History Funny / ABugsLife

'''Hopper''': (''pins him against the wall'') I ''swear'', [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas if I hadn't promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you]], I would '''''kill''''' you!\\

* Hopper murdering his own {{Mook}}s? [[KnightOfCerebus Horrifying]]. Hopper's complete deadpan face? [[CrossesTheLineTwice Priceless!]]

-->'''Slim''': No, it's because I'm a ''PROP!'' You always cast me as the broom! The pole! The stick! ''[[UpToEleven A splinter!]]''

--> '''Gypsy:''' Manny, we're on!\\

--> '''Gypsy:''' ''(muffled, from inside a Chinese takeout box)'' ...Manny? Manny...!

** Hopper is conveyed as a narcissistic actor who claims to have had many roles in previous classic films:

** Just the fact that the circus bugs are horrified by the kids' ants vs. grasshopper war play, even though the kids' acting is [[BadBadActing rather lousy and emotionless]] [[FauxHorrific and not in the least bit scary]]. Dim is gaping in horror, Slim and Rosie are covering Heimlich's eyes and Manny is comforting Gypsy who is hiding her face in his shoulder, while Francis just stares in utter shock and horror at the play, before he promptly faints. Tuck and Roll, on the other hand, actually ''applauded'' at the lame performance.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Settle into your role, and you'll come out of this one fine.]]

'''Hopper''': [[WrongGenreSavvy Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] (''tauntingly'') Hello, girls!\\

'''Flik''': Yep!\\
'''Hopper''': Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too? Hello, girls!\\

-->'''Dot''': "We drew one of you dying because our teacher said [[TrueArtIsAngsty it would be more dramatic]]!"

-->'''Hopper''': "Well, what's this? Another one of your bird tricks?"\\
'''Flik''': "Yep!"\\
'''Hopper''': "Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too? Hello, girls!"\\

* Slim's ButtMonkey status [[PlayingATree as a prop]]. This is partly funny because his voice actor, David Hyde Pierce, plays an important role in the popular sitcom ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', and Slim has quite a lot of lines in the movie, but in character he always gets lousy parts.
-->'''Slim:''' What's the point of going out there? They'll only laugh at me.
-->'''P.T. Flea:''' That's because you're a ''CLOWN!''
-->'''Slim''': No, it's because I'm a ''PROP!'' You always cast me as the broom! The pole! The stick! ''[[UpToEleven A splinter!]]''
--> '''P.T. Flea:''' You're a walking stick. IT'S FUNNY! '''NOW GO!'''
--> '''Slim:''' You parasite.
** Francis brandishing Slim at the BarBrawl scene as his sword! Slim [[DeadpanSnarker deadpans]] "[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Swish swish. Clang clang]]."
** "Tra-la-la-la-la. Spring's in the air and I'm a flower with nothing interesting to say."
* Francis provides a lot of funny with his short temper.
--> '''Slim:''' ''(holding Francis to one side, admonishing some flies)'' That's no way to speak to a lady.
--> '''Francis:''' I heard that, you twig!
** Francis is hilarious on a meta level, considering that he's a ''ladybug'' that is constantly mistaken to be a lady. And voiced by Creator/DenisLeary!
** The Bluberries deciding to make Francis their 'den mother', much to his chagrin.
* When Flik bursts in on the 'hospital' scene with the entire circus troupe there. It's the contrast between how Flik's so excited with his EurekaMoment, while Francis is (almost casually) making a statement that makes this so funny.
--> '''Flik:''' Hopper's afraid of birds!
--> '''Francis:''' And I don't blame him!
** Just before that, Flik just ''sprints'' after Atta inadvertently gives him the bird idea.

* FLAMING DEATH!
-->"Burn 'im again!"
** "Spinning a web of safety in less [[SuddenlyShouting THAN 15 SECONDS!!!]]

