The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights

🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 10th season, and to celebrate, every episode is revisiting familiar faces and places already covered on the podcast.

Previously, we spent Christmas with the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Series.” This time, we’re on a festive tour of Gotham City through the Joker’s hideously redrawn eyes in the 1997 premiere of the redesigned, rebranded “New Batman Adventures.”

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🎙 Guests:

Andre Bennett (Cult Cinema Cloister, Philadelphia Championship Rock Paper Scissors, @AndreBennettGO).

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words With Nerds, @imgonnadj24).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. The Batman Adventures Holiday Special original comic.

2. “Welcome to Our OOL.”

3. Dark Night: A True Batman Story, by Paul Dini.

4. Arleen Sorkin on “America’s Funniest People,” a her appearance as a jester on “Days of Our Lives” that inspired her casting as Harley Quinn.

5. Kevin Conroy on being recognized while volunteering after 9/11.

6. “Finding Batman,” by Kevin Conroy, from DC’s Pride 2022.

7. Paul Dini’s original cel from Harley and Poison Ivy’s shopping spree.

8. Tim Drake’s animated debut, and a shocking Muppet tangent.

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📼 Commercial Break:

Batman and Alfred Diet Coke Commercial, 1989.

Festive Foreign Film Fans, a podcast covering festive movies and music from around the world.

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“The New Batman Adventures” and “Holiday Knights” © 1997 Warner Bros.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.

Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.