Although he acknowledges that the show's lighthearted tone won over hardcore fans by being "a love letter to Silver Age comics," he now longs for "the serious Batman." His plan: "I'll use my Fifth Dimensional powers to make the show so bad it won't just jump the shark, it'll do a quadruple spinning backflip over it. "What was once so fresh has become formula," he sighs. In tonight's swan song, titled "Mitefall!," the impish fourth-wall-breaking Bat-Mite (the mischievous voice of Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens) has grown tired of the series.
There's not much of that in comics right now." "You didn't have to worry about it being too young for the adult or too old for the kid - they just wrote them at a level that was accessible to a broader range of people.
"I always want this show to be what comic books were for me when I was a kid," producer James Tucker once told TV Guide Magazine. Punches and puns have flown with equal frequency, making the series popular with both families and fanboys. The show paired the character - whimsically voiced by Diedrich Bader in a performance that is simultaneously imposing and playful - with household names from the DC Comics pantheon (Superman, Aquaman) as well as obscure cult favorites (Blue Beetle and B'wana Beast, anyone?). Today is a sad day for Batman fans, with the series finale of The Brave and the Bold closing a chapter on the most joyful incarnation of the character since Adam West donned the cape and cowl in the 1960s.
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