That Time MTV Made A WEIRD Spider-Man Cartoon 

Thanks so much for watching! Did you ever get a chance to watch Spider-Man: The New Animated Series? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

This show honestly had so much potential.

The craziest Spider-Man cartoon of my childhood was the one where Neil Patrick Harris was Spider-Man. It hit right between two of the more well-known and beloved Spider-Man cartoons, and it was made by MTV so it was almost surreal. Like a fever dream I thought I had.

I was surprised what they were able to show in this series. First episode that I saw was Electro's debut where he electrocutes to death a fraternity leader who played a prank on him. When I see Peter, MJ, and Harry at his grave, I thought..."Whoa! He's actually dead?!"

I like how I instantly recognized it as being animated by Mainframe solely by how the characters moved. Mainframe’s got a very distinct style that I can’t explain.

This is the first Spiderman animated series that i watched and i kinda find it pretty sick with the animation and music back then. Now looking back,it still have the sickest look.

I miss when MTV aired animated series, they had Beavis & Butthead, Daria, Aeon Flux, Clone High, and the criminally underrated Undergrads! This Spider Man cartoon isn’t too bad, the Fox Kids version is my favorite Spider Man cartoon.

Neil Patrick Harris also did the voice of Spider-Man in "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions" 😁

I am not surprised MTV didn't want Aunt May in the show. At this point the channel was not nearly on the pulse of teen and young adult culture as much as they liked to think they were. This period was not quite at the "Hello fellow kids" but it was getting closer to that at a company level. This was around the start of more desperate "we are still hip and cool, right?" started to come out of MTV's content. But they still had enough awareness to make some stuff land, largely due to show runners knowing how far they could push the limits corporate set down for their shows

I remember having the complete series on a dvd collection... when I was 6... I'm pretty sure that my parents weren't familiar with this show specifically, and only knew Spider-Man was popular with kids so they got me this at a very young age. But they overhead some swear words, realized this wasn't kid friendly, took the dvd set from my room and hit it somewhere (probably where my parents still hide Christmas presents) without telling me until I noticed when I was almost a teen... I didn't even bat an eye at how dark this show was. It was just a distraction that would shut me up at the time.

I remember really liking this and thinking there was no ending because my country's dubbing industry hadn't gotten to it yet.

I loved this show and it is so underrated

Peter having Aunt May being as "not relatable" to a young audience is weird given how many cartoons, then and now, have parental and elderly figures.

I watched the electro episode when I was a kid and it terrified me. I couldn't watch spider man cartoons for like 4 years afterwards, like everytime I saw a spider man related cartoon I cried and ran away. I then convinced myself I was crazy and that it never existed until I watched it again when I was 13 and loved it.

I loved this show, and really wish it had gotten more seasons to find a great stride. And the voice cast was great, freaking Lisa Loeb!

This aired on Nickelodeon in my country, which is certainly a choice when you think about it, but I was obsessed with it as a child regardless. I rewatched it as an adult and liked it a lot, the cliffhanger really killed me tho

as someone who truly adored this series when it first came out, i thank you so much for making this video!! personally i think the gruesome reality of this show depicts just how complicated being a superhero would be. you don't just sit around until the next villain comes along, you weigh every decision with the people around you with a certain anxiety of "will my hero life get this person killed" or "will my friend today be my friend tomorrow" and that cuts so deep. harry's loathing of spiderman was so well played out and not just a one-episode and it's resolved sort of thing. the love triangle sparked quite a few debates in school and i think it has something to offer anyone willing to give it a go. just think, there's a 'verse where this show got more than one season XD all the same, double gracias for making this video and get yourself some rest. it can't be easy putting out such stellar content ;) happy fringemas

A video idea could be for Penn Zero: Part Time hero? It’s an underrated Disney show, that has a pretty interesting story

Actually it was pretty good and amazing. Although this “takes place” in the raimi verse I believe so but in an alternate timeline, seriously Peter, Mj and Harry were all different. We even got the kingpin from the Ben Affleck daredevil movie.

