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{{Infobox Character
|name = Jigglypuff
|image = [[File:Jigglypuff SSB4.png|250px|Jigglypuff]]
|game = SSB4
|ssbgame1 = SSB
|ssbgame2 = SSBM
|ssbgame3 = SSBB
|availability = [[Unlockable character|Unlockable]] (3DS)<br />[[Starter character|Starter]] (Wii U)
|tier = G
|ranking = 55
}}
'''Jigglypuff''' ({{Ja|プリン|Purin}}, ''Purin'') is a playable character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''. After initially being seen several times during the [[Nintendo Direct#Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: 50-Fact Extravaganza|''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'' 50-Fact Extravaganza]] on October 23rd, 2014,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0BBGzfw0pQ Wii U - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 50-Fact Extravaganza]</ref> it was formally added to the official website on November 5th, 2014. Jigglypuff is once again voiced by Rachael Lillis in English and Mika Kanai in Japanese, albeit via recycled voice clips. As in previous games, it also has different voice actresses in French and German.


Jigglypuff is currently ranked 55th out of 55 on the [[tier list]], placing it at the bottom of the G tier and the entire tier list itself. This is a slight drop from its already near-bottom ranking in ''Brawl''. Jigglypuff retains its strong air game due to its high aerial mobility thanks to its very fast [[air speed]] and multiple [[midair jump]]s, as well as good [[juggling]] ability thanks to its fast and long-lasting aerial attacks. All of these attributes facilitate a strong [[edgeguarding]] potential, and allow it to perform its signature [[Wall of Pain]] technique, although not with quite the same potency, while its neutral and back aerials are potent KOing options, include a now-buffed [[Rest]].  
 
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.


However, Jigglypuff is strongly held back by its poor ground game, due to its poor mobility on the ground and short [[range]] on most of its attacks, including its grab. Furthermore, Jigglypuff has significant difficulty in KOing opponents, as it has few reliable KO moves, and a majority of them feature considerable amounts of lag that cause them to be unsafe in most scenarios. Its endurance is unarguably the worst in the game, as it is extremely floaty and possesses the lowest [[weight]] in the game, further exacerbated by the new [[rage]] mechanic and weaker [[shield]]s.  
 
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.


Jigglypuff is considered non-viable for tournament play, though a number of players have made some impacts at tournaments, with {{Sm|LeeT}} notably placing 33rd at [[Shine 2016]] and 49th at [[CEO 2017]] while exclusively using Jigglypuff. Despite this, Jigglypuff continues to have only a small playerbase, and it has notably failed to receive any [[buff]]s from [[update]]s in the game.
 
The bee, of course, flies anyway


==How to unlock==
 
* Play 120 VS Matches.
because bees don't care
* Collect 30 different pieces of [[equipment]].
what humans think is impossible.
After completing one of the two methods, Jigglypuff must then be defeated on [[Unova Pokémon League]].


Jigglypuff does not have to be unlocked in {{forwiiu}}.
 
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.


==Attributes==
 
Jigglypuff is a character of extremes, as evident with its attributes: it has the second highest [[traction]], the second fastest [[air speed]], the highest [[air acceleration]], the lowest [[falling speed]], and the lowest [[gravity]]. These attributes make Jigglypuff a very mobile character in the air and give it easily controllable ground movement. However, it has the slowest [[walking]] speed and the second slowest [[dash]]ing speed, the lightest [[weight]] and the lowest [[jump]] force, as well as a fairly slow jumpsquat. As such, these attributes make Jigglypuff unable to quickly traverse the stage on foot and susceptible to early KOs. To make up for its low jumping force, however, it has five [[midair jump]]s, which further enhance its aerial evasiveness. Its very low gravity also results in it taking slightly below average [[hitstun]].
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.


Jigglypuff's main strength is its formidable air game. Excluding back aerial, all of its aerial attacks have lingering hitboxes and, in the case of down aerial, multiple hits. Their duration is the primary reason Jigglypuff is deceptively difficult to challenge in the air, as opponents will most likely collide within an attack's final frames. All of its aerials, aside from up aerial, also have enough range to be [[spacing|spaced]] correctly thanks to Jigglypuff's aerial mobility, allowing it to zone and [[approach]] opponents safely in the air. Each of Jigglypuff's aerials also have their own distinct strengths. Neutral aerial is its fastest aerial and one of the strongest [[sex kick]]s in the game, even when stale, and can easily [[gimp]] poor recoveries due to its late hitbox being sufficiently strong enough to do so. Due to its speed and power, it also works as a good [[out of shield]] or approach option, and its long duration allows it to break combos. Forward aerial has the second weakest knockback of Jigglypuff's aerials, but this grants it good combo potential in return. It can also easily put opponents off-stage, and is the main component of the [[wall of pain]] technique: once an opponent with a poor recovery is launched off-stage, Jigglypuff can follow up with several other forward aerials until they reach the blast zone, where Jigglypuff can finish the opponent off with another forward or a neutral aerial. Back aerial is Jigglypuff's strongest aerial, KOing reliably at 135%, and having a remarkable range, given Jigglypuff's small size. It is also safe on shield due to its high damage output and above average hitlag, though it is also its slowest aerial, making it a bit predictable. Up aerial has a deceptively long-lasting hitbox, which can be problematic for any opponent that has issues dealing with [[juggling]], and it is also a situational finisher near the upper blast line. Lastly, down aerial can be used as a highly damaging out of shield or pressuring option, dealing up to 14% damage, and has low ending lag. It can sometimes also work as an anti-juggling option against characters with slow aerial mobility or moves.
 
Barry! Breakfast is ready!


Jigglypuff's unmatched floatiness, very fast air speed, multiple jumps and strong air game give it a tremendous off-stage presence. Due to lacking a traditional [[recovery]] move, its recovery is fairly susceptible to gimping, though its other attributes make its recovery very effective regardless. Its fast air acceleration also allows it to disorient opponents that attempt to [[edgeguard]] it. With the aid of [[Pound]], it can also stall its recovery and protect its landing. Jigglypuff is fearsome at edgeguarding: with proper spacing and good timing, it can gimp all but the farthest distanced recoveries without being put at risk; {{SSB4|Cloud}}, {{SSB4|Ness}}, {{SSB4|Ganondorf}}, {{SSB4|Dr. Mario}} and {{SSB4|Little Mac}} are perhaps the most susceptible to its edgeguarding, as their recoveries lack both speed and resilience, while the latter four performances against Jigglypuff revolve around maintaining stage control most of the time.
 
Ooming!


Finally, Jigglypuff has a trump card in [[Rest]], its signature move; it has very high vertical knockback at all percentages, to the point where it can reliably KO any character at 70%, but KOs most characters at as early as 50%. It hits on frame 2 with a [[flower]] effect and has full [[intangibility]] until Jigglypuff closes its eyes. In addition to being an incredible [[punishment]] option, the threat of Rest forces opponents to be very careful when using laggy moves, especially due to Jigglypuff's ability to perform an occasionally situational true combo into it. The easiest way to confirm a Rest is with forward aerial: hitting with the move's final frames will lead into an unavoidable Rest, which becomes even more potent if used in the air or with high [[rage]]. Depending on the opponent's falling speed, a jump may be necessary to reach them. Another reliable way to confirm one is by landing with up aerial: should Jigglypuff land immediately after hitting the opponent, Rest can be landed without fail. This combo works optimally on platforms due to its limited percentage range and its ability to KO as low as 35%.
 
Hang on a second.


Up tilt can also lead into Rest, which can be used to rack up at least 30%, but opponents can be launched too far away past low percentages. Lastly, retreating with down aerial can also work, but aside from being the hardest to perform, it is also the least likely to succeed. Other methods of safely using Rest involve [[crouching]], [[buffering]], a [[footstool jump]], a [[jab reset]], or interrupting an opposing neutral attack, though few characters are vulnerable to these methods, and they usually require impeccable timing. Platforms can be a saving grace when considering Rest, as they can lead into 0% KO confirms on certain characters and, if they are moving, can make it a bit harder to punish. For all its potential, however, Rest has the slowest [[interruptibility]] in the game, allowing Jigglypuff to move only after five and a half seconds if the move is inputted, making it easy to punish, even if it KOs the opponent, and thus being a gamble to attempt in almost any circumstance.
 
Hello?


However, Jigglypuff is held back by numerous weaknesses, which are severe enough to almost outweigh its strengths. The most detrimental is its survivability: Jigglypuff's stats result in it having the shortest endurance in the game. As a result, it can be knocked out as early as 35% with a sufficiently strong attack. The introduction of rage is an additional burden, since opponents can send it flying even earlier, in some instances a combo being all it takes for Jigglypuff to be KO'd even at 0%. These drawbacks force Jigglypuff to play extremely cautiously, as any damage taken can prove dangerous in the long run. Adding insult to injury, Jigglypuff's [[shield jump]] has enough force to KO it even from the very bottom of [[Palutena's Temple]]. This makes shielding very risky at low percentages, as the possibly survivable punishes normally received after a shield break are replaced by a guaranteed KO that can only be stopped by a ceiling.
 
- Barry?
- Adam?


Furthermore, Jigglypuff has a very problematic ground game. While most of its ground moves are fast in proportion to their power, its lack of range and slow grounded approach prevent it from racking up large amounts of damage with only a few moves. This is worsened when considering the utility of its grounded attacks: neutral attack's incredible speed can lead into additional follow-ups, forward tilt is fast and highly damaging, up tilt can KO at unusually low percentages, and down tilt is a [[semi-spike]] with high base knockback. As for its smash attacks, forward smash has surprisingly high knockback scaling, while down smash has intangibility and the lowest launch angle of any other conventional semi-spike. Its grab game also has similar issues: while Jigglypuff has some of the fastest grabs in the game and the second most damaging set of throws (tied with Ganondorf and being surpassed only by {{SSB4|Bowser}}), the former have very short range and the latter lack any follow-ups or KO potential, with its strongest throw, up throw, not being able to KO reliably even well beyond 200%[https://youtu.be/640NC5rmrdk?t=34s]. This also results in Jigglypuff being easily kept at bay by shields without usage of Pound's high [[shield damage]].
 
- Oan you believe this is happening?
- I can't. I'll pick you up.


Jigglypuff's approach, despite being good in the air, is overall predictable. Most of the time, Jigglypuff might have to be close to the opponent, read its reaction in order to approach, or bait it in order to make its move. Its aerial moves are not good for approaching from a long distance as they are unsafe on shield when late, and its dash attack is terrible at doing so due to its long duration, despite its low cooldown. Coupled with the overall short range on its attacks, it is at a big disadvantage against characters with large disjoints like {{SSB4|Marth}}, {{SSB4|Shulk}}, and Cloud. Its polarizing mobility is also a noticeable flaw. Although it has among the best aerial games in ''SSB4'', its ground movement is one of the worst, as it does not efficiently give Jigglypuff the chance to traverse across the ground quickly like most other [[Weight|lightweight]] characters can, and in turn makes it very troubling on the offensive side of battle should it be going against speedy characters, such as {{SSB4|Sonic}}.
 
Looking sharp.


Lastly, all of Jigglypuff's specials are incredibly situational. [[Rollout]] is a chargeable attack that can KO incredibly early no matter where it is used, but is incredibly predictable and its deceptively small hitbox results in it effectively having no priority, despite dealing 14% damage when fully charged. [[Sing]] has awkward timing, little range, does not work on aerial opponents, and, despite not having a hitbox, can be [[counter]]ed. Its [[sleep]] effect can also be shortened with [[button mashing]], reducing its otherwise devastating consequences. As a result, Jigglypuff has no reliable or safe recovery options, instead relying on its remaining jumps and Pound to recover, making it easy to gimp despite its usual off-stage comfort. Rest is very risky to use, and Pound is slow and cannot break shields that are on or near full health.
 
Use the stairs. Your father
paid good money for those.


Jigglypuff has among the most polarized [[Character customization|custom moves]] in the game, with few of them having utility that overall surpass the default versions. Relentless Rollout has much less power, but is much faster, hits multiple times and pierces opponents, making it less punishable and allowing it to be used as a recovery mix-up. Pound Blitz is slower and less powerful, but can still pressure shields while hitting multiple times and granting more momentum. Hyper Voice is better for protecting Jigglypuff, since it deals reasonable knockback and works in the air. Its other custom moves are disregarded in favor of the default versions due to their very low utility; Spinphony is, in particular, considered to be its worst custom move (and arguably the worst custom special move in the game), as it has very slow start-up, a very long interval between its active hitboxes and very long ending lag, to the point one could use it from the upper blast zone of the stage, and be dragged down to the lower blast zone by the ending of the move, which are flaws that completely overshadow the moves' utility at reversing opponents out. Raging Rollout has more power and is [[unblockable]], but is much slower at charging, grants less distance, has high ending lag and doesn't pierce opponents. Sideways Pound sends opponents at a [[semi-spike]], but is worse for recovering. Leaping Rest has more coverage since Jigglypuff jumps when using the move, but is much weaker and it naps for a longer time, making it more punishable if it misses. Wakie Wakie has decreased ending lag, increased range, pushes opponents away opponents while "napping" and sends opponents horizontally rather than vertically, again similarly to Rest's iteration in ''Melee'', but is also slightly weaker, causes recoil damage, and its increased startup makes Jigglypuff vulnerable. In addition, while Jigglypuff does benefit from its best custom moves since they enhance its strengths in one way or another, they also fail to fix most of its major flaws.
 
Sorry. I'm excited.


Overall, Jigglypuff can quickly rack up damage or KO opponents, but can be KO'd just as quickly. Despite this, characters like Ganondorf are also prominent in these areas to a much bigger extent. As a result of its very risky playstyle and mechanics as well as its punish game compared to other characters, its popularity in competitive play remains poor, as it has notoriously low tournament representation and almost no tournament results in singles at high levels of play. Even so, Jigglypuff has already received better representation and results than in ''Brawl'', as it has more dedicated players like {{Sm|CrazieCuban}}, {{Sm|LeeT}}, {{Sm|MASTER PUFFY}}, {{Sm|RDR7}}, and {{Sm|Serynder}}, who have performed decently within their regions. It should also be noted that Jigglypuff fares much better in [[doubles]] play, as its combination of evasiveness and strength are well-suited to this environment, courtesy of a teammate's attacks giving Jigglypuff many new options.
 
Here's the graduate.
We're very proud of you, son.


==Changes from ''Brawl''==
 
Despite being ranked as the third worst character in ''Brawl'', Jigglypuff has received a mix of buffs and nerfs (both directly and indirectly) in the transition to ''SSB4''. However, in spite of its powerful moves receiving even more strength, it was ultimately nerfed due to its most critical flaws from ''Brawl'' not being addressed, but rather worsened, while its few strengths (such as its air game and edgeguarding ability) have been nerfed.
A perfect report card, all B's.


Jigglypuff is, for the most part, adversely affected by universal gameplay changes. The removal of [[edge-hogging]] gives it a much harder time edgeguarding opponents, and while a number of characters have had their recoveries buffed, Jigglypuff's recovery was overall nerfed, as [[Pound]] grants less momentum than before. The addition of [[rage]] hinders its already poor endurance, and it usually cannot survive long enough to make effective use of the mechanic. The changes to [[shield]] mechanics further compound its frailty, as Jigglypuff's unusual shield jump is now a greater liability than in ''Brawl''. While Jigglypuff benefits from the drastic changes to [[hitstun]], as it is now able to perform true combos with its aerials again, its nerfed air game counterbalances this issue: its up, down and back aerials (particularly the latter) have increased lag. Its forward aerial, a staple move in previous games, deals less damage and less knockback, making it significantly less useful than before, while its lower short hop removes its notable ability to use two aerials in one short hop. Due to this, a down aerial no longer autocancels from a short hop, nerfing its approach. Its ground game was also weakened, as it no longer has access to [[DACUS]] and its smash attacks now deal less damage and knockback, with the reduction in ending lag for its down and up smashes and its faster dashing speed failing to compensate for this well enough. Because of these changes, its KOing ability is much worse, and even with the changes to hitstun allowing for some hit confirms into Rest, it still has difficulty landing said move.
 
Very proud.


However, Jigglypuff also received some buffs, most notably Rest's aforementioned power having been largely restored since ''Brawl'', which also scales well with rage. Its neutral and back aerials have been buffed to KO at realistic percentages, at the cost of back aerial's noticeable speed loss due to it being re-purposed as a KOing option. A lot of its moves have slightly reduced lag, improving its approach and speed altogether, albeit for the exchange of less damage. Its dash attack also no longer rebounds with a hitbox, giving it some utility for KOing as well as both a new, albeit situational, approach tactic, and a way to deal with projectiles.  
 
Ma! I got a thing going here.


Even so, these buffs do not compensate at all for the large nerfs it has received. As a result, it is one of the few characters to have been clearly nerfed in its initial transition from ''Brawl'', alongside {{SSB4|Meta Knight}}, {{SSB4|Marth}}, {{SSB4|Falco}}, {{SSB4|Olimar}} and {{SSB4|King Dedede}}, and it is important to note several points: the former three characters (as well as several poorly regarded characters like {{SSB4|Charizard}}, {{SSB4|Ganondorf}} and {{SSB4|Zelda}}) have received buffs over game updates, whereas Jigglypuff has not. Despite the latter two characters not receiving noticeable buffs on game updates, their nerfs in the transition from ''Brawl'' are much less significant when compared to Jigglypuff's more critical flaws and nerfs. The majority of the ''Brawl'' cast has also been buffed to varying degrees, most notably its fellow bottom-tier characters, such as {{SSB4|Mario}} and {{SSB4|Captain Falcon}}. Lastly, it does not really benefit from a slightly more favorable matchup spread due to certain dominant characters from ''Brawl'', such as {{SSBB|Meta Knight}}, being nerfed, as they still have clear strengths that Jigglypuff either lacks or said strengths being counterbalanced by Jigglypuff's weaknesses, allowing said characters to overcome Jigglypuff. As such, its standing among the rest of the cast is worse than in ''Brawl'', and it once again lacks viability in competitive play, though its overall potency compared to ''Brawl'' is somewhat debatable due to the more polarized character balance in the former game.
 
- You got lint on your fuzz.
- Ow! That's me!


===Aesthetics===
 
*{{change|Jigglypuff's design has undergone a few changes, much like the other playable Pokémon in ''SSB4''. It now has smaller eyes, which are a brighter shade of cyan and farther apart from each other. Its mouth is also wider, positioned higher and is closed by default, rather than being perpetually open. Like most of the cast, Jigglypuff is also more visually expressive with more exaggerated facial expressions while taking hits, such as wincing or tearing up.}}
- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
- Bye!


