Farmer Brown is an Immoral Genius | The New Batman Adventures

[@mandalorianhunter1]

To me Farmer Brown can actually work as agricultural villian compared to the mostly high tech future villians. His more traditional upbringing contrasts with Bruce Wayne's more comfortable one. Having someone who looks like they should be a farm man but is actually a very intelligent person makes for a great foil to most of the villains we have seen before.

[@michaelramon2411]

For some reason, I just imagined an Amish-style low-tech farm community outside of the Gotham metro area with a super-advanced lab facility underneath it.

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@michaelramon2411 i like that idea, make him smart and a clan or cult leader

[@comettamer]

I could see it, adding a bit of a Poison Ivy angle by having him use his crops in addition to his livestock and even his own daughter as stuff to experiment on with his growth serum. Even add a bit of farm equipment to really sell that he's an underestimated genius of sorts that could be a proper menace to Batman.

[@mariusconstantin6057]

​@@comettameror that he's the kne who created Giganta either by experimenting on her or creating the serum that gives her, her size changing powers

[@JoeMoney52]

I don't mind Farmer Brown, but I would have liked to have seen him take on former farm boy Superman instead.

[@chriscrooks5610]

Or a Superman and Batman tie-in.

[@matthewmckinnon-gray9957]

@@JoeMoney52 That’s brilliant! He works much better on a thematic level with Superman

[@Compucles]

@@matthewmckinnon-gray9957 But would he actually be a decent match for Superman? Supes could easily take down a straightforward brute force thug like him, his daughter, and even his mutant critters without much trouble. It's not like Farmer Brown has any clever misdirects in his scheme or any ways to interfere with Superman's powers. Maybe they could retcon his growth formula to include Kryptonite, but then how would he get such a steady supply of the rare material?

[@comettamer]

That would have been a fine way to go about it, with Superman even having some lines about how Pa Kent was a better farmer because he was an honest man.

[@comettamer]

​@@Compucles Perhaps via a partnership with LexCorp where they offered him good money to use his farm for experiments with small amounts of kryptonite to see how it would affect the growth serum when applied to his crops and livestock?

[@FalinksKnight]

I think Farmer Brown is the only biologist in Batman's rogue gallery to not mutant themselves. He also reminds me of Dr. Animo from Ben 10 since both make giant mutant animals, which makes me think he has more potential then just being a one-off villain.

[@emeraldphoenix5868]

Yeah,I think that he should make his Appearance in the next Batman Arkham Game.

[@gamester512]

IMO, they could easily "upgrade" him into a villain suitable for the JL itself to have to deal with collectively. Like if Brown somehow managed to capture the likes of Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, etc. and was able to either "copy" or "transfer" their respective powers to his "critters". This would turn his critters into a threat that would be trouble even for the JL's heavy-hitters like Superman & J'onn. There are plenty of other ways to "upgrade" Brown as well, into either an explicitly overt threat (like the above example, particularly if he'd somehow found a way to brainwash the captured heroines into working for him, maybe by him making them think they were his daughters so that they would all fight _for_ him rather than _against_ him), or a much more covert threat like if he was doing something to the local food/water supply surreptitiously, and he was doing a really good job of covering his tracks so that even someone like Batman was having a difficult time tracking down and pinpointing Brown as the culprit.

[@Flamescales29]

Farmer Brown kinda reminds of of Dr.Animo from Ben 10. Both use mutated animals, both became villains because their work was disregarded, and both are old men with long white hair.

[@Achieme]

Don't forget in ultimate alien animo tried a farmer persona in that one episode

[@masedaace5473]

He even kinda looks like Alien Force Animo, to me at least.

[@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259]

That's what I said. He's a ben 10 villain, his name is even enoch

[@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259]

​@@masedaace5473facts

[@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259]

​@@Achiemeoh yeah the eggman cometh

[@vSide0]

When he was carving that cow and then turned it around to show two heads got to be one of the coldest but also disterbing scenes ive seen. It leaves a lot of room for imagination to think what else he can do.

