It's Undead and the Back to the Future in this JL entry--
- Solomon Grundy and Hawkgirl return in "Wake the Dead"
- We start off with nerds playing with the dark arts, accidentally bringing Grundy back to (un)life
- As we previously saw, Hawkgirl has been hanging out in Fate's tower--we get a great screen with her, Aquaman, and Amazo playing chess
- Meanwhile, GL is at Vixen's (Gina Torres) fashion show when he gets the call. Vixen can call on the abilities of any animal. Seems like GL moved on quickly...
- The League has little luck fighting Grundy--even Superman is taken out--but Hawkgirl wants to save him (they became friends in a previous episode)
- Unfortunately, Grundy is hyper-charged with "chaos magic" and doesn't remember her. Fortunately, her Nth Metal mace does affect him.
- Reluctantly, she destroys him (off camera, of course)
- It's more time travel in the two-parter "The Once and Future Thing"
- In the future, henpecked husband David Clinton (Peter MacNicol) builds a time machine, using it to steal famous objects form the past
- We cut to another Watchtower cafeteria scene, including a quick shot of Commander Steel. Bruce and GL compare their current romances before there's an alarm--Clinton is trying to steal a utility belt. He escapes back into time, with Bruce, Diana, and GL in tow.
- They wind up in the Old West, giving the writers the opportunity to feature DC's western characters--Bat Lash (Ben Browder), Jonah Hex (Adam Baldwin), El Diablo (Nestor Carbonell) and Pow-Wow Smith (Jonathan Joss)
- Classic Diana, while doing the old bullets and bracelets bit: "Those are the biggest, slowest bullets I've ever seen."
- Our heroes have to go incognito--fortunately, they run into some bushwackers that wear clothes that just happen to fit (except for the shoes, which Diana complains about). No one seems to notice that GL still has glowing green eyes.
- They run into futuristic weapons--a local villain stole Clinton's tech and took over the town
- We get a western version of the JL theme during a montage
- Robo-dinosaurs, robo-gunmen, and a tank bedevil our heroes
- Hex mentions more than once that he's acquainted with time travel (the character spent quite a while doing so in the comics)
- Clinton double-crosses them, and goes "back to the future"--specifically, the Batman Beyond future, taking us to part two...
- Lots of guest stars here: heroes Batman Terry McGuinness (Will Friedle), War Hawk (Peter Onorati), and Static (Phil LaMarr); villains Ghoul (Michael Rosenbaum), Dee Dee (Melissa Joan Hart), Woof (Dee Bradley Baker), and Chucko (Don Harvey)
- Bruce meets future Bruce and the remainder of the League. War Hawk is GL and Shayera's son, making things uncomfortable.
- Clinton's tech supercharging the future villains with more future tech. One of the villains messes up and finds out how the dinosaurs died--in person.
- All this time travel is screwing up the space-time continuum--Diana disappears, and John changes into Hal, then back again
- Classic Bruce(s), when told he doesn't know his way around New Gotham--Young Bruce: "Are villains still superstitious and cowardly?" Old Bruce: "Yup" Young Bruce: "Good enough for me"
- They find Clinton's wife, who takes them to him--still holed up in the saloon from the Old West
- Clinton escapes and tries to go to the beginning of time (we even get the "Hand of Creation" shot from the comics) before all is reset--and we're back in the cafeteria (what the hell is Diana eating--jello and milk?). Chronos is stuck in a loop being hen-pecked.
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