Spiders on Drugs

(video from Collegehumor.com)

Spiders on Drugs

Late in the day, but I'm still trying to post every weekday. Keeping with my slacker theme this week, this is what happens when you put spiders on drugs.

This is a parody (created by First Church of Christ, Filmmaker), but experiments like this really happened. Someone actually got sizable grants to get arachnids all doped up and shi^H^H^H stuff.

As for the source of the parody, for any non-Canadians in the audience (at this point probably nobody, but I dare to dream) or anyone young enough to have missed them, this is based on Hinterland Who's Who, a series of wildlife related PSA's for the Canadian Wildlife Service that were produced by the NFB and which aired on the CBC and most other Canadian networks at one time or another starting in the 1960's. What is interestng about this stuff from a web perspective is that when the CWS set out to update these spots for a new audience, they released the orginal footage to the web for non-comercial remixing. This spawned a number of parodies, some of which are posted on their site, and is a fine and remarkably early (2003, I think) example of a content producer actually 'getting' the web.

Thanks to Myya for the link.