Jerry Seinfeld apologizes for 'uncomfortable sexual aspect' of 'Bee Movie'
Jerry Seinfeld has finally owned up for the 'uncomfortable sexual aspect' of 'Bee Movie,' having 'realized this is really not appropriate for children.'
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Jerry Seinfeld apologizes for 'uncomfortable sexual aspect' of Bee Movie
"After it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children," the comedian quipped on The Tonight Show.
By Tyler Aquilina
October 02, 2021 at 04:52 PM EDT
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You may have heard some of the buzz around Bee Movie over the last few years, as the internet collectively realized how strange a kids' movie about a sort-of romantic relationship between a bee and a human woman really was. Now, the film's co-writer and star Jerry Seinfeld is finally owning up to the bizarre nature of the 2007 DreamWorks flick.
Appearing on The Tonight Show on Friday (to promote the long-awaited debut of Seinfeld on Netflix), the comedian offered up a mea culpa for the animated film. "I apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of the Bee Movie," Seinfeld said. "[It] really was not intentional, but after it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children. Because the bee seemed to have a thing for the girl, and we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment."
In case you're unfamiliar (and we envy you if you are), Bee Movie stars Seinfeld as a bee named Barry B. Benson who befriends and briefly seems to harbor romantic feelings for a human florist named Vanessa Bloome (voiced by Renée Zellweger). That's partially what it's about, anyway; the film eventually becomes a legal thriller (seriously) as Barry sues the human race for exploiting bees for their honey, and then kind of a straight-up thriller in the last act as Barry and Vanessa have to safely land a plane full of flowers. Yeah, the movie's a little strange.
'Bee Movie'
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That strangeness, however, has fueled a second life for Bee Movie as a series of internet memes, including the popular YouTube video "The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster." As Inverse's Gabe Bergado aptly summed it up in 2017, "This was a reaction not just to the movie itself but to the realization among millennials that they'd been shown a truly odd movie as children and thought nothing of it. The Bee Movie memes are all, on some level, expressions of disbelief."
Bee Movie is currently available to stream on Netflix (where, by the way, some show called Seinfeld is also streaming) if you'd like to see and disbelieve it yourself.
"After it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children," the comedian quipped on The Tonight Show.
By Tyler Aquilina
October 02, 2021 at 04:52 PM EDT
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You may have heard some of the buzz around Bee Movie over the last few years, as the internet collectively realized how strange a kids' movie about a sort-of romantic relationship between a bee and a human woman really was. Now, the film's co-writer and star Jerry Seinfeld is finally owning up to the bizarre nature of the 2007 DreamWorks flick.
Appearing on The Tonight Show on Friday (to promote the long-awaited debut of Seinfeld on Netflix), the comedian offered up a mea culpa for the animated film. "I apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of the Bee Movie," Seinfeld said. "[It] really was not intentional, but after it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children. Because the bee seemed to have a thing for the girl, and we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment."
In case you're unfamiliar (and we envy you if you are), Bee Movie stars Seinfeld as a bee named Barry B. Benson who befriends and briefly seems to harbor romantic feelings for a human florist named Vanessa Bloome (voiced by Renée Zellweger). That's partially what it's about, anyway; the film eventually becomes a legal thriller (seriously) as Barry sues the human race for exploiting bees for their honey, and then kind of a straight-up thriller in the last act as Barry and Vanessa have to safely land a plane full of flowers. Yeah, the movie's a little strange.
'Bee Movie'
| CREDIT: DREAMWORKS ANIMATION L.L.C.
That strangeness, however, has fueled a second life for Bee Movie as a series of internet memes, including the popular YouTube video "The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster." As Inverse's Gabe Bergado aptly summed it up in 2017, "This was a reaction not just to the movie itself but to the realization among millennials that they'd been shown a truly odd movie as children and thought nothing of it. The Bee Movie memes are all, on some level, expressions of disbelief."
Bee Movie is currently available to stream on Netflix (where, by the way, some show called Seinfeld is also streaming) if you'd like to see and disbelieve it yourself.
I think we are starting to have a tendency to overanalyze things from our past too much...everything is "cringey" nowadays when you go back and look at it...i can't remember where i read it but someone said that EVERYTHING is not related to trauma...i say the same thing here..sometimes a movie is just A MOVIE...
I think we are starting to have a tendency to overanalyze things from our past too much...everything is "cringey" nowadays when you go back and look at it...i can't remember where i read it but someone said that EVERYTHING is not related to trauma...i say the same thing here..sometimes a movie is just A MOVIE...
^^^^
The LGBee... (Badum TSHHHH!)
smh we live in a punkish state we cant even fart outside or the n.o.f.a.r.t. community will get ya.smh
Funny guy but if you get off on masturbating in front of people you're not intimate with, then you deserve to be ruined.
I'm glad folks are apologizing if THEY are uncomfortable with something they created. As Seth Rogan said, comedy (and I'd argue se art) isn't meant to age well. You cringe at it, apologize IF necessary, and keep it pushing. I'm having so much fun roasting 80s and 90s videos as my new side series. It's not a call for folks to be canceled. It's just for us to laugh at ourselves, see how we may have evolved, and be less judgmental of folks who are creating today.
Lol my daughter loved that dam movie
I remember that movie.
Dont remember anything sexual about it at all, maybe there was a romantic aspect to it in a comedic way but thats it. Its a movie about a talking bee for goodness sakes.
By the way my youngest son was in kindergarden last year and had 4 "girlfriends" throughout the year.
Kids get crushes at a young age. Lets not be weird about it.