* The reaction of the Circus Bugs when they realize they're supposed to fight the grasshoppers and go out in a HeroicSacrifice.
-->'''Dot''': "We drew one of you dying because our teacher said [[TrueArtIsAngsty it would be more dramatic]]!"
** For added hilarity, Heimlich (the one who's been killed on the poster, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half with guts and blood everywhere]]) has WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises and [[ColorFailure blanches]].
** Just the fact that the circus bugs are horrified by the kids' ants vs. grasshopper war play, even though the kids' acting is [[BadBadActing rather lousy and emotionless]] [[FauxHorrific and not in the least bit scary]]. Dim is gaping in horror, Slim and Rosie are covering Heimlich's eyes and Manny is comforting Gypsy who is hiding her face in his shoulder, while Francis just stares in utter shock and horror at the play, before he promptly faints. Tuck and Roll, on the other hand, actually ''applauded'' at the lame performance.
* It's subtle, but during the scene where the gang rescue Dot from the bird, you can hear an upright piano in Music/RandyNewman's score playing several cheesy, silent movie-esque dramatic [[{{Sting}} stings]].
* When Heimlich turns into a butterfly.
--> "I'm finished! Finally, I'm a beautiful butterfly!"
** Then he emerges and looks exactly the same... [[PaletteSwap just with a slightly different color]], and itty-bitty wings.
** "And from way up here, you all look like little ants!"
* "I'm...the only...stick...with....eyeballs!"
* Tuck and Roll are always funny, but plucking one of Hopper's antennae is especially funny.
** The way Tuck (or Roll) reveals the antennae is funny too. Even though we can't understand them it almost seems like they're saying, "What are you laughing at, he got away," "Not all of him..." *Produces antennae from behind his back*
* When Flik first enters the bar, a fly can be heard yelling "Hey waiter, I'm in my soup!"
* "Must be an Ant thing." ... "Must be a circus thing."
* [[LookBehindYou "P.T., look! MONEY!"]] "Where? Where?"
* Dot taunting Thumper, prompting him to roar at her, [[AlwaysABiggerFish and then Dim shows up, roars (with the exact same roar taken from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park) and scares him off.]] And Dot just stands there with a "You are screwed" face.
* By way of CrossingTheLineTwice, [[BlackComedy Hopper's death scene]], GoryDiscretionShot and all. Those chicks just look so cute!
* Slim freaking out when he sees Francis in danger from the bird: "FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS FRANCIS!"

* Rosie... all the time.
** "Drop the stick. Drop it!"
** "Aaaand [[NoodleIncident that's how]] my [[BlackComedy twelfth husband died]]...so now, I'm a [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment Black Widow widow]]!"
* [[OhCrap "Oh, this was SUCH a bad idea!"]]

* At the beginning when Flik creates a new telescope for Atta so she can "oversee production." Then Flik demonstrates it by looking at Atta through the scope ''when she's standing about five feet in front of him!''
-->'''Flik''': Hello, princess! My, aren't you lookin' lovely this morning! Not that you'd need a telescope to see that.
* At Hopper's hideout in the desert, two thugs try to convince Molt into telling Hopper that going to Ant Island is pointless.
-->'''Axel''': [W]e get all the way back there and it starts to rain... We might as well be suckin' bug spray!\\
'''Molt''': Whoa, don't even say that! Ya know something? You're making a lot of sense; I mean, why take the risk? You should tell Hopper!\\
'''Loco''': Good idea...but, you know, it's really not ''our'' place. I mean, you're his brother; that makes you like -- the Vice President of the gang.\\
'''Molt''': Wow! It kinda does, doesn't it? Okay, I'll tell him. [''starts to leave''] Boy, I should talk to you guys more often.\\
'''Axel''': What if Hopper doesn't like it?\\
'''Loco''': Then at least the genius will get smacked, and not ''us!''
** Then when the idea (predictably) infuriates Hopper, who's in the middle of a massage.
-->'''Molt''': This is a thought and it was mine: Why go back to Ant Island at all? You don't even like grain.\\
'''Hopper''': '''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]'''\\
'''Molt''': You're right! I didn't think it was such a good idea myself! Actually, it wasn't even my idea! It was ''Axel and Loco's''! They talked fancy to me! '''''I GOT CONFUSED!''''''\\
'''Hopper''': Hmmm....
* "Say, how many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? Can't tell. Soon as the light goes on, they scatter."
* If you like some BlackHumor...
-->"No! Harry, no! Don't look at the light!"\\
"I can't help it! It's so ''beautiful''!" *ZAP*
* Hopper murdering his own {{Mook}}s? [[KnightOfCerebus Horrifying]]. Hopper's complete deadpan face? [[CrossesTheLineTwice Priceless!]]
* When Flik first suggests leaving the island to find warrior bugs to fight the grasshoppers
--> '''Queen''': Why didn't I think of that? Oh, because it's suicide!
* When the ants charge the grasshoppers, Molt is so terrified that he literally ''jumps out of his skin'', making it look like a duplicate spawned out of him.
** Also, the first thing we see Molt do is shout "Boo!" when he pops into the colony through one of the holes that the grasshoppers make- and then Molt goes right into scaring the ants like the rest of the gang.

