♪ (industrial music) ♪
- "Every time they say 'bee,' it gets faster."
I love this! I saw it on the first day!
- (announcer) For thousands of years,
humans have misunderstood them.
Now, one bee in a turtleneck sweater... - The Bee Movie?
- (announcer) ...is gonna change everything.
- Is this, like, the Bee Movie or something?
There's a lot of memes about the Bee Movie.
- The Bee Movie and that stuff is all over Twitter.
- I didn't like this movie, if we're being honest.
- (announcer, sped up) Barry B. Benson...
- (Barry, sped up) So you see soda spilled on a sidewalk
and you DON'T drink it?
- (announcer, sped up) ...is a little bee.
- (Vanessa, sped up) He's not bothering anybody.
Get outta here, you creep! - Okay, this is kind of funny.
I see why people do this.
- It's a weird movie. Like, a woman falls in love with a bee.
- (Vanessa, very sped up) What happened?
- (Barry, very sped up) I just tried to talk to these guys.
- (chuckling)
(Barry rambling rapidly)
- Oh my gosh, this noise. I hate this.
- By the end, it's just like... (high-pitched gibberish)
(chipmunk laughter) - (announcer) DreamWorks' Bee Movie.
- That was really confusing.
I understand what's happening,
but I don't understand why it's a thing.
- It's so confused.
- This is art. This is art.
- I've seen the Bee Movie,
and I've seen all the memes about the Bee Movie,
like "Bee Movie in one second."
- "Every time they say 'bee,' it gets more distorted."
- (Ken) Bee! (people screaming)
Stand back. These are winter boots.
- (Vanessa) Wait! - What?
- (Vanessa) Why does his life have any less value than yours?
- (announcer) Barry B. Benson...
- "Barry B. Benson."
Jerry Seinfeld, this is what happened to his career.
- (announcer) ...is a little bee.
- (Vanessa) He's not bothering anybody! - Oh shit, okay.
- What is going on?
(incomprehensible audio)
- Oh, the actual frame is getting distorted.
- I feel like this is gonna get disturbing really fast.
- It's kinda uncomfortable to watch.
- (man) Bee! - (announcer, distorted) Jerry Seinfeld.
Renée Zellweger.
- When that motion sickness kicks in.
- Looks like Picasso.
- (announcer, very distorted) DreamWorks' Bee Movie.
- Wow. Did I just take acid?
- They're just making it worse and worse
every time they say the word "bee"?
Why do people do that?
- That one's almost, like, creepy.
- I don't want this to become a meme.
We should stop it right now.
- "The entire movie,
but every time they say 'bee,' it gets faster."
- Oh yeah, I've seen this one.
- (narrator) According to all known laws of aviation,
there is no way that a bee (gets faster) should be able to fly.
- He said "bee."
- And there it goes. We're off to the races.
- (Janet, sped up) Barry, why don't you use the stairs?
Your father paid good money for those.
- (Barry) Sorry. I'm excited.
- (Martin) There's the graduate. We're very proud of you, Son.
And a perfect report card, all B's.
- It's gonna start going so fast.
- (Barry) Today we are men.
- (Adam) We are. - (Barry) Bee-men.
- (Adam) Amen! - (both) Hallelujah!
(high-pitched whooping) - (bee) Students,
faculty, distinguished bees... - (snickers)
This sounds like something from South Park.
- (Trudy, very fast) At Honex, we also constantly strive
to improve every aspect of bee existence.
These bees... - Somebody took the time to do this?
♪ (sped-up music) ♪
- Is this literally going through the entire movie?
- I can't even understand what they're saying now.
(rapid dialogue, incomprehensible) (mimicks)
(rapid dialogue, music, and sound effects)
- You can't hear-- you can't understand anymore.
(high-pitched dialogue)
- Wow, they must be saying "bee" a lot.
- I have no idea what's going on now.
- It's hitting a frequency that's gonna make my head explode.
- Oh my god.
- Now it just sounds like they're rewinding a VCR.
- What the [bleep]?
(audio stops) Oh my god, look.
We're going faster than the speed of sound.
- Wow. I just watched a whole movie.
- Who decided to bring this movie of all movies back up?
Like, you could've done any other movie,
and you brought back Bee Movie?
- What was that, man?
Like, what are you guys doing with your life, bro?
Like, read a book.
- "Every time they say 'bee,' it duplicates."
- (announcer) One bee (echoing) in a turtleneck sweater...
- Oh no, the voice.
- (Ken) Bee! (people screaming)
Stand back. - Oh my.
- (sulkily) Oh my gosh. Turn it off.
- (announcer, distorted) Barry B. Benson.
(heavily distorted dialogue)
- Oh, [bleep], man.
(heavily distorted dialogue)
- This is just a very strange experience.
(grating audio)
- I'm sorry for anybody wearing headphones.
(grating audio) - This is scary!
- No! Oh my gosh, who has time to do these things?
- Oh my gosh, it's like playing with my eyes.
- What's the point? You can't even see anything anymore.
(blaring cacophony, screeching)
(silence)
- I didn't enjoy that one.
- It sounded like a dying animal.
- It was... beautiful.
