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  • Accidentally-Correct Writing: 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.
  • Acting for Two: Jim Cummings voices the narrator, the voice over for the New Hive City college and Winnie the Pooh.
  • Actor-Shared Background: Like Seinfeld, Barry has an expansive collection of sneakers (Seinfeld is rumored to have over 500).
  • Celebrity Voice Actor: Aside from Jerry Seinfeld and Renée Zellweger, there's Patrick Warburton as Ken, Matthew Broderick as Adam Flayman, John Goodman as Layton T. Montgomery, Chris Rock as a mosquito and Oprah Winfrey as the judge.
  • Creator Backlash: 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.”
  • The Danza:
    • In the Japanese dub, Ken is voiced by Kenji Nomura.
    • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Dean Buzzwell, who is voiced by Francisco Colmenero, was renamed "Director Colmenero".note  Likewise, Bob Bumble who was renamed there as "Alejandro Cacho Zumbón", is voiced by Alejandro Cacho
  • Kids' Meal Toy: McDonald's 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.
  • Prop Recycling: 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 Over the Hedge, albeit with brown-colored fur.
  • The Other Darrin: Renée Zellweger and Matthew Broderick did not reprise their roles as Vanessa and Adam for the tie-in game, being replaced with Melissa Disney and Jason Harris Katz.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • The 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, 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, Megan Mullally (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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