How Batman '66 Saved Alfred's Life

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8 ай бұрын

Alfred is known to many Batman fans as Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, father figure, and key member of the Batfamily. However, were it not for the Batman '66 tv series starring Adam West, Burt Ward, and Alan Napier as the titular Alfred, this beloved character may have ceased to be. Why? Well Alfred Pennyworth was killed off in the Silver Age and DC Comics had to jump through some convoluted hoops to get him back. Learn all about it here on Casually Comics!
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@jordanloux3883 8 ай бұрын

The timing of Aunt Harriet showing up right after Alfred's death makes it feel like she's the one who set this all up.

@euansmith3699 8 ай бұрын

Next panel should have been Aunt Harriet at the controls of the excavator dropping the rock on Alfred.

@emeraldkoala2543 8 ай бұрын

Now THAT would've been interesting.

@danielschmidt7806 8 ай бұрын

Aunt Harriet sus.

@Vamroc 8 ай бұрын

Aunt Harriet secretly transgender Alfred DUN DUN DUNNNNNN🤣

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid 7 ай бұрын

She set up the rocks!

@benwasserman8223 8 ай бұрын

Between skyrocketing Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman to A-list villain status, giving Mister Freeze his name, and introducing Batgirl, the Adam West Batman show did much for modern Batman lore than most people wanted to admit.

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

Yup, it's like the japanese spider man show. Learn to embrace the madmess people, their clad in colorful costumes to beat up evil, we know("that weird one in 1966")!

@56postoffice 8 ай бұрын

So true.

@MoramothHauntz 8 ай бұрын

And King Tut

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

@@MoramothHauntz. He was in brave and the bold too!

@martykarr7058 8 ай бұрын

And the animated series gave us Harley Quinn.

@cassiedevereaux-smith3890 8 ай бұрын

I love how Batman's reaction is, "oh, you're not actually dead? Changing the name of the foundation. No legacy for you."

@TheSkullKlownTSK 8 ай бұрын

LMFAO for real XD

@seanraines5871 7 ай бұрын

Lol

@mainstreetsaint36 4 ай бұрын

😂

@OskarSricson 8 ай бұрын

The Alfred of the 60's series was absolutely BADASS. It's impossible to forget that time he trolled the Joker by manipulating the transportation bars to the Batcave until the clown begged him in fear. Without a doubt a threat more powerful than the gods of the Multiverse

@ianfinrir8724 8 ай бұрын

I love that Alfred's only response to hearing that Joker is a criminal is to insult his fencing skills.

@bholmes1035 8 ай бұрын

"My duties do not include aiding and abetting thievery." - What a great scene!

@ProjektTaku 8 ай бұрын

Alfred once threw an explosive Batarang and killed 50 people: then the Batarang exploded.

@GabePuratekuta 8 ай бұрын

@@ProjektTaku I'm all for turning the Chuck Norris meme onto an Alfred one.

@ianfinrir8724 8 ай бұрын

@@ProjektTaku I didn't know Alfred was a Gurkha.

@robertwild9447 8 ай бұрын

Plot twist: The Butler did it.

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

Wow, never would've guessed!

@aldinbaroza9640 8 ай бұрын

Alfred stopped being the butt of the joke to become the butler of the joke. I'll see myself out.

@ramblingRJ 8 ай бұрын

Some trivia about the Batman '66 Alfred: Alan Napier was the first person cast in "Batman 66". He didn't know who Batman was, being from England. (Batman was not a globally popular character yet). When his agent said they wanted him to play Batman's butler, he said "Who's Batman?" Jack Nicholson's version of the Joker, Jack Napier, was named in honor of him. The name was also used in the 90s animated series. In Batman 66, Alfred used a bicycle called the "Alf-cycle".

@davidmcmahon4633 8 ай бұрын

And Alan Napier had a very memorial death scene in the movie "The Court Jester" from a decade prior.

@ProfessorEchoMedia 3 ай бұрын

Alan Napier would have made an awesome Dracula based on Bram Stoker’s description of him in the original novel.

@abigailblackmon1144 8 ай бұрын

Aunt Harriet seems like a strange character. If Dick had an aunt why didn't she get custody of him instead of Bruce when Dick's parents died?

@uranuslad9855 8 ай бұрын

There was no real continuity back then, which helped. But, yeah, not only Bruce would research the Graysons, but the authorities would look for a living relative before allowing Bruce to take him in.

