Best Joker Appearance

[The New Batman]

Which is the funniest episode with the Joker as the main (or one of the) villian(s). Pick more than 1 episode if you desire.

My favorite is "Trial" When the Mad Hatter asks Joker to remove his statment from the record, and Joker says "Record?, is somebody supposed to be writing this down?" I cracked up. Joker's phrases at end fight scene on the side of the building was funny also.

Second would have to be "Make 'em Laugh" The ending of that cartoon where Joker's pants fall down and the crowd laughs at him is extremely funny.

What are your picks?...

[Samhaine]

Well, I know the question is which is the funniest, but I don't think that gives Joker the justice he deserves.

My favorite episode featuring the Joker was The Man Who Killed Batman. The ep basically defined Mr. J. It showed his dark, evil, genius, homicidal side that we all know should be present in every one of his appearances, yet he was played more for laughs like The Riddler in Batman Forever. I just loved TMWKB so much.

Also, ROTJ did a really good job of showing the truly evil side of the Joker as well.

[batE]

I'll vote for Mask of the Phantasm. He was just a scream in that. ROTJ was good, too.

batE

[NewMaxFranklin]

Haven't seen it, or any Batman ep's in ages. But, I remember it fondly. The commercial for the "joker fish" was funny, with Joker being manically over-the-top, Harley trying to be a good spokesperson, while being discusted by the product and the thugs as the deadpan children ("Naturally low in cholesterol.") I thought that episode was the best showcase for the Joker. He was evil and menacing, yet comedic.

Joker hits Bats with a giant wrench; "Meanwhile, back at the wrench!

Joker jumps off the roof and inflated a floaty around his waste.

Joker sticks a giant wad of ground beef in Bullock's hands and pushes him into the shark tank.

[Karkull]

Because he's a sadistic killing machine, the creators had to tone the Joker down to almost laughable levels.

That said, I think that his best appearances were Mask of the Phantasm and the three part World's Finest.

[James Harvey]

I always liked his "Which one?" comment to Two-Face in The Strange Secret Of Bruce Wayne.

[Joker85]

I liked all of them, but Last Laugh, and Joker's Wild are my favs. I always laugh at the scenes with him and Ivy in the latter. Joker's Millions was pretty funny too. The scene were he picks the new harley was hysterical!!! :D

[JckNapier2]

Joker's Favor:
My all time favorite Batman episode and thus obviously the Joker's finest hour. One of the few times that The Joker is portrayed as a murderous sociopath, this is just about the only time he is actually scary (to the point where the show got the series' first hate mail as mothers were upset that their kids were crying). In this, The Joker actually has several great one-liners (my fav, to a group of chemically frozen captives: "Yes! Another stunning Joker entrance leaves the crowd speechless"), as well as a scheme to entrap and eventually kill a completely innocent bystander (along with dozens of cops, lawyers, and politicians) purely for kicks (Hitchcock would approve). Why was Charlie Collins picked for a two year campaign of mental and emotional torture and eventual execution by this clown? Why not? And even though Charlie survives and captures The Joker through an act of unusual courage (Joseph Campell would approve), Charlie is forever scarred as he will forever look over his shoulder and will always think twice before dropping his kids off at the movies. All because he mouthed off to a random motorist driving home from work.

This is how The Joker truly is. He is Gotham's boogie man, killing countless innocents purely at random. In essense, the Joker's point (that all of life is a sick joke so why bother) is proven by the existance of The Joker. What's the point of trying to live a good life when it can all be wiped out in an instant cause you breathed in some weird gas that made you smile? Sure, he kills thousands of people in Return of the Joker and World's Finest, the fear of The Joker is not a fear of randomly being blown up by a giant ship or a space laser. The Joker represents that which can slowly and painfully suck the life out of you purely because he can (like the way that more women fear sexual assault than actual death). Unlike Return of the Joker, where Joker tortures and possibly rapes Tim Drake (just what was that plunger on the table for anyway?) to get back at Batman, Joker's Favor is scarier because the victim is picked completely at random. He could have been you. And that's the joke.

Scott Mendelson

[Toddman]

Originally posted by JckNapier2
Joker's Favor:

This is how The Joker truly is. He is Gotham's boogie man, killing countless innocents purely at random. In essense, the Joker's point (that all of life is a sick joke so why bother) is proven by the existance of The Joker. What's the point of trying to live a good life when it can all be wiped out in an instant cause you breathed in some weird gas that made you smile? Sure, he kills thousands of people in Return of the Joker and World's Finest, the fear of The Joker is not a fear of randomly being blown up by a giant ship or a space laser. The Joker represents that which can slowly and painfully suck the life out of you purely because he can (like the way that more women fear sexual assault than actual death). Unlike Return of the Joker, where Joker tortures and possibly rapes Tim Drake (just what was that plunger on the table for anyway?) to get back at Batman, Joker's Favor is scarier because the victim is picked completely at random. He could have been you. And that's the joke.

Scott Mendelson

Yikes! You think the Joker may have RAPED Robin? I never got that one.

As far as the Joker in "Joker's Favor", he WAS portrayed very well, but the ending left me cold when the Joker managed to get cornered in an alley by Charlie and had to yell for Batman to come and save him.

I never thought the Joker was portrayed to his fullest potential in the entire BTAS run, with the notable exception of MOTP. In that story the Joker displayed two traits that never appeared until he got to TNBA, and that's unpredictability and real danger (i.e. possible death).

Toddman

[superfreak]

Joker's appearance in MOTP and RTOJ are the closest to what I have seen in the comics. In MOTP, the Joker is utterly unpredictable and murderously deranged. In ROTJ, the Joker showed that he has no regard to life when he murdered hundreds of innocent bystanders in an attempt to fry Batman with an orbital laser. Also what he did to Tim reminded me of poor Jason who was killed by the Joker.