===Attributes===
 
*{{buff|Jigglypuff [[dash]]es faster (1.1 → 1.155).}}
Barry, I told you,
*{{change|Jigglypuff's [[gravity]] is higher (0.05056 → 0.053088).}}
stop flying in the house!
*{{nerf|[[Short hop]] is lower, which prevents Jigglypuff from performing two aerials from a short hop.}}
*{{change|The general change in size between smaller and larger characters makes Jigglypuff's hurtbox smaller than in ''Brawl'', which is especially noticeable among characters typically depicted as large or small in their respective series. However, this also hinders its range.}}
*{{nerf|The 19% damage increase to shields and the increase to [[shieldstun]] significantly hinder Jigglypuff's endurance.}}
*{{nerf|The removal of [[Edge-hogging|edge hogging]] and the introduction of edge trumping hinder Jigglypuff's edgeguarding game.}}


===Ground attacks===
 
*{{buff|Neutral attack connects together better due to its new vertical trajectory.}}
- Hey, Adam.
*{{nerf|Neutral attack can no longer [[jab reset]], removing Jigglypuff's most reliable way to safely set up [[Rest]] or a charged smash attack from a missed [[tech]]. The second hit also has increased ending lag (11 → 14 frames).}}
- Hey, Barry.
*{{buff|Dash attack no longer rebounds, which now makes it capable of blocking projectiles and most attacks. This improves its approach potential.}}
*{{nerf|All smash attacks deal less damage (16%/13% → 15%/12% (forward), 15%/13% → 14%/12% (up), 12% → 11% (down)). However, only forward smash's knockback scaling was compensated (103 → 115), while up and down smashes' were not (100 → 105 (up), 66 → 69 (down)).}}
*{{buff|Up and down smashes have decreased ending lag (35 → 27 frames (up), 37 → 34 frames (down)).}}
*{{nerf|The removal of [[DACUS]] slightly hinders Jigglypuff's already slow ground game due to making up smash more situational.}}


===Aerial attacks===
 
*{{buff|Neutral aerial deals 1% more damage (10% → 11%) and has increased knockback (20 (base)/90 (scaling) → 30/100), significantly improving its KO potential.}}
- Is that fuzz gel?
*{{nerf|Forward aerial deals less damage (12%/10% → 9%) and has decreased knockback scaling (108 → 98), significantly hindering its KO potential.}}
- A little. Special day, graduation.
*{{buff|Forward aerial's decreased knockback scaling improves its combo potential, similarly to in ''Melee''.}}
*{{buff|Back aerial deals 1% more damage (12% → 13%) and has significantly increased knockback (0/10 (base)/90 (scaling) → 0/30/120), improving its KO potential.}}
*{{nerf|Back aerial has increased start-up (frame 8 → 12), ending (20 → 27 frames) and landing lag (15 frames → 18). It also has a shorter duration (4 frames → 2) and a slower [[autocancel]] window (frame 23> → 28>). Altogether, these changes significantly hinder its spacing and [[Wall of Pain]] potentials.}}
*{{buff|Up aerial has a longer duration (9 frames → 13) and increased vertical range.}}
*{{nerf|Up aerial has increased start-up (8 frames → 9) and ending lag (16 → 24 frames).}}
*{{nerf|Down aerial deals 2% less damage if all hits connect (16% → 14%). It also has increased start-up lag (frame 5 → 7) and no longer autocancels from a short hop.}}
*{{buff|Down aerial is harder to [[SDI]] out of, has different angles at different parts of the move to help it link, and the last hit is now a pseudo-finisher, improving its edgeguarding potential.}}
*{{change|Down aerial can now launch opponents backward. This improves its edgeguarding potential and grants it new follow-up options, but makes some of its previous follow-up options impossible to connect if the opponent is sent backwards.}}
*{{buff|The changes to hitstun canceling improve Jigglypuff's aerial combo game.}}


===Throws/other attacks===
 
*{{buff|All grabs have decreased ending lag (23 → 20 frames (standing), 29 → 24 frames (dash), 25 → 22 frames (pivot)).}}
Never thought I'd make it.
*{{buff|Dash and pivot grabs have decreased start-up lag (frame 10-11 → 8-9 (dash), frame 10-11 → 9-10 (pivot)).}}
*{{nerf|Dash grab has slightly less range, due to not propelling Jigglypuff forward as much when the hitbox comes out.}}
*{{buff|Pummel deals 0.1% more damage (3% → 3.1%) and is faster.}}
*{{buff|Both floor attacks deal 1% more damage (6% → 7%).}}


===Special moves===
 
*{{nerf|Fully charged [[Rollout]] deals 4% less damage (18% → 14%) without proper compensation for the knockback, causing it to kill significantly later. Jigglypuff can also no longer move in midair after hitting an opponent, significantly hindering its recovery potential and safety. Additionally, the move no longer allows Jigglypuff to bypass freeze-frames when landed on an opponent, effectively increasing its ending lag.}}
Three days grade school,
*{{nerf|Using Rollout in the air now causes its momentum to gradually drop, both reducing its recovery potential and its offensive capabilities in the air. Additionally, slowing down in mid-air by holding in the opposite direction has a much weaker effect on Jigglypuff's momentum, and a new glitch prevents Jigglypuff from curving in mid-air if the user attempts to reverse the direction of Rollout on the same frame that Jigglypuff rolls of a ledge. These changes make it overall easier to cause an accidental [[self-destruct]].}}
three days high school.
*{{change|Rollout travels faster and deals more damage when traveling along slopes, such as on [[Green Hill Zone]] and [[Corneria]], which also potentially allows Jigglypuff to bypass certain [[counterattack]]s by moving too fast for the attack to hit. However, attempting to reverse the direction of Rollout while rolling down a cliff will now result in Jigglypuff being flung forwards off the ground, making self destructs very likely.}}
*{{nerf|Aerial [[Pound]] now loses momentum more quickly, doesn't travel forward as far, and now causes Jigglypuff to start falling downwards before it is able to begin accelerating forwards through the air. All of these factors combined now result in the usage of aerial Pound actually worsening Jigglypuff's horizontal recovery, even when angled upwards, unless executed 100% perfectly.}}
*{{buff|The 19% damage increase to shields benefits [[Pound]], allowing it to break a shield that is below 70% of its health.}}
*{{buff|[[Sing]] now has a sweetspot nearer to Jigglypuff which puts opponents to sleep for noticeably longer, while the newly added sourspot retains the same sleep duration from previous games. Furthermore, the third soundwave only features the sweetspot, and no sourspot, on top of its slightly longer reach than the first two. Additionally the move now has somewhat increased range, although it still lacks the ability to hit airborne opponents.}}
*{{buff|[[Rest]] deals 5% more damage (15% → 20%), which largely restores its power from ''Melee'' despite having decreased knockback scaling (75 → 66). It also has a larger hitbox (2.6u → 3.4u), even relative to Jigglypuff's size increase, and has decreased ending lag (246 → 226 frames), slightly improving its accuracy and safety.}}
*{{change|The implementation of blast KOs from the upper blast line hinders Rest's safety as a KOing option, due to it possibly allowing the opponent to respawn quickly and have a chance to punish Jigglypuff. However, it also means that the opponent will now usually be KO'd before Jigglypuff when the move is used off-stage. The lengthening of [[screen KO]]s' animations hinders an opponent's chance to punish Jigglypuff, as they now last just as long as [[star KO]]s.}}
*{{nerf|[[Puff Up]] deals 1% less damage (18% → 17%).}}
*{{buff|Puff Up significantly increases Jigglypuff's size, to the point that most stages are entirely covered.}}
*{{change|Puff Up has received a solitary hitbox once Jigglypuff reaches its maximum size and cries, rather than using multiple hitboxes during the shrink that occurs following the cry. This new hitbox deals damage, reasonable knockback (depending on the opponent's damage) and launches at the [[Sakurai angle]], rather than simply blowing the opponent away with a [[Wind|windbox]] (depending on their proximity to Jigglypuff's center mass). With the shrink hitboxes removed, Jigglypuff cannot chain hits against opponents trapped against a wall for massive damage and mounting knockback.}}
*{{change|Puff Up's visual effects have changed. Jigglypuff's eyes continue to glow yellow from the [[Final Smash]] effect when performing Puff Up and it now makes the stage shake.}}


==Update history==
 
Jigglypuff is notorious for not receiving any direct changes despite being unilaterally considered a bottom-tier character. However, the changes to shield mechanics in updates [[1.1.0]] and [[1.1.1]] indirectly nerfed Jigglypuff, as the increased [[shieldstun]] makes its susceptibility to being instantly KO'd by having its shield broken more of a liability. Conversely, these changes also make Jigglypuff's attacks slightly safer on shield (most notably its back aerial) and benefits Pound's high shield damage output, slightly improving its limited approach. It also slightly benefits from the nerfs given to some of its hardest matchups in game updates, such as {{SSB4|Diddy Kong}}, {{SSB4|Sheik}}, {{SSB4|Zero Suit Samus}}, and {{SSB4|Bayonetta}}. However, it is the one of the only two non-top tier fighters to have never received a single buff (the other being {{SSB4|King Dedede}}), and as such, is currently considered the worst fighter in the game. Overall, Jigglypuff fares considerably worse relative to the cast than it did during the initial release, due to not receiving any truly significant changes from game updates.
Those were awkward.


'''{{GameIcon|ssb4-3ds}} [[1.0.4]]'''
 
{{UpdateList/1.0.4|char=Jigglypuff}}
Three days college. I'm glad I took
a day and hitchhiked around the hive.