B-E-E-A-utiful. Beatiful.
♪ (industrial music) ♪
- (FBE) Okay. So these were all reedited versions
of the 2007 animated film Bee Movie. - Unfortunately.
- Yes, it was. And they were all amazing.
- (FBE) Recently, people have started uploading videos of them
editing the movie and the trailer in various ways,
like the videos we showed you. - Yeah.
- (FBE) Why? - I have no idea.
- The question now is, why not?
- I don't know. Shock value, probably.
- The internet is just a giant why.
- It doesn't make any sense.
I haven't thought about that movie since, like, 2007.
I thought it was the end,
but I guess it's getting a new life now.
- People are so creative.
They find something, and they turn it into something funny
or something weird, something that I would never think of.
- For every good aspect of the internet,
there's a very, very bad aspect of it. And this is what that is.
- (FBE) So some people say this trend may have started on Tumblr,
mocking the ridiculousness of different plot points in the film,
which includes the love story between a bee and a human.
- I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
Nowadays, I feel like that would happen.
- How do you ever recover? "Yo, my girl left me for a bee."
- (FBE) Some have even coined the phrase "bee-stiality."
- (laughs) I knew it! Oh, there's so many great bee puns!
- I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
The fact someone even coined that term and they're using it,
that's not okay.
- (FBE) Many times, users would even post the entire script
just to spam the site.
- I believe that. It's Tumblr, you know? That's what they do.
- What the-- I'd be so [bleep] pissed!
- (FBE) So this seems to have more from Tumblr into these videos
of people usually doing something to the footage
every time the word "bee" is said. - Oh yeah, they were.
- (FBE) So some of these videos in less than a week
were amassing tens of millions of views. - (laughing)
Oh, that's hilarious.
- (FBE) So why do you think this meme has become so popular?
- My mind is, like, hurting trying to make sense of this.
- If I could give you an answer, I would be making one right now.
- There's just so many random things
that you can do with the word "bee."
Anytime it says "bee," the movie gets lighter.
And then all of a sudden, the movie's just gonna be white.
- That's what they like. That's what we like.
Give me something weird that I don't understand,
that will just make me think, "Who the heck has time for this?"
- (FBE) Well, flat out, do you think this meme is something
people are doing because it's genuinely funny or entertaining?
Or do you think part of the success of the joke
is that you share it with people
and act like it's hilarious and awesome on purpose,
because it's so odd for this to be a thing
that it's more of a troll meme?
- That's such a philosophical question.
I feel like I should be holding that skull, "To be or not to be."
- I think it's 'cause people are trying to outweird each other.
People on the internet want to top each other
and just make something even funnier.
- It's more of a troll meme.
The joke could be like, "Oh my god, this is hilarious."
And then you show it to the person.
And they're just like, "What did I just watch?"
- It's more of a troll meme, because I've never met anyone
who said, "Oh, I like Bee Movie. It was a great one."
- It's the nicest troll thing
I think the internet's had in a while.
Like, I don't think Jerry Seinfeld's out there, he's like,
"Son of a bitch, you ruined the best movie I've ever been in."
- (FBE) Some would actually classify this as a remix meme,
which is a meme genre that's been around for years.
Do you think the remix element
adds to why people want to participate
versus other types of memes? - Yeah, definitely.
Because there's so many ways that people can remix it.
- It has guidelines, but it's very open,
and you can sort of do whatever you want with it.
- There's always gonna be something different,
and it just adds somebody else's personal flavor to it,
and I think that's creative in its own.
But sometimes not all creativity is good creativity.
- It's something that everyone can do,
as long as you have the $3 version of the Bee Movie.
That's how trends become trends,
when it's accessible to everyone and it's fairly easy to do.
- (FBE) So finally, we have something for you.
- Oh shit. Do you have a live bee?
(papers plop)
- Oh god. (laughs)
- Stop. Is this the whole script to the movie?
Am I supposed to troll people with this?
- Honestly, I didn't really like the movie that much.
I would give it, like, a B.
- Do we have a flamethrower or something?
I want this out of my face.
- I'll just put it right here and just leave it there.
- I'm gonna read the entire thing.
We can get through the entire thing.
Come on, we can do it together.
"According to all known laws of aviation,
there's no way that a bee should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small
to get its fat little body off the ground."
- (dramatically) "Yellow, black.
Oh! Black and yellow."
"Angle on Barry, wearing the sweater he picked,
looking in the mirror."
"Yeah, let's shake it up a little."
- Barry the Bee, this is Seinfeld.
(as Seinfeld) "Quiet, please! Actually, work is going on here!"
"Is that the same bee?" "Yes, it is."
Uh... "I'm helping him sue the human race."
"Oh, oh, oh, bye, bye!" (pages rustle)
- (FBE, cracking up) That's plenty, I think. (laughing)
- (cracking up) I'll do the whole script.
"What's up with that?!" (chuckles)
"Airline food! What's up with that?"
- Thanks for watching this episode of College Kids React.
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- Let us know in the comments what memes
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- All right, I'll see you later, guys.
That's enough bee puns for one day.
They're starting to sting.
(imitates rimshot)
- Hey, guys. It's Dallen here from FBE.
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