Day 14: We trace the origins of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells in the 1992 holiday episode of Batman, the Animated Series: Christmas with the Joker.

On this episode

• Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), a diseased maniac.
• Jay Amabile (@sexyarmpit), from the Sexy Armpit and the Purple Stuff Podcast.
• Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), from Y-Not Radio and Words with Nerds.

Topics and tangents

• The crowdsourced origins of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.
• Batman, the Animated Podcast’s episode on Christmas with the Joker.
• The Arkham Sessions’ episode on Christmas with the Joker.
• Jay’s original blog on Gotham City being in New Jersey.
• Mark Hamill’s original vocal performance as Ferris Boyle in Heart of Ice, before replacing Tim Curry as the Joker
• Mark Hamill’s comic book nerd mockumentary, Comic Book: The Movie.
• Mark Hamill’s longtime obsession with David Letterman.
• Charles Manson apparently spent this Christmas at Arkham Asylum before spending a later Christmas in Nebraska on an episode of South Park.
• Joker’s “Laffy” hand puppet reminds us of Señor Wences.
• His upside-down mouth puppet is even weirder.
• The Betty Blooper doll looks like Toot from Drawn Together.
• Of course the Joker is hiding out at the Laffco Toy Factory; look at it.

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