[@miguelcarrasco6511]

a real CATDOG haah

[@jackofallclaws6672]

Funny how people hate Farmer Brown because he’s a “campy” mad scientist farmer…despite the fact that The Scarecrow is ALSO in the same show, is dressed almost EXACTLY Like Brown and is ALSO A MAD SCIENTIST!!! It’s enough to make a Bub go Ee Ai Ee Ai-OY VEY!!

[@CrocsFortress]

Probably because Scarecrow had his Fear Toxin and that creepy costume to help make him scary.

[@Achieme]

That's a team up I'd be interested in tbh

[@chriscrooks5610]

Although he was “campy” it feels very 1940-50 DC comics where our heroes are facing against mad scientists.

[@aSipOfHemlocktea]

​@@CrocsFortressokay but this isn't a horror show Farmer Brown doesn't need to be scary although arguably the fact he does weird genetic experiments on humans as well as animals is pretty scary to me

[@snowyowl2784]

Valid. I have no real feelings on either but I guess fears are cooler than big cows?

[@aidanhever3369]

Another problem is that Farmer Brown would have worked as a Superman villain rather than a Batman one, especially the Man of Steel has more experience in the country side.

[@mechajay3358]

Definitely would've made more sense. Almost like they created him for Superman TAS until they were told to make more Batman TAS episodes.

[@ΕυάγγελοςΦώσκολος]

At the end of the episode, it was hinted that Farmer Brown's monsters might return. Not that I care that much about that character, but I wish the writers could have used his creations in another episode. Maybe, in a Batman Beyond episode, showing that some bugs survived and have been making a giant hive.

[@kaylaturnis9486]

Citizen: THERE'S A BUG 🐛! Waiter: In your soup 🍲? Citizen: NO! BEHIND YOU!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@mainstreetsaint36]

😆

[@jordanloux3883]

I'm just imagining Bane and Emmylou teaming up to kill Batman and treating it like a date.

[@SerumLake]

“Beef steroids?” “Venom.”

[@jordanloux3883]

@@SerumLake And then they see who can knock the Batwing out of the sky by throwing cars at it.

[@raipe125]

He was mexican inbthis??

[@SerumLake]

@@raipe125he was South American, that much is known.

[@lexofexcel886]

Farmer Brown is either the most ridiculous or the most underrated villain in the DCAU depending on who you ask. Personally I really like him.

[@SerumLake]

I spend too much time and energy thinking about what he might’ve done for Cadmus…

[@numberonedad]

yeah i've never seen this one but it looks awesome

[@seeleunit2000]

I can really see the potential. I think they needed an amp up the country aspect of him and the mad scientist part. There's something about seeing a hillbilly with a PhD in super science that makes an interesting juxtaposition

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@SerumLake maybe Dr. Milo was tinkering with his formula, and that's what created the giant pig that got him sanctioned? I'm gonna go with that headcanon.

[@jackswan3420]

I think he has a lot of potential, especially since you could take him the exact opposite direction of his original story, if his animals were drawn in a more realistic style they would be terrifying.

[@mitchhaelann9215]

I think Emmie Lou was a test-run for adding Supergirl to the DCAU. Blonde-haired farm girl with incredible strength, with many physical similarities. Fans responded positively to Emmie Lou, and Supergirl got the greenlight.

[@tayojones9460]

I feel like Critters was a sign that Bruce's adventures were expanding beyond costume rogues and gangsters. Just like Demon within, Knight Tale and Critters, Batman was moving more into the wider DCAU and his adventures were becoming more fantastically. Even in BTAS Batman fought Monster created from science (Man-Bat and Clayface and Tygrus). I can understand why most people would dislike Critters but I respect the crew of the show for wanting to try new things and honestly if you suspend your disbelief, it is a fun episode. It is also the only episode in new adventures where Bullock plays an active role. Brown is not just motivated by profit. He is also wants revenge on the city for cutting his funding and he does not care who gets hurt in the process. He only redeeming trait is his genuine love for his daughter at least it looked genuine to me.

