!! Tropes:
* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the movie, Barry is upset to learn that bees' honey is being harvested in beekeeper colonies. In real life, there's actually a controversy over extracting honey from beehives due to a common beekeeper practice being to replace the honey with sugar syrup, as sugar syrup is not as nutritional as honey for bees.
* ActingForTwo: Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} voices the narrator, the voice over for the New Hive City college and [[RoleReprise Winnie the Pooh]].
* ActorSharedBackground: Like Seinfeld, Barry has an expansive collection of sneakers (Seinfeld is rumored to have over 500).
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Aside from Creator/JerrySeinfeld and Creator/ReneeZellweger, there's Creator/PatrickWarburton as Ken, Creator/MatthewBroderick as Adam Flayman, Creator/JohnGoodman as Layton T. Montgomery, Creator/ChrisRock as a mosquito and Creator/OprahWinfrey as the judge.
* CreatorBacklash: Several years after the film's release, Jerry Seinfeld admitted that the relationship between Barry and Vanessa was not appropriate and has apologized for the ambiguity of this aspect.
-->'''Jerry Seinfeld''': “I apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of ‘The Bee Movie,’ which really was not intentional. But after it came out, I realized, ‘This is really not appropriate for children.’ Because the bee seems to have a thing for the girl. We don’t really want to pursue that as an idea in children’s entertainment.”
* TheDanza:
** In the Japanese dub, Ken is voiced by Creator/KenjiNomura.
** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Dean Buzzwell, who is voiced by Creator/FranciscoColmenero, was renamed "Director Colmenero".[[note]]This is because "Colmenero" sounds like "colmena", which is the Spanish word for "beehive".[[/note]] Likewise, Bob Bumble who was renamed there as "Alejandro Cacho Zumbón", is voiced by Alejandro Cacho
* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds sold wind-up toys of Barry (in both his sweater and Pollen Jock uniform), Adam, Mooseblood, Pollen Jock Jackson, and Wally the Waterbug in their Happy Meals in the US. Europe featured plush toys instead.
* PropRecycling: The grizzly bear seen in a couple of scenes (most prominently when Barry has an animal control officer bring it into the courtroom so he can prove bears have a negative reputation among bees) reuses Vincent's CGI model from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', albeit with brown-colored fur.
* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/ReneeZellweger and Creator/MatthewBroderick did not reprise their roles as Vanessa and Adam for the tie-in game, being replaced with Creator/MelissaDisney and Creator/JasonHarrisKatz.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The [[TheGhost unseen queen bee of the hive]] was originally planned to appear as a character in the movie, shown in a series of storyboards in which she brings Barry to her quarters to chastise him for violating the "no contact with humans" law. Her design is drastically different from the rest of the bees, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQRBBGaUUAATxdG.png being far more curvaceous and human-like in appearance]] compared to the more cartoonish, insect-like proportions of her subjects, more than likely because it was modeled after her intended voice actress, Creator/MeganMullally (who instead voiced Trudy the tour guide).
** During a Reddit AMA in 2016, Jerry Seinfeld admitted that he had considered doing a sequel, but ultimately decided against it, feeling that a sequel would tarnish the appeal of the original and make it "less iconic."
!! Other trivias:
* For those keeping track, the word "bee" is said a total of 135 times in the movie.
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