The Spectacular Spider-Man Review

Beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest

imagination! And welcome to episode 22 of Tooncast

Beyond, brought to you by the GeekCast Radio

Network. I'm your host, Steve, you're my mic,

and joining me is Sketch1984, hello. Hey. How

are you? I'm doing alright, I'm just about back

to healthy. Yay, that's good. And today we're

going to be talking about one of Sketch's favorite

cartoons ever. Oh, yes it is. the Very unspectacular

spider -man lies it is the most spectacular of

spider -men To to set the stage spectacular spider

-man was an American animated based series Superhero

by Marvel Comics and developer television by

Greg Wiseman and Victor cook In terms of tone

and style, the series is based primarily on the

original stories by Stanley and Steve Ditko with

a similar balance of action, drama, and comedy

as well as high school setting. However, it also

tends to utilize material from all eras of the

comics run and of other sources such as the film

series and the Ultimate Spider -Man comics. The

Spectacular Spider -Man premiered on March 8th,

2008 during the Kids WB programming block of

the CW. Holy shit, I completely forgot this is

not a Cartoon Network run show. Oh, it should

have been. It would have been canceled after

one season if it was, so be happy. That's not

necessarily true. And received critical acclaim.

The series aired its second season on Marvel's

sister network, Disney XD, in the United States

and ended its run on November 18, 2009. Also

receiving positive critical attention, although

a third season was planned, the series was canceled

before production could begin. So so So this

um this episode of Toon Gas Beyond is pretty

much gonna be a sketch show Because it's the

sketch shows starring sketch written by sketch.

That's right Directly by me who wrote this script?

I don't yeah exactly copied from Wikipedia no

But I have seen like maybe six episodes or less

of spectacular spider -man As far as why don't

you give people the highlights just like briefly

Synopsize season one and season two so what like

when we start out what Spider -man show is this?

We start out with spider -man Going back to school

after the summer which he got his powers in they

don't really talk about his origin Until later

on in the first season because you know they

assume Or at least not necessarily assume that

they that people know it. They just think it's

more important to get things rolling right, so

you have Peter Parker in high school, I believe

is his junior year and He's with Harry Osborne

and Gwen Stacy and you know Flash Thompson at

the usual people and his crew. He's living with

Aunt May and he's Trying to get a job at the

bugle with his spider -man pictures because Aunt

May needs help with money So Aunt May always

needs help with money Just for a second just

because The episodes that I've seen of this Aunt

May is slightly younger than she's normally portrayed

isn't she? You know she seems a bit younger because

she she's into cooking and doing some stuff actually

Not quite as young as the interpretation in ultimate

spider -man But I suppose maybe some attributes

came from that Right so spider -man is in high

school and The criminal empires are getting fed

up with spider -man putting the hurt on their

goons In the very first episode, he takes down

Flint Marco, and I can't remember the name of

the guy who becomes the Rhino. The Rhino. I mean,

we really need to know what Rhino's name is.

I mean, he's the Rhino in everything, so. That's

a good point. All right, so the big man of crime

wants somebody to stop Spider -Man. So first

he hires some particularly good thugs called

the Enforcers. they don't get the job done so

he decides to enlist the help of norman osborne

in getting some super criminals is there mutagen

involved in this huh is there mutagen involved

in this sorry bad turtles there is some mutagen

at points actually oh god i called it holy shit

Well, most of the genetic freaks come about through,

like the movie, genetic manipulation as opposed

to radioactive waste. Cool. So like the movie,

Spider -Man gets his powers from the genetically

altered spider. And he ends up working with Dr.

Connors as an intern with Gwen Stacy and Eddie

Brock. who in this interpretation is both a jock

and a brain. I guess they wanted the best of

both worlds on that one. Wait a second, you just

said Eddie Brock is a jock and a brain? Yes.

Apparently he had a good career as a football

player in high school. And then when he got into

college, he became strictly a brain, which he

explains to people at some point. Wow. Yeah,

and he's a smart guy, at least initially. In

this story, he and Peter are old dear friends,

kind of like the Ultimate Spider -Man. Oh my

god. Okay. Yeah. So, Norman Osborn has hired

Dr. Otto Octavius to do various experiments to

come up with super villains. And that's how we

get the Sandman and Rhino. Yeah, I guess it was

just Sandman and Rhino that he comes up with.

