Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Baby-Doll (1994)

Kevin Conroy: Batman, Bruce Wayne

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Quotes 

• [Batman and Robin are watching reruns of Love That Baby] 

  Robin : Remember that time when Poison Ivy nearly smothered us in those vines? The ones with the really sharp thorns?

  Batman : Yes?

  Robin : This is worse.

• Batman : Don't run away. I know you're scared. Confused. I can help you.

  Baby-Doll : [taunting sing-song]  Liar, liar, cape on fire.

• Robin : Baby hasn't gotten every member of her cast. In the last season, the show's ratings began to drop, so the producers introduced a new character: Baby's little cousin Spunky.

  Batman : According to these, Dahl was furious that she was upstaged on her birthday episode and walked off the series.

  Robin : So why hasn't she gone after Cousin Spunky?

  Batman : Maybe she's waiting for the right occasion.

• Robin : I remember this show from when I was a kid. It still stinks.

  Commissioner James Gordon : Be that as it may, three of the cast's original actors disappeared last week.

  Batman : [looking through pictures]  And these two?

  Commissioner James Gordon : Ms. Vance is in the show at Gotham Rep. I have police bodyguards following her everywhere. But that other one, Mary Dahl, dropped out of sight years ago. Ironically, the same thing that brought her fame turned her into a recluse.

  Batman : I read about her once in a medical journal. She was born with systemic hypoplasia; a rare condition that kept her from aging.

  Commissioner James Gordon : Would you believe she was 20 years old in that clip? She'd be about 30 now.

  Batman : It's obvious someone has a vendetta against these actors. We'll study this and call you back if...

  Detective Harvey Bullock : [calling over the police scanner]  All units! All units! Gunfire reported at Gotham Rep! They're making a try for Vance!

• Summer Gleeson : Since when are you interested in has-been actors?

  Batman : Since that one's been kidnapping her co-stars.

  Summer Gleeson : You're serious?

  Batman : She's been picking them off one by one. Any reason she'd have a grudge?

  Summer Gleeson : Actually, they should hate her. Dahl put them all out of work when she quit the series to become a dramatic actress.

  Mary Louise Dahl : [showing them a tape of her performing in "Macbeth" on stage]  What? Will these hands never be clean? Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Ohh... ohh... ohh...

  Robin : Pee-yew!

  Summer Gleeson : [stopping the tape]  That's what the critics said. Baby's dramatic career flopped, and when she tried to start her TV show again, the networks turned her down.

  Batman : That still doesn't explain why she's after her old cast.

  Robin : Maybe there's a clue in these old episodes.

  Summer Gleeson : You can borrow them if you want. And when you crack the case, you can pay me back with an exclusive...

  [seeing they're gone] 

  Summer Gleeson : ...interview.