We'll have to wait until Wednesday to find out what The View has in store for us this Halloween: We're pretty sure it won't be nearly as scary as last year, which featured Rosie O'Donnell in full Queen Victoria drag, or the one before that, in which Barbara Walters horrified a nation by refusing to break her breathy, baby-voiced Marilyn Monroe character for the entire episode.

But to ring in the haunting season, we thought we'd kick things off with this suitably spooky clip, in which Walters' less-than-scintillating anecdote about the time she took her hair and makeup people to lunch is interrupted by the surprise appearance of a ferocious spider. Luckily, a fearless Whoopi Goldberg instantly sprung to action, scooping the little guy up with her Hot Topics index card and handing him off to the Viewmaster. We're only grateful Elisabeth Hasselbeck was away on maternity leave, lest she splat the harmless creature with her coffee mug before continuing with an impassioned speech on the righteousness of the pro-life movement.