To me Farmer Brown can actually work as agricultural villian compared to the mostly high tech future villians. His more traditional upbringing contrasts with Bruce Wayne's more comfortable one. Having someone who looks like they should be a farm man but is actually a very intelligent person makes for a great foil to most of the villains we have seen before.
For some reason, I just imagined an Amish-style low-tech farm community outside of the Gotham metro area with a super-advanced lab facility underneath it.
Farmer Brown kinda reminds of of Dr.Animo from Ben 10. Both use mutated animals, both became villains because their work was disregarded, and both are old men with long white hair.
When he was carving that cow and then turned it around to show two heads got to be one of the coldest but also disterbing scenes ive seen. It leaves a lot of room for imagination to think what else he can do.
Funny how people hate Farmer Brown because he’s a “campy” mad scientist farmer…despite the fact that The Scarecrow is ALSO in the same show, is dressed almost EXACTLY Like Brown and is ALSO A MAD SCIENTIST!!! It’s enough to make a Bub go Ee Ai Ee Ai-OY VEY!!
@@CrocsFortressokay but this isn't a horror show Farmer Brown doesn't need to be scary although arguably the fact he does weird genetic experiments on humans as well as animals is pretty scary to me
At the end of the episode, it was hinted that Farmer Brown's monsters might return. Not that I care that much about that character, but I wish the writers could have used his creations in another episode. Maybe, in a Batman Beyond episode, showing that some bugs survived and have been making a giant hive.
The best thing about this episode is the DVD commentary on it. Bruce Timm & Co are laughing their butts off on the whole thing, and once I watched the episode with that commentary, Ive never watched it again without it!
I think Farmer Brown is the only biologist in Batman's rogue gallery to not mutant themselves. He also reminds me of Dr. Animo from Ben 10 since both make giant mutant animals, which makes me think he has more potential then just being a one-off villain.
I actually like the episode and think Farmer Brown is a wasted villain. Partly because I can see more potential with Farmer Brown if the DC used him more. He's disturbing and scary (which kinda make every Batman villain), with what he has done with his daughter and animal. Imagine what more he could do.
I can really see the potential. I think they needed an amp up the country aspect of him and the mad scientist part. There's something about seeing a hillbilly with a PhD in super science that makes an interesting juxtaposition
@SerumLake maybe Dr. Milo was tinkering with his formula, and that's what created the giant pig that got him sanctioned? I'm gonna go with that headcanon.
Due to all flights from Canada being cancelled at the time due to an airline strike. He drove straight there and recorded his lines without sleeping apparently lol.
Reverse David Ogden Stiers in his guest appearance in Stargate Atlantis. When they were setting up his schedule to shoot, he apparently drove from California to Vancouver on the coast road in his sports car cause it was more fun than sitting in a plane.
Reminds me of that time the Canadian voice cast of X-Men: The Animated Series had to fly to the distant Spider-Man: The Animated Series studio to do voice acting for "The Mutant Agenda+The Mutants' Revenge". Really says something that only Storm appeared in the later "Secret Wars" arc for the latter. Thankfully, nowadays, we got stuff like Skype, which helped a lot for, as a neat example away from how voice acting worked out during the pandemic, Zach Tyler Eisen voice acting as Aang for Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I feel like Critters was a sign that Bruce's adventures were expanding beyond costume rogues and gangsters. Just like Demon within, Knight Tale and Critters, Batman was moving more into the wider DCAU and his adventures were becoming more fantastically. Even in BTAS Batman fought Monster created from science (Man-Bat and Clayface and Tygrus). I can understand why most people would dislike Critters but I respect the crew of the show for wanting to try new things and honestly if you suspend your disbelief, it is a fun episode. It is also the only episode in new adventures where Bullock plays an active role. Brown is not just motivated by profit. He is also wants revenge on the city for cutting his funding and he does not care who gets hurt in the process. He only redeeming trait is his genuine love for his daughter at least it looked genuine to me.
I always saw that Brown was a opposite to Professor Milo and Dorian prior, while the good farmer desires revenge for the cities disregarding of his potential solution to world hunger and agricultural strife, he does not become fully inhuman to all who encounter him (Brown loved his daughter and seemed to treat most of his animals okay) unlike Milo or Dorian who'd drop their creations/minions at the top of a hat. Only time I could see Brown being somewhat abusive to his animals are the mantises but those seem to be less living beings and more organic robots.
