Batman (TV Series)

Fine Feathered Finks (1966)

Burt Ward: Robin

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Quotes 

• Dick Grayson : Oh, heck! What's the use of learning French anyway?

  Bruce Wayne : Dick, I am surprised at you. Language is the key to world peace. If we all spoke each other's tongues, perhaps the scourge of war would be ended forever.

  Dick Grayson : Gosh, Bruce, yes. I'll get these darn verbs if they kill me.

• Robin : Holy haberdashery!

• Commissioner Gordon : There are three new umbrella factories. None of them, unfortunately, in the name of Penguin. It's a dead end.

  Robin : Could he be using an alias?

  Batman : Good thinking, Robin. Chief, read me the names on those umbrella-factory licenses.

  Chief O'Hara : Here's R.L. Howard. K.G. Bird. Sherlock...

  Batman : Bird?

  Robin : K.G. Bird... cagey bird! The Penguin, get it?

  Commissioner Gordon : Get it? Why, it's practically transparent.

• Batman : Strange. The umbrellas all went mad, creating the perfect cover for a holdup, and yet there was no holdup, right?

  Commissioner Gordon : Right as rain, Batman. The Penguin had everything set up and then didn't strike.

  Robin : The old one-two.

  Commissioner Gordon : Beg pardon, Boy Wonder?

  Robin : [pantomiming throwing punches]  Bam! A feint at the jewelry store to set us up for the real knockout later on... Zowie!

  Batman : Robin could be right... then again, I wonder if this whole affair might just have been a harmless practical joke.

  Commissioner Gordon : A joke, Batman?

  Batman : I have great faith in our prison system, Commissioner. Perhaps the Penguin's spell up the river has made him reform.

  Chief O'Hara : [scoffing snicker]  You're dreamin', Batman. It'll be a sad day for corkscrews when that crooked bird goes straight.

  Batman : Still, I'd like to know what his state of mind was when he left prison.

  Commissioner Gordon : [picking up a phone receiver]  Bonnie, send in Warden Crichton, will you?

  Batman : Warden Crichton? Of the state prison? Here?

  Commissioner Gordon : I anticipated your question, Batman. I had had rushed down here by helicopter.

• Batman : The important thing is to get on the Penguin's trail fast.

  Chief O'Hara : I'll put out a 4-points bulletin.

  Batman : Wait, I've got a better idea.

  Commissioner Gordon : Yes?

  Batman : The Penguin told us on that secret tape whatever his dazzling plot is, it involves umbrellas.

  Robin : So he'll need a front.

  Batman : Right. Quickly, Commissioner. Send for the city records. Let's find out if anyone's opened an umbrella factory in the last three days.

• Batman : What's the plot, Penguin?

  The Penguin : Ah! The Dynamic Duo! Such distinguished customers! May I show you my humble wares?

  Batman : We're not here to buy umbrellas and you know it.

  Robin : Spread your wings, Mr. K.G. Bird. We're flying you down to headquarters.

  The Penguin : On what charge, Boy Wonder?

  Robin : Illegal umbrellas!

  Batman : Assault and battery, disturbing the peace. We've got enough to put you back on ice, Penguin.

  The Penguin : Oh, tut, tut, Batman. I only *make* the umbrellas. What they do after they leave here is hardly my affair, now, is it?

  Batman : [turning to speak with Robin privately]  A tricky little creature. He's right.

  Robin : Darn it, not a thing to hold him on.

  Batman : Yet.

  The Penguin : Beg your pardon? Were you saying something?

  Batman : You've outsmarted us this time, Penguin, but don't get too confident. We know you're up to some super crime and we're going to watch you.