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"Love is a Croc" is the 13th and terminal episode of the commencement flavor of The New Batman Adventures.

Contents

• i Plot
• 2 Continuity
• three Groundwork data
  • 3.1 Home video releases
  • 3.ii Production notes
  • three.3 Product inconsistencies
  • 3.iv Trivia
• 4 Cast
• 5 Quotes

Plot

On a rerun from Love that Baby, a popular boob tube evidence from the past, two parents come home from the store with groceries, but to notice that their entire house has been flooded with bubble bathroom cream. The rerun is airing on a television in a Gotham Urban center motel vestibule.

A married couple currently staying at the motel, the wife half-carrying the husband, walk into the lobby as the human asks if it'due south the right place as the flooring is tilting. His married woman responds that information technology'south his head that is tilting, and to her silent infuriation it turns out he lost their room primal "when the sidewalk hitting him"; he's conspicuously boozer. The woman approaches the front desk-bound agent to explicate most their room fundamental. When the childlike woman uses a bar stool, which she's standing on, to get them a indistinguishable central from the board, the married man recognizes the employee to be Mary Louise Dahl, the former star of Dear that Baby. Despite his wife'southward horrified protest, the drunken lout rudely points out that she is a has-been, and insensitively talks about her systemic hypoplasia that doesn't allow her to grow, maxim that it acquired her "to go nuts and try to kill Batman." He messes upwardly Dahl's bun to release her hair and tells her to "Exercise something funny". Having finally reached the finish of her patience, she responds in kind past grabbing him by the nose, slamming his face into the sign-in book and slamming the cover on his head. Yet angry only with calm sarcasm, she tells the husband "Sorry, I didn't mean to."

Dahl stalks out of the antechamber and into her room, where she goes into an emotional rage, lamenting how she's "just unlike" from anybody else. She then turns on the television and watches the live courtroom competency hearing of Killer Croc, who pleads to the judge that he has been the victim of persecution considering he is "just different" from anybody else. Dahl lights upwardly, assertive she has found a kindred spirit. Unmoved past Croc'southward speech, the judge finds him mentally competent to stand trial for first degree murder. Croc becomes enraged and breaks free from his straitjacket and shackles, causing a panic. Bailiffs and orderlies attempt to sedate Croc, but his savage forcefulness hands overpowers them. Dahl thanks for him to escape. Croc jumps out a window and begins a binge but Batman arrives, knocking his head through the grille of a moving truck. Croc frees himself, then catches a Batarang in his oral cavity and chews it upwards, spitting it out at Batman's feet. Croc rips off the grille and hurls it. Dodging it, Batman continues to give chase and manages to tackle Croc into a brick wall, and stuns him with a dial. Dahl has left the cabin and arrives at the courthouse just in time to run into Batman sedate Croc with his jet injector, recapturing him.

After in jail, Croc is being held in a special water tank. A guard brings Dahl to see him as a visitor. She feeds him several chickens to get his attention. Dahl tells Croc they are kindred spirits considering they both know the pain of existence "just different" from everyone else. Croc tells her that he'll be sentenced to death the next 24-hour interval, merely Dahl tells him non to lose promise.

Past the next night, Mary Louise Dahl has officially checked out and Babe-Doll is back. Equally government are transferring Croc to state prison in a police van, Baby-Doll poses as a child in the eye of the road, causing them to swerve off the road and scroll down an embankment. Babe-Doll electrocutes the guards that are still standing and liberates Croc. Baby-Doll hugs her "precious" and professes her love for him. Croc is confused with her behavior, merely he's not about to turn down a "get out of jail free" card.

Sometime later, Baby-Doll and Croc take made a home in the sewer, patterning it after a fifties family home. Croc, notwithstanding, presently grows tired of the "mushy stuff" and shows her a paper that describes them as "Gotham'south Bonnie and Clyde". Croc opens a cupboard containing piles of money and stashes some in his overcoat, telling her he'll be back for dinner. Babe-Doll tries to convince him to stay, only her nagging merely pushes him out the door that much faster. Croc departs angrily, leaving behind a sorry and confused Baby-Doll.

Batman explains to Batgirl, riding in the Batboat, that Baby-Doll is basing all of their crimes near water, playing to Croc'south strengths.

Meanwhile, on a luxury cruise liner, Infant-Doll distracts a security baby-sit and Croc robs the casino on board. Croc and Baby-Doll empty the money into a sack, and everyone in the casino runs out screaming. Noticing the commotion, Batman and Batgirl board to stop Croc and Baby-Doll from making their escape. Batgirl's Batarang cuts open the sack, spilling the money and slowing the crooks downwardly, but Croc physically bests Batman by tossing a large six wheel at him. The table hits a hanging neon sign, causing it to fall and explode, throwing heavy debris on them. Baby-Doll and Croc escape with only some the money, only Batman sees them leave a trail of loose bills leading to the pair going into the sewer.

