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Nice to see someone defend this episode. The occasionally lighter story to break up the heavier stuff is fine. It keeps the series flowing and doesn’t drag you down in being depressed all the time. They don’t all have to be Baby Doll. Some of the Joker’s episodes are more humorous than others and that’s okay. Also, seeing kids do stuff in a kids show, living vicariously through the characters who get to hang out with Batman, is why Robin exists in the first place. The kids have a story arc where Sherman becomes a better person and the bullies reform to join their detective group. I rather enjoy it and I first saw it when I was about 19 or 20.
As for momma’s boy Penguin, I went over the story bible for Batman: The Animated Series, and this is indeed how he was originally intended. He was even going to look closer to his comic design, like we’d see in the Kids WB years, but they went with a less gross version of Tim Burton’s. I hate that design and it’s the Kids WB redesign I most defend.
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What kind of philistine doesn’t like “batman in my basement”? That episode is a classic!
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But it has kids. Kids are bad because they’re not adults. Kid characters always bad. Adults only! Or some @$%$# like that.
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I mean for my generation I could understand it a little. Characters like Wesley kind of ruined kid characters for a generation and many could be very annoying. (It was a testament that the Disney afternoon shows usually had decent youth.)
But this episode is an example of kid characters done right!
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