Friday, May 11, 2012

Joker's Wild Review

It is now time to take a look at Batman the Animated Series Episode 41 Joker’s Wild. In this episode, a billionaire by the name of Cameron Kaiser, does a Joker themed casino, which the Joker himself is not happy with, so he breaks out of Arkham to cause some havoc. Yet who is being played? Batman the Animated Series Episode 41 Joker’s Wild first aired on November 19th 1992 on FOX.

Batman the Animated Series Episode Episode 41 Joker’s Wild.

Not one of the crowning moments of the Joker, as this might be the absolutely single worst episodes that he has ever appeared in. Even without the crap animation that riddled this episode, it still was really something that did not stir up any inspiration to really consider this episode to be one of the all term greats of Batman the Animated Series.

It is most certainly one of the worst five episodes of this cartoon and it is the absolutely worst Joker episode by a country mile. And given that it is a bad episode featuring my favorite Batman villain that really makes it far worse.

The plot of this episode was that this billionaire Cameron Kaiser built a casino with the Joker, in an attempt to trick him to him to break out from Arkham and the Joker to destroy the casino in some grisly fashion, to collect the insurance money. Batman fights both the Joker and some of the worst animation in the history of this show, and Kaiser somehow has a security device that stuns Batman built in his office.

I hate this episode so very much and the Joker’s escape from Arkham really did cause any suspension of disbelief to really be thrown out the window. I think that they wanted to imply that Kaiser paid off some guards to let the Joker escape, but it was so sloppily done. And building a casino, when you’re losing money, to commit insurance fraud to cash in on a policy? Building a casino is not something that comes cheap, so wouldn’t it be prudent to if you’re losing money…oh I don’t know, it’s on the tip of my tongue…NOT BUILD THE FRICKING CASINO. It does also seem based on this episode that he was going for a medieval motif as well before the Joker’s Wild theme. Which means he’s just not good at budgeting his money, but obviously, building over the money losing theme does in fact lead to losing more money.

HEADDESK!

On the bright side, the brief scenes of Poison Ivy and the Joker interacting and arguing over the remote was the best parts of this episode and Mad Hatter and Scarecrow playing chess in their civilian personas was a nice touch off to the side. Other than that, I really have nothing good to say about this episode.
Joker naturally decides to kill Kaiser for the bad quality of this episode er I mean trying to use him as puppet to put money into his pocket, while taking a little pocket money along the way, which really if you want to commit insurance fraud, than the Joker is the last person you want to trust. Batman saves the day but he can’t quite save us from this bad episode. AKOM, the company that animated this mess never animated another episode of this show and let’s face it, you have to be pretty bad to get banned from animating future episodes in a show, especially when standards were a bit more lax back in 1992. Animation so bad that when there was writing on signs animated in this episode, the writing was there, than half of the letters were missing, then it was there, then different letters were missing. That's bad.

1/10 and let us never speak of this abomination ever again. If you’re into self torture, you can watch Batman the Animated Series Episode 41 the Joker’s Wild on Batman the Animated Series Volume 2 and Batman the Animated Series The Complete Collection. And there are worse episodes to come. For as good as this show was, when it stank, it went all the way.

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