Mr. Bug Goes to Town (also known as Hoppity Goes to Town, Bugville, and Boob gets Bugged) is an animated feature produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941. The film was originally meant to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but the rights could not be attained, or more rightly, Paramount was unwilling to purchase them from Samuel Goldwyn. Instead they fashioned a modern story loosely based on the book.