“To the Batdog Mobile!” cried Batdog.

“Holy Batdog Mobile, Batdog!” shrieked Ostrich as he tried to find something to bury his head in, but it was so hard for him to think when he had to worry about tracking sand all over the Batdog Cave.

“Just get in, Ostrich we have no time to lose!” shouted Batdog as he climbed behind the wheel.

Of course he wasn’t actually driving, a stunt person was. Because you have no idea how big a stunt driving a Batdog Mobile is until you do it without using your thumbs.

The Stunt driver pulled the car up to the old, abandoned warehouse, and (after a quick scene change) Batdog and Ostrich hopped out of the car that was much too tall to actually be functional for two dogs, but it was the director’s call. The automatic doors whooshed closed on Ostrich’s cape. He whimpered and tried to run. But, as we all know, it can be hard to run when your cape is stuck in the automatic door of a theoretical car.

And then with a maniacal laugh that had to be prerecorded, the Question Mark Guy appeared. He and all his over-dressed henchmen, with hunches and sneers for some reason, ran in and ambushed Batdog and Ostrich.

“Riddle me this,” the Question Mark Guy started out. He cleared his throat, and his henchmen laughed at what must have been coming next. “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” He smiled that he’d said the scripted line right on the first take.

“That’s not a riddle. That’s a tongue-twister.” Batdog pointed out.

Question Mark Guy stuck out his tongue at the hungry duo.

Both gasped, not the tongue! That was just plain rude! It was on!

“Will Batdog and Ostrich be able to foil the formidable attempts of the devious Question Mark Guy,” the over-paid announcer began. “Or will Ostrich’s fear of baskets, pretzels, wind, loud noises, soft noises, medium noises, baseball hats, top hats, vacuum cleaners, pillows, flashing lights, constant lights, old people with or without walkers, ladies with strollers, doorbells, knocks on doors (or other hard things), large amounts of water, and sometimes small amounts of water, allow the overly obnoxious Question Mark Guy to roll them up like pieces of aluminum foil? Tune in next week to find out.”

Note: This is not a “To be Continued”, but Batman shows were always two-part-ers.

Pen.Dragon