Honestly, I always liked this episode. While there's absolutely some Adam West Batman influences in the episode, it really feels to me like more of a Superman episode. And there's nothing wrong with that, I really liked the Superman animated series, more so than the New Batman Adventures at times. Swap out Batman with Superman, and Bullock with either Jimmy or Lois, and this episode really is a dead ringer for something from STAS.
Oh the Farmer Brown truck cameo in "The Ultimate Thrill" makes sense because both the episodes were being made at the same time according to the DCAU wiki.
They mention this in the commentary track for "Critters". "The Ultimate Thrill" comes before "Critters", and the people working on TUT added in the "Farmer Brown" truck establish Farmer Brown before he appears.
I...actually like this episode a lot but also I really like crazy sci-fi shit like this. Hell the supernatural stuff in this part of the series was also fun to me. IDK I really like the more "comic book" stuff
With your comment on the farming industry, I thought of how Sheep are selectively bred to produce so much wool they have to be sheared regularly to survive.
Another problem is that Farmer Brown would have worked as a Superman villain rather than a Batman one, especially the Man of Steel has more experience in the country side.
The writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck (who had no involvement with the Howard the Duck movie). Roxy Rocket getting "turned on" when she thinks she's about to die is much more cringeworthy than anything in Critters.
I believe Farmer Brown would've worked better as a SuperMan villain, for three reasons 1. I can totally imagine Brown incorporating kyrptonite into his animal experiments, because he anticipates Superman posing a threat to his revenge plans. 2. Since they both come from farming backgrounds, maybe Clark could know the Brown family personally. He could try to offer some help when Brown is court ordered to halt his experiments, but because Brown's too prideful he refuses and goes straight on to his revenge plot. This could create a interesting theme for the story about not being too proud to accept help. Even Superman needs help every now and then, and he's never ashamed to admit it. 3. We could see how strong Emmylou's beef steroids really are, by having her and Superman Duke it out.
I may be biased, given my love of the William Dozier Batman show, and the Silver Age in general, but I loved this episode when I first saw it. Funny enough, I also loved Gotham Academy, which not only has many DAU references, but many Dozier-verse references.
I love this episode of Farmer Brown and the giant animals and Daisy Duke with like she Hulk powers I thought it was pretty cool I mean I love this episode and I think it's pretty cool it's always a re-watch it reminds me of the Adam West Batman show a little bit❤
While Farmer Brown didn't do it for me, I always found the mantis scene worth a chuckle. It may not be Thanksgiving where you are, but I'm grateful for your work!
This was always one of my favorite episodes of TNBA, and it was the only one that I recorded on an old VHS upon which I had also taped Batman Returns and a few of my favorite B:TAS episodes
I really liked this villain. My main issue with the episode was how it swerved away from the main theme for regularly scheduled shenanigans. I think Farmer Brown, better than many other villains, was a guy who weaponized others (the animals in this case) against innocents, a guy who manufactured suffering and therefore manufactured monsters. It works really well with BTAS, but unfortunately that show didn't really go as far as it could've with that same thread. Many villains in the show create bad circumstances that create 'bad' people, who then do bad things as a reaction to that or as an attempt to escape that bad environment. With Father Brown, it was just much more literal.
Enoch 'Farmer' Brown could actually work with a little tweaking: as there is a 'Gunsmith' that works on specialty firearms like Penguin's Umbrellas, a Broker who leases abandoned buildings to villains, and a Carpenter that builds villainous lairs Farmer Brown could be growing specific plants for drugs and working/modifying steroids and hormones for a price. Ex: growing plants for Scarecrow Fear Toxin, the biological genetic compounds that turned Isley into Poison Ivy, modifying Waylon Jones disease into a more genetic splicing, modifying Venom to the point that his daughter is a variant of the drug without the side effects and bribing government contractors to give him immunity, raising animals for both human consumption and for villainous scientists to test their products on, scavenging scientific recipes or technology such as Maxie Zeus's Lighting Spear/Trident and making it his pitchfork. No one would suspect a Farmer applying his trade and growing things within city limits or inside an abandoned warehouse on an island. Emmylou could even be Shanghied into service for the Suicide Squad to free her imprisoned Father. You could even have them redeem themselves as animal activists or have Emmylou turn on Enoch after finding out he experimented on his wife/her mother and kept it a secret.
Emmylou Brown actually makes a cameo in the 'Batman and Harley Quinn' Animated Movie when Batman, Nightwing, and Harley Quinn go to a Henchmen Bar for a lead.
