Burt Ward says producers wanted him take pills to shrink his penis while filming Batman
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Superheroes were a quaint thing in the ‘60s, with Adam West and Burt Ward leading the charge as a much sillier spin on Batman and Robin than we’re accustomed to seeing these days. Still, as boomers will remind you, Batman was a huge fucking deal, despite the show’s relentless campiness and infatuation with labeling every inanimate object imaginable. While the series’ popularity waned over the decades, the late Adam West reinvented his career by starring as Mayor Adam West of Quahog, Rhode Island on Family Guy. Ward, on the other hand, stood more or less adjacent to fame, reappearing now and again in some Robin-related fashion. Well, he resurfaced again last week in advance of him receiving his own star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame to reflect on both his legacy and, well, his dick.
In a new interview with Page Six, Ward says Dick Grayson’s penis was an issue. Per his telling, the Catholic League of Decency called ABC to complain about Batman’s sidekick’s own sidekick—his tights, you see, accentuated the size of his reportedly massive schlong. “They thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television,” Ward said. This grew to be such an issue, apparently, that ABC made him see a doctor to find medication that would shrink his penis for TV.
“I took them for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children,” he said. “I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.”
Congrats to Ward on receiving his very own Hollywood star, and the opportunity to speak to the press about his penis size at the age of 74.
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I wish I had that problem. Shit… I said too much, looks down now as is sad. 🙁
You wish you had been in the position of having an awkward costume in a successful, iconic 1960s TV show? Don’t worry, we understand you perfectly.
Wasn’t this an article here, like, a week ago? This same story?
Absolutely , the last line of the article was almost identical .
didn’t you make this same comment last week as well?
….omg deja vu
…omg AGAIN
Haha uh-oh. I think I’m collapsing in on myself or something.
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I think it was Giz or Kotaku. Probably reposted here though. Seems like they’d keep an eye out for overlap but I guess not.
It was io9 on the 11th. I don’t remember if it was also shared to AVClub.https://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-actor-burt-ward-claims-abc-gave-him-pills-to-shr-1840948913
Oh yeah, uh…me too. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
He’s been telling that story for 30 years.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qlmbk8N-gdMC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false
Well, if you’ve got a ‘My dick was so big’ story, you try to work it into every conversation you can.
“I’m so sorry to hear the cancer has spread to you lymph nodes. Hey, speaking of things spreading out in troubling ways…”
Like Jack Nicholson said in Terms of Endearment, “You gotta use everything you can and that still ain’t enough.”
Yeah it is version of“It was the drugs! It was the drugs!”
I was going to say. I thought we all knew about Robins huge dick and having to take medication to make it smaller. Old Grandpa use to tell us kids about it every Christmas back in the 80s
What? It came up organically!
That’s what she said!
…and yet no one seems to know any medication that could reliably produce the desired results. Besides, if you watch the series you’ll see that Grayson’s dick appears consistently to be as tumescent as that of a eunuch.
Why would it even be developed?!?
A Swiss pharmaceutical company experimenting with a elixir to treat genital elephantiasis. …And you won’t believe what happens next!
On the next page…. does he… admit to having sex (however briefly) with a 15 year old girl?
I strongly get the impression that things like “age of consent” were mostly just “guidelines” for famous people up until about 1980. (See the sex exploit claims of old rock stars.)
Lol! Wuut? Who is the woman in the comic who has NO PANTS saying “take me?” Needs a NSFW warning 😀
i take these same pills. doc said it was this or buy another shoe.
Dingo Boots work best.
Poor Adam West. The Catholic League for Decency had nothing to say about his cock.
If my workday involved looking at Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, or Lee Meriwether in a skintight suit, I’d need them pills too.
“Okay, cut everyone, Burt needs another ‘bathroom break’.”
Anyone else take these pills because the porcelain gets so cold during Winter?
I got tired of having to spend extra money for custom tailoring.
i’m not a tall man; i hate dragging on the floor.
“Baby on Board. Something Something Burt Ward. This writes itself”
they couldn’t just duct tape it down?
I’m not so sure applying pressure to a teenager’s penis would keep it down.
That or I’m pretty sure there were athletic cups back in the 1960s… that would have been better (and cheaper) than snake-oil pills.
It is weird. Drag queens have all kinds of techniques.
It’s confounding to me that when this comes up NOBODY considers a dance belt or a cup, and either lets it hang out or jumps straight to something like life-destroying dick-shrinking pills. Seems like no one ever talk to wardrobe unless it’s how to make the starlets boobs bigger (which no one ever complains about)?
We’re just going to ignore that a Catholic group was playing very close attention to a teenaged boy’s bulge?
That is very on brand for them.
You win. LMAO!
“Father O’Flaherty says that bulge is far too big for a supposedly teenage character. And he would know.”
Hope the Catholic League of Decency don’t say balls nasty!
Holy balls, Batman!
“Paying” or “playing?” Ew.
In this case…. Yes D:
Him too?! I can attest that the persecution never ends.
It’s time for this forgotten minority to stand up and adjust their pants to a more comfortable position.
At least he was allowed genitals. The Cats movie digitally emasculated all the actors. This bothered me.
If you don’t spade and neuter stray cats they just over run the place!
Spay is the present tense of spayed.
He meant using a spade to neuter them.
You misunderstand. I did not mean female animal sterilization. I meant to hit them with a small shovel like instrument.
Let’s call a spay a spade.
When what they should have done was digitally add penile spines.
Call a drag queen? Maybe?
Always kind of liked how Burt Ward-ish they made Joseph Gordon-Levitt look in Dark Knight Rises. I mean, you know, above the waist.
How did it measure up against the Joker’s boners?
…and yet no one seems to know any medication that could reliably
produce the desired results. Besides, if you watch the series you’ll see
that Grayson’s dick appears consistently to be as tumescent as that of a eunuch.
Isn’t this the time for Ruth Buzzi to hit Robin with a purse as we cut away to Goldie Hawn winking into the camera?
Burt – the ‘small’ print on your mirror? “Images may appear more magnified than they actually are.”
Holy Humongous Hog, Batman!
Sadly this was in the days before Rupauls Drag Race, They could’ve taught him to Tuck!!