@tomorrow4eva 8 ай бұрын

I like to imagine it took a while to track her down since whichever parent she is related to ran away from home (circus). So Dick was already living with Bruce. So Bruce offered her room, board, a part time ‘job’ and retirement package - she lives with them and can supervise Dick, and they share custody. Frankly, I was disappointed the old lady in the Battison movie isn’t Harriet. Perfect opportunity.

@mark-s 8 ай бұрын

Where is she nowadays running a Gotham mob 😅

@davrosdaleks1 8 ай бұрын

The comics do explain that. Her husband was sick and bedridden at the time and she couldn’t take care of both him and Dick. She got into Dick’s life after her husband died.

@uranuslad9855 8 ай бұрын

@@davrosdaleks1 Bruce would have found that out. She was lying.

@rodneylindsey849 8 ай бұрын

Catwoman’s skintight catsuit, Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, & retconning Alfred back into the comics …Camp or No Camp let’s all do the Bat Tutsi & Thank the comic Gods for the 60’s Batman TV series …Keep UpThe Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾

@blainecrowley1134 8 ай бұрын

I really hope when modern Alfred comes back they make references to the Outsider storyline. Making he gets dipped in some corrupted Lazarus Pit that turns him into the Outsider

@ZachSeineVideos 8 ай бұрын

So Alfred was... only mostly dead?

@uranuslad9855 8 ай бұрын

Someone needs to do a story explaining how Bruce and Dick figured out that Harriett (who couldn't REALLY be Dick's aunt) was conning them, and maybe she was more a lonely old woman than an evil interloper. It could be interesting.

@davidmcmahon4633 8 ай бұрын

More like great-aunt than aunt. She's way too old to be the sister of Dick's dead mom.

@guggelguggel7491 8 ай бұрын

@@davidmcmahon4633To Be Fair, there have been cases of siblings with REALLY large age gaps if the parents in question had, say, one kid at age eighteen to twenty, and another in their early fourties and boom, there's an age gap of about twenty years, and if we presume Harriet is in the fifty to sixty age range, then its plausible, unless we have an explicit age placing her older. But Im mostly nitpicking that it is plausible, because yeah, I do agree that she seems older than necessary.

@davidmcmahon4633 8 ай бұрын

@@guggelguggel7491 I got a friend who is 8 years younger than his next oldest sibling. I think his oldest was about 12 years older than him. So age gaps are possible but this one seemed more like his great-aunt.

@ethansloan 8 ай бұрын

Yes on the aunt Harriet video. I'd love a complete character history on someone who was solely created to make two men seem heterosexual, even though she's related to one of them and has no sexual chemistry with the other.

@benwasserman8223 8 ай бұрын

If you remember Justice League's Thanagar invasion arc, there's a scene where Batman sneaks into a Thanagarian ship with a disguise that heavily resembles Alan Napier's Alfred. I always liked that nod to the 1966 series.

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

Ah, the d.c.a.u., deep cut, quality, and timeless. Also, could you link that scene to me?

@ProjektTaku 8 ай бұрын

@@erikbihari3625 Also a fan of introducing a quasi-version of a comic character only to introduce the real thing later. Never forget "Hro Talak" and "Katar Hol".

@OptimusNero 8 ай бұрын

I don't care what people say. Batman'66 will always be BATMAN. The Dark Knight stories don't always need to be dark, disturbing and philosophical. After all, it's the story of a guy dressed as a bat who beats up a clown, a guy in green pajamas and a purple mask, a dwarf with a monocle, and a crazy cat lady in latex. It is evident that the campy and crazy tone fits perfectly with these stories.

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

Batman is basically like a combination of sherlock holmes and james bond, the goofyness is expected, and welcomed!

@ashleybanks-wm4cg 8 ай бұрын

It's the opposite Batman is a very serious story of a man who has trauma the rest of his life from watching his parents get gunned down on front of him when he was very young making Batman goofy is highly disrespectful to everything the characters represent but I love this show it's funnyAF

@Lanier2369 8 ай бұрын

There's a fine line with being campy and crazy like you said and what was presented in the tv show. They were just making fun of how 'stupid' the comics of the time was. The brave and the bold did campy and crazy excellently while still having respect for the character and the world of Batman. The tv show, the people involved had no respect at all. That's my takeaway at least.

