He's actually doing an impression of FDR. mostly just cause The Penguin was written as a dirty politician. Burgess didn't think FDR was dirty, Burgess was actually a life long democrat. But FDR was one of the most famous presidents in recent memory. So thats why he chose him to parody.
I remember, that's actually addressed. The warden explains he allows them to wear their normal clothes on their last day. Help with the whole reintigration thing.
@@terradraca Last week actually. But then in Season 3, the Joker has a gray suit on when he's released and Catwoman somehow had his purple suit jacket and pants ready for him at her hideout.
I love how, as early as his first episode, Penguin was able to turn Batman's detective mind against him, and get him to plot a whole bird-themed crime from a totally senseless clue! He was always one of my favourite Bat-villains!
INDb states 'Burgess Meredith had given up smoking some twenty-odd years earlier, but his character was required to smoke with a cigarette holder. The smoke would get caught in his throat and he would start coughing. Rather than constantly ruin takes in this matter, he developed the laugh to cover it up'. What a great character Penguin was, all down to Mr Meredith's (RIP) fine acting skills.
I really wish they'd bring back this style of Penguin for the Batman movies. It really, really wouldn't kill the Batman films to lighten up and have a little more fun.
Batman still have wild and zany chases of Penguin throughout the street of Gotham, Penguin had an underground base similar to his sewer base, Penguin got stuck waddling after Batman and Gordon interrogated. While the tone and theme have matched modern Batman comics and is in the tone of crime dramas/noir, it still has the heart of the older shows and comics while matching more modern Batman comics
He showed him as a little intelligent criminal, and he acted as a confident master criminal, and the way he smoked and all his expression hand eye, body coordination was amazing depending on the situation of his roll , one never tired of watching him every time, even all the group, frank, LM whether, joker are class act, whereas ridler was also superb.
Great actor, you don't think he's the same guy at all when he played Mickey Rocky's trainer. He has a cool tiny part as an old Irish Hells kitchen guy who owes the mob money in State of Grace, an excellent hard to find movie with Sean Penn.
Burgess Meredith a man who can play a penguin like villain, a worker finding a job in the great depression with a man who's slow and a Philadelphia boxing trainer well
His acting in "Rocky" was fantastic. My favorite line of his is when he begs Rocky to be able to train him for the big Bicentennial fight with Apollo Creed, concluding with, "...I'm 76 years old..."
The more I watch these old episodes, the more I like the Penguin. Burgess Meredith was well liked by the crew too. They always had a script ready for whenever he was available.
Alan Alda says Meredith worked super hard at everything, even bit roles. Someone who takes his work so seriously would probably be pretty easy to crew for.
I am thankful that I remember Burgess Meredith during my childhood in the 80s. Rocky III, and the BatMan in syndication. He was TRULY an actor’s actor indeed. Carl Weathers spoke very kindly of him in a SAG interview in the recent years.
Rip Burgess Meredith also best known for playing Mickey Goldmill in the classic Rocky in 1976 along with sequels Rocky 2 and 3 and back in Rocky 5 in 1990 and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men films.
My favorite Penguin episode was when he was running for mayor of Gotham City. He had just embarrassed Batman when Batman wouldn't kiss a voter's baby. Then he said to Batman: "Politics is wonderful!!! I can use all my dirtiest, slurpiest tricks but now they're all legal!!LOL
2:23 The actor playing Penguin's henchman "Sparrow" is Walter Burke. He also played "Alfred Swanson" in the Munster's episode, "Movie Star Munster." That distinctive voice tipped me off! 😀
The first bit makes me feel like villains used to do these kinds of things just for the attention. Crook: I dunno, Penguin. Couldn't we just knock over a candy store and call it a day? Penguin: We could. We could. Wouldn't be really unique though. Anyone can do that. I want to do something really dazzling!
@Matt Wilson it’s because he made a name for himself decades before we were born. I don’t watch a lot of movies from the 1930s through the 1950s. and if it wasn’t for Batman, Rocky, and Grumpy Old Men I wouldn’t know how awesome Burgess Meredith was. He was sure great, wasn’t he?
Watching this show on TV in Black and wHITE ON A B/W TV SCREEN as a child in the 1970's AND BEYOND WAS AWESOME...however nothing beats the dynamic colorization of it All!
