YMMV / Batman: The Animated Series E4 "The Last Laugh"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: When the Joker acts upset over the "death" of Captain Clown, is he trolling Batman, genuinely trying to be funny, or crazy enough to actually equate the (rather crude, and definitely not sapient) robot with a living person?
• Harsher in Hindsight: Batman jokingly thinks about letting the Joker fry. As Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker shows, things probably would have been better off if he had let him fry.