[@matthewrascoe8690]

I always saw that Brown was a opposite to Professor Milo and Dorian prior, while the good farmer desires revenge for the cities disregarding of his potential solution to world hunger and agricultural strife, he does not become fully inhuman to all who encounter him (Brown loved his daughter and seemed to treat most of his animals okay) unlike Milo or Dorian who'd drop their creations/minions at the top of a hat. Only time I could see Brown being somewhat abusive to his animals are the mantises but those seem to be less living beings and more organic robots.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

Oh the Farmer Brown truck cameo in "The Ultimate Thrill" makes sense because both the episodes were being made at the same time according to the DCAU wiki.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

They mention this in the commentary track for "Critters". "The Ultimate Thrill" comes before "Critters", and the people working on TUT added in the "Farmer Brown" truck establish Farmer Brown before he appears.

[@josecuestas7246]

1:11 and 1:24 The daughter of the farmer, has a physical resemblance with Super girl.

[@WyntheRogue]

I concur, remove the freckles and the resemblance is indeed uncanny.

[@mechajay3358]

Makes you think he should have been a Superman villain

[@josecuestas7246]

@@mechajay3358 It would be hilarious that Super girl though that she found a lost sister XD

[@supersonicmario56]

The entirety of that statement is one big reference to Supergirl.

[@The_Phantasm]

Honestly I just feel bad for Farmer Brown's voice actor Peter Breck who had drive from Vancouver to Los Angeles to record ADR.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

Due to all flights from Canada being cancelled at the time due to an airline strike. He drove straight there and recorded his lines without sleeping apparently lol.

[@Karlos1234ify]

Yikes

[@1heKing]

​@@Elfenlied8675309 and hit it out of the park. what a man

[@Tuning3434]

Reverse David Ogden Stiers in his guest appearance in Stargate Atlantis. When they were setting up his schedule to shoot, he apparently drove from California to Vancouver on the coast road in his sports car cause it was more fun than sitting in a plane.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Reminds me of that time the Canadian voice cast of X-Men: The Animated Series had to fly to the distant Spider-Man: The Animated Series studio to do voice acting for "The Mutant Agenda+The Mutants' Revenge". Really says something that only Storm appeared in the later "Secret Wars" arc for the latter. Thankfully, nowadays, we got stuff like Skype, which helped a lot for, as a neat example away from how voice acting worked out during the pandemic, Zach Tyler Eisen voice acting as Aang for Avatar: The Last Airbender.

[@SapphireKnight675]

not gonna lie, Farmer Brown feels like a Superman villain that they shoved into Batman because he still had episodes left

[@fraga.matias]

The best thing about this episode is the DVD commentary on it. Bruce Timm & Co are laughing their butts off on the whole thing, and once I watched the episode with that commentary, Ive never watched it again without it!

[@AchesDenile]

True fan I love this

[@Compucles]

3:48 Wait, was that literally a bull in a china shop?! That's actually pretty funny.

[@changvasejarik62]

I do love gags based around making a metaphor literal.

[@Vamprene]

I actually like the episode and think Farmer Brown is a wasted villain. Partly because I can see more potential with Farmer Brown if the DC used him more. He's disturbing and scary (which kinda make every Batman villain), with what he has done with his daughter and animal. Imagine what more he could do.

[@cinnamonflavord]

I'd like to see a team-up or conflict with Poison Ivy. Though I want to see more of his daughter.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

Something tells me that the two would hate each other

[@spongeintheshoe]

Plants and animals.