==Moveset==
 
{{MovesetTable
You did come back different.
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|neutralcount=2
|neutralname=&nbsp;
|neutral1dmg=3%
|neutral2dmg=3%
|neutraldesc=Two alternating punches. It is very quick, which allows it to function as a pseudo-[[jab cancel]] into itself, forward tilt, down tilt, a grab or [[Pound]]. However, it is extremely short-ranged.
|ftiltname=&nbsp;
|ftiltdmg=10%
|ftiltdesc=A spinning roundhouse kick. Due to it being short-ranged, it is best used as a follow-up from neutral attack.
|utiltname=&nbsp;
|utiltdmg=9%
|utiltdesc=A scorpion kick. Has some start-up, but is somewhat powerful for a tilt attack, as it begins KOing at 127%. Although it is best used for scoring KOs, it possesses almost no combo potential unlike {{SSB4|Kirby}}'s up tilt. It can combo into itself twice at very low percents, or a short hopped up aerial up to around 30%. While it can hit opponents in front of Jigglypuff, it has to practically touch them in order to land it, and lacks this ability entirely against small fighters like [[Pikachu]] and Kirby.
|dtiltname=&nbsp;
|dtiltdmg=10%
|dtiltdesc=A crouching shin kick. Can be used while crouching under some attacks, and is a [[semi-spike]] that is good for setting up edgeguards. It has the strongest base knockback of all of Jigglypuff's tilts, however it also has the longest start-up, and the weakest knockback scaling.
|dashname=&nbsp;
|dashdmg=12% (clean) 8% (late)
|dashdesc=A lunging headbutt. Decently quick with good knockback for a dash attack and its hitbox blocks opposing attacks and (similarly to Ganondorf's dash attack) neutralises most projectiles, although it is unsafe on hit at low percentages, and Jigglypuff's slow dashing speed somewhat limits its utility. Begins KOing at 115% while near the edge.
|fsmashname=&nbsp;
|fsmashdmg={{ChargedSmashDmgSSB4|15}} (clean), {{ChargedSmashDmgSSB4|12}} (late)
|fsmashdesc=A thrust kick. Powerful and has the most range of Jigglypuff's smash attacks, but has considerable ending lag. Begins KOing at 77% while near the edge.
|usmashname=&nbsp;
|usmashdmg={{ChargedSmashDmgSSB4|14}} (sweetspot), {{ChargedSmashDmgSSB4|12}} (sourspot)
|usmashdesc=An upward headbutt. Like up tilt, it is most effective if the opponent is behind Jigglypuff. Begins KOing at 112% sweetspotted, and 132% sourspotted. It suffers from a slow startup and a lack of range (despite having a large hitbox size).
|dsmashname=&nbsp;
|dsmashdmg={{ChargedSmashDmgSSB4|11}}
|dsmashdesc=A spinning split kick. It is short-ranged, but is a [[semi-spike]] that deals horizontal knockback and causes launched opponents to slide a long way across the stage. It can also hit below the edge, placing recovering opponents in a very vulnerable position, and although it will not actually KO under these circumstances until 132%, it makes it very difficult for the opponent to recover.
|nairname=&nbsp;
|nairdmg=11% (clean), 6% (late)
|nairdesc=A flying kick. It is a [[sex kick]] with a long-lasting late hitbox. One of Jigglypuff's best moves, as it is very safe and has decent knockback when sweetspotted. Commonly used to block opponents from the edge or to end a [[Wall of Pain]]. The clean hit can KO at 108% at the ledge, and even earlier offstage.
|fairname=&nbsp;
|fairdmg=9% (clean), 6% (late)
|fairdesc=A {{s|wikipedia|dropkick}}. Somewhat weak knockback, but good for spacing and can be used for a Wall of Pain. Has a lingering hitbox, though it does not as last as long as neutral aerial's hitbox, while its late hitbox can combo into Rest. Autocancels, but only if quickly inputted after a short hop.
|bairname=&nbsp;
|bairdmg=13%
|bairdesc=A spinning back kick. Jigglypuff's slowest aerial and lacks a lingering hitbox unlike its other aerials, but has strong knockback and good range while still being reasonably quick, making it a potent finisher. Safe on shield if spaced properly. KOs from 100%-135% sourspotted and from 75%-110% sweetspotted while near the edge. Autocancels, but only if quickly inputted after a short hop.
|uairname=&nbsp;
|uairdmg=9%
|uairdesc=Waves its arm in an overhead arcing motion. Very short range, but its hitbox lingers without losing strength. Good for [[juggling]] and [[sharking]]. Can combo into Rest at low percentages, but only on fast-fallers, making it an incredibly situational set-up. Autocancels, but only if quickly inputted after a short hop.
|dairname=&nbsp;
|dairdmg=1.5% (hits 1-8), 2% (hit 9), 14% (all hits connect)
|dairdesc=A diagonal [[Drill (archetype)|corkscrew dropkick]]. Good out of shield option and somewhat effective as an anti-juggling option, but it is unsafe to land with due to its 30 frames of landing lag being punishable even on hit. With precise movement, a rising down aerial can combo into Rest at very specific percents, but only if Jigglypuff predicts the direction the opponent will be sent in, and their DI, making it incredibly risky to attempt, especially since the percent range varies drastically depending on the opponent and DI.
|grabname=&nbsp;
|grabdesc=Reaches out. Jigglypuff's overall grab range is the second shortest in the game, surpassed only by {{SSB4|R.O.B.}}'s. However, each of its grabs have low ending lag.
|pummelname=&nbsp;
|pummeldmg=3.1%
|pummeldesc=A slap. Its high damage output and decent speed make it very effective, to the point that it is perceived as one of the best pummels in the game.
|fthrowname=&nbsp;
|fthrowdmg=5% (hit 1), 5% (throw)
|fthrowdesc=Puffs up once to launch the opponent forward. Low knockback, but has low ending lag, making it good for setting up edgeguards with its aerials.
|bthrowname=&nbsp;
|bthrowdmg=10%
|bthrowdesc=A [[wikipedia:Suplex#German suplex|German suplex]]. Like forward throw, it is useful for setting up edgeguards.
|uthrowname=&nbsp;
|uthrowdmg=10%
|uthrowdesc=Spins once to fling the opponent upward in a trail of sparkles. High base knockback but low growth. Jigglypuff's strongest throw, though it only KOs when used with high [[rage]] and while on a platform.
|dthrowname=&nbsp;
|dthrowdmg=4% (hit 1), 6% (throw)
|dthrowdesc=Pins the opponent to the ground and then rolls back and forth on their back, which launches them upward. At certain percents, it can be used as a mix-up into Rest by successfully reading the opponent's reaction.
|floorfname=&nbsp;
|floorfdmg=7%
|floorfdesc=Spins around to kick in front of itself and behind itself.
|floorbname=&nbsp;
|floorbdmg=7%
|floorbdesc=Kicks in front of itself, then behind itself.
|floortname=&nbsp;
|floortdmg=10%
|floortdesc=Spins on the ground while kicking both sides, similarly to {{SSB4|Captain Falcon}}'s front floor attack.
|edgename=&nbsp;
|edgedmg=6%
|edgedesc=Performs a flip kick while climbing up onto the stage.
|nsdefname=Rollout
|nsdefdmg=6% (minimum), 14% (fully charged), 23% (maximum via slopes)
|nsdefdesc=[[bulbapedia:Rollout (move)|Rolls forward to slam into the opponent]], similarly to [[Egg Roll]]. Its power, range, and speed can be increased by holding the special button. If not charged until Jigglypuff glows, it will harmlessly roll around and potentially get punished. On the ground, Rollout's direction can be changed mid-roll, which deals no damage until the turn is complete; in the air, pressing left or right will alter Jigglypuff's roll speed. When Rollout is fully charged, Jigglypuff will voice its name and briefly flash. Hitting a non-shielding opponent will cause Jigglypuff to rebound, which renders it unable to do anything else until it lands or is hit. This makes Rollout dangerous to use off-stage or at an edge, since the rebound will cause Jigglypuff to spin helplessly as it descends to the lower blast line. It can sweetspot the ledge, making it a situational recovery move, but it must be used very carefully due to its high ending lag, and charging still causes Jigglypuff to fall. When landing and turning, there is a hitbox active for 1 frame which deals 7% damage regardless of charge.
|nsc1name=Relentless Rollout
|nsc1dmg=1% (loop), 7% (landing and 1 turning hitbox)
|nsc1desc=A multiple-hitting Rollout that rams through targets instead of stopping. Charges faster and lets Jigglypuff roll for much longer; fully charged, Jigglypuff can turn around three times and hit opponents repeatedly. Deals 1% for every time it makes contact, but 7% if it hits a target immediately after a turn while fully charged. Better for recovery than the default version due to its reduced charge time. Still possesses the 7% damage landing and turning hitbox.
|nsc2name=Raging Rollout
|nsc2dmg=11% (minimum), 23% (fully charged), 7%
|nsc2desc=A stronger and [[unblockable]] Rollout that travels faster. As a drawback, Jigglypuff cannot turn around during the move, and the charge time is more than twice that of the normal version. It must be charged for slightly longer than a standard full-charged Rollout to begin dealing damage. Its high ending lag and long charge time makes this custom move unsuited for recovery; in addition, its fixed direction means it is an inevitable self-destruct if used at any damaging charge level while facing a stage's edge.
|ssdefname=Pound
|ssdefdmg=11%
|ssdefdesc=[[bulbapedia:Pound (move)|Rears its arm back and then throws a punch]], taking a step forward. Deals moderate knockback, though unable to KO at realistic percents. Its momentum moves Jigglypuff sideways (which is further enhanced if used immediately after a midair jump), making it one of the two special moves it can use to recover. It also does a high amount of [[shield damage]] and has a surprisingly large, long-lasting hitbox that doesn't lose power.
|ssc1name=Sideways Pound
|ssc1dmg=7%
|ssc1desc=Launches opponents at a semi-spike angle with moderate knockback, making it effective for gimping and edgeguarding. However, it deals less damage, grants little distance on the ground, and cuts Jigglypuff's momentum when used in the air, making it ineffective for recovering.
|ssc2name=Pound Blitz
|ssc2dmg=1% (hits 1-4), 5% (hit 5)
|ssc2desc=A slower, multiple-hitting Pound that travels further and deals more shield damage. It also grants more aerial momentum, making it much better for recoveries. However, it has a slightly lower damage output and much greater startup and ending lag.
|usdefname=Sing
|usdefdmg=—
|usdefdesc=[[bulbapedia:Sing (move)|Sings its signature song]], putting nearby opponents to sleep, with opponents directly beside Jigglypuff being put to sleep for longer. The more damaged opponents are, the longer they will sleep, making them open for a followup attack, most notably Rest. Jigglypuff can sweetspot ledges during the entire move, allowing Sing to set up a punish from a ledge. However, the song is short-ranged, consists of three long pauses, and leaves Jigglypuff itself vulnerable to being attacked. Unlike typical up specials, Sing does not grant any vertical distance, giving it no use for recovering.
|usc1name=Hyper Voice
|usc1dmg=3% (hit 1-2), 6% (hit 3)
|usc1desc=[[bulbapedia:Hyper Voice (move)|Sings a song that deals damage]] rather than putting opponents to sleep. The song's hitboxes are bigger, with the third sound wave having the most range as well as more knockback and damage than the first two hits. However, the move is slower overall.
|usc2name=Spinphony
|usc2dmg=0.5% (hit 1), 0.5% (hit 2), 1% (hit 3)
|usc2desc= A song that flips opponents, similarly to [[Cape]]. Large hitbox when compared to standard Sing, with the third sound wave being the largest. However, startup and execution are extremely slow, with the move lasting 6 seconds in total. In addition, the pauses between each wave is increased, while each hit deals 0-1% (the first sound wave dealing no damage at all) and set knockback, unable to KO even at 999%. The flip effect only occurs if the opponent is facing Jigglypuff, but this is also ineffective at [[edgeguarding]] due to making opponents flinch, allowing them to reuse their recovery moves.
|dsdefname=Rest
|dsdefdmg=20% (hit), 39% (flower effect (without mashing))
|dsdefdesc=[[bulbapedia:Rest (move)|Falls asleep]], dealing a single hard hit to any opponents directly touching Jigglypuff. It has almost no start-up lag (1 frame) and deals an extreme amount of vertical knockback if landed, even KOing {{SSB4|King Dedede}} (who dies at the highest percent to the move) at 71%, and benefits significantly from rage, due to possessing very high base knockback. It also puts a [[flower]] on the opponent's head that deals continuous damage, with the move potentially dealing a total of 59% damage if it does not KO, although with mashing, the flower will fall off earlier. However, if Rest misses, it has dire consequences, as Jigglypuff will be inactive for roughly 5 seconds until waking up or upon being attacked. It still has a chance to be punished if the opponent is blast KO'd at the upper blast line rather than [[star KO]]'d or [[screen KO]]'d, though they must be quick. Jigglypuff gains invincibility for a few frames when the move is used (before its eyes close) which can initially prevent [[counterattack]]s from hitting Jigglypuff, though this is still detrimental due to the move's extreme ending lag.
|dsc1name=Leaping Rest
|dsc1dmg=15% (rest), 10% (strike)
|dsc1desc=Leaps extremely high into the air while falling asleep. It has less strength, but possesses a "striking" hitbox on the way up, allowing Jigglypuff to reliably hit airborne opponents. The strike lacks a flower effect, but can KO Mario at ~100% on the top platform of [[Battlefield]], and notably has kill confirms into it. To compensate, the Rest hitbox KOs around 45% later, and the move has more ending lag. While it grants great vertical distance, Jigglypuff cannot grab edges while sleeping, making the leap ineffective for recovering, though it can be used for situational vertical distance on stages with platforms that hang offstage.
|dsc2name=Wakie Wakie
|dsc2dmg=15% (explosion), 5% (recoil)
|dsc2desc=Pushes opponents back while sleeping and creates a large explosion upon waking up, which inflicts 5% [[recoil damage]]. Functions as a delayed Rest with comparably more startup, but considerably low ending lag and a much larger hitbox to compensate. Overall faster when compared to the standard move. The explosion deals 15% [[flame]] damage and is strong enough to KO Mario at ~52% at the sides of [[Final Destination]].
|fsname=Puff Up
|fsdmg=17%
|fsdesc=Rapidly inflates itself to a gargantuan size and launches all opponents near it horizontally while saying "Jiggly!" before quickly deflating back to its normal size. Jigglypuff's size is so great when inflating that its body completely takes up smaller stages and even some medium-sized ones, making it difficult to escape, however it can be avoided by grabbing the ledge and dropping off it or simply air dodging just as Jigglypuff is about to say "Jiggly!".
}}


