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Scared Ant #1: No, no, no, Oh, no. Oh, no. I'M LOST!! Where's the line?! It just went away! What do I do?! Scared Ant #2: Help! Scared Ant #3: We'll be stuck here forever! Cockroach Waitress: Hey, who ordered the Poo Poo Platter? Mosquito Waitress: Here you go, Slick. Enjoy. Slick: Ow! OW!! HEY I SAID NO SALT!! Drunk Mosquito: Hey, bartender, Bloody Mary, O positive.

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Scared Ant #1: [gasps] No, no, no, Oh, no. Oh, no. Scared Ant #1: I'M LOST!! Where's the line?! It just went away! What do I do?! Scared Ant #2: Help! Scared Ant #3: We'll be stuck here forever! Mr. Soil: Do not panic. Do not panic! We are trained professionals. Now, stay calm. We are going around the leaf. Scared Ant #1: Around the leaf. I-I-I don't think we can do that. Mr. Soil: Oh, nonsense. This is nothing compared to the twig of '93. [gestured for the line of nervous ants to come towards him] That's it. That's it. Good! You're doing great! There you go. There you go! Watch my eyes. Don't look away. And here's the line again. Scared Ant #1: [gleeful shout] Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Soil! Mr. Soil: Good job, everybody! Dr. Flora: Oh, my. There's quite a gap, Mr. Soil. Shouldn't we tell the queen? Mr. Soil: I don't think we need to involve the queen in this. She's got enough on her plate already: training her daughter. Dr. Flora: Oh, yes, Princess Atta. The poor dear.

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Princess Atta: Oh... Wind's died down. They'll be here soon. Queen: Just be confident, dear. You'll be fine. Princess Atta: Ah! There's a gap. There's a gap in the line! What are we gonna do?! Thorny: It's okay, Your Highness. Gaps happen. We just lost a few inches, that's all. Princess Atta: Oh, right. [hovers over Thorny's shoulder] Thorny: Your Highness, I can't count when you hover like that. Princess Atta: Oh, of course. I'm sorry. [chuckles] Go ahead. Queen: Guys, go shade someone else for a while. Okay, Atta. Now what do we do? Princess Atta: Oh! Don't tell me. I know it. I know it. What is it? Queen: We relax! Princess Atta: Right. Queen: Oh, it'll be fine. It's the same, year after year. They come, they eat, they leave. That's our lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's our life. [laughs. Atta laughs too] Isn't that right, Aphie? Oh, you're such a cute little aphid. [As she sets Aphie down, the two ant boys pop out of a hole in the ground] Reed: Ditch Dot! Grub: Yeah, yeah! Dot:

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Flik: [Looks to the sky and gasps] They're here! Ants: They're here! Dot: Mom! Where are you?! Ants: They're coming! Run! Queen: Dot! Dot! Dot: Mom! Princess Atta: Single file! Dot: Mom! Princess Atta: Please, everyone. Uh, food to the offering stone. Queen: [whistles] Okay, everyone, single file. Food to offering stone and into the anthill. Now, let's go! Ant #4: Go, go, go, go. Princess Atta: Come on. Keep movin', keep movin'. Good! Okay. That's everyone. Flik: Hey! Hey, wait for me! [runs up to the offering stone, tangled up in his harvester] Get the food to the offering stone, then into the anthill. Flik: [screams] No! No, no, no, no, no! Oh, oh! Flik: Oh, no. Princess Atta! Princess Atta! Princess Attaaaa!

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Princess Atta: They come, they eat, they leave. They come, they eat, they leave. Flik: Excuse me, pardon me. Pardon me, excuse me. Coming through. Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry, sorry. [he runs through the crowd to make his way to Atta] Coming through. Princess Atta, there's something I need to tell you. Princess Atta: Not now, Flik. Flik: But, Your Highness, it's about the offering! Princess Atta: Shhh! Grasshopper: [off-screen] Hey, what's going on? Molt: [first words; off-screen] Yeah, where's the food? Princess Atta: [furious with Flik] What did you do? Flik: [nervously] It was an accident? Molt: Boo! Where's the food?! Flik: Hopper. Hopper: [first words] So, where is it? WHERE'S MY FOOD? [echoes] Princess Atta: I-Isn't it up there? Hopper: What?! Princess Atta: The food was sitting on a leaf on top- Hopper: [interrupts] EXCUSE ME?! Princess Atta: Are you sure it's not up there? Hopper: Are you saying I'm stupid? Princess Atta: No. Hopper: Do I look... stupid... to you? Let's just th