I can picture him getting his hands on The Titan Serum and trying to reverse engineer it to make a fortune and turn his struggling farm business around (with disastrous results)
Considering the writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, the creator of Howard The Duck, I'm not surprised with how humourous both the episode and Farmer Brown is.
I am with the people of Gotham. What Enoch did to that sheep an other animals is wrong. He doesn’t know how the horomones would affect the animals nor what it would do to their lifespans. Besides, you saw how aggresive that sheep got. He could have used that horomone to grow giant vegetables to end world hunger.
The idea was there, and I liked the concept, I just feel like the execution was not great. The farmer Brown idea would’ve been perfect, but it needed more time in the oven to make it great, and might need to reduce the amount of humor just to keep the episode balance.
Out of curiosity, would you consider Sin Tzu to be DCAU enough to be covered in one of your videos? Or is the fact that he only appeared in a video game (one tied to _The New Batman Adventures_ just to clarify) disqualify him as an official DCAU character?
I hate to tell u this but as far as temperament and personality goes the chickens were behaving normally 😅 Thier a very mean blood thirsty bird You only gotta see a flock of them turn a mouse into a skeleton in under a minute to know u don't wanna mess with them
True, the DCAU has its misses, as all great fiction are expected to have; some would say it's the somewhat skippable to a fault Mystery of the Batwoman, others like me would say The Zeta Project and its Batman Beyond crossover "Countdown" plus Static Shock's inane "Hoop Squad". Either way, even stuff like "Prophecy of Doom" shouldn't be lore skipped. It ain't a great ep, but it doesn't jump the shark while being too fillery either. In the meantime, oh, "Critters"... seriously, I've seen enough Futurama, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and anime and video games like Dirty Pair and Yakuza to know that this ep is just woefully misunderstood by hopefully a vocal minority of overreactionary casuals (don't worry, SL, you ain't one of them). Forget the big animals for enhanced livestock, what about Farmer Brown's daughter's enhanced supersoldier potential? Would make for an effective project for any anti-Superman/anti-Justice League organization like CADMUS, let alone ones allied with them, like perhaps ARGUS from the Fatal Five movie. (Now, if only they can expand to magical girls... can't depend on Supes and the JLU too much, after all, when expies of the Puella Magi and the PreCures should be around.) Gotta love that visual subversion of a normal farm actually being an indoors research facility that'll make the SCP Foundation blush a bit, not to mention his loophole abuse of moving "out of the city". I wonder where he got the extra resources and funds for these? Any chance there's a "Professor Moriarty" helping his schtick covertly, like Edwin Alva from Static Shock or even a predecessor to Amanda Waller? 4:12: Just like in the aforementioned Courage. Anyone remember that ep of a mountain goat guarding a dried up healing well? Ah, the advanced pitchfork. Brings into mind how, say, some magical girl outfits are actually stronger than kevlar or even the best exoskeletons out there despite the occasionally excessive frilliness and flashiness. However, if one wants a more mundane simile, it's like one of those, hmm, Meiji-era samurai walking sticks concealing their katana and wakizashi implements. All in all, I admire disingenuous characters. As a personal aside, would like to see a competent, somewhat paragonic, and by many means friendly senator type of character who's also fanboy of magical girls, flying craft, space age progress, and so on having quite an interesting character arc that then leads them to become President of the United States in their world's 2030s era, deservedly enough... only for things changing to showcase their closeted ruthlessness against the Chinese, Russians, Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Sweet Baby Inc. types, Weinsteins and Spaceys, and so on, an absurd yet ultimately buildup of military and social programs dedicated to creating XCOM and SG-1 types plus preventing entertainment brainrot to the masses (the latter's basically a mass ban and sometimes near-complete destruction of stuff like ; they're admittedly haters of such low quality fiction, so...), all the way to, shockingly, creating an all powerful, multipowered magical girl body (with research gained from rogue Multiversal operatives who sympathize lots with their extreme aims) worth transferring their mind and soul into when it's completed; by the time things finally reach the end, who knows if they end up battling the very things they've looked up to and even wanted to protect from evil. Oh, and said character may have actually isekai'd from, say, the Red Dawn 1980s film/Red Dawn +20 universe, which explains their judicial agenda and need to protect his new world from the sins and woes of his old one. (Yes, he kind of reminds me of me, but that's besides the point.) 5:36: Ah, fellow channel fan/loving chicken raiser Scrin will easily concur. Will have to wonder, was Batman: The Brave and the Bold showrunner James Tucker in the helm for this ep? "Harley's Holiday" and "Make 'Em Laugh" may count as comedic enough DCAU eps. 8:17: Actually, this ep should take place before "Critters", both in production and airdate order. Think of it as foreshadowing. 8:23: I'd say the same with Edwin Alva, especially with that top notch gear he used in eps like Season 4's "No Man's an Island". Oh, wish Dwayne McDuffie and co. used him in his full villainous potential, unlike his surprisingly passive and thus inconsequential role in the actual show... guess they can't have another manipulative bastard not named Lex Luthor or Darkseid in the same continuity, eh? Hmm, pertaining to the Terrific Trio preview, you also forget the fact that the Fantastic Four are now a group of memetic loser has-beens, especially with the far more marketable if not relatable Avengers, X-Men, and even The Incredibles in mind. At least, in my blunt opinion.