This Peter just gave up it was so drastically different from everything that came before - but it had its charms

All I can say about this show is "Great Series, Terrible Ending"

MTV didn't really had that much respect for the show considering how out of order it was, and even it was in order, it was hard to tell what Direction they were going in over story, but maybe they were gonna do what the original Animted series did and wait have the first season by more Serial.

I remember this show on Kabillion on demand Back in the day and was sad that this show was left on a cliffhanger but was so satisfied when the Evil brainwashing twins died not to mention this show was even uncensorsd on Kabillion with swearing and blood like on MTV.

Loved this show. Ending broke my heart especially since there was no continuation of events. Electro sticks with me to this day

Underrated show, I loved those more mature aspects of spider-man. Even as a kid I thought this show was just bad ass!

This used to be my favorite show when I was younger. I recently rewatched it and it was great.

*SONY really gave this one the Firefly treatment:* Make a mature and interesting sci-fi show with a good cast, air the episodes out of order, then cancel it after a short 13 or 14 episode season. Except, with this, the movie came first, instead of acting as a season finale which confused theater audiences who hadn't seen the show.

I rewatched this show probably a few years back, and though there are probably objectively better adaptations out there, it distinctly struck me as a prime example of how cool Spider-Man can be. It probably doesn't help that I'm going through an early '00s nostalgia phase.

Fun fact, when i saw the opening of spiderman i saw it at the same drive in as the one scene from cider house rules that Toby McGuire rolls into lol.

I watched the first episode of this show with my mom. And she actually talked about when the show first aired and how surprised she was with the content(considering the previous cartoons were for kids). So since I was kid, she didn’t have me watching it. It was very interesting to watch. And we were shook that people just straight up die in the show.

I came across this show in 2003 or 04 one day by accident and was completely lured in and transfixed because the show looked like a video game come to life. Apparently it was a Spider-Man tnas marathon and I watched the episodes and saw the finale being completely disappointed at Spider-Man’s quitting. I saw this show once and the last time on that day and wanted to watch it again but didn’t know it’s name. I finally came across the show again after 8 yrs and watched it again. Happy to see it again.

This is why I like your work Jordan. I never even heard of a lot of the stuff you cover, like this.

While not the biggest Spider-Man fan myself, this is the kind of series I enjoyed. I wished this continued and maybe it would have more exposure outside of MTV but since the animation is handled by the same people who did Highway 35 and Acceleracers this one is definitely a hidden gem.

Ya know, if I had a nickel for every time Spidey shoved one of his love interests off a roof in the MTV Spider-Man series, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

One of my biggest regrets was giving away my DVD of this series to some girl I was dating. It was pretty amazing with all of the commentary and pop up facts, etc. As far as regrets go, I guess it could be worse 😂

I reallt liked this a lot. Especially that it tackled more mature stuff as i was getting closer to adulthood. I was 15-16 when i watched it. The takes on the characters were interesting. This, spectacular spider-man, and i think unlimited, were all cut way too short.

I used to have the whole MTV series on DVD and I loved it. I wish we got a Season 2.

This really takes me back when I watched this animated series that was made by MTV. This show really aged well.

I would like to see you do a video on beetleborgs. It's one of my earliest memories that I can actually remember clearly of when I got a blue beetleborg toy for Christmas.

That was cool. I stumbled upon this video. You're very entertaining. Nice work.

Weird? WEIRD?! Nah bro. MTV's spiderman is literally my favorite. Its animation was great (for its time), the way the light bounced on the suit, love how big his eyes are. The villains are super cool and really well done. I dunno man. I think about this show alot

I liked that it had ties to some of the Marvel movies coming out. Like mentioning the X-men and Kingpin(from Daredevil movie) making an appearance. Pretty cool!

I remember this series too! I had the 1st disk which only had a few episodes of the already small number of them, which were Electro, can't remember the others, and the one about the Spider-Man obsessed girl who tries to hurt herself in order to be saved by our favorite spider after she hallucinates him telling her to do so

I’ve been trying to find this version for ages! I remember loving it

I’ve been interested in this show a lot lately!

Glad to know i wasn't the only one who got traumatized by the electro episode

On the vain of MTV cartoons, seeing a video about Daria would be awesome!

