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Earl Cooper, the mechanic/co-creator for the Batmobile, is forced by the Penguin to put it under his control.

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!!Tropes in this episode include:
* TheAllegedCar: While we don't see much of the first Batmobile, it was clearly on its last legs by the time Batman commissioned Earl for a new car.
* BadBoss:
** Earl’s bosses tried to have him killed because he was going to expose a dangerous flaw in a car design.
** Penguin, of course, is a rotten bastard. He rewards someone for getting him crucial information on how to track down Batman's mechanic by immediately putting him on a slow ride to death.
* BlandNameProduct: Global Motors is a not-so-subtle rebranding of General Motors.
* BoundAndGagged: Marva is given this treatment by one of the Penguin's henchmen when she becomes the villains' hostage.
* CoolGarage: The episode is devoted to the character Earl Cooper, who is not only the Batmobile's mechanic, but its designer. Cooper has a hidden CoolGarage where Bats takes the Batmobile after its front end is crushed under a closing drawbridge. It also contains a hilarious flashback to when Batman first "hires" Cooper as his mechanic. He pulls his [[TheAllegedCar clunker of a Batmobile]] up alongside Cooper on the sidewalk and [[DeadpanSnarker explains "I need a new car."]]
* FingerWag: Batman issues one to the Penguin after catching him toward the end of the episode, which prompts Penguin to throw a little tantrum.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Earl says the alignment and the suspension system of the Batmobile have been "shot to heck."
* IHaveYourWife: Penguin holds Cooper's daughter hostage to ensure his cooperation.
* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: The Penguin holds Earl's daughter hostage and forces him to booby-trap the Batmobile, including giving Penguin the ability to control it remotely. After having some fun with it, he tries to kill Batman and Robin by steering the Batmobile off the roof of a multi-story car park.
* MythologyGag: In the flashback showing Batman asking Earl to design a new Batmobile for him, the old Batmobile is based on a design used in the early years of the ''Batman'' comics.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Earl Cooper was an automobile engineer who was nearly killed by his bosses for trying to go public about a potential lethal safety defect in his company's newest model of car, and was saved by Batman. He lost his job, was unjustly blacklisted from the industry, and lived on the streets when Batman saved him again... by tracking him down and hiring him to design the Batmobile.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Earl's daughter, Marva, is kidnapped. With the bad guys listening in, Batman asks where she is, and Earl responds that she's "in the basement," which is apparently racetrack slang for in big trouble. He also mentioned that he "fixed the air conditioner," hinting that he'd installed an ejection mechanism in the air conditioner controls so that Batman and Robin could escape the hijacked Batmobile.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: The Penguin's goon after the Batmobile explodes: "[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes B-b-b-b-bat's all, folks!]]"
* ShootingSuperman: The fleeing criminals try to shoot the bulletproof, practically-indestructible Batmobile with a Thompson submachine gun.
-->'''Robin:''' [[LampshadeHanging Is he kidding?]]
-->'''Batman:''' Maybe he's new in town.
* ShoutOut: One of the Penguin's henchmen celebrates their apparent victory against Batman by saying [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "B-b-b-bat's all, folks!"]]
* TheStoolPigeon: Earl Cooper was a Whistleblower William who was nearly killed by his bosses for trying to go public about a potential lethal safety defect in his company's newest model of car and was saved by Batman. He lost his job and was living on the streets when Batman saved him again... by tracking him down and hiring him to design the Batmobile.
* VanityLicensePlate: The end of the episode shows Penguin making license plates in prison after his scheme failed. Penguin loses it when he sees one of the plates reads "1 BAT 4 U" and [[AGlassInTheHand snaps it in half]].
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The episode introduces Earl Cooper, the Batmobile's designer/mechanic, who performs the necessary repairs that are beyond Batman's time or ability. The Penguin is able to find Cooper after he orders a series of dead-giveaway parts that could only be for the Batmobile, in his own name. Batman responds by having his "backers" set up "dummy corporations" for Cooper to order through so that no one will track him down again. This is probably just a euphemism for hiding more crimefighting behind Wayne Enterprises expenditures.
* WholePlotReference: The premise of Penguin hijacking the Batmobile is a reference to the scene in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
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