Jiminy Cricket! More Cricket Facts!

(1) That “Jiminy Crickets!” was a phrase people used to use in the
days before Walt Disney turned it into a name? In SNOW WHITE AND THE
SEVEN DWARFS, the dwarfs exclaim in unison “Jiminy Crickets!” at one
point.

(2) That Walt Disney was right when he said audiences, especially
women, would be turned off by insects as characters, though many Silly
Symphonies were filled with them and Bucky Bug was a Disney comic
character. Not long after PINOCCHIO was released the Fleischers
released their second animated feature, MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN. It was
not a success and led to the studio's demise. When in the 1950s it was
rereleased to theatres it had its title changed to HOPPITY GOES TO
TOWN so as to not “bug” audiences. Sensibilities are different today I
suppose, with the success of A BUG'S LIFE and ANTZ.