Other various experiments and mis -experiments

cause Electro. And in this series Electro is

just like a college student who knew Eddie Brock

and he was Dr. Connors lab helping with some

repairs and he gets attacked by like Electric

eels that have been supercharged and genetically

altered Yeah, that's how he gets his powers and

then the electricity that he causes does the

formula that Kirk Connors has been using on his

arm and Electrifies it and makes it more potent

which causes him to turn into the lizard. So

you find it like everything is connected in some

manner. Wow. Uh, like, glider technology that

would eventually become the Green Goblins was

designed by Adrian Toomes, the vulture, who,

in, like, the first episode, attacks Osborn,

saying, hey, this is just the most ridiculous

thing for a villain to do. Alright, Osborn, now

that I've got you hanging in my clutches well

over the city, What I want from you is an apology.

You want an apology, really? Yes. An apology.

A public apology. Oh boy. Oh my god. But a lot

of the villains are actually very threatening.

Very, very threatening. And there's this whole

overarching, uh, the big man of crime who's actually,

um, he's Tombstone. and he goes by different

personas as he is both like a businessman in

the world and also an evil underground bad guy

type fellow. Who the hell is Stan Carter? Stan

Carter? Mm -hmm. Stan Carter? Yes. Oh, he's a

policeman. I'm sorry, I'm listening to what you're

telling me, but my brain is breaking as all this

information is flowing into it. And I'm looking

at the voice cast, and a name popped up to me,

and it's like, hey, Biff's in this series, because

Thomas F. Wilson voices one of the police officers.

So sorry, go ahead, continue. Very impressive

cast. Yes. So you see have various factions competing

for control of New York City including the big

man eventually the Green Goblin what -have -you

and various experiments and Accidents cause doctor

octopus and Various other villains And Shocker

shows up as one of the enforcers becomes Shocker

when he's given the opportunity to take down

Spider -Man for getting his butt kicked so many

times. And other villains vaguely show up in

the first season. You have Quentin Beck and Phineas

Mason show up as Chameleon's associates. And

Chameleon only shows up for like one episode

when he's impersonating Spider -Man. All right,

so various things lead up to the Green Goblin

showing up and it's all a big Who's the Green

Goblin thing going on in the first season? Yeah,

and the Green Goblin is the guy who actually

caused Dr. Octavius's experiment to go wrong

making him Dr. Octopus So once again, everything

is connected. So far from what you've told me

and from what I've read about this series, it's

essentially, hey, let's extend Spider -Man 1

and 2 into an animated series and make the continuity

all connect and convoluted and fucked up. because

this connects to this this connects to that because

this guy did this this guy does that and Then

at the end of the series because this cartoon

is over and only got two season at the end of

the series Spoilers who have for those of you

who have not seen it so fast forward about five

or so seconds The series ends with Norman dead

and Harry swearing revenge seriously Alright,

um, you know, I I know you love this series,

but when you first when you first saw it Give

give the listeners your first impressions when

you first saw the first episode Okay, when I

first saw the first episode I try to keep it

open mind because the initial artwork was Yeah

It's it's very cartoony which allows it to do

squatches Squash and stretch style animation

and it had very good fluidity for animation So

I liked that feature but at the same time it

took a while for me to wrap my head around the

look of the series which was very Very cartoony

compared to other interpretations of spider -man

and other superhero cartoons at the time yeah,

the first couple of episodes were entertaining

but not really that engaging. It wasn't until

a couple more episodes in when things started

to piece together and Peter's life became way

more hectic and entertaining that the whole series

started to form into this linear, exciting story

that has little bits of pieces of future stories

strewn throughout it. It's a little bit difficult

to get into if you're, from the visual perspective.

I've seen lots of people say, I can't stand this

show because of how it looks. I think that's

a stupid argument, but it's valid that some people

just can't get past looks. But if you look beyond

that, you'll see this is actually A very well

-written, very well -acted, honestly sometimes

quite hilarious from Josh Keaton's Spider -Man

and his quips. There's only been one or two cartoons

that I have faulted writing or voice acting.

I never say I hate this cartoon because of who's

voicing which character or because of what story

is being told. I look at it as, hey, This is

a new interpretation of the character. This is

a new voice for the character. If I like the

voice, I like the voice. If I don't like the

voice, I don't like the voice. But I don't outright

condemn it for the acting and whatever story

it's telling. However, I will say I am one of

those people. When I first saw this, I'm like,

I just can't get past the animation style. Now,

if at some point, and again, probably never happened.

This ever actually gets a real DVD set, like

an entire season set or series set. Well, wait,

didn't it get a series set? It got a season one

set, and the rights issues got convoluted by

the time that they were thinking about doing

a season two set. So season two set didn't happen.