[@TheElochai]

@@spongeintheshoe we have Plants vs Zombies ... now we know where the zombies came from :)

[@michaelreynolds6710]

He looks like he would say bah humbug

[@Karlos1234ify]

True

[@Karlos1234ify]

Looks like Scrooge too

[@curtisleblanc5897]

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

[@Illusion6-gf2cu]

Farmer Brown made an extremely brief Easter egg appearance in Space Jam 2

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Seriously? It's not enough to make me watch it, but good on 'em if they dropped him in there.

[@zeonianking2983]

I believe Farmer Brown would've worked better as a SuperMan villain, for three reasons 1. I can totally imagine Brown incorporating kyrptonite into his animal experiments, because he anticipates Superman posing a threat to his revenge plans. 2. Since they both come from farming backgrounds, maybe Clark could know the Brown family personally. He could try to offer some help when Brown is court ordered to halt his experiments, but because Brown's too prideful he refuses and goes straight on to his revenge plot. This could create a interesting theme for the story about not being too proud to accept help. Even Superman needs help every now and then, and he's never ashamed to admit it. 3. We could see how strong Emmylou's beef steroids really are, by having her and Superman Duke it out.

[@lightsidesoul]

Yet another Rouge I wish could interacted with another member of the Justice League. Imagine Superman going up against this guy. Yeah, Superman could probably bench every mutated animal Brown ever made at once, but Superman, no matter the continuity, is always a farm boy at heart. Seeing animals he'd grown up taking care of, and maybe even bonding with, twisted into these monstrosities would horrify the man of steel. I can imagine Brown, bitter at his defeat, somehow getting out of prison, whether by legal means or not, and developing "Super-feed" that Comic book sciences normal animals into his monstrous beasts, and some of it making it's way onto the Kent farm.

[@Sumsuch000]

If Farmer Brown worked with Cadmus, maybe they use his growth serum on Galatea which is how she grew so much between her two appearances.

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

Y E S

[@coolgreenbug7551]

Maybe also Doomsday. No one on Cadmus we see is really in the business of making monsters. Dr. Hugo Strange is a psychologist in this version and Milo really only worked with the splicer tech. This guy who can make giant monster animals and his daughter into a super strong meta-human probably has the most knowledge to make something like doomsday instead of just turning people into animal people like Langstrom and Cheetah

[@CrocsFortress]

He reminds me of Professor Milo since they both experiment with biology, particularly animals.

[@changvasejarik62]

Big difference is one looks like Jed Clampett, the other looks like Moe Howard.

[@matthewmckinnon-gray9957]

I would say Harley’s Holiday counts as a comedy episode. Loved the Gotham Academy shoutout btw.

[@fraga.matias]

Definitely, I was thinking the same thing. Its so funny!

[@KasumiKenshirou]

The writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck (who had no involvement with the Howard the Duck movie). Roxy Rocket getting "turned on" when she thinks she's about to die is much more cringeworthy than anything in Critters.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Granted, that moment was intentionally made cringey, because Roxy sure is something.

[@crakatoot5480]

I liked the daughter. Def should have done more with her

[@BassManSTS]

I always got a good laugh at the end of the episode when Farmer Brown's facility exploded and Batgirl mocked his daughter by saying "Now that's purdy."

[@ohmhasmeaning7292]

nothing I love more than an intelligent man who finds a unique way to silence those fools at the academy who laughed at his research.

[@hordakprime6172]

I honestly love this character he's got a lot of potential sadly he hasn't been seen in any other media since.

[@dannydumlet]

I...actually like this episode a lot but also I really like crazy sci-fi shit like this. Hell the supernatural stuff in this part of the series was also fun to me. IDK I really like the more "comic book" stuff

[@johntheechidna1]

I liked Farmer Brown's final words in the episode. It so suits the kind of persona he had put on as a country farmer. He slams his hat to the ground and shouts, "DAGNABIT!"

[@gamervox1707]

This is a good villain in my book. people just do not want to see the evil in society.

[@BM-wh5qk]

Farmer Brown and his daughter could have easily worked on Smallville.

