EPISODE NUMBERS: 98-99, Production Code 1703

PLOT SUMMARIES:

The Sport of Penguins
The Penguin steals Lola Lasagne's fancy, priceless parasol during a photo session highlighting her and her prize-winning filly, Parasol, at the racetrack. Then, while trying to pilfer a priceless folio of famous Parasols, Penguin is quickly stopped by Barbara Gordon; he quickly drops the folio and scrams, but strtegically turns on a time-bomb in his umbrella and leaves it in a nearby umbrella stand!Barbara quickly contacts her dad, who in turn contacts The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder, who rush over to The Gotham Library in the nick of time to dispatcch the deadly umbrella bomb before it dfetonates! Later Lola herself visits Penguin's Book Shop under the pseudonym of fortune hunter Lulu Schulz, who was divorced by her wealthy husband who completely cleaned her out, leaving her with nothing but the racehorse Parasol; she discovered that the supposedly valuable umbrella Pengy swiped is only a fake. Penguin sets his monocle on Lola's real prize possession: her horse Parasol, who is favored to win the Bruce Wayne Handicap. Although the winnings are supposed to be donated to The Wayne Foundation for charity, Penguin has a dastardly plan to fix the race so that they both come out victorious, and Lola joins in gladly.

At Glu Gluten's Glue Factory, Penguin and Lola try to purchase a run-down nag that closely resembles Parasol, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Batman, Robin and eventually Batgirl. The Blackbird Of Prey quickly summons his henchmen, and the inevitable Batfight begins as Lola swiped the horse. While the henchmen battle it out with The Dynamic Trio, The Penguin dashes outside to apply paste all to The Batmobile's seats! So when The Batman and Robin attempt to give chase they find themselves glued to their own car! While The Pompous, Waddling Master Of Fowl Play makes another attempt to snatch the valuable folio of parasols from the library, Lola spraypaints the glue factory horse to look like Parasol.

A Horse of Another Color
Penguin schemes to make a bundle for Lola and himself by disguising the glue factory reject as Parasol and the real Parasol under the moniker of Bumber shoot; that way, everyone will bet on the paste Parasol, while The Penguin will make a killing from a wager on the true horse, which is an unmistakeable long shot! Needing a quick 10 grand to place that wager, he goes right back to Gotham Library to resume stealing the valuable parasol folio...unwittingly activating and Emergency Library Prowler Alarm, signaling Barbara Gordon, who immediately contacts her dad, Commissioner Gordon, who calls Batman and Robin, who rush to the library in time to catch Penguin plucking the folio. He gasses everyone with his umbrella and escapes. Knowing Penguin is short of funds, The Batman places a 'wanted to buy' ad in the collector's newspaper for a valuable book on parasols. The Penguin spots the ad and contacts the advertiser, Mr. A.L. Fredd (who actually is Alfred the butler in disguise, of course) and offers to sell him the folio for the needed amount of betting cash. The Felonious Fowl is angered to no end upon discovering The Caped Crusader has returned the stolen folio, and, blaming Barbara Gordon, he sends her a deadly gas-filled toy penguin!

Penguin goes to the track to place his bet and scratches of all the horses in the race with the exception of Parasol and a newcomer Bumbershoot--literally!---with some well-placed itching powder. Bruce learns of this scheme and guesses the true nature of Penguin's plan to ride Bumbershoot in the race, and immediately enters his own horse, Waynebeau, in the handicap, knowing it's a shoo-in to win. Alfred knows Bruce would like Batgirl as jockey for Waynebeau, as Dick Grayson is set to ride the phony Parasol. The dutiful butler then rushed to the library in time to smother the toy penguin before it gets a chance to do any harm, and then informs Barbara about Bruce's plans for the race. Later, at the racetrack, The Caped Crusadress on Waynebeau easily passes Penguin on Bumbershoot and handily wins the Handicap. Realizing something has gone awry, The Blackbird Of Prey quickly waddles back to the jockey room to swicth into his regular garb before escaping, and finds that The Dynamic Trio have tailed him (no pun intended!). They battle the henchmen and proceed to put salt on The Penguin's tail once again.

In Gotham City Library, The King Of The Nile, Tut, is ogling some rare ancient Egyptian scrolls...

WRITTEN BY: Charles Hoffman

DIRECTED BY: Sam Strangis

CAST:
Burgess Meredith (The Penguin)
Ethel Merman (Lola Lasagne)
Horace McMahon (Glu Gluten)
Lewis Charles (Armband)
Herbert Anderson (Racing Secretary)
Constance Davis (Myrtle)
Allen Emerson (Photographer)

INTERESTING NOTES:
- During the actual horse race, watch out for a stuntman dressed as Batgirl mounted on Waynebeau!

SCREEN GRABS FROM THE PORT OF PENGUINS

SCREEN GRABS FROM A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR