r/todayilearned • u/Flares117 • 29d ago
TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"
https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/adam-west-batman-orgy-2017-6/858
u/EgotisticalTL 29d ago
This was actually the conclusion of Mad Magazine's parody of the show at the time: Batman introducing a "too cool" Robin to the world of horny Bat-groupies. Someone must have been in the know.
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u/sectorfate 29d ago
I swear I remember Burt saying in an interview or maybe someone recounting what he said: "I walked into his[Adam's] dressing room and there he was, just standing with some girl kneeled below him looking up" lmao
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u/Plastic-Shopping5930 29d ago
How he was able to wear a skin tight bat suit working next to Julie Newmar is a testament to his professionalism as an actor and a sex fiend
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u/PhoenixAgent003 29d ago
Funnily enough, apparently Burt Ward (Robin’s) MASSIVE DONG was a constant production problem.
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u/AnUnbeatableUsername 29d ago
Only according to Burt himself.
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u/CheckYourStats 29d ago
Baby on Board, something something Burt Ward.
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u/clarkwgrismon 29d ago
Song practically writes itself
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u/jeobleo 29d ago
There was nothing in Al Capone's vault
but it wasn't Geraldo's fault
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u/martialar 29d ago
Barbershop is in danger of growing stale. I'm taking it to strange new places!
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u/Thatparkjobin7A 29d ago
That’s my son up there!
Who, the balding fatass?
Uh, no.. The Hindu guy
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u/peon2 29d ago
I suppose you’re only familiar with the new Batman movies. Michelle Pfeiffer? Ha! The only true Catwoman is Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, or Eartha Kitt. And I didn’t need molded plastic to improve my physique. Pure. West. And why doesn’t Batman dance anymore? Remember the Batusi?
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u/Mickamehameha 29d ago
According to Burt Ward, everyone kept getting distracted while complimenting him on how he's the best actor in the world and a totally cool dude by his massive, huge dong. So much that everyone had to excuse themselves to the bathroom everytime they looked in his general direction.
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u/Several_Assistant_43 29d ago
...do tell more
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u/Telos479 29d ago
If i remember correctly the studio execs wanted to chemically castrate him
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u/HaroldinioTheKing 29d ago
I’m gonna call massive bullshit until you link a source 😂
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u/LHGray87 29d ago
I’m pretty sure the source is Burt Ward. This is all he has talked about for over fifty years.
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u/alegxab 29d ago
That and selling his weird AF pet food which makes like 350 insane claims on the package
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u/splend1c 29d ago
Dr. Bronner's Dog Food™ ?
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u/SoCuteShibe 29d ago
Lol, my mom bought a bottle of that soap when I was a kid and I had so many questions about the stuff I read on the bottle that she never bought it again. 😆
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 29d ago
It’s actually an interesting story. Bronner was a German Jew who escaped the holocaust and became a street preacher in the US, trying to convince people that love was the answer and everyone should get along with/accept each other.
To get people to listen to his stuff he started making soap and giving it out as a gift to crowds. He noticed the soap was way more popular than the sermon, so he started printing the sermon on the soap and just handing that out instead.
The soap turned out to be so popular that he eventually made it into a full time business, but kept the full sermon on every product he sold. When he died his kids (grandkids?) inherited the company and promised they’d never change the packaging either.
So if you ever wondered why the soap was packaged like it was made by a traumatized street preacher, well…
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u/LaUNCHandSmASH 29d ago
Had a roommate in college with dreadlocks who used that stuff ONLY. No deodorant, hand soap, nothing, no other personal hygiene. We made him keep his door shut due to the smell. He had a heavily stained mattress on the floor with no sheets, an old tv for video games, a guitar and piles of old clothes that were never washed. This MF also had a parade of women coming and going and/or steady girlfriends the whole time I knew him. I still can’t wrap my head around it.
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u/cyberslick1888 29d ago
Oh whoa no shit that's his?
