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--->'''Batman:''' Alfred, what's happened?
--->'''Alfred:''' Joker accidentally tripped the batpole switch and mistook this for a secret passage.
--->'''Robin:''' Then he's down in the Batcave!
--->'''Alfred:''' Joker didn't quite make the Batcave, Master Robin.
--->'''Robin:''' Then, where is he?
--->'''Alfred:''' I believe he should be arriving presently.
--->'''Batman:''' [[CrazyPrepared The Emergency Batpole Elevator Lift.]] Fast thinking, Alfred.
--->'''Alfred:''' Thank you, sir.

--->'''Joker:''' ''(at the top of the poles)'' [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Somebody get me off this crazy dumbwaiter! I can't breathe!]]
--->'''Batman:''' Alfred, Joker says he can't breathe. Why don't you give him some breathing space?
--->'''Alfred:''' With pleasure, Sir. (Presses the down button)
--->'''Joker:''' [[OhCrap Oh no!]] ''Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!'' ''(Slides back down)''

--->'''Aunt Harriet:''' By the way, where is Joker?
--->'''Robin:''' [[BondOneLiner Right now, Joker's having his ups and downs.]]
--->'''Batman:''' You might say that.

--->'''Joker:''' ''(at top of poles exhausted)'' [[VillainsWantMercy Alfred ol' pal, have]] ''[[VillainsWantMercy pity!]]''
--->'''Alfred''': We [[IronicEcho Anglo-finks]] have a long memory. ''(Pushes Down Button)''
--->'''Joker:''' Oh no!!! ''Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!'' ''(Slides back down)''
--->'''Alfred:''' One shouldn't take pleasure in another creature's misfortunes. But, occasionally, one may be forgiven for a slight twinge of satisfaction.

*** Said victory is quickly rendered meaningless when Calamity Jan and her mother arrive and spray the heroes with fear gas. Then, during the two-parter's second brawl, Jan and Frontier Fanny throw things at the heroes as they fight the male villains. Later, they try to shoot Batman from an ambush before being lassoed. Between those two and Okie Annie, Shame seems to have a talent for attracting non-{{Neutral Female}}s.

* In "A Riddling Controversy", the police arrive just in time to capture a henchgirl during her attempted VillainExitStageLeft. They do the same thing to recurring villain Mr. Freeze in "The Duo Defy".

* False Face's crony Blaze puts on a better showing than most female villains from the show (even if she does get the same corny HighHeelFaceTurn as so many of the others). She delivers a message to Batman and Gordon while convincingly disguised as a man and pulls off a bold escape out the window when they catch on to her. Later, after being captured, she gets Robin to lower his guard, then uses a hair clip filled with knockout glass to knock him out.

--->'''Joker:''' ''(at the top of the poles)'' [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Somebody get me off this crazy dumbwaiter!]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor I can't breathe!]]

* In "A Riddling Controversy," the police arrive just in time to capture a henchgirl during her attempted VillainExitStageLeft. They do the same thing to recurring villain Mr. Freeze in "The Duo Defy".

--->'''Joker:''' [[TemptingFate You can say that over the phone, Batman, but if I had you here, I'd pound you to a pulp]]! ''(hangs up)''\\

'''Batman:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Start pounding, Joker]]!\\

--->'''Batman''': Alfred, what's happened?
--->'''Alfred''': Joker accidentally tripped the batpole switch and mistook this for a secret passage.
--->'''Robin''': Then he's down in the Batcave!
--->'''Alfred''': Joker didn't quite make the Batcave, Master Robin.
--->'''Robin''': Then, where is he?
--->'''Alfred''': I believe he should be arriving presently.
--->'''Batman''': [[CrazyPrepared The Emergency Batpole Elevator Lift]]. Fast thinking, Alfred.
--->'''Alfred''': Thank you, sir.

--->'''Joker''': (At the top of the poles) [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Somebody get me off this crazy dumbwaiter]]! [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor I can't breathe]]!!
--->'''Batman''': Alfred, Joker says he can't breathe. Why don't you give him some breathing space?
--->'''Alfred''': With pleasure, Sir. (Presses the down button)
--->'''Joker''': [[OhCrap Oh no]]! ''Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!'' (Slides back down)

--->'''Aunt Harriet''': By the way, where is Joker?
--->'''Robin''': [[BondOneLiner Right now, Joker's having his ups and downs]].
--->'''Batman''': You might say that.

