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[announcer] The Adventures of Batman with Robin, Boy Wonder.

Batman and Robin, Dynamic Duo against crime and corruption,

whose real identities as millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne

and his young ward, Dick Grayson,

are known only to Alfred, the faithful butler.

Ever alert, they respond swiftly to a signal from the police.

And moments later, from the secret Batcave deep beneath Wayne Manor,

they roar out to protect life, limb and property

as Batman and Robin, caped crime fighters.

Batman and Robin, scourge of Gotham City's kooky criminals:

The Joker, Clown Prince of Crime.

The Penguin, pudgy purveyor of perfidy.

And the cool, cruel Mr. Freeze.

Watch out, villains, here come Batman and Robin.

[narrator] A South American luxury liner pulls into Gotham Harbor.

In its safe, a treasure map for the buried fortune of the Peruvian Incas.

Irresistible bait for the Joker, Clown Prince of Crime.

[laughs]

No safe is safe when I'm around. Ha-ha-ha.

Except this one, Joker.

[stammers] Batman?

[Robin] Going somewhere?

[Robin sneezes]

Gesundheit, ha-ha-ha, Boy Wonder.

[narrator] A week later, the same Peruvian treasure map

is en route to a bank vault…

when the pudgy purveyor of perfidy, the Penguin, attempts to purloin it.

Ha-ha-ha. The treasure map is mine.

Ah! The darned Dynamic Duo. Ah!

Unfair. Unfair.

[narrator] Days later, in the darkened bank vault

which contains the treasure map, a third attempt is made by the Riddler.

- [Riddler] Batgirl. How did you—? - You're no puzzle for me, Riddler.

When is a pineapple not a pineapple?

When it's a grenade.

One out.

- Double play. - Oof!

Ow!

[Robin] Wow, look at that.

- He got away. - But that's all he got.

Blast those Caped Crusaders.

We've got to stop them or we'll never get to the Peruvian treasure.

We must break them up or something.

That's it. Split them up.

Destroy their teamwork. Throw off their timing.

No. Even if we split up the Duo, there'd be Batgirl.

Batgirl. Of course.

We'll make Robin jealous of Batgirl.

- So jealous— - The Duo will be no more.

No teamwork.

And without teamwork, we can take care of them, easy.

And grabbing the treasure map will be a cinch.

[all laughing]

I turned on the alarm. They'll be here in seconds.

Good. Now, don't forget, make the girl look good.

[laughs]

So Robin will look bad.

[laughs]

Here comes Batgirl. Get ready and let her see you.

Look out, Batman.

Thanks, Batgirl. Now, you two mop up out here and I'll see what's going on inside.

Now.

Holy sneak attack.

[henchmen grunting]

[henchman 1] Yeah, let's get her.

Get Robin. Batgirl's too tough.

Come on, let's beat it. Here comes Batgirl.

You okay, Robin?

Huh? Look out.

[all grunting]

- [henchman 1] Batgirl again. - [henchman 2] She's too much.

Thanks. You don't need me here.

I'll see what's keeping Batman.

But Batman said wait.

Look, Robin's disobeying Batman's orders.

Give the signal for Plan 3X quickly.

Wait, Batgirl. You better go help Batman. There's a trap set up for him.

Watch out, Batman.

- Thanks again, Batgirl. - Guess it's just not my day.

Look this way, Batgirl.

Another one?

[photographer] One more, Batgirl.

Great. Hold it, again, please.

It's working. Ha-ha-ha.

Our plot is working beautifully.

[Joker laughs]

[narrator] Now in his real-life identity as Dick Grayson,

Robin tries to fight the hurt welling up within him.

"Welcome to Gotham City,

home of Batman and Batgirl."

How about that?

[man on radio] Good news, teen-o-reenos.

Coming up soon, a hot new release, "The Batman and Batgirl Song."

To be sung by that new group, the Teeny-Bats.

More Batman and Batgirl?

Don't miss tonight's special guest on the Ed Solloman Show,

Batman's number-one partner in crime fighting,

the fabulous Batgirl. And now…

Batman's number-one partner? Holy—

[rings]

Yes, commissioner.

No, sir, Batman's not here.

We just received word that the Joker, Penguin and Riddler

were sighted leaving broadcast building. And the Riddler left this riddle:

"What's worth two in the bush?"

Don't worry, commissioner, I, uh—

We'll solve it.

Now's my chance to show Batgirl and Batman.

I'll get those three villains all by myself.

What's worth two in the bush?

A bird in the hand…

The bird, the Penguin. And the hand is Hand's Hotel. Of course.

