I loved how they used a darker version of the Mad Hatter’s melody in the episode “Perchance to Dream” before Bruce Wayne unmasks the Imposter Batman. That was a brilliantly subtle clue as to who was behind the mask.
At the time when the episode first came out, I didn’t even recognize the theme. When he was unmasked, I was like “Hunh!? Wasn’t expecting that...” Now, seeing these episodes 27 years later, recognizing how much music has been part of TAS makes it all the more hard to miss.
@@CPT85 Same here. Perchance to Dream was the first episode I was with the Mad Hatter in it, so his presence came across as a surprise and really made the episode seem weird. It was only upon after seeing more episodes that I realized he was a recurring villain, and thus his appearance didn't come out of left field.
@@CPT85 To be fair, when I was a kid, I would miss episodes of television shows in their first run all the time. Back then I was dependent on reruns, and I also thought Batman was going to be a show with loose continuity, like nearly all the other cartoons I watched. Both it and to a greater extent, X-Men, proved me wrong.
I love the Mad Hatter themes, he is a great villain and his original design from this show still is my favorite version of this character on the general DC universe 🎩🫖
@@mikephelps5454 But if Alice decided to be with Jervis, he would have abused her. In the episode, "Trial", when Janet Van Thorne told Jervis that he could have respected Alice's wishes and left her alone, he said, "I would have killed her first!"
THIS was always the strongest theme from Batman TAS, at least for me. It think it's because of "Perchance to Dream." Perhaps my favorite Batman TAS episode.
Down the rabbit hole Batman falls, where the Mad Hatter reigns from wall to wall. Through the rhyming words we tumble, where villains toil and heroes crumble.
Roddy McDowell!!! He's a great character, but Roddy McDowell really makes the Mad Hatter come to life! He's a little more complex and disturbing then some of the other villains because he's sorrowful as well as scary!
Peter MacNicol, the guy who played him in the Arkham series would be an excellent live action choice. Considering he's an experienced character actor and all. He's got a certain malignant charm to him when he's in-character. The only issue might be that (like Jon Voight) he might be too old to play the character at 67 years of age.
@@austinkersey2445 I know this is a weird choice, but what if Johnny Depp played the Mad Hatter. I think he would do well, since he played unhinged and crazy characters before.
Mad hatter: I’ve waited my lonely life for her! Batman: then all you’ve waited for is a puppet.... a soulless little doll. Mad hatter: it didn’t have to be this way. You made me do this to her!!!!!
Mike Phelps Yes, but the boyfriend just chose the wrong time to get back together with Alice. Plus, making those 2 muggers who tried to rob him and Alice "jump off a bridge" was self defense.
@@mikephelps5454 i sympathize a lot with this depiction of the mad hatter, but at the end of the day... he’s still a creepy old man imposing his will on a young woman who is clearly too sweet to realize his true intentions. she genuinely believes he takes her out on that date out of the kindness of his heart, and friendship. he’s not a complete monster the same way that other depictions of the mad hatter are, i don’t believe he genuinely means innocent people harm - but he’s so far detached from reality, that he doesn’t realize he IS harming people. his story with alice is not a love story about a poor misunderstood guy and the only girl who treats him like a person. it is a horror story of an emotionally unstable, mentally ill man who interprets a young woman’s friendship as romantic love to the point that he feels fated to be with her, entitled to her, and it’s a horror story that we’re all very familiar with by this point, especially in the age of women speaking up about unwanted advances. make no mistake. just because the mad hatter isn’t a sadistic sociopath like the joker, it doesn’t make him a good guy or just misunderstood. the man needs serious therapeutic help. just having good intentions does not equal doing good things.
Rest in peace to Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) Jervis Tetch (The Mad Hatter). He passed before I was born in two months. May his soul rest in heaven. He also played the Bookworm in 1960's Batman tv series starring Adam West (RIP) and Ceaser in the original Planet of the Apes films from the late 1960's-1970's.
When I hear this theme, I can't NOT hear an old Greek song from the early 80s. Ironically, the name and lyrics of that song go (translated) "I love you like a sin." ..." and I hate you like a prison, cut me if you want in three and a drop of blood you will not see." Its about a bird who is in love with a woman who his willing to die for that he knows will hurt him. I may be reaching, but this sounds like a sped up version. Look up "S'agapo san amartia." if you are interested.
