Batman And Scooby-Doo… Together Again!

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.

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.

Although the characters haven't crossed pat

via techland.com

This news makes me so happy it's embarrassing. I also thought, for a second there, how cool it was that the second time the Bat and the Scooby Gang met we lived in a world in which Techland, part of Time Magazine's Website, covers this sort of thing.

Then I saw that line about "corporate synergy" and remembered that Time is the first word in Time-Warner, which owns, well, all of these characters and shows.

So, we live in a world in which news is basically promotional chatter for the properties which the parent corporation owns. I'm sure that will bum me out later.

In the meantime, though, this still rocks my world, under the strict stipulation that they're the original Scooby Gang, not the lame, watered-down Venture Bros. wannabes I've been seeing - uh, by accident, while flipping through channels, of course - on Cartoon Network.