Thehahahatimes.com

Thehahahatimes.com is the Joker's parody of Thegothamtimes.com.

Issue 1

November 23, 2007

Screenshot from November 30, when "The Perfect Getaway" clue was attached

Clues

A number of words and phrases were circled:

Mobsters fight for their right to party Gotham streets turned into killed in after midnight, attempting to late last night, police press conference continue to take every crime mob watches said the alignment

Dead letters to the sheep his own political protect Gotham citizens the soaring crime rate His pater familias as I lived through even acknowledge that up they were by a your email address and material

Gotham girl guides sue elves for stealing cookie recipes of childhood never young Young, pretty, and full their time selling the home to these days? by walking hours a their parents look ahead day that broke all of our "But now, after the thefts, I look

Look out gotham, Harvey Dent's tie attacks to get in front of as It's the space between instead imported killed exploited cameras on him crime

When the viewer responded to the classified ad correction on pg 2 of The Gotham Times at the address humanresources@whysoserious.com, they were emailed the following:

See you found my little message. So, do you think you have what it takes to be a part of my circle of friends? Are you a backstabbing, self-promoting, ambitious clown who will do anything to prove yourself to me? If so, the first step of your application process awaits...if you know where to look.

The solution to the circled phrases puzzle was discovered, leading to Whysoserious.com/Personalityprofile.

November 30, 2007

A note with the words "THE PERFECT GETAWAY" written on it was added to page 4. This led to the discovery of Whysoserious.com/Theperfectgetaway.

Issue 2

March 28, 2008

Three days after a new issue of The Gotham Times was released, Thehahahatimes.com was updated with a parody of the second edition of the paper.

Clues

As before, there are a number of circled words, dots, and notes taped to the newspaper.

The "I Hate Bees" note is likely an inside joke with 42 Entertainment, since one of their prominent past projects was the "I Love Bees" campaign for the game Halo 2.

The circled words "puzzle" spread throughout the pages can be solved by counting the word's place within its paragraph. For example, 'initial' is the 13th word in the paragraph, so the associated letter would be 'M,' and so on. The result is the following message from the Joker mocking the efforts of those trying to solve the puzzle.

MADE YOU LOOK AGAIN

NOTHING HERE

RED HERRING

SERIOUSLY HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GONNA FALL FOR THIS

With this dead end, the real game continued with calls to participants with Joker cell phones.

Issue 3

June 24, 2008

Eleven days after the third issue of The Gotham Times was released, Thehahahatimes.com was updated with a new spoof.

Clues

As usual, a collection of circled letters are found dispersed through the issue. Combining the letters in order results in:

Herrings are red Corpses are blue You're on the right track But you don't have the clue

Dispersed through the issue are also the following circled words (all are 5 letters long):

party

chaos

level

arent

twice

world

level

Dents

Dents

faced

urban

The importance of these words was revealed in the solution to the Be Amazed cell phone puzzle. The second letters of the fourth words to the right of the circled words spelled out "RED BALLOONS," leading to a new Why So Serious site: Whysoserious.com/Redballoons.

Thehahahatimes.com -- (direct link)