History Fridge / Batman1966

* Every King Tut episode makes it appear at first that the writers have barely skimmed even a pamphlet on Egyptology, which at first seems odd considering Tut is the alter ego of a renowned Egyptologist... but then, of course, Professor [=McElroy=] is the Egyptologist, and he's also a mild-mannered kindly law-abiding citizen. King Tut is a separate identity, so of course it makes sense that in addition to being a megalomaniacal arch-criminal, he knows fuck all about the real Tutankhamun, let alone Ancient Egyptian history and culture as a whole. And some of the malapropisms and misuses of Egyptian mythology are clearly intended as in-jokes only fans of the myths would catch (some of them ad-libbed by Tut actor Victor Buono who knew just what he was doing [WordOfGod according to interviews]). (Batman's belief that Ancient Egyptian arch-criminals invariably struck at the Hour of the Jackal, on the other hand, is presumably the same kind of divergence from reality that gives us Gotham City, the United World Organisation, and Londinium.)

* Every King Tut episode makes it appear at first that the writers have barely skimmed even a pamphlet on Egyptology, which at first seems odd considering Tut is the alter ego of a renowned Egyptologist... but then, of course, Professor [=McElroy=] is the Egyptologist, and he's also a mild-mannered kindly law-abiding citizen. King Tut is a separate identity, so of course it makes sense that in addition to being a megalomaniacal arch-criminal, he knows fuck all about the real Tutankhamun, let alone Ancient Egyptian history and culture as a whole. And some of the malapropisms and misuses of Egyptian mythology are clearly intended as in-jokes only fans of the myths would catch. (Batman's belief that Ancient Egyptian arch-criminals invariably struck at the Hour of the Jackal, on the other hand, is presumably the same kind of divergence from reality that gives us Gotham City, the United World Organisation, and Londinium.)

* Every King Tut episode makes it appear at first that the writers have barely skimmed even a pamphlet on Egyptology, which at first seems odd considering Tut is the alter ego of a renowned Egyptologist... but then, of course, Professor McElroy is the Egyptologist, and he's also a mild-mannered kindly law-abiding citizen. King Tut is a separate identity, so of course it makes sense that in addition to being a megalomaniacal arch-criminal, he knows fuck all about the real Tutankhamun, let alone Ancient Egyptian history and culture as a whole. And some of the malapropisms and misuses of Egyptian mythology are clearly intended as in-jokes only fans of the myths would catch. (Batman's belief that Ancient Egyptian arch-criminals invariably struck at the Hour of the Jackal, on the other hand, is presumably the same kind of divergence from reality that gives us Gotham City, the United World Organisation, and Londinium.)
* Some people wonder why Professor McElroy taught at Yale instead of a divergent reality university. However, it is established in the first episode by Aunt Harriet that Yale exists in the Batman 1966 reality when someone looks at a painting of Bruce Wayne's grandfather and asks if he was a member of Yale's Skull and Bones club, to which Aunt Harriet responds, "Member? Heavens no -- he was its founder!" The connection between the Wayne family and Yale makes Professor McElroy's periodic transformation into King Tut that much more personal.

* Every King Tut episode makes it very clear the writers have barely skimmed even a pamphlet on Egyptology, which at first seems odd considering Tut is the alter ego of a renowned Egyptologist... but then, of course, Professor McElroy is the Egyptologist, and he's also a mild-mannered kindly law-abiding citizen. King Tut is a separate identity, so of course it makes sense that in addition to being a megalomaniacal arch-criminal, he knows fuck all about the real Tutankhamun, let alone Ancient Egyptian history and culture as a whole. (Batman's belief that Ancient Egyptian arch-criminals invariably struck at the Hour of the Jackal, on the other hand, is presumably the same kind of divergence from reality that gives us Gotham City, the United World Organisation, and Londinium.)

* ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' establishes that the show is canon on Earth-66, but it also provides a neat explanation for the conflictions caused by the comics, animated films and the ''Legends of the Superheroes'' specials. Much like how the main universe of that crossover was altered, it's likely that the animated films and the specials were canon pre-Crisis while the comics, which crossed over with ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' which in turn was established to be canon on Earth-76 by ''Crisis'', are canon post-Crisis.

* Even though this is a light-hearted Batman, he is still Batman and watched his parents get killed. The pilot episode has Bruce Wayne outright confirm that he's motivated by his parents being killed by criminals.

* ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' establishes that the show is canon on Earth-66, but it also provides a neat explanation for the conflictions caused by the comics, animated films and the ''Legends of the Superheroes'' specials. Much like how the main universe of that crossover was altered it's likely that the animated films and the specials were canon pre-Crisis while the comics, which crossed over with ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' which in turn was established to be canon on Earth-76 by ''Crisis'', are canon post-Crisis.

* Even though this is a light-hearted Batman, he is still Batman and watched his parents get killed.

* In "''The Joker Goes to School/He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul''" Joker hooks up the Dynamic Duo to a pair of Electric Chairs, and if not for a handy power failure, we would've seen them fried.

* Even though this is a light-hearted Batman he is still Batman and watched his parents get killed.

* The show's InsistentTerminology always refers to Robin's real identity as Bruce's "youthful ward, Dick Grayson". It's an odd choice of words in a stiff formal phrase that seems out of place in the lunacy of the show -- until it hits you that Robin's actor is Burt ''Ward''. It's not just a phrase over-dramatized for comedy. It's an intentional pun on the actor's name!

* Even though this is a light hearted Batman he is still Batman and watched his parents get killed.

** By the same token, ''a lot'' of the villains' death traps, though whimsical and silly in concept, would have left a pretty horrific mess of our heroes' corpses if they had actually been successful.

!!!FridgeLogic

* In "The Thirteenth Hat" the Commissioner reported that there had been "Three more hats stolen right out from under our noses...not to mention their owners." How exactly did he know the hats had been stolen? We saw the kidnappings and the people were alone at the time. Did the Commissioner just notice that there were no hats left behind after the kidnapping and assume they'd been stolen rather than just left on the kidnap victims' heads?
* The episode "Joker's Provokers" features probably the only in-universe example of this: the episode revolves around Joker's magic box, which is somehow able to [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum speed up, reverse and stop time via hypnotism and]] [[WaterSourceTampering some special pills he plans to dissolve into Gotham's water supply]]. After the threat is over, Robin asks Batman how being hypnotized can allow someone to affect your passage of time (ie. not just their perception of it, as the effect is shown to be affecting even inanimate objects and gravity somehow), to which [[LampshadeHanging his only answer is to absentmindedly wax philosophical about how little they know about the nature of time]].

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