I wonder if any designs were made for a season 3 update to the character model. Wonder if he would’ve ended up on the more positive received changes (scarecrow) or negative (joker)
Probably my favorite theme of the villains in the show. And my favorite Batman TAS villain. Second is The Riddler. BTW, do you have the theme that plays when Jervis Tetch gets happy after hearing Alice's boyfriend dumped her the first time? That one was great too! If not, that's fine as well.
Both are based on Lewis Carroll books, and the Walt Disney animated classic still is the most popular Alice adaptation so far. So probably the team of the show took Big inspiration from that.
This Mad Hatter has served as my FB profile pic on and off over the years, gender ambiguity be da...rned. And because someone will inevitably ask or even assume, "If you can't tell what I am, neither will I".
We love the DC supervillain knowns as the mad hatter and rest of the Gotham supervillains and superheroes and friends and family and pets and company and the citizens of Gotham city and the police and the DC the joker 🃏🤜🤛👏💪🙂🦾💪🤩🦾🌞🌛 yeah because they are awesome and the best and the greatest and amazing and all ways wicked and funny and hilarious and brilliant and lovable and mischievous and vengeful and cool and wonderful and badass and brave and heroic and villainous and nefarious and scary and spooky and lucky and very powerful and super strong and super strength and super strength and super hardcore and invincible and indestructible and incredible and excellent spirit and perfect and freandly and fearless leaderships and loyalty and regeneration and healing and regrowing and growing and crazy and happy and healthy and immortal and looney toons and has superpowers and abilities and skills and talents and has supernatural powers and is always angry and healthy and very fun and nice and protective and kind and supportive and willing to help everyone and everybody and everythings and adorable and cuddly and they are also very good and bad and dark and evil 😈😇
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“You’re mighty in Gotham, Batman, but in wonderland, the mad Hatter reigns SUPREME!!!”
Samuel Williams what quote is that from?
Samuel Williams with what?
HAHAHAHAHA
@@mikephelps5454 Mad Hatter's debut episode in the animated series
Not the Queen of Hearts?
I loved how they used a darker version of the Mad Hatter’s melody in the episode “Perchance to Dream” before Bruce Wayne unmasks the Imposter Batman. That was a brilliantly subtle clue as to who was behind the mask.
Kevin Ferguson they even foreshadowed it by playing mad hatter’s theme throughout the episode
At the time when the episode first came out, I didn’t even recognize the theme. When he was unmasked, I was like “Hunh!? Wasn’t expecting that...” Now, seeing these episodes 27 years later, recognizing how much music has been part of TAS makes it all the more hard to miss.
@@CPT85 Same here. Perchance to Dream was the first episode I was with the Mad Hatter in it, so his presence came across as a surprise and really made the episode seem weird. It was only upon after seeing more episodes that I realized he was a recurring villain, and thus his appearance didn't come out of left field.
Nangbaby His origin episode came before that. I’m surprised you missed it. But we’ve all gotta start the series somewhere... 🤷🏻♂️😑
@@CPT85 To be fair, when I was a kid, I would miss episodes of television shows in their first run all the time. Back then I was dependent on reruns, and I also thought Batman was going to be a show with loose continuity, like nearly all the other cartoons I watched. Both it and to a greater extent, X-Men, proved me wrong.
"Would not, could not, would not, could not...could not join the dance."
I love the Mad Hatter themes, he is a great villain and his original design from this show still is my favorite version of this character on the general DC universe 🎩🫖
“Gotham could be a wonderland, Alice.”
Watch “mad as a hatter” if you don’t know this quote
@@mikephelps5454 It definitely was until her boyfriend got back together with her, in which Alice could've just politely refused him.
Nimzo25 I know, right? If Alice would’ve been with Jervis, Jervis would’ve never become the mad hatter
@@mikephelps5454 But if Alice decided to be with Jervis, he would have abused her. In the episode, "Trial", when Janet Van Thorne told Jervis that he could have respected Alice's wishes and left her alone, he said, "I would have killed her first!"
If I was Alice I’d just slam the door in his face💀.. or I’d go with him.. who knows
THIS was always the strongest theme from Batman TAS, at least for me. It think it's because of "Perchance to Dream." Perhaps my favorite Batman TAS episode.
