Pete Holmes’ new Badman sketch sets up a simple Riddler wordplay and the real answer is bullets—the bit lands because Batman hilariously treats “riddle” as a puzzle instead of the verb “to perforate.”
Pete Holmes returns to the cowl in “Riddle Me This Batman!,” another Badman entry where Gotham’s “world’s greatest detective” face-plants on the easiest Riddler prompt imaginable, leaning into the series’ trademark combo of gravelly bravado and broken logic. The sketch doubles down on Badman’s persona: emotionally chaotic, wildly confident, and perpetually two steps behind the most obvious clue.
The riddle:
“If you aim to give us a shot, we’ll riddle you. What are we?”
The Correct Answer
The answer is bullets—as in “riddled with bullets,” where “riddle” means “to perforate with many holes,” not a brainteaser, and the words “aim” and “shot” explicitly cue firearms. On-screen, the Riddler all but spells it out, pushing Batman to name what comes out of a gun, and eventually says “It’s bullets” when the guessing goes off the rails.
How the sketch plays it for laughs
– Batman catastrophically overthinks, blurting guesses like “helicopter” while the Riddler nudges him with the idiom “riddled with bullets,” turning a day-one riddle into a farce.
– The bit escalates as the Riddler makes it multiple choice—“A: bullets”—yet Badman melts down worrying about phantom options, a perfect send-up of false complexity.
– The punchline hits when the Riddler exasperatedly confirms “bullets,” and Batman still resists the obvious, a callback paid off again in the legacy Badman compilation with the same exchange.
Where to watch
“RIDDLE ME THIS BATMAN! | BADMAN” is live on Pete Holmes’ YouTube, with the riddle exchange clearly timestamped in the video transcript and captions. For long-time fans, the complete Badman compilation also preserves this “bullets” routine among the series’ greatest hits.
Conclusion
The solution is bullets, lifted straight from the idiom “riddled with bullets,” and the comedy clicks because Batman insists on solving a vocabulary joke like a crime scene, missing the point even after the answer is handed to him.