkes, Officer Montoya, and Detective Bullock. Confronted by their superiors, each of them is forced to tell their tale of what happened that night. The episode is similar in structure to Akira Kurosawa’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

When District Attorney Harvey Dent collapses after a meal with his fiancée Pamela Isley and friend Bruce Wayne, doctors discover that he has been poisoned. Batman must find the culprit and the antidote before the DA’s time runs out. It’s “Pretty Poison”! In “The Underdwellers”, Batman traces a series of […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Sean G. Murphy and Clay McCormack discuss Batman: The Animated Series! In this episode, they discuss "Nothing to Fear" and "The Last Laugh". Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Sean G. Murphy and Clay McCormack discuss Batman: The Animated Series! In this episode, they discuss "On Leather Wings" and "Christmas with the Joker". Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Hello, fans of Batman: the Animated Series! In the first episode of the BATTASS Podcast, Sean G. Murphy and Clay McCormack introduce us to the test pilot for the series. Enjoy the show, and thanks for listening! BATTASS on Twitter | Clay on Twitter | Sean on Twitter […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]

Welcome to The BATTASS Podcast! This podcast is dedicated to covering Batman: The Animated Series. However, hosts Clay McCormack and Sean Murphy are going to be examining the series through the lens of a comic book artist and sharing their thoughts about the series as a […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]