[@jordanloux3883]

I can totally see them trying to steal the Kent Farm

[@ggbetz]

While Farmer Brown didn't do it for me, I always found the mantis scene worth a chuckle. It may not be Thanksgiving where you are, but I'm grateful for your work!

[@BM-wh5qk]

This was the only episode of New Adventures that made teenager me realize this was a really different show from BTAS.

[@SerumLake]

I felt the same way about Joker’s Millions and Beware The Creeper

[@BM-wh5qk]

It also made me realize that the design guys were definitely trying to make young boys feel a certain way.

[@MWhaleK]

Farmer Brown had far better intentions than pretty much every other Batman villain.

[@hardnewstakenharder]

I remember really liking this episode. I thought it was both funny and chilling, with the talking goat scaring me as a kid.

[@jaydenknight5553]

I love this episode just because its funny, and the soundtrack during the prey mantis attack is just so comical

[@leemaster777]

Honestly, I always liked this episode. While there's absolutely some Adam West Batman influences in the episode, it really feels to me like more of a Superman episode. And there's nothing wrong with that, I really liked the Superman animated series, more so than the New Batman Adventures at times. Swap out Batman with Superman, and Bullock with either Jimmy or Lois, and this episode really is a dead ringer for something from STAS.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

It's honestly kind of interesting for Batman to take on a Superman threat. Hey Batman save this crashing plane while I make my getaway

[@EatWave]

One of the things that amused me the most about the episode featuring Farmer Brown is that it is the one time where the Bat Family completely failed to get the collar (or take down a single opponent, come to think of it), leaving the GCPD to step in to shut down the villains' operation. Bruce and company could have just stayed home that time out.

[@dangerbeans9639]

I’ve been looking for this episode for so long! I thought it was an episode of the Superman animated series! That goat gave me Nightmares when I was a kid!

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

With your comment on the farming industry, I thought of how Sheep are selectively bred to produce so much wool they have to be sheared regularly to survive.

[@DeerBonesBaby]

Right? It's insane that that was something achieved over thousands of years and I think there's not a single sheep species alive that can shed their wool on their own

[@squeethemog213]

I have a soft spot for this episode. I love creature features and while the repetitive way the beasties are beaten can be rather underwhelming I enjoy it nonetheless. I mean who doesn't laugh at the goat scene? Thank you for covering this episode 😁

[@itsTrainHeartnet]

I feel like if he appeared before in the series as a good guy that coulda helped him maybe. Helped flesh him out

[@Karlos1234ify]

Same

[@joseaca1010]

1:35 it depends, cow feed is often made from grass or byproducts of other industries, like say, chaff from grain harvest, maybe there would be other downsides, like methane production or tougher meat due to the stronger muscles needed to keep such creature alive,but i dont think feed would be a particularly big issue

[@triyholloway]

I always thought that this episode was hilarious. And, some of my favorite lines were with Detective Bullock. One was when he yelled that the goat ate his donut, and another was when he said that Batman & Co had survived The Joker & all their other enemies only to be killed by Jed Clampett.

[@thunderstudent]

I actually really enjoyed the episode as a kid. Farmer Brown had this great duality of evil farmer meets mad scientist. It's a duality even Two-Face could appreciate

[@coneheadzigity]

tbh the whole "Theres a bug -- behind you" joke really reminded my about old kaiju movies and how sometimes these mfers were like ninja's, the characters have no idea that a 80ft dinosaur is behind them.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

Sadly, this was a case of right character, wrong version of the animated series. I honestly could see Farmer Brown as being an old employee of Roland Daggett. Remember how Dr. Milo once worked with Daggett to set up a plague carried by stray animals so his company could flood the market with available cures. Brown could very well have been an assistant who sought to modify animal DNA to be super strong creatures that were immune to the disease. A missed opportunity to have him earlier in BTAS and call him, ahem, Doc Brown. Hell, he could've been the one to help Milo work on the lycanthropy serum that turned Anthony Romulus into the wolf creature!❤

[@GhostPlanetFilms]

*DID YOU KNOW?* Farmer Brown was voiced by Peter Breck, aka Nick Barkley on _The Big Valley,_ one of the GREATEST Western shows ever aired!