Bro sounded like Peter with that “see you later aunt may” 😭

I got to watch this a bit, the 90s and 60s cartoon. Insane where we are today with the Spider-verse movies

I was unaware of this show when it aired. It was only when my cousin introduced it to me back in 2011 that I was hooked on this show. Then I forgot about it until it was available on Disney+. It didn't make sense to put a superhero show like Spiderman on MTV. Maybe if aired on a different channel with adult cartoons like TBS or FX it could have a longer life span.

I had this on dvd and would watch it all the time best a throwback

Fringemas falling during Wubby's ban is simply good timing

The one time where Peter quit being spiderman and actually meant it apparently lol

I was literally talking about this series 2 months ago because it really got me into techno during the rave / party scene in one of the first episodes with Electro

This was very underrated, as a Spider-Man cartoon, I just not too long ago, rewatch the entire series and it was fun. The jokes never feel off, but very much, felt in tone with Peter's humor, plus the banter among Harry and MJ always gave me a good laugh. It's nice that Jordan got around to doing this, I watched Johnny2celloes video on it as well.

You just unlocked a core memory. Thank you.

Bout to bingemas on fringemas this Christmas

I thought I dreamed about this, been looking for it forever

13 year old me loved it. I remember watching this and clone high around the same time

That was really unexpected!

Neil Patrick Harris is underrated as Spider-Man, he’s likable as Peter and good at quipping

So glad the comments are positive, as I figured I'd be the only one. So, here's what I love about the show: 1) the theme. It's kinetic and a bit more perilous. 2) Voice actors. Michael Dorn as Kraven and CMD as Kingpin, also Lisa Loeb. 3) The truly odd figure w/ limited articulation(what?!) that looked great while in a neutral pose. I believe that we all have something near to our hearts that may not be popular with others. This is one of my looong unpopular list items. Also: "This is NOT spandex!"

having watched this show semi-recently with a couple of friends I can say that there were parts that I did enjoy. It's a neat little time capsule of early 2000s CGI animation. It also helped that one of the friends I watched this with is a major spider-man fan and knows practically everything about him.

Honestly I take this (weird) knowledge as an improvement on the never-ending marathon of “16 and Pregnant” that seems to be on MTV these, when I was a kid it had actual music now it’s all “Kids Who Literally Figured Out Biology” but this is quite funny 😂😂😂 Merry Christmas Jordan, thanks for the video and hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙

I loved this show; and would watch it after work on Friday/Saturday (we worked day shift) we both loved it, i would have loved to have seen a 2nd season.

The backgrounds all look like the room in Facade.

TWO IN A ROW OF MY FAVORITE MEDIA BABY, LESSS GO

I got this series on DVD for Christmas one year and loved it. I've been thinking about making a video on it, myself

Totally forgot about this one. I loved it.

This and Spectacular Spider-Man were taken too soon. But Marvel Spider-Man and Ulimate Spider-Man lasted top long.

I know this show wasn’t popular but I wish it didn’t end in a cliffhanger.

That intro theme just screams early 2000s also.

This show was so great, growing up a child this was really dark and showed us something unique and really explored different ideas for peter and the gang.

Remember watching it live & the order of the episode was confusing. Also, at the time, mtv was showing some anime at the time like Heat Guy J that fit with it.

I've known about this show for forever due to seeing dvds of it in my local Kroger of all places, but I've never actually watched it before. I want to check it out but I just know that cliffhanger is gonna get to me.

I wonder if this show would have been more popular if it was on a different channel like Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon.

This is probably the one show were Carnage could actually have killed people if he we're in it.

This is probably one the more obscure Spider-Man cartoons (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends being a close second imo), grew up with it, it's style felt unique, the rendering and lighting of the characters is one of the most memorable aspects of this show that's for certain! but gotta give 'em props, the animation ain't all that bad for what they could've done, most people will likely give it flack for it's looks but nonetheless it some of these stories were pretty entertaining, would recommend! ah yeah, forgot to mention, the Electro episode really stuck with me, one of my absolute favorites from this show.

Honestly one of my favorite spiderman shows

i loved that spiderman ... it was so adult ..... even more than the comic books

just gotta say… 50 videos in 25 days is insane. i’m genuinely curious how you’ve been pulling it off with such high quality.

