Newbie
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Dec 8, 2005, 12:09 PM
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1960s bugs & musician cartoon
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Does anyone know the name of the 1960s cartoon that featured bugs and a musician? If I recall correctly, a man who was a "starving" musician lived in a modest house that was going to be knocked down and replaced with a big skyscraper. The only way he could keep his house was to come up with a good deal of money. In an effort to do so, he sent a company a piece of music he had written, hoping this would be his lucky break. The company loved it and sent him a letter, but the bugs in his house took the letter and hid it from him. His house was torn down. In the end however (I forget how) he gets the money and has his house on the top of the skyscraper. Any clues would be most appreciated as this has been a 4 year search!!!
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Inbetweener / Contributor
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Dec 8, 2005, 12:31 PM
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First, leap back a couple of decades and you're there......it's the second animated feature from the doomed Fleischer studio, Mr. Bug Goes to Town, from 1941 (you can find it in larger video-rental stores under the name HOPPITY GOES TO TOWN).
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"As we say in Swahili: 'OOP!'"
--George of the Jungle
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Lead Animator / Moderator
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Dec 10, 2005, 9:36 AM
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The song that Dick Dickens 'wrote' was "We're The Couple In The Castle (In The Air)" - actually written by Frank Loesser and Hoagy Carmichael. Dick and his wife Mary lived in a cottage the garden of which Hoppity tries to pursuade the other insects would be a safer place to move to. Villainous C. Bagley Beetle, owner of the land insect town occupies, tries to prevent the evacuation by imprisoning Hoppity in the envelope that contains the vital cheque!
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("La-la La-la I can't HEAR you!")
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