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Ants in Your Plants of 1939

The hit movie that Sullivan would rather forget is "Ants in Your Plants of 1939," not "Ants in Your Pants..." (Someone keeps editing my correction to the article.) Anyone who believes otherwise should watch the office scene with Sullivan and the studio executives to verify this. Also refer to the Michael McKean commentary from the Criterion DVD in which he cites the difference between pants and plants; he praises Preston Sturges sense of humor. "Ants in Your Pants" would simply repeat a common phrase, while "Ants in Your Plants" is an example of Sturges' wordplay. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) later refers to "Ants in Your Plants of 1939" when tries to determine the Girl's (Veronica Lake) familiarity with movies that he directed.

Keep your pants/plants on! That was me. I watched it again and you were right. Clarityfiend 00:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Had to correct this again. Philip Cross (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Use in a Woody Allen movie

Sullivan's Travels was also used in a Woody Allen movie. It might be Hannan And Her Sisters, but I am not certain. Allen used was the 'watching the funny movie in the church' scene. 70.184.75.48 18:19, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The film Allen's character sees in Hannah and Her Sisters is Duck Soup. Online critics compare the ending of Hannah and the opening of Stardust Memories with Sullivan's Travels, but the opening of Stardust is more obviously a parody of the dream sequence which begins Fellini's 8½. Philip Cross (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Girl" versus "woman"

I considered altering the word in the article as it is misleading; the Veronica Lake character is probably meant to be in her early twenties. I decided not to, as the word more accurately reflects the innocence the character displays most of the time, but I inserted "The Girl" in the first reference to Lake to clarify the legitimacy of its use here. I know this is being pedantically PC. Philip Cross (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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