[@craigskinkle]

The color red doesn’t aggravate cows. Bulls are attracted by the movement. They can’t see red

[@coolgreenbug7551]

I honestly wonder if that was a nod to Adam West who explains that very fact to Robin (and the audience)

[@barriehannon6857]

wait you mentioned I've got batman in my basement without the Penguin going "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

[@Shintigercurl]

"check your shoes for what the cow left and check your money. two solid rules."

[@Wr3NcHxD]

What I still don’t understand is that I remember his daughter mentioning that he has a kid.

[@SerumLake]

She’s talking about the goat 😉

[@Wr3NcHxD]

@@SerumLake oh

[@camerondodge2070]

I may be biased, given my love of the William Dozier Batman show, and the Silver Age in general, but I loved this episode when I first saw it. Funny enough, I also loved Gotham Academy, which not only has many DAU references, but many Dozier-verse references.

[@Regenmacher175]

It is worth noting that in "Batman and Harley Quinn" (2017), Emmylou Brown can be seen dancing in the bar full of henchmen.

[@inferno232]

The moment you showed the bit where his daughter lifts Harvey Bullock over his head I smirked. Oh Bruce Timm. I *know* what's going on here.

[@darthdigital666]

I always liked this episode. A dark comedy. That scene with the satanic looking goat creeped me out. "No, Baaah'tman..." 😂

[@Karlos1234ify]

I love your videos & happy Thanksgiving

[@SerumLake]

Thanks, Karlos, that’s nice of you to say

[@HeartHeater_0]

I actually watched the episode before the video to avoid spoilers and quite enjoyed it

[@Gantros]

I’ve occasionally wondered if Cerestone, the plant growth hormone that created Batman Beyond villain Big Time, was based on Brown’s work. The way the hormone appeared in ‘Ace in the Hole’, where it was used to mutate a dog for fighting, and resembles something Brown would make.

[@docweidner]

I know someone, and his hens, who is going to love this.

[@supersonicmario56]

6:20 More like comically terrifying. That would scare the bejesus out of me, and anyone for that matter....

[@aztheking6280]

the batman's dr animo and he has a weird farm plot too

[@Bradman1978]

My surprise isn't that Lex Luthor didn't hire the Brown. The dude made a super serum. The only thing Brown should have done is, when the stock got full size, instantly butcher them and sell the meat.

[@luiz4200]

That episode was a criticism to transgenic foods. Also, maybe Farmer Brown sold his formula to Cadmus to be able to afford his revenge scheme.

[@mechajay3358]

Farmer Brown is one of the more Underrated DCAU Villains. His gimmick as a Scientist in a Farmer disguise is both wild yet also pretty genius and intimidating.

[@bradhorowitz2765]

I kinda wonder “how could farmer brown and his daughter be made..more memorable?” I mean Roxy rockett is def remembered by dcau fans. Here’s my idea: make Farmer Brown a representative of the growing industrialized farming corporations that disregard animal welfare and to some extent human welfare. Real life fears towards animal consumption, genetically modified crops/animals, food insecurity and inhumane treatment of farm animals are all elements the farmer could be used for tackle. Afterall, farmer brown much likes real corporation encourages consumption of farm animals, especially big ones while forcing his property to be subjected to really bad procedures while using science to justify his decisions. As this video points out, he does put on a “friendly” farmer attitude to the public so they can feel they trust him. This is what corporations do with advertisements of a cartoon farm animals and/or farmer. Perhaps farmer brown and his daughter genuinely believe that they are curing world hunger, but that they are so detached from animal suffering, due to their work as farmers employing industrialized/pseudo science procedures, they won’t stop. Perhaps their actions are showing the viewer of the new emerging technology that will one day, as seen in Batman Beyond, dominate the world. Gone is the city as seen in Batman TAS where that city seemed somewhat stuck in a 1940s noir environment, and in with the new world. Maybe their work ended up inspiring those human-animal mix that Trey fought.

