I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle is an episode of season 3 of Batman. It premiered on February 22, 1968.
Synopsis for "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle"
After lulling his therapist to sleep with overly boring childhood stories, King Tut escapes custody, assembles a new gang, and steals $47,000 from the Rosetta Stone Company. With this money, Tut purchases a plot of land adjacent to Wayne Manor, with the ultimate goal of slant-drilling for a rare, supposedly unbreakable metal known as "Nilanium".
Despite their best efforts, Batman and Robin are too late in deducing Tut's plan, and are unable to stop Tut and his gang from (accidentally) discovering the Batcave - and by extension, their secret identities. After a brutal melee, the Dynamic Duo subdue Tut's gang and erase their memories with Batnesia gas, but Tut himself escapes, eager to share his new knowledge with the world.
Though they have run out of Batnesia gas, Batman and Robin nevertheless pursue Tut, and find the self-styled pharaoh cornered by the police and Batgirl mere feet from the surface. Still defiant, Tut prepares to shout his foes' secret identities, but his raised voice dislodges a chunk of the cave ceiling, which lands on his head and knocks him unconscious. To the Dynamic Duo's relief, Tut awakens fully restored to his "true" personality - a mild-mannered Yale professor who knows nothing of Batman and Robin.
Shortly after, the professor is reinstated at Yale, and his former gang sent to prison. Before the authorities can relax, however, reports of an alien invasion begin sweeping Gotham.
Appearing in "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- King Tut
- Tutlings
- Florence of Arabia (Single appearance)
- Suleiman (Single appearance)
- Tutlings
- Joker (Cameo)
- Chartreuse (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Emerald (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Shamrock (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Verdigris (First appearance) (Cameo) (Impersonates a Martian)
Other Characters:
- Dr. Denton
- H.L. Hunter (Single appearance)
- Manny the Mesopotamian (Single appearance)
- Rosetta Stone (Single appearance)
- Don Juan (Mentioned only)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (Mentioned only)
- President of Yale University (Phone call only)
Locations:
- United States of America
- Gotham City
- Barbara Gordon's Apartment
- Gotham City Police Headquarters
- Gotham State Penitentiary (Mentioned only)
- Gotham Suburbs (Mentioned only)
- Manny the Mesopotamian's Office
- Middle East Side of Gotham City
- Florence of Arabia's
- Mount Ararat Hospital
- Rosetta Stone Company
- Stately Wayne Manor
- Batcave
- Atomic Pile
- Emergency Bat-Tunnel
- Subterranean Blue Grotto Exit
- Batcave
- Harvard University (Mentioned only)
- Yale University (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City
- Alps (Mentioned only)
- Mesopotamia (Mentioned only)
- Mount Ararat (Mentioned only)
- Nile Basin (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Batcomputer
- Batdirectional Finder
- Special Seismological Attachment
- Bat Dummy Locker
- Bat-Dummies
- Batman's Utility Belt
- Bat-Compass
- Batnesia Gas
- Batphone
- Batpoles
- Compressed Steam Batpole Lift (Cameo)
- Batanium Shield (Mentioned only)
- Nilanium (Mentioned only)
- Rosetta Stone (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Batmobile
- Joker's Flying Saucer
Concepts:
- 1923 Appalachian Cave-In (Mentioned only)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Mentioned only)
- Maud Muller
- Nirvana (Mentioned only)
Notes
- This episode was originally written as a second installment to "The Unkindest Tut of All", but was rewritten into an independent story before filming started.
- There remains at least one thread of continuity between the two episodes - Tut discovers the dummies which Batman had used to trick him in "The Unkindest Tut of All", and gleefully beats them to a pulp.
Trivia
- King Tut's real name is finally revealed to be William Omaha McElroy.
- Tut's therapist Dr. Denton is presumably a reference to the blanket-sleeper company of the same name.
See Also
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Recommended Media
- None.
Links and References
- None.
Footnotes