In 1939, Fleischer Studios — the folks who brought you Betty Boop, most of the good Popeye cartoons and many others — released Gulliver's Travels, their first animated feature. It was a pretty big hit so they immediately made another feature…Mr. Bug Goes To Town, which was made for the 1941 Christmas market. It turned out to have two problems, one being that a few days after it was previewed, Pearl Harbor was bombed and America turned topsy-turvy. The other problem was that a lot of people didn't like Mr. Bug Goes To Town, at least not as much as they'd liked Gulliver's Travels.
In short, Mr. Bug did not go to town. The film did not do well and led to Max and Dave Fleischer losing their studio. The film was re-released a few times, often under the name Hoppity Goes To Town, which is the name you'll see on the video below if you deign to watch.
I have a vague memory of going to a movie theater with my parents when I was around eight or so to see an afternoon matinee of cartoons. Greater affection hath no parents than to sit through five or six Casper and Buzzy the Crow shorts but even my folks' love for me and my love of cartoons both had their limits. Maybe twenty minutes into whatever the feature below was called then, we left and I think it was my idea. I know we weren't the only ones.
But that was then and this is probably now. There are plenty of things I didn't like then and do like now…and vice-versa. I have friends who think it's a great movie…and it does seem to have good animation, good gag writers, good voice people and songs by some of the best songwriters of the day. So when I get the time — which may not be until after Comic-Con — I'm going to give it another chance…