YMMV / Mr. Bug Goes to Town

• Awesome Music: "We're the Couple in the Castle" is a gorgeous song.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene where Hoppity is electrocuted. It goes on for a whole minute, has surreal visuals, and after they laugh it off ("Hoppity, you're electrifying!"), nobody mentions it again.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: As noted above, it was a major financial failure in its home country of the United States, where it remains obscure and unpopular. In Japan, however, it's considered an animation classic- Disney's DVD release in the country was produced by none other than Studio Ghibli, with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata both citing the film as a personal favorite (as have Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Hosoda), and at the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival in Tokyo, a group of 140 animators deemed it to be the 13th best animated film ever made!
• Ugly Cute: The characters, arguably. As one Fleischer animator named Howard attests:
  "You can draw a bug and make it cute as hell—as cute as a bug's ear, in fact, but I thought those characters designs were gruesome. Hoppity has a big, bloated head stuck on a skinny body."
• Values Dissonance: While the films story is mostly timeless there are a few moments that are clearly a product of their time, including Swat doing a crude and stereotypical Chinese man impression while holding rice, Hoppity imitating a Native American while being electrocuted while Swat swat does a crude war cry, and Hoppity’s Ash Face resembling blackface at one point.

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