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Spiders On Drugs

Name: Spiders On Drugs
Description: A short spoof of a nature documentary shows spiders building webs after being given various drugs. It is an early internet comedy classic.

Andrew Struthers

Comedy

YouTube

Cited on HN 4 times, 2016–2023, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it almost only as a joke or nostalgic reference when spiders and drugs come up.

A short spoof of a nature documentary shows spiders building webs after being given various drugs. It is an early internet comedy classic.

4 jokes · Comedy

Satire & parody Animals & nature Internet culture & memes Comedy Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

4 Hacker News comments

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@puzzlingcaptcha Jun 2016 Makes a joke

on HN thread Lenin was a mushroom

There is also the internet classic "Spiders on Drugs" although it drops the act half way through [this video]

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@SmirkingRevenge Jun 2019 Makes a joke

on HN thread Nasa study gave spiders drugs to see how it affected their webs

I ran across this years ago, because of this old spoof video, based on that (or similar) research: [this video] Still makes me laugh!

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@dghughes Aug 2022 Makes a joke

on HN thread Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream

If you mean this video it's actually a spoof of very well known nature series the music is classic from the series and most all Canadians know it. Often shown on TV between shows mostly or maybe only on CBC channels. [this video]

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@hackernewds Jun 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread Bees Can Learn, Remember, Think and Make Decisions

Remember the one where they experimented with giving spiders psychoactive drugs and observe the patterns of their webs? Quite fascinating, esp the cocaine experiment [this video]

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