How can the best Batman TV show ever become even better? By bringing in Scooby-Doo to guest-star.
Yes, Cartoon Network’s wonderful Batman: The Brave and The Bold – which, if you haven’t seen it and like smiling, is highly recommended – has confirmed that the Mystery Machine’s most famous passenger will be re-teaming with the Dark Knight as part if an upcoming episode entitled “Bat-Mite Presents: Batman’s Strangest Cases!,” alongside an unnamed guest-star playing themselves, a la old episodes of Scooby Doo.
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The Batman/Scooby team isn’t anything new; Batman guest-starred in more than one episode of the 1970s series The New Scooby Doo Movies, alongside Robin and villains like the Joker and the Penguin, demonstrating the early power of corporate synergy to a still-innocent generation of children.
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Although the characters haven’t crossed paths much in the last thirty years, there’s no better place for this reunion than Brave and the Bold, especially a Bat-Mite episode. After all, the last Bat-Mite episode proved that the show had no problem going to areas other Batman shows may fear to tread…
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