Something's Rotten in Gotham City

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multiple jobs in just one click. Get started now at career builder dot com. The Large Nerdron Collider podcast is a production of I Heart Radio. Hey everybody, Welcome to the Large nerdron Collider podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the world around us and how excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Castion, and with me, as always is my super awesome, super original co host Jonathan Strickland. Hey, Ariel, I got I got

an original idea. I'm gonna ask you a question. You're a bad guy in a Scooby Doo cartoon. What sort of abandoned structure or location is your home base of operations? Uh? Functional yet uh not inhabited? Called Stone Creamery. Okay, that's that's a good answer. I like it. Yeah, you're just like the marble slab it's still cold. It's a nice twist on the it's still warm trope. I like it. Excellent. Alright, so we know, oh me, uh an abandoned Renaissance festival site.

I like that. We're yeah, we're both like, it's abandoned. Well, it has to be. It has to because that's like that's the trope, right, that's always the old abandoned amusement park or the old abandoned train station. So so my reasoning is because I just want to be able to make ice cream to fuel, my villainy, What is your reason to be behind it? Because rens, I love Renaissance festivals if it weren't for all those dang people. Uh, that is not true, sir. The best part of the

Renaissance festival is the people, because otherwise you can't entertain them. True. And you and I have spent more than enough time on a more or less abandoned Renaissance Festival site for rehearsals and stuff where it's just the cast, and it does get creepy. But that's uh, that's enough of all that. Now we know where are our villainous Scooby Do characters would reside. Let us move on to what we have

to talk about today. Yeah, and the first thing we want to talk about, and almost the most important thing to me is One Division. Because One Division came out last week and Jonathan and I both watched it, so the first two episodes, we should say the first two episodes, So Jonathan, in a as not as spoilery spoilery as you can way, what did you think of the show?

I absolutely adored it. I wholeheartedly loved it. Um. I loved it both for the the obvious love and affection the writers and everybody have for classic sitcoms, American sitcoms. And I loved it for all the weird and slightly sinister creepy stuff that gets woven in. Again, no spoilers, but there the first two episodes, I think it's safe to say fall way harder on the sitcom love and corny humor than the creepy stuff. The creepy stuff just kind of is there occasionally, but that just makes the

creepy stuff stand out more. And that's what it made me really really enjoy it. What about you? What did you think? Um? I also absolutely loved it. I actually spent the entire weekend saying, why are there not more episodes of this for me to watch? Maybe I just want to go back and watch the first two again. And because it was you know, we know that something is up in the show, you know that from the trailers. Uh. And and like you said, there was some sinister stuff

that happens throughout UH. But it was just overall very uplifting and fun. And it was just fun, which is a fun show. And I feel like so many shows in the past five ten years have just tried to be gritty and dark and and graphic that I just really appreciated almost the wholesomeness of of this mystery comedy. And I just have to say, like, Elizabeth Olsen has floored me with how well she embodies that classic sitcom

leading lady uh kind of kind of spirit. She nailed it in such a great way, like that interesting balance between being uh, you know, sort of the straight man but also genuinely funny in her own right. And the supporting cast of that show is amazing. I agree. I agree. Unlike Fuller House or something where they're trying to bank on old kitch, this show just really takes old nostalgia and makes it feel natural. Yeah, it doesn't make it feel forced. You know. Paul Bettany also did an amazing job,

you know, bribling some Dick van Dyke in there. Yes, there's their actual direct references to things like the Dick Van Dyke Show and a little bit of Lucy old Ball in that first episode. And I don't know for a fact, but at least the way the first two episodes play out, I suspect we're going to see almost

a chain of different sitcom styles. We know there's one other one because it was in the trailer right, there was one that looks very much Partridge Family Brady Bunch ish, but I expect we'll see may be a couple of others, hopefully before the season ends, because I am absolutely digging it.

And and it's also fun in that they have customize openings for each episode to write, like the opening sequence for episode two is different from the opening sequence for episode one and reflects the kind of sitcom that that episode embodies, which is really cool. It also makes me really curious how they're going to go forward because we know in the movies, Vision has died. Yes that's not spoiler.