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Princess Atta: Flik, what do you have to say for yourself? Flik: Sorry. I-I'm sorry for the way I am. I didn't mean for things to go so wrong. I...especially didn't want to make you look bad, Princess. Princess Atta: Well, Flik, you did. Flik: I was just trying to help. Mr. Soil: Then help us. Don't help us. Flik: Help? Help? Help? Princess Atta: Flik, you are sentenced to one month digging in the tunnels. Thorny: Uh, excuse me, Your Highness. Need I remind you of Flik's tunnel-within-a-tunnel project? Flik: Helpers to help us. That could... That's it! We could... Thorny: It took the whole engineering department two days to dig him out. Send him to Health and Ant Services. Dr. Flora: Heavens, no! Flik: We could leave the island. The riverbed's dry right now. We could just walk right across the riverbed. We could go get helpers. We could! We could leave, sure. We could go find helpers to help us. It's perfect! Queen: Perfect? What's so perfect? Flik: Your Highness, don't you see? We cou

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Flik: [suavely] Don't worry! The colony is in good hands! Bye, now. Flik: [breathes in] All right. Hey, fellas. Beautiful morning, huh? Grub: [Sliding down a clover. Reed follows] My dad says he gives you one hour before you come back to the island crying. Flik: Does he now? Reed: My dad doesn't think that. Flik: He doesn't huh? Reed: Nah, he's betting you're gonna die. Flik: Oh. Reed: Yeah, he says if the heat doesn't get you, the birds will. Dot: Well, I think he's gonna make it. Reed: Nobody asked you, Your Royal Shortness. Grub: Yeah, Dot. What do you know? Flik: Hey, hey, hey. Ease up, all right? Come on. She's entitled to her opinion, too. Ohh... Grub: So go, already. Hey! Reed: The city's that way! Flik: I know. Reed: You're supposed to look for bugs, not dandelions! Dot: You leave him alone. He knows what he's doing. Flik: That's right! Here I go! For the colony and for oppressed ants everywhere! Whoa... Dot: Wow! Flik: Hey! Dot: Bye, Flik! Flik: Wow. Whoa! Dot: Good luck, Flik

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Rosie: Get back! Get back! Get back, you horrible beast! I have no fear! Dim: Oh! [whimpers] Rosie: Oh, no. Rosie: Oh, I'm so sorry, Dim. An owie? Dim: Owie! Owie, owie! [sobs] Rosie: Okay, show Rosie the owie. All right, Dim. It's okay. Fly Mom: [disappointed sighs] I have been in outhouses that didn't stink that bad. This is ridiculous. What a disappointment. P.T. Flea: [gasps] No! Complaining Fly: You! Come here! I want my money back! P.T. Flea: Uh, no refunds after the first two minutes! Cockroach: Popcorn! Stale popcorn! Heimlich: I hate performing on an empty stomach! P.T. Flea: Do your act, Heimlich, then you can eat! Slim: P.T., what's the point? P.T. Flea: Not now, Slim. Slim: What's the point of going out there? They'll only laugh at me. P.T. Flea: That's because you're a CLOWN! Slim: No, it's because I'm a PROP! You always cast me as the broom! The pole! The stick! A splinter! P.T. Flea: You're a walking stick! IT'S FUNNY! NOW, GO! Slim: You parasite. Slim: [dryly] Tra-la-la

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Fly Brother #1: [to Francis] Hey, cutie! Wanna pollinate with a real bug? [laughs] Fly Brother #1: Take your best shot! Francis: You name the place! P.T. Flea: No! Rosie: Go?! Whoa! Okay, through the tunnel... Gypsy: Whoa! Rosie: Okay, that's done! P.T. Flea: Whoa! Heimlich: Aaah! Francis: P.T.! Slim: Oh, no! Gypsy: Oh, dear. Francis: Water! We need some water! Slim: Water, water, water, water! P.T. Flea: [panicking] Help! [grunting] Get me out of here. Fly Brother #1: Wow! Rosie: It's the-the web. I'm sorry, it's-- P.T. Flea: You're all fired. Francis: We got the water! Heimlich: Here we come, P.T.! Slim: We'll save you. Fly Brother #1: [clapping] Whoo! Whoa! Fly Brother #2: Burn him again!