The young bird fell for the bait.

[Joker laughs]

We've done it.

What—?

What's worth two in the bush? A bird in the hand is right.

And the bird in our hands is a Robin.

[Riddler & Joker laugh]

[narrator] The villains' trap has been sprung.

Robin is trapped, and the Duo is split. What more can happen?

Don't miss the thrilling second half of "It Takes Two to Make a Team,"

coming up next.

[narrator] Falling for the foul, fiendish plot of three feckless felons,

Robin believes he's being surpassed

as Batman's number-one crime-fighting partner by Batgirl.

Then the unhappy Boy Wonder foolishly sets out to capture the villains alone,

but instead, he is trapped.

Now, in an abandoned factory building…

[laughs]

Watch this.

[crocodiles growl]

[narrator] Meanwhile, in the Batcave…

And the riddle, commissioner. "What's worth two in the bush?"

Robin, of course. I'd better find him fast.

[narrator] And in the apartment of librarian Barbara Gordon…

[Barbara] You don't know it, Commissioner Gordon,

but your daughter's got a date with action…

now as Batgirl.

[Robin] Holy crocodiles.

Wait, Boy Wonder. Maybe this light will help you.

[villains laughing]

Cut the lights. I can't see. I can't see.

[crocodiles growling]

Come on, Batman. Tune me in and I'll never drop out again.

[beeping]

Come on. Now we can steal the Peruvian treasure map.

Yeah. This half of the Dynamic Duo will still be here when we get back.

[laughs]

[Joker] That is, if he doesn't, ha-ha-ha, drop in on the crocodiles.

[villains laughing]

[receiver beeping]

Robin's homing transmitter.

Hang on, lad, wherever you are.

[receiver beeping]

Keep on playing that tune, Boy Wonder.

I'll join you in the chorus.

[Robin] Got to get out of here.

[crocodiles growling]

Holy nick of time. One more second and—

Shh.

There's nobody here but us crocodiles.

Who—? Oh, Robin. Thank goodness you're all right.

- Thanks to Batman. - You were very foolish, chum.

Do you realize you fell for a villainous plot to break us up?

I do now, Batman. I'm sorry.

- Together again? - You bet.

Come on, let's go find that terrible trio.

[narrator] At this moment, three familiar figures slink through the shadows

and sneakily approach the side door of the Peruvian ambassador's mansion.

When is a diamond ring not a sparkler?

[laughs]

[Penguin] When it's a glass cutter.

[laughs]

[Joker laughs]

Beautiful, little Penguin. Beautiful.

[Batgirl] That's the Peruvian ambassador's mansion.

The map Robin heard them mention is in there.

So are they, I'll bet.

Let's find out. But quietly, now.

Hold it. Just to be sure we all stick together on this,

we'll each take a piece of the map.

One piece for you, one for you, and one for— Oh!

Good work, chum.

I have caught the crooks.

[blusters]

Wait. This is Batman. You let the real crooks get away.

Oh, I'm a dum-dum.

An honest mistake.

We'll get the map back the same way they tried to steal it.

- By breaking up their team. - Let's start with the Penguin.

Hello, Riddler.

The Dynamic Dodos are on television right now, if you care to look.

I feel sorry for the Penguin. The other two will no doubt cut the evil bird out of the treasure.

- Is that so? - Oh, no. I think Penguin is too smart.

The Riddler and Joker aren't much on brains.

Nonsense. I'll bet the Riddler has a plan right now to cut out the Joker.

Well?

[engine humming]

Don't move. Just hand over the other parts of the map.

[Riddler chuckles]

Get lost, birdbrain.

When you came through that door, you were sprayed with knockout gas.

[laughs]

Don't put me on, you— You…

[yawns]

Good night.

Now we just have to split two ways.

[Riddler laughs]

Correction. One way.

You were sprayed too.

[laughing]

You sure know how to hurt a guy.

Now the treasure map of the Incas belongs to me,

and me only.

[laughs]

[narrator] Moments later, at the Gotham City Yacht Basin…

Captain. Get under way, Captain.

Make for Peru.

Get under way at once, I said.

No need to shout, Joker. My bet was on you all the time.

Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

Congratulations, Dynamic Duo.

And of course, you too, Batgirl.

You've outdone yourselves this time.

Teamwork, commissioner. That's what does it.

You can't beat it.

[narrator] A few miles outside Gotham City,

on the edge of a chasm across a sheer rock cliff,

a dedication ceremony is about to begin.

