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A Match Made in Bug Hollow
Pipi is sitting on a stairway when Melo comes down the stairs riding on a stool with wheels being chased by the other buglets.
"MY KINGDOOOOOOOMMM FOR A HOOOOOOOORRRSSSEEEEEFLYYYYYY!!!!" (crash) "Ouch."
Alderon's speech during the play rehearsal is just epic, especially his delivery of "bony fingers!" Not to mention the face he makes when Spark says that he bears no ill will towards the bug playing Lorraine the Runaway Bride.
Spark: Y'know, this whole getting left at the altar thingy… I just don't know what I'm supposed to be feeling. Alderon: (years of anger and resentment reach boiling point) I… may be able to illuminate that for you! (Everybug looks startled and concerned as he marches up onto the stage) What you are feeling is that this woman has… reached into your chest, plucked out your heart, and thrown it to her spawn as a PLAYTHING! It's not the last time, either. Because that's what this woman is! SHE IS A MONSTER! It's no use running away from her! Because no matter how far you go, no matter how many years you let pass, you will never be completely out of reach of those BONY FINGERS!! So drink hearty, lad, and LAUGH! (The nearest bugs begin backing away slowly) For you have made a pact—with a DEMON!!! AND HER NAME IS LORRAINE!!! (After an awkward pause, Melo starts clapping, only for Paprika to stop him)
Alderon trying to ask Arachna out on a date… and failing epically.
Alderon ordering "all living things" in the room to Get Out! so he and Arachna can have a moment together; everybug promptly does so, including a stickbug who has been camouflaging himself against the wooden wall.
The Buggysitter's Club
Pipi uses a doll to prepare herself for her first foray into helping care for her hive's bee larvae. Especially funny when it gets run through with a sword, drop-kicked into the pond, and accidentally gnawed on by a caterpillar.
Paprika: Pretty sure a real kid would have made some noise before they exploded.
Pipi tries to include Majuriya in her little experiment, but the queen bee is having none of it.
Pipi: I'm role-playing! Majuriya: Maybe try playing the role of a normal person.
Meanwhile, Alderon is told to sign a cutesy-looking card for Prof. Antolin. Assuming that it's a birthday card, Alderon signs the card with a darkly humorous quip about old age… only to find out that it's actually a get-well-soon card and that Antolin is ill.
Alderon: You mean that wasn't a birthday card? Lebah: No, he called in sick this morning. Alderon: Oh good lord, I thought it was his birthday. I wrote, "Dear Professor Antolin, you're not getting older, you're just getting closer to death!" Lebah: How could you think it was his birthday?! Alderon: I don't know, I guess I just didn't recognize the traditional card for a bug in a state of ill health was a pink butterfly.
Alderon decides that he must get the card back before Antolin finds out. Pipi picks that moment to ask him to help her take care of the doll, leading to this brilliant line:
Alderon: Oh, Pipi! I don't have time to stand here and listen to your insanity! I have to go and steal a get-well card from a sick ant!
The Theme Park Episode
Right from the get-go, the title of this episode is so basic and self-aware it's genius!
How do the buglets know the playground is way past its prime? An otherwise functional-looking slide collapses when Melo tries to go down it.
Melo: Where am I?
The epic montage of Alderon torturing himself to entertain the kids while the theme park is under construction.
Shadow of the Hummingbird
Flit and Melo's volleying "I dunno, what do you wanna do today?" at the beginning.
Pipi tries to get Hummy to eat the nectar she's collected. It cuts between Pipi and Hummy three times, and the third time it cuts to Pipi she has longer hair on her head.
The buglets race Hummy past Alderon, who is on his bicycle.
Pipi: Hey, Al! Still riding a machine, I see! Alderon: Good lord, is that a- (The front wheel suddenly snaps off Alderon's bike, catapulting him down a hill where he randomly explodes)
This:
Announcer: Attention citizens! A bird has been sighted in Bug Hollow! Please scream and run or fly around in circles! (the bugs do so) Announcer: (casually) Thanks for your compliance.
