whats your least favorite bb episode?

[DerekPowers]

i kind of hesitated to post this cause i love bb and with the comic ending, the movie being haulted, and the series ending w/ no airdate for unmasked yet, i felt the bb moral was low, but hey, i posted it anyway. imo there werent too many eps that were "bad" but there were a few. my least favorite of all was.....

"speak no evil". what was yours?

[Bird Boy]

well, I certainly despised Terry Dates a Robot..that was a foul episode...lol.

Speak No Evil wasn't to great either..

-BB

[Mr. Mayhem]

Untouchable = BORING!

[DR. BELCH]

"Heroes", with "Sentries of the Last Cosmos", "Rats", "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot", "Speak No Evil", and maybe "Eggbaby" close behind. Though I'm told a lot of folks actually liked TFDAR and EB (Ma Mayhem looked too much like my old boss for comfort...aaghhadda!).

[Mr. Obsession]

Hey, I happen to be one of those people who liked "Paul Dini dates a Robot." :p

"Sentries of the Last Cosmos" and "Heroes" are two of the worst, I'm tempted to toss "Rats!" on to the worst of BB pile but Mad Stan's appearance in the ep makes it somewhat redeemable.

[optimal321]

Yeah, a lot of the ones people normally hate, i kinda enjoyed. But all of the less impressive ones already mentioned had both their good and bad points. I'm gonna have to say Heros was the worst, imo.

[Fish]

I thought Heroes was the worst and it was also the first episode i saw on TV...not promising but I kept watching the show and for that I'm glad!!

<>< F I S H ><>

[Inque]

I'd say Rats or Terry's Friend Dates a Robot.


I actually liked Heroes.

[Shriek]

In my opinion I thought Heroes was the worst episode. Just a bunch of crap.

[Robin2099]

I'd have to go with Rats for least favorite episode.

[Trent Lane]

The beginning of TFDAR was pretty cool, at least seeing Riddler, Two Face, and Killer Croc again. Rats is probably my least favorite. Dana was such a expletive deleted...

[Nightwing]

NOTE: Thanks to Mr. Obsession, I'm calling this particular episode "Paul Dini Dates A Robot" from now on. lol! :)

I let Paul Dini Date's a Robot slide by because of the excellent and perfect intro, as well as the silly high school/robot shtick was used by other shows, thanks to BB's inspiration. :p

I also let EggBaby slide because it's okay to have a silly funny episode every once in a while. Plus I liked how Terry acted in that episode. "I have to take Family Studies! Have you ever taken Family Studies!!?" lol

I don't like the episodes that we all generally don't like, for example RATS and HEROS, but my biggest dissapointment was how they put Kairi and Terry's martial arts training into "Curse of The Cobra". Thanks to encouragement from Rahziel, I had a fanfic about that lined up, but this episode messed that up a bit. It's still in the works though....

But if you want a more cynical answer, I'd probably say the episode I hate the most is "UNMASKED". No plot line, no character development......no animation or air time even!

[Mr. Obsession]

Actually I can't take credit for "Paul Dini dates a Robot", I believe I stole that one from DG...

[DerekPowers]

i liked "terry's friend dates a robot". i thought is was written good and had good animation. imo that was a good silly episode, like you said nightwing, they are intitled to a silly ep now and then.

"egg baby" i have to disagree with you nightwing when it comes to the "egg baby". the silliness doesnt make up for the horrible villian character designs/concept. that is what ruined "egg baby" for me. i mean, its what 2049 and ma mayham and her sons looked like they were from the 1910s. it looked like very little thought was put into designing their characters and coming up with a cool gimic for them to use, so they used the old ma beagle and the beagle boys rutine. imo that was just old and tired and boring.

rats....wasnt too bad imo, it had some good moments (mad stan, dana's angry father, the whole white rose thing). but overall i'd say it was more bad than good.

heros...i actually liked. the animation was the nice season 1 animation, it had a twisted story and hidden inuendos, and was kind of cool.

senteries of the last cosmos...wasnt too bad imo too. its just cool since they use that video game alot in the series.

one that wasnt mentioned yet was "the last resort." i thought this was pretty bad too. they used a predictable and tired story line, hand no memorable bad guy, overall just kind of boring.

[Jowy Blight]

I hated "Rats" and "Terry's Friend Date's a Robot".

Was I the only one who thought the "Heroes" was half way decent?

[Mr. Obsession]

"Heroes" is one of the ep's that gets better with repeated viewings, mostly because of the season one animation. But again most of us don't like the ep so we don't want to watch it multiple times. :rolleyes:


"The last resort" could have been much better if they had added only one thing -- Spellbinder. The entire episode screamed Spellbinder and they wasted it all on a one-shot villain. I want to like Spellbinder, he's cool and all, but he's easily the most underdeveloped of Terry's villains.

[Bird Boy]

I enjoyed EggBaby alot. There was alot of "Terry knows more than Bruce" type of stuff in it. It's one of few episodes I have recorded...

-BB

[Lonestarr]

I'd have to go with "Eggbaby", followed by "Rats".

Am I the only one who thought that the video game creator (I forgot his name) in SOTLC (a not bad ep) looked kinda like Harry "Aint-it-Cool-News" Knowles?

[Trent Lane]

Nope, the game creator does look likw knowles, which I think they did on purpose. Also, that episode has a couple of Blade Runner references, so it's cool with me...

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight
Was I the only one who thought the "Heroes" was half way decent?

Sounds like you, me, Inque, Derek Powers and Mr. Obsession have kind things to say about "Heroes."

Makes me feel a lot less lonely. I think it's brilliant, and easily one of my favorites. But this thread proves again that that is definitely a minority opinion.