Critters is by far not the worst episode in my oppinion. In fact it has one thing that the worst episode-imo Prophecy of Doom which you heavily elluded to in the intro-does not You can tell what the writers were going for with Critters; a comedic romp with a guy who'd fit in with Bioshock's rapture if it was set in American Gothic rather than in the sea I at the very least can't tell what the writers were going for with the wannabe cult leader and his sweater wearing muscle who try to have as many explosions as a Micheal Bay production but barely have a quater of the explosions of a Loony Tunes segment.
I don't mind Farmer Brown, but I would have liked to have seen him take on former farm boy Superman instead.
Or a Superman and Batman tie-in.
@@JoeMoney52 That’s brilliant! He works much better on a thematic level with Superman
To me Farmer Brown can actually work as agricultural villian compared to the mostly high tech future villians.
His more traditional upbringing contrasts with Bruce Wayne's more comfortable one. Having someone who looks like they should be a farm man but is actually a very intelligent person makes for a great foil to most of the villains we have seen before.
For some reason, I just imagined an Amish-style low-tech farm community outside of the Gotham metro area with a super-advanced lab facility underneath it.
@michaelramon2411 i like that idea, make him smart and a clan or cult leader
Farmer Brown kinda reminds of of Dr.Animo from Ben 10. Both use mutated animals, both became villains because their work was disregarded, and both are old men with long white hair.
Don't forget in ultimate alien animo tried a farmer persona in that one episode
He even kinda looks like Alien Force Animo, to me at least.
When he was carving that cow and then turned it around to show two heads got to be one of the coldest but also disterbing scenes ive seen. It leaves a lot of room for imagination to think what else he can do.
a real CATDOG haah
Funny how people hate Farmer Brown because he’s a “campy” mad scientist farmer…despite the fact that The Scarecrow is ALSO in the same show, is dressed almost EXACTLY Like Brown and is ALSO A MAD SCIENTIST!!!
It’s enough to make a Bub go Ee Ai Ee Ai-OY VEY!!
Probably because Scarecrow had his Fear Toxin and that creepy costume to help make him scary.
That's a team up I'd be interested in tbh
Although he was “campy” it feels very 1940-50 DC comics where our heroes are facing against mad scientists.
@@CrocsFortressokay but this isn't a horror show Farmer Brown doesn't need to be scary although arguably the fact he does weird genetic experiments on humans as well as animals is pretty scary to me
Valid. I have no real feelings on either but I guess fears are cooler than big cows?
1:11 and 1:24
The daughter of the farmer, has a physical resemblance with Super girl.
I concur, remove the freckles and the resemblance is indeed uncanny.
At the end of the episode, it was hinted that Farmer Brown's monsters might return. Not that I care that much about that character, but I wish the writers could have used his creations in another episode. Maybe, in a Batman Beyond episode, showing that some bugs survived and have been making a giant hive.
The best thing about this episode is the DVD commentary on it. Bruce Timm & Co are laughing their butts off on the whole thing, and once I watched the episode with that commentary, Ive never watched it again without it!
I think Farmer Brown is the only biologist in Batman's rogue gallery to not mutant themselves. He also reminds me of Dr. Animo from Ben 10 since both make giant mutant animals, which makes me think he has more potential then just being a one-off villain.
Yeah,I think that he should make his Appearance in the next Batman Arkham Game.
I'd like to see a team-up or conflict with Poison Ivy. Though I want to see more of his daughter.
I actually like the episode and think Farmer Brown is a wasted villain. Partly because I can see more potential with Farmer Brown if the DC used him more. He's disturbing and scary (which kinda make every Batman villain), with what he has done with his daughter and animal. Imagine what more he could do.
