Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends "Spidey Goes Hollywood" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Zebi]

ABC Family airs this episode this Saturday at 10:30 AM (EST).

Episode #9 - Spidey Goes Hollywood

Mysterio blackmails bigwig Hollywood producer, Stan Blockbuster, into hiring Spider-Man to make a movie. Though Peter is reluctant to do it, his Aunt May needs money for the house payment, so the Spider-Friends are off to Hollywood!

Comments?

[James]

A painfully dull episode, which seems to get inspiration from some of the more simple Spider comic book stories of the 60's/70's. The Hulk really fails (IMO) to liven this rather by the numbers affair..

Leave all your knowledge of film making behind.. this will frustrate you otherwise! Personally, I found this one of the worst episodes of the series - with only Spidey's occasional quips to prevent the remote from switching the TV off....

[Stu]

One of the more amusing parts of Spider-Friends is when Spider-Man audition for the role only to find a room full of people in spidey-suits.

Other than that, this was an average episode, with a damn weird looking Mysterio, and a wasted Hulk. Good thing he got his own brilliant cartoon a year later.

Anyone know why ABC Family skipped a few episodes? 7 Little Superhero's was among them!

[Jon T]

I liked this episode, if merely for the fact that this was the only Marvel production ever to have both the Hulk & Spider-Man in it!

[Knightmare]

One of the more amusing parts of Spider-Friends is when Spider-Man audition for the role only to find a room full of people in spidey-suits.

Other than that, this was an average episode, with a damn weird looking Mysterio, and a wasted Hulk. Good thing he got his own brilliant cartoon a year later.

Anyone know why ABC Family skipped a few episodes? 7 Little Superhero's was among them!

Maybe their just showing a few episodes to see what kind of interest in there is in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends so that can decide wheter or not to do either best of volumes or a complete series box set for a possible future DVD release, I've suprised that they haven't put the old 60's Spider-Man cartoon back on the air yet, to generate more interest in it (especially to generate interest with young fans and people that haven't heard that it's going to be released dvd this summer).

[sag_2002]

Ah yes, the Incredible Hulk '82, before he was spun-off into the Spider-Man/Hulk hour in "Amazing Friends" second season.

This was a good one. Spidey had some good one-liners, as usual, the Hulk makes an appearance, and a climactic Spidey vs. Spidey finale battle. ****

[James]

Ah yes, the Incredible Hulk '82, before he was spun-off into the Spider-Man/Hulk hour in "Amazing Friends" second season.

This was a good one. Spidey had some good one-liners, as usual, the Hulk makes an appearance, and a climactic Spidey vs. Spidey finale battle. ****

Although the short lived '82 series was a far superior version of the Hulk in both VA casting, animation and story!

[Spider-Friends]

...average episode, with a damn weird looking Mysterio...Anyone know why ABC Family skipped a few episodes? 7 Little Superhero's was among them!

What's weird looking about Mysterio? I think he looks just like he did in the comics at the time. (Except missing all the lines in his costume.) I'm not a fan of this episode either. It was pretty average at the time and it hasn't gotten better with age.

It appears that ABC FAMILY has no intention of showing 4 episodes of the series: "The Crime of all Centuries", "7 Little Superheroes", "Videoman" & "Quest of the Red Skull". Most of the other episodes have aired 3 times. I hope there is actually an intelligent reason for not showing those four episodes, such saving some for a DVD release.