Funny how people hate Farmer Brown because he’s a “campy” mad scientist farmer…despite the fact that The Scarecrow is ALSO in the same show, is dressed almost EXACTLY Like Brown and is ALSO A MAD SCIENTIST!!! It’s enough to make a Bub go Ee Ai Ee Ai-OY VEY!!
When he was carving that cow and then turned it around to show two heads got to be one of the coldest but also disterbing scenes ive seen. It leaves a lot of room for imagination to think what else he can do.
To me Farmer Brown can actually work as agricultural villian compared to the mostly high tech future villians. His more traditional upbringing contrasts with Bruce Wayne's more comfortable one. Having someone who looks like they should be a farm man but is actually a very intelligent person makes for a great foil to most of the villains we have seen before.
For some reason, I just imagined an Amish-style low-tech farm community outside of the Gotham metro area with a super-advanced lab facility underneath it.
Farmer Brown kinda reminds of of Dr.Animo from Ben 10. Both use mutated animals, both became villains because their work was disregarded, and both are old men with long white hair.
The best thing about this episode is the DVD commentary on it. Bruce Timm & Co are laughing their butts off on the whole thing, and once I watched the episode with that commentary, Ive never watched it again without it!
Oh the Farmer Brown truck cameo in "The Ultimate Thrill" makes sense because both the episodes were being made at the same time according to the DCAU wiki.
They mention this in the commentary track for "Critters". "The Ultimate Thrill" comes before "Critters", and the people working on TUT added in the "Farmer Brown" truck establish Farmer Brown before he appears.
Due to all flights from Canada being cancelled at the time due to an airline strike. He drove straight there and recorded his lines without sleeping apparently lol.
Reverse David Ogden Stiers in his guest appearance in Stargate Atlantis. When they were setting up his schedule to shoot, he apparently drove from California to Vancouver on the coast road in his sports car cause it was more fun than sitting in a plane.
I can really see the potential. I think they needed an amp up the country aspect of him and the mad scientist part. There's something about seeing a hillbilly with a PhD in super science that makes an interesting juxtaposition
I actually like the episode and think Farmer Brown is a wasted villain. Partly because I can see more potential with Farmer Brown if the DC used him more. He's disturbing and scary (which kinda make every Batman villain), with what he has done with his daughter and animal. Imagine what more he could do.
At the end of the episode, it was hinted that Farmer Brown's monsters might return. Not that I care that much about that character, but I wish the writers could have used his creations in another episode. Maybe, in a Batman Beyond episode, showing that some bugs survived and have been making a giant hive.
With your comment on the farming industry, I thought of how Sheep are selectively bred to produce so much wool they have to be sheared regularly to survive.
I think Farmer Brown is the only biologist in Batman's rogue gallery to not mutant themselves. He also reminds me of Dr. Animo from Ben 10 since both make giant mutant animals, which makes me think he has more potential then just being a one-off villain.
I...actually like this episode a lot but also I really like crazy sci-fi shit like this. Hell the supernatural stuff in this part of the series was also fun to me. IDK I really like the more "comic book" stuff
I feel like Critters was a sign that Bruce's adventures were expanding beyond costume rogues and gangsters. Just like Demon within, Knight Tale and Critters, Batman was moving more into the wider DCAU and his adventures were becoming more fantastically. Even in BTAS Batman fought Monster created from science (Man-Bat and Clayface and Tygrus). I can understand why most people would dislike Critters but I respect the crew of the show for wanting to try new things and honestly if you suspend your disbelief, it is a fun episode. It is also the only episode in new adventures where Bullock plays an active role. Brown is not just motivated by profit. He is also wants revenge on the city for cutting his funding and he does not care who gets hurt in the process. He only redeeming trait is his genuine love for his daughter at least it looked genuine to me.
I always saw that Brown was a opposite to Professor Milo and Dorian prior, while the good farmer desires revenge for the cities disregarding of his potential solution to world hunger and agricultural strife, he does not become fully inhuman to all who encounter him (Brown loved his daughter and seemed to treat most of his animals okay) unlike Milo or Dorian who'd drop their creations/minions at the top of a hat. Only time I could see Brown being somewhat abusive to his animals are the mantises but those seem to be less living beings and more organic robots.