* The HilariousOuttakes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j1m2wwdcVA All of them.]]
** Hopper completely failing to get Atta and Molt to take him seriously, resulting in every take being ruined by fits of laughter.
-->'''Hopper''': Are you saying I'm stupid?\\
'''Atta''': YES! (''bursts into laughter'')\\
'''Hopper''': (''near crying'') This is the fifteenth take. I cannot work like this. I will be in my trailer.\\
'''Atta''': (''recovering from her fit of laughter'') I need a break
** On the third take with Molt, Hopper just groans and rolls his eyes upward in resigned defeat as Molt, dying from laughter, leans on him. Hopper's expression just screams, "I am ''so'' done."
** [[ShoutOut "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!"]]
** Dot forgetting the line "It's a rock."
** "Spinning a web of safety... IN LESS... THAN FIFTEEN--!" *''bumps into camera and is knocked out''*
*** P.T. even leaves a smudge on the lens!
*** Which is hilarious in a meta sense too: not only is there no lens, there's no ''camera''!
** The skyward shot of Dim carrying Heimlich down ending with Heimlich's face squashed against the camera.
** The animatronic bird breaking down in mid-shoot.
-->'''Heimlich:''' Ooh! Does this mean we can break for lunch?
** "[[{{Irony}} I think I]] [[SwallowedAFly swallowed a bug!]]"
** The one involving [[AngryGuardDog Thumper]].
-->'''Thumper:''' ''[in [[Series/LaverneAndShirley Squiggy's]] voice]'' Ah... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, c-can we cut? It's... It's just that I don't feel like I'm coming across. Hmm... Oh! Oh! I know! I know! I could lather up a bunch of spit! Ooh, ooh, that's good! I got it, [[Creator/JohnLasseter J.L.]] Alright, one more for me!
** Tuck and Roll trying to jump on each other. Second take, Roll misses Tuck entirely and falls on his head. Third take, Roll ''jumps so high that he gets stuck on the ceiling and never comes down.''
** The belching contest between the two of them--which ends with one of them ripping a fart.
** The queen's pet aphid [[UrineTrouble pees on her]]. It appears to have been on purpose too, given the enormous grin on the aphid's face.
** [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody]] makes a cameo.
* On a similar level, the "Character interview" that was made to promote the movie:
** Hopper is conveyed as a narcissistic actor who claims to have had many roles in previous classic films:
-->'''Flik:''' Actually they were all [[JustForPun B Movies]].
** The interviewer once again infuriates Francis by referring to him as "Miss".

'''Hopper''': (''pins him against the wall'') I ''swear'', if I hadn't promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you, I would '''''kill''''' you!\\

-->'''Slim''': No, it's because I'm a ''PROP!'' You always cast me as the broom! The pole! The stick! ''A splinter!''

--> '''Manny:''' (long-suffering sigh) Yet again, it is up to me to rescue the performance. Gypsy! Come. (strides dramatically offscreen)
--> '''CRASH'''
--> '''Gypsy:''' (mildly, without looking around) The stage is the other way, dear.
--> '''Manny:''' (comes walking back into frame) Yes, of course.

