"Oh, my god! Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!"
— Helicopter pilot, The Swarm (1978)
"We've been fighting a losing battle against the insects for fifteen years, but I never thought I'd see the final face-off in my lifetime. And I never dreamed, that it would turn out to be the bees. They've always been our friend."
— Dr. Crane, The Swarm (1978)
"My father was a beekeeper, and his father was a beekeeper before him. And I'm going to follow in their footsteps, and their footsteps went like this: <Runs Around> Aaah! I'm covered in BEES!"
Bees are awesome. If you need something scary in your game, just add bees. Normal sized bees, giant bees, enormous bees — they're all good. Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Scary, right?
"Oh, no, not the bees! Not the bees! Aaaaargh! Oh they're in my eyes! My eyes! Aaaaaaugh! Aaaaaaugh *choke*"
— Nicolas Cage, The Wicker Man
"I like my women like I like my coffee — covered in BEES!"
Burns: I suggest you leave immediately.
Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead, do your worst!
Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead, do your worst!
— The Simpsons, "Burns' Heir"
Adrian: So, while we wait: for your enjoyment, I bring you a dear, sweet man. Mister Henry Winkler!
Henry Winkler: (appears) Good evening!
Adrian: COVERED IN BEES!
Henry Winkler: (appears) Good evening!
Adrian: COVERED IN BEES!
Dr. Bees: What's this? An overabundance of bees in the workplace? My briefcase full of BEES ought to put a stop to that!
Office Worker: AAH! The situation has only been made worse by the addition of yet more bees!
It was like dipping your hoof into a pool to test the temperature, only to find that the water had been replaced with bees. You immediately think ‘Oh dear Celestia—bees!’ but at the same time, you don’t dare yank your hoof back for fear of disturbing them. Then, they start crawling up your hoof, but they’re just being nice, so you give a little awkward laugh of pure terror as goosebumps run up your arm and you stare in morbid fascination, all the while thinking ‘bees bees bees’ as you slowly pull your hoof back and the bees slowly leave your hoof, dropping in clumps or flying off to who knows where, until you can finally clutch your hoof to your chest—bee free—and assure yourself that the experience is over.
...well, I never saw one. But it is true that one must keep a tiny monkey in one's hat to ward away the blood-wasps. Don't look at me like that. You'd not doubt me if you'd ever seen a blood-wasp. A stinger that will go through an oak door...
—The Travel-worn Antiquarian, Fallen London
Bees, Bees, spend most of their time inside hives
But when the breeze
Knocks the hives off the trees
Oh, we'd better run for our lives!
But when the breeze
Knocks the hives off the trees
Oh, we'd better run for our lives!
—They Might Be Giants, "Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees, and Hares"
Now I know what some of you are thinking right now: 'Pfft, I'm not afraid of a bee.' One bee, maybe. But when there's a group to a swarm of bees, everybody runs.
—ProJared, Top 10 Bees in Video Games
The bees had declared a war
The sky wasn't big enough for them all
The sky wasn't big enough for them all
— Of Monsters and Men, Dirty Paws
