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Mathematics Goes to the Movies

by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross

Batman (1966)

BATMAN: What kind of creature would gobble up a bird in a tree.
POLICE CHIEF: Heaven protect us ..
EVERYBODY EXEPT BATMAN: A cat!
BATMAN: Yes, gentlemen, the criminal catalyst in this entire affair, our old arch-enemy Catwoman.
MAJOR: Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Catwoman, too. The sum of the angles of this rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate.