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* TomatoSurprise: Dave's nightmare about giant ants wasn't just a random phobia of BigCreepyCrawlies, he really does live in a world where ants treat humans like insects.
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* TomatoSurprise: The episode ends with an AllJustADream reveal, but then twists it further. Dave's nightmare about giant ants wasn't just a random phobia of BigCreepyCrawlies, he really does live in a world where ants treat humans like insects.
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* TomatoSurprise: Dave's nightmare about giant ants wasn't just a random phobia of BigCreepyCrawlies, he really does live in a world where ants treat humans like insects.
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* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Dave runs to Mr. Lantz's warehouse for help. As soon as he's out of sight, the ant-shaped model atop his truck suddenly starts to turn menacingly in Dave's direction as if it's about to attack him as well.
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* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance Lantz reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.
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* AndYouWereThere: Mr. Lance is not an ant exterminator in the real world, just a middle-aged neighborhood man who is friendly with Dave. He probably imagined him in that role because Dave looks up to him.
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Based on "Awesome Ants", the sixth story in ''Literature/StillMoreTalesToGiveYouGoosebumps'' (the fourth short-story collection from the ''Tales to Give You Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' anthology series).
Dave Warren gets an ant farm, only to find that the special food pellets they came with are making them grow into giants.
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!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending is mostly the same, with the protagonist waking up from his "nightmare" about [[BigCreepyCrawlies supersized ants]] to find that [[PersecutionFlip giant ants keep humans in town-sized vivaria]]. However, in the book this is explicitly meant to be karmic since it resulted from the food pellets that the boy gave them, and the ants kept growing until they took over. In the episode, it's more of a TomatoSurprise since it's indicated that ants have always been the dominant species on Earth, and he was really just dreaming about a role reversal.
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the short story, Mr. Lantz is a science teacher. In the episode, he's an exterminator.
* AllJustADream: Zigzagged. The protagonist's experience turns suspiciously nightmarish as the town is suddenly abandoned, there is a storm outside, and the ants are growing to ever-bigger proportions. Just before he gets killed by one, he wakes up at home and all seems fine. Then he gradually remembers the reality of the situation: in the real world ants are actually mountain-sized, and keep humans secluded in the human equivalent of ant farms and force them to survive on small pellets of blue food. In the book the ants just grew that big rather than always having been so.
* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.
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Dave Warren gets an ant farm, only to find that the special food pellets they came with are making them grow into giants.
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!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending is mostly the same, with the protagonist waking up from his "nightmare" about [[BigCreepyCrawlies supersized ants]] to find that [[PersecutionFlip giant ants keep humans in town-sized vivaria]]. However, in the book this is explicitly meant to be karmic since it resulted from the food pellets that the boy gave them, and the ants kept growing until they took over. In the episode, it's more of a TomatoSurprise since it's indicated that ants have always been the dominant species on Earth, and he was really just dreaming about a role reversal.
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the short story, Mr. Lantz is a science teacher. In the episode, he's an exterminator.
* AllJustADream: Zigzagged. The protagonist's experience turns suspiciously nightmarish as the town is suddenly abandoned, there is a storm outside, and the ants are growing to ever-bigger proportions. Just before he gets killed by one, he wakes up at home and all seems fine. Then he gradually remembers the reality of the situation: in the real world ants are actually mountain-sized, and keep humans secluded in the human equivalent of ant farms and force them to survive on small pellets of blue food. In the book the ants just grew that big rather than always having been so.
* EccentricExterminator: Mr. Lantz is ''way'' too into his work, hunting bugs with steely determination and gleeful enjoyment, admiring the ants for their craftiness. He calls the protagonist a liar for claiming the ants from his ant farm grew to 3 inches, larger than any real life ants. Subverted at the end when everything turns out to be a dream, and giant ants rule the Earth. Mr. Lance reflects how things might have been different for humans, and warns the protagonist not to let the ants know that he dreamed that it was Mr. Lantz's job to kill them.
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