Batman: The Animated Series
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
Season 1, Episode 41 · Aired 1992-11-18
Synopsis
Edward Nygma creates the game The Riddle of the Minotaur and makes millions for the company Competitron. He is then fired by his superior, Daniel Mockridge, who wants the profits for himself. Nygma vows revenge, and two years later, he takes up the mantle of the Riddler and traps Mockridge inside a life-sized version of the Minotaur maze. Batman's sympathy is with Nygma, but he and Robin have to stop him before he kills Mockridge, despite the fact that Mockridge cannot legally be brought to justice. Regardless, Mockridge, despite the resulting rescue, is left in a permanent all-consuming fear of Nygma's return for revenge.
In the series
This episode is part of Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995) on Fox Kids.
Art-deco Gotham with Conroy’s growl — kids’ TV that adults claimed.
Key cast
- Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman
- Mark Hamill as The Joker
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred
- Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn
- Loren Lester as Dick Grayson / Robin