--->'''Joker''': (At top of poles exhausted) [[VillainsWantMercy Alfred ol' pal, have]] ''[[VillainsWantMercy pity]]!''
--->'''Alfred''': We [[IronicEcho Anglo-finks]] have a long memory. (Pushes Down Button)
--->'''Joker''': Oh no!!! ''Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!'' (Slides back down)
--->'''Alfred''': One shouldn't take pleasure in another creature's misfortunes. But, occasionally, one may be forgiven for a slight twinge of satisfaction.

--->'''Joker''': [[TemptingFate You can say that over the phone, Batman, but if I had you here, I'd pound you to a pulp]]! ''(hangs up)''\\

'''Batman''': [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Start pounding, Joker]]!\\
'''Joker''': ''([[OhCrap screams]])''

* Aunt Harriet gets her own moment in Season 2. During the course of "The Devil's Fingers/The Dead Ringers," villainous pianist Chandell (played by Music/{{Liberace}}) has been wooing Aunt Harriet, in the hopes of marrying her and using Bruce Wayne's fortune to pay off his blackmailing brother, Harry (also played by Liberace). Once Harry learns of this, he visits Aunt Harriet, posing as his brother. However, she sees through the trick with nothing but female intuition, and once alone with Harry, holds him at gunpoint to make a citizen's arrest. While she is ultimately taken prisoner and rescued by Batman, it was nice to see Aunt Harriet stick up for herself and show she's not always as naive as she appears.

* In "The Joker Goes to School," Joker shows up to taunt Batman at the local high school and gloats about how he's currently out of jail on parole, and there's no evidence linking him to any crime. A minor student council member [[JusticeByOtherLegalMeans proposes arresting him for loitering on school grounds]], a crime which carries a [[FelonyMisdemeanor fifty-year sentence]]. The plan fails (because Joker doesn't stick around long enough to loiter), but it's still a decently resourceful suggestion from a minor character in a town that usually needs Batman to solve everything.
* In "When the Rat's Away, the Mice Will Play," Commissioner Gordon sees right through one of Riddler's henchmen impersonating Batman. Granted, he doesn't make any move to arrest the guy, [[DramaticIrony because he doesn't want Bruce Wayne to get caught in the crossfire of a fight]], but it's still an impressive deduction from a man who generally can't figure anything out without Batman's help.
* In "The Bookworm Turns," the GenreSavvy heroes figure out that Lydia is a DecoyDamsel meant to lead them into a trap, and use knockout gas and truth serum to find out everything she knows. When Lydia wakes up with no memory of what just happened, Batman leaves, acting like he's about to fall into the Bookworm's trap, while Robin stays behind to watch Lydia. She figures out that the Dynamic Duo know about the Bookworm's trap [[INeverToldYouMyName when Robin calls her by name even though she never revealed her name before being drugged.]] Lydia tricks Robin into opening a book with a knockout gas dispenser, then calls Bookworm to tell him that Batman knows about the trap, but now they have Robin as a hostage.
* In the season 1 finale:

* In "Hot off the Griddle," the bumbling Chief O'Hara and his men actually manage to catch one of Catwoman's {{Mook}}s (albeit offscreen) as he flees a fight with the duo.

* Chief O'Hara is a DefiantCaptive upon realizing King Tut has taken him prisoner in "The Pharoah's in a Rut."

--> '''Ms. Iceland:''' Not if I live to be a hundred. [[PungeonMaster Below zero.]]

* In "Come Back, Shame," Okie Annie becomes the only henchwoman to personally defeat the Dynamic Duo by shooting a rope to make a chandelier fall on them. In part two she tries to shoot Batman, and briefly tries to pistol-whip him once her allies start losing the following fistfight.
* In "It's How You Play the Game," Shame and his gang wound Robin in the foot while shooting at the heroes, forcing them to retreat (although HollywoodHealing allows for a near-instantaneous recovery). Seeing the villains avert ATeamFiring for one of the only times in the franchise is quite startling.

* Gordon actually manages to plant an undercover cop in Catwoman's gang during "The Sandman Cometh," and might have brought down two super villains without any help from Batman if Catwoman hadn't overheard the cop making a phone call at the beginning of the episode.

* In "A Riddling Controversy," the arriving police catch a {{Moll}} during her attempted VillainExitStageLeft, and they do something similar with recurring villain Mr. Freeze in "The Duo Defy," Egghead and Olga in both of their team-ups and Minerva in the series finale.

* In "Penguin's Disastrous End," Batman thinks he has the villains trapped inside a vault full of gold and that they'll surrender soon to avoid running out of air. However, he's playing right into their hands. They set up an air recycling device and spend days in the vault, [[TankGoodness melting down the gold to build a tank, which they end up driving through the wall.]]
* In "The Duo's Anniversary," the heroes get into an underwater fistfight with the villains while wearing scuba gear.
* In "A Riddling Controversy," the police arrive just in time to capture a henchgirl during her attempted VillainExitStageLeft. They do the same thing to recurring villain Mr. Freeze in "the Duo Defy."

* King Tut's penultimate {{Moll}}, the ditzy Shirley, avoids being a NeutralFemale by [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass sneaking up behind Batgirl and whacking her over the head with a vase.]]

* In Shame's season 3 appearance, his girlfriend and her mother drive a tank through the prison wall.
** In "The Great Escape," Shame knocks Batman down by whacking him with a stool several times until Robin intervenes. This may be the only occasion where a main villain singlehandedly dominates Batman in a fair fight.

* People don’t give this show enough credit for how much of a faithful adaptation it was. It hit all the major beats from the comics: the Batcave, car, and signal, Alfred and Commissioner Gordon, the villains, all of it! They could have easily changed the character into something completely different, but they didn’t. Even the campiness was accurate to the comics, for better or worse (the show actually tones it down: Zebra Batman, anyone?). It also brought some new elements to the franchise, such as Dick Grayson being a teenager rather than an 8-year-old, the Riddler being one of Batman's main foes (plus his now standard green-bowler-and-tie outfit, which Frank Gorshin came up with), and the entire character of Batgirl as we know her. These new ideas proved so popular that they've lasted to this day.

--->'''Joker''': [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor You can say that over the phone, Batman, but if I had you here, I'd pound you to a pulp]]! ''(hangs up)''\\
''([[ShortDistancePhoneCall Batman walks out from behind a curtain, his own phone in hand]])''\\

--->'''Batman''': The Emergency Batpole Elevator Lift. Fast thinking, Alfred.

--->'''Joker''': (At the top of the poles) Somebody get me off this crazy dumbwaiter! I can't breathe!!

--->'''Joker''': Oh no! ''Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!'' (Slides back down)

--->'''Robin''': Right now, Joker's having his ups and downs.

--->'''Joker''': (At top of poles exhausted) Alfred ol' pal, have ''pity!''
--->'''Alfred''': We Anglo-finks have a long memory. (Pushes Down Button)

* Alfred, of all people. When Batman and Robin become hopelessly trapped and unable to save the city, Gordon and O'Hara call on "that mysterious voice that sometimes answers the Bat Phone."

* In one episode, Batman, Robin, and Batgirl all get delivered to City Hall turned into 2D figures, and it occurs to Commissioner Gordon to use the Bat Hotline and get help from the Mysterious Voice (AKA Alfred) who always answers the phone.

* In "The Bookworm Turns," the GenreSavvy heroes figure out that Lydia is a DecoyDamsel meant to lead them into a trap, and use knockout gas and truth serum to find out everything she knows. When Lydia wakes up with no memory of what just happened, Batman leaves, acting like he's about to fall into the Bookworm's trap, while Robin stays behind to watch Lydia. She figures out that the Dynamic Duo know about the Bookworm's trap [[INeverSaidItWasPoison when Robin calls her by name even though she never revealed her name before being drugged.]] Lydia tricks Robin into opening a book with a knockout gas dispenser, then calls Bookworm to tell him that Batman knows about the trap, but now they have Robin as a hostage.

* King Tut's penultimate {{Moll}}, the ditzy Shirley, avoids being a NeutralFemale by [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass sneaking up behind Batgirl and whacking her over the head with a vase.]]