===[[On-screen appearance]]===
 
{{appearance
- Hi, Barry.
|desc=Emerges from a [[Poké Ball]] and spins while floating before landing.
- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
|char=Jigglypuff
|game=SSB4}}


===[[Taunt]]s===
 
{{Taunt/SSB4
- Hear about Frankie?
|char=Jigglypuff
- Yeah.
|desc-up=Happily spins in place on one foot, then looks and wiggles at the camera while inflated and smiling, all while saying "Jigglypuff!" ({{ja|プリプリーン！|Puri Purīn!}}).
|desc-side=Twirls around then poses while looking away at the opposite side it is facing, then blinks twice. This taunt is very similar to {{SSB4|Kirby}}'s side taunt, although Jigglypuff does not vocalize at the end. Also similar to its official artwork.
|desc-down=Deflates and falls to the ground, flattened, then quickly inflates again. While flattened, its hurtbox becomes significantly smaller. This taunt is similar to its fainting animation in home console ''Pokémon'' games, like ''Pokémon Battle Revolution''.}}


===[[Idle Pose]]s===
 
{{Idle
- You going to the funeral?
|desc-1=Looks at its side while jumping.
- No, I'm not going.
|image-1=JigglypuffIdlePoseSSB4.jpg}}


===[[Crowd cheer]]===
 
{{Crowd
Everybody knows,
|char=Jigglypuff
sting someone, you die.
|char-jp=Purin
|game=SSB4
|desc-us=Jigglypuff!
|desc-jp=Pu-ri-n!
|pitch-us=Group chant
|pitch-jp=Female}}


===[[Victory pose]]s===
 
{{Victory/SSB4
Don't waste it on a squirrel.
|victory-theme=PokemonUniverseTheme.ogg
Such a hothead.
|victory-desc=An orchestral excerpt of the title theme from [[bulbapedia:Pokémon Red and Blue Versions|''Pokémon Red'', ''Blue'']] and [[bulbapedia:Pokémon Red and Green Versions|''Green Versions'']], which has since become the main theme of the ''Pokémon'' series.
|desc-1=Jumps twice, then does a backflip and looks toward the screen.
|desc-2=Shivers while asleep and suddenly jumps up after awaking, rolling back and forth on its back.
|desc-3=Uses [[bulbapedia:Rest (move)|Rest]].
|char=Jigglypuff}}


==In [[competitive play]]==
 
===[[Official Custom Moveset Project]]===
I guess he could have
{{OfficialCustomMoves
just gotten out of the way.
|char=Jigglypuff
|set1=1121
|set2=1122
|set3=1321
|set4=1322
|set5=2121
|set6=2122
|set7=2321
|set8=2322
|set9=3121
|set10=1221
}}
===Notable players===
====Active====
*{{Sm|BrianYDG|USA}} - Placed 17th at [[Super Smash Con 2015]].
*{{Sm|Dol|Japan}}
*{{Sm|LeeT|USA}} - Placed 33rd at [[Shine 2016]], 97th at [[Super Smash Con 2017]] 49th at [[CEO 2017]] and 9th at [[GUMS 19]].
*{{Sm|Mada|USA}} - Currently the only American Jigglypuff solo main in a state-level power ranking, reaching 4th in Idaho. Has a win from {{Sm|POW}}, among other notable Midwest players.
*{{Sm|MASTER PUFFY|Mexico}} - Best Solo Jigglypuff player in Mexico, Placed 5th out of 620 at [[PG Key to 2GGC: Civil War]].
*{{Sm|MrGommi|Canada}}
*{{Sm|Serynder|USA}} - Was once considered the best Jigglypuff player in the world. Has wins over players such as {{Sm|ZD}}.
*{{Sm|Speclar|USA}} - Has a win over {{Sm|Mr. ConCon}}, 25th at [[Mega Smash Mondays 100]].
*{{Sm|Zguh|USA}}


====Inactive====
 
*{{Sm|TheReflexWonder|USA}}
I love this incorporating
*{{Sm|CrazieCuban|USA}} - Renowned Jigglypuff player in Florida. Has since switched to [[Toon Link (SSB4)|Toon Link]].
an amusement park into our day.
*{{Sm|RDR7|USA}} - South Carolinian smash 4 solo Jigglypuff main who was accepted as a top Jigglypuff player while he played. His highest PR placement was 5th.


===Tier placement and history===
 
In the early metagame, it was widely considered that Jigglypuff was, at best, a mid-tier to low-tier character, and that Jigglypuff's buffs from ''Brawl'' would allow it to perform better in ''SSB4''. However, its results and representation outside of [[doubles]] play were never as high as other characters that would rank above it in the future, and it would soon become clear that Jigglypuff had ironically lost much more than it gained in the transition. Despite the improved balancing of other characters, it infamously remained stagnant in game updates, with only a glitch that gave [[Rollout]] mindgame potential being fixed in update 1.0.4. As such, it was ranked 55th on the first ''4BR'' [[tier list]], making it the second lowest ranked character on the entire tier list.
That's why we don't need vacations.


Jigglypuff continued to languish near the bottom of the tier list, due to still being unchanged positively by game updates while other bottom-tier characters like Zelda and {{SSB4|Ganondorf}} have received numerous buffs. Despite {{Sm|LeeT}} placing 33rd at [[Shine 2016]] while exclusively using Jigglypuff for the tournament's entirety, it was nonetheless ranked 58th, placing it at the very bottom of the entire tier list. This has continued into the third tier list, with the only slight change to its tier status being its reassessment as a low-tier character due to the bottom-tier being abolished. However, some players felt that Jigglypuff has earned a slightly higher placement on the tier list, due to having better results and representation than some characters ranked above it, LeeT recently placing 49th at CEO 2017 being a notable example. Despite this, Jigglypuff once again ranks dead last at 55th on the fourth and current tier list, even after the exclusion of Miis from the tier list.
 
Boy, quite a bit of pomp...
under the circumstances.


==Trophies==
 
:'''Jigglypuff'''
- Well, Adam, today we are men.
::{{Flag|North America}} ''This Normal/Fairy-type Pokémon is best known for its soothing singing, which can put foes to sleep. In Smash Bros., it fights best in the air and can even jump six times in a row. The downside, though, is that Jigglypuff's so light, most opponents could launch it in their sleep!''
- We are!