Honestly, I always liked this episode. While there's absolutely some Adam West Batman influences in the episode, it really feels to me like more of a Superman episode. And there's nothing wrong with that, I really liked the Superman animated series, more so than the New Batman Adventures at times. Swap out Batman with Superman, and Bullock with either Jimmy or Lois, and this episode really is a dead ringer for something from STAS.
The writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck (who had no involvement with the Howard the Duck movie). Roxy Rocket getting "turned on" when she thinks she's about to die is much more cringeworthy than anything in Critters.
Another problem is that Farmer Brown would have worked as a Superman villain rather than a Batman one, especially the Man of Steel has more experience in the country side.
I may be biased, given my love of the William Dozier Batman show, and the Silver Age in general, but I loved this episode when I first saw it. Funny enough, I also loved Gotham Academy, which not only has many DAU references, but many Dozier-verse references.
I believe Farmer Brown would've worked better as a SuperMan villain, for three reasons 1. I can totally imagine Brown incorporating kyrptonite into his animal experiments, because he anticipates Superman posing a threat to his revenge plans. 2. Since they both come from farming backgrounds, maybe Clark could know the Brown family personally. He could try to offer some help when Brown is court ordered to halt his experiments, but because Brown's too prideful he refuses and goes straight on to his revenge plot. This could create a interesting theme for the story about not being too proud to accept help. Even Superman needs help every now and then, and he's never ashamed to admit it. 3. We could see how strong Emmylou's beef steroids really are, by having her and Superman Duke it out.
I love this episode of Farmer Brown and the giant animals and Daisy Duke with like she Hulk powers I thought it was pretty cool I mean I love this episode and I think it's pretty cool it's always a re-watch it reminds me of the Adam West Batman show a little bit❤
I am with the people of Gotham. What Enoch did to that sheep an other animals is wrong. He doesn’t know how the horomones would affect the animals nor what it would do to their lifespans. Besides, you saw how aggresive that sheep got. He could have used that horomone to grow giant vegetables to end world hunger.
I hate to tell u this but as far as temperament and personality goes the chickens were behaving normally 😅 Thier a very mean blood thirsty bird You only gotta see a flock of them turn a mouse into a skeleton in under a minute to know u don't wanna mess with them
Funny how people hate Farmer Brown because he’s a “campy” mad scientist farmer…despite the fact that The Scarecrow is ALSO in the same show, is dressed almost EXACTLY Like Brown and is ALSO A MAD SCIENTIST!!!
It’s enough to make a Bub go Ee Ai Ee Ai-OY VEY!!
Probably because Scarecrow had his Fear Toxin and that creepy costume to help make him scary.
That's a team up I'd be interested in tbh
Although he was “campy” it feels very 1940-50 DC comics where our heroes are facing against mad scientists.
I don't mind Farmer Brown, but I would have liked to have seen him take on former farm boy Superman instead.
Or a Superman and Batman tie-in.
When he was carving that cow and then turned it around to show two heads got to be one of the coldest but also disterbing scenes ive seen. It leaves a lot of room for imagination to think what else he can do.
a real CATDOG haah
1:11 and 1:24
The daughter of the farmer, has a physical resemblance with Super girl.
I concur, remove the freckles and the resemblance is indeed uncanny.
To me Farmer Brown can actually work as agricultural villian compared to the mostly high tech future villians.
His more traditional upbringing contrasts with Bruce Wayne's more comfortable one. Having someone who looks like they should be a farm man but is actually a very intelligent person makes for a great foil to most of the villains we have seen before.
For some reason, I just imagined an Amish-style low-tech farm community outside of the Gotham metro area with a super-advanced lab facility underneath it.
Farmer Brown kinda reminds of of Dr.Animo from Ben 10. Both use mutated animals, both became villains because their work was disregarded, and both are old men with long white hair.
Don't forget in ultimate alien animo tried a farmer persona in that one episode
He even kinda looks like Alien Force Animo, to me at least.
The best thing about this episode is the DVD commentary on it. Bruce Timm & Co are laughing their butts off on the whole thing, and once I watched the episode with that commentary, Ive never watched it again without it!
Oh the Farmer Brown truck cameo in "The Ultimate Thrill" makes sense because both the episodes were being made at the same time according to the DCAU wiki.