He's really most sincerely dead, and now he's back, and I I worry Jonathan that it's not going to stay so fun and wholesome. No, this is going to end in a very sad way. But you see, they could they can spin it. They can they can keep Vision around. They can do this. Uh well yeah, I mean it would be great if you could keep him around because he he is such a genuinely fun character. Listen, if they can make movies out of the hobbit, we'll talk

about that later. Well, that was my clever way to see right right, right, So speaking, the Hobbit Tolkien Lord of the Rings all that there is a Lord of the Rings show happening eventually, really more of a Middle Earth show. It's going to coming out for Amazon. We

knew about this. Turns out it's going to be the most expensive TV show in all of history, with a five million dollar budget, which is in It also has a five season commitment, so I'm not sure whether that budget is per season or for all five or for all five. And it's already been renewed for season two without a single episode of season one having come out, but that is still a huge budget. You know, they're filming in New Zealand and they, like everybody else, kind

of got uh sidelined by the pandemic. Of course, New Zealand's in much better shape than most of the world. So yeah, yeah, And apparently we've been waiting for this for three years. And I must have put that out of my mind because I forgot about it until now. I'm pretty sure we covered this when Ellen c was still going back in probably and then I forgot about it. Yeah. Well, and and this show is going to be set during the Second Age of Middle Earth. And if you don't

know how the history of Middle Earth works. Everything you see in the Hobbit, everything you see in Lord of the Rings, all that takes place at the end of the Third Age of Middle Earth. And so this is three thousand years before that. Um, it's when Saron is

the big bad for the first time around. You remember the beginning of Lord of the Rings has Um, Yeah, is Sealder chopping off Saron's fingers with Narsal the sword, the shards of Narsal, And that is essentially the day New Ma the the scene of of of the Second Age of Middle Earth. So this is going to take place during that, and we suspect that a lot of it is going to take place on New Menoor, the island where the sort of elevated members of humans live

that's Arragorn is descended from them. So yeah, yeah, you know, I'm I'm excited about this. When the Hobbit movies came out one I was like, why are there three of them? This is a short story, not a short story, but a shorter story. Uh, and and to like, there's so much world that Tolkien built that I want to explore it. So this has given me the opportunity. I'm I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. If it fails, it will not

be because it was cheap. Yes, yes, I am also cautiously optimistic about the Doogie Howser reboot, which is not a sentence I ever thought i'd be saying. Yeah. So this was one that had escaped my attention until recently, where we learn more about the the the new version of Doogie Howser, which will not be Doogie Howser, It's it's doogie kume Aloha m D. So uh one. Now we're following a person of Hawaiian descent and to that person happens to be female. So we've got a young

woman doogie and I think this is awesome. I actually really kind of dig this idea and I'm very interested to see where it goes. Um. And I also hope that they play the theme song on a ukulele, and I hope it's yeah do do. I just hope that she types up all her thoughts on a really really really really old computer or I think it will have to be like a art phone. Um, it's Peyton Elizabeth Lee,

who is who is playing the title role. You know, I went back and watched the first couple of episodes of Doogie Howser again recently, they are deal with some more adult issues than I thought they would. I was like, they aren't doing this in this episode, are they What are they doing? I can't. I watched this as a child.

I mean it was, but that was the whole point, right, was that here here's a person who is incredibly intelligent but lacks worldly experience, and and how how the difference between intelligence and wisdom needs to be understood so that you don't just assume someone who's really intelligent is wise, or someone who is wise is you know, book smart intelligent. It's it's the combination of those two things that is his journey. So yeah, it will be I'm curious to

see how this one plays out. So our next story, and actually the story that is going to be um inspiring our mashup later is about the television show Batwoman, Yes, which has a new Batwoman. Yeah. Yeah. Ruby Rose left h at the end of the last season after the last season and uh, instead of recasting her, they're just giving us a whole new character. The new Batwoman will

be a character called Ryan Wilder Leslie. Yes, And this is the reason why Ruby Rose left at least in part was that she suffered an injury during her shoots of the previous season of Batwoman and had to have surgery in order to correct the injury, And that was part of it, But another part was just that she was kind of re examining her goals during the whole lockdown period, and I felt like they weren't really an

alignment with bat Woman. So now we've got a new Batwoman. Uh, we've alre He's seen trailers of her, and of course the show's coming up very soon, so you'll get to see her in action. UM. I love the look of her. I think that it looks great, you know, the fact that she's adjusted the cowl and everything. Um, and hopefully this will be the change that Batwoman needs to really get its you know, get up and running. Because a lot of people have said that the Batwoman series so

