BRB



BRB is the eighth episode of the first season of The Joker Blogs. It was first uploaded on Youtube on July 18, 2009.

Characters

 * Scott McClure as Joker
 * Julian Weinstein as Mac Rodello

Production Notes

 * BRB stands for "Be Right Back".
 * The heart, spade, diamond, and club cards that the Joker placed next to each other have the exact numbers for his patient number (4479).
 * The brief mention of "Bob and Joe" is a reference to characters in a collection of 15 silent films that Scott McClure made while he was growing up.
 * The scene in the hallway was filmed in a college.
 * The Ace of Spades is considered the death card, which is the card Mac Rodello picked from the deck before being shot by the Joker.
 * While Julian Weinstein's voice is heard off-camera as Mac, the hand holding the Ace of Spades was Andrew DeVary's.
 * However, in the next shot of the hand on the ground, a fake severed hand was used.

Event Chronology

 * The events of "BRB" occur after "Artistic Merit" and before "Find Patient 4479".

Episode Connections

 * The fork used to kill Henry was obtained by the Joker in "An Apple A Day".
 * The unseen man, Mac Rodello, who has been subsequently helping to upload the videos to YouTube was first mentioned in "Arkham Bound". His name is also mentioned in "Staff Verification".

Multimedia Connections

 * The Joker is wearing a blue dress shirt (with hexagonal patterns on it) and a dark green vest for the majority of the episode. At the end of the video, he puts on a purple coat, making his whole ensemble an even more uncanny resemblance to what Heath Ledger's Joker wore in The Dark Knight.
 * The card used to symbolize Harvey Dent is ripped in half by the Joker. This is a hint to Harvey Dent's other identity, Two-Face.
 * During the scene where the Joker asks his accomplice what card he got before shooting him dead, the instrumental theme "Why So Serious?" plays. It was popularized as the Joker's theme in The Dark Knight.
 * As the Joker hits the fire alarm and escapes the asylum, he is humming the Joker's theme from Batman: The Animated Series.