Spider-Man 1967 - Ouches and ughs
You can tell a villian by his color - Starting in the second season, the villians literally have green skin. No one bothered asking if they were OK or even space aliens. Maybe no one cared or they were too afraid. Or maybe the 60's were a happy time full of love and equality for people of all colors, even possible aliens from outer space! But shouldn't they have cared then? Hey, dude, you gonna puke? You well enough to rob a bank/destroy the city/conquer the world?
- Spidey needs a chiropractor - If you watch him run toward you or across the screen or anywhere really, you'd see that the poor guy moves kind of funny. And I don't mean like a spider, or a human spider or anything that should be remotely natural-ish. It's really painful to watch. The same thing goes for his walking, crawling, sneaking, some web swinging... Heck, his smoothest move is the stripper pole spin. Wonder why that is?
- Recycled creatures everywhere! - Or maybe every villian/nasty environment gets their monsters from the same rental place? Spidey finds the same creatures on a far off island, deep within the Earth and even in other dimensions. Yet everytime he seems surprised and has to figure out how to fight them all over again.
- The wonders of webbing - He can weave airtight ship sails but his parachutes let through more than fishnet stockings. I guess he hasn't yet learned to webzip to bypass that endless scurrying. Then again, that scurrying - and endless swinging - sure helped them waste a lot of time/save money on animation.
- Paging Daredevil - Could have sworn I saw the guy all in red standing on a dark nighttime rooftop. Oh, my bad, that was Spidey!
- Ladies love a nerd! - For a hopeless socially-challenged, perpetually late, plans-cancelling nerd, this Peter sures attracts a lot of ladies.
- Mysterio unfishbowled! - Since when has Mysterio ever appeared in his villain costume sans fishbowl head? Apparently here!
- They really phoned it in towards the end of the series with lame stories using badly recut footage from previous episodes. Thank goodness it finally ended.
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