So that's where it came from

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The origin of a Gotham City icon explained...





Say it with me people!

Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner BATMAN!

Incidentally, I have no idea what show Clark is talking about there.... "In the Night Garden" perhaps?

 

Comments

[abagnale008]

"Incidentally, I have no idea what show Clark is talking about there"

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

[icon_uk]

Thanks for that, never aired in the UK, and the clips of it I've seen on youtube didn't exactly win me over, but I know it's an American institution.

[jlbarnett]

check out TV tropes and see what people there think about Mr. Rogers

[q99]

It doesn't hurt that Mr. Rogers was just an incredibly good guy on and off screen.

Back when VHSs were new, some media companies were working to get laws passed against letting normal people have access to recorders for piracy reasons (just like the fears of online filesharing, but back then). It was Mr. Roger's testimony to the US congress and citing how people could tape educational shows like PBS that decided things in favor of letting people record things.

[paradoxrealm]

Hmm.
Mr Rogers...
And Batman? (Amongst others)

http://youtu.be/xwBK31tC5QM

[dustbunny105]

The Westboro Baptist Church picketed his funeral, as ringing an endorsement of his character as there ever was.

[icon_uk]

Well, I'm not sure there's anyone in the entire planet who those sick weirdo's (and that's the politest term I can use and not face a ban) wouldn't picket the funeral of. Including, I suspect, most of their own membership

[donnblake]

Broadly speaking, apart from Mr. Roger's general air of personal goodness, it was popular largely because when it came along. There weren't a lot of other programs, on American television at least, aimed at children and talking (and yes, singing) accessibly but intelligently about what it's like to feel angry or scared, and what you can do about it.

[halloweenjack]

This is Fred Rogers accepting a lifetime achievement Emmy award. And here he is defending public television at a U.S. Senate committee hearing.

[randyripoff]

Dawwwww!

[spidermanwashere]

Ha I love this comic, it's fantastic.

[zapbiffpow]

Wow, JL8's on #143? It's been long since I last checked it. Mister Stewart should be proud!

Also, who is Martian Manhunter dressed as?

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

That's how he always dresses.

[sadoeuphemist]

Oh, that's a cute Mr. Rogers reference.

"...Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed 143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a time, around thirty-one years ago, Mister Rogers stepped on a scale, and the scale told him that Mister Rogers weighs 143 pounds. No, not that he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds…. And so, every day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight change—he neither drinks, nor smokes, nor eats flesh of any kind, nor goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even watches television—and every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles, and the scale tells him that he weighs 143 pounds. This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?"

http://www.thedqtimes.com/pages/castpages/other/fredrogerscanyousayheropg1.htm

[superfangirl1]

Nanananan Bat-dinner!

Lovely and awesome comic scan. :)