Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series - Baby-Doll

This is definitely one of the best Batman episodes and Allison Laplaca deserved a daytime Emmy for her role. As a fan of the early Fox shows when I was a teen (yes, including Duet, Mr President and Women in Prison), I instantly recognized her voice. However I believe at least visually Baby Doll was based on a previous DC villian: Baby Boom of the group Hellix that faced Infinity Inc in the early to mid 1980s. Like Mary Dahl, Baby Boom suffered from a genetic aflection that prevented her from aging past five. She was a bit of a comically sadistic sociopath with the power to cause explosions by pointing. She also had a freakish boyfriend, Mr Bones, a man with transparent skin and muscles (so he looked like a skeleton) and a cyanide touch. Robbie Rist by the way was also the original actor to play Dr Zee on Galactica 1980, along with his TV step uncle Robert Reed as a brilliant scientist. For some strange reason Rist bailed and was replaced by one Patrick Stuart (note the different spelling) for the rest of the show's mercifully short run. For the sake of your poor GenX listeners, can I please ask you to cut down on your lamentations on getting older. When I hear people 10 years younger than me saying they're as old as Homer now, I feel like I'm already one foot in the grave ;-)

Stephen C. Nedell

Robin is a dork, but he is pretty good at impersonating others. He also got to pull a similar stunt in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" where he plays Bruce. As a kid, it always bothered me that masks were basically flawless in cartoons, and this cartoon definitely took advantage of that perk.

Joe Hodgson

Is this where the term "I'm baby" came from?

littleterr0r

I looked up the Electra-Woman and Dyna Girl you were talking about but they didn't seem especially scandalous! The costumes were certainly form fitting but no more so than a Power Ranger

Paul

Any chance this inspired the “I didn’t do it “ kid??

Evelina Guekguezian

Pretty much the only episode of Diff'rent Strokes I remember from watching it as a kid is the one where a doctor sits Gary Coleman's character down and tells him he probably wouldn't grow any taller. I think that might've been my first "very special" episode.

So glad someone else noticed that! I love that movie so much.

frysjackett

How could we forget Seven!? - Bob

Talking Simpsons

Really hope that becomes a What A Cartoon Movie soon!

Matthew Hansen

Married with Children had my favorite example of an obnoxious Cousin Oliver character that was quietly and quickly dropped, if only for the rather dark background gag of his face appearing on a milk carton later in the series.

Dayken

She reminds me of the antagonist of 'Cats Don't Dance'

Nathanial Miller