[@koji8872]

I actually loved the episode for the small bit of body horror of these horribly mutated animals

[@l0stndamned]

Anyone else feel Farmer Brown reminds them a little of that alien preacher guy from the Superman cartoon.

[@alexlemonds2838]

The difference between this and Batman In My Basement is that I'm actually entertained watching it.

[@HotFuss-gd9qr]

Considering the writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, the creator of Howard The Duck, I'm not surprised with how humourous both the episode and Farmer Brown is.

[@smiley4995]

To be honest, maybe he moved on to work at Cadmus as a plea deal, while his daughter began managing the business and moved it to be a more proper farming operation and tried to repair the damage done to their reputation (Or maybe people really didn't care about that so long as the food tasted good).

[@HobGungan]

This was always one of my favorite episodes of TNBA, and it was the only one that I recorded on an old VHS upon which I had also taped Batman Returns and a few of my favorite B:TAS episodes

[@Chadius]

One thing I'll give Critters: Great monster design.

[@Scrinwaipwr]

3:14 chickens *are* dinosaurs -- though these ones look (arguably) more like pterosaurs.

[@Kingmegadon]

so farmer brown himself is never mentioned his work does have an effect on the later series: batman beyond. as in beyond there is a compound called cerestone which works just like brown's hormone but for plants. however when none plant based materials are exposed to or infused with it they undergo large mutations similar to brown's animals. this also lead to the transformation of one of the villains on your recent poll: Big Time.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

In a very funny way, Farmer Brown has done more frightening damage than the Scarecrow ever has! He was able to create monstrous and frightening array of critters that horrify and terrify the masses! All this, just to prove a point! That said. I do love his daughter!❤️💪😘

[@AedanTheGrey]

I loved that episode. Really weird and fun, I wish the character was used more.

[@calebmaybin6896]

Emmylou Brown actually makes a cameo in the 'Batman and Harley Quinn' Animated Movie when Batman, Nightwing, and Harley Quinn go to a Henchmen Bar for a lead.

[@togeluga_the_cat]

Honestly farmer brown looks like he could be Scarecrows dad

[@comettamer]

I could see Farmer Brown being better if they'd added a bit of a Poison Ivy bent in addition to the Kirk Langstrom elements. Using a combination of both his livestock and crops, as well as his own daughter to menace Batman would have been pretty slick, especially if they'd tossed in a little bit of farm equipment to really sell that he was using everything he had at his disposal to be a more genuine threat.

[@mistermann4163]

I dunno why but I remembered his character(or a look alike) showing up in the Superman show being the leader of a plant or worm cult that Supergirl was investigating before getting captured herself. I barely remember the episode but I swear that he was the antagonist in that as well.

[@SerumLake]

I know the one you’re talking about. You’re thinking of the episode Unity, but it was a different character. Someone dressed like an old Western Preacher that had been possessed by an alien parasite. That was another odd episode!

[@calebmaybin6896]

Enoch 'Farmer' Brown could actually work with a little tweaking: as there is a 'Gunsmith' that works on specialty firearms like Penguin's Umbrellas, a Broker who leases abandoned buildings to villains, and a Carpenter that builds villainous lairs Farmer Brown could be growing specific plants for drugs and working/modifying steroids and hormones for a price. Ex: growing plants for Scarecrow Fear Toxin, the biological genetic compounds that turned Isley into Poison Ivy, modifying Waylon Jones disease into a more genetic splicing, modifying Venom to the point that his daughter is a variant of the drug without the side effects and bribing government contractors to give him immunity, raising animals for both human consumption and for villainous scientists to test their products on, scavenging scientific recipes or technology such as Maxie Zeus's Lighting Spear/Trident and making it his pitchfork. No one would suspect a Farmer applying his trade and growing things within city limits or inside an abandoned warehouse on an island. Emmylou could even be Shanghied into service for the Suicide Squad to free her imprisoned Father. You could even have them redeem themselves as animal activists or have Emmylou turn on Enoch after finding out he experimented on his wife/her mother and kept it a secret.

