D and I went to Universal Studios last week. The park itself was underwhelming, but worth the $50 admission price simply for the Spiderman Rocks! live action show.

That is some good-ass comedy, yo. Uninentional comedy, but comedy nonetheless.

I don't know what I was expecting. I guess I was expecting a kid-oriented show set to generic music, featuring a guy in a Spiderman suit dangling from a wire, and another guy dressed in a Green Goblin suit, chasing him around. I got that, and oh, so much more.

First of all, there were about 20 characters in the show, but only five actors. This one guy, I swear - he played 10 out of 20 characters. First he's a businessman type dressed in a suit who walks across the stage and is tripped by a street hood. He runs backstage, changes and emerges in the next scene as a jock, wearing a letterman's jacket and a backward baseball cap. (I recognized him because he was still wearing the suit pants from the previous scene.) Next he runs backstage and emerges as a student in Peter Parker's class. It was really, really funny. I half expected him to forgo the trouble of going backstage, and just start running from one spot to the next, taking off and putting on a hat, singing to himself.

The funniest part of the show by far was the music. I expected generic, action figure music. You know - fast, rock star stuff with screeching guitar and lots of swells.

Instead, whoever wrote this show decided that two-year-old top-40 pop would be appropriate. Oh, and also? Apparently, this person did not care if the music matched the scene. Or maybe he/she did, but had a fantastic sense of humor.

For example, there's a part in the show where Mary Jane (proudly sporting a bright red wig) is sitting on a bus bench, while two street thugs leer at her. They lunge menacingly at her, and she gets up. As she walks away, the street thugs start to sing... (are you ready?) "She Bangs."

Now that's just downright lame, and creepy on top of it. "She Bangs" when a girl is about to be attacked? I cannot tell you how delighted/horrified I was at the absurdity of it. Mary Jane pranced and sauntered around the stage while the street thugs performed Backstreet Boys-type dancing. One guy even took off his shirt. It was awesome.

The show devolved into absurdity further from that point. In one scene, the Green Goblin comes out on a wire and soars over the crowd toward Mary Jane and a group of generic girlfriends. They act frightened and kind of scurry away, but then immediately commence with some sexy singing and dancing to "Lady Marmalade." WTF? Lady Marmalade? I looked at D incredulously. "Are they asking the Green Goblin to sleep with them??" There was no other explanation. Seriously, I could not figure out why that song was used.

As the show became more and more ridiculous, I looked around at the crowd to see how people were reacting. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the show. The adults' faces were frozen in big, tight smiles. Kids were giggling gleefully and clapping.

The rest of the show contained similar scenes, but I won't describe them all, because I'm sure I'm already boring you out of your mind. Suffice it to say that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was somehow worked into the show.