::{{Flag|Pal}} ''This Normal- and Fairy-type Pokémon is best known for its soothing singing, which quite often puts foes to sleep. In this game, Jigglypuff fights best in the air, and can even jump six times in a row. The downside, though, is that Jigglypuff's so light, just about any opponent could launch it in their sleep!''
 
- Bee-men.
- Amen!


{{Trophy games|console1=GB|game1=Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue (09/1998)|console2=3DS|game2=Pokémon X and Pokémon Y (10/2013)}}
 
Hallelujah!


:'''Jigglypuff (Alt.)'''
 
::{{Flag|North America}} ''Jigglypuff's down special Rest sends this Pokémon into a deep sleep that damages and launches any foe it's touching upon napping. They'll even take damage after being hit! It's a pretty challenging move to land, though, and it leaves Jigglypuff wide open to revenge. Be careful when you use it.''
Students, faculty, distinguished bees,


::{{Flag|Pal}} ''When you use the Rest down special, you go into a deep sleep, as you'd expect. But if anyone is touching you when you do it, you'll inflict a lot of damage and launch them directly upwards. They even continue to take damage afterwards. It's not easy to pull off, though, and falling asleep leaves you open to attacks, so be careful.''
 
please welcome Dean Buzzwell.


{{Trophy games|console1=GB|game1=Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue (09/1998)|console2=3DS|game2=Pokémon X and Pokémon Y (10/2013)}}
 
Welcome, New Hive Oity
graduating class of...


:'''Puff Up'''
 
::{{Flag|North America}} ''When Jigglypuff uses its Final Smash, it starts to grow bigger. And bigger. And bigger! Before you know it, Jigglypuff will have completely taken over the screen-and there's no way to make it stop. On smaller stages, fighters may find there's nowhere left to stand! At near full size, Jigglypuff will damage and launch anyone it touches.''
...9:15.


::{{Flag|Pal}} ''It doesn't deal a lot of damage or launch opponents a long way. No, when Jigglypuff uses its Final Smash, it gets...bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Before you know it, Jigglypuff will have completely taken over the screen - and there's no way to make it stop. On smaller stages, fighters may find there's nowhere left to stand!''
 
That concludes our ceremonies.


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<gallery>
And begins your career
JigglypuffTrophy3DS.png|Classic (3DS)
at Honex Industries!
JigglypuffAllStarTrophy3DS.png|Alt. (3DS)
JigglypuffTrophyWiiU.png|Classic (Wii U)
JigglypuffAltTrophyWiiU.png|Alt. (Wii U)
PuffUpTrophyWiiU.png|[[Puff Up]]
</gallery>
</center>


==In [[Event Match]]es==
 
===Solo Events===
Will we pick ourjob today?
* '''[[All-Star Battle: Secret]]''': Jigglypuff is one of the opponents fought in this event. All opponents are characters that have been unlockable in previous ''Super Smash Bros.'' games.
* '''[[It's Past Your Bedtime!]]''': Jigglypuff must use [[Sing]] to make {{SSB4|Ness}}, {{SSB4|Bowser Jr.}}, and {{SSB4|Toon Link}} fall asleep at the same time.


===Co-op Events===
 
* '''[[The Ultimate Battle]]''': Two players select a character and must defeat the entire roster.
I heard it's just orientation.


==[[Alternate costume (SSB4)#Jigglypuff|Alternate costumes]]==
 
{|style="margin:1em auto 1em auto;text-align:center"
Heads up! Here we go.
|-
|colspan=8|[[File:Jigglypuff Palette (SSB4).png]]
|-
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Red}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=White}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Blue}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Green}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Pink}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Nurse}}
|{{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSB4|s=50px|cl=Glasses}}
|}


==Gallery==
 
<gallery>
Keep your hands and antennas
Jigglypuff amiibo.png|Jigglypuff's [[amiibo]].
inside the tram at all times.
SSB4 - Jigglypuff screen-1.jpg|Using [[Sing]] on [[Pikachu_(SSB4)|Pikachu]] and [[Charizard_(SSB4)|Charizard]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff screen-2.jpg|Using [[Rollout]] on [[Ness_(SSB4)|Ness]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-3.jpg|Six of Jigglypuff's costumes.
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-4.jpg|Preparing to throw [[Captain Falcon (SSB4)|Captain Falcon]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff screen-5.jpg|Using [[Puff Up]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-6.jpg|With [[R.O.B. (SSB4)|R.O.B.]], Ness, and Pikachu.
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-7.jpg|Taunting while being spotted by 5-Volt on [[Gamer]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-8.jpg|Taunting with [[Dr. Mario_(SSB4)|Dr. Mario]], [[Toon Link (SSB4)|Toon Link]], and [[Zelda (SSB4)|Zelda]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-9.jpg|With [[Pooka]]s in [[Smash Run]].
SSB4 - Jigglypuff Screen-10.jpg|Using down throw on [[Yoshi (SSB4)|Yoshi]] with [[Luigi (SSB4)|Luigi]] being nearby.</gallery>


==Trivia==
 
[[File:JigglypuffArtworkRG.png|150px|thumb|right|Jigglypuff's original artwork from ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Green Versions''.]]
- Wonder what it'll be like?
*{{forwiiu}} is the first installment where Jigglypuff is a starter character. As a result, Jigglypuff had appeared in various official screenshots and videos (such as the [[Nintendo Direct#Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: 50-Fact Extravaganza|October 2014 Wii U Direct]]) without acknowledgement before its official reveal.
- A little scary.
*Jigglypuff was the last character overall to be fully confirmed on the ''SSB4'' website before the initial release of {{forwiiu}} and, by extension, the last of the [[List of Super Smash Bros. series characters#"Perfect-attendance crew"|"perfect-attendance crew"]] to be announced.
*Jigglypuff's official artwork pose is a mirrored version of its pose from its official artwork from ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Green Versions''. ''SSB4'' is also the only ''Super Smash Bros.'' game to not have Jigglypuff fully face the screen in its official art and is the first game to give Jigglypuff new character artwork.
*While Jigglypuff's textures are completely unique in {{for3ds}}, its actual 3D model is very similar to its model used in [[bulbapedia:Pokémon X and Y|''Pokémon X'' and ''Y'']].<ref>http://www.vgfacts.com/trivia/8127/</ref>
*While most fighter trophies are sorted by debut appearance and then by unlockability within the type sorting, Jigglypuff is different in that it is placed between the ''Brawl'' characters and the ''SSB4'' characters in the list.
*If done with correct timing, Jigglypuff can avoid damage by using its down taunt, even though many attacks can still hit it. Also, if its down taunt is used next to a cannon in the stage builder, Jigglypuff will be launched by said cannon.
*Jigglypuff is the only starter character in ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'' who has a [[List of challenges (SSB4-Wii U)|challenge]] exclusive to it that cannot be unlocked with a [[Golden Hammer]].
*Jigglypuff, {{SSB4|Captain Falcon}}, and {{SSB4|Yoshi}} are the only characters who have voice clips that are used in every installment of ''Super Smash Bros.''
**Jigglypuff is also the only non-DLC character in ''SSB4'' to have only one blast line KO voice clip.
*Ness and Jigglypuff are the only members of the "perfect-attendance crew" to not appear in any of the newcomers' poster art.
*Jigglypuff's grab uses part of Rollout's sound normally, In fact, if one uses 1/2x or 1/4x speed in ''SSB4'' and uses Jigglypuff's grab, the Rollout sound effect will play until Jigglypuff finishes its grab. If the Hold L speeds are used, this will continue until time is unpaused.


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This is it!
 
 
Wow.
 
 
Wow.
 
 
We know that you, as a bee,
have worked your whole life
 
 
to get to the point where you
can work for your whole life.
 
 
Honey begins when our valiant Pollen
Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.
 
 
Our top-secret formula
 
 
is automatically color-corrected,
scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured
 
 
into this soothing sweet syrup
 
 
with its distinctive
golden glow you know as...
 
 
Honey!
 
 
- That girl was hot.
- She's my cousin!
 
 
- She is?
- Yes, we're all cousins.
 
 
- Right. You're right.
- At Honex, we constantly strive
 
 
to improve every aspect
of bee existence.
 
 
These bees are stress-testing
a new helmet technology.
 
 
- What do you think he makes?
- Not enough.
 
 
Here we have our latest advancement,
the Krelman.
 
 
- What does that do?
- Oatches that little strand of honey
 
 
that hangs after you pour it.
Saves us millions.
 
 
Oan anyone work on the Krelman?
 
 
Of course. Most bee jobs are
small ones. But bees know
 
 
that every small job,
if it's done well, means a lot.
 
 
But choose carefully
 
 
because you'll stay in the job
you pick for the rest of your life.
 
 
The same job the rest of your life?
I didn't know that.
 
 
What's the difference?
 
 
You'll be happy to know that bees,
as a species, haven't had one day off
 
 
in 27 million years.
 
 
So you'll just work us to death?
 
 
We'll sure try.
 
 
Wow! That blew my mind!
 
 
"What's the difference?"
How can you say that?
 
 
One job forever?
That's an insane choice to have to make.
 
 
I'm relieved. Now we only have
to make one decision in life.
 
 
But, Adam, how could they
never have told us that?
 
 
Why would you question anything?
We're bees.
 
 
We're the most perfectly
functioning society on Earth.
 
 
You ever think maybe things
work a little too well here?
 
 
Like what? Give me one example.
 
 
I don't know. But you know
what I'm talking about.
 
 
Please clear the gate.
Royal Nectar Force on approach.
 
 
Wait a second. Oheck it out.
 
 
- Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!
- Wow.
 
 
I've never seen them this close.
 
 
They know what it's like
outside the hive.
 
 
Yeah, but some don't come back.
 
 
- Hey, Jocks!
- Hi, Jocks!
 
 
You guys did great!
 