Dont remember anything sexual about it at all, maybe there was a romantic aspect to it in a comedic way but thats it. Its a movie about a talking bee for goodness sakes.
By the way my youngest son was in kindergarden last year and had 4 "girlfriends" throughout the year.
Kids get crushes at a young age. Lets not be weird about it.
I saw the movie when it came on HBO with my kids.
I didn’t notice any sexual shit between the characters.
What I and others will agree on is how Pixar and Dreamworks draw their primary female characters.
They always have extreme, cartoonish hour glass shapes with a good size set of boobs and booty.
I know I ain’t the only pervert who notices.
HaHa!!!
I didn’t notice any sexual shit between the characters.
What I and others will agree on is how Pixar and Dreamworks draw their primary female characters.
They always have extreme, cartoonish hour glass shapes with a good size set of boobs and booty.
I know I ain’t the only pervert who notices.
HaHa!!!
Agreed 100%. This shit is ridiculous. I saw parts of that movie and from what I saw there was nothing he needed to apologize for.I think we are starting to have a tendency to overanalyze things from our past too much...everything is "cringey" nowadays when you go back and look at it...i can't remember where i read it but someone said that EVERYTHING is not related to trauma...i say the same thing here..sometimes a movie is just A MOVIE...
Agreed 100%. This shit is ridiculous. I saw parts of that movie and from what I saw there was nothing he needed to apologize for.
To me?
This is either a preemptive strike against potential backlash in the near future Jerry suspected or was warned was coming
Or
That man honestly feels bad.
Which means all these suspect moments that these guys claim are "accidents " in movies TV shows etc?
Or not accidents
They deliberately putting this weird stuff in front of kids.
We got a group who are quick to use kids as an excuse to attack folk they don't like, now we finding out it's a damn near EVERY ONE spreading weird stuff.
What they gone do about the Popeye cartoon? All those years Brutus rapist ass was trying to abduct Olive Oil's scrawny ass and force himself on her the for a full 30 minutes every day.
Nowadays they just make these cartoon movies alot more subtle...but with the same aspects in mind.
Nowadays they just make these cartoon movies alot more subtle...but with the same aspects in mind.
How about PePe LePew from Looney Tunes chasing the cat, thinking it’s a skunk.
HaHa!!!
I didn't see anything wrong this society is becoming so sensitive it urks the shit outta me.
As a Liberal, I have to say don't hang this all on us. This kind of Bullshit started on the Right Forever Ago. The original cancel culture was and always has been conservatives. They are the ones that gave us the 7 things you couldn't say on the Radio. They are the ones who orchestrated letter-writing campaigns to sponsors of TV shows like "Soap" & "Married With Children" to get them off the air. They gave us McCarthyism in the '50s and cheered when Muhammad Ali was "Canceled" from Boxing for three years in the '60s. These assholes have tried to cancel video games, music, Free thought, Pre-marital sex, Sex Education, Sex, Art, and pretty much anything anybody has ever fucking enjoyed. These young folks today have learned from the worst and have turned those strategies on their ear so to speak. Now this all can end if the rest of us who don't give a shit about these silly crusades stop listening to the loud minority that's on social media. Much in the same way the GOP has to stop listening to its lunatic fringe.
And that is fine. I don't think he got canceled out of concern for his victims as much as to be used to convey a larger message about power and control. That's what I posted about, not specifically Louis, he was just an example most of us would recognize.
They don't put those reruns with him on tv anymoreHow about PePe LePew from Looney Tunes chasing the cat, thinking it’s a skunk.
HaHa!!!
They don't put those reruns with him on tv anymore
Just like they don't play some of those Mammy episodes and blackface references of Tom & Jerry.
My boy got MeToo-edHow about PePe LePew from Looney Tunes chasing the cat, thinking it’s a skunk.
HaHa!!!
The biggest problem with most white liberals is that they think the rest of the world is as fragile as they are.
What happens is that, for instance, a homosexual overhears a conversation where somebody uses the word "gay" to describe something as weak or inferior. It bothers him so he goes on social media to vent. A few of his buddies go on there to vent similar frustrations and inevitably the conversation becomes angry. Straight liberals see this conversation and confuse it with militance. Now when they overhear someone use the word 'gay' in that matter they get condemned and canceled as part of the "cause".
Problem is that there never was a cause. I mean, it's a shitty thing to say that pisses people off, but so do slow drivers on the freeway. If gay people were anywhere near as hurt by this behavior as straight liberals think they are they would have slit their wrists at 12 years old.
As for this Bee movie, I hate it when actors and directors apologize for films they did 10 or 20 plus years ago. If these films truly are harmful than all the apology does is open up old wounds. If they're not harmful then it's nothing more than virtue signaling
Power. That's what it's about. Just fucking power and bullying. That's why people should never, ever, ever fucking apologize if it's a bully scenario. Keep it moving until they get outraged over something else. People apologize and still it isn't enough, so why play the game? Notice politicians ain't doing it.
And C.K. asked first. In one case, they laughed at him then were traumatized. Typical cac women(grown children) shit. Black women telling that cac to kick rocks and then on the phone like
"and then the goofy ass cac asked if he could rub one out!!!" Well, unless they are Lupita. She going to the room with him.
Dude didn't need to apologize but when I watched the movie it was odd as fuck knowing that all WORKER bees are female, yet he liked a girl.
FixedI think we are starting to have a tendency to overanalyze things from our past too much...everything is "cringey" nowadays when you go back and look at it...i can't remember where i read it but someone said that EVERYTHING is not related to trauma...i say the same thing here..sometimes a movie is just B MOVIE...
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