Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series - The Laughing Fish
Added 2025-05-05 04:00:05 +0000 UTCWhat's this? Your regular episode of What A Cartoon, being interrupted by something completely different? No, you're not the victim of a dastardly Joker scheme—though you'll at least hear us talk about one of those. As a little diversion from our regular programming schedule, this month we're swapping out the standard episode of WAC with a brand-new entry of our Blabbin 'Bout Batman miniseries. So listen in as we discuss The Joker's attempts to use the darkest force ever created by humankind: copyright law!
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More Blabbin please 😀 😃
Kaz Nosu Gref
2025-07-01 19:27:19 +0000 UTCI've enjoyed Blabbing 'Bout Batman, so I hope when you two go back to this series that you talk about episodes that feature villains you've barley covered such as Catwoman, Clayface, Two-Face and The Mad Hatter
Giovanni
2025-05-14 11:23:43 +0000 UTCJoker's problem isn't that his scheme couldn't work, just that he's barking up the wrong branch of IP law. Copyright is meant primarily for works of art or expression. Genetic engineering can be protected with patents. In the plains states, Monsanto is infamous for enforcing their Round Up Ready seed patents with all sorts for aggressive tactics, including confiscating and destroying the crops of farmers not using the seeds themselves because seeds from a neighboring farm blew onto their fields and/or were cross pollinated with their plants. This kind of strong arming has been backed up by the courts all the way to the top so I imagine it's the kind of abusive power the Joker is looking for.
Ron Sterling
2025-05-12 13:41:48 +0000 UTCI looked up the Joker Fish issue after listening to this and was kind of amazed at how multiple lines of dialog were just copied verbatim from that script. It was a improvement with the addition of Harley however, as in the original story Batman just comments "The Joker must have secretly sprayed him" but in the adaptation you actually see Harley do it!
Dennis K
2025-05-11 00:34:59 +0000 UTCIn the toy collecting community, Henry and his Happy Meal chop shop would not be looked upon in the same fashion as Sid from Toy Story. Henry's what we call a customizer and his goal isn't to maim, but make the toy better. I had the same mind set as a kid and I hated action figures in my toys. The Toy Biz X-Men line could be so hit and miss because they always included some action feature. I hated the Wolverines with the pop-out claws because his arms had to always be straight, no elbows. Nightcrawler had those ugly suction cups stuck to him and Juggernaut was always in a stupid pose because of a punching action. The best ones didn't mess up the sculpt like Cyclops who just had a button to make his visor light up or Morph who had an easily removable head that could be swapped for another character to simulate his shape-shifting. And I feel like Henry and I were not outliers, I can't think of one kid I knew back in the day who liked that stuff. Action figures today are better than what we had back then because now they're actually designed by the people who grew up playing with them. Great episode though, hopefully not the last time we hear from the world of BTAS. We still haven't even talked about the episode where Walt Disney hires Mr. Freeze to make him a freezer guy!
Joe Hodgson
2025-05-09 13:48:02 +0000 UTC