There's people who hold out a little hope. with

the new spiderman movie coming out this year

that they'll be like hey we can release that

second season set now they won't do it simply

because of ultimate right now pretty much well

it's it depends because the problem is sony has

all the rights for this one other than marvel's

rights right so that's the reason why disney

is giving it the cold shoulder so much If Disney

has any say in it, they won't release it. If

it's not up to Disney, then Sony will definitely

release it. How many episodes were in the first

season? 13. It was two 13 episode seasons. OK,

yeah. You can buy the first 13 for like $10 at

Walmart. Yeah, I'm looking at iTunes here, and

it lists episode You can only buy them by episode,

because it only has episode 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. It's missing episode

2 for some reason. Odd. That's very odd. This

is the kind of show that you can't be missing

an episode. Yeah, and my first impressions when

I tried to watch episodes was like, Yeah, I just

can't I just can't get past the animation style

And that's really all that I judged it on I wasn't

judging it for what's you know the stories sound

like they're really good entertaining stories

So I can't just judge it on that you know alone,

but I Don't know all right Let me talk about

the tail end of season one and then just kind

of a brief on season two. So season one introduces

a lot of characters enough to have the Sinister

Six or Insidious Six or whatever it is. They

show up when Spider -Man has acquired the alien

costume and he puts the hurt on them while he's

wearing the alien costume and he's not even aware

of it because he's typically asleep. Oh god.

That's ridiculous. And in the first episode,

when he gets the costume, Black Cat arrives and

she's trying to steal the alien artifact from

Dr. Connor's lab, which is a convenient place

for it to be. And that's where it begins the

playful relationship of Spider -Man and Black

Cat. So now he's got like four girls that he's

into. That's just kind of ridiculous. And he

gets to the black costume and always he thinks,

oh, this is super great. It like makes me more

powerful. And then eventually he realizes it's

a very bad thing. And that's when they finally

give you the backstory for Spider -Man with the

death of Uncle Ben and all of that. And in a

really brilliant move, they have Ed Asner voice,

Uncle Ben. That's kind of weird. Yeah, it's weird,

yet it's fitting for the guy who played Jameson.

The guy's been in like every Spider -Man cartoon.

But he played Jameson, and in this one he's playing

Uncle Ben, the most important man in Peter Pan's

life. At least Ed Asner wasn't playing Aunt May

like he played Granny Goodness. Oh gosh, that

would be hilarious and disturbing. So if Spider

-Man breaks out of the alien costume through

the will, this is where maybe friendship saved

the day. No, I think friendship saved the day

with the Green Goblin, wasn't it? It was like,

let's just be friends, Harry. I don't know, I

forget. Not really. I don't know. He doesn't

even realize that it's actually Harry until he

takes down the Green Goblin and... and I guess

this is a spoiler, but whatever, the show's been

over. He takes down the Green Goblin, and Harry

is the one in the costume with a limp, and he

saw the Green Goblin walk away with a limp, but

that was all just a giant ruse because eventually,

sure enough, Osborn is the Green Goblin. Everybody

knows Osborn's gonna be the Green Goblin, but

it's interesting how they try to mislead you.

even up to the very last episode of season two

they try to like pin it off on some other guy

i don't care what anyone says yeah i don't care

what anyone says the best uh harry osborne as

green goblin was spidey three i thought that

was really cool But anyway, back to the - She

actually looks as hairy as Green Goblin in this,

other than the time that Norman put the costume

on his son and made him limp. If you get what

I mean, he like, broke his leg. What? Father

of the year. And then when Spider -Man says,

you did that to your own son, he's like, I did

it to protect him. Who would have made him a

man if I went off to jail? I was like, really,

Norman? Really? That's what you're saying? Really?