Farmer Brown is either the most ridiculous or the most underrated villain in the DCAU depending on who you ask.
Personally I really like him.
I spend too much time and energy thinking about what he might’ve done for Cadmus…
yeah i've never seen this one but it looks awesome
I can really see the potential. I think they needed an amp up the country aspect of him and the mad scientist part. There's something about seeing a hillbilly with a PhD in super science that makes an interesting juxtaposition
@SerumLake maybe Dr. Milo was tinkering with his formula, and that's what created the giant pig that got him sanctioned? I'm gonna go with that headcanon.
Honestly I just feel bad for Farmer Brown's voice actor Peter Breck who had drive from Vancouver to Los Angeles to record ADR.
Due to all flights from Canada being cancelled at the time due to an airline strike. He drove straight there and recorded his lines without sleeping apparently lol.
Yikes
@@Elfenlied8675309 and hit it out of the park. what a man
Reverse David Ogden Stiers in his guest appearance in Stargate Atlantis. When they were setting up his schedule to shoot, he apparently drove from California to Vancouver on the coast road in his sports car cause it was more fun than sitting in a plane.
Reminds me of that time the Canadian voice cast of X-Men: The Animated Series had to fly to the distant Spider-Man: The Animated Series studio to do voice acting for "The Mutant Agenda+The Mutants' Revenge". Really says something that only Storm appeared in the later "Secret Wars" arc for the latter.
Thankfully, nowadays, we got stuff like Skype, which helped a lot for, as a neat example away from how voice acting worked out during the pandemic, Zach Tyler Eisen voice acting as Aang for Avatar: The Last Airbender.
He looks like he would say bah humbug
True
Looks like Scrooge too
Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?
I feel like Critters was a sign that Bruce's adventures were expanding beyond costume rogues and gangsters. Just like Demon within, Knight Tale and Critters, Batman was moving more into the wider DCAU and his adventures were becoming more fantastically. Even in BTAS Batman fought Monster created from science (Man-Bat and Clayface and Tygrus).
I can understand why most people would dislike Critters but I respect the crew of the show for wanting to try new things and honestly if you suspend your disbelief, it is a fun episode. It is also the only episode in new adventures where Bullock plays an active role.
Brown is not just motivated by profit. He is also wants revenge on the city for cutting his funding and he does not care who gets hurt in the process. He only redeeming trait is his genuine love for his daughter at least it looked genuine to me.
I always saw that Brown was a opposite to Professor Milo and Dorian prior, while the good farmer desires revenge for the cities disregarding of his potential solution to world hunger and agricultural strife, he does not become fully inhuman to all who encounter him (Brown loved his daughter and seemed to treat most of his animals okay) unlike Milo or Dorian who'd drop their creations/minions at the top of a hat.
Only time I could see Brown being somewhat abusive to his animals are the mantises but those seem to be less living beings and more organic robots.
Honestly, I always liked this episode. While there's absolutely some Adam West Batman influences in the episode, it really feels to me like more of a Superman episode. And there's nothing wrong with that, I really liked the Superman animated series, more so than the New Batman Adventures at times.
Swap out Batman with Superman, and Bullock with either Jimmy or Lois, and this episode really is a dead ringer for something from STAS.
Oh the Farmer Brown truck cameo in "The Ultimate Thrill" makes sense because both the episodes were being made at the same time according to the DCAU wiki.
They mention this in the commentary track for "Critters". "The Ultimate Thrill" comes before "Critters", and the people working on TUT added in the "Farmer Brown" truck establish Farmer Brown before he appears.
I...actually like this episode a lot but also I really like crazy sci-fi shit like this. Hell the supernatural stuff in this part of the series was also fun to me. IDK I really like the more "comic book" stuff
With your comment on the farming industry, I thought of how Sheep are selectively bred to produce so much wool they have to be sheared regularly to survive.
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Farmer Brown made an extremely brief Easter egg appearance in Space Jam 2
Seriously? It's not enough to make me watch it, but good on 'em if they dropped him in there.
He reminds me of Professor Milo since they both experiment with biology, particularly animals.
This was the only episode of New Adventures that made teenager me realize this was a really different show from BTAS.
I felt the same way about Joker’s Millions and Beware The Creeper
It also made me realize that the design guys were definitely trying to make young boys feel a certain way.
I would say Harley’s Holiday counts as a comedy episode. Loved the Gotham Academy shoutout btw.
Definitely, I was thinking the same thing. Its so funny!
This is a good villain in my book. people just do not want to see the evil in society.
