How Batman '66 Saved Alfred's Life

[@jordanloux3883]

The timing of Aunt Harriet showing up right after Alfred's death makes it feel like she's the one who set this all up.

[@euansmith3699]

Next panel should have been Aunt Harriet at the controls of the excavator dropping the rock on Alfred.

[@emeraldkoala2]

Now THAT would've been interesting.

[@danielschmidt7806]

Aunt Harriet sus.

[@Vamroc]

Aunt Harriet secretly transgender Alfred DUN DUN DUNNNNNN🤣

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

She set up the rocks!

[@benwasserman8223]

Between skyrocketing Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman to A-list villain status, giving Mister Freeze his name, and introducing Batgirl, the Adam West Batman show did much for modern Batman lore than most people wanted to admit.

[@erikbihari3625]

Yup, it's like the japanese spider man show. Learn to embrace the madmess people, their clad in colorful costumes to beat up evil, we know("that weird one in 1966")!

[@56postoffice]

So true.

[@MoramothHauntz]

And King Tut

[@erikbihari3625]

@@MoramothHauntz. He was in brave and the bold too!

[@martykarr7058]

And the animated series gave us Harley Quinn.

[@cassiedevereaux-smith3890]

I love how Batman's reaction is, "oh, you're not actually dead? Changing the name of the foundation. No legacy for you."

[@TheSkullKlownTSK]

LMFAO for real XD

[@seanraines5871]

Lol

[@mainstreetsaint36]

😂

[@KingMordred]

The Alfred of the 60's series was absolutely BADASS. It's impossible to forget that time he trolled the Joker by manipulating the transportation bars to the Batcave until the clown begged him in fear. Without a doubt a threat more powerful than the gods of the Multiverse

[@ianfinrir8724]

I love that Alfred's only response to hearing that Joker is a criminal is to insult his fencing skills.

[@bholmes1035]

"My duties do not include aiding and abetting thievery." - What a great scene!

[@ProjektTaku]

Alfred once threw an explosive Batarang and killed 50 people: then the Batarang exploded.

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@ProjektTaku I'm all for turning the Chuck Norris meme onto an Alfred one.

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@ProjektTaku I didn't know Alfred was a Gurkha.

[@abigailblackmon1144]

Aunt Harriet seems like a strange character. If Dick had an aunt why didn't she get custody of him instead of Bruce when Dick's parents died?

[@uranuslad9855]

There was no real continuity back then, which helped. But, yeah, not only Bruce would research the Graysons, but the authorities would look for a living relative before allowing Bruce to take him in.

[@tomorrow4eva]

I like to imagine it took a while to track her down since whichever parent she is related to ran away from home (circus). So Dick was already living with Bruce. So Bruce offered her room, board, a part time ‘job’ and retirement package - she lives with them and can supervise Dick, and they share custody. Frankly, I was disappointed the old lady in the Battison movie isn’t Harriet. Perfect opportunity.

[@mark-s]

Where is she nowadays running a Gotham mob 😅

[@davrosdaleks1]

The comics do explain that. Her husband was sick and bedridden at the time and she couldn’t take care of both him and Dick. She got into Dick’s life after her husband died.

[@uranuslad9855]

@@davrosdaleks1 Bruce would have found that out. She was lying.

[@rodneylindsey849]

Catwoman’s skintight catsuit, Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl, & retconning Alfred back into the comics …Camp or No Camp let’s all do the Bat Tutsi & Thank the comic Gods for the 60’s Batman TV series …Keep UpThe Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾

[@aldinbaroza9640]

Alfred stopped being the butt of the joke to become the butler of the joke. I'll see myself out.

[@robertwild9447]

Plot twist: The Butler did it.

[@erikbihari3625]

Wow, never would've guessed!

[@blainecrowley1134]

I really hope when modern Alfred comes back they make references to the Outsider storyline. Making he gets dipped in some corrupted Lazarus Pit that turns him into the Outsider

[@uranuslad9855]

Someone needs to do a story explaining how Bruce and Dick figured out that Harriett (who couldn't REALLY be Dick's aunt) was conning them, and maybe she was more a lonely old woman than an evil interloper. It could be interesting.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

More like great-aunt than aunt. She's way too old to be the sister of Dick's dead mom.

