"Justice League"
Kid Stuff (2004)

Writer:

Henry Gilroy (writer)

TV Series:

"Justice League" (2001)

Original Air Date:

14 August 2004 (Season 3, Episode 3)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

After Modred magically eliminates adults from the world, his mother transforms a League team into children in order to do battle with her son in that situation. |

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Hate | Forces Of Evil | Dark Hero | Government Conspiracy

Cast

Kevin Conroy	...	Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Susan Eisenberg	...	Princess Diana / Wonder Woman (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice)
George Newbern	...	Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kyle Alcazar	...	Young Batman (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Blockbuster (voice)
Olivia d'Abo	...	Morgaine Le Fey (voice)
Ashley Edner	...	May (voice)
Dakota Fanning	...	Young Wonder Woman (voice)
Soren Fulton	...	Mordred (voice)
Shane Haboucha	...	Young Superman (voice)
Marc John Jefferies	...	Young Green Lantern (voice)
Sheryl Lee Ralph	...	Cheetah (voice)
Jose Yenque	...	Copperhead (voice)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Trivia:

When John is turned into a kid in the third season episode, "Kid Stuff", the mask he creates to replace his glasses is very similar to the mask that is worn by Kyle Rayner in the comics.

Quotes:

[Etrigan, now a diaper-wearing infant, randomly attacks the League with his fire breath until Wonder Woman wisely picks him up and burps him]
Young Wonder Woman: See? That's all he needed.
Young Green Lantern: [sniffs the air] Oh, man. That ain't all he needs.
Young Batman: Now *that* is a job for Superman.

The "cutest" episode of the show's five-year history

The animated series, "Justice League," never had a large following with Cartoon Network's younger audience; it was the boomers that savored the exploits of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the others in the duties of being defenders of Earth. "Kid Stuff" attempted to put a little "youth" in the characters by having some of them magically turned into kids to do battle against Mordrid, the son of ancient sorceress Morgan Le Fey.

The vocal interplay between the younger versions of Batman (guest voice Kyle Alcazar), Wonder Woman (movie star Dakota Fanning), Green Lantern (Marc John Jeffries), and Superman (Shane Haboucha) is priceless with Batman delivering a smile-inducing revelation about his own childhood.

Though the story itself is rather weak, in the writing department, it still benefits from the premise of super-powered adults trapped in children's bodies and the adaptations they must make.

It is one of the best of the single part episodes of the series; perhaps it's greatest strength is its brevity, without the necessity of two parts as did the installments in the show's first two years.