
Never Bug an Ant
1969

Representation Score
Minimal
1969
GDirector
Gerry Chiniquy
Runtime
6 minutes
Average Rating
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I've Got Ants in My Plans is a mid-century slapstick short that prioritizes physical comedy over social substance. The plot revolves around a competitive struggle between two aardvarks over food consumption, using classic animation clichés like jet-powered stilts and rubber cement. The film operates within a narrow narrative framework, lacking the intentionality needed to address multi-layered themes or represent underrepresented identities. Because the characters are identical animal species engaged in a closed-loop conflict, the work offers no meaningful engagement with human diversity, culture, or social structures.
Category Breakdown
The story focuses solely on a competition between two aardvarks and does not include any queer-coded subtext or non-cisgender identities.
The conflict centers on digestive issues among animal characters and follows traditional animal stereotypes without challenging gender roles or social hierarchies.
The film uses anthropomorphized animals in a competitive setting and does not depict any racial complexity or ethnic diversity.
The story follows mid-century family genre conventions using physical slapstick humor. It avoids exploring systemic oppression, secularism, or complex cultural critiques.
Physical setbacks such as tripping ropes are used strictly as comedic devices. There is no nuanced portrayal of neurodivergence or physical disabilities.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
The Aardvark finds further opposition, in the form of another hungry aardvark, to his aim of ant intake - and so ensues a battle of aardvarks for digestive possession of Charlie, with use of spread-on-ground thumb tacks and rubber cement, plus jet-powered stilts and a tripping rope.

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