Another problem is that Farmer Brown would have worked as a Superman villain rather than a Batman one, especially the Man of Steel has more experience in the country side.
The writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck (who had no involvement with the Howard the Duck movie).
Roxy Rocket getting "turned on" when she thinks she's about to die is much more cringeworthy than anything in Critters.
Granted, that moment was intentionally made cringey, because Roxy sure is something.
*DID YOU KNOW?*
Farmer Brown was voiced by Peter Breck, aka Nick Barkley on _The Big Valley,_ one of the GREATEST Western shows
ever aired!
I believe Farmer Brown would've worked better as a SuperMan villain, for three reasons
1. I can totally imagine Brown incorporating kyrptonite into his animal experiments, because he anticipates Superman posing a threat to his revenge plans.
2. Since they both come from farming backgrounds, maybe Clark could know the Brown family personally. He could try to offer some help when Brown is court ordered to halt his experiments, but because Brown's too prideful he refuses and goes straight on to his revenge plot. This could create a interesting theme for the story about not being too proud to accept help. Even Superman needs help every now and then, and he's never ashamed to admit it.
3. We could see how strong Emmylou's beef steroids really are, by having her and Superman Duke it out.
If Farmer Brown worked with Cadmus, maybe they use his growth serum on Galatea which is how she grew so much between her two appearances.
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I may be biased, given my love of the William Dozier Batman show, and the Silver Age in general, but I loved this episode when I first saw it. Funny enough, I also loved Gotham Academy, which not only has many DAU references, but many Dozier-verse references.
I liked the daughter. Def should have done more with her
I honestly love this character he's got a lot of potential sadly he hasn't been seen in any other media since.
I'm just imagining Bane and Emmylou teaming up to kill Batman and treating it like a date.
“Beef steroids?”
“Venom.”
@@SerumLake And then they see who can knock the Batwing out of the sky by throwing cars at it.
He was mexican inbthis??
@@raipe125he was South American, that much is known.
One thing I'll give Critters: Great monster design.
That episode was a criticism to transgenic foods. Also, maybe Farmer Brown sold his formula to Cadmus to be able to afford his revenge scheme.
The color red doesn’t aggravate cows. Bulls are attracted by the movement. They can’t see red
I love this episode of Farmer Brown and the giant animals and Daisy Duke with like she Hulk powers I thought it was pretty cool I mean I love this episode and I think it's pretty cool it's always a re-watch it reminds me of the Adam West Batman show a little bit❤
I feel like if he appeared before in the series as a good guy that coulda helped him maybe. Helped flesh him out
Same
Honestly farmer brown looks like he could be Scarecrows dad
Give that man some red glowing eyes and he's a dead ringer for Caleb from Blood.
I loved that episode. Really weird and fun, I wish the character was used more.
not gonna lie, Farmer Brown feels like a Superman villain that they shoved into Batman because he still had episodes left
I know someone, and his hens, who is going to love this.
the batman's dr animo
and he has a weird farm plot too
While Farmer Brown didn't do it for me, I always found the mantis scene worth a chuckle.
It may not be Thanksgiving where you are, but I'm grateful for your work!
I actually loved the episode for the small bit of body horror of these horribly mutated animals
I feel like Farmer Brown and his whole mad scientist schtick might have fit more in for Superman compared to Batman
I can see him trying to steal the Kent Farm, really playing up traditional vs factory farming
Farmer Brown and his daughter could have easily worked on Smallville.
I can totally see them trying to steal the Kent Farm
This was always one of my favorite episodes of TNBA, and it was the only one that I recorded on an old VHS upon which I had also taped Batman Returns and a few of my favorite B:TAS episodes
What I still don’t understand is that I remember his daughter mentioning that he has a kid.
She’s talking about the goat 😉
@@SerumLake oh
I love your videos & happy Thanksgiving
Thanks, Karlos, that’s nice of you to say
I really liked this villain. My main issue with the episode was how it swerved away from the main theme for regularly scheduled shenanigans. I think Farmer Brown, better than many other villains, was a guy who weaponized others (the animals in this case) against innocents, a guy who manufactured suffering and therefore manufactured monsters.
It works really well with BTAS, but unfortunately that show didn't really go as far as it could've with that same thread. Many villains in the show create bad circumstances that create 'bad' people, who then do bad things as a reaction to that or as an attempt to escape that bad environment. With Father Brown, it was just much more literal.