The irony of a hummingbird, a bird harmless to bugs, terrorizing the entire town of Bug Hollow is utterly hilarious.
What makes this even more hilarious is the fact that the hummingbird didn't even do anything. As the buglets point out to the other bugs, it was the latter's own panicked antics that had caused the chaos throughout the whole town. Hummy just kinda… y'know, flew around.
Roach Mouth
This exchange:
Paprika: Okay, how about we don't tell anybody that we... Well, you know. Melo: Not even... Alderon's house?
Cue a wider shot of Alderon's house peering over Paprika's shoulder, as if eavesdropping; as the buglets look back at it, it bolts upright and feigns innocence.
The bug kids tattling on Margot to her mother, Margot trying to defend herself, all spitting enough (thankfully censored) profanity to cover the whole of Martha's Vineyard. And this is the very first thing she hears after arriving to pick up her daughter from school. Thus, she needs a moment before she can react.
A Few Good Scares (Parts 1 & 2)
The first part opens with one of the funnier title card gags of the show:
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Beat Panel) NO, SERIOUSLY
Paprika's favorite scary story, "Claria" is more or less an Affectionate Parody of Coraline combined with The Thief of Always with bug characters. It can get as creepy as the stories it's parodying at times, but it's mostly full of gems like the following:
When the Second Mother suggests that Claria play hide and seek in the fog:
Claria: What fog? (cue fog literally pouring from the sky) Oh.
When Claria finds the Second Mother has made her a fantastic dinner party waiting for her:
Claria: Wow, this looks delic-yummy.
After the Second Mother tries to get Claria to replace her eyes with marbles, Claria tries to find a way out of the Second Realm, but finds that:
1): The door leading back has been glued shut,
2): The windows are guarded with thick spiderwebbing,
3): The toilets have all been clogged.
Claria being forced to go through the perfume department to escape from her locked room in the Second Realm.
When Claria confronts the Second Mother after the latter steals her family and mentions the ghost buglets:
Second Mother: ...Besides, nobody sensible believes in ghosts; Those who tell ghost stories are all such liars, anyway.
The real nightmarish form of the Second Realm's inhabitants, especially the Second Mother, is both Nightmare Fuel and Played for Laughs.
Chores for Alderon
After tasking the bug kids with housekeeping, which includes painting the inside of his and Arachna's home, Alderon closes with these words of… encouragement.
Alderon: Let me give you a warning: this paint is absolutely permanent! It will never come off! So if I see... even one drop... ON ANYTHING BUT WALL! I'LL HAVE YOUR ABDOMENS CUT OFF AND MOUNTED OVER MY FIRE PLACE!Â
And what does Arachna have to say?
Arachna: Have fun, kids!
Melo's insistence that their assignment doesn't include moving anything.
Pipi: Do you think we should take this stuff off the walls? Melo: No way. We're not getting paid to move stuff! Paprika: We're not getting paid at all, Melo.
Pipi stressfully attempts to open a can of paint with a screwdriver in a scene that might as well be that of a bomb disposal.
Melo: Careful, Pipi. Careful, Pipi. Pipi, careful! Careful! Careful!!! BE CAREFUL, PIPI!!! Paprika: The lid's already off, you goofus.
While trying to remove the paint stain from Arachna's treasured childhood doll:
Pipi: NOTHING'S WORKING! Paprika: Hold on, what are we, cavebugs?! (Melo is just about to whack the doll with a bat with Flit and Spark watching intently; they look up and Melo awkwardly hides the bat behind his back)
Knowing they're running out of time before Alderon and Arachna return, Paprika attempts to convince the others not to start panicking. And then they hear the spider couple talking outside.
Paprika: Start panicking.
Melo then screams comically while running around the wide-eyed Flit and Spark.
When Alderon discovers Pipi dressed as the doll.
