Balderdash! The Triumphant Return: Holy Batman Edition!

With the Stars:

Batman

Robin

Batgirl

Commissioner Gordon

With Special Guests:

The Wonder Twins

And our host for the evening:

Mr. Burt Reynolds

Recorded in front of a live studio audience
Shot on location at: La Espanol Fork Studios
7/15/12

Can you believe it, folks? 

It's been more than a year since our last episode!

That's just ridiculous! 

How did we manage to let that much time pass since playing?

I guess it's a good thing we don't pay our actors and have a virtually non-existent studio or this sort of thing would never happen at all! 

Anyhow, hello there, friends... 

How have you been? Have you missed us as much as we've missed you? 

It's so great that we can finally put together another fun filled episode of this nearly award winning and almost always inspired show for you. 

Tonight we feature a rare treat, a handful of those blindingly colorful denizens of the D.C. Comics, the Dynamic Duo themselves, Batman and Robin, supported by their super friends Batgirl and Commissioner James Gordon! 

We also feature our special guests, whose answers are sure to win an A for effort, The Wonder Twins! 

Last but least, who should walk into our 'studio' with such casual interest but Mr. Burt Reynolds himself! 

Yes, that's right. 

Burt likes colorful costuming as much as the next fan..and really wasn't doing much else to boot. 

So, sit back, relax, have yourself a watermelon mojito, as we lovingly present... Balderdash!

Let's bring it out!

1. Laws: 

"In Suffolk, UK, it is a criminal offense to snooze..."

*MBR: ...while in the public library.

WT: ...at the work place.

B: ...longer than ten minutes when your spouse is trying to sleep.

R: ...on a cruise..drinking booze..while reading the news..and counting by twos.

BG: ...in church.

CG: ...with booze..unless accompanied by a fooze named Balooze.

2. Words: "Pogonip"

BG: A small green vegetable related to the parsnip.

B: An herbal supplement given to depressed kangaroos kept in captivity.

CG: The sensation one feels in the extremities while jumping with a pogo stick on cool autumn evenings.

MBR: The high jumping game of cats on drugs.

*R: A thick fog that forms in deep valleys during the winter.

WT: A spice which causes an up and down motion.

3. Names: "Norman Orenteich"

*B: The doctor who invented the hair transplant.

CG: Commissioned (ha.) by Adolf Hitler, Orenteich captured scenes of every day Nazi family and town life.

WT: A Nazi german spy posing as "Norman the Doorman"..(This was one of the biggest laughs of the evening..and I'm still scratching my head over it..go fig.)

 R: A serial killer who brutally slaughtered anyone who mispronounced his last name. (Can you blame him?)

 MBR: Of the famous German band, Norman and the Stingy Potatoes. (This clearly was not Burt's best work of the night, but on an unrelated noted, he decided to call himself "Ballstein" on the comment card, which led to his subsequent and usual chuckling. True story.)

 BG: A German/Jewish Naval officer who deceived Hitler and helped the US win the attack on DDay.

4. Words: "Trocar"

R: A position of great authority in the leadership of Stone Masons.

MBR: A profanity uttered by the Gingerbread Man when his gumdrop buttons are enjoyed. 

WT: Newly appointed medication for impotency.

BG: A walking stick decorated with horses' heads.

*CG: Surgical instrument stuck in the side of a cow to remove gas pressure caused by overeating.

B: A shortened version of "trolley car", used mostly in San Francisco, CA.

No, really, where are all of the movie ones already? Yes, we're asking ourselves that too. 

Fear not...I think we're getting closer to those..

5. Names: "Offty Goofty"

B: Swiss scientist who perfected the chocolate truffle.

CG: The late Offty Goofty was the inspiration for Disney's classic character, Goofy.

*R: Turn of the century panhandler who charged people 10 cents to kick him. (Quite possibly the best answer of the night, moreso because it was true.)

BG: The only man in history to die when a piano fell from a one story window. It broke his toe and led to blood poisoning.

WT: A clown ventriloquist.

MBR: He was the original Indian Howdy Doody.

6. Laws:

"In New West Minister, it is unlawful to put.."

*WT: ...garbage in someone else's garbage can.

BG: ...a collar on a rat.

B: ....more than 4 kids in a bathtub at the same time.

MBR: ....all of your eggs in one basket.

CG: ...the word canadian before bacon.

R: ....live crabs in a public swimming pool. (Why not?)

7. Words: "Scurryfunger"

WT: A little brown fish that cleans the coral in the ocean and spews a mucosa causing the disease of the same name.