[@guggelguggel7491]

​@@davidmcmahon4633To Be Fair, there have been cases of siblings with REALLY large age gaps if the parents in question had, say, one kid at age eighteen to twenty, and another in their early fourties and boom, there's an age gap of about twenty years, and if we presume Harriet is in the fifty to sixty age range, then its plausible, unless we have an explicit age placing her older. But Im mostly nitpicking that it is plausible, because yeah, I do agree that she seems older than necessary.

[@davidmcmahon4633]

@@guggelguggel7491 I got a friend who is 8 years younger than his next oldest sibling. I think his oldest was about 12 years older than him. So age gaps are possible but this one seemed more like his great-aunt.

[@ZachSeineVideos]

So Alfred was... only mostly dead?

[@benwasserman8223]

If you remember Justice League's Thanagar invasion arc, there's a scene where Batman sneaks into a Thanagarian ship with a disguise that heavily resembles Alan Napier's Alfred. I always liked that nod to the 1966 series.

[@erikbihari3625]

Ah, the d.c.a.u., deep cut, quality, and timeless. Also, could you link that scene to me?

[@ProjektTaku]

@@erikbihari3625 Also a fan of introducing a quasi-version of a comic character only to introduce the real thing later. Never forget "Hro Talak" and "Katar Hol".

[@ramblingRJ]

Some trivia about the Batman '66 Alfred: Alan Napier was the first person cast in "Batman 66". He didn't know who Batman was, being from England. (Batman was not a globally popular character yet). When his agent said they wanted him to play Batman's butler, he said "Who's Batman?" Jack Nicholson's version of the Joker, Jack Napier, was named in honor of him. The name was also used in the 90s animated series. In Batman 66, Alfred used a bicycle called the "Alf-cycle".

[@davidmcmahon4633]

And Alan Napier had a very memorial death scene in the movie "The Court Jester" from a decade prior.

[@ProfessorEchoMedia]

Alan Napier would have made an awesome Dracula based on Bram Stoker’s description of him in the original novel.

[@ethansloan]

Yes on the aunt Harriet video. I'd love a complete character history on someone who was solely created to make two men seem heterosexual, even though she's related to one of them and has no sexual chemistry with the other.

[@memevondank1197]

And the two men are father and son

[@chrisk3824]

I can't believe they killed Alfred in the same issue they used the gag where they try to save eachother and find empty cells at the same time

[@erikbihari3625]

Now i'm reminded of the Nintendo power mario comics where the same thing happened, but with Mario and princess peach!

[@kaygarcia3077]

I love Alfred and so sad he has been killed off again. My favorite thing about him is the Sass,Batman can seem scary most of the time Alfred makes him more human.

[@lanternsown3525]

I'm glad they brought back Alfred he was one of my favorite character in the Batman'66 tv series; Alan Napier took the role into the more in serious direction we've come to know and love today.

[@nishidohellhillsruler6731]

It's hard to imagine Batman without Alfred, but it was also hard to imagine Bruce without his billions, and yet here we are...

[@KierTheScrivener]

I can't imagine Batman without Alfred. So glad he perservered.

[@briangilbert8733]

Just a thought: when Bruce and Alfred left Wayne Manor (when Dick went away to college), and moved to the Wayne Foundation penthouse, did Aunt Harriet leave too, or was she trapped in the Manor for 13 years until the 3 of them returned?? Inquiring minds want to know! 🤔

[@benevolentremnant2949]

Now I'm imagining what kind of Batman we would have had today if the editor had introduced a woman to the household by having him marry Kathy Kane back in the Silver Age. (There was at least one what-if style story taking up that concept...)

[@uranuslad9855]

Those stories were written by Alfred. For kids who didn't understand genetics, Bruce Jr, so of Bruce and Kathy, was a redhead...