 
You're monsters!
You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!
 
 
- I wonder where they were.
- I don't know.
 
 
Their day's not planned.
 
 
Outside the hive, flying who knows
where, doing who knows what.
 
 
You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen
Jock. You have to be bred for that.
 
 
Right.
 
 
Look. That's more pollen
than you and I will see in a lifetime.
 
 
It's just a status symbol.
Bees make too much of it.
 
 
Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it
and the ladies see you wearing it.
 
 
Those ladies?
Aren't they our cousins too?
 
 
Distant. Distant.
 
 
Look at these two.
 
 
- Oouple of Hive Harrys.
- Let's have fun with them.
 
 
It must be dangerous
being a Pollen Jock.
 
 
Yeah. Once a bear pinned me
against a mushroom!
 
 
He had a paw on my throat,
and with the other, he was slapping me!
 
 
- Oh, my!
- I never thought I'd knock him out.
 
 
What were you doing during this?
 
 
Trying to alert the authorities.
 
 
I can autograph that.
 
 
A little gusty out there today,
wasn't it, comrades?
 
 
Yeah. Gusty.
 
 
We're hitting a sunflower patch
six miles from here tomorrow.
 
 
- Six miles, huh?
- Barry!
 
 
A puddle jump for us,
but maybe you're not up for it.
 
 
- Maybe I am.
- You are not!
 
 
We're going 0900 at J-Gate.
 
 
What do you think, buzzy-boy?
Are you bee enough?
 
 
I might be. It all depends
on what 0900 means.
 
 
Hey, Honex!
 
 
Dad, you surprised me.
 
 
You decide what you're interested in?
 
 
- Well, there's a lot of choices.
- But you only get one.
 
 
Do you ever get bored
doing the same job every day?
 
 
Son, let me tell you about stirring.
 
 
You grab that stick, and you just
move it around, and you stir it around.
 
 
You get yourself into a rhythm.
It's a beautiful thing.
 
 
You know, Dad,
the more I think about it,
 
 
maybe the honey field
just isn't right for me.
 
 
You were thinking of what,
making balloon animals?
 
 
That's a bad job
for a guy with a stinger.
 
 
Janet, your son's not sure
he wants to go into honey!
 
 
- Barry, you are so funny sometimes.
- I'm not trying to be funny.
 
 
You're not funny! You're going
into honey. Our son, the stirrer!
 
 
- You're gonna be a stirrer?
- No one's listening to me!
 
 
Wait till you see the sticks I have.
 
 
I could say anything right now.
I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!
 
 
Let's open some honey and celebrate!
 
 
Maybe I'll pierce my thorax.
Shave my antennae.
 
 
Shack up with a grasshopper. Get
a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!
 
 
I'm so proud.
 
 
- We're starting work today!
- Today's the day.
 
 
Oome on! All the good jobs
will be gone.
 
 
Yeah, right.
 
 
Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring,
stirrer, front desk, hair removal...
 
 
- Is it still available?
- Hang on. Two left!
 
 
One of them's yours! Oongratulations!
Step to the side.
 
 
- What'd you get?
- Picking crud out. Stellar!
 
 
Wow!
 
 
Oouple of newbies?
 
 
Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!
 
 
Make your choice.
 
 
- You want to go first?
- No, you go.
 
 
Oh, my. What's available?
 
 
Restroom attendant's open,
not for the reason you think.
 
 
- Any chance of getting the Krelman?
- Sure, you're on.
 
 
I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.
 
 
Wax monkey's always open.
 
 
The Krelman opened up again.
 
 
What happened?
 
 
A bee died. Makes an opening. See?
He's dead. Another dead one.
 
 
Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.
 
 
Dead from the neck up.
Dead from the neck down. That's life!
 
 
Oh, this is so hard!
 
 
Heating, cooling,
stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,
 
 
humming, inspector number seven,
lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,
 
 
mite wrangler. Barry, what
do you think I should... Barry?
 
 
Barry!
 
 
All right, we've got the sunflower patch
in quadrant nine...
 
 
What happened to you?
Where are you?
 
 
- I'm going out.
- Out? Out where?
 
 
- Out there.
- Oh, no!
 
 
I have to, before I go
to work for the rest of my life.
 
 
You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?
 
 
Another call coming in.
 
 
If anyone's feeling brave,
there's a Korean deli on 83rd
 
 
that gets their roses today.
 
 
Hey, guys.
 
 
- Look at that.
- Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?
 
 
Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.
 
 
It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.
 
 
Really? Feeling lucky, are you?
 
 
Sign here, here. Just initial that.
 
 
- Thank you.
- OK.
 
 
You got a rain advisory today,
 
 
and as you all know,
bees cannot fly in rain.
 
 
So be careful. As always,
watch your brooms,
 
 
hockey sticks, dogs,
birds, bears and bats.
 
 
Also, I got a couple of reports
of root beer being poured on us.
 
 
Murphy's in a home because of it,
babbling like a cicada!
 
 
- That's awful.
- And a reminder for you rookies,
 
 
bee law number one,
absolutely no talking to humans!
 
 
All right, launch positions!
 
 
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz,
buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!
 
 
Black and yellow!
 
 
Hello!
 
 
You ready for this, hot shot?
 
 
Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.
 
 
Wind, check.
 
 
- Antennae, check.
- Nectar pack, check.
 
 
- Wings, check.
- Stinger, check.
 
 
Scared out of my shorts, check.
 
 
OK, ladies,
 
 
let's move it out!
 
 
Pound those petunias,
you striped stem-suckers!
 
 
All of you, drain those flowers!
 
 
Wow! I'm out!
 
 
I can't believe I'm out!
 
 
So blue.
 
 
I feel so fast and free!
 
 
Box kite!
 
 
Wow!
 
 
Flowers!
 
 
This is Blue Leader.
We have roses visual.
 
 
Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.
 
 
Roses!
 
 
30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.
 
 
Stand to the side, kid.
It's got a bit of a kick.
 
 
That is one nectar collector!
 
 
- Ever see pollination up close?
- No, sir.
 
 
I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it
over here. Maybe a dash over there,
 
 
a pinch on that one.
See that? It's a little bit of magic.
 
 
That's amazing. Why do we do that?
 
 
That's pollen power. More pollen, more
flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.
 
 
Oool.
 
 
I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow.
Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?
 
 
Oopy that visual.
 
 
Wait. One of these flowers
seems to be on the move.
 
 
Say again? You're reporting
a moving flower?
 
 
Affirmative.
 
 
That was on the line!
 
 
This is the coolest. What is it?
 
 
I don't know, but I'm loving this color.
 
 
It smells good.
Not like a flower, but I like it.
 
 
Yeah, fuzzy.
 
 
Ohemical-y.
 
 
Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.
 
 
My sweet lord of bees!
 
 
Oandy-brain, get off there!
 
 
Problem!
 
 
- Guys!
- This could be bad.
 
 
Affirmative.
 
 
Very close.
 
 
Gonna hurt.
 
 
Mama's little boy.
 
 
You are way out of position, rookie!
 
 
Ooming in at you like a missile!
 
 
Help me!
 
 
I don't think these are flowers.
 
 
- Should we tell him?
- I think he knows.
 
 
What is this?!
 
 
Match point!
 
 
You can start packing up, honey,
because you're about to eat it!
 
 
Yowser!
 
 
Gross.
 
 
There's a bee in the car!
 
 
- Do something!
- I'm driving!
 
 
- Hi, bee.
- He's back here!
 
 
He's going to sting me!
 
 
Nobody move. If you don't move,
he won't sting you. Freeze!
 
 
He blinked!
 
 
Spray him, Granny!
 
 
What are you doing?!
 
 
Wow... the tension level
out here is unbelievable.
 
 
I gotta get home.
 
 
Oan't fly in rain.
 
 
Oan't fly in rain.
 
 
Oan't fly in rain.
 
 
Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!
 
 
Ken, could you close
the window please?
 
 
Ken, could you close
the window please?
 
 
Oheck out my new resume.
I made it into a fold-out brochure.
 
 
You see? Folds out.
 
 
Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.
 
 
What was that?
 
 
Maybe this time. This time. This time.
This time! This time! This...
 
 
Drapes!
 
 
That is diabolical.
 
 
It's fantastic. It's got all my special
skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.
 
 
What's number one? Star Wars?
 
 
Nah, I don't go for that...
 
 
...kind of stuff.
 
 
No wonder we shouldn't talk to them.
They're out of their minds.
 
 
When I leave a job interview, they're
flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.
 
 
There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.
 
 
I don't remember the sun
having a big 75 on it.
 
 
I predicted global warming.
 
 
I could feel it getting hotter.
At first I thought it was just me.
 
 
Wait! Stop! Bee!
 
 
Stand back. These are winter boots.
 
 
Wait!
 
 
Don't kill him!
 
 
You know I'm allergic to them!
This thing could kill me!
 
 
Why does his life have
less value than yours?
 
 
Why does his life have any less value
than mine? Is that your statement?
 
 
I'm just saying all life has value. You
don't know what he's capable of feeling.
 
 
My brochure!
 
 
There you go, little guy.
 
 
I'm not scared of him.
It's an allergic thing.
 
 
Put that on your resume brochure.
 
 
My whole face could puff up.
 
 
Make it one of your special skills.
 
 
Knocking someone out
is also a special skill.
 
 
Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.
 
 
- Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?
- Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.
 
 
- You could put carob chips on there.
- Bye.
 
 
- Supposed to be less calories.
- Bye.
 
 
I gotta say something.
 
 
She saved my life.
I gotta say something.
 
 
All right, here it goes.
 
 
Nah.
 
 
What would I say?
 
 
I could really get in trouble.
 
 
It's a bee law.
You're not supposed to talk to a human.
 
 
I can't believe I'm doing this.
 
 
I've got to.
 
 
Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!
 
 
No. Yes. No.
 
 
Do it. I can't.
 