The theme of this character profounds, "Why can't the world be MY WAY....!!!"
Jervis is such a spoiled brat!
"Twinkle, twinkle little BAT, how I wonder what you're AT!"
;-p
Down the rabbit hole Batman falls, where the Mad Hatter reigns from wall to wall.
Through the rhyming words we tumble, where villains toil and heroes crumble.
Let me guess where you got that quote, the Arkham games?
@@mikephelps9238 Arkham Knight
Roddy McDowell!!! He's a great character, but Roddy McDowell really makes the Mad Hatter come to life! He's a little more complex and disturbing then some of the other villains because he's sorrowful as well as scary!
Whoever plays the Mad Hatter in the Batman film needs this theme music to go with this character
Jon Voight would've been a good choice,but he's too old for that at this point
Peter MacNicol, the guy who played him in the Arkham series would be an excellent live action choice. Considering he's an experienced character actor and all. He's got a certain malignant charm to him when he's in-character. The only issue might be that (like Jon Voight) he might be too old to play the character at 67 years of age.
@@austinkersey2445 I know this is a weird choice, but what if Johnny Depp played the Mad Hatter. I think he would do well, since he played unhinged and crazy characters before.
@@mikephelps9238 Yeah, and he has done it before so that would be funny.
@@mikephelps9238He should
I always liked that the mad matter was a smart bookworm type villain that used his smarts as Batman's foe to use mind control technology on people
I liked the fact you used the term "bookworm" since Hatter's voice actor here played the Bookworm in the Adam West show.
*When his last statement must be struck from the record*
Record? Is someone supposed to be writing this down?
"And the blade went snickersnack!!!" The Mad Hatter!
Hope we get to see movie portrayal of the Mad Hatter at some point. Although this version of him will be tough to top.
"I was willing to give you whatever life you wanted... *JUST TO KEEP YOU OUT OF MINE!"*
And yet he never thought to unmask Batman while he was completely under!
@@edwardgaines6561probably didn’t want to risk tampering with the mind control device trying to remove his cowl
Mad Hatter lowkey has the best themes
Mad Hatter is a great villain, and his theme is really good too.
Mad hatter: I’ve waited my lonely life for her!
Batman: then all you’ve waited for is a puppet.... a soulless little doll.
Mad hatter: it didn’t have to be this way.
You made me do this to her!!!!!
Mike Phelps Yes, but the boyfriend just chose the wrong time to get back together with Alice. Plus, making those 2 muggers who tried to rob him and Alice "jump off a bridge" was self defense.
Nimzo25 you’re right. This version of the mad hatter truly is sympathetic. But I don’t think he meant for those 2 muggers to “jump in the river”.
@@mikephelps5454 i sympathize a lot with this depiction of the mad hatter, but at the end of the day... he’s still a creepy old man imposing his will on a young woman who is clearly too sweet to realize his true intentions. she genuinely believes he takes her out on that date out of the kindness of his heart, and friendship.
he’s not a complete monster the same way that other depictions of the mad hatter are, i don’t believe he genuinely means innocent people harm - but he’s so far detached from reality, that he doesn’t realize he IS harming people.
his story with alice is not a love story about a poor misunderstood guy and the only girl who treats him like a person. it is a horror story of an emotionally unstable, mentally ill man who interprets a young woman’s friendship as romantic love to the point that he feels fated to be with her, entitled to her, and it’s a horror story that we’re all very familiar with by this point, especially in the age of women speaking up about unwanted advances.
make no mistake. just because the mad hatter isn’t a sadistic sociopath like the joker, it doesn’t make him a good guy or just misunderstood. the man needs serious therapeutic help. just having good intentions does not equal doing good things.
"YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!!!!!!!!"
"You have done that yourself!"
He would always be friendzoned by her. Nice guys finish last
"I'll cut that cowl off your neck before you take her! I've waited my whole lonely life for her!"
"Will you, won't you? Will you, won't you? Will you, won't you? Won't you join the dance?"
Rest in peace to Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) Jervis Tetch (The Mad Hatter). He passed before I was born in two months. May his soul rest in heaven. He also played the Bookworm in 1960's Batman tv series starring Adam West (RIP) and Ceaser in the original Planet of the Apes films from the late 1960's-1970's.
