Since one of today’s photographs is of a man dressed up as Batman riding a bicycle, I thought I’d try and put together a list of exclamations Robin the boy wonder uttered when faced with various challenges during the run of the 1960s TV show. After wracking my brains for all of ten minutes, and only coming up with a handful, I decided I’d Google “list of holy expressions robin says in batman and robin”– not really expecting anything to turn up… Why did I not think that someone has listed the lot? Below is a heavily edited compilation but if you want to see all of them, yes, go to Wikipedia! There you will also find a short essay, including the quote: “Robin exists as a media entity inextricably linked with Batman and shares nearly as much ubiquity in American culture”. The essay also cites a number of film critics and comic-book scholars, so it is clearly a serious work. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Here’s the abbreviated list anyway:
Holy: Agility, Almost, Anagram, Armadillo, Ashtray, Astronomy, Astringent Plum-like Fruit, Audubon, Backfire, Ball And Chain, Bank Balance, Bargain Basements, Barracuda, Benedict Arnold, Bikini, Bill Of Rights, Birthday Cake, Blackout, Bluebeard, Bouncing Boiler Plate, Bowler, Bullseye, Bunions, Caffeine, Camouflage, Caruso, Catastrophe, Chicken Coop, Chocolate Eclair, Cinderella, Cinemascope, Cliche, Cliffhangers, Clockwork, Coffin Nails, Complications, Conflagration, Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors, Corpuscles, Costume Party, Crucial Moment, , Cryptology, Detonator, Disappearing Act, Diversionary Tactics, Encore, Epigrams, Escape-hatch, Fate-worse-than-death, Finishing-touches, Firing Squad, Flight Plan, Flip-flop, Floor Covering, Flypaper, Forecast, Fork In The Road, Fourth Amendment, Fourth Of July, Frankenstein, Frogman, Fruit Salad, Frying Towels, Graf Zeppelin, Graveyards, Greetings-cards, Guacamole, Gullibility, Haberdashery, Hairdo, Hallucination, Hamburger, Harem, Heart Failure, Heidelberg, Helmets, Here We Go Again, Hi-fi, Hijack, Hoaxes, Hole In A Donut, Hollywood, Homework, Hors D’Oeuvre, Houdini, Human Pressure Cookers, Hydraulics, Hypnotism, Hypodermics, Ice Picks, Iceberg, Impossibility, Impregnability, Incantation, Inquisition, Interplanetary Yardstick, Interruptions, Iodine, Jail Break, Jelly Molds, Jigsaw Puzzles, Key Hole, Kindergarten, Knock Out Drops, Known Unknown Flying Objects, Levitation, Liftoff, Long John Silver, Looking Glass, Love Birds, Madness, Magic Lantern, Main Springs, Mashed Potatoes, Masquerade, Mechanical Armies, Mesmerism, Metronome, Miscast, Missing Relatives, New Year’s Eve, Nick Of Time, Non Sequiturs, Olfactory, Oxygen, Paraffin, Pianola, Pressure Cooker, Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snoods, Pseudonym, Purple Cannibals, Ravioli, Remote Control Robot, Return From Oblivion, Reverse Polarity, Rip Van Winkle, Rising Hemlines, Sarcophagus, Schizophrenia, Sedatives, Self Service, Semantics, Serpentine, Sewer Pipe, Shamrocks, Slipped Disc, Sonic Booms, Special Delivery, Steam Valve, Stomach Aches, Sudden Incapacitation, Surprise Party, Taxidermy, Terminology, Trampoline, Transistors, Travel Agent, Trolls And Goblins, Uncanny Photographic Mental Processes, Understatements, Unrefillable Prescriptions, Vertebrae, Waste Of Energy, Wedding Cake, Wernher von Braun, Zorro… Batman!
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