[@stevenbogart169]

I'd really enjoy a video about Aunt Harriet. I hadn't realized she was in the comics.

[@roberth.9664]

The comment about how he could have made another ward to add a female to the cast is the part that interested me the most when thinking what that timeline would have been like. Just imagining Dick having a foster sister, what would her super hero name be, would she be Batgirl, I doubt Barbara would have been a thing if that was way he went. The DC universe could have been completely different if that was the opinion they used and now it's one of those ideas I'll always think about.

[@emeraldkoala2]

Hadn't there already been a Batgirl in the comics before Barbara?

[@jacobhogan3208]

I love how Aunt Harriet (fairly) assumes that because Alfred is dead Bruce will have absolutely zero ability to raise Dick.

[@eman2863]

Defiantly would be cool to see the bizarre journey of the Outsider identity from the silver age, to flashpoint, and Earth 3

[@raymondtillotson6985]

Batman and the Outsiders began far different than I imagined...

[@erikbihari3625]

A fellow, Batman the brave and the bold fan!?

[@rjb1216]

Actually when that book was going in the 80s they couldn’t resist and had the outsider appear to fight the outsiders in a great issue of dccp that kept the same backstory for the villain from the silver age silly as it was

[@raymondtillotson6985]

@@rjb1216 Thanks,I may have to track that down,

[@raymondtillotson6985]

@@erikbihari3625 We're out there...

[@erikbihari3625]

@@raymondtillotson6985. I'm glad about this!

[@euansmith3699]

2:41 That picture of Fredric Wertham holding an issue of "Criminal" by Brubaker and Phillips made me do a double take 😄😄😄👍 Alfred stopped being the butt of the joke, and became the butler of the joke.

[@daviderwin4705]

Thanks for pointing that out. Photoshop makes history seem so fluid.

[@johnfeer9609]

Alan Napier, First Cousin to The British PM, Neville Chamberlain. Also one of the three regular cast members who worked with Orson Welles. Madge Blake was in a Pilot Welles shot for Desilu in 1958 called "The Fountain of Youth", Napier is the Holy Father in "MacBeth" (1948) and Stafford Repp is actually in "The Other Side of the Wind" a Welles project completed and released in 2018...

[@TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* Batman '66 was not the only series that changed Alfred's history forever. In the movie serials of the 1940s (the ones Katanana would not precisely feel comfortable watching), Alfred obtained the known thin appearance and moustache that would permanently replace Alfred Beagle

[@sea-envy3137]

except for the times that it was Mr. Beagle. I think Infinity Crisis had the fat bubbling butler appear in the Batcave

[@jerfuhrer2581]

Sasha did a whole video on that just before this one

[@oosbeckanderson3199]

I knew about Alfred's stint as the Outsider, but I did not know his ressurection was because the TV producers wanted him back in the comics! Very wild story of behind the scene decisions!

[@millsxi]

I’m thinking about silly Alfred things and the story of Alfred being The Joker comes to mind. Also wouldn’t mind learning more about Aunt Harriet.

[@Marveryn]

yeah for some reason i thought aunt harriet was a tv character only

[@mynardomacaraig2697]

@@Marveryn It is weird the way they have written Aunt Harriet out of continuity completely. Not even a stray reference or casual call-back.

[@briangilbert8733]

"Some people just want to watch the world BURN"- a line from the Nolan films, spoken by...(you guessed it) ALFRED! Well played, Sasha! Love your stuff. Applaud you for the serial/movie misspeak, but those of us who are your fans-no big! (Had a late night chuckle overnight, with your "Brucie want a giant dinosaur?" 😂😂

[@TetsuShima]

I don't care what people say. Batman'66 will always be BATMAN. The Dark Knight stories don't always need to be dark, disturbing and philosophical. After all, it's the story of a guy dressed as a bat who beats up a clown, a guy in green pajamas and a purple mask, a dwarf with a monocle, and a crazy cat lady in latex. It is evident that the campy and crazy tone fits perfectly with these stories.