Enoch 'Farmer' Brown could actually work with a little tweaking: as there is a 'Gunsmith' that works on specialty firearms like Penguin's Umbrellas, a Broker who leases abandoned buildings to villains, and a Carpenter that builds villainous lairs Farmer Brown could be growing specific plants for drugs and working/modifying steroids and hormones for a price. Ex: growing plants for Scarecrow Fear Toxin, the biological genetic compounds that turned Isley into Poison Ivy, modifying Waylon Jones disease into a more genetic splicing, modifying Venom to the point that his daughter is a variant of the drug without the side effects and bribing government contractors to give him immunity, raising animals for both human consumption and for villainous scientists to test their products on, scavenging scientific recipes or technology such as Maxie Zeus's Lighting Spear/Trident and making it his pitchfork. No one would suspect a Farmer applying his trade and growing things within city limits or inside an abandoned warehouse on an island. Emmylou could even be Shanghied into service for the Suicide Squad to free her imprisoned Father. You could even have them redeem themselves as animal activists or have Emmylou turn on Enoch after finding out he experimented on his wife/her mother and kept it a secret.
nothing I love more than an intelligent man who finds a unique way to silence those fools at the academy who laughed at his research.
idk why people dont like this episode its just a nice fun joke episode
suprised you didnt mention the guy who came up with the plot also created howard the duck
And the dude that wrote the episode, Joe Lansdale, also wrote Perchance To Dream and Read My Lips. A versatile writer, that’s for sure!
Pretty sure critters has some great and creepy moment
I agree with you when you say " I don't think this episode is particularly bad. "
Emmylou Brown actually makes a cameo in the 'Batman and Harley Quinn' Animated Movie when Batman, Nightwing, and Harley Quinn go to a Henchmen Bar for a lead.
This episode was hilarious! 😂🤣
The difference between this and Batman In My Basement is that I'm actually entertained watching it.
Awesome!!🤩
I really didn't know about Farmer Brown until you,I think that he would make an Excellent Boss Fight if he made his Appearance in the Arkhamverse.
I can picture him getting his hands on The Titan Serum and trying to reverse engineer it to make a fortune and turn his struggling farm business around (with disastrous results)
So he was dr animo before dr animo
I think that he’s just really on top of his aesthetic game.
Considering the writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, the creator of Howard The Duck, I'm not surprised with how humourous both the episode and Farmer Brown is.
I am with the people of Gotham. What Enoch did to that sheep an other animals is wrong. He doesn’t know how the horomones would affect the animals nor what it would do to their lifespans. Besides, you saw how aggresive that sheep got. He could have used that horomone to grow giant vegetables to end world hunger.
Oh was that a sheep?! I thought it was a kind of cow 😂
The idea was there, and I liked the concept, I just feel like the execution was not great. The farmer Brown idea would’ve been perfect, but it needed more time in the oven to make it great, and might need to reduce the amount of humor just to keep the episode balance.
Calling it now, Farmer Brown as the main villain in The Batman Part 2!
Out of curiosity, would you consider Sin Tzu to be DCAU enough to be covered in one of your videos? Or is the fact that he only appeared in a video game (one tied to _The New Batman Adventures_ just to clarify) disqualify him as an official DCAU character?
I liked this episode!
Oh man farmer brown and dr milo could have been a perfect in biological weapons for Cadmus I’m sad that didn’t happen
I liked this episode.
American Gothic lookin' ass
I think Dustin Nguyen's last name is pronounced "When" instead of "New-yen"
I hate to tell u this but as far as temperament and personality goes the chickens were behaving normally 😅
Thier a very mean blood thirsty bird
You only gotta see a flock of them turn a mouse into a skeleton in under a minute to know u don't wanna mess with them
What if like, it was already out
Guy plays god with his farm animals.
True, the DCAU has its misses, as all great fiction are expected to have; some would say it's the somewhat skippable to a fault Mystery of the Batwoman, others like me would say The Zeta Project and its Batman Beyond crossover "Countdown" plus Static Shock's inane "Hoop Squad".
Either way, even stuff like "Prophecy of Doom" shouldn't be lore skipped. It ain't a great ep, but it doesn't jump the shark while being too fillery either. In the meantime, oh, "Critters"... seriously, I've seen enough Futurama, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and anime and video games like Dirty Pair and Yakuza to know that this ep is just woefully misunderstood by hopefully a vocal minority of overreactionary casuals (don't worry, SL, you ain't one of them).
