"If anything, they said to us, 'Go harder. Once the show moved to HBO Max in its third season, though, the notes decreased. Still, in a season that also contains a whole episode set at an orgy, to fixate on this one scene feels a little disingenuous from DC. The way he recalls it, the DC executive who gave that note wasn't concerned about the portrayal of Batman as a pillar of DC, and more about kids watching the show - even if it is clearly not meant for kids. "I definitely think that through the sort of game of telephone, things got a little bit misconstrued and it became a bigger story than it probably would've been," he told us. At the time, co-creator Justin Halpern said that DC let the showrunners know that "heroes don't do that."Īccording to Schumacker, things weren't as bad as people thought. The best-known studio note on "Harley Quinn" and the scene that DC had the biggest problem with - according to the internet, at least - was what Schumacker calls "BatCatgate." Back in 2021, it was reported that DC forbade the "Harley Quinn" team from having Batman perform oral sex on Catwoman in a season 3 scene (which eventually just portrayed the Caped Crusader giving his girlfriend a very bad foot massage).
"I remember DC saying, 'No, he's a little too stupid.' And then we sort of reframed him as this almost like Disney prince, and he was kind of pompous and they were like, 'Yeah, that's cool.' And depending on who you ask, I don't know, that character could be equally stupid." The result, once actor Chris Diamantopoulos re-recorded the surfer bro lines, became closer to DC's answer to Gaston from "Beauty and the Beast" - still a big galoot, but without the bottle opener flip-flop. "We really ratcheted up this sort of surfer bro version of where he had a flip-flop that had the beer bottle opener on the bottom of it," the executive producer and co-creator said.
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