YMMV / Batman and Robin (Serial)

• Ass Pull: The evil twin thing has absolutely zero lead in and comes across 100% as an ass pull. If they had done some light foreshadowing, it may have helped, but as it stands, it's a total Deus Ex Machina.
• Bile Fascination: After Rifftrax put the serial on the map, plenty of people began to tune in and watch it just for how hilariously cheap the production is and what a total embarrassment these versions of Batman and Robin are, eclipsing even the worst Batmen we've had before (the lists typically name Ben Affleck and George Clooney as the worst Batmen, though some people didn't care for Val Kilmer's Batman either).
• Captain Obvious Reveal: It's abundantly clear that The Wizard is Carter. The actor only slightly lightens his voice when he's with Professor Hammil, so you know in only a few sentences that it's him. That being said, it's unlikely anyone would guess about the evil twin until the penultimate episode where Carter has been murdered, yet he shows up at the Gotham Police precinct attempting to kill Batman, Robin, Commissioner Gordon, and Vicky.
• Dawson Casting: It's unclear as to what age they're implying Robin to be, but there's a discrepancy between how they talk about him versus how old he appears to be. They still refer to him as the Boy Wonder, but the actor is clearly a grown man and at least one of his stuntmen has a bald spot, so it is a bit confusing as to how old this version of Robin is. He seems to be anywhere from late teens to late twenties.
• Fight Scene Failure: The fight scenes in this serial are nothing short of hysterical. Absolutely no one ever connects a punch or kick and the Mooks have a tendency to fall over or outright just throw themselves to the ground to simulate being hit or being knocked out. It's next to impossible to choose one, but the one that comes closest to being the most absurd is a cop handcuffs one of The Wizard's men to him and then is escorting him somewhere. Another Mook pops out from behind the cop and hits him with a rolled-up newspaper and then that somehow renders the cop unconscious. Special mention also goes to the episode where Bruce has been captured by The Wizard's men on the suspicion that he is Batman, so Alfred dresses up as him to distract them while Robin goes to save Bruce. How does that rescue go? Robin snags the edge of the Mook's chair and tips him over. Bruce then grabs the table and chair and piles it on top of him along with the tablecloth and escapes out the window rather than, you know, just punching the guy's lights out. Who says fighting crime isn't funny?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the Wizard's mooks is named Nolan.^note When Rifftrax took on the serials, this was not left unnoticed.
• Memetic Badass: The almighty GABE, thanks to the Rifftrax versions.
• Memetic Loser: Batman and Robin are utterly pathetic in this serial compared to nearly every other version of them in adaptations. They fumble every single clue, get their asses kicked in every single episode, and almost never anticipate a single move the Wizard plays. They don't figure out his identity until the literal last second and even then, they're too late to stop him from murdering his twin and letting Professor Hammil take the blame. If nothing else, this serial is a fascinating example of what not to do in a superhero serial.
• Memetic Molester: Jimmy Vale. Upon stumbling across Batman unconscious in a hallway (he touched an electrified doorknob and was electrocuted), he drags him into a nearby room...and starts taking off his costume. Now, this part isn't revealed until the episode after it occurs, where Bruce recounts to Robin that he came around sometime after Jimmy dragged him into another room, but it's very creepy before we find out that Jimmy took off the costume so he could then don it and get out of building without the Mooks knowing it was him. The plan immediately backfires and he gets punched out of a window and falls to his death. It is outright bizarre that Bruce, who said he was conscious when Jimmy started taking off his costume, didn't stop Jimmy from taking off his costume when he had already regained consciousness and the scene feels awful creepy as a result.
• No Budget: And how. First off, Batman and Robin's outfits are very cheap looking and you can tell the holes in Batman's cowl weren't cut right because the actor has to constantly tilt his head back to see what's in front of him. Second off, we find out they keep their suits balled up inside a file cabinet in the Batcave, which is also why they look so cheap and wrinkled. The most egregious example, though, are the "fight scenes." Either there was no fight choreographer on set or it was so far back in time that no one thought to have that position in filmmaking, but whatever the reason, every single fight scene is a hilarious mess. They visibly hit nothing but air when they swing and most of it involves fumbling and flailing around until someone finally flops over unconscious (and 90% of the time, that someone is Batman and Robin). Then there's the fact that Wayne Manor—which is a huge mansion in the comics and in all the other adaptations—is instead just a large, nice house that inexplicably has a cave under it despite it looking like a house in the middle of the suburbs.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: The costume designer really does a poor job on Batman's cowl, since the whole serial through, the actor is clearly tilting his head back just so he can see what's in front of him. It can get rather distracting to viewers as a result.

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