Every film and TV show is made exponentially funnier and just plain better with Matt Berry in it, even if only his unmistakable voice is heard. (See: his dual roles in Fallout .) While it’s a shame he won’t be in every single upcoming Fall TV premiere , he will return as one of Staten Island’s undead elite in What We Do in the Shadows ’ final season .
It doesn’t sound like he gets many fans asking for spoilers, but they do apparently yell his character’s signature exclamation at him pretty regularly. While fans would be well within the realm of canonical references to go up to Berry and ask him to take part in supernatural orgies, that’s not very polite here in the real world. Instead, the IT Crowd vet told Deadline that gleeful viewers most often bring up Laszlo’s transformation mammal, and aren’t exactly quiet or clandestine about it.
In his words: It’s not just things from Shadows, it’s things from all kinds of shows. But if it’s Shadows, then I’ll hear someone shout, ‘Bat!’ And people don’t do it within a meter of you, they’ll make sure that they’re at least 50 meters away. It’s weird, because it can happen any time of the day, day or night, I could have been out somewhere and be walking home in the early hours, and someone will shout, ‘Bat!’ in the distance.
Or I can be up first thing at five in the morning and I can hear someone shouting ‘Bat!’ in the distance. So, it really doesn’t make any difference what time of day, I�.