Much of the plot for the episode (including a family being accidentally shrunk, befriending a now-relatively-giant-sized-ant, navigating numerous deadly obstacles from normally banal objects, and having to alert a wacky inventor that they had been shrunk) closely mirrors Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). Both this episode (as well as the whole series) and the aforementioned film were produced by Disney. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) was in the very early production stages when this episode aired.