Itsy Bitsy Spider
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- Itsy Bitsy Spider is also a science fiction novel by James Patrick Kelly.
- Itsy Bitsy Spider is also a song by the pop-dance group Aqua
Itsy Bitsy Spider (also known as Incy Wincy or Eency Weency Spider) is a popular nursery rhyme which describes the adventures of a spider as it ascends, descends and reascends the downspout of a gutter system (or, alternatively, the spout of a teapot). The lyrics come in various versions:
- The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
- Down came the rain, and washed the spider out
- Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain
- So the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
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- Incy wincy spider climbing up the spout
- Down came the rain, and washed poor Incy out
- Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain
- So Incy wincy spider climbs up the spout again.
Recitation of the rhyme is often combined with actions representing the words.
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider is also the title of an animated short released in 1992 with the movie Bebe's Kids.
Loosely based on the rhyme, the spider in question is the friend of a young girl who's taking piano lessons from a very strict Instructor. When the Instructor is frightened by itsy, she calls an Exterminator, which uses more and more extreme measures to try to kill Itsy, most of which end up causing pain 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, escelating to gunfire 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 once the flamethrowers came out), and they go home.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider was eventually made into an animated series on the USA Network.