This is one of my favourite Batman scenes from the 1966 TV series. Watch and listen carefully. It’s side-splittingly hilarious! It made me think…. this could had been pretty cool in its time, but is now seen as mostly as super camp. Now look at how much darker Batman has become in our times. Even a brief scene of Batman in action in broad daylight is seen as totally uncool.
I wondered what constitutes the true and universal meaning of ‘cool’ – that is really timeless. And the answer suddenly struck me. Cool is nothing to do with trying to be so. What’s always cool is genuine compassion coupled with wisdom – in all its forms. Super cool. (No real shark was hurt in the making of the above… I think. Come on… which shark would cling to a leg out of water for so long?!)