A Bug's Life Page #3
Spring's in the air.
And I'm a flower with
nothing interesting to say.
- [ Screams ]
- A bee!
I am a cute little bumblebee!
Here I come!
[ Screams ]
Slow down, you flowers!
[ Groans ]
Candy corn! Here,
let me help you to finish it.
Hey, cutie! Wanna pollinate
with a real bug? [ Laughs ]
Ooh, come to papa!
So, bein' a ladybug automatically makes
me a girl, is that it, flyboy? Huh?
- She's a guy!
- Francis, leave them alone.
- They are poo-poo heads!
- Not again.
Judging by your breath, you must have
been buzzin' around a dung heap all day.
- Come on, Francis.
You're making the maggots cry.
- [ Wailing ]
[ Vocalizing ]
All right, we're dyin' out there.
Gypsy, quick! You and Manny--
- Shh! He's in a trance.
- [ Humming ]
Well, get him out of it!
You and your husband are up now.
Manny, we're on.
Oh? Yet again it is up to me
to rescue the performance.
- Gypsy, come.
- [ Humming ]
[ Crashing ]
- The stage is the other way, dear.
- Yes, of course.
Anytime, pal!
- I'm gonna pick the hairs
out of your head one by one!
- Take your best shot!
- You name the place!
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah, 'cause when you
get there, you are dead!
- Francis, let me handle this.
- That's no way to speak to a lady.
- I heard that, you twig.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me
to present Manto the Magnificent...
and his lovely assistant, Gypsy!
From the most mysterious
regions of uncharted Asia,
I give you the Chinese Cabinet...
of Metamorphosis!
Rosie, whole troupe.
Onstage! Finale! Now!
- Okay, I just need time to--
Coming, coming.
- Now!
Tuck, Roll, let's get moving, guys.
We're up next.
Don't you understand?
We are up!
- " Up-a."
- [ Chattering ]
- Hey!
- Hey! They don't understand me.
I summon the voice
of Confucius--
Get off the stage,
you old hack!
[ Shrieks ]
I demand to know who said that!
- [ Laughing ]
- How dare you!
Ingrates!
[ Gypsy ]
Manny? Manny!
I only got 24 hours to live
and I ain't gonna waste it here.
Come on.
[ Screams ] I've just about
had it with these losers!
Flaming death!
I hold in my hand the match--
the match that decides whether two bugs
live or die this very evening.
In a moment, I will light
this trail of matches...
leading to a sheet of flypaper
dowsed in lighter fluid!
Aimed directly at the flypaper
are Tuck and Roll,
the pill bug cannonballs!
The cannon
will be triggered by Dim,
trained to jump
at the sound of this bell...
set to go off in 15 seconds.
Our pill bugs' only hope
of survival is...
our mistress
of the high wire, Rosie!
Secured to a web line
of exact length,
Rosie will plummet down
to these two posts,
spinning a web of safety
in less than 15 seconds!
Not good enough, you say?
Well, what if they were all...
blindfolded!
Ladies and gentlemen,
may I suggest that those of you...
with weak constitutions
leave the arena,
- for this act is so dangerous...
- [ Bickering ]
that if the slightest thing
should go wrong--
- No!
- Go? Okay, through the tunnel--
- Whoa!
- [ Bell Dings ]
- [ Chuckling ]
- Whoa!
- [ Screams ]
- P.T!
- Oh, no!
- Oh!
- [ Whimpering ]
- Water! We need some water!
- Water, water, water!
- [ Laughing ]
- [ Grunting ]
Get me outta here!
Oof!
[ Laughs ]
- [ Laughing ]
- Wow!
- It's the web. I'm sorry.
- You're all fired.
- We got the water!
- Here we come, P.T!
Whoo! Whoa!
Burn 'im again!
No, Harry, no!
Don't look at the light!
I can't help it!
It's so beautiful!
[ Screams ]
Try not to look
like a country bug.
Blend-- blend in.
[ Male Voice ]
Hey, buggy!
What do you expect?
The guy's a tick.
Wow! The city!
[ Laughing ]
Wow!
Whoa-whoa-whoa!
Making all stops to the septic tank,
including standing water,
empty bean can and dead rat.
- Watch your stingers. All aboard!
- Whoa!
- Hey! Oh, sorry.
- Get out of the way!
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that.
- [ Gasps ] Oh, sorry!
Oh. I'm really, really sorry.
That was
an-an-an ac-ac-accident.
- Hey, let go of me!
- I'll show ya who's tough!
- And stay out!
- Tough bugs!
- I knew an old lady
who swallowed a fly--
- Wow!
- Move it!
- Whoa!
[ Male Fly ]
Hey, waiter! I'm in my soup!
I've been workin' out.
Feel my wing.
Yo!
- All right.
- Hair of the dog you bit.
Hey, who ordered
the pu-pu platter?
Here ya go, slick. Enjoy.
Ow! Aah!
Hey, I said no salt!
Pardon me, sir.
and I'm looking for tough bugs,
you know, mean bugs--
Fired by a flea--
how humiliating!
Let's face it: We stink.
- You fired!
- You fired!
- Oh, will you shut up?
- You fired!
Someday I will be
a beautiful butterfly,
and then everything
will be better.
breaking up. We've always been together.
- Farewell, my friends.
- To the audience we'll never have.
[ Gasps ] Francis! Your boyfriends
from the circus are here!
- [ Gasps ]
- There she is.
- Shoo, fly. Don't bother me.
Say, why don't you
tell our pal, Thud,
- what you said to us at the circus.
- Yeah.
- Somethin' about buzzin'
around a dung heap?
- [ Growls ]
Excuse me. Hi. I represent
an ant colony, and we're--
Hey, bartender!
Bloody Mary, O-positive.
Aha!
- [ Sighs ]
- Sir?
Ladybug, ladybug
fly away home
- [ Laughs ]
- Not so tough now, are you?
All right, clown.
Get up and fight like a girl.
- Get ready to do the Robin Hood act.
- I want to be Little John!
- What part can I play?
- You see, I'm looking for
tough, warrior bugs.
Stand back, ye flies! We are
the greatest warriors in all bugdom!
- Warrior bugs!
- My sword!
Swish, swish. Clang, clang.
- Little John?
- What ho, Robin?
Justice is my sword
Wait, wait! No, no!
I want to watch this!
-Jawohl!
- Thrust, parry, lunge!
- [ Growls ]
- Me thinketh it's not working!
[ Gasps ]
Back to Sherwood Forest!
- Schnell! Schnell!
- What's going on in there?
[ All Screaming ]
Help! Help! Get me out!
[ Grunting ]
Wow.
- Oh, ow-ow-ow-ow.
-[ Flik ] You're perfect!
Oh, great ones! I have been scouting
for bugs with your exact talents!
- My colony's in trouble.
Grasshoppers are coming! We've
been forced to prepare all this food.
- Dinner theater!
- Food?
Please!
Will you help us?
- [ Growling ]
- Where are they?
- We'll take the job!
- Really?
- Yes, yes, yes!
You can explain
the details on the way.
Hey!
[ Chattering ]
- Okay, come on, everyone. Break a leg!
- Whoa, you're vicious!
Hold on, Mr. Ant.
Amazing!
This is too good to be true!
[ Laughs ]
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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