Father and Son

[Catwoman]

Credit to the Unofficial Michael Keaton Academy of Getting Nuts Facebook page.

On a related note, let's be real. Is anyone actually surprised Pee-Wee Herman's son looked like THIS?

[thecolorsblend]

On a related note, let's be real. Is anyone actually surprised Pee-Wee Herman's son looked like THIS?

I kinda was, yeah. Guess I assumed Pee Wee and Simone would make prettier babies than that.

But as you know, life is full of surprises.

It's full of surprises, Catwoman.

[The Joker]

Credit to the Unofficial Michael Keaton Academy of Getting Nuts Facebook page.

On a related note, let's be real. Is anyone actually surprised Pee-Wee Herman's son looked like THIS?

Surprising kinda like that of the Penguin's age (in the Burtonverse) being only in his early 30's during the events of Batman Returns!

[Catwoman]

Well keep in mind, Hank Willliams was 29 when he died.



It's not so much the mileage as how hard you've been run.

[The Laughing Fish]

Well keep in mind, Hank Willliams was 29 when he died.

I didn't realise he was that young. His grandson, Hank III, is a spitting image of him and he's in his mid-to-late 40s.



Back on topic, they got the right guy in Paul Reubens to play that bit-part role. He looks sophisticated, yet eccentric enough to be the father who disowned his own infant son. I like the connection you can make between the monocle Tucker wears, and the one Penguin wears while he goes over the birth certificates in search of his identity. As if Oswald is trying regain that upper class privilege his parents had deprived of him.

He might've been typecast as Pee Wee Herman, but if the Penguin was portrayed similar to Burgess Meredith, I could see Reubens  play the Penguin himself.

It's not so much the mileage as how hard you've been run.

Yes, that's true. In Penguin's case, it's doubtful he would've lived a long life even if he hadn't suffered that fatal fall into the pool of deadly chemicals in the end. With his deformity and his mouth dripping in that diseased-looking spit sometimes, it's quite obvious his health was pretty poor.