@CaptainMcKayRandom 8 ай бұрын

Batman and his supporting cast are very adaptable characters. You can fit them into super grimy, realistic settings with grim violence, but then also put them into vibrant, over-the-top, silly camp. And either one is going to work perfectly. That kind of versatility is tough to come by IMO.

@DrFranklynAnderson 8 ай бұрын

If you haven’t heard the clips of Adam West reading lines from Dark Knight Returns, I highly recommend it. Dude could do campy AND menacing.

@chrisk3824 8 ай бұрын

I can't believe they killed Alfred in the same issue they used the gag where they try to save eachother and find empty cells at the same time

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

Now i'm reminded of the Nintendo power mario comics where the same thing happened, but with Mario and princess peach!

@nishidohellhillsruler6731 8 ай бұрын

It's hard to imagine Batman without Alfred, but it was also hard to imagine Bruce without his billions, and yet here we are...

@lanternsown3525 8 ай бұрын

I'm glad they brought back Alfred he was one of my favorite character in the Batman'66 tv series; Alan Napier took the role into the more in serious direction we've come to know and love today.

@briangilbert8733 8 ай бұрын

Just a thought: when Bruce and Alfred left Wayne Manor (when Dick went away to college), and moved to the Wayne Foundation penthouse, did Aunt Harriet leave too, or was she trapped in the Manor for 13 years until the 3 of them returned?? Inquiring minds want to know! 🤔

@kaygarcia3077 8 ай бұрын

I love Alfred and so sad he has been killed off again. My favorite thing about him is the Sass,Batman can seem scary most of the time Alfred makes him more human.

@KierTheScrivener 8 ай бұрын

I can't imagine Batman without Alfred. So glad he perservered.

@jacobhogan3208 8 ай бұрын

I love how Aunt Harriet (fairly) assumes that because Alfred is dead Bruce will have absolutely zero ability to raise Dick.

@stevenbogart169 8 ай бұрын

I'd really enjoy a video about Aunt Harriet. I hadn't realized she was in the comics.

@benevolentremnant2949 8 ай бұрын

Now I'm imagining what kind of Batman we would have had today if the editor had introduced a woman to the household by having him marry Kathy Kane back in the Silver Age. (There was at least one what-if style story taking up that concept...)

@uranuslad9855 8 ай бұрын

Those stories were written by Alfred. For kids who didn't understand genetics, Bruce Jr, so of Bruce and Kathy, was a redhead...

@OptimusNero 8 ай бұрын

*Fun fact:* Batman '66 was not the only series that changed Alfred's history forever. In the movie serials of the 1940s (the ones Katanana would not precisely feel comfortable watching), Alfred obtained the known thin appearance and moustache that would permanently replace Alfred Beagle

@sea-envy3137 8 ай бұрын

except for the times that it was Mr. Beagle. I think Infinity Crisis had the fat bubbling butler appear in the Batcave

@jerfuhrer2581 8 ай бұрын

Sasha did a whole video on that just before this one

@eman2863 8 ай бұрын

Defiantly would be cool to see the bizarre journey of the Outsider identity from the silver age, to flashpoint, and Earth 3

@johnfeer9609 8 ай бұрын

Alan Napier, First Cousin to The British PM, Neville Chamberlain. Also one of the three regular cast members who worked with Orson Welles. Madge Blake was in a Pilot Welles shot for Desilu in 1958 called "The Fountain of Youth", Napier is the Holy Father in "MacBeth" (1948) and Stafford Repp is actually in "The Other Side of the Wind" a Welles project completed and released in 2018...

@roberth.9664 8 ай бұрын

The comment about how he could have made another ward to add a female to the cast is the part that interested me the most when thinking what that timeline would have been like. Just imagining Dick having a foster sister, what would her super hero name be, would she be Batgirl, I doubt Barbara would have been a thing if that was way he went. The DC universe could have been completely different if that was the opinion they used and now it's one of those ideas I'll always think about.

@emeraldkoala2543 8 ай бұрын

Hadn't there already been a Batgirl in the comics before Barbara?

@euansmith3699 8 ай бұрын

2:41 That picture of Fredric Wertham holding an issue of "Criminal" by Brubaker and Phillips made me do a double take 😄😄😄👍 Alfred stopped being the butt of the joke, and became the butler of the joke.