far has not quite met expectations. I honestly, I will say I haven't watched it because the wig looked so bad in the trailers for the first season that I yeah, so I'm hoping that's better too. But you know, I'm I'm excited for about I like Batman, I'm excited for more bat person media. So I will give the second season to try something I'm not Yeah, something I'm not sure if I'm going to give a try though, is

the Snyder cut of Justice League. I was already on the fence, But now that we know it's going to be four hours long and and new, I don't I don't know if I can sit through that. Yeah, I Um, I gotta be honest with your Ariel. When I finally watched Justice League, not once, not once in that running time, did I think, Gosh, I wish this would go longer? No? No, No, I mean I will say like it was a fairly ho hum storyline. I really just enjoyed Justice League for

the character uh exploration. Yeah, but you know Snyder has a darker vision, and so I don't even know if I'm going to like the character exploration. Yeah. No, I have a feeling like the the more lighthearted, quippy stuff that we saw was very likely the contributions of Josh Weeden. It just felt much more like Joss Weeden's style. Um, and that, yeah, that to me tells me that I probably will not I'll probably watch it, if I'm being honest, but I'm not looking forward to it. I think that

it's almost feel like of the same. I almost feel like I have to watch it for purposes of being able to talk about it here. Uh the And also it does have one thing that makes me kind of want to watch it, which is, in theory, we're gonna get Martian Manhunter, who I do very much like. I'm very curious to see how how that is handled because it's such an outlandish character. Well, we'll have to see if that realization of the character ends up, you know,

meeting your very high standard serial. In the meantime, let's take a quick break, and when we come back, we're gonna talk about when adaptations are no longer really adaptations and when that's good and when that's bad. But first let's take this quick break. Still living in manually taking notes start the new year with auto dot ai to

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actually don't, and we're back. So a lot of the things that we talked about in the news segment are adaptations or reboots or or the like from properties we really like. And sometimes they are really great, like when we get The Lord of the Rings movies, and sometimes they're not so great, like when we get The Hobbit movies.

They usually have a wide range of of criticism about them, in part to the fact that a lot of times when properties are adjusted for movie or television, they veer from the source material to make it a better viewing experience. So arguably they try to make it a better viewing experience, it does not always work out, as the aforementioned The

Hobbit proves. Yes, so, uh, I mean where do you Let's let's start at the basic level of of movies that are adaptations that just kind of veer away from their source material in places that don't follow the storyline exactly. We see this a lot in you know, superhero movies, for example. What are what are your thoughts of that, just between staying true to the thing that you love because that's what we're going to watch and and giving a new story. And I mean like this, this to

me largely depends upon your experience with the material. And by that I mean if you are someone who has never seen or read, or or otherwise encountered the original version of that thing, then your impression of the adaptation is likely to be very different from someone who is like a big fan of the source material. Um, and you know, fan of source material are notoriously picky, myself included, And that I think is one of the major determining factors.

There are other ones as well. You mentioned superhero movies.

I think superhero movies in particular have a lot of license only because for especially the classic superhero characters, there have been so many different incarnations of those characters told in so many different styles from so many different writers and artists that you can pick and choose, and it's everything's up for grabs, right, Like there is a can't be Batman if you wanted to go with the can't be Batman route, there's the dark and gritty Batman if

you want to go that route. There's the Tim Burton route where it's kind of both. Like it's you know, there's a lot of a lot of flexibility there in other ways, like other works, there's not as much flexibility. And so one of the the examples I put in our our notes that I think excels as a movie and was terrible as a book is Jaws. Uh. Jaws is my favorite film of all time. It is I think a perfect movie. The book is almost unreadable, you see.

I feel that way about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, where the only thing the movie in the book having common is a flying car. Yeah. Well, if you got rid of Husha by Mountain, I would be all over that because that Husha by Mountain is the song that kills that movie for me. Kind of similar to Cheer Up Charlie and Willie Wanka in the Chocolate Factory. Another example of a movie that's very different from the source material. Um,

slow songs kill movies is what I'm saying. You know, I would wait you to say in cases like Jaws or Chitty Chitta Bang Bang, or even Willie Wanka in the Chocolate Factory, depending on which iteration you're talking about. I said Willy Wonka, not Charlie. Fair enough Willie Wanka, which is the gene wilder one. Uh. I think that it is beneficial, especially in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, to um kind of reinvigorate an old story that had

