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The Dark Knight Mashed Up with the Campy Knight of 1966

Warner Bros. has been tossing enough promo photos, teaser trailers, viral ads, and movie posters onto the internet to cause a serious glut of Dark Knight materials. Which is where this refreshing slap in the face video comes from. Netizen and part-time editor ntbone has mashed up the sound from the recent trailer for The Dark Knight with clips he's cut together from the 1966 Batman movie, starring Adam West as the caped crusader.

For those of you who haven't seen it, the Joker (who also is the central baddie in the upcoming movie) goes nuts in this film and dehydrates the world leaders at the United Nations, turning them into piles of dust. Luckily, Batman and Robin save the day, but screw things up a bit when they rehydrate everyone: everyone now speaks the wrong language. Hilarity! The dynamic duo then head off, leaving the leaders to deal with the problem on their own.

I'm surprised it's taken someone this long to do a Batman mashup with the old series, but this one made me laugh pretty hard. Especially the "Like me!" shot. I don't know why I'm finding Cesar Romero speaking with Heath Ledger's voice so amusing, but chalk it up to fumes and crossed wires. If someone could make us a some high-quality Heroes, or better yet, Misfits of Science meets meets X-Men mashups, we might be okay with the current state of television.

2:12 PM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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JoeyTheHobo at 02:28 PM on 01/04/08
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I actually have the original on VHS; It's one of the only reasons I hold onto my VCR....
Chiper at 02:30 PM on 01/04/08
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XMEN MASHUP!
I like the way you think.
tetracycloide at 02:36 PM on 01/04/08
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those suggestions are all well and good but i think what tv really needs right now is more adam west
92BuickLeSabre at 02:38 PM on 01/04/08
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Wait, the new movie is going to have Catwoman and the Penguin in it! Oh...oh, I get it.

There's something wrong with me in any case....I think I prefer Cesar Romero to Heath Ledger.
JosephFinn at 02:49 PM on 01/04/08
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My favorite part is that you can tell Cesar Romero still has his mustache under the face paint.
doctor_cos at 02:53 PM on 01/04/08
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@tetracycloide: And more cowbell!!
Thunderclap8 at 03:12 PM on 01/04/08
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This is hilarious, really well done. But why would you copy a youtube video into your own flash player interface? All that does is rob the creator of credit.

Here it is on Youtube: [www.youtube.com]
GentlyClubBillPart2 at 03:20 PM on 01/04/08
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Wait a minute... I thought Heroes *was* a high-quality Misfits of Science meets X-Men mashup...
Charlie Jane Anders at 03:23 PM on 01/04/08
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@Thunderclap8: I can't speak for Kevin, but the problem with Youtube videos is they get taken down all the time. If we post them on our blog, we could end up with a big empty space where the video was supposed to be. And Kevin did give the creator of this video credit.
mumblingmynah at 03:27 PM on 01/04/08
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This reminds me of this Frank Miller/Adam West mashup.
tetracycloide at 03:29 PM on 01/04/08
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i for one am thanking for the port to the local flash player because youtube is blocked at work and the flash movies are not
Bancho at 03:35 PM on 01/04/08
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Ya know, I loved that movie as a kid.
robster75 at 03:46 PM on 01/04/08
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Excellent! Though possibly inspired by this lolbatman mashup from last year?
WickedGlee at 04:46 PM on 01/04/08
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@GentlyClubBillPart2: I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Klink258 at 05:22 PM on 01/04/08
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@JoeyTheHobo: It's out on DVD you know, I have it...
My favorite quote from the menu: "Holy interactive menus batman!"
ihtdet at 02:30 AM on 01/05/08
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Cesar Romero in this creeps me out less than he usually does as joker it must be that i cant see his mustache
Thunderclap8 at 06:13 AM on 01/05/08
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@CharlieJane: I guess that's true, and I really need to learn to read better, I totally missed the credit... oops.
aboriginal at 06:49 AM on 01/05/08
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Where Spielberg got the idea for JAWS
OMG! Ponies! at 07:01 AM on 01/05/08
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I forgot how hot the Julie Newmar Cat-woman was. Thanks io9!
tossrStu at 03:40 PM on 01/06/08
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On a similarly silly note, this video from ~18 months ago made me giggle a lot.

[uk.youtube.com]
NeoPoliticus at 03:57 PM on 01/06/08
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Considering that Batman Begins was one of the worst movies ever made, at least the advertising campaign for Dark Knight is interesting. But I don't hold out any hope for the movie.
cde at 05:42 PM on 01/06/08
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I got more excited seeing this then I did the real trailer....

God, Joker looks like a Crow reject. He's not insane, he just has emo issues. Where's the bliss in insanity? HE'S NO JACK NICHOLSON!

That being said, where's the Batman 80's mashup?
cde at 05:43 PM on 01/06/08
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@tossrStu: And this: Monty Python: Star Wars Episode III and 1/2
[uk.youtube.com]
Koreanish at 06:31 PM on 01/15/08
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This is my favorite episode of Batman, ever. It's permanently etched in my mind.