Later in the series in the episode "Dizzoner the Penguin" he gives my favorite line. A pollster tells him he is losing the mayoral race to Batman. Penguin says, "You better pray my lead holds or you'll be taking random samples of river water... from the bottom."
You can see in these early episodes, they hadn’t nailed down some of the more iconic aspects of Penguin’s character, such as the quacking laugh, which Meredith said he used to cover when the cigarette would make him cough.
The worlds of 8 year old kids watching this everyday at 3 o'clock, rushing home from school, for the totally real. Go figure. The unreal. In 1975 re-runs.
This was an Incredible Video for My Second Favorite Villain In The Batman 1966 Series and My Second Favorite Version of Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin. The Late Burgess Meredith (1907-1977) did a Phenomenal Performance Being The First Actor to bring Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin to Life.
That was explained in an earlier part of the scene. They are allowed to wear their own clothes for the last week of their sentence to help acclimatise them to outside life again.
The 4 original Criminals of the Adam West BatMan series were my favorites: Burgess Meredith Cesar Romero Lee Meriwether Frank Gorshin Danny Devito and Jack Nicholson were a good Penguin and Joker but no one can beat the originals.
What a incredible iconic actor Burgess Meredith was, and still remains to this day!!! A Magical Healing Shaman he was!!! When your re-watch these old scenes, and these giants of actors come on the set and do a over the top performance, plus adding in how the "set" is "Masterfully Dressed", for that total dramatic effect for the scene, and the star performance of these iconic actors this is not likely to be captured like say Mr. Burgess Meredith ever again, and you are just thankful to be in the now moment, and yes in that now moment that you are tangibly in you experience dramatic healing, your star becomes your healer, no joking here folks, their great, and natural, and innate abilities as a actor directly transcend time, and space to dissolves tumor's diseases within our own bodies. You send, We send, we all send to Mr. Burgess Meredith our Magical Healing Shaman, 1,000,000 Thank You (s) and Salutations!!! Re-watch your Healer video throughout your life, not every day, only when you truly need major, and total intervention with a disease,, and if need be, turn off the tv, radio, don't read the paper, and watch your Shaman for the most powerful results imaginable!!! okay? Good!!! Kelly
The guy named Hawkeye also appeared on another episode of Batman playing the henchman of the Penguin once again! I guess he stayed in touch with the Penguin while they were both in prison!
They couldn't have found a better actor to play someone so birdlike in look, voice and manner.
Oh I thought it was Richard Nixon melting into that child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang
Danny Devito Lol
He's actually doing an impression of FDR. mostly just cause The Penguin was written as a dirty politician. Burgess didn't think FDR was dirty, Burgess was actually a life long democrat. But FDR was one of the most famous presidents in recent memory. So thats why he chose him to parody.
The penguin is written as a cliche that shall not be named these days.
@@NevanSlone Meredith did it better.
I like how both the Penguin and his masked henchman were allowed to keep their entire outfits in jail
I remember, that's actually addressed. The warden explains he allows them to wear their normal clothes on their last day. Help with the whole reintigration thing.
@@terradraca Last week actually. But then in Season 3, the Joker has a gray suit on when he's released and Catwoman somehow had his purple suit jacket and pants ready for him at her hideout.
And how the 1960’s hidden camera was capable 7 different angles.
@@VenerableBede2510 And how it took them forever to see a 1966 camera that had to be at least 1/2 cubic foot in size.
That’s where your suspension
Of belief withered
I love how, as early as his first episode, Penguin was able to turn Batman's detective mind against him, and get him to plot a whole bird-themed crime from a totally senseless clue! He was always one of my favourite Bat-villains!
Rest in peace to Adam West & Burgess Meredith. They both lived very long successful lives.
Indeed, they both helped bring the batman franchise to life.
@@starfishman1018 R.I.P. Adam West, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin and Cesar Romero.
@@karlc2869 and Eartha Kitt and Yvonne Craig
@@kross2659 Yep.
Fat.an❤
INDb states 'Burgess Meredith had given up smoking some twenty-odd years earlier, but his character was required to smoke with a cigarette holder. The smoke would get caught in his throat and he would start coughing. Rather than constantly ruin takes in this matter, he developed the laugh to cover it up'.
What a great character Penguin was, all down to Mr Meredith's (RIP) fine acting skills.
