Written by Jamiesen Borak
Directed by Christina Manrique
Harley (to everyone): "Maybe the butler did it."
By golly, I think she's got it. Actually, she would've but the thing that Harley hadn't factored was the lack of an actual dead body. It turned out that Alfred's party piece was faking his death.
It's an unusual one but for this episode we had Harley, Ivy, Frank, Shawn the Shark, Lois Lane, Joker, Sophia, Bruce and Damian all together in one apartment for dinner with plenty of tension brewing. Of course Alfred's little party piece had everyone chasing Harley for a bit. Then other stuff happened.
Remember last season when Dick Grayson was killed by a sleepwalking Harley and got resurrected by the Lazarus Pit? Yeah, it turned out that he wanted revenge and crashed the party as Red X. He got very close to killing Harley until Bruce giving a much needed apology to both Dick and Damian managed to quell Dick's homicidal tendencies.
That of course then left Alfred to reveal himself as the one responsible for Dick's resurrection and he also wanted to kill Harley, Ivy and Joker for the chaos they've created. He also had his issues with Bruce that a heartfelt apology wouldn't suffice.
Anyways, Alfred went nuts on the same venom that Bane used, tried to kill everyone until the mischievous Shawn saved the day. Then we had Lois offering Harley a job at the Daily Planet because like Harley, Lois too has been having nightmares of a giant skull.
- Damian broke up with Raven off screen and then got together with Sophia by the end of the episode.
- I know this version of Bruce is meant to be widely inconsiderate but even I was surprised he didn't know Alfred's surname. Lena also refused to come to dinner.
- Frank worked out that he was 90 in human years while King Shark was dealing with an underwater rebellion. Oh and Harley really wanted that illegal showerhead.
- Chronology: Not long from the events of the previous episode.
Big Pasta Dinner had fun with it's murder mystery premise and the returns of both Dick Grayson/Red X and Alfred/the Macaroni certainly livened up the episode. Even with Brainiac's absence, at least some of his story moved along a bit.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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