A Bug's Life Trivia

Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation and other trivia from A Bug's Life.

Cameos

 * The Pizza Planet truck appears next to the mobile home when the bug flies into the bug light.
 * A drink cup from Pizza Planet can be seen on top of the restaurant can in Bug City.
 * One of the boxes in Bug City is marked Darla. This is most likely a reference to Darla K. Anderson, a Pixar employee.
 * In one blooper that plays during the end credits, Flik yells Buzz Lightyear's line "To infinity and beyond!" as he is about to take flight.
 * In one of the additional bloopers, Woody from Toy Story enters the frame as a crewman, holding a clapper-board upside down, to mark the end of a scene gone wrong.

Other trivia

 * The circus train is made of boxes of animal crackers called Casey Jr. This is also the name of the circus train in Disney's 1941 animated film Dumbo.
 * A poster for Disney's The Lion King: On Broadway can be seen amongst the posters in Bug City at the 0:26:49 mark in the film.
 * The ant's tree is used again in two other Pixar movies; in Toy Story 2, it is the tree in Jessie's flashback and in Up, it is the tree Carl Fredricksen and Ellie go to.
 * A Bug's Life used almost 10 times the computing power that Toy Story required. On average it took 3 hours to render each frame of the film. Compare this to the average of 17 hours it took for each frame of Cars. This may seem counter-intuitive given the large increase in computer processing power between the two movies. But it demonstrates how much more detail is going into the film. In addition, computers are being used to do things that the animators used to do by hand such as ray tracing (for reflections).
 * It is the first Pixar film to not feature any human cast. The second film to not feature any human cast is Cars.
 * It is also the first Pixar film to have the words "the end" appear at the very final scene just before the credits (The second film is Finding Nemo).
 * It is also only movie so far that has the same actors from another movie. For example, Bonnie Hunt, Richard Kind, Edie McClurg, Joe Ranft,and John Ratzenberger have all been in a film (Cars).