Really? Come on, Norman. That's the only thing

that bothers me about Harry being all mad at

Spider -Man at the end of this is he saw what

an ass his dad was. In the movie, he doesn't

know. So once he knew in the movie, Then he became

a good guy Yeah, and this show They're just kind

of glad that it had a weak ending I'll say that

it had a weak ending they wanted they really

wanted a third season you could tell it had a

Satisfying ending a lot of things were taken

care of but it kind of had a weak ending Anyway

after spider -man gets the costume off we have

Eddie Brock who's been slowly but surely not

so trusting of Pete lately realizes oh crap he's

spider -man no wonder all this stuff happened

and that makes him just mad enough and then he's

venom and he tries to ruin spider -man's life

spider -man takes down venom in the season finale

and he gives it no when stacy walks up to him

and gives him a kiss and that's how the first

season ends and you're thinking oh Pete and Gwen

are gonna you know finally gonna get it on despite

you know A little bit of attraction to Mary Jane,

a little bit of attraction to Liz Allen, for

whatever reason, thinks that Pete needs to be

her boyfriend because Liz Allen gets what she

wants. Then the second season opens up and Pete

is just juggling these feelings and the master

planner, who is actually Dr. Octopus, which should

also be pretty obvious, I believe that's how

it is in the comics, breaks out a bunch of other

supervillains. after he tangles with Mysterio,

who showed up in the first season out of costume,

and he's all indignant when Spider -Man takes

him down. He's like, oh, now surely you remember

who I am. No, not really. I was the waiter on

the boat. Oh, okay, whatever you say, buddy.

So, he gives Mysterio a hard time, and all of

his, like, you know, magic tricks, as per usual,

special effects. And he has these little bat

-like minions, and I could immediately tell that

one of them was voiced by Steven Blum. Yeah.

Because anytime Steven Blum does a high squeaky

voice, as I always know it's him. Oh, boy. And

Chris the Hunter shows up, because the master's

planner sent him this description of Spider -Man

and said, this is a worthy prey. You should totally

go after him. So Craven shows up, and fights

Spider -Man like once or twice, and he loses.

So he's mad, and he finds, he brings his lion,

well it's not really his lion, he says nobody

owns the lion because he's Craven, he's like

that. And Craven eventually ends up at Dr. Miles

Warren's lab. Dr. Miles Warren, who was another

famous character, I believe he was the Jackal

eventually. He never becomes the Jackal in this

series. Probably would have been in season three.

But he's working in Dr. Connor's lab where he

saw the research for the lizard DNA. And he's

decided he wants to apply it to mammalian DNA.

And this is maybe a curious misstep for this

show. They may crave in a genetic freak. Throughout

this whole thing, I'm thinking this show's story

is so convoluted. Oh, God. Honestly, let's get

a little convoluted, I will get... Let's talk

about the cast, let's talk about the who's who,

because... Wait, I'm almost done. So, Spider

-Man takes on the Sinister Six again, slightly

different team, and then the master planner has

this game, he has a master plan, of course, and

then there's this gang war, and they're trying

to cram in a lot of stuff in here. This is gang

war and then shocker comes back and the other

enforcers get super suits to fight spider -man

in one episode and then Honestly, the most unnecessary

thing in the second season is they introduce

molten man as Liz Allen's brother mark Allen

and he he gets his powers like Three episodes

away from the finale just so he can I don't know

why they even included it. It was dumb It's like

I said before the season ends with the apparent

death of Norman Yeah, you know Harry being like

oh you killed my father. I fucking hate you But

in the end it was revealed that Norman actually

survived and was leaving the country Oh God,

how is that a Cliffhanger if they wanted to get

a third see no wonder they didn't get a third

fucking season even even with ultimate coming

up Oh God, let's talk about the voice cast because

this oh My brain is just like ready to explode

after all this Because I just stories just sure

you you wouldn't have if you like I realize it

is a lot of stuff Real real tough So the main

cast consists of Josh Keaton as Spider -Man Peter

Parker, Vanessa Marshall as Mary Jane Watson,

Lacey Chabert as Gwen Stacy, James Arnold Taylor

as Harry Osborn, Darren Norris as Jade Jonah

Jameson, Alan Ratchens as Norman Osborn. Oh hey,

it's Larry from Dharma and Greg. Anyway. Joshua

Labar as Flash Thompson, Alana Ubach as Liz Allen,

and Clancy Brown as George Stacey. In the recurring

cast, Steve Bloom plays the Green Goblin, he

plays a couple other roles as well. Kevin Michael

Richardson plays Coach Smith. What I find really

interesting is that Clancy Brown plays, uh, plays

Aux. It's kinda cool. He's also a rhino. Yeah,

he's a rhino too. Oh boy. Overall, what did you

think of the voice cast for this series? Oh,

absolutely phenomenal voice cast. You know, I

believe it's had the same voice director as Young

Justice, and it has quite a few of the same people.

Yeah, I gotta say I Josh Keaton is He is my favorite

spider -man. I just adore that interpretation

It's young but it's not too young. He could probably

play the college age Mm -hmm, but it for this

it works just phenomenal for the high school

And let's see here Darren Norris, even though

he's really just doing basically an impression

of Who played him in the movies? J .K. Simmons.

