Mister Bug Goes to Town

Mister Bug Goes to Town is an animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theares by Paramount Pictures on December 4 1941. The film, which centers around a community of incests who must move from their garden home in the light of skyscraper construction, was a commercial flop, and lead to the bankruptcy and dissolution of the Fleischer Studio. Paramount fired the Fleischers and reorganized the company into Famous Studios. Paramount later re-released the film as Hoppity Goes to Town, the name it is currently distributed under; the original title is a parody of the title of the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The film cost $600,000 to make, and had only made $430,000 back by 1947.

The film was produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, who was credited as director. The sequences of the film were directed by Al Eugster, Reuben Grossman, Abner Kneitel, Hal Seeger, Nick Tafuri, Dave Tendlar , John Walworth, Bob Wickersham, and an uncredited Shamus Culhane.