)stadiums are often referred to as cathedrals or emples, with fans faithful or loyal to a particular player or eam (the saints - the home team vs.Gordon.The insane Nygma""s project was terminated, although he feverishly worked on it.Caught in his cubicle late at night by his angered supervisor Fred Stickley (Ed Begley, Jr.) and threatened with expulsion, he used Stickley as a guinea pig for his experiment on brain waves.When Stickley ordered him fired ("You demented, bizarre unethical toad! It is brain manipulation"), Nygma pushed Fred (still wearing the intelligence-sucking head contraption) in his swivel chair through the side window to his eventual death ("You are fired, or should I say terminated?"), while grabbing the device from his head at the last minute.[On the wall in the room was a picture of a rocky cliffside - a future clue to an important location.On the last gong, the coffin lid popped open, revealing the skeletal, dressed-up remains of the esteemed baron inrigor mortis: here was a toothy skull, and two gnarly, bony hands clinging to a flat metal box...machinery is going to take the place of every profession"), (4) the power of low-brow sexual conniving and manipulation (in the Pre-Code era) was evident before it was squelched by conservative forces of censorship, and (5) wealthy and self-centered socialites were struggling with personal and financial issues as much as the common folk.