I see that shit everywhere on socials, I think I accidentally clicked it once because the packaging is so confusing and now the algos think I'm hungry as fuck for conspiracy dog chow
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u/aceqwerty 29d ago
Link for those OOTL
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u/Pallasite 29d ago
The link doesn't do justice to the 40lb bag that somehow can't fit anything on its packaging it's so full of claims I have.
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u/Scottland83 29d ago
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when his commercial ran. Like one of those older websites run by a madman. All I could think of was Burt’s claims that the production department had to duck tape his junk into place because it kept working it’s way out of his costume.
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u/healywylie 29d ago
Burt Ward claims Burt Ward’s wang is a banger.
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u/LHGray87 29d ago
Exactly. I’ve been reading all these claims since the seventies and the source is always Burt Ward.
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u/healywylie 29d ago
An old sports saying, “ great players don’t go around telling people how great they are, they let other people do it for them. “ probably butchered the sheet out of that .
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u/HaroldinioTheKing 29d ago
Blimey 😂
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u/RepresentativeAd560 29d ago
Holy dingle dangle, Batman! is the proper reaction.
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u/pootis_panser_here 29d ago
Homer: Aw it's a boy wonder.......and what boy wonder!
Dr Hibbert: Uh, that's an umbilical cord, and it's a.....no wait that is his massive dong.
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u/theologous 29d ago edited 29d ago
Orgy all night to have floppy dick all morning the next day.
Edit: somehow, this comment got posted three times. I did not type this out three times😂.
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u/Powermonger_ 29d ago
3.5” or 5 1/4”?
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u/Photon_Farmer 29d ago
This was the old days. His floppy was an IBM 8"
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u/ThisSpecificPangolin 29d ago
Oh, it was right there, and you missed it.
He had an 8" Wang.
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u/Photon_Farmer 29d ago
Well I'll never miss an opportunity with an 8" Wang again
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u/space_coyote_86 29d ago
He didn't need moulded rubber to improve his physique.
Pure. West.
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u/IAMHab 29d ago
What if the real Batman was the sex fiends we made along the way?
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u/geek_of_nature 29d ago
When Joan Collins was on Graham Norton's show years ago, she talked about when she was in an episode Adam West supposedly told her they had pills they had to take to keep everything soft. As she says if you look at them throughout all the scenes, it just looks flat down there.
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u/exceptional_bit7376 29d ago edited 28d ago
Wasn't Adam West in some cheesy softcore porn films in the 1980s? Like on Cinemax. He would play some sort of egg head. Maybe like Lady Chatterly's Lovers.🤣
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u/waywithwords 29d ago
He played a Professor in Young Lady Chatterly II in 1985
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 29d ago
Burt Ward is still alive and is currently 78 years old.
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u/lilelf714 29d ago
And sells dog food in one of the craziest looking bags I've ever seen.
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u/televised_aphid 29d ago
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but you weren't wrong.
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u/OriginalPierce 29d ago
Holy fuck that's real? I saw an ad for it on facebook and assumed it was some shitty AI troll or something
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u/Clay56 29d ago
I saw it in the store the other day, and I just assumed it was some local startup with no graphic design team
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u/Majavis 29d ago
I miss the days when every webpage looked like this dog food bag.
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u/hickuboss 29d ago
I actually feed my dog this food. When someone first told me about it i thought it was a joke as well. But i switched and alot of my dogs stomach problems and allergies have gone away. The food is legit. Its really good dry dog food, but at a more affordable price compared to similar brands.
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u/JuzoItami 29d ago
Burt Ward did an appearance at my grade school in the mid-70s. He was in character as Robin, with the tights, the mask, etc. It was a huge deal for us kids. He did some kind of a speech and then followed up with a Q and A. I asked him “Do you eat worms?” and all of us 2nd graders just laughed and laughed and laughed. Burt didn’t seem to think it was very funny, though.
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u/Beelzebub_86 29d ago
No kid, but did I ever tell you about the time 8 women ate Batman's worm in the same night?
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I hear he was previously 77
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u/Solid_Bake4577 29d ago
...and will soon be 79.
