Niles seemed to ponder a moment, his hands placed out in front of him on his knees. He wasn't interested in touching anything in this cinema with anything that couldn't be steam cleaned, obviously. As he sat there for a moment, something seemed to spring up on him and he raised his hands and said, "Oh!"

Turning some in his seat, Niles completely wiped away the distance Winchester had gained in his maneuver to turn away.

"Oh, yes, you mean the pulp comic series that was informed heavily by Harry Steeger's The Spider, of course," he said, knowledgeably, and yet— "I don't know Spider-Man, no, but I suppose I know of the character in a way." Crane seemed pleased with that.

"My brother is a much bigger nerd than I am—" It's said like it's some scandalous descriptor (and it would be had Frasier arrived, too). "—so I'm sure he would know what you're talking about."

Who knew why that statement was allowed to exist, but there it was. The real tea.