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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