some old concepts and ideas that were problematic. Yeah. No, that's that's a fair point. Is that there's stuff in that book where, you know, viewed through the lens of today, you think, wow, that that is that is harmful thinking, that is reinforcing some pretty negative stereotypes. Yeah, so I think I think you're right on there. Yeah. And yet when Tim Burton readd it to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I didn't it focused more on Willy Wonka unless on Charlie,

which was odd because of the title change. And I didn't like that that adaptation as much. And maybe it's just because it's a story I came to as a child and related to at a childlike level, and didn't relate to on the candy mogul level. And to be fair, also for Willy Wonka, that's like, that's a movie I encountered well before I ever read Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. So again that's another example of I encountered that story

in the form of its adaptation first. It's kind of like if you hear a cover song without realizing it's a cover song, you might then listen to the original and think, oh, this isn't this isn't what I expected, because you know the cover has done something different to it, and you might not even like the original as much as you like the cover. That that happens a lot. It tends to be whatever version of person encounters first,

they they imprint upon that more. I see that also with adaptations of foreign films, like if you have seen The Ring before you saw Ringou, then you may like the Ring more. But people who saw Ringo first will say, oh, no, the Ring is that. No, they didn't get anything right. Ringo's the best. Well, did you watch or read The Shining first, because that's another one that's really pop piller, uh, but veered from its source material and actually made it.

Made Stephen King upset as it did he Yeah, we're talking to course about the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining, not the not the Faithful and yet nigh unwatchable mini series that was made much later. Um. I read The Shining first, and I I feel like those are It's almost like it's two different stories that share some common DNA, and I think both are brilliant. I understand King's objections, and I agree that if you're telling the story of

the book, Kubrick made some decisions that don't work. The big one being that that Jack Torrens, the character played by Nicholson, that, um, that he comes off way too crazy, way too quickly, and in the book it's something that you see is built upon his alcoholism and his history of anger management issues that then escalates. Well, there's not a whole lot of escalation in The Shining. It kind of he kind of comes off as unhinged from the beginning. And so it's a different story, but I think it's

a good story. It's just different. Yeah. Yeah, Now, I would say that all of these things that we've talked about so far are maybe not bang bang, are close enough to the original story that they should be called the original story. Just a different adaptation. There are there are things out there that try to say that they're

a loved story that really aren't. World war Z the Watch, and I'm going to say Pete Dragon, even though Disney owned the story Petche Dragon to begin with and had complete right to change it, Their new Pete Dragon is not Peach Dragon to me right the the the remake Pete Dragon completely ignores almost everything about the original except for having an orphan and a dragon or is he even an orphan in the remake he is an orphan, yes, yes, But you know World War Z has to do with zombies. Yeah,

that's about That's about it. So have you read the book? Yes, so you know that the books brilliant. The book is more of an observation about how humans cope in the wake of a massive disaster. And honestly, if you read World War Z and you look at how the United States has handled the pandemic, you're like, wow, this is the world War Z is so accurate and how how

these things play out? Um, because it's more of a commentary on things like how bureaucracy can get in the way and mess things up and make a bad situation even worse. Um, and the movie is a zombie action movie. Yeah. Well, and and a big thing like the story is told from the recollection recollections of a bunch of different people, and it's after the zombie the zombie menace has passed its peak and now we're on the other side of it.

So it's people thinking back to when it was going into its peak, but from the perspective of the story teller, the worst has already happened. Yeah. Yeah. And then you've got the Watch, which you talked about in a previous episode Trying, which is based off of Guards Cards by Terry Pratchett. Right, yeah, it's it's based off the night

Watch series of books, but mainly Guards Guards. It's got the main storyline is mostly pulled from Guards Guards with the onset of a dragon around on more pork and um yeah, it's um, it's so different from the source material. It shares tiny little bits of of identity with the source material, but it makes so many drastic changes that you lose the spirit and you start to wonder, like, why would you why would you make these choices? Because every choice you make that gets further away from the

source material is alienating the built in audience. But if you are making it for people who are not that built in audience, why would you bother adapting something in the first place. Maybe because they they had an idea that they thought would be similar enough, but they wanted to get a chunk of audience automatically, so they said, we're going to throw in a couple of things so we can call it the Watch, so that Terry Pratchett fans will want to watch it, even though we really

want to tell our own story. But then, I mean, you know, or you should know going into it, that you're going to alienate those fans and thus any reaction you get from them is going to be negative, and that that is going to become a very powerful story all on its own, is that the fans of the

series are rejecting the adaptation you've made. Um. I think if I watched the Watch without ever having read any Terry Pratchett, I would have thought it was very unusual and strange and a little compelling, just because it was unusual, but not particularly well told or interesting, like like it's unusual. It's kind of like a David don't get on me

David Lynch fans. I think David Lynch has worked brilliant, but it's like a David Lynch thing in the sense that you're watching stuff and you're like, this is I'm just trying to get my head wrapped around what's happening. Now. The fact that I've read Pratchett tells me a little bit more about what's going on, But the changes that have been made are so drastic that, uh, my knowledge of Pratchett is only somewhat helpful in sussing out what's happening.