Yeah, J .K. Simmons, who is playing him in Ultimate

Spider -Man. It's basically the same thing, but

Jared Norris did a really good job with that.

I adore Steven Blum as the Green Goblin. He is

absolutely wonderful. Peter McNichol as Doctor

Octopus. is great because he's kind of timid

and then he's really wicked and it's just lots

of fun. Trisha helped her as a very sexy black

cat and Vanessa Marshall as a very sexy Mary

Jane. And I really enjoy Lacy Chabred as Gwen

Stacy. Now the question is, is Trisha's voice

for Black Cat sexier than Jennifer Hale in 94?

Ooh, that's a toss up. That's the tough stuff.

That is a battle. That's definitely a battle

of the sexy. Yes. As far as the cancellation,

essentially what happened was it was essentially

put on hold because... Uh, let's see, the effect

had on the Spectacular Spider -Man's future was

unknown. At the time, president of Marvel Animation,

Eric Rollman, further stated that no decisions

have been made either way regarding the fate

of the series. And of course, on April 13th,

2010, Marvel announced that a new series based

on the Ultimate Spider -Man storyline would be

aired on Disney XD April 1st, 2012. uh... the

same day greg weisman told i g and i've heard

nothing directly from marvel but i think the

ultimate spider -man announcement makes it fairly

clear that spectacular is over marvel animation

in sony also commented on this to marvel animation

age confirming that the series has ceased production

uh... you know it's it's gotten really great

reviews uh... for the most part you love it's

i'm sure a lot of other people love it as well

uh... you know and for you know for a cartoon

especially a spider -man cartoon to last more

than one season really you know cuz you look

at the history of spidey cartoons at least from

ninety -four to now ninety -four that is a bit

of an accomplishment that's all right that's

more than uh... unlimited and the new animated

series got Yeah, yeah. You know, Spidey 94 lasted

five years, simply because I think it was on

Fox. You know, Unlimited got one season. New

TAS got one season, and this got two, because

this was the next one after the MTV Spidey. Who

knows where Ultimiddle go? Yeah, it's planned

for 52. Just because it's planned for 52 doesn't

mean it's going to get 52. Gosh, I hope it doesn't

unless it gets way, way better. Right now, I

can't even consider it a Spider -Man cartoon.

I can't. I haven't seen it, so I can't really

compare it. As far as comparisons, let's talk

about how the show stacks up within the same

franchise. i did list ultimate but since i haven't

really seen it i'm not i'm only counting in again

only counting this against the other three uh...

there the other two no no the other three that's

that's named incorrectly uh... verses ninety

-four uh... new t a s and ultimately ultimate

uh... unlimited uh... this one is okay It's not

the best, but it's not the worst. I still prefer

94. I would say that this is better than Unlimited.

But the one of the reasons why I liked Unlimited

was because of essentially it's a continuation

of 94 with a slightly different design as far

as the costume. I'm sure eventually I'll be able

to you know sit down and really watch this and

analyze it for what it is, but I Just can't get

past animation style. It's too goofy for me.

I Don't know what about you hmm I Just say without

question. I loved spider -man 94. It's it's aged

pretty well Spectacular spider -man is the best

spider -man cartoon ever made Possibly the best

that will ever be made. That is my opinion. And

let's talk about how it stacks up against shows

in the same genre. I listed on here Iron Man

94, X -Men 92, X, Evolution, Wolverine and the

X -Men, Batman and Superman and JL, JLU. Obviously

it's not going to hold a candle to any of the

DC stuff. It just isn't. Just not away. I'm not

gonna say it doesn't hold a candle Well, it doesn't

it's it's a very very Flickered candle holding

stuff to like beats BTS and STAS and jail you

so In my preference it goes Batman jail you Superman

spectacular spider -man as far as all Animated

superhero shows go I might even put Spiderman

and Superman in a tie. Maybe. Because Superman

had a lot of really great episodes, but it also

had a lot of really bad episodes too. Yeah, it

had a very good consistency and I enjoy it and

I think more people need to appreciate it more

because it's easily the best Superman. we're

probably ever gonna get. And it usually gets

overshadowed by Justice League and Batman. Mostly

for Batman. Fair. I like Justice League better.

