Web Weirdos
| "Web Weirdos" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Larry Leichliter |
| Written by |
Ako Castuera Jesse Moynihan |
| Story by | Dick Grunert Patrick McHale Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward |
| Production code | 1008-081 |
| Original air date | April 16, 2012 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
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"Web Weirdos" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Ako Castuera and Jesse Moynihan, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on April 16, 2012. The episode guest stars both Bobcat Goldthwait and Susie Essman.
The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn must help a grumpy spider couple, whose names are Barb and Ed, reconcile before he and Jake are eaten.
The episode was based on the idea of empathy for your romantic partner, according to Moynihan. Together with other episodes of Cartoon Network programming, the episodes helped make the network the number one television destination for boys aged 2–11, 6-11, and 9-14 on Monday nights. The episode received largely positive reviews from critics, with Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club and Mike Lechevaillier of Slate magazine praising the episode for its themes. On the other hand, Moynihan himself has expressed some disdain for the episode, reasoning that it did not turn out the way he intended.
While walking in the woods, Jake begins performing acrobatic moves. Finn attempts to follow, and eventually the two get trapped in a massive spider web. The owners of the web, two large spiders named Ed (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) and Barb (voiced by Susie Essman) return, bickering amongst themselves. The argument turns towards Barb's difficulty spinning webs, and she runs away. While Ed wraps Jake in a cocoon, Finn tries to offer relationship advice to Ed; Finn tells the spider to get a gift for his wife, and Ed runs off into the woods to find something.
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