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Cartoon

  • Tear Jerker: "Pighead" is a gut wrencher. As Echo goes into a drunker spiral after his dog is taken back, and he remembers losing his baby to cystic fibrosis.

Film

  • One-Scene Wonder: The P-80 pilot who firebombs the tarantula in the end, played by a young Clint Eastwood.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Actually not very recognizable given that his face is mostly covered by flight gear, but that's Clint Eastwood who drops the bomb on the tarantula.
  • Special Effects Failure: The footage of the tarantula (which was a real one) is superimposed over that of sets and landscapes. As such, occasionally, you can see the spider reach the end of the film and Fade Out or (much more rarely) see through it. Mostly, though, it appears as an almost solid black mass.
    • A rare instance of this helping a film rather than hurting it, as the effect makes the spider appear almost demonic.
    • And don't forget all the times when the monstrous tarantula roars and growls right before it eats someone.

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