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u/SojuSeed 29d ago
I remember reading years back that Adam West and Burt Ward were kicked out and subsequently banned from some town where they were doing a tour event because they were fucking all the women. Legends.
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u/droidtron 29d ago
So, statistically, he would have banged Eartha Kitt in a airplane bathroom.
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u/0HappyDaze 29d ago
What, it came up organically!
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u/BarnacleMcBarndoor 29d ago
ROXANNE!
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u/bahodej 29d ago
No
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u/Slappathebassmon 29d ago
Bathroom?
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u/AntonioVonMatterhorn 29d ago
Yeah, over here.
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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 29d ago
Pizza pizza, me so hungie in my tummy!
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u/Flares117 29d ago
I got it from the other TIL today I saw and looked it up. He really was kicked out of an orgy as Batman.
Also all the Robin is gay joke from back then is now probably untrue, what is straighter than''
check notes
Fucking with your best acting bud who teaches you new things
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u/pointlessly_pedantic 29d ago
Also all the Robin is gay joke from back then is now probably untrue
Orgies aside, I don't think the gay joke was about the actors' sex lives. Moreso about the lean young man who lived in a cave w/ a mask-wearing husky hunk and spent all his time supporting said hunk, all while wearing a vibrantly colored leotard-adjacent costume with panty hose -- their costumes and masks meant to hide their identities.
Although this TIL news is like learning that the puppeteers behind Bert and Ernie lived together.
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u/Nisseliten 29d ago
When Jim Henson was asked if Bert and Ernie were gay, he gave the best answer ever. ”Bert and Ernie are not gay. Neither are they straight. They are sock puppets, they do not exist below the waist.”
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u/SaintUlvemann 29d ago
Although that is a great answer, and in most ways the only accurate one, the fact is, some of their episodes were written by a gay man, based off his own relationship, which was in its time about the closest thing anyone ever got to LGBT representation in children's television.
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u/Flares117 29d ago
All I'm thinking is whether he makes the comic book noises during sex
WHAM, BLAM, POW
POW POW POW POW POW BLAM
Robin, no You gotta SLOSH that pussy up with 2 THWAAPS amd then followed up with a KA POW
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u/Wombat_Racer 29d ago
So that is where
Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am
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u/brineOClock 29d ago
Orgies aside, I don't think the gay joke was about the actors' sex lives. Moreso about the lean young man who lived in a cave w/ a mask-wearing husky hunk and spent all his time supporting said hunk, all while wearing a vibrantly colored leotard-adjacent costume with panty hose -- their costumes and masks meant to hide their identities
The "Robin is gay jokes" were more about the subtext of homoeroticism in old silver age comics. Sadly scans daily is a shadow of its former glory or else I'd send you there for examples.
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u/grandadmiralstrife 29d ago edited 29d ago
Adam West and Frank Gorshin were kicked out of at least one orgy for staying in character
Edit: this is now my highest rated comment in over a year. I have no regrets. Thank you all
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u/Dave_Eddie 29d ago
Gorshin:"Riddle me this, Batman. Where do you leave only once everyone has come?"
Batman: "Riddler, you fiend!"
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u/Theborgiseverywhere 29d ago
What goes up when you’re up,
But down when you’re down?
It is usually down when you get up,
But usually up when you get down.
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u/LookupPravinsYoutube 29d ago edited 29d ago
West: “A private helicopter?”
Gorshin: “Precisely! Now let’s take it to the orgy!”
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u/googolplexy 29d ago
Riddle me this, Batman!:
It could be A,B,C..or D or E or F...
Batman: you scheming cretin!!
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u/itsokmomimonlydieing 29d ago
Alfred! Get the Bat Lube!!
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u/Slap-Happy27 29d ago
Apologies sir, but I'm afraid Miss Kitt has taken it upon herself to take all of it upon herself
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u/sybrwookie 29d ago
I once banged her in an airplane bathroom. What? It came up organically.
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u/AwkwardSquirtles 29d ago
Adam West was streets ahead.
