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 of Joint” and “Catwalk”!

First up, in Time Out of Joint, The Clock King returns to wreak his revenge against Mayor Hill with the help of a stolen invention that allows him to warp time and travel at super-speed. Why he goes through all that trouble to stay on brand while executing a fiendish execution is anyone’s guess, but that’s what we’re here to talk about! Also, the physics and logistics of a time-frozen Batmobile!

Next up in Catwalk, anxious to don the Catwoman suit again, Selina Kyle joins forces with the Ventriloquist to humiliate Veronica Vreeland, but it’s a set-up by Scarface designed to get Catwoman to take the fall for different robbery. Scarface goes out of his way to frame Catwoman for some endangered taxidermy theft, and it’s all sort of a long way for Scarface’s ham sandwich, but sandwiches are great so who are we to complain!

Join Sean and Clay as they get into the nitty gritty of time-based logistics, character gimmick infringement, convoluted evil plans, superfluous literary quotes, missing the point of your own episode, and whether or not taxidermied extinct animals are actually even worth any real money!

This is sort of an “ok but not great” week of episodes, but honestly even middling episodes of Batman the Animated Series are still great half hours of television! Throw in a couple really fun returning villains, and you’ve got a good time! Get it? Time?

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