Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Synopsis: In a vacant corner lot off Broadway (by about a yard) is a place called the Lowlands by the tiny community that lives there. Bugs and insects are neighbors and hang out at the Honey Shop of old Mr. Bumble the bee and his daughter Honey. Hoppity the grasshopper arrives to be with Honey, his sweetie. This bugs the crooked C. Bagley Beetle, so do his bunglers Smack the Mosquito and Swat the Fly. The Beetle wants Honey and the Lowlands for himself. But the Human Ones, with their littering and carelessness, pose a threat of destruction to every Lowland home of bug and beetle alike. Despite the doomsaying of Mr. Creeper, the snail, Hoppity finds hope of a new home behind the house of two Human Ones: Mary, who cares for a beautiful garden; and Dick, a struggling songwriter who puts his own hope on a Broadway hit to save his home.
Production: Paramount Vantage
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
NOT RATED
Year:
1941
78 min
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There you are Mrs. Ladybug.

Orange blossom with honeysuckle icing.

Will there be anything else now.

No that's all. Thank you Mr. Bumble.

Why where's Honey tonight?

Honey.

Yes dad.

Come on out here and show

Mrs. Ladybug your new dress.

Good evening Mrs. Ladybug.

Well now...

If you don't look prettier

than a ruffled petunia.

You know... Hoppity's coming back.

Well for daisy's sakes.

You don't say.

My you've changed a lot

since he saw you last.

For the better.

I'm afraid he'll find a lot

of other things changed too.

For the worst!

Those human ones...

Those human ones!

Why the ways they've taken a

tramping through the Lowlands.

It's getting so your life

ain't worth a sunflower seed.

Anymore.

One never knows who's gonna get it next.

Mrs. Ladybug.

Mrs. Laaaadybug.

Mrs. Ladybug.

Mrs. Ladybug, Ladybug.

Fly away home. Your house!

My house!

My house?

Oh...

Oh..

Ohhh!

It's the humans ones!

The humans ones are always

getting into something!

Rabble-rousers.

Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk. Its a goner.

What'll we do?

There's nothing to do, we're doomed

to go, n' don't forget I told you so.

It's that fence!

Yes, Jeepers Creepers.

For once your right!

At this rate the human one's will

trample us off the face of the ground.

If anything happened to the Honey Shop.

Come on Smack, we gotta'

tell the boss about this.

Yeah, dis' ought to be

mighty inturresting to him.

I tink' your right.

Yes?

Who is it?

It's us boss.

Swat the fly. And Smack the mosquito.

Shhh!

Nitwits, imbeciles.

What if somebody should see you here.

Now begone before I bash

your bone head skulls!

Yeah, but Mr. Beetul.

You told us to wise you up when

there was trouble in the Lowlands.

And concerning Mr. Bumble and Honey.

Trouble? Ah... what sort of trouble?

From the humans ones boss.

There was a fire.

Mrs. Ladybug's house.

And a lota' houses was busted down.

And they was beefing and squawking.

And saying,

"What in the wings is

the world a-coming to?"

We all be extorminated.

And Mr. Bumble says,

Bumble?

Yeah, and he says,

"Me poor daughter..."

"If anything should

happen to me Honey Shop."

Very interesting.

Very.

You know Swat,

the boss ain't no chump.

He grabs off all this property up here

where the human ones don't

never come through.

Sure he's plenty smart.

Full of larceny, full of larceny.

Very interesting.

Good evening dear friends.

I hurried right down to offer poor

dear Mrs. Ladybug my condolences.

Thank you Mr. Beetle.

Oh, um...

Most fortunate it wasn't

your Honey Shop that burned.

Eh Bumble?

Oh and um...

Of course you realise that

this sort of thing couldn't possibly occur

up there on my estate.

No human one ever intrudes up there.

I guess most of us are like

to feel safe and secure.

That's just the point

Bumble, just the point.

Merely reconsider my offer of

marriage to your charming daughter

and we'll all three live up there

just as snug as three bugs in a rug.

Now what do you say to that Bumble eh?

Well I'm sorry sir but it's

just like I said before.

It's my daughters right to listen

to what her little heart says.

And it just don't seem to say, Beetle.

I guess maybe you haven't

just got "oomph" Mr. Beetle.