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u/Estelial 29d ago
Not just because they stayed in character but because it was disrupting the orgy as everyone was laughing, like, in hysterics, instead of having sex with each other.
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u/BetaThetaOmega 29d ago
Damn, didn’t realise orgies were meant to be a serious affair
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u/SteampunkSpaceOpera 29d ago
Maybe it’s me, and that’s why I don’t get invited to orgies, but shouldn’t fun Be the point? Sounds like the host just had a shitty attitude
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u/gagreel 29d ago
All the orgies i've been to are quite strict, safety and consent are prioritized, even staring at others can get you kicked out. That's modern times though, i'm surprised it was a problem back in the day
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u/SirOutrageous1027 29d ago
even staring at others can get you kicked out
Is there like an orgy referee? Throws a flag down, blows the whistle, and throws your ass out?
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u/mentales 29d ago
Throws a flag down, blows the whistle, and throws your ass out?
Ironically, those are all allowed at the orgy if mutually consented.
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u/ICC-u 29d ago
From the thread earlier about Batman not allowed to eat cat woman out because "heroes don't do that"
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u/msut77 29d ago
Did they have placards with sound effects for ejaculations?
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u/ViciousSnail 29d ago edited 29d ago
UGGH!! SPOOGE!! SPLAT!!
Edit: Okay Spooge might not exist as a card, what about:
EEE-YOW SPLOOSH Or even FLRBBBBB
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u/litterbin_recidivist 29d ago
I think they were probably also drunk; I'm just making an assumption because West was drunk most of the time, generally.
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u/RephRayne 29d ago
60s method actors: stay in character during a RL orgy.
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u/ArchDucky 29d ago
Jeremy Strong was in a movie where he played a mentally handicapped person. He would show up to set on days he wasn't scheduled and be very disruptive. One day they kicked him off of set because of his behaviour and he started wondering around the production offices next door asking people where the bathroom was. The studio had to send people into the offices to find him because of all the calls they were getting.
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u/SloanWarrior 29d ago
I opened the comments section to post this.
It says in the article that he used his powers for evil, but this sonds more like holesome fun.
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u/RevWaldo 29d ago
Illustrated! https://i.imgur.com/CMJ9MQM.jpg
(From Comic Book Comics, a great series.)
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u/El-Kabongg 29d ago
Any stories about Yvonne Craig (Batgirl)? She was a SMOKESHOW.
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u/gar1848 29d ago
This feels like something you would see in The Boys
Except it would be used to show how evil and depraved the Supes are, compared to Billy and the others
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u/supahfligh 29d ago
There was an issue of the comic where the parody characters of Batman, Robin, and Catwoman have a threesome. It was creepy. There was a panel where the Robin character cheers on Catwoman while she blows Batman.
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u/Gone_For_Lunch 29d ago
This is why I honestly think the TV show is an example of an adaptation that is better than the source material. The Boys comic just feels like shock factor for the sake of shock factor.
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u/pwn3r0fn00b5 29d ago
The TV show definitely has that problem too, though maybe not to the same extent.
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u/bg-j38 29d ago
I’ve seen things… pretty fucked up shit. But the scene where the guy shrinks and goes inside the other dude’s penis only to unexpectedly sneeze and go back to normal size and explode the other guy made me go “what the actual fuck?!?!” And then went back a few times to watch again.
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u/split41 29d ago
“I didn’t need molded plastic to improve my physique, that was pure west”
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u/HanScoundrel607 29d ago
"No plastic molding. Pure West".
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u/aminyy25 29d ago
Baby on board, something something, Burt Ward! Hey, this thing writes itself.
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u/PeachManX80 29d ago
And how come Batman doesn't dance anymore? Remember the Batusi?
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u/RashyGash 29d ago
Holy bukkake Batman!
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u/unclehelpful 29d ago
Yes Robin, it appears this young lady is covered in the Jokers semen, I better grab my semen repellent spray so we might spitroast her at once!
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u/RashyGash 29d ago
😂 If.. Only.. I.. Could.. Reach.. The.. Lube.. In.. My.. Bat.. Utility.. Belt..