[@erikbihari3625]

Batman is basically like a combination of sherlock holmes and james bond, the goofyness is expected, and welcomed!

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

It's the opposite Batman is a very serious story of a man who has trauma the rest of his life from watching his parents get gunned down on front of him when he was very young making Batman goofy is highly disrespectful to everything the characters represent but I love this show it's funnyAF

[@Lanier2369]

There's a fine line with being campy and crazy like you said and what was presented in the tv show. They were just making fun of how 'stupid' the comics of the time was. The brave and the bold did campy and crazy excellently while still having respect for the character and the world of Batman. The tv show, the people involved had no respect at all. That's my takeaway at least.

[@CaptainMcKayRandom]

Batman and his supporting cast are very adaptable characters. You can fit them into super grimy, realistic settings with grim violence, but then also put them into vibrant, over-the-top, silly camp. And either one is going to work perfectly. That kind of versatility is tough to come by IMO.

[@DrFranklynAnderson]

If you haven’t heard the clips of Adam West reading lines from Dark Knight Returns, I highly recommend it. Dude could do campy AND menacing.

[@anthonystrickland7049]

Dang, this really has me wanting Alfred's return to nod to the Outsider. Heck, I'd love to see it done as hokey and outlandish as possible, to the point where Batman stops, turns to whomever is closest and says, "does all this seem a bit off to you?" I could see it in my head, Nightwing looks back and remarks, "A bit? This is wacky time travel shenanigans levels of weird. I'm wondering if we got hit by a faulty batch of Scarecrow gas and need to just sleep it off." Yes, I just want Nightwing to get a panel where he says shenanigans. I want weird things.

[@christopherulichney]

I was always perplexed that orphan Dick Grayson had an Aunt. Why didn't she raise him after his parents died? I don't know if it is cannon or not but I have believed since the 1980s that Alfred's alter ego as the Outsider was the reason Batman named his superteam The OutsiderS. Absolutely loved the 60's inspired hair for this video.

[@Marveryn]

i agreed with her being Dick aunt made no sense. Now being Bruce Aunt and she being like the youngest of the sibling on his mother side perhaps would had made more since so the years apart would be closer together so she be too young to raise a young bruce but too old to be a love interest.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@Marveryn Or they could've had said she'd been in a plane crash in Africa and was THOUGHT to be dead when Bruce made Dick his ward, but they just recently found out she was alive.

[@kdisley]

I love the way that when he comes up with the name, Alfred slows right down... "I am *outside* the human race! Yes! I - -" _You...?_ "- - am - -" _You are...? Come on, use your words..._ "- - the - -" _Nearly there... bit quicker if you could..._ "- - OUTSIDER!!" _Wow... took you long enough...!_

[@themeanhornet1070]

The Alfred Foundation is where other rich non-powered heroes got their butlers/servants, and sick-kicks. I heard Kato was in the top of his class while attending.

[@freman007]

"It's bad, but it's entertaining." As opposed to many modern comics that are bad, but not entertaining.

[@LB_adventurer]

i can never get enough of your Batman voice overs.. comedy gold

[@josoldino2670]

I want to see a version of this story with Gotham's Alfred. Sean Pertwee did an amazing job and is one of my favourite live action Alfred, seeing him turn into a ridiculous ilver age villain would be a treat

[@TheLyleHawthorne]

That Alfred is why I kept watching Gotham after Season 2

[@danixove2358]

This show saved Batman's live in more than one sense, and cimented a lot of its mythos in the popular conscience. It's also really good when well written (if the credits say 'by Lorenzo Semple, Jr' is the good stuff) Is sad that gets so underappreciated and dismissed by people who claim to be huge Batman fans

[@scottboswell6406]

Yay!!! I mentioned the Outsider story in the comments of the1st Alfred video, so I'm giving myself credit for this one, hahaha!! Thanks Sasha! While I knew about the Outsider, I never understood where Aunt Harriet came from on the tv show! What happened to her? I'd love both videos about the Outsider arc and Aunt Harriet! p.s. Did that Joker poster fall off the wall again?