I heard that too. The way Meredith made it an iconic part of the character was great.
Love how Penguin’s cell mate just throws his mother in law under the bus like that.
U mean Mudduh in law ? Lol
At least Penguin wasn't interested in the offer 😂
Mother-in-Law jokes are timeless. Tex Avery really loved them.
I really wish they'd bring back this style of Penguin for the Batman movies. It really, really wouldn't kill the Batman films to lighten up and have a little more fun.
The closest we've gotten to that was the "Wind-up exploding penguins" line (either Justice League or BvS, cant remember which)
I agree
Batman still have wild and zany chases of Penguin throughout the street of Gotham, Penguin had an underground base similar to his sewer base, Penguin got stuck waddling after Batman and Gordon interrogated. While the tone and theme have matched modern Batman comics and is in the tone of crime dramas/noir, it still has the heart of the older shows and comics while matching more modern Batman comics
He showed him as a little intelligent criminal, and he acted as a confident master criminal, and the way he smoked and all his expression hand eye, body coordination was amazing depending on the situation of his roll , one never tired of watching him every time, even all the group, frank, LM whether, joker are class act, whereas ridler was also superb.
"How dare you mock me on the eve of my greatest triumph!"
Bong! 😂
1:37 never fails to make me smile lol. Burgess Meredith was the best as the Penguin.
Agreed. He sounds classy but rough at the same time when he talks. Only Burgess could do that.
Danny Devito
Great actor, you don't think he's the same guy at all when he played Mickey Rocky's trainer. He has a cool tiny part as an old Irish Hells kitchen guy who owes the mob money in State of Grace, an excellent hard to find movie with Sean Penn.
Big Brother! 😂
Burgess Meredith a man who can play a penguin like villain, a worker finding a job in the great depression with a man who's slow and a Philadelphia boxing trainer well
His acting in "Rocky" was fantastic. My favorite line of his is when he begs Rocky to be able to train him for the big Bicentennial fight with Apollo Creed, concluding with, "...I'm 76 years old..."
..and a librarian who is deemed obsolete ...
Also Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men films
He was also a Tail Gunner in USAAF Aircrew Training films! Proof that penguins CAN FLY!
RIP Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 - September 9, 1997), aged 89
You will be remembered as a legend.
The more I watch these old episodes, the more I like the Penguin. Burgess Meredith was well liked by the crew too. They always had a script ready for whenever he was available.
That was Rockys first coach too.
Alan Alda says Meredith worked super hard at everything, even bit roles. Someone who takes his work so seriously would probably be pretty easy to crew for.
The Penguin and the Mad Hatter were the 2 best dressed villains, both in tuxedos & top hats!
My favourite childhood tv show. Needs to be repeated for today’s youngsters
Could not be more true!
Right. Great show.
The Penguins ciggy may have to go in order to pass pc censorship 😤
Batman the brave and the bold
I watched this as a baby and my first words were "NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN!"
I liked how he was a penguin that quacked like a duck.
He (the actor) improvised it to cover up coughing from the cigarette smoke.
Penguin is so fun to watch.
I love how no matter how many times penguin gets hit, he never loses his hat or cigarette
Or when he's jailed
"Pompous waddling master of foul (fowl) play." - commissioner Gordon 1966 batman movie.
8:20 Penguin managed to out fence (umbrella) Batman and Robin. Unlike Joker he is NOT a terribly poor fencer
The best part of this is Penguin making an Orwell reference decades before the internet popularized it.
I noticed that . Great foreshadowing. Sacred and the propane
Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is definitely the best dressed villian in Gotham City.
Also used the aliases K.G. Byrd, and P.N. Gwynne.
Oswald Chesterfield Copplepot is Penguin’s real name.
Gotta Love Pengy! He is my fav Bat Baddie! Burgess take on him was AWESOME! Would have loved to see him get to do the Penguin Serious!
I am thankful that I remember Burgess Meredith during my childhood in the 80s. Rocky III, and the BatMan in syndication. He was TRULY an actor’s actor indeed. Carl Weathers spoke very kindly of him in a SAG interview in the recent years.
Don't forget him in Clash of the Titans 🙂
Rip Burgess Meredith also best known for playing Mickey Goldmill in the classic Rocky in 1976 along with sequels Rocky 2 and 3 and back in Rocky 5 in 1990 and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men films.
