Superfriends makes me scratch my head . . .

Today's post is about one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, The Challenge of the Superfriends. This is where the superfriends battle the Legion of Doom in various and sundry adventures. The particular episode this week was a variation on ST-TOS "Arena" where some advanced being brought five superfriends and five LOD members to a planet, where, the superior collective would be determined. In the first test, Batman and the Joker competed to be the first to navigate a maze. Joker barely misses falling in a pit, which was carefully carved out in a rectangle from the cement floor. So, Joker, in this cement maze, conveniently finds palm fronds which he covers the pit. Batman, a superhero with no real superpowers other than his intellect, fails to ignore the palm fronds on the otherwise cement floor and falls in the pit. Mmmhuh. In another improbable contest, the Scarecrow (whose superpower{s} I have yet to ascertain) and Apache Chief have to find and defeat a two-headed snake. OK. Apache Chief's power is that he can grow to fifty feet tall. He fails to use this, his only superpower, and loses the contest. Mmmhuh. All is well, however, because Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman, despite his fuckup, win their contest and the match.