Anyway Hoppity's coming back.

Hoppity humph!

Bumble your a nincompoop

I warn you,

your walking right into trouble.

I'll sue somebody for this.

Swat!

Smack!

Help!

One,

two,

and whoops-a-daisy.

La la la la la-la.

There ya' are boss,

all straighten out.

And if you have nothing further to do,

straighten that out!

Hoppity's coming back.

Hay! Gee-wees!

The human ones never

stepped in there before.

Jumping Johnny jump ups.

What's going on around here?

It's Hoppity!

Hi ya' Hoppity.

Hello everybody, hello.

Welcome back Hoppity.

Well, well Hoppity my boy.

It's nice to see ya'.

Ah gee, it's nice to see you too.

Hello Hoppity.

Honey.

Ah, gee-wees.

Well, look who's here.

Little Buzz.

Look Hoppity, I'm a Bee Scout now.

I'm a Bee Scout.

So I'll grow up to be brave like you.

Bee Scout Buzz, I salute you.

A Bee Scout must behave.

A Bee Scout must be brave.

A Bee Scout must be prepared.

Hoppity!

Bah!

Hay boss! Look out!

Now look at whatcha' done you needle nose!

Why don't you keep your

big nose out if stuff...

Quiet!

But boss, the smoke stick was

heading right for the Honey Shop.

And you know what Bumble said about

"if anything should happen..."

Quiet!

Hum...

Why you!

Get out of here!

As far as I'm concerned there's...

There's still no place like home.

Jumpin' buttercups!

They did it to us again!

Them human ones are always... will

somebody... don't stand there!

Help and do something about it!

Get that thing off my Honey Shop!

Tsk-tsk-tsk most unfortunate.

Well Bumble, don't say I didn't warn you.

And now you are homeless. Both of you.

Out in the street with no

shelter over your head

I've been robbed!

Hoppity!

Hoppity!

Hoppity.

Oh! Hoppity you'll be killed!

Hoppity. Mr. Hoppity!

A Bee Scout must behave.

A Bee Scout must be b-b-brave.

This is gonna hurt me

more than it does you.

Oh...

Oh gosh.

Oh Hoppity, you make

everything so complicated.

Same old Hoppity.

Hoppity, bah!

Good night Mr. Bumble.

Good night. Have a good time.

Ok Mr. Bumble.

Take it easy small fry.

Well the boss said to follow him didn't he?

They're headed for that classy cabaretty.

How are we gonna get in there?

Ah just act non-chal-ont'.

Like we belong.

Good evening.

And stay out!

Huh! Maybe I shouldnt'

a'wore me tuxedo suit.

Pardon me, may I have this next rumbo'.

Who came to Sunday school

with cherries on her lips?

Katy did, (Katy didn't),

Katy did, (Katy didn't),

Katy did, (Katy didn't) Katy did.

And who kissed the bankers

boy and ran away and hid?

Katy did, (Katy didn't),

Katy did, (Katy didn't),

Katy did, (Katy didn't) Katy did.

"Gracious what a scandal!"

every other girl would cry.

"She can't hold a candle

to somebody such as I."

But who got the bankers boy

and 50 thousand quid?

Katy did, Katy didn't,

Katy did, Katy didn't.

You can bet your life she did.

Who came to Sunday school

wearing cherries on her lips?

K-Ka-Katy.

Ta ta ta-ta

Katy.

Oh no,

Katy did.

Ta ta ta ta Katy.

And who kissed the bankers boy

and ran away and hid?

We know Katy did did did. Didn't Katy?

Katy did.

Katy's hard to handle

and as far as I can see

she can't hold a candle

to a certain honey bee.

But who who who got the bankers boy

and 50 thousand quid?

I'll bet that Katy did.

Didn't Kay Kay Katy.

You bet your life she did.

That's the last strawberry.

I'm gonna' extorminate him.

Ya' might miss ya' mite.

Aw let be do it will ya'.

Let me do it.

You always have all the fun.

I never get to hit nobody on the head or

things like that.

Aw, all right then sissy.

Take it. But don't miss

whatever you do don't miss.

Watch this! This is gonna be good.

Ho ho ho.

Nice work feather brains.

Why you goggle eyed microbe

I outta wrap you up in flypaper.

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David Fleischer (; July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City. more…

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