Burgess Meredith. One of the greatest actors without question.
Burgess Meredith did great penguin
At 6:18 you can briefly see someone off stage catch the penguin as he comes to the end of the zipline.
My favorite Penguin episode was when he was running for mayor of Gotham City. He had just embarrassed Batman when Batman wouldn't kiss a voter's baby. Then he said to Batman: "Politics is wonderful!!! I can use all my dirtiest, slurpiest tricks but now they're all legal!!LOL
Burgess Meredith was great as the Penguin! I guess after he quit being a criminal in Gotham he became a boxing trainer, lol!
2:23 The actor playing Penguin's henchman "Sparrow" is Walter Burke. He also played "Alfred Swanson" in the Munster's episode, "Movie Star Munster." That distinctive voice tipped me off! 😀
Thanks
@@milosbatmanvideos You're welcome! 🙂
He also played Pendragon's servant, Garna, in Jack the Giant Killer (1962).
Don’t have to look at a TV….The voice is very distinctive.
@@buckeyewill2166 Yep! 🙂
Burgess sir was the best ever Hollywood actor, he was s true professional...what an actor he was.
Burgess Meredith is the best Penguin
He is the penguin now and forever 🐧🐧🐧🐧
For sure. The best.
Without doubt! I love that his laugh was because he was coughing because of the cigarettes too!
no robin lord taylor is the best
Burgess Meredith..He was in an episode in the Night Gallery..
Meredith is just so perfect as Penguin, he’s genuinely hilarious but also manages to be a credible threat in the context of the show.
“I am an aristocrat of crookery, my dear man!” Nice.
Hes my favorite villian in the show
The first bit makes me feel like villains used to do these kinds of things just for the attention.
Crook: I dunno, Penguin. Couldn't we just knock over a candy store and call it a day?
Penguin: We could. We could. Wouldn't be really unique though. Anyone can do that. I want to do something really dazzling!
Best penguin ever.
I just realized it Mickey from rocky. How did I not know this for years. Lol
Because he plays the 2 very different roles so well.
@Matt Wilson it’s because he made a name for himself decades before we were born. I don’t watch a lot of movies from the 1930s through the 1950s. and if it wasn’t for Batman, Rocky, and Grumpy Old Men I wouldn’t know how awesome Burgess Meredith was. He was sure great, wasn’t he?
That's another reason why comments are cool. U get so many random facts about stuff you just watched.
He's also Puff the Magic Dragon.
Penguin 🐧 is a crafty clever villain bird Burgess will always be my favorite Penguin on Batman
Burgess Meredith plays the role with PZZAZ. ...fantastic fun a and tongue in cheek script ......60s classic that doesn't date...
Salute to William Dozier, power to get these legendary actors to appear on this show.
I was expecting: "get up you sob ... cause penguin loves you"
Watching this show on TV in Black and wHITE ON A B/W TV SCREEN as a child in the 1970's AND BEYOND WAS AWESOME...however nothing beats the dynamic colorization of it All!
Burgess Meredith was a top drawer actor.
Love it! Flashbacks ❤😂
A classic and good show!
Later in the series in the episode "Dizzoner the Penguin" he gives my favorite line. A pollster tells him he is losing the mayoral race to Batman. Penguin says, "You better pray my lead holds or you'll be taking random samples of river water... from the bottom."
My favourite character of Batman is the Penguin man!!!🎩🐧☂️
What can I say about the Penguin?. "Magnificent".
I heard after an almost life threatening accident his nose broke to the point of being much shorter and turned into a boxing trainer in Philadelphia.
Illegal umbrellas. Talk about a serious crime.
Rest in peace Burgess Meredith 🕊️❤️
Burgess = Genius... Great stuff
Can’t believe there aren’t more comments here.
Security camera in 1966: 1080p
Security cameras 2021: 24i
I miss watching this show
I loved Burgess Meredith's Penguin :)
This show is different from modern comics, but the villains are definitely enjoyable.
You can see in these early episodes, they hadn’t nailed down some of the more iconic aspects of Penguin’s character, such as the quacking laugh, which Meredith said he used to cover when the cigarette would make him cough.
This actor was so good in the role that he set the precedent for actors to follow. Definitely in my top five
Rest In Peace Adam West and Burgess Meredith
Aristocrat of crookery😂
"The baleful bird is about to chirp". Sounds like something an actor would do as a speech exercise.