Forget the big animals for enhanced livestock, what about Farmer Brown's daughter's enhanced supersoldier potential? Would make for an effective project for any anti-Superman/anti-Justice League organization like CADMUS, let alone ones allied with them, like perhaps ARGUS from the Fatal Five movie. (Now, if only they can expand to magical girls... can't depend on Supes and the JLU too much, after all, when expies of the Puella Magi and the PreCures should be around.)
Gotta love that visual subversion of a normal farm actually being an indoors research facility that'll make the SCP Foundation blush a bit, not to mention his loophole abuse of moving "out of the city".
I wonder where he got the extra resources and funds for these? Any chance there's a "Professor Moriarty" helping his schtick covertly, like Edwin Alva from Static Shock or even a predecessor to Amanda Waller?
4:12: Just like in the aforementioned Courage. Anyone remember that ep of a mountain goat guarding a dried up healing well?
Ah, the advanced pitchfork. Brings into mind how, say, some magical girl outfits are actually stronger than kevlar or even the best exoskeletons out there despite the occasionally excessive frilliness and flashiness. However, if one wants a more mundane simile, it's like one of those, hmm, Meiji-era samurai walking sticks concealing their katana and wakizashi implements.
All in all, I admire disingenuous characters. As a personal aside, would like to see a competent, somewhat paragonic, and by many means friendly senator type of character who's also fanboy of magical girls, flying craft, space age progress, and so on having quite an interesting character arc that then leads them to become President of the United States in their world's 2030s era, deservedly enough... only for things changing to showcase their closeted ruthlessness against the Chinese, Russians, Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Sweet Baby Inc. types, Weinsteins and Spaceys, and so on, an absurd yet ultimately buildup of military and social programs dedicated to creating XCOM and SG-1 types plus preventing entertainment brainrot to the masses (the latter's basically a mass ban and sometimes near-complete destruction of stuff like ; they're admittedly haters of such low quality fiction, so...), all the way to, shockingly, creating an all powerful, multipowered magical girl body (with research gained from rogue Multiversal operatives who sympathize lots with their extreme aims) worth transferring their mind and soul into when it's completed; by the time things finally reach the end, who knows if they end up battling the very things they've looked up to and even wanted to protect from evil. Oh, and said character may have actually isekai'd from, say, the Red Dawn 1980s film/Red Dawn +20 universe, which explains their judicial agenda and need to protect his new world from the sins and woes of his old one.
(Yes, he kind of reminds me of me, but that's besides the point.)
5:36: Ah, fellow channel fan/loving chicken raiser Scrin will easily concur.
Will have to wonder, was Batman: The Brave and the Bold showrunner James Tucker in the helm for this ep?
"Harley's Holiday" and "Make 'Em Laugh" may count as comedic enough DCAU eps.
8:17: Actually, this ep should take place before "Critters", both in production and airdate order. Think of it as foreshadowing.
8:23: I'd say the same with Edwin Alva, especially with that top notch gear he used in eps like Season 4's "No Man's an Island". Oh, wish Dwayne McDuffie and co. used him in his full villainous potential, unlike his surprisingly passive and thus inconsequential role in the actual show... guess they can't have another manipulative bastard not named Lex Luthor or Darkseid in the same continuity, eh?
Hmm, pertaining to the Terrific Trio preview, you also forget the fact that the Fantastic Four are now a group of memetic loser has-beens, especially with the far more marketable if not relatable Avengers, X-Men, and even The Incredibles in mind. At least, in my blunt opinion.
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Always found it odd he put so much effort into making a goat 🐐 😅talk , when he could have used a tape recorder
Critters is by far not the worst episode in my oppinion. In fact it has one thing that the worst episode-imo Prophecy of Doom which you heavily elluded to in the intro-does not
You can tell what the writers were going for with Critters; a comedic romp with a guy who'd fit in with Bioshock's rapture if it was set in American Gothic rather than in the sea
I at the very least can't tell what the writers were going for with the wannabe cult leader and his sweater wearing muscle who try to have as many explosions as a Micheal Bay production but barely have a quater of the explosions of a Loony Tunes segment.
Hes not a bad guy, he turned bad because he got shut down
"hes not a bad guy, he turned bad" so which is it?
@Grayson-tk5hn good men do bad things smh
@@mastatheif9909 And trying to demolish a city filled with people who have not personally wronged him makes that okay?
Not my favorite episode but a kinda playful one.
Why tf didn't military hire this guy? Are they stupid?
Probably because the government isn't interested in growth serum that had a built-in death mechanism (and you're name isn't Amanda Waller)
Never like this episode. Farmer Brown was underwhelming.