My Funny Valentine



My Funny Valentine is the first mini-episode of the first season of The Joker Blogs. It was first uploaded on Youtube on February 14, 2009.

Characters

 * Scott McClure as Joker
 * Kira Westberg as Dr. Harleen Quinzel
 * Steven Molony as Dr. Jeremiah Arkham

Production Notes

 * This video was uploaded to Youtube on Valentine's Day.
 * Originally, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham was planned to be introduced in this series as more of a villain. There were ideas to have him as a scumbag who was cheating on his wife, but Steven Molony's portrayal helped move the character in a different direction.
 * Scott McClure did actually bite a crayon for this mini-episode. After filming finished, he spit it out (along with the chocolate because he doesn't eat chocolate).

Event Chronology

 * The events of "My Funny Valentine" occur after "A Dream Come True" and before "Hypnotized".

Episode Connections

 * Dr. Jeremiah Arkham tells the Joker to stop breaking into his office. The first time that the Joker (unintentionally) did this was in "Meet Steve".
 * Joker says the District Attorney's office shouldn't have questioned his insanity. This is a callback to the episode "Arkham Bound", where Harleen mentioned Mr. Fields was trying to prove the Joker was faking insanity in order to get him sent away to Blackgate Prison. Subsequently, Mr. Fields was killed by the Joker before the events of "A Dream Come True".
 * Jeremiah asks the Joker to return the photo of his wife that he stole. This photo was first seen in "Meet Steve". Harleen also references when the Joker broke into her office which occurred in the same episode.

Multimedia Connections

 * At the beginning of the video, the Joker is humming Harley Quinn's theme song from Batman: The Animated Series.
 * In this episode, Harleen is shown to have brunette hair. Some viewers reacted negatively to this reveal, but Scott McClure said the hair color difference was a creative choice for the series. Notably, Harley Quinn's trademark blonde hair is present in many media depictions of her, though in one of the episodes in Batman: The Animated Series, she tells Batman, "And you thought I was just anotha' dumb blonde bimbo! Well, the joke's on you, I'm not even a real blonde!"