@daviderwin4705 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. Photoshop makes history seem so fluid.

@oosbeckanderson3199 8 ай бұрын

I knew about Alfred's stint as the Outsider, but I did not know his ressurection was because the TV producers wanted him back in the comics! Very wild story of behind the scene decisions!

@raymondtillotson6985 8 ай бұрын

Batman and the Outsiders began far different than I imagined...

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

A fellow, Batman the brave and the bold fan!?

@rjb1216 8 ай бұрын

Actually when that book was going in the 80s they couldn’t resist and had the outsider appear to fight the outsiders in a great issue of dccp that kept the same backstory for the villain from the silver age silly as it was

@raymondtillotson6985 8 ай бұрын

@@rjb1216 Thanks,I may have to track that down,

@raymondtillotson6985 8 ай бұрын

@@erikbihari3625 We're out there...

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

@@raymondtillotson6985. I'm glad about this!

@freman007 8 ай бұрын

"It's bad, but it's entertaining." As opposed to many modern comics that are bad, but not entertaining.

@LB_adventurer 8 ай бұрын

i can never get enough of your Batman voice overs.. comedy gold

@anthonystrickland7049 8 ай бұрын

Dang, this really has me wanting Alfred's return to nod to the Outsider. Heck, I'd love to see it done as hokey and outlandish as possible, to the point where Batman stops, turns to whomever is closest and says, "does all this seem a bit off to you?" I could see it in my head, Nightwing looks back and remarks, "A bit? This is wacky time travel shenanigans levels of weird. I'm wondering if we got hit by a faulty batch of Scarecrow gas and need to just sleep it off." Yes, I just want Nightwing to get a panel where he says shenanigans. I want weird things.

@liberalenextrema 8 ай бұрын

I love how well it illustrates the way thought bubbles were written to explain character motivation. Absolutely nothing like how we think to ourselves, rather they ended up written like someone speaking directly to another person.

@briangilbert8733 8 ай бұрын

"Some people just want to watch the world BURN"- a line from the Nolan films, spoken by...(you guessed it) ALFRED! Well played, Sasha! Love your stuff. Applaud you for the serial/movie misspeak, but those of us who are your fans-no big! (Had a late night chuckle overnight, with your "Brucie want a giant dinosaur?" 😂😂

@millsxi 8 ай бұрын

I’m thinking about silly Alfred things and the story of Alfred being The Joker comes to mind. Also wouldn’t mind learning more about Aunt Harriet.

@Marveryn 8 ай бұрын

yeah for some reason i thought aunt harriet was a tv character only

@mynardomacaraig2697 8 ай бұрын

@@Marveryn It is weird the way they have written Aunt Harriet out of continuity completely. Not even a stray reference or casual call-back.

@christopherulichney 8 ай бұрын

I was always perplexed that orphan Dick Grayson had an Aunt. Why didn't she raise him after his parents died? I don't know if it is cannon or not but I have believed since the 1980s that Alfred's alter ego as the Outsider was the reason Batman named his superteam The OutsiderS. Absolutely loved the 60's inspired hair for this video.

@Marveryn 8 ай бұрын

i agreed with her being Dick aunt made no sense. Now being Bruce Aunt and she being like the youngest of the sibling on his mother side perhaps would had made more since so the years apart would be closer together so she be too young to raise a young bruce but too old to be a love interest.

@KasumiKenshirou 8 ай бұрын

@@Marveryn Or they could've had said she'd been in a plane crash in Africa and was THOUGHT to be dead when Bruce made Dick his ward, but they just recently found out she was alive.

@danixove2358 8 ай бұрын

This show saved Batman's live in more than one sense, and cimented a lot of its mythos in the popular conscience. It's also really good when well written (if the credits say 'by Lorenzo Semple, Jr' is the good stuff) Is sad that gets so underappreciated and dismissed by people who claim to be huge Batman fans

@readingking1421 8 ай бұрын

I do in fact want the Aunt Harriet and Outsider video, thank you for anticipating that. I am extremely glad Alfred didn't stay dead, he's easily one of my favorite elements of Batlore.

@scottboswell6406 8 ай бұрын

Yay!!! I mentioned the Outsider story in the comments of the1st Alfred video, so I'm giving myself credit for this one, hahaha!! Thanks Sasha! While I knew about the Outsider, I never understood where Aunt Harriet came from on the tv show! What happened to her? I'd love both videos about the Outsider arc and Aunt Harriet! p.s. Did that Joker poster fall off the wall again?

@josoldino2670 8 ай бұрын

I want to see a version of this story with Gotham's Alfred. Sean Pertwee did an amazing job and is one of my favourite live action Alfred, seeing him turn into a ridiculous ilver age villain would be a treat

@TheLyleHawthorne 8 ай бұрын

That Alfred is why I kept watching Gotham after Season 2

@kdisley 4 ай бұрын

I love the way that when he comes up with the name, Alfred slows right down... "I am *outside* the human race! Yes! I - -" _You...?_ "- - am - -" _You are...? Come on, use your words..._ "- - the - -" _Nearly there... bit quicker if you could..._ "- - OUTSIDER!!" _Wow... took you long enough...!_

@Jezee213 8 ай бұрын

Haha, so Alfred was fine and not mangled from getting crushed by a bolder I love it!! Also, was the scientist just walking by and heard signs of life coming from Alfreds tomb??

@dallasgrey4247 8 ай бұрын

By the amount of early Bat characters Julius Schwartz got rid of, I’m shocked it was the other JS of comics (Jim Starlin) to kill Robin

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

"J.s."?

@dallasgrey4247 8 ай бұрын

@@erikbihari3625 Jim Starlin

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

@@dallasgrey4247. Who's that, DC comics' Stan Lee or something?

@dallasgrey4247 8 ай бұрын

@@erikbihari3625 Jim Starlin is a famous comic writer who wrote for Marvel and DC. His most famous creation is probably Thanos, and his most famous comic being Infinity Gauntlet (the one Avengers Infinity War is mostly based off of) or A Death in the Family (the one where Jason Todd dies)

@erikbihari3625 8 ай бұрын

@@dallasgrey4247. Batmite:-"death in the family",in wich the fans get to choose what happened to Jason Todd, Guess how I voted". So he's a big shot! Didn't think this mutch.

@themeanhornet1070 8 ай бұрын

The Alfred Foundation is where other rich non-powered heroes got their butlers/servants, and sick-kicks. I heard Kato was in the top of his class while attending.

@sea-envy3137 8 ай бұрын

Batman might have taken Alfred's name off the charity foundation but at least he named his personal hero team after the Outsider.

@davrosdaleks1 8 ай бұрын

They do give an explanation the comics for why aunt Harriet didn’t originally take care of Dick. Her husband was very sick originally and she couldn’t take care of both him and Dick. Then her husband died so now she had free time.

@patronofdragons 8 ай бұрын

It's funny how Alfred went from a klutz who got into trouble into a badass that can fight off zombie ninjas.

@quantafreeze 8 ай бұрын

I love the research that went into this video! Thank you!

@InterdimensionalCowlick 8 ай бұрын

In my head cannon, the two Alfreds are entirely different people. The second one is actually named Steve but Bruce just kept calling him "New Alfred" until he finally broke him.

@karlgrimm3027 8 ай бұрын

The fact that letters to the editor weren’t published including the addresses is what led to fandom. In the old days it was hard for fans to find each other but since addresses were published fans could send letters to each other and modern fandom was born.

@jebeda 8 ай бұрын

I think the "fire" Alfred is messing with at 4:55 is actually a duster of some sort.

@ravenwilder4099 8 ай бұрын

Killing a character and introducing their replacement in the same issue ... yeah, THAT stands no chance of riling people up.

@tyrannosaurusrector7947 8 ай бұрын

I was probably the right age when the outsider storyline was reprinted in the giant Batman comics. I really got into the mystery of the outsider, and enjoy the revelation that he was Alfred.

@masqueradenoir5767 8 ай бұрын

Aunt may and Alfred the two comic book characters that will probably out live the rest of their respective universes but still get killed off every now and again

@veillifted 8 ай бұрын

You Slayed this video sis! ❤ Terrific!

@tkillcoin 8 ай бұрын

Yes to The Outsider video. Yes to Aunt Harriet video. And Alfred Lives ------> The Wayne Foundation?!?! That’s crazy. Love it.