The worlds of 8 year old kids watching this everyday at 3 o'clock, rushing home from school, for the totally real.
Go figure.
The unreal. In 1975 re-runs.
His laugh they deserve
All that time fighting Batman and Robin gave him the skills to train Rocky.
Hey Super Sam Seven, are you going to do other Batvillains....False Face? Zelda the Great? Egghead? Please do.
Bergess Merideth was THE best villain, what an amazing actor on EVERTHING he was ever in.
This was an Incredible Video for My Second Favorite Villain In The Batman 1966 Series and My Second Favorite Version of Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin. The Late Burgess Meredith (1907-1977) did a Phenomenal Performance Being The First Actor to bring Oswald Cobblepot/ The Penguin to Life.
A tricky little creature, aha so funny the old Batman
Was anyone concerned that the Penguin and his henchman in the jail cell were wearing their criminal clothing instead of prison uniforms or similar....
That was explained in an earlier part of the scene. They are allowed to wear their own clothes for the last week of their sentence to help acclimatise them to outside life again.
Well the Penguin was pretty ROCKY
Wow, those security guards that work the prison’s CCTV cams like true-blue cameramen! Holy unlikely camera angles, Batman!
I just learned that Penguin is Mickey from The Rocky movies🤯👏🏽
I like this video. I'm not sure why.
In honor of the new penguin movie.
Why does the penguin clock quack? Also, if it's giving us the exact minute at the signal, which of the seven quacks is the signal? 😂 🐧⏰
1 thing's for sure. you can NEVER compare Danny Devito to Burgess Meredeth.
wow
I (not running 4 anything)
just love the EARLy content
of this Video
I believe the word you’re thinking of is…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
İ realy like this show
You don’t really think you’ll win, do you?
I just realized this is mr Bemis from the twilight zone
The 4 original Criminals of the Adam West BatMan series were my favorites:
Burgess Meredith
Cesar Romero
Lee Meriwether
Frank Gorshin
Danny Devito and Jack Nicholson were a good Penguin and Joker but no one can beat the originals.
What a incredible iconic actor Burgess Meredith was, and still remains to this day!!! A Magical Healing Shaman he was!!! When your re-watch these old scenes, and these giants of actors come on the set and do a over the top performance, plus adding in how the "set" is "Masterfully Dressed", for that total dramatic effect for the scene, and the star performance of these iconic actors this is not likely to be captured like say Mr. Burgess Meredith ever again, and you are just thankful to be in the now moment, and yes in that now moment that you are tangibly in you experience dramatic healing, your star becomes your healer, no joking here folks, their great, and natural, and innate abilities as a actor directly transcend time, and space to dissolves tumor's diseases within our own bodies. You send, We send, we all send to Mr. Burgess Meredith our Magical Healing Shaman, 1,000,000 Thank You (s) and Salutations!!! Re-watch your Healer video throughout your life, not every day, only when you truly need major, and total intervention with a disease,, and if need be, turn off the tv, radio, don't read the paper, and watch your Shaman for the most powerful results imaginable!!! okay? Good!!! Kelly
Is it bad that I want the dcu Batman to be as goofy as this lol
He better be working
And a 1984 referance @ 1:43
Rest in peace Mickey Goldmill
Well, it didn't occur to me as a kid but maybe that's because I only saw it once.
Why's the angle change on the hidden prison cell camera? 😂
The guy named Hawkeye also appeared on another episode of Batman playing the henchman of the Penguin once again! I guess he stayed in touch with the Penguin while they were both in prison!
Penguin 1966 : young Rocky's coach
I could see that penguin clock (2:05) being a very popular item on Amazon. It would certainly give the ancient coo-coo clock a lot of competition
Comic genius, love these shows
The original Oswald Cobblepot.
Why did the mechanical penguin quack?
Don't know but I want a Penguin Clock like that for my Mancave.
"HEY VENGANCE" *Shoots to kill*
Colin Ferrell is the best penguin period ❤
No one will ever beat Danny DeVito.
@@oscarmauricioibietamoreno7634 danny devito even said he out did him so year your wrong
The funniest moment is Penguin, Batman and Robin fighting against each other with umbrellas, I personally find that funny slash entertaining.