SUMMARY: RUNNING TIME: 11 Min.
Directed by Jake Castorena, this episode first aired in the U.S. on May 29, 2018. Secretly selling Justice League Watchtower tours for extra cash during his monitor duty shift, Booster Gold’s moonlighting backfires. Inadvertently setting off the base’s inner defense systems, Booster and his villainous tour group (each of whom are in undercover disguise) must scramble to survive.
Booster Gold: Diedrich Bader
Granny Goodness: Cloris Leachman
Joker: Mark Hamill
Toyman: Ken Jeong
Jackie: Rachel Kimsey
Batman: Kevin Conroy
Note: For whatever reason, data re: official episode numbers and original air dates for this series vary depending upon its source, so such info should really be taken as a best guess.
REVIEW:
Somehow, this can’t-miss sitcom premise almost does. Considering it’s another spoofy Booster Gold showcase, Diedrich Bader keeps Booster’s wise-guy attitude from becoming ultra-tiresome. Guest spots from Cloris Leachman, Ken Jeong, and Mark Hamill are well-played, but they are given too little to do. Had some unsuspecting League members passed though, it might have boosted the hilarity factor. Yet, all viewers get is a fast Batman cameo.
Curiously, two animation gaffes evidently weren’t caught during the episode’s editing. In one instance, the Joker’s disguise permanently loses a shoe, but then he has the shoe back in a later scene. Soon afterward (and correctly), the missing shoe is gone again. However, that goof isn’t nearly as bad as the misspelling of “Unknown” on a Watchtower monitor screen. At any rate, “Watchtower Tours” offers some chuckles, but there isn’t enough LOL humor to qualify as one of the series’ better comedies.
BRIAN’S ODD MOON RATING: 6 Stars
Note: This episode is on the Justice League Action: Battles from Beyond! 2-disc DVD set (which collects the series’ second half).
