“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. “Why did Batman Frog cross the road without Robin Frog? To get to the other sidekick” is a version that was posted on Twitter by Edward Allan Faine on October 3, 2013. “Why did Batman cross the road?”/“To get to the other sidekick” was printed in The Official DC Super Hero Joke Book (2017).
Another “sidekick” version was posted on Reddit—Cleanjokes on April 29, 2019:
Q: Why did the super villain cross the road?
A: To get to the other sidekick.
Twitter
Edward Allan Faine
@WeeklyFrogJokes
Why did Batman Frog cross the road without Robin Frog? To get to the other sidekick!
1:28 PM - 3 Oct 2013
Google Books
The Official DC Super Hero Joke Book
By Michael Robin, Sarah Parvis and Noah Smith
New York, NY: Downtown Bookworks Inc.
2017
Pg. 162:
Why did Batman cross the road?
To get to the other sidekick.
DC Comics
Batman Day Activity Kit
September 23, 2017
Pg. ?:
Decode the Jokes!
2. Why did Batman cross the road?
To get to the other sidekick.
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/gradymegalania April 29, 2019
Why did the super villain cross the road?
To get to the other sidekick.
Twitter
keepingitcreel
@Keepingitcreel
Why did the super villain cross the road? To get to the other sidekick.
10:44 PM - 29 Apr 2019
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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