Harley Quinn Season 3 Episode 1 Television 

Five Thoughts on Harley Quinn‘s “Harlivy”

By | July 29th, 2022
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Where have you been, Hyenas? I’ve been waiting here for *checks watch* two years and 31 days. No matter, Harley Quinn Season Three has finally arrived! I assume the duo of Harley and Ivy needed time to consummate their oh-so-sweet relationship. Lucky for us, they have returned for more ridiculous antics. The show kicked off in a standard raucous Harley Quinn manner and reintroduced the significant players from previous seasons. All the favorites are back. Jim Gordon is just as sad as ever but has renewed ambition to become mayor of the “open sewer of a city,” Gotham. The tag team champs, King Shark, and Clayface are in jail and getting their asses kicked, and a host of new faces, notable cameos, and outrageous happens put Harley Quinn back on track to being a must-watch weekly animated pastime. Let’s dust off the, well, dust and do Five Thoughts on this bad girl.

1. The pornening or Harlivy
In the real world, it’s a high honor to have your movie parodied by the adult film community. It means you’ve made it. Your film is a hit. So big that people want to watch it with nude actors. In the world of Harley Quinn, super villains are tantamount to internet superstars, so it’s only fitting that their antics become fodder for the Gotham porn industry. What stood out the most was not the visibly worn-out porn versions of Harley and Ivy (Kylie Kryptonite and Britney Bionic, respectively) but the fact that they starred in an adult film called “The Drilling Joke.” Is that porn based on the events of “The Killing Joke?” This is huge! If so, we have a definitive answer to if Batman kills The Joker at the end of that famous story. Spoilers, he didn’t.

2. Gordon Watch 2022
It returns! Jim Gordon is a mess, and I love him. The man can’t seem to get out of his way, even when chasing a dream. Our militarized version of Commissioner G is running for mayor with very little support at the start. The road to success opens up quite a bit after a rube Goldberg series of events leads to the current mayor’s death and the birth of Ratman (that’s not a joke). This storyline would make no sense if Jimmy G didn’t become mayor, so now we wait and see how our hapless commissioner will fumble this opportunity in a grand display of bravado-covered incompetence. Night gathers, and now my watch begins.

3. Harley is exhausting
Did anyone else want to break up with Harley by the end of the episode? She loves too hard! Harley smothers her companions in fierce loyalty and extravagant gifts. I promise no one else has received an Amanda Waller for their 19-day anniversary. The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour, while sweet (in a homicidal way), is a bit over the top. Look, this is all coming from a relatively closed-off individual who can’t crack a smile on his birthday, so take what I am saying with that in mind. Perhaps you found her aggressive system of affection charming. Adorable even. But I submit to you that Ivy didn’t seem all that jazzed about it after a while. Don’t love so hard, people. No one needs a Queen Elizabeth in semi-mint condition as a surprise. Also, did they kill the Queen?

4. The Justice League sucks
The World’s Greatest Heroes stink. I must have typed this out at least seven times in the last two seasons, but where the hell are they? You can’t have the likes of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern around and not stop the absolute carnage of these two, admittedly badass. Ladies are causing. Harley and Ivy claim squatter’s rights in the Fortress of freaking Solitude, and Clark does ass all to stop them. Then get saddled with an HBO Max bill! What a chump. Not to mention WW gets mugged for her invisible jet, though the jury is out whether she knows it’s missing. It’s the last time I’ll bring this up (crosses fingers) but damn it, say they are dead. DC does it all the time.

5. Second bananas
King Shark and Clayface are great adaptations of the characters. I love Ron Funches’ voice for Kig Shark, and Alan Tudyk is a national treasure. However, we are back to saddling them with a “who cares” level of story. Clayface ends the episode using his god-like powers to be a chair for James Gunn. Funny, sure, but man, what a waste. It’s episode one, so I can’t call it yet, but the last couple of seasons have not been very kind to our lackeys. I hope this leads to Clayface taking over for James Gunn and King Shark eating the head of Warner Bros. Then maybe we can get a decent set of movies out of that house. Yea, I said it!

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The wrap-up
That’s episode one and the Five Thoughts it spawned. The show is as fun as ever, and it’s fantastic to have these characters back. I am still waiting for Joker, his wife, and his kids to show up. That’s the show we need. Harley and Ivy plan to take over the world in a contrived plan to terraform the earth. We know Harley will mess this up somehow, but hopefully, their relationship is strong enough to weather such aggressive bumbling. Remember, Harley was too much for The Joker. And he’s nuts.

Check out Boomb Tube for breakdowns of the next couple of episodes, and I will see you back here for another Five Thoughts soon. Love hard, Hyenas!

Notables

  • Superman mentions the duo signed him up for HBO Max when he saw they were watching porn. Does anyone know what tab that is? I can’t seem to find it in the UI…
  • The birth of Ratman was strange, but I hope we get Batman Begins in the background of this series.
  • How did that large gentleman lose only his face when he fell in the goo? How? His face just fell the hell off.
  • Is Eat, Bang, Kill a reference to Eat, Pray, Love?
  • Does anyone else think the animators have the most fun with this series? They drew a porn parody for Jimmy’s sake

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Carl Waldron

Carl Waldron is a father, creator, and life-long nerd. You can find him arguing the rules of different magical franchises with friends or indoctrinating his daughter into the world of comics. Follow his other works on Super. Black.

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