And you know, they leave out entire characters who are really important in the books, who don't even appear in the in the show. Um. Yeah, it's one of those that I find particularly perplexed because I can't figure out what your end goal was if you are making choices that are bound to alienate the fan base. Yeah. So we've talked about some stories that are close enough that they should be titled after their source material, and we've talked about some that are so far away that they

really shouldn't. What about Disney because Disney writes that line for me of and I know we need to wrap this up so maybe we can get into this deeper later, but uh, Disney rides that line of just that they changed the original story just enough that I'm like, is it that original story anymore? I got you? Yeah, Like like all the fairy tales, I mean, obviously they take all the hard edges off the fairy tales, right if you read Grimm's fairy Tales, I mean it's called the

Brother's Grim right there, the Brothers Grim. But they can be pretty grim fairy tales. Uh. You know, people get their feet chopped off and ice pecked out and stuff. You don't see that in the Disney story. I I mean Disney, for much of its history, is known for sanitizing a lot of stories in an effort to create a particular kind of feel, right, Like you can see a lot of those classic Disney movies and detect like, yeah, this is all trying to create that sort of sense

of wonder and magic. And the bad guys are easily identifiable and they are bad, and the good guys are really really good, and you know, the good guys will win in the end, and nothing terrible will happen to anybody that's permanent except the bad guy who will probably die. Um that's about it. Uh, I'm okay with it because I know going into it what I'm going to get, Like, I know, the Disney's not going to break the mold on that. Um, you're not gonna have some morally ambiguous

characters in there. For the most part, no one's gonna get their eyes pecked out. Uh. If I want that, I can go back and read the original fairy Tales. So I just accept it as a totally different take on the basic plot points of a story, and some cases it gets way the heck away from the basic plot points there. You're like, Okay, yeah, you've got some dwarves in here, but this is not snow White. Yeah yeah, Well, um,

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tossed that one out. Listen to the Welcome to Our Show podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Alright, guys, we're back. And as you know or maybe you don't, we like to mash up two different properties into one and find out what happens. And this week I chose the properties because I had a joke in my head and I decided that I did to write a whole piece around. By the way, this is how my brain works. I

had to write a whole piece around the joke. So we are combining the world of of Gotham City, not Gotham the series, but Gotham City from d C Comics, the home of characters like Batman, Joker, Arkham Asylum and all that kind of stuff. With the Veggie Tales, a beloved cartoon series featuring talking vegetables and fruits that tell

Bible stories and songs and saying awesome, awesome songs. Um. So, since you have this brilliant joke, Oh it's terrible, you're gonna hate it and you throw you threw me under the vegetable cart for this one, I'm gonna I'm gonna go first. Yes, So this is bat Tails Positive Fables for a Caped Crusader Chapter one. Yes, it's an anthology, all right. Batman was feeling blue. You see, the denizens of Gotham City, We're feeling that their hero was far

too violent and dark. Leaving Cape Crusader's approval ratings. At a native with women and children, Batman's pr person insisted that he clean up his image. He had to start doing p s a s about brushing your teeth and eating your vegetables. They even took away his weapons, so instead of batterings, he would throw bananas. It was torture, but it was working. However, poison Ivy got wind of this and she decided that she would not have this.

In Gotham's darkest days, people would sorrow eat fast food left and right, and her pants plants were allowed to thrive. But now now that Batman and Gotham were cleaning up their act and their diet, her plants were being murderously killed, yes, murderously killed. She broke into Wayne manch well the bat Cave Wayne Mansion uh one of those two, and animated all of the plant matter in Batman's fridge to attack him.