I like Justice League Unlimited better because

I really enjoyed the stories. And I like how

you may have inadvertently put JL and JLU in

Superman in the same line. No, I just didn't

hear her, damn it. They are one story. No, well,

that's a debate for another day. I don't remember

what this was going up against, so I didn't list

the time slot stuff. As far as I can, on Kids

WB, it was airing with the Legion of Superheroes

and the Batman. It was going up against Ninja

Turtles 2003 on 4Kids. And I think that's about

all the applicable action cartoons. Yeah, I would

go for Turtles 03 before I go for this show.

But that's just... Ah, that's butcher for me

because I adore Turtles 03! Well, that's what

I'm saying. I would like... my my eye my my interest

would grab it like if I was watching this now

or if I was watching this back when it aired

I Would change the channel and see Ninja Turtles

03 and be like fuck that spider -man shit. I'm

watching the turtles I don't know I didn't even

put anything down for previous you know what

show from a previous decade is this most like

because this is on this is like the first spider

-man show that has been unlike any other I would

maybe equate it to the 81 series a little bit

I don't know Spidey and his Amazing Friends.

I've never seen the 67 show, so I can't really

count that. I think it would probably be closest

to the 67. Okay. Okay. I think Spider -Man's

in college and that. Okay. But just for use of

the iconic characters. Yes, yes. So we are the

IGN crew zero to four zero is don't ever watch

this One is watch it if you can find it two is

it's worth a watch You know if you haven't a

Netflix or whatever else. I'm probably gonna

give this a Three it you know it it's worth watching

because it is a different take on the spider

-man universe Now when I first heard of this

show when I first heard the title spectacular

spider -man I Thought they were going to use

like the scarlet spider suit at the time No,

let's just just that's just what I thought, you

know, I didn't think use the the regular suit

Just kind of go this spectacular to just set

it separately, right? Yeah. Yeah What about you?

What do you rate it? for absolutely for I'm I'm

bummed that it didn't get a second season release

but if you track down those singles and you should

probably be able to get them for like seven bucks

yeah absolutely worth it if you like spider -man

if you like action cartoons you need to own this

show because you're probably never gonna see

it again on TV and that is truly sad yeah um

as far as the when and where As Sketch just said,

the complete first season is on DVD. DVD Volume

5 was released in Region 1 on November 17, 2009.

And the iTunes thing I mentioned earlier, it's

so weird. Season 1 and 2 of the series are available

to buy in the iTunes Store in the UK, except

Season 1 Episode 2. But only Season 1, except

Episode 2, is available in the US version of

the iTunes Store. Both complete seasons are also

available to buy from the PlayStation Store in

Europe and to stream via Lovefilm. Ooh, that

sounds like a horrible, horrible porn channel

in the UK. Why would they call it Lovefilm? I

don't know. Wow. I don't know. As far as the

toy line and merchandise, Hasbro did release

a toy line of the action figures in March 2008.

McDonald's Happy Meals celebrated their 30th

anniversary with the spectacular Spider -Man

toys in February of 2009 and then in February

of 2010. Both McDonald's and Burger King. Not

that common. No, not really. It's usually one

franchise or the other. Yeah, both McDonald's

were hanging head toys of it. So I think we are

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yo, this is gear when I'm not helping out my

pal static I have my backpack always playing

geek cast radio network Alright, so I'm gonna

give my final thoughts on this show first since

I know Sketch likes it more. So I am very open

to watching the show. I will check it out more

It was on Netflix for a while, but then I guess

the license got expired or something for Netflix

and it's no longer on Netflix. Never put up season

2. Huh? They never put up season 2 at all. well

the funny thing about the netflix when it was

listed when i first joined netflix and it was

on there it was like volume one here and it was

like five episodes volume two here it was like

five it was like different volumes like why aren't

you guys just putting it as a complete series

and listing season one season two and they never

did so i don't know uh overall i'm i'm interested

to learn about or watch this very convoluted

storyline uh... what are your final thoughts

on spectacular spider -man uh... this show more

than any other spider -man series is like a love

letter to stanley and dicko it really is having

stan on the top of the building so stan showed

up as uh... as a guy at the beginning of the

second season stan showed up as a worker on a

dock and he says, you know, I hate when I stick

my tongue against the boat and it gets stuck

there. You know, I just wanted to say I hate

that. And then Mysterio shows up and he's all

magnificent and freaky and stands like, are we

being punked? I hate that. Yeah, so Stanley he

always finds his way And God bless him See ya

everyone should check it out just for the sake

of you know saying that you were able to see

it and you know make Make your own judgments

on not a big commitment. It's just 26 episodes

You might have trouble tracking them down though.

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