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With the December 9th DVD release of “The Dark Knight” in mind, I take you back to a simpler time. A time when the Joker wasn’t a ruthless, disfigured psycho-killer who unsuspectingly takes his victims by brutal means, such as the infamous pencil trick. A time when instead, the Joker was a slap happy clown who kind of reminds you of that really irritating, over the top gay who always laughs too loud and starts shrieking about the most trivial of matters. (You know who you are).

This Joker wasn’t into causing wide spread terror and mass murder so much as he was into defacing public and private property, taunting foes through verse and song, putting down rich people in an art class he’s teaching, challenging Batman to a surfing contest, and, perhaps worst of all, nefariously throwing fish at Batman, Robin, and the Gotham PD. Ummm… well, he did attempt intergalactic domination once.

Watch all of that and more in the above collection of outlandish Joker clips from the camp classic “Batman” television series. FUN FACT: If you look really closely, you can see actor Cesar Romero’s mustache hidden beneath layers of white pancake makeup. Romero refused to shave his mustache for the part.