Hilarious episode until HamilDULL Hill barges in unwanted, univited, unnecessary, and nearly WRECKS it, terrible LETDOWN to see him--then ALWAYS was. The wet towel thrown in his face by the Joker was, hopefully, writer's sly slight at what he awfully ALWAYS was--more like A SOAKED, SODDEN, one couldn't ignite WITH A BLOWTORCH. At--very--least In SPITE of horrid, horrible, him episode recovers--barely--at the end. Dismaying disappointment of seeing him keeps this from the topflight of episodes. Makers knew--not--well by then that Hill was the character CATASTROPHE of the show, painfully plunged dullness to utterly unimaginable depths, that even actor dismally droning him sounded bored with his interminable indifferent intoning. NO episode was EVER the better for him in it, always THE WORST like here, lethargic, listless, EVEN IN DANGER, should have drowned in pool been well RID of him, though could have been dredged up, dumped, drenched, in Mayor's chair and NO would would have noticed, STIFF in life, Week-end at Bernie's IN CITY HALL (Mayor, IF you approve this, Gotham will be bankrupted, destroyed." Hill sits SILENT in chair. "All right." "But he didn't SAY anything." "Well, he didn't say NO, did he?"). It was illogical, irresponsible, to continue to INFLICT him on the viewer, blinded by his title to his badness. He and that whimpering worm of sap son in terrible top hat had made Be A Clown the UNWATCHABLE episode of series, CRINGE-causing, and Hill characteristically created where others did Riddler, Clay Face, Two Face, Man Bat, series DULLEST enemy, his duplicate in dreariness TempDULL Fugate. It may have been because of THIS near disaster they FINALLY realized it, why Summer Gleeson was tenuously, but THANKFULLY, tacked on later to Lock-Up to also get kidnapped, while Batman saves hostages she saved episode FROM HILL. completely CRUSHING him in competing kidnap scenes. . She should have done the SAME here, pounding on Mayor's door, "Come out Hill, you can't hide in there! SOMETHING'S going on the public has the RIGHT to know." Door opens she finds out WHAT--Joker and his hyenas, drooling, giggling, "Well, October but still feels LIKE SUMMER." He ties her up with A-Bomb, she S-C-R-E-A-M-I-N-G at pitch had hyenas, cringing, whimpering, Joker finally gagging her, "Sorry, music to MY ears but their's are starting TO BLEED. But, look on the BRIGHT side. You'll go out knowing no one in the history of television will be SO remembered for bombing THAN YOU." Then, helping the hilarity, SHE should been to fall into pool surfacing like red Cousin It from the Addams Family, stumbling blind into oncoming crashing Joker plane, Batman diving to get her out of the way. It would have been under THESE circumstances actually WORTH having Hill TO BROUGHT SUMMER IN. Meantime meanly Hill should have begged Joker for his life, offering him City treasury--STOLE IT, figuring he was going to blow up Gotham, has plane for Brazil waiting--AND his whimpering worm son--WENT CRAZY FROM MEETING THE JOKER, STUCK IN ARKHAM, said NEVER liked him, just PRETENDED to care when he ran off with Joker, danced disgusted with him when returned because he knew Batman was watching, Summer tied up beside him, angry, "Don't try running for Father of the Year!" "What's it pay?" Hill asks,. Joker speechless for FIRST time in life, doesn't push button. After Joker and Harley caught, Hill claims to Batman, Robin, Gordon, Summer, police, press, just BLUFFING the Joker for time saving Gotham--then Bullock runs from mansion, "Dere's crates crammed wid cash in dere," City flunky arrives with flight plans for Brazil, Arkham staff wheels up worm, strapped in strait jacket to dolly like Hannibal Lechter, Joker grin, STILL that terrible top hat. Hill, "I don't suppose that Father of the Year job is STILL open?"
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