The Bug Parade

The Bug Parade
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Airdate:	11 October 1941 Blue Ribbon reissue: 12 July 1952
Series:	Merrie Melodies
MPAA Number:	7190
Production Number:	MM-4-11
Vitaphone Number:	211
Copyright Renewed:	22 April 1969
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc Billy Bletcher Robert C. Bruce (all uncredited)
Director:	Tex Avery (uncredited)
Written By:	Dave Monahan
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger
Animated By:	Rod Scribner Virgil Ross (uncredited) Rev Chaney (uncredited)
Background Artist:	John Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl W. Stalling

The Bug Parade is a 1941 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery.

Title

The title refers to the 1925 film The Big Parade.

Plot

Spot gags featuring gags about bugs. A narrator guides us through a tour of the insect world with humor.

Caricatures

• Artie Auerbach - "It's a possibility."
• Bing Crosby - mentioned by the slow horsefly.

Availability

(1993) LaserDisc
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 7

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)

Max (2023 - ) (restored)

Goofs

• The 2020 restoration has digitally removed a quotation from the "That's all Folks!" ending card. This gaffe also occurs in "Hop, Skip and a Chump" (1942) and "The Shell Shocked Egg" (1948).

Notes

• The scene where the queen bee lays a bunch of eggs is similar to the scene of the hen chick laying a giant egg in "Swooner Crooner" (1944) and the scene of the tuna fish laying a bunch of eggs in "Fresh Fish" (1939).
• This was the last Warner Bros. cartoon that Tex Avery finished before he left for Paramount to work on the Speaking of Animals shorts.

Gallery

"This is hard to believe, isn't it?"

"I didn't pay my light bill last month!"