@michaellangwaller 8 ай бұрын

I remember reading that comic a few years after it came out and was shocked that Alfred was dead only to read a few issues later that he was The Outsider. It took my child mind into a wild world. I admit that was not a real big fan of Alfred and was even less of a fan of Aunt Harriet, but falling rocks and being resurrected? I already thought of Batman comics as being in a world of magic, this solidified it. I never thought anything about the three guys living together when I was a kid, they had TV shows with the same scenario during that period.

@wylde_hunter 8 ай бұрын

Great post yet again Sasha. We love Alfred - long may he buttle!

@crickett3536 8 ай бұрын

I need a comic cover of Batman carrying Alfred's body a la Supergirl in Crisis on Infinite Earths

@fourcatsandagarden 8 ай бұрын

Yknow. I appreciate that they just...found him alive and carried him out of his grave. No super magical or crazy hoops. Just 'oh he wasn't dead after all.'

@ishmiel21 8 ай бұрын

What a fantastic video! Thank you so much! This is my favorite type of comic book book storytelling. I'm not a fan of the super serious Hass to be realistic comic book stuff that constantly touches on current events that seems to be the main thing these days. Thanks for always sharing these awesome stories!

@grahamturner1290 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video! 🦇

@taskmaster58 8 ай бұрын

One thing that I used to get twisted over from back in the day, is when the cover of the comic had absolutely nothing to do with the story within. I found it mostly happened in DC comics.

@LCBK 8 ай бұрын

Alfred had his own comic, I wanna know more

@jimgillespie6109 8 ай бұрын

Bring on those Outsider and Aunt Harriet videos! Yes, I knew much of these events. One of the things I'd do if I was in charge at DC would explain that The Outsider is actually a Lord of Chaos that possessed Alfred. In a later appearance, The Outsider PLUCKED THE MOON FROM THE NIGHTTIME SKY and threw it like a baseball! Who but a Lord of Chaos could do something like that?! I also think we need more info on Harriet. Not only do I want you to cover her official appearances, I'd like to learn about where she has gone, what she's been doing, and what exactly was her relationship to Dick's parents? We need to know this stuff!

@ProfessorEchoMedia 3 ай бұрын

That Robin voice you came up with is hilarious, like one of the fish puppets on DIVER DAN!

@DMatX 8 ай бұрын

I miss Alfred in the current comics. He still pops up in stories from time to time, depending on what era the series is set in, but the ongoing Batman and Detective books are poorer without him.

@josephmarrow5598 8 ай бұрын

Always love the batman videos The hair is what I'm trying to get my hair to, nice to see

@Dougeb7 8 ай бұрын

I grew up with Batman reruns, so I'm definitely down for an Aunt Harriet vid. I didn't know Alfred was killed off to make way for her. Julie! Look how you massacred my boy!

@travishiltz4750 8 ай бұрын

Now I feel bad. I've been blaming the TV show for making Aunt Harriet a part of Bat-lore and it was Julie Schwartz the whole time!

@rebeccakickass1776 8 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing... Learn something new every day

@Quintzal 8 ай бұрын

There was an episode of the series, "Bob," in the 90's where a character playing either Fredrick Wertham or a stand in for him, having an interview about the controversy. The eponymous Bob was a comics artist in the 50's and lost his job due to the controversy and ended up drawing greeting cards for 40 years.

@sea-envy3137 8 ай бұрын

first, he did "The Bob Newhart show" then he did "Newhart" then he did "Bob" still waiting for him to make "the Show" I have a comic tie-in to the show. It was a flip cover with Bob's campy silly golden age version of his character on one side and the dark edgy reimagining on the other.

@KasumiKenshirou 8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure the character was a guy LIKE Wertham but had a different name. I watched that episode recently on KZfaq, so it might still be here.

@mikeyjhilli 8 ай бұрын

This was interesting. Thanks.

@MyPhobo 8 ай бұрын

"I don't have an opinion on this, I better break out the stationary."

@browngreen933 7 ай бұрын

As a Lovecraft fan, I'd say bringing Alfred back from the dead is more like the story "Herbert West Re-Animator" than "The Outsider."😂

@franciscolomeli8931 8 ай бұрын

This is the first time i heard of aunt Harriet I wouldn't mind a video about her and/or more Alfred videos

@johnstylz7867 8 ай бұрын

More Aunt Harriet! "I got a fever and the only prescription is more Aunt Harriet!" in Christopher Walken voice. Great vid funny 😂.

