Everything's Worse with Bees: Difference between revisions

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* An early example: In ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' the Wicked Witch of the West sends a swarm of deadly bees after Dorothy & Co., which they defeat by (no, really) disembowelling the Scarecrow and having all the "meat" characters hide under the straw, while the bees break their stings off on the Tin Woodman and die.

* [[Inverted Trope]] in Douglas Coupland's ''[[Generation A]]'', where bees have supposedly gone extinct and everything's worse ''without'' them.

* In an H.H. Munro (<small>AKA</small> [[Saki (author)|Saki]]) story called "The Story of St. Vespaluus", a boy is condemned to be stung to death by bees. It doesn't work out that way.

* Inverted in [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Chalice'', where the title character moonlights as a beekeeper. Her bees were apparently pretty strange before she gained magic powers; afterwards they approach [[All Animals Are Dogs|ridiculous levels of obedience and protectiveness]].

* ''[[Xanth]]'' has Bs, larger and more magical insects, and their ruler, Princess B-nign.

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' TOS episode "ZZZZZ". The queen of a hive of intelligent bees takes human form in order to mate with an entomologist.

* The "Killer Bees" on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.

* ''[[Sliders]]''. Two words: '''SPIDER-WASPS'''.

* The season two premiere of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' had a woman who claimed she was killed by a [[The Worm That Walks|man made of bees]], which caused Chuck to ruminate on the possibilities of teaching her bees to form a human shape.

* There was an episode of ''[[Smallville]]'' called "Drone", where a girl had the power to control bees, using them to attack people she didn't like.

* When you're deadly allergic to bees, [[Persons Unknown|Waking up in a cabin full]] of them is ''[[And That's Terrible|bad!]]''

* One of the first episodes of ''[[Lost]]'' had Charlie standing on a beehive and eventually breaking it ("It wouldn't be an irrational fear of bees if I could just pull myself together, would it?") causing people to run and [[Shirtless Scene|take off their shirts]] ("It was, um, it was full of bees." "I'd have thought [[Useful Notes on Bra Sizes|C's]], actually.").

* ''[[Conan O'Brien|He's protected from three inch bees, that's right! He's protected from three inch bees tonight!]]''

* Adam Savage of Mythbusters has a fear of bees. One myth tested involved hypnosis and its effects on fear responses, which, among other things, had Adam dipping his hand into a box of bees.

* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', genetically modified bees cause all kinds of problems.

* [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Bees?]]

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== Video Games ==

* The Pain from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'', who harnesses the power of bees to create guns and transport grenades... as well as just soaking you in bee pheremones and letting the little monsters go to work.

* The Pain from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', who harnesses the power of bees to create guns and transport grenades... as well as just soaking you in bee pheremones and letting the little monsters go to work.

** It was actually mostly hornets, but the bees did the special work.

** Summarized succinctly in [http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=289 this] ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' comic.

* One of [[~~Bioshock~~]] 's plasmids includes the ability to attack enemies with bees, also there's a part in the game where you have to be in contact with overgrown beehives.

* One of [[BioShock (series)]] 's plasmids includes the ability to attack enemies with bees, also there's a part in the game where you have to be in contact with overgrown beehives.

* In ''[[Mega Man X]] 3'', Blast Hornet, based on a hornet ([[Captain Obvious|duh]]), sends small homing robot bees to target you. The [[Charged Attack]] of his weapon lets X do it too.

** In ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 3'', a beehive ''sub-boss'' does this, throwing an oily substance to the walls and then at you for its bees to chase on it.

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** "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?"

** "Hey Willie! ''Catch the football!!!''" *Nelson lobs the bee's nest at Willie*

* [[Donald Duck]] was ocassionally [[A Worldwide Punomenon|bugged]] by generic bees in the [[Classic Disney Shorts]]. It got to the point where a new bee character, Spike, was created to co-star with Donald in 6 shorts. This trope is subverted in the last one of those, as Donald and Spike finish the picture as good friends.

** Curiously, the very last Donald cartoon with bees shows him as the rightful owner of a bee farm, and no he suffers no assault from them in the whole short.

*** Though Donald had to deal with [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Humphrey the Bear]], who wanted the honey and suffered the wrath of the bees AND Donald.

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* In an episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', a [[Mad Scientist|mad entomologist]] controls a swarm of bees via [[Stylistic Suck|(awfully performed)]] rock music.

* One entire episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', "The Sting", revolves around an attempt to get space honey from space bees, bees who are "as large as a Buick and twice as ugly."

* In the ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' episode "Hair(less) the Musical," Misery demonstrates how a picnic is worse with bees by jamming a honey stick into a beehive, causing the bees to swarm onto her face and sting her viciously. It's made creepier by the fact that she's mid-song when this is happening, and never breaks the tune.

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* Debate rages about whether or not the Vuvuzela which sounds like bees is making the 2010 World Cup worse, '''''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/06/100614_vuvuzela_nh_sl.shtml MAKE IT STOP ALREADY!].'''''

** So what happens when bees merge with vuvuzelas, and with some car alarm thrown in? '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4RUV7EqRE WHY DID YOU ASK?!?!].'''''

* [http://yarnpirate.blogspot.com/2007/04/true-story.html This tale], starring [[Tim Curry]].

* Deborah, the sole female [[Asskicking Equals Authority|Judge]] of Ancient Isreal, has a name that means "bee".

* Hymenoptera, the order of insects that includes bees, wasps, and ants, is responsible for more lethal attacks on humans than any other animal.

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** Most species of Australian native bees either have no sting or have a sting that is too small to sting humans with.

*** So the bees are the Least dangerous thing in Australia? Perhaps there it's everything is worse withOUT bees.

* Accidents where lorries shed their loads on the road are bad enough but during an accident in Idaho the load in question was 400 beehives resulting in a cloud of 14 ''million'' bees being released, which resulted in every member of the team that responded to the accident being stung, though none suffered any serious side effects. The authorities are also worried the honey may attract [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears too.]]

** Though bears do eat honey, it would be far more likely they would be attracted to the brood, as that is what bears are usually after when they attack a hive

* The New Orleans (originally Charlotte) Hornets basketball team.