[@liberalenextrema]

I love how well it illustrates the way thought bubbles were written to explain character motivation. Absolutely nothing like how we think to ourselves, rather they ended up written like someone speaking directly to another person.

[@crickett3536]

I need a comic cover of Batman carrying Alfred's body a la Supergirl in Crisis on Infinite Earths

[@davrosdaleks1]

They do give an explanation the comics for why aunt Harriet didn’t originally take care of Dick. Her husband was very sick originally and she couldn’t take care of both him and Dick. Then her husband died so now she had free time.

[@Quintzal]

There was an episode of the series, "Bob," in the 90's where a character playing either Fredrick Wertham or a stand in for him, having an interview about the controversy. The eponymous Bob was a comics artist in the 50's and lost his job due to the controversy and ended up drawing greeting cards for 40 years.

[@sea-envy3137]

first, he did "The Bob Newhart show" then he did "Newhart" then he did "Bob" still waiting for him to make "the Show" I have a comic tie-in to the show. It was a flip cover with Bob's campy silly golden age version of his character on one side and the dark edgy reimagining on the other.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I'm pretty sure the character was a guy LIKE Wertham but had a different name. I watched that episode recently on KZbin, so it might still be here.

[@dallasgrey4247]

By the amount of early Bat characters Julius Schwartz got rid of, I’m shocked it was the other JS of comics (Jim Starlin) to kill Robin

[@erikbihari3625]

"J.s."?

[@dallasgrey4247]

@@erikbihari3625 Jim Starlin

[@erikbihari3625]

@@dallasgrey4247. Who's that, DC comics' Stan Lee or something?

[@dallasgrey4247]

@@erikbihari3625 Jim Starlin is a famous comic writer who wrote for Marvel and DC. His most famous creation is probably Thanos, and his most famous comic being Infinity Gauntlet (the one Avengers Infinity War is mostly based off of) or A Death in the Family (the one where Jason Todd dies)

[@erikbihari3625]

@@dallasgrey4247. Batmite:-"death in the family",in wich the fans get to choose what happened to Jason Todd, Guess how I voted". So he's a big shot! Didn't think this mutch.

[@sea-envy3137]

Batman might have taken Alfred's name off the charity foundation but at least he named his personal hero team after the Outsider.

[@Jezee213]

Haha, so Alfred was fine and not mangled from getting crushed by a bolder I love it!! Also, was the scientist just walking by and heard signs of life coming from Alfreds tomb??

[@readingking1421]

I do in fact want the Aunt Harriet and Outsider video, thank you for anticipating that. I am extremely glad Alfred didn't stay dead, he's easily one of my favorite elements of Batlore.

[@travishiltz4750]

Now I feel bad. I've been blaming the TV show for making Aunt Harriet a part of Bat-lore and it was Julie Schwartz the whole time!

[@rebeccakickass1776]

I thought the same thing... Learn something new every day

[@patronofdragons]

It's funny how Alfred went from a klutz who got into trouble into a badass that can fight off zombie ninjas.

[@ravenwilder4099]

Killing a character and introducing their replacement in the same issue ... yeah, THAT stands no chance of riling people up.

[@InterdimensionalCowlick]

In my head cannon, the two Alfreds are entirely different people. The second one is actually named Steve but Bruce just kept calling him "New Alfred" until he finally broke him.

[@Dougeb7]

I grew up with Batman reruns, so I'm definitely down for an Aunt Harriet vid. I didn't know Alfred was killed off to make way for her. Julie! Look how you massacred my boy!

[@jebeda]

I think the "fire" Alfred is messing with at 4:55 is actually a duster of some sort.

[@tyrannosaurusrector7947]

I was probably the right age when the outsider storyline was reprinted in the giant Batman comics. I really got into the mystery of the outsider, and enjoy the revelation that he was Alfred.