A very whimsical and dark theme at times, very nice!
mad hatter: i will cut that cowl off your neck before you take her i waited all of my lonely life for her
When I hear this theme, I can't NOT hear an old Greek song from the early 80s. Ironically, the name and lyrics of that song go (translated) "I love you like a sin." ..." and I hate you like a prison, cut me if you want in three and a drop of blood you will not see." Its about a bird who is in love with a woman who his willing to die for that he knows will hurt him. I may be reaching, but this sounds like a sped up version. Look up "S'agapo san amartia." if you are interested.
Lewis Carroll: *sees Batman's take on the mad hatter* curiouser and curiouser......
Mad Hatter: I will have give you anything dream just to stay out of mine.
I wonder if any designs were made for a season 3 update to the character model. Wonder if he would’ve ended up on the more positive received changes (scarecrow) or negative (joker)
I think he did get a redesign actually. He appeared in a couple of episodes. I remember seeing him in the dream episode I think..
He did get a redesign though. They shrunk him down, made his hair grey, and made his outfit look more like the Disney Mad Hatter's.
Mad Hatter: This is no ordinary dream. What if you’re wrong?
Bruce Wayne: *Then* *I’ll* *see* *you* *in* *your* *nightmares!*
Probably my favorite theme of the villains in the show. And my favorite Batman TAS villain. Second is The Riddler.
BTW, do you have the theme that plays when Jervis Tetch gets happy after hearing Alice's boyfriend dumped her the first time? That one was great too! If not, that's fine as well.
I know this is a year old, but the track is “Poor Jervis/Frabjous Day”. Hope that helps someone lol
@@gamzo1 Thanks!
Oh fraggeday clueclay the Batman is here it's time to play
Mad hatter heve a fun theme
Anna-Karin Olsson Olovsson I think mad hatter’s theme is imaginative and intense at the same time
I would have gone for a slow, lilted version of “How do you Get to Wonderland” playing on a music box.
2:15,3:33,0:01,2:34,2:58,
Through the Rabbit Hole,
and then in to the Wonderland .
The Maddest Hatter IS WONDERLAND I RULE ALL!
Correction, the queen of hearts does
Not you Jervis /j
I played this in the Mad hatter side quest on Arkham city, Right when 1:04 Played He put on the mask.
Mad Hatter has a fun and Alice in wonderland theme
Gotham can be.... a WONDERLAND Alice
“Let me.. be your guide😊😊”
Why am I getting Alice in wonderland (the Disney cartoon) vibes from this?
Deoxys 386 because that’s what mad hatter from Batman is based on
Mike Phelps I know
Both are based on Lewis Carroll books, and the Walt Disney animated classic still is the most popular Alice adaptation so far. So probably the team of the show took Big inspiration from that.
Why does the music for the soundtrack version of Mad as a Hatter sound lower than the actual episode?
I watched the episode again and I realized that it’s the same music pitch as in the soundtrack.
I wonder what instruments were used?
2:58
Manipulation
This Mad Hatter has served as my FB profile pic on and off over the years, gender ambiguity be da...rned. And because someone will inevitably ask or even assume, "If you can't tell what I am, neither will I".
You’re currently being hypnotized by this music,folks.
We love the DC supervillain knowns as the mad hatter and rest of the Gotham supervillains and superheroes and friends and family and pets and company and the citizens of Gotham city and the police and the DC the joker 🃏🤜🤛👏💪🙂🦾💪🤩🦾🌞🌛 yeah because they are awesome and the best and the greatest and amazing and all ways wicked and funny and hilarious and brilliant and lovable and mischievous and vengeful and cool and wonderful and badass and brave and heroic and villainous and nefarious and scary and spooky and lucky and very powerful and super strong and super strength and super strength and super hardcore and invincible and indestructible and incredible and excellent spirit and perfect and freandly and fearless leaderships and loyalty and regeneration and healing and regrowing and growing and crazy and happy and healthy and immortal and looney toons and has superpowers and abilities and skills and talents and has supernatural powers and is always angry and healthy and very fun and nice and protective and kind and supportive and willing to help everyone and everybody and everythings and adorable and cuddly and they are also very good and bad and dark and evil 😈😇