I grew up with the DVD release, I was only 6 when the first film came out. So I didn't really care about MTV until I turned 10.

I've only seen clips of this show seems like a nightmare I dreamt up

Shoutout to my dad who would get me random things that he thought I might like. I very fondly remember watching this , Kill Bill , and The Street Figther on repeat as a kid lol.

I remember watching this, it was really cool

I only saw a few episodes of this but it did have it's unique style which I appreciate.

I remember having a dvd box with the first movie and this series when I was a kid, I've never seen anyone talk about this series so I thought i had somehow made it up on my head lol

I've never heard of this series before. Was interesting to learn about and see such early 3d animation

I fully thought I imagined this show

I know one thing that was a little hard to accept this as a continuation of the Toby movie, was they killed Curt Connors. He turned into the lizard, attacked Spider-Man and then seemingly dies in the first episode! It was awesome but then I was like 'Well, how are they going to continue this moving forward?" Luckily, this did not follow the continuity.

On latin america the show was on nickelodeon around 2004, was transmitted at 10:00 pm every friday When i was 8 watch it and was impress by the amount of blood and how villains emded up injured, as someone who grew up with spiderman 1994 was something unusual😮

I never got to see this when it originally aired. Not because I wasn’t allowed to watch it or anything. But I rarely watched MTV at that point in time and I saw no advertisement for it except on the first movie’s VHS, and that didn’t even have a date for when it would be airing! I finally got to watch a few episodes when I got them in a dvd bundle with Spider-Man 2

MTV Spider-Man was actually pretty good!

The episode order was decided using a dart board and blindfold

I had the physical DVD on my PSP which had 3 episodes and I loved it. This show was pretty dark. And had a unique vibe

Man, that ending. It was a fairly fun Spiderman show and very engaging. I just kind of hate that it ended with such a dark and depressing cliffhanger. And we'll never get to see how its resolved. Peter just has to live his life without any chance of redemption or ability to repent. Forever trapped in a problem he has no way to fix.

CGI Spiderman with Neil Patrick Harris voicing was my touchstone for the only proper adaptation of "Spidey's Combat Patter Riling Up His Enemies So They Make Mistakes" up until they finally got Tom Holland doing that correctly.

I watched this show this year. I was trippy seeing a Spiderman show be, well, quite violent, more so then usual. I also found out too late that I was watching these episodes out of order; figured that out when one character who died returned and was acting like nothing happened to him. The animation took some getting used to, but by episode 3, I coped. Honestly, I think the biggest plus for this show was the character Indy, I thought she was really cool and a good romantic choice for Peter. Heck, at times I kinda wanted her and Peter together since he acted quite naturally around her. After watching this show I kinda wanted her to return in other Spiderman properties. Doubt it'll happen, but hey, weirder things have happened. I think the biggest shock about this show is that it ends with Peter quitting being Spiderman. I laughed at that ending because of the finality of it. I knew the show didn't have more episodes and it just made me crack up THAT'S where they were going to end it. Wasn't even mad because this show will hold the title of Spiderman officially quitting being a hero in the end.

That MJ was one of my firsts big cartoon crushes

I never saw this at around the time when it came out and only heard whispers about it years later when I got older. So when I took the plunge and decided to watch the whole thing I was blown away by how interested I was throughout the entire plot.... And then I was angry by the end because like you can't just end off the show like that by having Peter give up being Spider-Man cold Turkey and not have New York suffered the consequences of everybody hating him. Me and a friend got into a bunch of discussions about like what would happen if villains would take advantage of the fact that spider man isn't protecting New York anymore and now they would actually I don't know maybe think they were wrong about Spider-Man. Then it could lead Peter to most likely go back to being spider man but he can't get his old suit back so then he can make a brand new suit and come back to help save New York. So many things they could have done but now we're left with this disappointing cliff hanger to go right next to the 90s spider man with its cliffhanger and spider man unlimited with its cliff hanger and even Spectacular Spider-Man with its cliff hanger. Regardless this was still a very entertaining and different take on the Spider-Man world that I enjoyed watching and the whole thing with this version of Max with him becoming Electro........DAMN WAS THAT MESSED UP!