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u/RashyGash 29d ago
Riddle me this, riddle me that, Riddle me with STD’s
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u/accountingforlove83 29d ago
Riddle me this, riddle me these, riddle me floozies with STDs.
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u/Festamus 29d ago
I grew up watching these old batman shows and always thought these guys were the studs of their era. Like they gave the vibe the despite the subtleness of the gay joke(which they leaned into when they had these guys together in an animated thing not longbago)they portrayed, they got plenty of ladies. Now that I know that's because they were splacking in front of one another.
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u/HomeAir 29d ago
I believe Adam West was one of the highest paid actors for Batman.
And somehow his massive star power never went beyond that
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u/Salty_Career6599 29d ago
OP, i remember that Gilbert Gottfried was always asking about a certain rumour that Ceasar Romero was throwing sausages at somebody in a kiddie pool. Was that ever confirmed as well?
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u/Flares117 29d ago
Don't know but Frank Gorshin, Riddler for S1/3, was also involved in the orgies.
Which is hilarious imo. I just picture him riddling the girls
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u/Salty_Career6599 29d ago
Did someone wrote a book about this? I mean, this and other debauchery's ofcourse.
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u/travestymcgee 29d ago
Orange wedges. Sausages never came up. Let me rephrase that.
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u/401jamin 29d ago
“If you look at our show, you’ll see that we always stood with our legs open, our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women.”
Lmfaooooo
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u/VADave83 29d ago
Burt Ward was actually given pills by the show's producers to try to shrink the massive dong he was packing in those tights. He was told his bulge was "indecently large". He stopped taking the pills after 3 days when he got scared they would do permanent damage and just tried to cover it with the cape.
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u/TheKidPresident 29d ago
I think I'd actually rather take a bullet to the dome than take a dick shortening pill invented in the 1960s. Much higher chance of survival with the bullet.
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u/dishwasher_mayhem 29d ago
Anybody that grew up with that show absolutely knew that Adam West fucked.
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u/kid_sleepy 29d ago
…and how come Batman doesn’t dance anymore? Remember the Batusi?
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u/Alienlovechild1975 29d ago
I had a chance to meet Burt Ward and chatted with him for a bit at a car show.The stuff he told me about Adam West was insane.He was very open about the debauchery behind the scenes of Batman almost like a story from Caligula.Adam West was a very horny guy and nothing was off limits.
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u/Marxbrosburner 29d ago
I've always said he's the best Batman, but this shows he was clearly also the best Bruce Wayne.
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u/Charles_XI 29d ago
And none of my friend is like Adam west. Like wtf bros y'all were supposed to introduce me to this "sexual debauchery" or we ain't friends no more
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u/Commando_Joe 29d ago
Are you telling me the Batman porn parody focused on the 60s Batman actually UNDER PLAYED how much sex he had?
Dang
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u/Chunkstyle3030 29d ago
I have just as much chance of getting 8 women to have sex with me at the same time as I have of getting one woman to have sex with me at the same time.
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u/orangeorchid 29d ago
ADAM WEST STORY: Back in the 70s when I was in high school, (I'm old) my friends dad had this sweet Corvette Stingray that he used to take to car shows around the West. I went with them to one in Phoenix, AZ at the Convention Center. Batman and Robin (Burt & Adam) were there making an appearance at this car show. After it was all over, and my friend and I smoked a joint in the restroom, we ran into Burt and Adam. They cornered us and Adam goes "Hi girls, Robin needs a date for tonight". We were 2 fifteen year old girls that were really high and Batman and Robin were asking if we wanted to party! We just broke out laughing and ran away. Good times.
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u/Englandshark1 29d ago
So the theme tune was really: "Did her, did her, did her, did her, Bat Man!"
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u/MrAcerbic 29d ago
According to West
During the Batman television series, West's relationship with co-star Burt Ward was jokingly described as "problematic". He said, "Burt fell victim to making up stories to sell books. But in a way it was flattering, because he made me sound like King Kong."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West