Last Saturday morning, I was super slow getting out of bed. In fact, instead of getting up, I just turned \u00a0on the television. I kept it muted so I wouldn’t wake anyone else up and flipped through the channels: news, news, religious shouter, kiddie show, Batman…<\/p>\n
Wait, Batman? It was the old Adam West Batman from when I was a little guy.<\/p>\n
I jumped out of bed and ran to see who was awake. Only my oldest son was up, sprawled on the couch, reading a book.<\/p>\n
“Come on,” I said, waving him to the bedroom. “Let’s go!”<\/p>\n
“What? I’m reading!”<\/p>\n
“Reading can wait. This is Batman!”<\/p>\n
He jumped off the couch. “Batman?”<\/p>\n
We ran back to my bedroom and stretched out on the bed in front of the television. “This is the Batman I grew up with,” I said, turning the sound back on.<\/p>\n
The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) was quacking at his flunkies, explaining his dastardly plan to force \u00a0Barbara Gordon to marry him.<\/p>\n
“That’s The Penguin,” I said.<\/p>\n
My son looked at me, and then back at the television. “This is kind of funny.”<\/p>\n
“Shh!”<\/p>\n
A few moments later, Batman and Robin were on the screen. My son glanced at me again. “He’s kind of out of shape, isn’t he?”<\/p>\n
“Shh! Just watch!”<\/p>\n
The inevitable fight arrived. Batman \u00a0threw haymakers at the Penguin’s thugs, while Robin jumped around, swinging on things to kick them. Each time they hit, a giant onomatopoeia\u00a0would appear across the screen, comic book style.<\/p>\n
“BAM!” “WACK!” “SPLACKOW!”<\/p>\n
My son laughed and shouted the words as they appeared. “This is cool,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I know!”<\/p>\n
“Watch out, Batman,” he yelled. “They’re behind you!”<\/p>\n
Robin appeared out of nowhere, swinging a giant wooden stick he’d somehow found. “KRACCCKKKK!”<\/p>\n
“YES!” my son and I shouted together.<\/p>\n
Batman wins again.<\/p>\n
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Every once in a while, I hear someone (like my wife) say something that makes it clear they just don’t understand Batman. This is for all of them: Batman in his truest form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DpYi-bam","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}