| It's Tough to Be a Bug! | |
| Disney's Animal Kingdom | |
| Land | Discovery Island |
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| Opening date | April 22, 1998 |
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| It's Tough to Be a Bug! | |
| Disney California Adventure Park | |
| Land | A Bug's Land |
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| Opening date | February 8, 2001 |
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It's Tough to Be a Bug! is a 9-minute long 3-D film based on the Disney·Pixar film, A Bug's Life. The film, created by Rhythm and Hues Studios, is the main component of a theme park attraction at several Walt Disney theme parks. Using theater lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects, the show gives the audience an idea of what it would be like to be an insect. Flik, from A Bug's Life, hosts the show and educates the viewer on why bugs shouldn't be seen as pests, but more as friends.
The attraction opened in Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort on April 22, 1998, a full seven months before the actual feature debuted in theaters. It has since opened at Disney California Adventure Park on February 8, 2001.
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At Disney's Animal Kingdom, the Bug's Life theater is located inside The Tree of Life. As the queue winds around the tree, visitors can glimpse animal carvings on the tree that aren't visible from other vantage points. The "underground" pre-show area features posters of various bug acts from the show, as well as those for all-insect parodies of Broadway musicals, such as Beauty and the Bees, Web Side Story, Little Shop of Hoppers and My Fair Ladybug.
At Disney California Adventure Park, the Bug's Life theater is located in a bug's land. There, the queue passes through a replica of Ant Island before heading underground, where the queue appears the same as the one at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
In Disney's Animal Kingdom, a female bug voice says "Ten minutes till showtime." before the song "One" plays. After the song, "Tomorrow", the voice says, "Five minutes till showtime.". When "Tonight" is playing, the voice says "One minute till showtime." After the song, the doors open. But in California Adventure, the voice is a male bug and has "Flight of the Bumblebee". The doors close, and the announcer tells the audience to never buzz, sting, pollinate and chirp. Flik pops up upside-down behind the butterfly curtains. Then, Flik talks and the butterflies fly. The leaf is the title card and says "IT'S TOUGH TO BE A BUG!". Then, the little butterfly flies away and a millipede bites the leaf. Then, jungle music is heard, and a Mexican redknee tarantula (called Chilean Tarantula) named Chili walks to see Flik. Flik screams and Chili laughs. A pair of Acorn Weevils place a trident like item on the stage with a web. Chili shoots the acorn with a quill. Then, the acorn weevils got an acorn with Weevil Kneevil and Chili didn't shoot him. He misses the acorn and Weevil escapes and Chili chases him. The next guest is a soldier termite who defends his mound by spraying intruders with acid. The piece of wood falls and makes a loud rumble. The termite shoots at the flea and shoots at the audience. He ran out of acid and went away. A Stink Bug named Claire de Room walks to the stage and is silent. The acorn weevils place a flower and Weevil enters the flower; Claire passes gas and then walks away. An explosion is heard when Hopper jumps into stage. Hopper was mad at Flik. A Rhinoceros beetle chases Flik and four Acorn Weevils hold a picture of the movie, "Knock em Dead". and then, the film shows up a live boy screaming and a tarantula about to destroy the home. Two soldiers shoot at a grasshopper in the park. A pair of Fireflies climb up the building and two ants walk to the boat and a man hits the ant on the boat. A fly was hit by the fly swatter three times and the human uses a Bug Spray. It's so dark and wasps poke the audience. Several Black widow spiders go up and down trying to capture the audience and go up and went up and are gone. Hopper says that nothing can stop him, but a chameleon eats Hopper and spits out Hopper and Hopper flies away. Some bug audience members talk at once while Flik said that he forgot to mention about reptiles. On the song, several bees start to sing, along with severalDung beetles, The Dung Brothers, several dragonflies and several ladybugs in the song. In addition, it frightens adolecenes to the point of tears. Weevil returns holding a cupcake and the bugs chase him. The butterflies come back to form as curtains and Flik says that a magnifying glass is for looking at little things, not for burning. He lets the little butterfly fly into the butterfly curtains and the show ends. The announcer says that audience members should be seated, so the beetles, maggots and cockroaches can leave the show safely. The bugs start to talk at once and the announcer says to pick up the grubby things before they exit. In the Animal Kingdom show, the female voice says to exit through the doors to the left, while the male voice says to exit through the doors to the right. The guests put their bugs eyes in the bins outside the theater and exit.
The queue features parodies or renditions of songs from famous Broadway shows using bug sounds.
| Track | Name | Parody / rendition of |
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| 1 | "One" (A Cockroach Line) | "One" (A Chorus Line) |
| 2 | "Beauty and the Bees" (Beauty and the Bees) | "Beauty and the Beast" (Beauty and the Beast) |
| 3 | "Tomorrow" (Antie) | "Tomorrow" (Annie) |
| 4 | "I Feel Pretty" (Web Side Story) | "I Feel Pretty" (West Side Story) |
| 5 | "Hello Dung Lovers" (The Sting and I) | "Hello Young Lovers" (The King and I) |
| 6 | "Tonight" | "Tonight" mixed with Flight of the Bumblebee (West Side Story) |
The show's score was composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton.
The theme song, "It's Tough to be a Bug," was written by George Wilkins with lyrics by Kevin Rafferty, and is available on Music from Disney's California Adventure.
Note: Weevil Kneevil, Henry the Bee, Additional Singing and Speaking Voices and the Announcer appear and sing and speak, but their voice actors are unknown.
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