Nigger singers with their faces blacked singing minstrel songs. In the song "", the Mikado sings of the punishment for older women who dye their hair or wear corsets, to be "Blacked like a nigger/With permanent walnut juice." Both lyrics are usually changed for modern performances. The word "nigger" appears in children's literature. "How the Leopard Got His Spots", in the "Just So Stories" (1902) by Rudyard Kipling, tells of an Ethiopian man and a leopard, both originally sand-colored, deciding to camouflage themselves with painted spots, for hunting in tropical forest. The story originally included a scene wherein the leopard (now
How the Riddler Got His Name nicely sticks to its metaphors throughout. Well played." Vinnie Mancuso of "New York Observer" wrote, "Straight up, this episode as a whole is terribly paced ... But underneath the mess episode writer Megan Mostyn-Brown has a ton of genuinely clever fun with Eddie and Oswald's relationship." Lisa Babick of TV Fanatic gave the series a perfect 5 star rating out of 5, writing ""Gotham" hit it out of the park this hour not only by giving us The Riddler but also by setting up other exciting storylines to take us through the rest of the season." Robert Yanis, Jr. of