@zachwise476 8 ай бұрын

The outsider sounds like what you call a dog that can’t use the bathroom inside.

@scottdoesntmatter4409 8 ай бұрын

I laughed at your Batman voice. That was funny!

@douglasphillips5870 8 ай бұрын

I like that there was comunication between the comic and the TV show.

@trevorghalt1881 8 ай бұрын

I'm ready for The Outsider to make a return to bring Alfred back lol and Alfred had broken bones and was in a coma or that doctor can't tell what is dead either way it's hilarious

@madarchmage1151 8 ай бұрын

I like this. Thank you

@douglasbriel6103 8 ай бұрын

I grew up on the 60's TV series. It's why I love the Joel Schumacher films. Such love letters.

@bensneb360 8 ай бұрын

So without the show, we wouldn’t have Alfred, Barbara, or the Riddlers popularity… it really was the best thing to happen to Batman

@CasuallyComics 8 ай бұрын

That show is great and fun!

@bensneb360 8 ай бұрын

@@CasuallyComics Still my favorite adaption of the character

@themeanhornet1070 8 ай бұрын

Your Alfred voice is spot-on.

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid 8 ай бұрын

On the note of Batman's 'living situation' back then, in the Superman documentary from like the 2000s, Kevin Spacey made a comment about how in old commercials for Corn Flakes and the like, Lois wasn't allowed to partake in sharing breakfast with Clark despite the two being sweethearts (something something, it would be inappropriate to show Lois eating breakfast with someone she wasn't married to in his house) so Clark somehow had his breakfast at JIMMY'S house, which in turn would make you think what *THEIR* 'living conditions' were. Granted, at the time Spacey was the recent Lex but in hindsight....yeah. Edit: *YES. I WANT AN AUNT HARRIET VIDEO.*

@daveluna7931 8 ай бұрын

Loved this episode

@bozalini 8 ай бұрын

I would like an Aunt Harriet video.

@captaincomic8678 8 ай бұрын

I remember being thrown for a loop when The New 52 introduced a new Outsider and revealed "oh yeah no that's Earth-3 Alfred." Was not a character/reference I had expected to come back in any form.

@PhoeniksStorm 8 ай бұрын

Alfred is genuinely my all time favourite DC, if not comic book altogether, character ever

@TheLyleHawthorne 8 ай бұрын

His role in the Gotham TV show was why I kept watching it.

@vincentfranklin17 8 ай бұрын

Sasha, I love your Batman voice!

@1locust1 8 ай бұрын

Aunt Harriet was never entrusted with the Big Secret about Bruce and Dick. That would made her a bit of a nuisance if the Dynamic Duo had to split whenever the bat signal appeared. And had she found out their secret she probably would have nagged Dick into dropping his Robin persona fearing for his life. Nope, she had to go.

@darktoadthesticky 8 ай бұрын

I love your Batman Voice

@AryanKing94 5 ай бұрын

Now I want a whole Arc in current continuity where Aunt Harriet shows up and drives the whole Bat-Family so mad they each go out and find a different way to resurrect Alfred just to get rid of her.

@mark-s 8 ай бұрын

I'm glad of this TV series it even gave us back catwoman after a 14 year hiatus since she was to racy for the comic code authority classic catwoman episodes was that darn catwoman and catwoman goes to college but that detective issue 327 was hard to find BTW when did aunt Harriet disappear

@d-manthecaptain1382 8 ай бұрын

Yo, Shasha! While we're on the topic of Batman 66, I wouldn't mind you doing a video on some of the comic book stories that were adapted for the series, I love it when people do vids comparing comic adaptations, and I've actually put together a list of every story I've noted as being taken from the comic books

@whade62000 8 ай бұрын

I really like these bits with Alfred doing work he can finish without Batman in advance, or criminals making sure there is no favoritism. I feel like1930s morals cared about gentlemanly stuff like this.

@circleman628 8 ай бұрын

I need that Outsider video, I have never heard of this character before but just a glance at his wiki page and it seems like he's perfect for a deep dive

@Dunybrook 8 ай бұрын

Well, there you have it. That's how they can bring Alfred back in the current continuity since he's already a Frankenstein-type monster and there's no way a little neck snapping could keep him down forever.