Itsy Bitsy Spider (film)

Infobox Film | name =Itsy Bitsy Spider


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writer = Screenplay:(uncredited)Michael O'Donoghue
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Jerry Rapp
| starring = Jim Carrey
Thora Birch
Frank Welker
Claudia Christian
Larry Storch
Richard Kline
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released =June 19, 1992
runtime = 82 min.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:37896
imdb_id = 0104536

"The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" is the title of an animated short (later made into a full series) released in 1992 with the movie Bebe's Kids. It featured Frank Welker as the title character, and Jim Carrey as the Exterminator. This is Jim Carrey's 15th film role

Loosely based on the rhyme, the spider in question is the friend of a young girl who is taking piano lessons from a very strict Instructor (incidentally, she's learning to play the actual rhyme). When the Instructor is frightened by Itsy, she calls an Exterminator, that uses more and more extreme measures to try to kill Itsy, most of which end up causing pain and destruction to the Instructor's home, cat, and the Exterminator himself, which turns out to be a heavily-armed android. The Exterminator's methods begin to get even more extreme, escalating from poison and vacuums to guns and explosives, until the Instructor's house is eventually blown up. Itsy is finally reunited with the girl (who had the sense to get out of the house before the flamethrowers came out), and they go home.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider was eventually made into an animated series on the USA Network.

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*imdb title|0104536|Itsy Bitsy Spider
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