The Incredible Shrinking Forest

"The Incredible Shrinking Forest" is the twelfth (or thirteenth aired) episode of the second season of Bambi, and the fifty-eighth (or sixtieth aired) episode overall. It first aired on March 17, 2001, on ABC as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.

Summary
The ants become tired of being stepped on by the residents of the Great Forest (including normal forest animals), so to teach them a lesson, they decide to use magic to shrink them all down to their size and make them learn to cope with them and work and live like them or else they will remain ant size forever. The forest animals learn an important lesson about the ant civilization as they work and live like ants, providing food for the queen ant and delivering babies to her, as well as defending themselves against any danger that may confront them.

Plot
The episode starts with the ants working in the anthill, doing whatever they usually do. Just then, however, their work is completely ruined when a forest animal (presumably a raccoon) steps on the anthill, destroying whatever work they had set out to do, making the ant habitants very cross and angry. This goes on for sometime, leaving ants to "disappear" from the ants' society, their work to constantly be destroyed, and their lives to often be interuptted by forest animals. Eventually, the ants become so fed up with the forest residents ruining their work and disrupting their society, that they decide to come up with a plan to teach them a lesson.

For this, they turn to the ant sorcerer, who is said to contain magic that can be used whenever necessary for better or for worst. Realizing that he has the power to shrink the entire forest, they come up with a good idea to shrink down the forest inhabitants (including normal forest animals) to their size in order to teach them a lesson about their race.

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Production
While working on this episode, the crew members would look at deleted ideas from the first film, as well as a previous episode, "Trotting Like an Ant" to get some inspiration.

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Reception
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