A.T.O.M. #16 - Spydah, Spiders Everywhere

For those of you who've watched the A.T.O.M. episode, "Spydah, Spiders Everywhere" or in case this gets cached and someday people are actually googling about this particular episode...

-The episode originally was to feature the origin of the villain Spydah. The scene appeared in the outline and in the first draft, but was cut for time purposes and was never recorded.

-The original draft of the episode had much more with the tree frog, Clarence.

-The name of the military base ended up as "Fort McGinnis" - named after one of my best friends, Eric McGinnis.

-The original ending of the script had another jokey scene that was in the final draft of the script I turned in, but was cut (presumably before it was recorded). The final ending turned out good with the frogs being the unwanted roommates, but just in case anyone's interested, here's the extra scene-

                    KING
          The little ones are even more
          poisonous than the big ones.  
          Hawk’s room is off-limits.

                    SHARKMAN
          This is unfair!

                    HAWK
          This is totally unfair!

                    LIONESS
          This is totally King’s fault.  

Everyone glares at King.  

                    KING
          Okay, okay.  I’ll share my room 
          with Hawk until the frogs are gone.

                    HAWK
          No.  Nein.  Nyet.  I am through 
          with roommates.  Besides, I have a 
          much better idea.

INT. KING’S ROOM - ABANDONED AQUATIC CENTER - DAY
Hawk finishes cleaning his desk with a white towel.  All of 
his belongings are inside King’s room.

Through the open doorway, Axel helps King move his mattress 
into the hallway.  All of King’s belongings are in the 
hallway - including his pet cages and aquariums.

                    KING
          This is so not cool.

                    AXEL
          When you catch all the frogs in 
          Hawk’s room, you get your room 
          back.  Til then, you’re sleeping on 
          the couch, pal.  

                    KING
          <GROAN>

King sits down on his mattress in the hallway.  Next to him 
is the aquarium with his tree frog.  He stares at the frog.

                    KING
          I hope you’re happy.

The frog <RIBBITS>.