History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE56HarleyAndIvy

* SoMuchForStealth: Harley slips into the museum, [[SheFu gracefully evades]] the [[LaserHallway laser grid]], and starts carefully cutting into a diamond display case. Then the alarm gets set off by Ivy's intrusion elsewhere in the museum, so Harley just smashes, grabs, and runs.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn work together when Harley is thrown out by ComicBook/TheJoker. The first time this happened it cuts from them driving away to them wearing only their shirts and maybe panties talking about how much they hate men. Whenever they are seen hiding together, they only ever seem to have one bed.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn work together when Harley is thrown out by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. The first time this happened it cuts from them driving away to them wearing only their shirts and maybe panties talking about how much they hate men. Whenever they are seen hiding together, they only ever seem to have one bed.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Three obnoxious frat-boy types (drawn to [[SelfDeprecation resemble Bruce Timm, Ted Blackman and Eric Radomski]]) rudely [[WolfWhistle leer and catcall Harley and Ivy]] at a traffic light. Harley pulls out a grenade launcher and blows up their car as they run for their lives.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Only noticeable in the background, but when Harley and Ivy were hiding out in a small one-room apartment [[HoYay there was only one bed]]. Though this is generally justified, as it demonstrates that they had absolutely no start-up capital and could barely afford this empty room with a bed. And given the amount of LesYay in that partnership ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar more than you could ever expect from a children's show in the '90s]]), very deliberate.

* VillainEpisode: Batman appears briefly at the very beginning, and then isn't onscreen again until well past the halfway point.

* VillainTeamUp: Our titular ladies, of course.

* MadeOfExplodium: Ivy's entire ''neighborhood'', by virtue of being built on top of a toxic waste dump full of flammable chemicals.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Pamela insists she and Harley are fighting {{Double Standard}}s in Gotham crime, but her relationship with Harley is the same as the one Harley has with the Joker: Pamela is dominant, and Harley is (still) submissive.
** She also seems quite willing to eat salad herself, despite previous episodes where she accused anyone who kills plants of being a murderer.
** A subtler example involves Ivy's misandry, as she goes around basically beating all men over the head with accusations of misogyny and sexism. In a particularly atrocious moment, she gloats about chaining Batman up with various cleaning implements she refers to as "the bonds of female domestic slavery" as she and Harley are preparing to drown him; conveniently forgetting that those implements are all labor-saving devices that ''men'' specifically invented to ''ease'' domestic women's work loads, which is what gave a lot of those women in the 19th and 20th centuries the leisure time they needed to pursue other interests, such as (among other things) suffrage and other forms of women's empowerment. ''[[DudeWheresMyReward You're welcome, Ivy.]]''

** A subtler example involves Ivy's misandry, as she goes around basically beating all men over the head with accusations of misogyny and sexism. In a particularly atrocious moment, she gloats about chaining Batman up with various cleaning implements she refers to as "the bonds of female domestic slavery" as she and Harley are preparing to drown him; conveniently forgetting that those implements are all labor-saving devices specifically designed to ''ease'' domestic women's work loads, which is gave a lot of those women in the 19th and 20th centuries the leisure time they needed to pursue other interests, such as suffrage and other forms of women's empowerment.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Only noticeable in the background, but when Harley and Ivy were hiding out in a small one-room apartment [[HoYay there was only one bed]]. Though this is justified, as it was to demonstrate that they had absolutely no money and could barely afford this empty room with a bed. And given the amount of LesYay in that partnership ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar more than you could ever expect from a children's show in the '90s]]), very deliberate.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn work together when Harley is thrown out by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. The first time this happened it cuts from them driving away to them wearing only their shirts and maybe panties talking about how much they hate men. Whenever they are seen hiding together, they only ever seem to have one bed. It was confirmed by WordOfGay.

-->'''Montoya:''' Alright ladies, raise 'em.

** She also seems quite willing to eat salad herself, despite previous episodes where she accused anyone who kills plants of murder.

* MadeOfExplodium: Ivy's entire ''neighborhood'', by virtue of being built on top of a chemical dump full of flammable materials.
* MinionShipping
* NeverMyFault: As you might expect, the Joker blames ''everything'' that went wrong in the botched robbery at the beginning on Harley, even though a ''lot'' of it happened because of his own mistakes. (And she was able to prevent them from being caught.)
* NoSell: The Joker tries to use his laughing gas on Poison Ivy after she and Harley upstage him. She lets out a brief laugh before revealing that it doesn't work on her, at which point she kicks him in the balls.
* ShoutOut: Poison Ivy's license plate is "[[Film/CitizenKane ROSE BUD]]".

* StayInTheKitchen: Touched when Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy team up, and grumble about the lack of respect they get from males. At one point they briefly get the upper hand on Batman and ask him if ''he'' is bothered by being beaten by "mere girls".

* TemptingFate: At the end Harley and Ivy have escaped both the Joker's gang and the Batman by using the latter to deal with the former, and Ivy cries that "[[NoManOfWomanBorn No man can take us prisoner!]]" Cue [[FairCop officer Renee Montoya]] (a woman) shooting out their getaway car's tires.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Only noticeable in the background, but when Harley and Ivy were hiding out in a small one-room apartment [[HoYay there was only one bed]]. Though this is justified, as it was to show that they had absolutely no money and could barely afford this empty room with a bed. And given the amount of LesYay in that partnership ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar more than you could ever expect from a children's show in the '90s]]), very deliberate.

* VillainTeamUp
* WouldHitAGirl: Batman is smart enough to not recognize genders in a fight.

* VillainEpisode: The episode is past the halfway point before Batman appears on screen.

* VillainEpisode

-->'''Joker:''' (''pained falsetto'') Get 'em...

* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see the Joker stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Pamela insists she and Harley are a team that fights about {{Double Standard}}s at Gotham crime, but her relationship with Harley is a mirror of the one Harley has with the Joker: Pamela is dominant, Harley is submissive.

* LetsSeeYOUDoBetter: InUniverse, Joker says this to Harley Quinn. And for once, Harley does just that with Poison Ivy.
-->'''Joker:''' Maybe I should let YOU run the gang! Maybe YOU are a better crook that the rest of us put toghether!

* ShoutOut: Poison Ivy's license plate is "[[Film/CitizenKane Rose bud]]".

* TemptingFate: At the end Harley and Ivy have escaped both the Joker's gang and the Batman by using the latter to deal with the formers, and Ivy cries that "No man can take us prisoner!" Cue officer Renee Montoya (a woman) shooting out their getaway car's tires and taking them prisoner.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Only noticeable in the background but when Harley and Ivy were hiding out in a small one-room apartment [[HoYay there was only one bed]]. Though this is justified, as it was to show that they had absolutely no money and could barely afford this empty room with a bed. And given the amount of LesYay in that partnership ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar more than you could ever expect from a children's show in the '90s]]), very deliberate.

-->'''Montoya:''' Alright ladies, raise em'

''Poison Ivy:''' A very enlightened statement, Batman. We'll carve it on your headstone.