They mention this in the commentary track for "Critters". "The Ultimate Thrill" comes before "Critters", and the people working on TUT added in the "Farmer Brown" truck establish Farmer Brown before he appears.
Honestly I just feel bad for Farmer Brown's voice actor Peter Breck who had drive from Vancouver to Los Angeles to record ADR.
Due to all flights from Canada being cancelled at the time due to an airline strike. He drove straight there and recorded his lines without sleeping apparently lol.
Yikes
@@Elfenlied8675309 and hit it out of the park. what a man
Reverse David Ogden Stiers in his guest appearance in Stargate Atlantis. When they were setting up his schedule to shoot, he apparently drove from California to Vancouver on the coast road in his sports car cause it was more fun than sitting in a plane.
Farmer Brown is either the most ridiculous or the most underrated villain in the DCAU depending on who you ask.
Personally I really like him.
I spend too much time and energy thinking about what he might’ve done for Cadmus…
yeah i've never seen this one but it looks awesome
I can really see the potential. I think they needed an amp up the country aspect of him and the mad scientist part. There's something about seeing a hillbilly with a PhD in super science that makes an interesting juxtaposition
Citizen: THERE'S A BUG 🐛!
Waiter: In your soup 🍲?
Citizen: NO! BEHIND YOU!!!
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I actually like the episode and think Farmer Brown is a wasted villain. Partly because I can see more potential with Farmer Brown if the DC used him more. He's disturbing and scary (which kinda make every Batman villain), with what he has done with his daughter and animal. Imagine what more he could do.
I'd like to see a team-up or conflict with Poison Ivy. Though I want to see more of his daughter.
At the end of the episode, it was hinted that Farmer Brown's monsters might return. Not that I care that much about that character, but I wish the writers could have used his creations in another episode. Maybe, in a Batman Beyond episode, showing that some bugs survived and have been making a giant hive.
He looks like he would say bah humbug
True
Looks like Scrooge too
Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?
Farmer Brown made an extremely brief Easter egg appearance in Space Jam 2
With your comment on the farming industry, I thought of how Sheep are selectively bred to produce so much wool they have to be sheared regularly to survive.
I think Farmer Brown is the only biologist in Batman's rogue gallery to not mutant themselves. He also reminds me of Dr. Animo from Ben 10 since both make giant mutant animals, which makes me think he has more potential then just being a one-off villain.
I...actually like this episode a lot but also I really like crazy sci-fi shit like this. Hell the supernatural stuff in this part of the series was also fun to me. IDK I really like the more "comic book" stuff
He reminds me of Professor Milo since they both experiment with biology, particularly animals.
I feel like Critters was a sign that Bruce's adventures were expanding beyond costume rogues and gangsters. Just like Demon within, Knight Tale and Critters, Batman was moving more into the wider DCAU and his adventures were becoming more fantastically. Even in BTAS Batman fought Monster created from science (Man-Bat and Clayface and Tygrus).
I can understand why most people would dislike Critters but I respect the crew of the show for wanting to try new things and honestly if you suspend your disbelief, it is a fun episode. It is also the only episode in new adventures where Bullock plays an active role.
Brown is not just motivated by profit. He is also wants revenge on the city for cutting his funding and he does not care who gets hurt in the process. He only redeeming trait is his genuine love for his daughter at least it looked genuine to me.
I always saw that Brown was a opposite to Professor Milo and Dorian prior, while the good farmer desires revenge for the cities disregarding of his potential solution to world hunger and agricultural strife, he does not become fully inhuman to all who encounter him (Brown loved his daughter and seemed to treat most of his animals okay) unlike Milo or Dorian who'd drop their creations/minions at the top of a hat.
Only time I could see Brown being somewhat abusive to his animals are the mantises but those seem to be less living beings and more organic robots.
Honestly, I always liked this episode. While there's absolutely some Adam West Batman influences in the episode, it really feels to me like more of a Superman episode. And there's nothing wrong with that, I really liked the Superman animated series, more so than the New Batman Adventures at times.
Swap out Batman with Superman, and Bullock with either Jimmy or Lois, and this episode really is a dead ringer for something from STAS.
