Quote of the Day

I guess Adelson hasn’t noticed that there’s actually an episode of Batman: The Animated Series titled “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?” The episode is the origin story of that show’s version of The Riddler. He’s still Edward Nygma, just like in the comics, but he’s a computer game programmer who unexpectedly signed the rights away to his hit game to the game company when signing a contract.

The game company’s fat cat executive deems him useless and fires him, asking him “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”

Nygma becomes driven mad by the question and transforms into The Riddler while the game company boss goes to sell his company to Wayne Enterprises (because in DC, all companies exist simply to eventually become worthy to be sold to Bruce Wayne or Lex Luthor.) During the deal, Riddler kidnaps his old boss.

Batman goes through a true-like sized recreation of the video game, and of course outwits Riddler and saves the tycoon, but the episode ends with the rich dude frightened out of his wits and basically becoming a recluse, scared that Riddler will return for him again.

While we’ll never get a real life Batman or a real life Riddler (effective ones, anyway), it’s always nice to see that reality decided to bless us with the asshole who asked him, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”