--> '''Gypsy:''' (muffled, from inside a Chinese takeout box) ...Manny? Manny...!

-->'''Mosquito''': Bartender! Bloody Mary! O-Positive! (Gets "Bloody Mary" splashed in front of him.) A-ha! (Drinks himself bloated).

'''Heimlich''': Ja!\\

-->'''Axel''': We might as well be suckin' bug spray!\\
'''Molt''': Don't even say that! Ya know? That makes so much sense. You should tell Hopper!\\
'''Loco''': Sure...but it's...not really our call. You're his ''brother''. I guess that makes you the Vice President of the gang.\\
'''Molt''': Wow! It kinda does, doesn't it? Alright then, I'll tell him. [''starts to leave''] Boy, I should talk to you guys more often.\\

* When Molt first sees the fake bird, he is so terrified he molt's an entire layer of skin, making it look like a duplicate spawned out of him.

** For added hilarity, Heimlich (the one who's been killed on the poster, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half with guts and blood everywhere]]) has WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises and [[ColorFailure turns a pale shade]].

** "Flik! Drop the stick. Drop it!"

* Dot taunting Thumper, prompting him to roar at her, [[AlwaysABiggerFish and then Dim shows up, roars and scares him off.]] And Dot just stands there with a "You are screwed" face.

'''Dot''': But it's a rock.\\

** "Spining a web of safety in less [[SuddenlyShouting THAN 15 SECONDS!!!]]

'''Hopper''': (''near crying'') This is the fifteenth take. I cannot work like this. I will be in my trailer.
*** On the third take with Molt, Hopper just groans and rolls his eyes upward in resigned defeat as Molt, dying from laughter, leans on him. Hopper's expression just screams, "I am ''so'' done."

** "Spinning a web of safety... IN LESS... THAN FIFTEEN--!" ''*bumps into camera and is knocked out*''

** "Spinning a web of safety IN LESS THAN FIFTEEN-" *bumps into camera and is knocked out* He even leaves a smudge on the lens!

-->'''Heimlich:''' Does this mean we can break for lunch?

-->'''Thumper:''' ''[in [[Series/LaverneAndShirley Squiggy's]] voice]'' I'm sorry, I'm sorry, can we cut? It's just that I don't feel like I'm coming across. I know! I know! I could lather up a bunch of spit! Ooh, ooh, that's good! I got it, [[Creator/JohnLasseter J.L.]] One more for me!

* Hopper killing his own goons? Horrifying. Hopper's complete deadpan face? [[CrossesTheLineTwice Priceless.]]

** Then he emerges and looks exactly the same... just with a slightly different color, and itty-bitty wings.

* It's subtle, but during the scene where the gang rescue Dot from the goldfinch, you can hear an upright piano in Music/RandyNewman's score playing several cheesy, silent movie-esque dramatic [[{{Sting}} stings]].

* When the horrified Flik realizes the truth behind the "warriors" and tries to excuse himself from the meeting with several suspicious acronyms. Helps that almost all of it was [[ThrowItIn improvised]] by Dave Foley.

'''Circus bugs''': WHAT?!

-->"We drew one of you dying because our teacher said [[TrueArtIsAngsty it would be more dramatic]]!"

'''Slim''': (''whispering to Rosie'') Go!

'''Flik''': Now, I know that I've made mistakes in the past. Go! And l And I hope that this will make up--\\

'''Heimlich''': Yeah!\\

** Just the fact that the circus bugs are horrified by the kids' ants vs. grasshopper war play, even though the kids' acting is [[BadBadActing rather lousy and emotionless]] [[FauxHorrific and not in the least bit scary]]. Slim and Rosie are covering Heimlich's eyes and Manny is comforting Gypsy who is hiding her face in his shoulder, while Francis just stares in utter shock and horror at the play, before he promptly faints. Tuck and Roll, on the other hand, actually ''applauded'' at the lame performance.