Comments on: Nana-nana-nana-nana - BATMAN!

Nana-nana-nana-nana - BATMAN!

Second Account For Making Jokey Comments — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:47:15 -0800

Few things are as lethal as a human knot...

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:49:31 -0800

this is torture at it's most bizzare and terrible. adam west is so cool :)

By: twsf

twsf — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:05:15 -0800

How can you post that great childhood after-school memory and not include milk and cookies?!?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:16:29 -0800

This is MetaFilter at its most insipid and pointless.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:29:51 -0800

Does anyone get the urge with snarky comments to just shout "YOU ARE METAFILTER AT ITS MOST INSIPID AND POINTLESS." (or equivalent) Not that that's what I think. I just think it's the only rational response.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:30:09 -0800

And... fun post. I liked it.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:30:36 -0800

Beavis?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:32:50 -0800

Holy Three Way Batman!

By: Second Account For Making Jokey Comments

Second Account For Making Jokey Comments — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:35:51 -0800

Wolfdog: "This is MetaFilter at its most insipid and pointless." Funny. I was about to say the same thing about your comment. I'm sorry if I ruined your Metafilter experience, Wolfdog, by posting this video. By my count nothing had been posted to the front page for about eight hours so I thought "why not post something fun." Clearly I was wrong. Metafilter should not be fun. And worse still, I posted something terrible, the sort of thing that only a monster would post to the front page, and in doing so I ruined Metafilter for you. Maybe for everyone. Clearly this was a heinous sin. I made you click on the link. I made you click on the comments link too. Clearly, all this was a bridge too far. I understand why you'd want to say that the link was insipid and pointless. I left you no option. And by fuck I apologize for driving you to that no-man's land. I'll try harder next time dude. I will. Maybe Bush saying Mandela was dead would have been more worthy. That's not been posted yet. That's what would've been better. Oh! Or how about OJ's lawyer being heckled on live national TV? Would that have been less insipid for you. I don't know. All I know is that I'll try harder next time man. For you. For everyone. For Metafilter. And I hope to God that no one else posts anything insipid and pointless to the Metafilter front page again. Because I would hate it if they, like me, forced you into another thread to post your thoughts. Because that would be unfortunate. For everyone involved.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:43:48 -0800

Insipid and pointless aside, this post has taught me something. The middle-aged Turtles has almost exactly the same mad crush on Batgirl that the pre-teen Turtles did.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:46:14 -0800

zing.. ! Seriously, fun post. I don't know how Adam West didn't break a rib laughing at some of the lines they made him deliver.. the series was genius, in its way. Here's another classic scene.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:52:09 -0800

Now you're working toward, but still not really even close to, MetaFilter at its most defensive and hysterically exaggerated.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:55:38 -0800

Holy thank fuck it wasn't me who made a snarky comment on Second Account For Making Jokey Comments' post Batman!

By: MCTDavid

MCTDavid — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:59:31 -0800

Any chance we could have a MetaSnark section added to the site? Then all the complaining could be kept it own area?

By: Second Account For Making Jokey Comments

Second Account For Making Jokey Comments — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:01:24 -0800

Wolfdog: "Now you're working toward, but still not really even close to, MetaFilter at its most defensive and hysterically exaggerated." You are making the mistake of thinking that I actually cared about what you said; that somehow you had wounded me in some irreparable way, when in fact I was merely taking the piss at your own hysterically exaggerated take on this FPP I've created here. Wolfdog; I love your posts. I do. They're often intellectual masturbatory wankery, but they are honestly great stuff. Clearly that is Metafilter for you but it's not Metafilter for everyone. So don't take a piss in a thread that dosen't fit your Metafilter shape because as many comments so far have indicated, sometimes a fun thread can be great around these parts, and are as far removed from the concepts of pointlessness and the definition of insipid as chalk is from cheese. Or something. :)

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:01:46 -0800

Oooh, ooh, could this be the first sockpuppet flameout? <popcorn>

By: Bokononist

Bokononist — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:12:21 -0800

"wiggling my ears" was a popular euphemism back then. It makes a lot more sense if you know that.

By: honest knave

honest knave — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:13:23 -0800

*looks at his paypal account and curses his low balance* I shall have to create the user "I AM METAFILTER AT ITS MOST INSIPID AND POINTLESS" some other day.

By: neilkod

neilkod — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:47:00 -0800

Another vote for loved it. Thanks!

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:54:38 -0800

If... I... dared... turn my head... I might... recognize it... I daren't...

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:57:17 -0800

Is it just me, or does that villainess bear a suspicious resemblance to Mr. B Natural?

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:04:01 -0800

I just wish you'd included a few links about the history and cultural importance of the Siamese Human Knot. You know, for context.

By: SPUTNIK

SPUTNIK — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:09:08 -0800

I SO dig those color co-ordinated boxes. Now, that's genius.

By: McLir

McLir — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:29:39 -0800

Acid Batman (lyrics to be spoken dramatically over Batman theme).

By: empath

empath — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:54:27 -0800

More background: Taking a clinching position with Yvonne and Adam before the shot, with our arms and legs intricately and tightly interwoven, was hilarious and titillating. Adam, wild man that he is, playfully began groping me on the legs and buttocks. At first I thought it was Yvonne (or maybe I just wished it) and didn't resist, but Yvonne is a classy lady who would never stoop to such perversion.

