Earth vs. the Spider

Season 3, Episode 13, Aired

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Movie Plot: Earth vs. the Spider A giant spider terrorizes a town and kills a guy by draining the fluids from him. Also riffed was the short: "Speech: Using YourVoice". Intro: Crow hosts a talk show, "Inside the Robot Mind" Segment One: The Mads invent the Cheese Phone, Frank eats it and gets sick. Joel invents a hairdryer CD player Segment Two: Crow has written a screenplay, "Earth vs. Soup", the crew acts it out. Segment Three: The crew puts on a rock opera inspired by the movie which prompts a visit from a custodian. Segment Four: The crew makes creepy crawlers and Joel has a rant about toy safety. Segment Five: The 'bots have homework; Tom Servo goes over the themes of Bert Gordon's movies, and Crow has Bert Gordon's fictitious biography. Frank throws up on the console. Stinger: A clip from the short on poor speaking skills.moreless
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  • The Bots and Joel poke fun at Bert L. Gordon's "Earth vs. the Spider", a typical low budget, monster movie from the 50's, 60's era.

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    By marvelfan89, May 19, 2007
    Bert L. Gordon was a mediocre American director who cranked out cheap monster movies the way Uwe Boll cranks out crappy video game based movies.

    With that said, you know what to expect. "Earth vs. The Spider" was a typical monster movie of it's time(late 50's era).

    Like most black and white (then color) monster movies of the 50's and 60's, it featured laughable special effects (often the only special effect are puppets being used, or the animal is made to look bigger by rear projection),
    average acting, a laughable scripts and loads of laughs.

    You have to be a fan of these flicks to love them. The characters or victims are often idiots played for laughs. Then there's a unintentional funny scene when the young couple finds the bones of the spider's victim. The "web" of the spider looks fake and it is as it just a circus tent being used as a prop.

    There are a couple of more laugh out loud scenes. The one sticks out the most is when the cops shoot the spider, thinking it's dead they have the stupidity to keep the corpse inside the audiotorium of the school. Naturally, a couple of teenage idiots decide to poke away at the corpse. Of course the thing is still alive and seeing these idiots scream and run out of the area in horror is quite a riot.

    All in all, for a low budget monster flick it's nothing special but if you're in for a great laugh, it's a definite must see as all of Bert L. Gordon's "work".moreless
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