[@masqueradenoir5767]

Aunt may and Alfred the two comic book characters that will probably out live the rest of their respective universes but still get killed off every now and again

[@emsleywyatt3400]

They would print the whole address to facilitate fans communicating with each other.

[@mark-s]

I'm glad of this TV series it even gave us back catwoman after a 14 year hiatus since she was to racy for the comic code authority classic catwoman episodes was that darn catwoman and catwoman goes to college but that detective issue 327 was hard to find BTW when did aunt Harriet disappear

[@franciscolomeli8931]

This is the first time i heard of aunt Harriet I wouldn't mind a video about her and/or more Alfred videos

[@jimgillespie6109]

Bring on those Outsider and Aunt Harriet videos! Yes, I knew much of these events. One of the things I'd do if I was in charge at DC would explain that The Outsider is actually a Lord of Chaos that possessed Alfred. In a later appearance, The Outsider PLUCKED THE MOON FROM THE NIGHTTIME SKY and threw it like a baseball! Who but a Lord of Chaos could do something like that?! I also think we need more info on Harriet. Not only do I want you to cover her official appearances, I'd like to learn about where she has gone, what she's been doing, and what exactly was her relationship to Dick's parents? We need to know this stuff!

[@bozalini]

I would like an Aunt Harriet video.

[@taskmaster58]

One thing that I used to get twisted over from back in the day, is when the cover of the comic had absolutely nothing to do with the story within. I found it mostly happened in DC comics.

[@karlgrimm3027]

The fact that letters to the editor weren’t published including the addresses is what led to fandom. In the old days it was hard for fans to find each other but since addresses were published fans could send letters to each other and modern fandom was born.

[@michaellangwaller]

I remember reading that comic a few years after it came out and was shocked that Alfred was dead only to read a few issues later that he was The Outsider. It took my child mind into a wild world. I admit that was not a real big fan of Alfred and was even less of a fan of Aunt Harriet, but falling rocks and being resurrected? I already thought of Batman comics as being in a world of magic, this solidified it. I never thought anything about the three guys living together when I was a kid, they had TV shows with the same scenario during that period.

[@1locust1]

Aunt Harriet was never entrusted with the Big Secret about Bruce and Dick. That would made her a bit of a nuisance if the Dynamic Duo had to split whenever the bat signal appeared. And had she found out their secret she probably would have nagged Dick into dropping his Robin persona fearing for his life. Nope, she had to go.

[@PhoeniksStorm]

Alfred is genuinely my all time favourite DC, if not comic book altogether, character ever

[@TheLyleHawthorne]

His role in the Gotham TV show was why I kept watching it.

[@fourcatsandagarden]

Yknow. I appreciate that they just...found him alive and carried him out of his grave. No super magical or crazy hoops. Just 'oh he wasn't dead after all.'

[@tkillcoin]

Yes to The Outsider video. Yes to Aunt Harriet video. And Alfred Lives ------> The Wayne Foundation?!?! That’s crazy. Love it.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

On the note of Batman's 'living situation' back then, in the Superman documentary from like the 2000s, Kevin Spacey made a comment about how in old commercials for Corn Flakes and the like, Lois wasn't allowed to partake in sharing breakfast with Clark despite the two being sweethearts (something something, it would be inappropriate to show Lois eating breakfast with someone she wasn't married to in his house) so Clark somehow had his breakfast at JIMMY'S house, which in turn would make you think what *THEIR* 'living conditions' were. Granted, at the time Spacey was the recent Lex but in hindsight....yeah. Edit: *YES. I WANT AN AUNT HARRIET VIDEO.*

[@LennyT007]

will there be a Police Chief Miles Clancy O'Hara video at some point in the near future? 🙂

[@LCBK]

Alfred had his own comic, I wanna know more

[@DMatX]

I miss Alfred in the current comics. He still pops up in stories from time to time, depending on what era the series is set in, but the ongoing Batman and Detective books are poorer without him.

[@captaincomic8678]

I remember being thrown for a loop when The New 52 introduced a new Outsider and revealed "oh yeah no that's Earth-3 Alfred." Was not a character/reference I had expected to come back in any form.

