My introduction to The Scarlet Pimpernel was through the 1997 Broadway musical, and it was actually a well done musical though I bet it's probably mostly forgotten. I liked that Percy was adept as using disguises and pranks to befuddle and outwit the French Revolutionaries. In the musical, Percy just drove his enemies crazy with his usually irritating by hysterical sense of humor. There was even a song when he declared that he was The Scarlet Pimpernel, but no one believed him. According to one rumor in that particular song, The Scarlet Pimpernel was thought to "flatulent and crass," and that he was also "a horse's ass."
The whole distrust between Percy and his wife was also a big interesting part of that story. Because of that distrust, Marguerite ended up working again for Chauvelin, her ex-boyfriend and supervillain (probably based off of Robespierre). I liked the parts best when Percy just couldn't resist pissing off Chauvelin with his foppish jokes.
I'm glad that Bob used scenes from the 1982 film version, because I saw that version sometime right after I saw the musical. I saw little of the 30s version, but that was also impressive.
I would like to see Bob explain what it is about Spawn that drives him crazy, that he occasionally uses him as an example for approaches to superheroes he just doesn't like. Granted, I wasn't really impressed by the writing of the collection of the first issues of the comics when I first read them, and it had that irritating style that reminded me of some of Frank Miller's one-dimensional rant about the state of the world comics (and Miller did write the stories for some of the comics). Still, I liked the mythology McFarlane (and Neil Gaiman) created with Spawn, and the villains were varied and inventive. The animated series certainly improved upon the faults of comics, even though it was short-lived. I'd still like to see Bob do a video about his thoughts about Spawn someday.