Spooky Month Giant Spider - Tumblr Posts

My Spooky Month predictions*

Episode 6-Candy Dealer: There's too many little things (even jokes from animators after Tender Treats came out) that imply he's the next villain. Bonus points if he's Robert's dad. I'm saving my personal theory on the actual events of the episode for a future post.

(Edit) The aforementioned post is now live.

These next 3 are less certain but still fairly likely

Episode 7-Hatzgang: Roy's been getting more and more development with every episode and I think episode 7 would be the most likely to round out his arc. PLEASE NOTE I don't think Roy will be the villain, just a focus character, there's a good chance we haven't met this episode's baddie yet. (High probability of emotional damage)

Episode 8-Giant Spider: Not much to go off of other than the spider being teased as a monster for the board game and spiders having eight legs, maybe there's a twist like the spiders' babies being the real threat.

Episode 9-Frank: Like with Roy, Frank probably won't be the real villain, probably either a new villain or Mr. Clown (that slimy toad is def coming back). We'll likely learn why Frank became a kidnapper and why his eyes are the way they are. This is placed as episode 9 because, unlike Roy, Frank hasn't had much development thus far.

Episode 10-Cult and Skidad: My personal theory is there being a grand showdown with Skid, his dad and the cult on one side and Pump and Eyes on the other. I feel Pelo (being the glorious bastard he is) would throw in the extra stake of the boys friendship being tested.

*This is all assuming none of the below teased episodes were among the two to get scrapped.

What's more, if Itsy ends up having babies, we should call them "Itsy's Bitsies".

Until we get an official name can we all just call the giant attic spider "Itsy"?

I hadn't even thought of that! It would be perfect!

Until we get an official name can we all just call the giant attic spider "Itsy"?

I have mini-theory to add here. In the first episode we see "Itsy" looming over Skidad's bones. I think it saw him transfer his soul into the mannequin, saw his original body go limp and thought "Well, not like he needs that anymore" and ate it. I thing the wrapped up body-looking thing is Moloch's original body and the same thing happened to it when he possessed Dexter.

Putting this one in a separate post bc I want to (warning for mildly realistic but still cartoony spiders)

Anyways! @prof-ramses posited a v interesting theory that the giant spider isn't going to be an antagonist per-say, but rather its babies

And that got me thinking, and realizing, that there are a lot of spiders in Lila's house, from the very beginning

There are two little ones in the first ep, one in the stairwell and one in the mousehole next to the stairs, in addition to the large one we've grown accustomed to

(^ brightened for visibility)

Pelo even points out the stairwell spider in his (free to view) Patreon posts on the first episode, while simultaneously completely ignoring the giant spider

And then in Unwanted Guest there's a surprisingly large spider skittering between the floorboards in the pan up to the attic

Along with a smaller but still decently big spider chilling in the attic itself

And a tiny spider got itself stuck on Dexter's mouse trap

Also semi-related there's this big thing wrapped up in one of the webs. I have no idea what it is

Moloch says he was forced to eat rats and spiders while trapped in the attic -- interestingly, we haven't seen any rats in Lila's house, at least as far as I'm aware. Maybe the spiders take care of them as well?

There aren't any new spiders in Deadly Smiles to my knowledge, just a new shot of the big one

There are no spiders at all in The Stars or Tender Treats, presumably because of the short attic time in both (the giant spider was drawn in the TT attic scene, but the camera doesn't pan far enough to show it)

Spiders even briefly appear in the Tender Treats ARG! There are three decently-sized ones next to the family photo

I had to circle them because they're REALLY well hidden, even after brightening the image

Yeah, there are... a LOT more spiders crawling around this house than I was aware of, likely even more since Moloch is no longer there to do pest control

OH, I never thought about that before! I think both theories are equally plausible right now, but I'm excited to see if this goes anywhere in future episodes.

Where is Dexter's backpack?

Something I think is interesting that nobody ever talks about is that Dexter's backpack kinda... disappears between episodes, something that Dexter even highlights in his toy chest notes

(Him putting his backpack at higher propriety than his own body is also interesting, but not the point)

Now I imagine most people went "oh, Lila got rid of it", but that isn't in character for Lila: she keeps things around, even if they're broken or have bad memories attached. Hell, she even kept Dexter's rat trap and the melted remains of the Happy Fella, so there's no way she would get rid of his backpack

So if it wasn't Lila, where did it go?

I have two ideas:

Idea 1 is that in between Moloch possessing Dexter and Dexter searching the house, the giant spider took the bag and webbed it up, like with that... thing in a web behind Dexter in Unwanted Guest

Idea 2 is that the backpack was taken by whoever took Dexter's body and gave it to Patty, giving the backpack to either her or John and Jack... though this one would bring the further question of, why is Dexter labeled "missing" if Patty has his body and the cops have his backpack?