BAT-TRAPS BEST & WORST ???????????

[chetchumley]

Dont know if this topic ever came???? up but , which was the best & worst in your opinion of all the BAT-TRAPS ?????????
BEST ........THE GIANT CLAM..it was one of the few times that you actually thought ROBIN had been eliminated !!!
WORST.....the exploding MICE !!! ..... enough said

[elmrgraham]

The Best:The spinning turbine wheel traps by The Riddler.The worst:Minerva,s Pressure Cooker Trap.My opinion.

[gbanneriii]

Best: Giant Grills w/ Huge magnifying glasses positioned over B&R, Human Surfboards, or Minstrell's Barbecue Spit roaster.

Worst: Giant Clam

SORRY!

[dell]

Best: Lots of them; too many to mention all of them.

Worst: There were a few real clunkers in the show. As mentioned, exploding mice (groan). I also thought Colonel Gumm's Stamping machine was lame. As was the alvino ray gun that flattened the Terrific Trio.

[John Mack]

Best: The Purrfect Crime assortment
Worst: Siamese human knot

[Gorshin Romero]

Best: The Purrfect Crime assortment
Worst: Siamese human knot

Ditto that one for me. Otherwise I'd have to say Robin tied to the bloody tower while Lord Pfogg blows his stupid fog cloud in the room.

Best: Well if we're talking strictly for laughs, I'd have to say Harry's (Chandell's) music hole punch machine. The way our heroes escaped it had me laughing myself silly.

[BATWINGED HORNET]

Best:

• Everything from Catwoman's debut.
  Technically not a trap, but the Joker attempting to unmask the duo on live TV - such a comic book-styled moment
  Aunt Harriet suspended over boiling oil (Zelda)
  Robin tied to the Big Benjamin clock (Bookworm)
  Bruce Wayne fed to the incinerator (Penguin)
  Robin on the plank positioned over the crocodiles (Tut)
  Batman sealed in the sarcophagus / submerged in the pool (Tut)
  The Clock King's giant hourglass
  The duo strapped to chairs wired for electrocution (Joker)
  The duo tied to grills, awaiting the passing of the eclipse (Catwoman)
  Dual trap: machine gun ambush / O'Hara's trunk pushed into an electrified pool (Penguin)

Worst:

• Exploding, wind-up mice
  Human Siamese knot
  Louie's man-eating plant
  deadly fly (Penguin)
  Quicksand cake (Riddler)
  exploding shark (movie)
  Party City "spiders" (Black Widow)
  Hot air balloon (Puzzler)
  Batgirl in the tower
  Dr. Cassandra's gun
  Any trap from Olga/Egghead
  Human surfboards (Joker)
  Chandell's trap

[Progress Pigment]

The Clock King's hourglass trap (by Bill Finger!), the Joker's poison smokestack, and the Riddler's spinning turbines are probably the best. The worst -- the Penguin's stupid "human teabag" thing in Enter Batgirl? It was little more than a throwaway just to keep "Enter BG" from being the first episode without a deathtrap.

[Dr. Shimel]

What seems ironic, given the huge popularity of the first season, is that the life-and-death traps that involved BOTH Batman and Robin took place in only eight of the 17 episodes, including only one of the first five. The nine others involved one or the other--or Aunt Harriet. Below are the ones where they faced dual danger:

**The first Joker didn't have the Duo in mortal danger, just exposure of their secret identities
*Mr. Freeze literally freezes them
*Riddler tries to spin them to death
*Joker tries to electrocute them
*False Face tries to have the subway run them over
*Penguin tries to have Gordon and O'Hara shoot them
*Riddler tries to boil them in wax
*Joker tries to gas them
*Penguin tries to cut their air supply off