People see a mosquito, smack, smack! BARRY At least you're out in the world. You must meet a lot of girls.
MOOSEBLOOD Mosquito girls try to trade up; get with a moth, dragonfly. .
. mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.
A BLOOD MOBILE pulls up alongside. MOOSEBLOOD (CONT'D) Whoa, you have got to be kidding me.
Mooseblood's about to leave the building. So long bee.
"Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 59. Mooseblood EXITS the horn, and jumps onto the blood mobile.
MOOSEBLOOD (CONT'D) Hey guys. I knew I'd catch you all down here.
Did you bring your crazy straws? CUT TO: SEQ. 1900 - "THE APIARY" EXT.
APIARY - LATER Barry sees a SIGN, "Honey Farms" The truck comes to a stop. SFX: The Honey farms truck blares its horn.
Barry flies out, lands on the hood. ANGLE ON: Two BEEKEEPERS, FREDDY and ELMO, walking around to the back of the gift shop.
Barry follows them, and lands in a nearby tree FREDDY . .
. then we throw it in some jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.
BARRY What is this place? ELMO Bees got a brain the size of a pinhead. FREDDY They are pinheads.
The both LAUGH. ANGLE ON: Barry REACTING.
They arrive at the back of the shop where one of them opens a SMOKER BOX. FREDDY (CONT'D) Hey, check out the new smoker.
"Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 60. ELMO Oh, Sweet.
That's the one you want. FREDDY The Thomas 3000.
BARRY Smoker? FREDDY 90 puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.
They LAUGH again, nefariously. FREDDY (CONT'D) Couple of breaths of this, and it knocks them right out.
They make the honey, and we make the money. BARRY "They make the honey, and we make the money?" Barry climbs onto the netting of Freddy's hat.
He climbs up to the brim and looks over the edge. He sees the apiary boxes as Freddy SMOKES them.
BARRY (CONT'D) Oh my. As Freddy turns around, Barry jumps into an open apiary box, and into an apartment.
HOWARD and FRAN are just coming to from the smoking. BARRY (CONT'D) What's going on? Are you okay? HOWARD Yeah, it doesn't last too long.
HE COUGHS a few times. BARRY How did you two get here? Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls? HOWARD (pointing to a picture on the wall) "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 61.
Our queen was moved here, we had no choice. BARRY (looking at a picture on the wall) This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes.
That's a dragqueen! The other wall opens. Barry sees the hundreds of apiary boxes.
BARRY (CONT'D) What is this? Barry pulls out his camera, and starts snapping. BARRY (CONT'D) Oh no.
There's hundreds of them. (V.
O, as Barry takes pictures) Bee honey, our honey, is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale. CUT TO: SEQ.
2100 - "BARRY TELLS FAMILY" INT. BARRY'S PARENT'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - LATER Barry has assembled his parents, Adam, and Uncle Carl.
BARRY This is worse than anything the bears have done to us. And I intend to do something about it.
JANET BENSON Oh Barry, stop. MARTIN BENSON Who told you that humans are taking our honey? That's just a rumor.
BARRY Do these look like rumors? Barry throws the PICTURES on the table. Uncle Carl, cleaning his glasses with his shirt tail, digs through a bowl of nuts with his finger.
"Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 62. HOWARD (CONT'D) UNCLE CARL That's a conspiracy theory.
These are obviously doctored photos. JANET BENSON Barry, how did you get mixed up in all this? ADAM (jumping up) Because he's been talking to humans! JANET BENSON Whaaat? MARTIN BENSON Talking to humans?! Oh Barry.
ADAM He has a human girlfriend and they make out! JANET BENSON Make out? Barry? BARRY We do not. ADAM You wish you could.
BARRY Who's side are you on? ADAM The bees! Uncle Carl stands up and pulls his pants up to his chest. UNCLE CARL I dated a cricket once in San Antonio.
Man, those crazy legs kept me up all night. Hotcheewah! JANET BENSON Barry, this is what you want to do with your life? BARRY This is what I want to do for all our lives.
Nobody works harder than bees. "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 63.
Dad, I remember you coming home some nights so overworked, your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop them.
MARTIN BENSON Ehhh. .
. JANET BENSON (to Martin) I remember that.
BARRY What right do they have to our hardearned honey? We're living on two cups a year. They're putting it in lip balm for no reason what-soever.
MARTIN BENSON Even if it's true, Barry, what could one bee do? BARRY I'm going to sting them where it really hurts. MARTIN BENSON In the face? BARRY No.
MARTIN BENSON In the eye? That would really hurt. BARRY No.
MARTIN BENSON Up the nose? That's a killer. BARRY No.
There's only one place you can sting the humans. One place where it really matters.
CUT TO: SEQ. 2300 - "HIVE AT 5 NEWS/BEE LARRY KING" "Bee Movie" - JS REVISIONS 8/13/07 64.
BARRY (CONT'D) INT. NEWS STUDIO - DAY DRAMATIC NEWS MUSIC plays as the opening news sequence rolls.
We see the "Hive at Five" logo, followed by shots of past news events: A BEE freeway chase, a BEE BEARD protest rally, and a BEAR pawing at the hive as the BEES flee in panic. BOB BUMBLE (V.
O. ) Hive at Five, the hive's only full hour action news source.
. .
SHOTS of NEWSCASTERS flash up on screen. BOB BUMBLE (V.
O. ) (CONT'D) With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.
. .
BOB has a big shock of anchorman hair, gray temples and overly white teeth. BOB BUMBLE (V.
O. ) (CONT'D) .
. .
weather with Storm Stinger, sports with Buzz Larvi, and Jeanette Chung. JEANETTE is an Asian bee.
BOB BUMBLE (CONT'D) Good evening, I'm Bob Bumble. JEANETTE CHUNG And I'm Jeanette Chung.