The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne | If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

Sean and Clay return with coverage about two Batman: The Animated Series episodes that have extremely long titles!



In The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne, a prominent judge is injured during a struggle with some thugs demanding money from her in exchange for a strange tape, Bruce Wayne decides to take a trip to Yucca Springs, a resort where the judge had vacationed, and consult Dr. Hugo Strange, a psychiatrist. Bruce soon learns that Strange has invented a machine that extracts people’s darkest secrets from their minds and transfers them to videotape — and now Strange has proof of Bruce’s secret identity as Batman, and plans to auction it to three of Gotham’s prominent crime bosses.



In if You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?, Edward Nygma creates the video game The Riddle of the Minotaur for the company Competitron but is fired by his superior Daniel Mockridge, who wants the profits for himself. Nygma vows revenge and takes up the mantle of the Riddler two years later. While Batman sympathizes with Nygma, he and Robin find themselves forced to stop him before he kills Mockridge in a life-sized version of the Minotaur maze. Despite successfully rescuing Mockridge, who completes a deal to move his company to Gotham, the incident leaves him in a permanent all-consuming fear of Nygma’s return for revenge.



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