It is now time to take a look at Batman the Animated Series Episode
36 Cat Scratch Fever where in this episode, Selina Kyle/Catwoman
returns, with Roland Dagget with his latest nefarious scheme to put some
money in his pocket, by infecting strays all around Gotham City with a
disease, that only his company would have the cure for. As per usual,
Batman gets involved with this. Batman the Animated Series Episode 36
Cat Scratch Fever aired on November 6th 1992.
Batman the Animated Series Episode 36 Cat Scratch Fever.
This episode, while not absolutely blowing chunks, was not a very
good episode. I think that there were a handful that were worse, but it
was not good. Catwoman’s second appearance in particular, with one of
the most iconic antagonists in Batman history, just getting such a poor
plot and animated episode, for the second time around. Cat and the Claw
had its flaws but I think Cat Scratch Fever was worst.
They dig up Daggett again, who really is rather uninspiring this
time. Trying to frame Bruce Wayne and then trying to blow up a part of
Crime Alley for developmental purposes, but his little animal plague
really just seemed to be an uninspiring scheme. It was just a plot
device to bring Catwoman into the episode, when he kidnapped and
infected her cat Isis and she gets scratched.
We also have Professor Milo, a rather obscure but older Batman
villain, who works for Daggett. He looks to have gone to the same barber
as Moe from the Three Stooges. Milo was not a good villain in this
cartoon but the next episode he was in, might be one of the worst in the
entire animated series.
The biggest complaint I have in this episode is the scene where
Batman falls through the ice. Milo and the other employee of Daggett
walk right into the ice like morons, onto thin ice, where Batman can
easily pull them under and incapacitate them. If you have Batman, you
keep shooting at him from the edge. You don’t walk across the ice where
he can grab you.
This episode just bored me. There were a couple of good lines, but
really, a couple of good lines out of a twenty two minute episode does
not make for a good episode and when you add in flaws with the animation
and flaws with the plot and the stupidity of the villains walking on
thin ice where Batman can grab them. 2/10 for this
episode. I don’t know why you would want to, but you can watch Batman
the Animated Series Episode 36 Cat Scratch Fever on Batman the Animated
Series Volume 2 and Batman the Animated Series the Complete Collection.
They can't all be good and they can be worse but we'll cross that bridge
soon enough.
