In 2008, 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold' took a chance, mashing the "BOOM," "ZAP," "POW" camp of the '60s TV series with the modern iterations of Batman and DC comics. It turned them on their heads, reimagining them as big, brash parodies of themselves. Purists hated it, while some, including myself, thought that it was a silly love letter meant to poke a little good-natured fun at how objectively ridiculous the very idea truly is while still revering it.

-Do not blast me about this. I am a massive nerd with one son named after Superman and the other who would have been named after Batman had he not been due to receive his grandfather's middle name, Lee. Even then, it was close. The idea of a grown man who dresses like a bat, jumping from rooftop to rooftop to beat up people dressed like clowns and question marks shouldn't work as anything other than comedy, but it does.-

Bat-Fam, on the other hand, has made a silly cartoon that adopts characters from the mythos and turns them into every other modern cartoon out there. Nearly every episode features Batman as an insecure dad who needs and receives a lesson in parenting.

Objectively, were Bat-Fam not a Batman series, it would still only be mundane and unimaginative. As it is, it completely fails to capture the characters' spirit and delivers the simplest laughs, just north of fart jokes (I think it even has some of those).