As mayor of Gotham,

I am proud to dedicate these great new cliff sculptures

of the Dynamic Duo.

[man] Raise the tarpaulin.

[Robin] Good grief. Look at that other face.

It's the Joker.

[Joker laughing]

Look up there.

Face it, Dynamic Duo,

I think I deserve immortalizing in stone too.

[laughing]

To the Batcopter. Come on.

- Where's laughing boy now? - [Batman] Must be hiding nearby.

Let's go down. I'll put the copter on hover.

Holy atrocities.

Now it's a rogue's gallery, not a monument.

Hey, what gives?

- I'm stuck. - So am I.

And sinking in.

[Robin] This isn't stone.

It's some weird, sticky plastic.

A miserable Joker trick.

Fight to get free, chum.

[laughs]

You are trapped, dynamic ones.

That plastic will soon absorb you.

Swallow you alive.

[laughs]

[Robin] Sinking deeper.

[Batman] Don't give up, pal.

Now I shall return to Gotham City

and pull off the caper of my crime career

where the matador gets the girl.

[laughs]

What did that jerky Joker mean by that?

[Batman] Forget that, Robin.

We've got to figure a way out of this.

Hope this works.

[Robin] Now we've had it.

Ah. Not yet, chum. We both forgot our hovering Batcopter.

[newsman on radio] News flash. Batman and Robin are reported missing,

following dedication of their stone sculptures.

[laughing]

[narrator] At stately Wayne Manor,

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson try to puzzle out the Joker's clue.

"Where the matador gets the girl."

It doesn't make sense.

It must mean something, Dick.

Excuse me, Mr. Wayne,

but may I have tomorrow night off to attend the opera?

They're playing Carmen, you know.

Carmen. That's it.

The matador gets the girl in Carmen.

The Joker's going to pull a caper at the opera.

And I think I know what it is.

In today's Gotham Times.

Look, the Tetrazini Tiara.

Worth 2 million smackers.

Yes. And the soprano's going to wear it tomorrow night at the performance.

[Robin] The paper says it's under guard backstage

- at the Gotham City Opera House. - Come on, Dick.

We're going to see Commissioner Gordon as the Caped Crusaders.

Your plan's risky, Batman,

but it may teach the Joker a lesson he'll never forget.

- Okay, go to it. - Thanks.

Now, Robin, we've got to make up for our own grand opera:

The Revenge of the Caped Crusaders.

[narrator] That night, after rehearsal,

in the empty Gotham City Opera House…

[laughs]

With the Caped Crusaders gone,

no one can stop me from stealing the tiara. Ha, ha!

Joker, look, up there.

- [henchman 1] The Dynamic Duo. - [henchman 2] Ghosts.

It can't be. Get up there and investigate.

[henchman 1] The faces are gone.

[henchman 2] Maybe they were never there.

The Caped Crusaders. Run.

No time to lose. I must get the tiara.

Ah. There it is.

Batman.

[stammering] You're a ghost too.

You can't scare me.

The boy ghost again.

No, no. Go away.

Maybe they're not ghosts after all.

Must get away from them.

[laughing]

They vanished.

In mid-air.

We've really got him worried now, Batman.

The old mirror vanishing trick must've really shook him up.

Ghosts or no ghosts,

I'm going to get that tiara.

[laughs]

There goes our bull, matador.

Check, Don Robin, and he's got the tiara. Let's go.

[laughs]

[Robin] Talk about the Phantom of the Opera.

[Batman] There he goes. Come on.

Look out, Robin.

Wow. That was some trap.

You can't trap ghosts. Come on.

There he goes.

[Batman] To the Batmobile. Hurry.

I have the tiara but I must make sure

if the Dynamic Duo are really dead or alive.

Retouch your makeup, Robin. We're going to need it for the grand finale.

If the daring duo's dead, their bodies will be buried in—

[Batman] Now, hear this, Joker.

[stammering] Batman's voice.

The curtain is about to come down on The Revenge of the Caped Crusaders.

No. You're dead.

You must be.

[yells]

Help! I'm sinking.

Guess we gotta save him to get the tiara, right, Batman?

Yes. And for the closing act, at Gotham Jail.

[grunting]

Bravo, Caped Crusaders.

Obviously your scheme to play phantoms paid off.

Ha! But at least I ruined your precious monuments, Dynamic Duo.

Sorry to disappoint you,

but your physiognomy has been blasted off the cliffs.

Yes. And for vandalizing public property, we'll add a few months to your sentence.

In you go.

Oh, no. No, no.

Take them away. Please.

[laughing]

[theme music playing]