The Spectacular Spider-Man/Funny

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  • A good majority of the show's CMOF is on this one video.
  • Start at 6:50. The CMOF comes out of nowhere, and during EVERY repeated watching this troper has burst into uncontrollable giggles. GAHHAHAHAHA!
  • During the Christmas battle with the Sinister Six, Spider-Man defeats Rhino by luring him onto the frozen river which gives way under his weight. Just before he falls:

Rhino: (completely deadpan) "I hate you. So much."

Spider-Man: Come one come all, before your very eyes, the world's largest dehydrated turtle!

Aunt May: Peter you must meet Mrs. Watson's daughter, Mary-Jane
Peter: Oh? What's she like?
Aunt May: Well, she's got a wonderful personality!
Peter: D:

Doc Ock: (while repeatedly slamming Spidey around) Glib! Does not! Equate! With clever! Spider-Man!
Spidey: Yeah, well, the ratio of arms to sanity hasn't exactly been established either.
Doc Ock: Do you EVER SHUT UP?!?
Spidey: Sorry, no. My fans expect a certain amount of quippage in every battle.

  • A lot of Green Goblin's lines are sadistically funny. That said, this quip from Spidey is hilarious.

(After Green Goblin suggests that he and Spider-Man team-up and rule NYC together).
Spidey: "Are we talking Manhattan or all five? Nah, I make it a rule not to partner with anyone green. Or, you know... psychotic."

  • Bernard Houseman (the Osborns' butler)'s remarkable stoicism in the last episode, after emerging from the wine cellar:

Bernard: (greeting everyone) Mr. Osborn, Master Harry. ...Spider-Man.

  • When Spider-Man believes Venom might be after MJ.

 Spidey: There she is! And with Flash, ew. Well, at least Flash isn't evil...well, at least he's not possessed by an evil symbiote.
*beat*
Spidey: (with suspicion} At least not as far as I know...

  • In "Destructive Testing," after a rather embarrassing defeat, Sergei Kravinoff goes hunting for Spider-Man - using his faithful lion to track locations that the webslinger has been to. What follows is a dialogue-less montage of Sergei and the lion's travels. At the Daily Bugle, we see lots of scared employees - except Jonah, who based on body language, is clearly yelling at the hunter and the lion to get out of his office.
  • When Jonah starts his smear campaign against Spider-Man, Peter bursts into his office:

 Peter: "Boss, I'd like a word..."
Jonah: "How 'bout "scram?" Or two words, "scram kid." Or seventeen! "Get out of my office in two-point-three seconds or I'll staple you to a flagpole!"
Peter: Beat "How...how did you count so...never mind."

    • Also a nice bit of Fridge Brilliance: Jonah is a life-long newspaperman: counting words is second-nature to him.
    • Later in that same episode:

 Jonah: "Soon he'll be caught, jailed, and run out of town!"
Peter: (muttering as he stalks off) "How can he be jailed and run out of town?"

  • In the Episode "Nature vs. Nurture," there's a moment where Spider-Man leaves Tombstone's office and is immediately followed by Venom coming in.

  Tombstone: "I really should start locking those windows."

Jameson: I'm giddy like a schoolgirl!

  • Also this:

"Boss, I want a word."
"How about: 'scram'. Or two words: 'scram kid'. Or seventeen: 'Get outta my office in two point three seconds or I'll staple you to a flag pole!!"

  • And...

Jameson: He did it! My boy did it... HEY, HEY! I'm not paying you bums to watch television! Get me a new layout in seventeen seconds OR YOU'RE ALL FIRED!!!

  • Spider-Man's battle patter lends itself to many funny moments, but I'm fond of this exchange during Spidey's fight with Montana/Shocker.

Spider-Man: ..you've had more shots at me than Marko and O'Hirn -and done about as well!
Shocker: Them boys are punks. This is my profession!
Spider-Man: You do this for a living? With that accent Ah wuz thinkin' ro-de-o clown!
Shocker: Don't you mock me boy!
Spider-Man: Hey, I mock. I'm a mocker. Also a puller, a tugger, a yanker...

  • This:

Spider-Man: (After throwing a traffic cone on Rhino's horn) Hey! I got the thing on the thing! What do I win?
Rhino: (enraged) YOU!
Spider-Man: I win me? That makes no sense.

Spidey: (hands Rhino an oxygen tank) Here, you're gonna need this...
Rhino: (Looks down to see ice cracking. Looks back up at Spidey) "I hate you... so uch." (Ice gives away underneath Rhino)

      • Or just before it, Spidey trying to banter with a scalded tongue.
  • Another one with Rhino: his first appearance as he violently rampages through the city towards the Bugle building...then politely asks Foswell to push the elevator button for him. "These don't work too good on the little buttons."
  • Or this classic banter with Doc Ock.

Doc Ock: (while repeatedly slamming Spidey around) Glib! Does not! Equate! Clever! Spider-Man!
Spidey: Yeah, well, the ratio of arms to sanity hasn't exactly been established either.
Doc Ock: Do you EVER SHUT UP?!?
Spidey: Sorry, no. My fans expect a certain amount of quippage in every battle.