Batman: The Animated......Musical?

[trashcanman]

I DVRed this baby the other day. Batman : The Brave and the Bold takes an old-school approach to the character with classic character models and corny old-time humor and it don't apologize for it. But even I wasn't expecting this. A musical? Well, I do enjoy an unusual take on the genre. Maybe if they threw in a really cool character to costar....Black Canary maybe? SCORE! And with Dr. Horrible himself (Neil Patrick Harris) playing a villain who forces people to do his dirtywork in musical form, it could just work. Just imagine when I turned the show on and was greeted with this:



And this:


And what's a musical without longing romance? Take it, Canary!



Hey, you wanted a new take on the character, you got it! When my wife walked in on me watching this stuff, I may as well have been making out with another dude. Is it really gay to enjoy a musical Batman? Probably. But I did anyway.

[The Curmudgeon]

And out-and-out rip-off of the Buffy musical episode, but still looks a lot of fun. But yeah.. not one of the more macho things to be caught watching.

So is this cartoon always so.. zany looking? The other Batman animated shows I've seen always look pretty cinematic and serious. This looks like it came from the back of a cereal box.

[trashcanman]

That's intentional. It's actually utilized in a pretty funny way. And I didn't even post the clip of Batman singing. I ain't spoiling that. Let me find a clip where the show actually answers it's critics using Bat-Mite:

[The Curmudgeon]

Ha - I guess that's me being told. How many character spin-offs of Batman is there anyway?