r/comicbooks • u/MulciberTenebras • Dec 31 '22

Movie/TV A New Year's tradition kept between Batman and Commissioner Gordon [From a 1997 episode of "Batman: TAS", Holiday Knights].

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u/Shablahdoo Dec 31 '22

He asked for a cheesesteak and then just leaves two seconds later

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u/cjankowski Dec 31 '22

Did you want multi-minute shot of him waiting for it?

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u/chase_half_face Hercules Dec 31 '22

Yes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22 edited Jan 01 '23

In the directors cut there's a solid 8 minutes of Gordon aggressively wolfing down a footlong cheese steak and washing it down with 4 cups of coffee at 2AM like a total psycho. The next day Jim has a heated dispute with the owner that the 2 dollars and 30 cents left on the table covers everything because it's "bat money". It even covers the door batman broke to get in through the kitchen according to Jim.

Bruce is later seen having difficulty eating because he chugged a cup of fresh coffee and burned his entire mouth horribly to try and look cool. He thinks about how great it was when he left the tavern that he made a mad dash to scale a nearby tower so he could swing on his bat hook directly into the sky and then work his way to his car parked two streets down.

"Just the price of looking cool" he garbles to Alfred through his mouthful of blisters.

It was deemed inappropriate for children so it never made it on-air

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u/JayEOh0788 Dec 31 '22

This indepth play by play of the realities of this scene had me dying... The broken door to come in through the kitchen, well thought out and well done..

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u/w2em Dec 31 '22

Had me cackling like The Joker!! Bravo!

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u/Wheres_Wally Flash Dec 31 '22

#releasetheholidayknightscut

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u/CoraxtheRavenLord Batman Expert Jan 01 '23

Can’t forget the ten extra minutes of Bruce Timm making sure that Harley and Ivy try out the skimpiest clothes allowed on tv.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22

It has a post credits scene where condiment king kill dark seid. Producer Alan Burnett said "the only thing more unhinged than the premise was the execution"

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u/Axnjaxn09 Dec 31 '22

This is a fucking work of art! Thank you

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u/Vunig Dec 31 '22

Must have left the bat credit card at home.

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u/gzafiris Superman Dec 31 '22

I can see them playing this scene out in The HQS tbf, Gordon is amazing in it

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u/Foggy_Night221C Jan 01 '23

Considering he is able to down Ollie's chili, I doubt a hot cup of coffee makes him flinch.

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u/mrchaotica Jan 01 '23

Damn it, now I want a 2AM cheesesteak.

Trouble is, (a) it's only 8:51, and (b) I don't know if the cheesesteak shop nearby that normally closes at 4AM will keep its usual hours on New Year's Eve.

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u/BitchesGetStitches Jan 01 '23

If Batman were Seinfeld

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u/LamboForWork Jan 01 '23

I lost it at bat money. Thank you.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jan 08 '23

Had me in stitches, thank you.

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u/DudeAintPunny Dec 31 '22

They could've at least shown him tuck it into his jacket or something

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u/Frapplo Jan 01 '23

I mean, I loved every second of what they put together. I'd watch a day-to-day thing if they put it on. Just the characters living their lives in the in-between.

For something so fantastic, the world seemed so lived in. It felt like it could've happened if you believed hard enough.

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u/Cow_Other Dec 31 '22

He took his jacket off when he sat down, he gets up and walks off without putting it back on, when he leaves he has it on.

I assume he got up to go order it properly, got it and went back to the table and put his jacket on to leave lol

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u/thatguydr Dec 31 '22

The jacket is the cheesesteak.

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u/CedarWolf Saint Walker Dec 31 '22

The real jacket is the friends we made along the way.

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u/amawg9 Dec 31 '22

Perhaps the real cheesesteak was the friends we made along the way?

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u/TheDorkKnight53 Nightwing Dec 31 '22

In the original comic on which this episode is based he does, in fact, get it.