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Harry's Friend: No! Harry, no! Don't look at the light! Harry: [entranced] I can't help it. It's so beautiful...! [gets zapped, falls into a big garbage can] Woo hoo! Flik: Try not to look like a country bug. Blend. Blend in. Bug #1: Hey, buggy! Hey, buggy! Bug #2: What do you expect? The Guy's a tick. Flik: Wow! The city! [impressed laugh] Bug #1: Hey, watch it. Bug #2: Get out of the way! Flik: Oh, sorry. Snail: Ow! Watch where you're going! Flik: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't... Oh, sorry! Flik: Oh, I'm really, really sorry. That was an... An accident. Wasp: Hey, tough guy! I'll show you who's tough! AND STAY OUT! Flik: Tough bugs! [heads to Bug Bar]

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Cockroach: I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly... Flik: Wow... Fly: Move it! Flik: Whoa! Fly: Hey, waiter! I'm in my soup! I've been working out. Feel my wing. Yo! Two Black Flags over here! All right. Bug: Hair of the dog you bit. Mosquito Waitress: Here you go, Slick. Enjoy. Slick: [takes one bite and his mouth starts to bubble] Ow! OW!! HEY I SAID NO SALT!! Bug: Buzz off! Flik: Oh, pardon me, sir. I was wondering if I could talk to you for a moment. I represent a colony of ants, and I'm looking... I'm looking for tough bugs, you know, mean bugs, the sort of bugs... Slim: Fired by a flea, how humiliating! Francis: Let's face it. We stink. Tuck: You fired! Roll: You fired! Tuck: You fireeeeeed! Rosie: [in disgust] Oh, will you SHUT UP?! Tuck: Hey! Roll: You fired! Heimlich: Someday I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better. Gypsy: I can't believe the troupe is breaking up. We've always been together. Manny: Farewell, my friends. Francis: To the audience we

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Slim: [muffled] Help! Help! Get me out! Flik: Wow. Rosie: Oh, ow-ow-ow... Gypsy: [gasps] A talent scout. Flik: My colony's in trouble. Grasshoppers are coming! We've been forced to prepare all this food. Manny: Dinner theater! Heimlich: Food? Flik: [pleading] PLEASE! Will you help us?! Fly: Where are they? Slim: We'll take the job! Flik: Really? Heimlich: Yah! Yah!

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Grub: Hey, look who's playing lookout again. Little Speck! Dot: The name is Dot. Reed: Well, Spot, you still looking for Flik? Grub: Forget it, Dot. That loser's never coming back. Dot: Flik! Flik did it! Flik did it! Reed: What? Grub: Quit shoving! Flik: This is it! This is Ant Island! Dot: Flik! Over here! Flik! Flik! Flik: Hey! Dot: He did it! He did it! Yay! He did it! He did it! Reed: Cool! Thorny: At the rate these leaves are dropping, we're gonna need a miracle. Cornelius: That's right! We need a miracle! Cornelius: Run for your lives! Francis: Ta-da!

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Flik: [has just realized the "warrior bugs" are from the circus] Your Highness! The warriors have called a secret meeting to make plans for the circus... Uh, circumventing the oncoming horde, so they can trapeze... Trap them with ease! Princess Atta: Well, shouldn't I come, too? Flik: No! Ha ha ha! Sorry. No, no, see, it's classified in the DMZ; gotta go ASAP, you know, strictly BYOB. Bye!

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Rosie: [hears a loud commotion] What's that? Manny: That, my friends, is the sound of applause! Francis: Applause! I'm in Heaven!

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Princess Atta: You don't think I've offended the warriors, do you? Flik: You? No! Princess Atta: Oh, good. Because, you see, when you first brought them here, I'd thought you'd hired a bunch of clowns! Flik: [voice suddenly higher] You did? Princess Atta: Don't tell 'em I said that! That's all I need: another "royal blunder". Flik: Princess! You're doing a great job. Princess Atta: Thanks. You're sweet. You're wrong, but sweet. I know what everyone really thinks. Flik: I don't follow. Princess Atta: Everyone, the whole colony. Nobody really believes I can do this job. It's like they're all watching me. Just... just... Flik: Waiting for you to screw up. Princess Atta: Flik, I owe you an apology. Flik: For what? Princess Atta: Well, I haven't been that nice to you, and I'm sorry. If there's any way I can make it up to you... Hey! I know! How would you like to be the queen's official aide to the warrior bugs? Flik: Me? Princess Atta: Oh, sure. You've got a great rapport going with them, e

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Flik: We are going to build a bird: a bird we can operate from the inside... Manny: ...which will then be hoisted above the anthill, and right when Hopper and his gang are below, we launch the bird, and scare off the grasshoppers! It's going to take... Princess Atta: ...everyone's involvement to make this plan a reality. I know it's not our tradition to do things differently, but if our ancestors were able to build this anthill, we can certainly rally together to build this bird!

