[Batman] The Batscholar on Episode 98 and 99

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After only three weeks Penguin is back and this time he teams up with Ethel
Merman aka Lola Lasagne aka Lulu Schultz. Why Penguin teams up with Lola is
anybody's guess. Penguin knew Lulu from the old neighborhood before she
married and was dumped by Luigi Lasagne. The parallel between Penguin and
Lola and Archer and Maid Marilyn are frightening. When Hoffman felt it
necessary to steal from previous episodes proves the downfall of the series.
Merman in a non singing role is playing the same loud mouth role she played
in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, where she played Louie the Lilac's (Milton
Berle) mother in law. Merman might have been better at playing Ma Parker.
Like Winters she turns the volume control up too high and even a whisper is a
scream.

Of all the Penguin stories this season, this is the worst. Although Penguin
pasting up the Batmobile was a novel idea.

Actress Yvonne Craig “If it hadn’t been for Batman, I would probably have
never worked with Milton Berle, Ethel Merman and Burgess Meredith.”

Having two episodes allowed for the extra budget of paying both Meredith and
Merman plus extra henchmen and a few bit players. Including Horace McMahon as
Glu Gluten, he was better known as Lt Parker on the Naked City tv series. He
also teamed up with Eivol Eckdol Jack Krauschen as the comic villains in
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars.

Lewis Charles returns as Penguin's henchman Armband, he was last seen as
Hawkeye in the first Penguin episode of the series. Joe Brooks, aka
Vanderbilt from F Troop returns as Visor (he was one of Falseface's
henchmen). Stuntman actor Max Kleven was one of the generic henchmen, who
later was the stunt coordinator for Batman Returns.

Dennis the Menace's father Herbert Anderson formally Harry Hummert from the
Clock King episode is now promoted to the Racing Secretary for this episode.
Gary Owens the voice of both Laugh In and Space Ghost, was the resident
newscaster for the Green Hornet series, provides the voice of the radio
announcer.

During the actual horse race, a stuntman is disguised as Batgirl and riding
Waynebeau, but there were too many closeups so they were not fooling anyone.
It looked a like a man wearing Batgirls clothes.

At the end of the episode, King Tut shows up rummaging around the library and
the rare Egyptian scrolls (carelessly lying around an open book self labeled
Egyptian scrolls. (The book of parasols in this episode though was in a
locked cabinet, go figure).

Next Tut returns for the first of two single part episodes that were
originally a two part script that was split and made into two episodes.

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