Alderon: Pipi, what are you doing now? Pipi: I just thought this dress would look better on me. Right guys? (Paprika facepalms while Melo gives a thumbs up)
When the spiders finally sees the damage:
Alderon: You do realize what happens now, hmm? Pipi: You mean our butts? Flit: Permission to use them one last time, please?
The reveal that Alderon lied and the paint could be removed with saliva the whole time. Pipi gets that he wanted them to be careful, but the other four storm out of the house in annoyance and disgust.
Messing with Humbugs
Paprika telling Pipi about Christmas, ending with:
Paprika: And everybody pretends to like the fruitcake!
Pretty much everything Alderon's grandfather says during the flashback to Alderon's childhood:
"Is that so? Maybe one night Grandpa will forget to turn the gas off."
The scene where Alderon puts up a notice that he isn't doing Christmas. Two beetles look at the poster, and one goes into a Thousand-Yard Stare form of Tranquil Fury, while the other beetle… …well…
Beetle: (calmly) Go ahead… Run… But we will find you.
When the buglets learn that Alderon is skipping Christmas, Paprika has an Imagine Spot of him knocking over a Christmas tree, stomping on it, and then setting it on fire.
"Take this, you young innocent children trying to foster a loving community spirit!"
And then she drops this line:
Paprika: Yeah, it's either time for him to move to a new town and change his name, or time for us to do something about it.
When some Christmas Caroler crickets try to guilt Alderon into celebrating Christmas, by singing "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", he flees into his basement… only to be confronted by his Santa Caddisfly statue seemingly staring at him creepily… all while the carolers continue to sing.
Arachna comes home to see Alderon falling from the roof after trying to put up Santa on his own.
Arachna: What on earth are you doing?! Are you okay?! Alderon: Actually, it was a pesticide attempt. Apparently, I misread the instructions.
The real Santa at the end. Especially when he laughs so hard that he forgets that he's not holding onto the reins of his sleigh.
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Training
Show - Little Witch Academia
Song - Magic Lesson
Artist - Michiru Oshima
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Movie Soundtrack
Opening Credits/Into The World
A Completed Metamorphosis
Majuriya's Theme
Training
Venix's Scheme
Pipi Impatient
Coming of the Wasps
Accusation
Pipi Volunteers
Tales of the Giants
Antolin's Advice
Setting Out
Hitbug
Through the Forest of Shadows
Lost Bugs
Lebah Stung
The Spider's Lure
Alderon's Web
A Terrible Trio
The Unwise Owl
Snowstorm
Meeting the Princess
Escape
Small Meets Big
Bicycle Battle
Return to the Hive
Venix's Just Rewards
Antidote
Pipi's Promotion
TETOTE (YZ ver.)
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Lebah Stung
“Tsunawatari yade~” (Crossin’ a Tightrope~) by: Masaki Kurihara from: Azumanga Daioh
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Antolin's Advice
“Watashi Shinderundesu yo ne?” (I’m Dead, Right?) by: Yasuharu Takanashi from: Zombie Land Saga
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Escape
“Brave Willing” by: Dolce Triade from: Last Exile
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The Unwise Owl
Sam Fonteyn - Sword Fight
Plays in:
41a. "The Algae's Always Greener"Â
59. "The Sponge Who Could Fly"Â
115a. "Grandpappy the Pirate"Â
123-124. "Truth or Square"
131b. "A Pal for Gary"Â
168a. "Restraining SpongeBob"
192b. "Pull Up a Barrel"Â
197b. "Two Thumbs Down"Â
211b. "Trident Trouble"Â
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Hitbug
Jack Coles -Â Stealth by Night
Plays in:
34b. “Frankendoodle”
49a. “Krab Borg"Â
82b. “Night Light”
93c. “BlackJack"Â
131b. "A Pal for Gary"Â
177b. "Move It or Lose It"Â
182b. "Bumper to Bumper”
189. “SpongeBob You’re Fired"Â
262b. "The Hankering"Â
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