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Loco: We go all the way back there, and it starts to rain? We might as well be suckin' bug spray! Molt: Ooh, don't even say that! You know something? You're making a lot of sense. I mean, why take the risk? You should tell Hopper! Axel: Good idea. But... y'know it's not really our place. I mean, you're his brother. That makes you like... the vice president of the gang. Molt: Wow! It kinda does, doesn't it? Okay, I'll tell him! [leaves] Boy, I should talk to you guys more often. Loco: What if Hopper doesn't like it? Grasshopper: Then at least the genius will get smacked and not us. Molt: Vice President Molt. [laughs; he flies to Hopper, who's getting a massage] Hopper: Ah, that's good. That's good. A little lower. Lower, lower. Molt: Okay, okay. I'll tell ya anyway. Y'see, I've been thinking, okay, which is something that I do, y'know, being vice president and all, and this is a thought, and it was mine - why go back to Ant Island at all? I mean, you don't even like grain! Molt: [scared

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Princess Atta: [sternly] Tell me this isn't true. Flik: No, you don't... You don't... Flik: No, no, no, no! I just-- Princess Atta: [walks to Flik, hurt with disappointment] You lied, Flik. You lied to her. You lied to the colony! You lied to ME! And like an idiot, I believed you.

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Princess Atta: But, Hopper, we ran out of time! Hopper: HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING ALL SUMMER?! YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?! Princess Atta: No, no! Please! Hopper: WELL, GUESS WHAT... you just lost! [Thumper scares Ants] NOT ONE ANT SLEEPS UNTIL WE GET EVERY SCRAP OF FOOD ON THIS ISLAND!!! Hopper: No, no, no. You're staying with me. [grins] Your Highness.

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Grasshopper Seeker #1: Just shut up a minute, will ya? I think I heard something over here. Have you checked over there? Grasshopper Seeker #2: No, not yet. Grasshopper Seeker #1: Well, then, go over there and check it out! Grasshopper Seeker #2: Wait a minute... Hey, I think I found something. [picks up Dot's blueberry bandana] Hee, hee, cool! [places it on to of his head] Hey, how do I look? Grasshopper Seeker #1: Like an idiot. Grasshopper Seeker #2: I don't know, maybe it'll, uh, keep me dry in the rain. Grasshopper Seeker #2: Oh, cool, I love our job. Dot: Stay here; I'm gonna get help.

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Heimlich: Oh, no! Heimlich: Oh, not the queen! Rosie: We got to do something! Francis: Kid, say the word, and we'll follow you into battle. Manny: We believe in you, my boy.

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Now, that's funny.

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Manny: Oh, the pain... the pain! [pretends to die] P.T. Flea: There goes my magic-act! Flaming Death! Slim: No! P.T.! P.T. Flea: [sets the mechanical bird aflame] Ah, a direct hit! Dot: Flik! Flik, help us! Princess Atta: Dot! Flik: Okay! Everybody out! Hurry! Princess Atta: Where's Dot? Has anyone seen Dot? Hopper: Whose idea was this?! Huh?! Was it yours, princess? Princess Atta: Just get behind me, girls. It'll be okay. Flik: Leave her alone, Hopper! The bird was my idea! I'm the one you want! Hopper: Where did you get the gall to do this to me?! Flik: You were gonna squish the Queen. Dot: [To Atta] It's true. Hopper: I hate it when somebody gives away the ending. [orders Thumper to strike Flik again] You piece of dirt! No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt. You're an ant! [to the ant colony] Let this be a lesson to all you ants! Ideas are very dangerous things! You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this Earth to serve us! Flik: You're wrong, Hopper! [gets up weakly, pauses]

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RANDY NEWMAN lyrics (The Time of Your Life)/Outtakes

Randy Newman: Was a bug, little bug, hardly there / How he felt, what he dreamed, who could care? / Without any evidence / His flaws were many / He was full of confidence / Some people haven't any / Didn't have much common sense / It's highly overrated / He just knew that he'd come through...| It's the time of your life so live it well / It's the time of your life so live it well...| We may only go 'round one time / As far as I can tell / It's the time of your life so live it well...| We may only go 'round this one time / As far as I can tell / He could be wrong about that / It's the time of your life / It's the time of your life / It's the time of your life so live it well. Man #1: [beeps] Speed! Man #2: Marker. Director: And action! Hopper: Are you saying I'm stupid? Princess Atta: No. Hopper: Do I look... stupid... to you? Princess Atta: [laughs] I'm sorry! Hopper: [beeps] Are you saying I'm stupid? Oh! Princess Atta: I'm sorry! I got it. No, no. Just do it again. I'm fine. Hopper:

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Oh, I didn't know it was connected. I'm sorry!