User Reviews

Oddball episode with the Joker making trouble at the beach.

Another reviewer called this episode "boring"?? Well I admit this adventure has a few problems, mainly the plot point of Batman and Robin being turned into surfboards, but boring is the last word in the world I would use to describe Surf's Up, Joker's Under!

I just turned a blind eye to the silly aspects of the tale and just went along with this insight into 1960s surf culture. I am an Australian so I guess by nature I get sucked into all types of beach shows, and I don't often see beach shows where people talk like this.

Once again, those jazzy Billy May music cues keep coming, the music heard over the start is some of his best music so far.

To the critics I say this: turn off your brain and just get sucked into this colourful nonsense! Enjoy!

I've only given this a higher ranking simply because it was the first one I saw and remember and if I hadn't have seen this one I wouldn't have got into it. Sure there are many better episodes especially for the joker character but there's some great scenes and jokes too that are memorable. The surfboard scene where Batman and robin are turned into them is the series at its silliest but it's an episode to just sit back and enjoy.

...The Writer's Tripe Out.

Holy inferior season, Batman! That's right, Robin. The Joker previously had such dastardly plans as turning the city's water supply into jelly and a device that stopped time, and went forward and backwards, and of course killing the dynamic duo, but here, what is his evil, ominous, deliciously malicious diabolical scheme? Why, to become the king of surfing by way of winning a surfing contest, so that hopefully fellow surfers will follow him and maybe take over Gotham City, followed by possibly the world. Maybe.

This episode is marked by some pretty wooden acting and bad casting by a couple bit part people, and a plot that is tedious and hard to get through, especially considering what we were used to in the first season, and the lesser second season.

The reduced budget is painful to watch here, and seeing Batgirl shoved in pointlessly every single episode, also as painful to watch.

Only pluses: seeing Gordon and O'Hara dressed up as beach bums. An out-of-place classic line uttered by Batman, "You mean that woman talking to her hot dog?". And a surprise: previously Billy May, whom took over as the show's composer for the final season (except one episode in which Nelson Riddle returned, "The Unkindest Tut of All"), had failed to use any of the classic bad guy themes, including not using Penguin's iconic theme, but in this episode that May scored, Joker's theme returns.

If you're one of those people who like to stick it out until the bitter end just for that sake of seeing every episode, then have at it, but prepared to be bored and find you've wasted your time. Otherwise, skip it.