Trivia[]
- This episode marks The Ants', Sniffles' and The Cursed Idol's first appearances. The Cursed Idol appears underground when Sniffles is moving his tongue towards the Ants' home.
The Cursed Idol looking uglier than ever.
- This is the first episode to have characters intentionally kill other characters.
- This episode marks the first death involving an explosion.
- This episode marks the first time a character's death is not caused by other main characters.
- There is a picture of an adult male ant in the ant family's dining room. According to the creators, he died in the war.
- This episode has by far the least known goofs in the whole series. It has only 7 goofs. This is not counting the one without goofs, Asbestos I Can Do. On the opposite end of the scale, the episode with the highest amount of goofs is Concrete Solution.
- This is the first episode that Jerome Rossen composed the music for, the second being Stealing the Spotlight.
- This is the first episode without any female main characters.
- This is the first episode without any rodent characters.
- This is the first episode with only one main character.
- This is the first episode where no main character survives.
- This is the only episode of season 1 animated at 12 frames per second, as opposed to the season's 8 FPS standard. This was a mistake according to the First Blood DVD commentary[1].
- This is one of five episodes where a thought bubble is used. The other four are Can't Stop Coffin, Doggone It, As You Wish, and And the Kitchen Sink.
- Before he notices the anthill, Sniffles's thought bubble shows him using long division to calculate 387,420 divided by 6 (the answer was 64,570).
- This episode was banned in Russia on YouTube.
- However, the Classics Remastered version is still available there.
Cultural References[]
- The term "crazy antics" means dangerous stuff.
- Sniffles' tongue going towards the ants' front door may be a parody of Gold Well, a popular arcade and now Flash game.
- The plot of this episode seems to be based on the cartoon Ants in the Plants since it involves an antagonistic anteater having dangerous substances thrown on their tongue by ants.
Production Notes[]
- This is one of the favorite episodes of the crew. [2]