About
Spider Jon is a minor character from the Garfield franchise, serving as an antagonist in the Garfield Show episode: Time Twist. He became a meme in the Garfield Community through various YouTube videos, Reddit posts, and gifs.
origins
Spider Jon originates from the 30th episode of the first season of The Garfield Show: Time Twist. He is a version of Jon Arbuckle from a universe where everyone is a spider. He doesn’t like Garfield because Garfield swatted spiders in his original universe. He has an army of spiders and also a spider version of Odie.

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In 2019, a gif of Spider Jon appeared on Tenor where it showed a short clip from the episode. In 2021, another gif showed up that showed the full scene Spider Jon appeared in.
In 2021, the scene including Spider Jon appeared in a YouTube video called “The Garfield Show out of context”. This video garnered over a million views.

On April 11th, 2021, a video named “ Garfield Chased By A Giant Enemy Spiders Meme Full Scene” was uploaded on YouTube, garnering over 21k views.

Later that year, on September 11, 2024, “The Spider Jon Song” was released on SoundCloud by artist: Regular Beatz (who went by “I am Gustaf” when this song was uploaded), Regular Beatz soon released many sequels and spin-offs to this song. On September 24th, 2025, the song was officially uploaded onto YouTube, and the official music video for the song was uploaded on October 7th of the same year.