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Stephen has become obsessed with Batman in recent months, his room now loaded with various Batman memorabilia and his closet filled with Batman shirts. Over the summer, he's gone a step further, and is in the process of building a functional Bat-Mobile. Jack messes with one of the knobs on the dashboard, causing white smoke to start pouring out from under the hood, and Stephen chases him away.

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  • Big Fancy House: Jack has to take a golf cart to get from the main house to the garage where Stephen is building his Bat-Mobile.
  • Cool Car: Stephen's Bat-Mobile is a remarkably accurate recreation of the Bat-Mobile from the 1960s TV series. Stephen is building it to be fully functional as a car and contain as many Bat-Mobile accurate decorations and functions as he can, and when he's shown driving it later in the series it's even cooler.
  • The Gadfly: Jack certainly knew that nothing good could come of him messing around with the knobs on Stephen's half-finished Bat-Mobile, and was obviously hoping to mess something up so he could get a rise out of Stephen for the video. Of course, given that these videos are staged, it makes sense why Jack would intentionally want to cause chaos.
  • Obsessive Hobby Episode: Stephen's become super into Batman, his room filled with Batman merchandise, shirts, and decorations. The 'obsessive' part comes in when it's revealed that he's spending his summer building a Bat-Mobile, and he implies that he's doing this instead of hanging out with friends.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Normally, Jack's role in the videos is to simply record Stephen having a meltdown, and maybe troll him a little bit to rile him up. In this episode, Stephen is genuinely minding his own business and doing nothing wrong, and is actually doing something really cool with the Bat-Mobile, when Jack shows up. Stephen is even (marginally) cordial with Jack when he shows up. Jack intentionally sabotages the Bat-Mobile in order to anger Stephen, screwing around with a knob on the dashboard and causing white smoke to pour out of the hood.

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