I would say Harley’s Holiday counts as a comedy episode. Loved the Gotham Academy shoutout btw.
The writer of this episode is Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck (who had no involvement with the Howard the Duck movie).
Roxy Rocket getting "turned on" when she thinks she's about to die is much more cringeworthy than anything in Critters.
If Farmer Brown worked with Cadmus, maybe they use his growth serum on Galatea which is how she grew so much between her two appearances.
I feel like if he appeared before in the series as a good guy that coulda helped him maybe. Helped flesh him out
Same
This was the only episode of New Adventures that made teenager me realize this was a really different show from BTAS.
I felt the same way about Joker’s Millions and Beware The Creeper
It also made me realize that the design guys were definitely trying to make young boys feel a certain way.
Another problem is that Farmer Brown would have worked as a Superman villain rather than a Batman one, especially the Man of Steel has more experience in the country side.
I may be biased, given my love of the William Dozier Batman show, and the Silver Age in general, but I loved this episode when I first saw it. Funny enough, I also loved Gotham Academy, which not only has many DAU references, but many Dozier-verse references.
I believe Farmer Brown would've worked better as a SuperMan villain, for three reasons
1. I can totally imagine Brown incorporating kyrptonite into his animal experiments, because he anticipates Superman posing a threat to his revenge plans.
2. Since they both come from farming backgrounds, maybe Clark could know the Brown family personally. He could try to offer some help when Brown is court ordered to halt his experiments, but because Brown's too prideful he refuses and goes straight on to his revenge plot. This could create a interesting theme for the story about not being too proud to accept help. Even Superman needs help every now and then, and he's never ashamed to admit it.
3. We could see how strong Emmylou's beef steroids really are, by having her and Superman Duke it out.
I loved that episode. Really weird and fun, I wish the character was used more.
I honestly love this character he's got a lot of potential sadly he hasn't been seen in any other media since.
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Thanks, Karlos, that’s nice of you to say
I liked the daughter. Def should have done more with her
I love this episode of Farmer Brown and the giant animals and Daisy Duke with like she Hulk powers I thought it was pretty cool I mean I love this episode and I think it's pretty cool it's always a re-watch it reminds me of the Adam West Batman show a little bit❤
That episode was a criticism to transgenic foods. Also, maybe Farmer Brown sold his formula to Cadmus to be able to afford his revenge scheme.
I know someone, and his hens, who is going to love this.
the batman's dr animo
and he has a weird farm plot too
I actually loved the episode for the small bit of body horror of these horribly mutated animals
This is a good villain in my book. people just do not want to see the evil in society.
Awesome!!🤩
I am with the people of Gotham. What Enoch did to that sheep an other animals is wrong. He doesn’t know how the horomones would affect the animals nor what it would do to their lifespans. Besides, you saw how aggresive that sheep got. He could have used that horomone to grow giant vegetables to end world hunger.
Oh was that a sheep?! I thought it was a kind of cow 😂
I'm just imagining Bane and Emmylou teaming up to kill Batman and treating it like a date.
“Beef steroids?”
“Venom.”
@@SerumLake And then they see who can knock the Batwing out of the sky by throwing cars at it.
He was mexican inbthis??
@@raipe125he was South American, that much is known.
This episode was hilarious! 😂🤣
Pretty sure critters has some great and creepy moment
What I still don’t understand is that I remember his daughter mentioning that he has a kid.
She’s talking about the goat 😉
Farmer Brown and his daughter could have easily worked on Smallville.
I hate to tell u this but as far as temperament and personality goes the chickens were behaving normally 😅
Thier a very mean blood thirsty bird
You only gotta see a flock of them turn a mouse into a skeleton in under a minute to know u don't wanna mess with them
What if like, it was already out
suprised you didnt mention the guy who came up with the plot also created howard the duck
And the dude that wrote the episode, Joe Lansdale, also wrote Perchance To Dream and Read My Lips. A versatile writer, that’s for sure!
So he was dr animo before dr animo
American Gothic lookin' ass
Why tf didn't military hire this guy? Are they stupid?
Probably because the government isn't interested in growth serum that had a built-in death mechanism (and you're name isn't Amanda Waller)
Not my favorite episode but a kinda playful one.
Never like this episode. Farmer Brown was underwhelming.