The Last Laugh
- Episode aired Sep 22, 1992
- Unrated
- 22m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
The Joker's plot to send all of Gotham into insanity with Joker-gas from a garbage scow leads to a battle on the water.The Joker's plot to send all of Gotham into insanity with Joker-gas from a garbage scow leads to a battle on the water.The Joker's plot to send all of Gotham into insanity with Joker-gas from a garbage scow leads to a battle on the water.
Kevin Conroy
- Batman
- (voice)
Bob Hastings
- Driver
- (voice)
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- Alfred
- (voice)
Mark Hamill
- The Joker
- (voice)
Mari Devon
- Summer Gleeson
- (voice)
Pat Fraley
- Jest
- (voice)
Richard Moll
- Computer
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe producers learned a valuable lesson about Broadcast Standards and Practices (BS&P in Batman's fight with the robot henchman Captain Clown. "We found out that we could beat the crap out of him, because he's a robot," said Bruce Timm. "It was great. We didn't know if we could get away with that, but we took a chance. We had Batman pick up a pipe and bash him in the head, and there was no objection."
- Quotes
The Joker: [Batman destroys Captain Clown by pushing him into a garbage disposal] You killed Captain Clown! YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN! Just for that, Batman...
[activates a crane to dump an entire truckload of garbage on Batman]
The Joker: Hey, Batman! You stink so bad I can smell you from here!
[laughing]
The Joker: Pee-uuuu! Pew, pew, pew!
- ConnectionsEdited into Bat-May: The Last Laugh (2020)
Featured review
"Why don't you take your mask off and have a few laughs?!"
On April Fools's Day in Gotham a garbage boat passes along the river and spreads a pungent vapour through the streets that soon has the citizens in an uncharacteristically happy mood, but this unfortunately is the kind of laughter that's contagious in a bad way, and while everybody is laughing themselves helplessly silly, the Joker and his clown-masked goons move in to commit a little wanton grand larceny! I love the weird music that plays a lot in the early part of the episode, I think it gives it a bit of an offbeat busy tone and it's a very action-driven episode from start to finish, and it's not at all a deep contemplative kind of a story, just a fundamentally silly romp about the Joker's idea of fun, which is fine by me as it is a rather terrifically fun episode! Ok so the Joker's scheme in this one doesn't exactly seem to be in keeping with the far more twisted criminal that we all know and love today, if this was a Joker story from these days the act of gassing the citizens alone would be the goal! In his original comic appearances though he was always a killer but one not above committing the odd common robbery, and there is an element of danger, the people infected with the gas are said to become permanently insane if they're exposed to it for long enough, and like in "Christmas With the Joker"you can see the beginning of his underlying menace. A big highlight for me would have to be Captain Clown who was doubly terrifying because he was both a clown and a killer robot - in effect making him a bonified Clowninator!!! He is darn intimidating when he's chasing after Batman and taking him out with the disturbing super-spin manoeuvre! The Joker's reaction is so utterly priceless when Batman manages to beat his beloved toy, at first he's all dismayed, then he's genuinely angry! The best part is when Batman chases the Joker through a fiery metal works of some kind as the crazy clown shows his complete disregard for his own safety as he carelessly leaps and swings out of reach until he happens to trip and nearly fall to his doom in a situation not too different from his very origin! It's Batman who invariably gets the last laugh when the Joker pleads for him to save his life. I love Batman's little wry smirk, like he may actually be considering how easy it would be to just let his archenemy drop right then and there! Love this episode, it's just very memorable and fun. Knowing just how darker the Joker would become in his latter appearances and incarcerations, it's kinda nice to look back at a more lighthearted confrontation between the two that was serious, but not too serious! Good Joker story but there was much greater to come. 🃏
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