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The Wild Wild World of Batwoman

“ Mother Tesersa called. She hates you. ”


515 - The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
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Air Date November 13, 1993
AKA She Was a Hippy Vampire;
The Wild World of Batwoman
Movie Director Jerry Warren
Year 1966
Cast Katherine Victor, George Mitchell, Steve Brodie, Richard Banks
Short Cheating
Preceded by 514 - Teen-Age Strangler
Followed by 516 - Alien from L.A.

Contents

The ShortEdit

Cheating

SynopsisEdit

A young boy learns an important leason: when cheating your way to the top, make sure that you're not caught.

InformationEdit

The MovieEdit

SynopsisEdit

In this zero-budget cheapie, a busty Batwoman enlists her beauteous bevy of Batgirls (when they're not dancing The Jerk) to help her regain a mad scientist's invention (a nuclear powered hearing aid) before a costumed ne'er-do-well, Rat Fink, can glom onto it for his own purposes.[1]

InformationEdit

  • D.C. Comics, which owned the rights to the characters Batman and Batgirl, sued the production company, Associated Distributors Productions, for copyright infringement. Contrary to popular belief, the production company won the lawsuit. After the popularity of the Batman TV series wained, the film was re-released as She Was a Hippy Vampire.
  • Most of the girls were cast when the strip club where they were working was raided by the police one night and closed down. The casting director showed up in front of the club as it was being closed and offered them all work in the film.
  • Katherine Victor created the Batwoman costume herself, since Jerry Warren would not hire a costume designer. She made the bat insignia with a cardboard cutout, outlined it on her chest with a drawing pencil, and filled it in with black eyeliner.[2]
  • Late in the movie, some of the underground scenes were 'borrowed' from The Mole People. The Mole People featured Alan Napier, who played Alfred on TV’s Batman show. Coincidence?

The EpisodeEdit

Host SegmentsEdit

Prologue: The game is Blackjack, Mike serving as the dealer. The Bots however are very weak on the rules.

Invention Exchange (Segment One): Frank has come up with the Atomic Hair Dryer but sends mixed messages to Dr. F about the safety of the device and associated hair style, while Mike and the Bots prepare to banish back hair forever with the Razorback.

Segment Two: Mike is enthralled with the 'Cheating' short they've watched, and decides that they should all prepare essays regarding the questions the narrator asked at the end of the short.

Segment Three: The Bots give their essays about the 'Cheating' short. However, it soon becomes apparent that Crow has 'cheated,' when he relates word-for-word Gypsy's essay ('Cheating is bad. Richard Basehart, is good.'). Tom is incensed, and calls for Crow to be immolated.

Segment Four: Tom, Mike, and Gypsy hold a meeting to decide what to do about Crow's cheating. Things quickly get out of hand. Closing (Segment Five): Mike, Gypsy and Tom decide to give Crow the chance to plead his case. However, it takes some prompting before Crow offers any form of apology. Mike reads a letter from a guy who is about to graduate from law school and wants to represent him in a suit against the Mads. Then we return to Deep 13 to see Frank flee from a woozy, irradiated Dr. F who is happy with his new hair style.

Stinger: A batgirl bites one of her kidnappers.

Obscure ReferencesEdit

  • "I just thought you were Baphomet there for a minute!"

Baphomet is a demonic-looking idol of disputed origins.

  • "Jeez, this kid could freak out Jame Gumb!"

Jame Gumb, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was a transsexual serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs.

  • "Is this Ingmar Bergman’s first American movie?"

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's movies are often moody and existential.

  • (Servo singing) "What's the story, morning glory, what's the word, hummingbird? Have you heard about Hugo and Kim?"

A couple of lines from the song 'Telephone Hour,' in the musical 'Bye Bye Birdie .'

  • "You talkin' to me? Hey!"

​A paraphrase from the movie Taxi Driver . (Click here for the scene.)

  • "Margaret Chase Smith!"

Margaret Chase Smith was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine.

  • "Give us Barabbas! Barabbas!!"

​In the New Testament, Barabbas is the prisoner (in John he is described as a bandit; the books of Mark and Luke state he was a rioter) released by Pilate on the Passover feast day, instead of Jesus.

  • "Tonight, on 'The Red Shoe Diaries'!

Red Shoe Diaries was a series on the cable network Showtime during the 1990s.

  • "It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited!"

A quote from the Simpsons episodes "Flaming Moe's" and "Homer at the Bat".

  • "Vampirism: It does a body good!"

A play on the advertising slogan "Milk: It does a body good!"

  • "I'm as mad as hell..."

A partial quote from the 1976 film Network.

  • "Goodbye porkpie hat."

Reference to the Charles Mingus-written jazz tune "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"

  • "Hi, I'm Johnny Two Times! Johnny Two Times!"

"Johnny Two Times" was a minor character in Goodfellas, so nicknamed because he had a tendency to repeat himself.

  • "Beakman's World!"

Beakman's World was an educational TV show about science during the 1990s.

  • "Pons and Fleischmann, still at it!"

​In 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed to have discovered a method of creating cold fusion ; their results were unable to be reproduced and eventually rejected as possibly fraudulent.

  • "Robert's Rules of WOW!"

A reference to Robert's Rules of Order , a still-used guide to proper parlimentary procedure first published in 1876. (Given the formality and structure of Batwoman's meetings, it's a fair comparison.)

  • "It’s like a Warhol movie, only kinda weird."

Artist Andy Warhol made many movies, including one in 1964 called Batman Dracula - if not an inspiration, then a precursor to, The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman.

  • "I think the iocaine powder is in this one!"

​A line from the movie The Princess Bride, spoken by Vezzini during his duel of wits with Westley.

  • "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...!"

​First line of the first track of side two (Karn Evil 9 – 1st Impression, Part 2") on the prog-rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery album (1973).

  • "Check out Shirley Chisolm in the background..."

​Shirley Chisolm was a seven-term member of Congress, from 1969 to 1983. Chisolm was the first black woman elected to Congress, serving New York's 12th congressional district. (Personally, the riff doesn't really work: the only similarities between the extra and Ms. Chilsolm are the glasses and hair, sorta. The extra is, um, rather melatonin-deficient compared to the late Congresswoman.)

  • "Jane Goodall works her magic!"

​Primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall is best known for her long-term study of chimpanzee social interaction in Tanzania.

  • "It's that one Kid In The Hall!"

​A reference to Scott Thompson's 'Buddy Cole ' character from the Canadian sketch comedy series "The Kids In The Hall."

Video ReleaseEdit

  • Commercially released on VHS by Rhino Entertainment in March 1999.
  • Commercially released on DVD by Rhino in January 2001. The single-sided DVD also includes the uncut/unMSTed version of the original movie.



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