CG: A euphemism. 'Nuf said. (It would seem that our Commissioner knows his euphemisms.)

*BG: An ancient device used for cleaning teeth. (What an unlikely name for a toothbrush, but okay..)

R: A species of mole native to central Asia subsisting primarily on root mold.

B: A sea-faring, wood-eating worm that attacked pirate and merchant ships.

MBR: An angry Utahn replacement word meaning "roughly bad". 

This is getting to be too much. Seriously. Where are the movie questions? 

Yes, we know. Take a breather. 

They're coming, we promise. 

Would we lie to you?

 8. Words: "Drintling"

*WT: The clucking noise made by turkeys. 

MBR: The act of getting intentionally angry at dolphins.

B: The act of breeding horses.

BG: The process of pitting cherries for pie filling.

CG: The adolescent drint found in sub Sarahan pockets feeding on lint.

R: The Hindu working class, one caste about The Untouchables.

9. Words: "Woom"

R: The sound of a women exploding from a build-up of gas after consuming large quantities of rellenos. 

MBR: Where you pass out when you've had too many.

*CG: The fur of a beaver.

B: A bumblebee's under-developed brain.

BG: Where Elmer Fudd goes when he's in trouble.

WT: A spanish lady's skirt.

Here you go, pal. On us.

Oh..and um..we have played this one before..but don't worry. New answers! Yayyy. 

10. Movie Titles: "Henry's Night In"

BG: A perfectly normal night turns crazy for Henry when an escaped circus monkey breaks into Henry's apartment. Hilarity ensues. Starring Tony Danza and Bob the Monkey. (Second longest laugh that night mainly due to the extreme possibility of Tony Danza being reduced to working with a monkey. Plausible.)

*B: A man mixes up a magic formula and becomes invisible whenever he sneezes. He leaves his nagging wife and starts spying on nosy neighbors.

R: Henry is a total nerd about to spend another weekend alone. He hatches a brilliant scheme to build himself a woman out of spare computer parts. (Weird Science cough rip off coughcough.)

WT: Parents gone- food drink, movies, girls, friends-- in other words- Party!

CG: Follow the life of Baltus as he attempts to become a knight in the court of Henry the 8th.

MBR: It's 10pm. He's out of formula. Sorry Mr. Hyde. It's Henry's Night In.

And that, friends, is the end of this round of that endearing classic game we've come to love so well, Balderdash! Thanks so much for coming along on this fantastical ride, and our sincere apologies for the lack of movie questions.. though we probably could have put what we had in the beginning of the game so as to entice you...

Yeah, that's true..but we couldn't do this..

Bonus Games!

That's right. 

Two movie ones. You're welcome. :) 

*1. Movie Titles: "Ooh, You Are Awful"

R: A comedy starring Tom Arnold as a down trodden failing businessman who becomes a contestant on a Japanese game show. (This really could happen.) 

WT: A lady who enters a cooking contest with horrible cooking sills. Every year she enters homemade Russian pizza. It kills judges. (You'd think the judges would get the hint and sit this out if it happened every year. Oh well, that's Hollywood for you.)

*MBR: A con man searches for a girl who has the location of hidden bonds tattooed on her body.

B: Jenny wants flowers and candy like the other girls, but all she gets for Valentine's Day is a slaughtered pig in her bathtub. It's a holiday to die for. (Another big laugh of the night...Dark comedy potential.)

BG: Set in the 1920's, it's a silent film about a man with extremely bad manners who works in the restaurant at the base of the Empire State Building.

CG: Winner of the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, this documentary follows the career of the word stand up comedic tours.

*2. Movie Titles: "Nocturna"

B: An owl nesting upon a nuclear power plant gains supernatural powers and terrorizes the nearby townfolk. (The premise is too clever to be a real flick...would be cool if it were though..)
R: A horror film about vampire clowns that attack people in their dreams.
(Anyone else got the willies here?)
*BG: The granddaughter of Count Dracula leaves Transylvania to check out the NY disco scene.
CG: Johnny Depp and David Spade star in this horrific, yet slightly humorous adaption of the classic children's lullaby. (Still have the willies.)
WT: A land of no sleep.
MBR: Comedy classic starring Soupy Sales and Tippi Hendren about a Yiddish vampire named Mirna Nocturna.

The stars were:

Batman: ???

Robin: Batman's friend

Batgirl: Not tellin'

Commission Gordon: Mike
The Wonder Twins: Powers activated! Form of...secret identity!

Mr. Burt Reynolds: Jimmy