By: jiroczech

jiroczech — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:03:02 -0800

I thought this was going to be something like The Grapevine (Warning: bad kung fu)

By: mkultra

mkultra — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:13:46 -0800

A one-link post to copyrighted material on YouTube is about as weak a post as you can make, dude. Though your burgeoning flameout is making it more worthwhile. Press on!

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:34:18 -0800

Holy actuarial unlikelihood!

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:41:51 -0800

I'm wiggling.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:48:54 -0800

Metafilter: I came here for the intellectual discourse, but stayed for the insipid and pointless goodness. It's Batusi time!

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:50:18 -0800

Holy Batgirl's involuntary thigh contraction innuendo that completely passed me by as a kid! And Holy a friend just emailed me about getting hold of all the tv series coincidence!

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:58:52 -0800

Whoa. Good thing neither batman nor robin popped a woody, they would've died a horrible death!! Anyhow, I love hot homicidal women in cocktail dresses. Grrrr....

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:59:29 -0800

Continuity! The knot is different ater the first commercial break -- Observe Batman's right thigh. And those guys should know better than to walk into any building that tilts at 5 degrees. those places never come to any good.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:05:00 -0800

Observe Batman's right thigh. Oh I have been. Yes indeed, I have been.

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:07:37 -0800

hot.

By: photoslob

photoslob — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:14:04 -0800

speaking of the Batusi.....

By: squasha

squasha — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:17:37 -0800

criminey, this took me back...both to my childhood spent racing around in a batgirl cape and mask, and to years later when I used to catch the 5pm reruns with a group of fellow barflies at the old Albion in SF. good times. single link YouTube posts still seem to bring out the most fascinating collaborative contributions from subsequent commenters (miss lynnster, I'd plum forgotten the Batusi! and empath, kudos for making me choke on my bengal spice tea in response to that quote.)

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:25:31 -0800

One thing I love in the Batusi scene is how he says, "What's your name? You interest me... strangely." as he accepts her invitation to dance. I really need to find an opportunity to use that someday, just to entertain myself.

By: Alex404

Alex404 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:48:04 -0800

Wow. Did I simply miss how completely surreal this show was when I was a kid, or is this clip exceptional?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:13:21 -0800

In my early days on the internet, I ventured into some bbs that had a collection of pornographic text files. Being all of 12 years old that seemed highly exciting. So I opened one of them that was Batman themed. It was a Batgirl/Robin/Batman scat/bondage story. Let me just say that the Batman show was never funny again. I had totally repressed these disquieting memories... ...until now. Thanks a lot, Second Account. If anybody needs me I'll rocking nervously back and forth in the corner, crying quietly.

By: litfit

litfit — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:25:57 -0800

I'm just fascinated by the bizarre expressions on Batgirl's face throughout the scene as she seems every few moments to forget, and then go back into character. I'm not sure how to read it - she doesn't get any dialogue - it's certainly not joy or comfort but it doesn't quite read as outright annoyance either.

By: opsin

opsin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:51:42 -0800

It's not just that clip Alex... I can't believe that anyone involved was taking it seriously, it was all so bad. If they were, by god...

By: chudmonkey

chudmonkey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:50:21 -0800

Just in case anyone hasn't watched it yet, further proof that Adam West remained brilliant between Batman and Family Guy: Lookwell! It's a sitcom pilot created by Conan O'Brien & Robert Smigel featuring West as a washed-up former TV-show detective who tries to solve crimes in between giving acting seminars. Better than Andy barker, P.I. at any rate.

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:04:12 -0800

me so horny.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:09:20 -0800

What kind of drugs were the producers of this show taking, and where the hell can I get some?

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:55:06 -0800

Dear God, the chance to be in a Siamese Human Knot with a young Yvonne Craig... Some things are just priceless... runs off to...comb his hair...

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:00:12 -0800

infinitesimal!

By: graventy

graventy — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:04:06 -0800

Wow. That was...that was awesome. Thanks.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:12:23 -0800

Does anyone know if there's some dark, nefarious reason why this show isn't out on DVD yet? Seems like a no-brainer. I already own the movie.

By: Superfrankenstein

Superfrankenstein — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:01:56 -0800

Cyrano, Warner Bros. owns Batman and Fox produced the series. As I understand it, they can't agree on a split for home video. Batman was never on VHS, either. Dastardly. Second account, thanks for the post. To me, Batman is the greatest show in the history of television. And yes, I'm including Banacek.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:47:50 -0800

As I understand it, they can't agree on a split for home video. *laughs, pees on heads of brainless tv execs*

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:56:34 -0800

Guess what I just found? Lyle Waggoner was originally tested to be Batman & they have his uber dull screen test here. The guy playing Robin SUCKED. His voice sounds just like a little girl. Wow, what a different Batman that show would've been. SO. NOT. FUNNY. That said, if you keep watching, they include girly Robin doing an "exhibition stunt fight." Acting aside, he may have been a better fighter than Burt Ward. Well, in rooms where there are ropes hanging conveniently from the ceiling anyhow.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:57:42 -0800

Know what? This Batman site is really pretty cool now that I'm scrolling through it...!

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:38:43 -0800

i always enjoyed the shark scene

By: dog food sugar

dog food sugar — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:05:31 -0800

Oh my gosh these are all so wonderful! I love love lurve insipid pointless metafilter. When I watched these shows as a kid all the camp totally went over my head. Hook, line, shark repellant spray.