A Bug's Life (1998)
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Wikidata Q216153, film, IMDb tt0120623, TMDB 9487: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Blank Check — Patreon
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Flesh and Blood: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (theme):
Flesh and Blood → A Bug's Life.
Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's.
“He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Joe Ranft: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Joe Ranft → A Bug's Life.
Lasseter heard Ranft's scratch recordings get laughs and pushed to make Ranft the voice of Heimlich.
“he noticed that every time his wife was laughing, it was ramped.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:59:26 · Michael Rianda (0.50 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman, first at 0:31:03, 1 time
- compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood, first at 1:13:11, 2 times
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan, first at 1:07:12, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1, first at 1:15:06, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free), first at 2:06:06, 1 time
- anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free), first at 0:59:00, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, first at 1:02:39, 1 time
- anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free), first at 1:52:10, 2 times
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Joe Ranft → A Bug's Life.
Lasseter heard Ranft's scratch recordings get laughs and pushed to make Ranft the voice of Heimlich.
“he noticed that every time his wife was laughing, it was ramped.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:59:26 · Michael Rianda (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (1)
-
theme (theme):
Flesh and Blood → A Bug's Life.
Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's.
“He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Kevin Spacey: voice (evil cricket) (Blank Check — Patreon, Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free))
- John Lasseter: director (Blank Check — Patreon, The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free))
- Joe Ranft: voice actor (Heimlich) (Blank Check — Patreon, The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free))