[@Gat720Dua]

Give that man some red glowing eyes and he's a dead ringer for Caleb from Blood.

[@curtisleblanc5897]

I agree with you when you say " I don't think this episode is particularly bad. "

[@shishoka]

I've read much of the island of giant insects. That kid that got his backpack grabbed would have died a horrible death if that mantis wasn't programmed not to kill and eat people.

[@adriantallent8557]

I must have missed this episode but I really like the idea of Batman having to stop someone who is actually competent, without any noticeable complexes or delusions slowing them down (aside from the casual disregard for the lives of others). Farmer Brown is like Scarecrow without the obsession, Bane without the addiction, The Mad Hatter without the delusion, and is skilled in the art of facade and misdirection. Being motivated by money seems shallow but it keeps him from having a god complex like Maxie Zeus. He's just a dude who is casually making a mockery of nature right under everyone's noses and getting away with it because he doesn't call attention to himself with grandiose idiocy like the Joker (Or at least, not until he feels Gotham 'wronged' him). And that's both terrifying and fresh given what Batman usually deals with.

[@zebjensen4251]

Hes actually one of my favorite villains as hes a genuine threat to a lot of people unlike most villains. Most villains are the only threat, think ones like croc or mad hatter. Relatively one trick ponies that are fun to watch or read about but they are at the end of the day the only threat. Then you have schemers like penguin, and joker who are a less obvious threat and like to stay back somewhat and avoid direct confrontation when it doesn't suit them and use tricks and traps or henchmen they higher. But brown hes a very smart man. Who can literally grow an army of monsters to obay him and smart enough to not over play his hand. The only reason he lost was due to bat man tricking his daughter. Not any fualt of his own and even with batman he nearly won. Which makes him a great villain in my mind.

[@drleft2906]

I didn't hate the episode, I just didn't love it, it was a nice interlude and a change of pace as it was a farmer as a villain instead of a city dweller, but thats where it novelty kind of ended

[@WolfJarl]

Calling it that Farmer Brown had some connection to splicing experts like Emile Dorian or Dr. Milo. Also as someone who watched the entirety of DCAU only recently, his daughter reminded me of the human version of Applejack from Equestria Girls: blonde, freckles and super strength and durability.

[@GhostBear3067]

The Farmer Brown working for Cadmus offscreen works when you notice how much his daughter resembles Galatea/Power Girl. Come to think of it I would not be at all surprised if Brown's daughter has no mother, he just grew her in a tank.

[@geminautgaming4449]

I didn't know Batman had his own Dr Animo

[@nemowindsor8724]

I really liked this villain. My main issue with the episode was how it swerved away from the main theme for regularly scheduled shenanigans. I think Farmer Brown, better than many other villains, was a guy who weaponized others (the animals in this case) against innocents, a guy who manufactured suffering and therefore manufactured monsters. It works really well with BTAS, but unfortunately that show didn't really go as far as it could've with that same thread. Many villains in the show create bad circumstances that create 'bad' people, who then do bad things as a reaction to that or as an attempt to escape that bad environment. With Father Brown, it was just much more literal.

[@A1ml33y]

I love this episode of Farmer Brown and the giant animals and Daisy Duke with like she Hulk powers I thought it was pretty cool I mean I love this episode and I think it's pretty cool it's always a re-watch it reminds me of the Adam West Batman show a little bit❤

[@JamesDaffyBenderDonald]

I wish Emmylou had appeared more in the DCAU and made the transition to the comics. She could even take on the moniker of Blockbuster.