There was a lot that men have had gifted tons of produce baskets, more than he could eat from all of his good will work and in the agriculture business. Slowly but surely, because they don't really have legs, the animated vegetables and fruits began to creep up on Batman, seeking to bludgeon him to death with their soft, almost ripe bodies. Batman turned and saw the parrotus just in time. He was just about to make guacamole out of them when he remembered that he was on a broadcast to

a bunch of children, teaching them about playing outside. So, but grudgingly, he decided he tried to make peace with these animated vegetables, uh, instead of making a massacre, and he addressed the sentient flora. He thought, surely, if these things are good for you, then they must be good

at heart too. He explained that he was just trying to make the world a better place and not kill them, and the veggies and fruits, actually, being rather selfless, liked this so much showed that they asked to join Batman on his quest. He may not have weapons, but he did have good nutrition for the body and the mind, and that is just as dangerous. And soon Batman took

forth with his new arsenal. He had the grapes of wrath, which would incapacitate villains with their smell, because, as you know, they never take a bath, a killer tomato named Bob, who would shut down any bad joke, along with French peas who would incapacitate you with bad jokes and laughter.

He also had a cucumber, who, being mostly water, had a psychic connection with the water buffaloes at the Gotham Zoo, and together they vowed to fight crime the right way by speaking kindness and goodness and reason into the villains, and surprise easingly, the villains were so thrown by this that it worked for a time. That was a really good week. Well, I can tell you that my version goes as dark as yours went bright. Oh no, yeah, I get ready, I'm going to ruin it. In my

version of Gotham City, there is no Batman. Bruce Wayne, rather than setting out to avenge his slain parents, goes into a deep despair, eventually emerging but being a shell of who he was meant to be, idly spending his time and living off his inheritance and irritating his butler, Archibald. However, also in Gotham there lives Barbara Gordon, daughter to Jim Gordon, the police commissioner. Despite her father's best efforts to protect his daughter from the grim realities of Gotham, young Barbara

realizes at an early age how the world works. She shares her father's can fictions and has a strong moral compass, but is also frequently distressed at how corrupt much of Gotham's system is, with criminals frequently bouncing out of the justice system due to bribery and intimidation. She sees the need for a hero. Ever since she was young, Barbara was interested in gymnastics, but as she considers the possibility of the life of a vigilante, she begins to seek

out other training. She convinces her father she needs to learn martial arts and how to handle weapons, pragmatically pointing out that since he is a police officer and he has a revolver, it would be irresponsible of him not to have her learn how to be responsible with such things. After much training and consideration, Barbara is sitting in her room contemplating what persona she should take on as the vigilante Gotham needs. She has to protect her father, after all,

and criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot. As she thinks, she overhears her own name being on the television. It's a children's program that's on, just something she had on in the background. Moreover, it's all about biblical stories, something she hadn't paid much attention to, but now seemed to really hone in on that moral compass, and the song has convinced her Barbara would become the man a t yes, a flipping, somersaulting, kicking and punching man a tea of justice.

She makes a big, lumpy suit and sets out to confront the low life of Gotham. While on patrol, she happens to over here some common street criminals chatting about a new force into town. It's Mr Nezzer, a veritable crime boss who is shaking up the criminal underworld and Gotham, taking territory and assets from other families. But perhaps even more feared than Mr Nezzar is his assistant, Mr Lunt,

a native of Gotham. Mr Lunnon is known for his sadistic streak, with a reputation of slicing open victims and stuffing them with decorative gourds. Similarly, the serial killer of Victor Zazz, known for peeling his victims, has joined forces with the criminals. Barbara begins to research Nezzer and Lunt, doing some detective work as she learns more about their plans and influence. Along the way, she encounters a young

man dressed as a pirate. His name is Larry. Larry, smitten with Barbara, the manatee, proves that he can actually handle himself pretty darnwell in the scuffle. As the two are discovered by some criminals on the streets of Gotham. Larry mostly seems to be effective by accident, but Barbara proves she is more than capable of handling herself. And so Barbara man the t and buccaneer Larry form a

dynamic duo capable of putting crime in its place. Their first true victories when they defeat one of the three Scallion brothers. The other two are already making plans and how to bust their baby brother out of our comb to be continued, question mark. That is the gritty reboot

of Larry Boy. Yeah. Yeah, So for those who have no idea deal why I made that joke, it was just for ariel Uh, you need to If you are unfamiliar with veggie tails, you need to look up the video Barbara Manatey, And that is why I wrote that joke. I do love manatees and I do love veggie tales, so totally worth bringing my beloved vegetables into the grimness of reality. I bet I lost at least nine of our audience who are like, why is she a manity?

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