The original Batman movie and TV series with Adam West was superb. Not only a glorious technicolour 60s camp fest, with classic scenes such as “Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb”, but everything had labels.
BIG obvious labels.
“Lets try the Anti-Crime Computer” one of the characters would say, and there, in its large labelled glory was the very device. The over-obviousness of it all made me chuckle a lot, which the children would take as meaning “I love big signs, and that includes road signs”.
Now, there is the Tumblr blog Bat Labels which has set the task of collecting all of these together. There are many great examples, but surely the “Death Bee Hive Trip Wire” is one of the best…