[James]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
"Heroes", with "Sentries of the Last Cosmos", "Rats", "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot", "Speak No Evil", and maybe "Eggbaby" close behind. Though I'm told a lot of folks actually liked TFDAR and EB (Ma Mayhem looked too much like my old boss for comfort...aaghhadda!).

Crikey, there are quite a few people who hated 'Eggbaby'. This was one of my favourites from series 2. A good dose of comedy never goes amiss...

I think Zeta's introductory episode was the worst in my opinion. I found BB being used as a vehicle for a WB new money spinner an insult to myself and the programme. The episode was dull and dumb. It also nailed Max's head into my coffin (excuse my paraphrase there). There was no hope of me liking her after her part in that travesty....

[Lonestarr]

I thought that "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" was pretty good...up until the end where Howard inadvertently delivers the stab-of-death line (you all know the one) to Synthia.

I think I remember "Speak No Evil". Was it the one where Spellbinder made it look like Batman killed Mad Stan? If so, I think that the NBA ep (the title escapes me) was better.

I don't remember "Heroes". What was it about?

[Firefly]

I would have to Say RATS all the way

I loved "Heros"

[MadStan]

Originally posted by Lonestarr29
I don't remember "Heroes". What was it about?

That's the one that featured the lame ripoff of the Fantastic 4...the Teriffic Trio, or something like that. That ep was one of my least liked ones too...too much time focused on the TT, which wasn't too interesting to begin with, IMHO.

[I.R Joey]

I have to admit Hero's does get better with more viewings. I to like Terry's freind Dates a robot, it made me laugh out loud so many times.

Rats I hated.

Egg baby's and sentries of the last cosmos come in a close 2nd.

[batE]

I hated Heroes and Rats with a passion. Speak No Evil was pretty bad, too. The ep I thought I was going to hate but didn't was Ascension. I could watch that over and over without getting tired of it.

batE

[James Harvey]

ZETA was the worst episodes for all the reasons stated above. A lame attempt to start a new franchise by wasting an episode to a dull character who would make an even duller cartoon.

[Nightwing]

I semi liked HEROS as well, it's just really low on my list, like FINAL CUT, RATS, and the other bad ones mentioned. And I agree with the later opinions stated about Eggbaby. There really wasn't much Batman (interesting and original) about Ma Mayhem and her dumb croonies. But what I liked about it was what I got from Terry.

So that's all well and good, but I'm afraid you'll find another problem with me....

Despite the use of it to launch a series that would be used for KIDSWB to step over Batman Beyond....I sort of liked ZETA. Don't hit me!!

I didn't think Max was all that bad, like her Season 3 stuff. Zeta came to her because she's a computer and gear head. She didn't go to the trouble, the trouble came to her. I don't think I found anything I didn't like about the episode. Well, except for one small Batman trait:

I would have liked Batman taking much longer to develop a trust with Zeta, and keep tabs on him without him knowing it and stuff. That's something Batman would do, so that would've been cool to see. :)

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Nightwing
I would have liked Batman taking much longer to develop a trust with Zeta, and keep tabs on him without him knowing it and stuff. That's something Batman would do, so that would've been cool to see. :)

"Zeta" was obviously a cool idea (if an overly familiar one) and I don't think we'd carp so much about it if we didn't know about the lame show it was designed to introduce. (Certainly Zeta himself behaved more intelligently in "Zeta" than in TZP.) The fundamental problem with the ep, as Nightwing obliquely points out, is that there is no way to introduce, develop and resolve this very complicated scenario in the space of 20 minutes.

[Bird Boy]

Originally posted by Lonestarr29
I think I remember "Speak No Evil". Was it the one where Spellbinder made it look like Batman killed Mad Stan? If so, I think that the NBA ep (the title escapes me) was better.

Speak No Evil was the one w/ the talking monkey.

"Eyewitness" is the spellbinder/batman/killed mad stan one. I loved that episode..one of my faves...batman being framed never gets old to me! :)

-BB

[DerekPowers]

so zeta was a series idea before the batman beyond ep? really? i didnt know that. how long before the ep aired had they planned it? why use batman to launch it? was zeta created by anyone involved w/ bb? thanks.

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by DerekPowers
so zeta was a series idea before the batman beyond ep? really? i didnt know that. how long before the ep aired had they planned it? why use batman to launch it? was zeta created by anyone involved w/ bb? thanks.

TZP is credited with being "created by Robert Goodman" (I believe) who was one of the staff writers going back to TNBA at least (and even STAS, I think). Whether he conceived of TZP as initially separate from BB, or developed it after coming up with the idea for "Zeta" I don't know. Maybe there's an even more complicated story behind it all.

[The Old Maid]

"Zeta" was dull, rushed, and the day-glo colors hurt our eyes. I agree with Nightwing, Max did pretty well in this ep (although this is the fourth time in the series she's been kidnapped ; you think she'd learn to watch where she's going...). But the robot didn't make you root for him ; Batman acted weird ; and of course where's Bruce? Basically Max worked a labor of Hercules trying to save this episode but there was no "there" there to save.

"Sentries" and "TFDAR" have nothing to do with the Dark Knight. And "Rats" was goofy too. A realistic villain would have made all the difference in the world. Instead we spend time with some oddball who grows his own mutant roses and, if he was such a genius, ought to have trotted off to Cuvier's and gotten himself spliced back to normal. Sigh. What was the point?

I didn't hate "Eggbaby." Didn't love it. Ma Mayhem is actually a better mother than the RFG Queen. She doesn't toss her kids into the street no matter how much they drive her crazy. Without her boys she'd probably rate higher with the viewers.