Inside the their hideout, Croc breaks a lamp, angry with Batman. Babe-Doll tries to finish Croc from leaving again, but he knocks her off of his leg with his coat. She follows him and finds out he'due south been sneaking out to see other women, and plans to, after a couple more big jobs, to go out Gotham without her. Back at the hideout, she wakes him up to tell him that she's sorry for getting angry with him and that they accept one more job to pull.

After, Batman and Batgirl detect the villains' "home" in the sewers to be empty, relieve for a booby-trap bomb that they narrowly escape. Earlier the sewer blew up, Batman finds a cartoon indicating that their next target is the nuclear power found on Mid River Island.

At the plant, Baby-Doll and Croc have incapacitated the guards, and she tells him how the reactor will blow up Gotham. He asks if they're going to demand a ransom payoff, but she reveals that she knows about his other girlfriends and that he doesn't really beloved her. To his horror, Baby-Doll vows that they will both die together and have Gotham with them. He demands she shut it down but she tells him to do information technology himself, which is clearly beyond him. Batman comes in and battles Croc, who warns that Baby-Doll is trying to cause a meltdown, while Batgirl knocks Baby-Doll away from the controls. Baby-Doll escapes the control room every bit the reactor is about to achieve disquisitional mass, but Batgirl succeeds in shutting it down safely. As Batman assigns Batgirl to stay put and keep an middle on the reactor, Croc escapes to become after Baby-Doll, with Batman in pursuit.

Croc finds Babe-Doll and holds her over a spinning turbine. He drops her but Batman swings across on his Batline and saves her. Croc so tackles Batman into a wall, which stuns him. As Croc carries him over to throw him into the turbine, his jet injector drops in front of Infant-Doll; she uses it on Croc and it gives Batman an opening to punch him. Croc tackles Batman down onto the turbine'southward walkway and tries to button his head into the car, but the cowl'south ears are revealed to be reinforced with metal and forbid it. Batman knocks Croc away from the turbine and into a wall most several pipes. Croc tries to pull out a smaller piping fastened to a large one to use every bit a weapon, but tin can't run into the danger sign alarm that the pipes bear pressurized hot h2o. Batman tries to warn him but it's too belatedly; the attachment point fails, causing scalding h2o to blast Croc across the room and knock him unconscious. Baby-Doll runs over to Croc and tearfully laments how happy they could take been together.

Continuity

• This episode picks up and refers to the events of the Batman: The Blithe Series episode "Baby-Doll".

Background information

Home video releases

• Batman: The Blithe Series, Volume 4 (DVD)
• Batman: The Complete Animated Serial (DVD)
• Batman Super-Villains: Killer Croc (DVD)
• Batman: The Complete Animated Series (Blu-ray)

Production notes

• When Baby-Doll's bouncing ball explodes, for 1 frame there is a flash of calorie-free that is reused footage from the gas canisters that Superman ignites in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "The Fashion of All Flesh".
• Besides, when the bomb in Baby-Doll'southward lair blows upward the ensuing explosion is reused footage from "My Girl" when Mr. Eelan blows a vat of hot led off its support. Correct after that, in that location's some other explosion that is reused footage from the scene of "World's Finest, Part 3" in which two Wayne/Lex T-7 droids blow upwardly after Batman electrocutes them.

Production inconsistencies

• When Croc shows the Daily Planet article, a smaller headline on the folio says, "Supermans easily total" without an apostrophe. Some other says, "when will it finish" without a question mark.
• Jeff Glen Bennett's proper noun is spelled with three f'due south in the credits.
• A poster of Killer Croc in the sewer hideout has "Killer Crock" in one scene and "Killer Croc" in another.
• Killer Croc is sentenced to Stonegate Penitentiary, simply Baby-Doll meets with him in Arkham Aviary.

Trivia

• The episode'southward title is a pun on the maxim "Love is a crutch", only also on the word "crock", "foolish belief".
• Ane of the stuffed animals on Mary Louise-Dahl's burrow is Yogi Bear.
• Laraine Newman replaces Alison LaPlaca as the voice of Baby-Doll.
• Brooks Gardner replaces Aron Kincaid as the voice of Killer Croc.

Cast

Actor	Role
Kevin Conroy	Batman/Bruce Wayne
Tara Charendoff	Batgirl/Barbara Gordon
Laraine Newman	Baby-Doll/Mary Louise Dahl
Brooks Gardner	Killer Croc
Lauri Johnson	Mom
Jeff Glen Bennett	Dad
Richard Doyle	Harry
Buster Jones	Judge

Quotes

Babe-Doll: Why don't they always sympathise? I'm not a baby. I'm not a kid! I'm just... unlike!

Baby-Doll: I heard what yous said to the judge. I want yous to know that I empathize about being unlike. Yous've never let the way you expect undermine your self-confidence. I admire that. I feel somehow that we're kindred spirits.
Killer Croc: Besides bad we didn't come across sooner, babe. They're sending me upward the river tomorrow night. My number's upward.
Infant-Doll: Don't lose hope. Possibly fate will take a mitt.

Batgirl: What practise you suppose they do on a date?
Batman: (pauses) I don't want to remember virtually it.

Batgirl: Normally, I don't approve of spanking, but in her case...

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