The Best Episodes of Minuscule
#1 - the wing case 9.25
Season 2 - Episode 1
Saved by the providential fall of a tiny egg, a mother ladybug adopts it. When it hatches, she realises it contains a little caterpillar.
Directors: Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo
#2 - Chewing Gum 8.80
Season 1 - Episode 51
A nosy fly glues herself on a piece of chewing gum on the asphalt. How will she manage to get rid of her sticky and cumbersome load?
#3 - No Exit 8.56
Season 1 - Episode 25
A bee enters a large house through an open door. Suddenly the humans leave the house and lock the bee inside. She’ll do anything to recover her freedom…
#4 - Bless You 8.50
Season 1 - Episode 64
It’s cold and damp outside. A spider has a raging cold and won’t stop sneezing, which is a real impediment when it comes to hunting. She chases a fly tirelessly but the repetitive sneezing makes any attempt vain…
#5 - Dung Beetle Blues 8.50
Season 1 - Episode 52
Our dung beetle has no sense of geometry and is unable to turn his piece of dung into a round-shaped ball. The vexed little insect will instead choose anything that looks more or less like a sphere: a ping-pong ball, a golf ball…
#6 - A Gust of Wind 8.40
Season 1 - Episode 18
The wind is picking up on the plain and the insects have a hard time dealing with all the elements unleashing around them. A small fly and a spider are trying to resist being shaken about and joggled roughly… when the wind suddenly stops.
#7 - The Ladybug 8.38
Season 1 - Episode 17
A ladybug curtly insults a swarm of bees hanging out on a trash can. The bees start chasing the cheeky insect right away. A chase ensues above the asphalt roads while a spider who happens to be in the way gets herself in trouble…
#8 - Cicada Do Brazil 8.33
Season 1 - Episode 59
Unlike her fellow creatures one little cicada has Brazilian strains to her music whenever she “sings”. The scene takes place in Provence and the cultural clash is hard to deal with. However the cicadas will find the perfect chord to strike a universal language…
#9 - Sleeping In 8.23
Season 1 - Episode 6
A new day is dawning and the bees inside the beehive wake up and get out to start gathering nectar on their work day. One of the bees sleeps in. Once she makes it outside she cannot find any place to gather nectar as all the flowers are occupied. Our bee suddenly has a strike of genius…
#10 - Love Story 8.21
Season 1 - Episode 2
Much to her surprise a ladybug notices that all the insects around her get in pairs and start kissing. The ladybug eventually realizes it is the mating season. Why couldn’t she find her soul mate after all…
#11 - Ants 8.09
Season 1 - Episode 1
Ants steal a box of lump sugar from a garden table. Later on, after escaping the wheels of many cars while crossing the road the ants try to fit the box in their anthill. No luck, the box is too large…
#12 - The Apple of Concord 8.00
Season 1 - Episode 42
Two caterpillars live in two separate apples on an apple tree. All of a sudden human beings turn up and start picking the fruits, taking with them one of the two caterpillars in their baskets. This is the story of a beautiful friendship: the remaining caterpillar starts out to find his friend again…
#13 - homeless 8.00
Season 2 - Episode 39
A caterpillar finds refuge inside a pumpkin. The other farmhouse insects are not too pleased with the new tenant until the farmer takes away all the apples and potatoes, leaving them homeless.
Directors: Hélène Giraud & Thomas Szabo
#14 - Zzzeplin 8.00
Season 1 - Episode 7
A spider is lying in wait on her web when a balloon gets caught in the branches next to her. The spider is determined to get rid of the cumbersome object and climbs on the balloon when it suddenly comes unhooked and takes off in the air…
#15 - Hyperactive 8.00
Season 1 - Episode 61
A hyperactive baby ladybug eludes her parents’ attention and gets herself into a lot of trouble when she starts provoking a group of bees who immediately chase her. Our baby ladybug is finally out of the woods and goes back to her parents who failed noticing she was missing…
#16 - Catapult 7.85
Season 1 - Episode 12
A grasshopper is hiding in the tall green grass, having a blast using her powerful thighs to jump all over the place and bump into other dumbfounded insects. This little game goes on with complete impunity until the wheel starts to turn…
#17 - Caterpillar Dream 7.82
Season 1 - Episode 9
A caterpillar watches various flying insects from her observation spot on a shrub. She would like to fly too. Well, that’s when day-dreaming comes in handy…
#18 - A Snail's Dream 7.81
Season 1 - Episode 5
A snail is crossing an undergrowth at a snail’s pace. All of a sudden he steps on it and goes faster and faster. He flies past at full speed leaving a cloud of dust in his trail. Could he be dreaming this
#19 - Shell Less 7.80
Season 1 - Episode 19
A caterpillar finds herself by accident in the middle of litter of newly born snails. The baby snails grow and grow and the caterpillar tries really hard to fit in yet there remains an issue: unlike her brothers and sisters she does not have a shell…
#20 - The Right Seed 7.71
Season 1 - Episode 26
A ladybug is looking for a seed, finds it and plants it. A little fruit tree grows and our ladybug carefully chooses a fruit he gives as a present to a female ladybug…
#21 - Caterpillars in Pairs 7.69
Season 1 - Episode 31
Two caterpillars (a big yellow one and a small green one) are looking for a love nest. We later get a glimpse of the fruit of their union: a big yellow egg and a small yellow egg rapidly produce two caterpillars of the same bulk and colour. When the time comes to turn into butterflies, it’s no small surprise…
#22 - Convoy 7.50
Season 1 - Episode 30
A bee wakes up everyone in the hive in the middle of nap break and demands that they follow her. The bees form a compact convoy and follow her to a garden table with an open jar of honey in its middle…
#23 - The Good Education 7.50
Season 1 - Episode 72
A mother ladybug teaches her babies the things of the world.
#24 - Wasp Belle 7.50
Season 1 - Episode 3
A wasp squadron crosses the sky performing innumerable and spectacular aerobatics. One of the wasps is intoxicated by the exciting exercise and starts leaving the formation to climb vertically all the way to the stratosphere. The harder the fall…
#25 - The Winter of Our Discontent 7.43
Season 1 - Episode 20
A fly is overcome by the cold winter weather and finds shelter inside a house; she rushes to the radiator to get warmer. Tough luck, as the radiator is already occupied by a starving spider who is thrilled to see ready food on the way…