The Grasshopper and the Ants
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When a lazy grasshopper prefers to sing and dance rather than forage like his friends the ants, he learns to regret it when winter approaches. The ants save his life and in return he entertains them with his music.
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Aesop's fable, and the source of one of the studio's most durable songs — the grasshopper's carefree anthem was popular enough that Disney later handed the tune to Goofy and kept using it for years. The film softens Aesop considerably: the ants take the grasshopper in, which was a deliberate choice made during the Depression and says a good deal about what the studio thought audiences needed to hear in 1934.