[@themeanhornet1070]

In the Pool of Echoes “I love you Floppy-ears Batman!”

[@bensneb360]

So without the show, we wouldn’t have Alfred, Barbara, or the Riddlers popularity… it really was the best thing to happen to Batman

[@CasuallyComics]

That show is great and fun!

[@bensneb360]

@@CasuallyComics Still my favorite adaption of the character

[@trevorghalt1881]

I'm ready for The Outsider to make a return to bring Alfred back lol and Alfred had broken bones and was in a coma or that doctor can't tell what is dead either way it's hilarious

[@ProfessorEchoMedia]

That Robin voice you came up with is hilarious, like one of the fish puppets on DIVER DAN!

[@GenerationWest]

They better do all this rationale when bring back Alfred in this current age, because it would be freaking funny.

[@millernumber1]

Outsider AND Aunt Harriet video!

[@douglasbriel6103]

I grew up on the 60's TV series. It's why I love the Joel Schumacher films. Such love letters.

[@natturnertv]

If you watch the early El Santos films Santos has a lot in common with Batman, masked crime fighter, secret base etc. But his butler looks alike like Alan Napier except it's 1961 and not 1966. FYI about Wertham, it was of his findings proved pivotal in the Brown v Board of Education case overturning school segregation.

[@MyPhobo]

"I don't have an opinion on this, I better break out the stationary."

[@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115]

The story of Alfred's first death reminds me of the BTAS episode ("Trial" is the ninth episode of the second season of Batman: The Animated Series) where the rouges gallery put Batman on trial at Arkham Asylum.

[@whade62000]

I really like these bits with Alfred doing work he can finish without Batman in advance, or criminals making sure there is no favoritism. I feel like1930s morals cared about gentlemanly stuff like this.

[@richardranke3158]

When I first read the story of Alfred's death I was sad-and slightly angry.(I was 9.)I still would pick up a Batman comic book the next couple years-and then the Caped Crusaders came on TV. I had mixed feelings toward Alfred being in the show...but in late summer of 1966,Alfred returned. I was glad he was brought back but I felt he was only returned because he was on TV. ("Be glad we didn't change his hair-color.")

[@JanetStarChild]

I love that Bat-Bale's ridiculous "bat voice" has become such a lasting meme. LOL!

[@douglasphillips5870]

I like that there was comunication between the comic and the TV show.

[@browngreen933]

As a Lovecraft fan, I'd say bringing Alfred back from the dead is more like the story "Herbert West Re-Animator" than "The Outsider."😂

[@Dunybrook]

Well, there you have it. That's how they can bring Alfred back in the current continuity since he's already a Frankenstein-type monster and there's no way a little neck snapping could keep him down forever.

[@themeanhornet1070]

Your Alfred voice is spot-on.

[@zachwise476]

The outsider sounds like what you call a dog that can’t use the bathroom inside.

[@terry58501]

I love how Sasha just laughs at the face of death, lol.

[@camerondodge2070]

This show gave us so much, and yet we were so disrespectful to it for so long. I mean, Riddler as a top tier villain, his suit and cane, the blueprint for Maxie Zeus in King Tut, Barbara Gordon, and the weirdest Jan and Dean album!

[@scottmcclary594]

the original Batman movie serial fight scenes alone make that series worth the watch... they spent more time fighting their capes and gravity than the villains!

[@AryanKing94]

Now I want a whole Arc in current continuity where Aunt Harriet shows up and drives the whole Bat-Family so mad they each go out and find a different way to resurrect Alfred just to get rid of her.

[@Awakeandalive1]

I want them to bring Alfred back, but this time as Egghead... One Adam West era villain I miss terribly!

[@jeffreyconyers-z3r]

Long said this show made many villains popular than they were in the comics books. Campy or not the executives might have wanted it that way. It's still popular today with fans.

[@lylecampbell8288]

Remnant outsider energy in Alfred's body should slowly transform him back into the Outsider for round 2 and another return of Alfred.