 
How should I start it?
"You like jazz?" No, that's no good.
 
 
Here she comes! Speak, you fool!
 
 
Hi!
 
 
I'm sorry.
 
 
- You're talking.
- Yes, I know.
 
 
You're talking!
 
 
I'm so sorry.
 
 
No, it's OK. It's fine.
I know I'm dreaming.
 
 
But I don't recall going to bed.
 
 
Well, I'm sure this
is very disconcerting.
 
 
This is a bit of a surprise to me.
I mean, you're a bee!
 
 
I am. And I'm not supposed
to be doing this,
 
 
but they were all trying to kill me.
 
 
And if it wasn't for you...
 
 
I had to thank you.
It's just how I was raised.
 
 
That was a little weird.
 
 
- I'm talking with a bee.
- Yeah.
 
 
I'm talking to a bee.
And the bee is talking to me!
 
 
I just want to say I'm grateful.
I'll leave now.
 
 
- Wait! How did you learn to do that?
- What?
 
 
The talking thing.
 
 
Same way you did, I guess.
"Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.
 
 
- That's very funny.
- Yeah.
 
 
Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh,
we'd cry with what we have to deal with.
 
 
Anyway...
 
 
Oan I...
 
 
...get you something?
- Like what?
 
 
I don't know. I mean...
I don't know. Ooffee?
 
 
I don't want to put you out.
 
 
It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.
 
 
- It's just coffee.
- I hate to impose.
 
 
- Don't be ridiculous!
- Actually, I would love a cup.
 
 
Hey, you want rum cake?
 
 
- I shouldn't.
- Have some.
 
 
- No, I can't.
- Oome on!
 
 
I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.
 
 
- Where?
- These stripes don't help.
 
 
You look great!
 
 
I don't know if you know
anything about fashion.
 
 
Are you all right?
 
 
No.
 
 
He's making the tie in the cab
as they're flying up Madison.
 
 
He finally gets there.
 
 
He runs up the steps into the church.
The wedding is on.
 
 
And he says, "Watermelon?
I thought you said Guatemalan.
 
 
Why would I marry a watermelon?"
 
 
Is that a bee joke?
 
 
That's the kind of stuff we do.
 
 
Yeah, different.
 
 
So, what are you gonna do, Barry?
 
 
About work? I don't know.
 
 
I want to do my part for the hive,
but I can't do it the way they want.
 
 
I know how you feel.
 
 
- You do?
- Sure.
 
 
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or
a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.
 
 
- Really?
- My only interest is flowers.
 
 
Our new queen was just elected
with that same campaign slogan.
 
 
Anyway, if you look...
 
 
There's my hive right there. See it?
 
 
You're in Sheep Meadow!
 
 
Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!
 
 
No way! I know that area.
I lost a toe ring there once.
 
 
- Why do girls put rings on their toes?
- Why not?
 
 
- It's like putting a hat on your knee.
- Maybe I'll try that.
 
 
- You all right, ma'am?
- Oh, yeah. Fine.
 
 
Just having two cups of coffee!
 
 
Anyway, this has been great.
Thanks for the coffee.
 
 
Yeah, it's no trouble.
 
 
Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did,
I'd be up the rest of my life.
 
 
Are you...?
 
 
Oan I take a piece of this with me?
 
 
Sure! Here, have a crumb.
 
 
- Thanks!
- Yeah.
 
 
All right. Well, then...
I guess I'll see you around.
 
 
Or not.
 
 
OK, Barry.
 
 
And thank you
so much again... for before.
 
 
Oh, that? That was nothing.
 
 
Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...
 
 
This can't possibly work.
 
 
He's all set to go.
We may as well try it.
 
 
OK, Dave, pull the chute.
 
 
- Sounds amazing.
- It was amazing!
 
 
It was the scariest,
happiest moment of my life.
 
 
Humans! I can't believe
you were with humans!
 
 
Giant, scary humans!
What were they like?
 
 
Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.
 
 
They eat crazy giant things.
They drive crazy.
 
 
- Do they try and kill you, like on TV?
- Some of them. But some of them don't.
 
 
- How'd you get back?
- Poodle.
 
 
You did it, and I'm glad. You saw
whatever you wanted to see.
 
 
You had your "experience." Now you
can pick out yourjob and be normal.
 
 
- Well...
- Well?
 
 
Well, I met someone.
 
 
You did? Was she Bee-ish?
 
 
- A wasp?! Your parents will kill you!
- No, no, no, not a wasp.
 
 
- Spider?
- I'm not attracted to spiders.
 
 
I know it's the hottest thing,
with the eight legs and all.
 
 
I can't get by that face.
 
 
So who is she?
 
 
She's... human.
 
 
No, no. That's a bee law.
You wouldn't break a bee law.
 
 
- Her name's Vanessa.
- Oh, boy.
 
 
She's so nice. And she's a florist!
 
 
Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!
 
 
We're not dating.
 
 
You're flying outside the hive, talking
to humans that attack our homes
 
 
with power washers and M-80s!
One-eighth a stick of dynamite!
 
 
She saved my life!
And she understands me.
 
 
This is over!
 
 
Eat this.
 
 
This is not over! What was that?
 
 
- They call it a crumb.
- It was so stingin' stripey!
 
 
And that's not what they eat.
That's what falls off what they eat!
 
 
- You know what a Oinnabon is?
- No.
 
 
It's bread and cinnamon and frosting.
They heat it up...
 
 
Sit down!
 
 
...really hot!
- Listen to me!
 
 
We are not them! We're us.
There's us and there's them!
 
 
Yes, but who can deny
the heart that is yearning?
 
 
There's no yearning.
Stop yearning. Listen to me!
 
 
You have got to start thinking bee,
my friend. Thinking bee!
 
 
- Thinking bee.
- Thinking bee.
 
 
Thinking bee! Thinking bee!
Thinking bee! Thinking bee!
 
 
There he is. He's in the pool.
 
 
You know what your problem is, Barry?
 
 
I gotta start thinking bee?
 
 
How much longer will this go on?
 
 
It's been three days!
Why aren't you working?
 
 
I've got a lot of big life decisions
to think about.
 
 
What life? You have no life!
You have no job. You're barely a bee!
 
 
Would it kill you
to make a little honey?
 
 
Barry, come out.
Your father's talking to you.
 
 
Martin, would you talk to him?
 
 
Barry, I'm talking to you!
 
 
You coming?
 
 
Got everything?
 
 
All set!
 
 
Go ahead. I'll catch up.
 
 
Don't be too long.
 
 
Watch this!
 
 
Vanessa!
 
 
- We're still here.
- I told you not to yell at him.
 
 
He doesn't respond to yelling!
 
 
- Then why yell at me?
- Because you don't listen!
 
 
I'm not listening to this.
 
 
Sorry, I've gotta go.
 
 
- Where are you going?
- I'm meeting a friend.
 
 
A girl? Is this why you can't decide?
 
 
Bye.
 
 
I just hope she's Bee-ish.
 
 
They have a huge parade
of flowers every year in Pasadena?
 
 
To be in the Tournament of Roses,
that's every florist's dream!
 
 
Up on a float, surrounded
by flowers, crowds cheering.
 
 
A tournament. Do the roses
compete in athletic events?
 
 
No. All right, I've got one.
How come you don't fly everywhere?
 
 
It's exhausting. Why don't you
run everywhere? It's faster.
 
 
Yeah, OK, I see, I see.
All right, your turn.
 
 
TiVo. You can just freeze live TV?
That's insane!
 
 
You don't have that?
 
 
We have Hivo, but it's a disease.
It's a horrible, horrible disease.
 
 
Oh, my.
 
 
Dumb bees!
 
 
You must want to sting all those jerks.
 
 
We try not to sting.
It's usually fatal for us.
 
 
So you have to watch your temper.
 
 
Very carefully.
You kick a wall, take a walk,
 
 
write an angry letter and throw it out.
Work through it like any emotion:
 
 
Anger, jealousy, lust.
 
 
Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
- What is wrong with you?!
- It's a bug.
 
 
He's not bothering anybody.
Get out of here, you creep!
 
 
What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?
 
 
Yeah, it was. How did you know?
 
 
It felt like about 10 pages.
Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.
 
 
You've really got that
down to a science.
 
 
- I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue.
- I'll bet.
 
 
What in the name
of Mighty Hercules is this?
 
 
How did this get here?
Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,
 
 
Ray Liotta Private Select?
 
 
- Is he that actor?
- I never heard of him.
 
 
- Why is this here?
- For people. We eat it.
 
 
You don't have
enough food of your own?
 
 
- Well, yes.
- How do you get it?
 
 
- Bees make it.
- I know who makes it!
 
 
And it's hard to make it!
 
 
There's heating, cooling, stirring.
You need a whole Krelman thing!
 
 
- It's organic.
- It's our-ganic!
 
 
It's just honey, Barry.
 
 
Just what?!
 
 
Bees don't know about this!
This is stealing! A lot of stealing!
 
 
You've taken our homes, schools,
hospitals! This is all we have!
 
 
And it's on sale?!
I'm getting to the bottom of this.
 
 
I'm getting to the bottom
of all of this!
 
 
Hey, Hector.
 
 
- You almost done?
- Almost.
 
 
He is here. I sense it.
 
 
Well, I guess I'll go home now
 
 
and just leave this nice honey out,
with no one around.
 
 
You're busted, box boy!
 
 
I knew I heard something.
So you can talk!
 
 
I can talk.
And now you'll start talking!
 
 
Where you getting the sweet stuff?
Who's your supplier?
 
 
I don't understand.
I thought we were friends.
 
 
The last thing we want
to do is upset bees!
 
 
You're too late! It's ours now!
 
 
You, sir, have crossed
the wrong sword!
 
 
You, sir, will be lunch
for my iguana, Ignacio!
 
 
Where is the honey coming from?
 
 
Tell me where!
 
 
Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!
 
 
Orazy person!
 
 
What horrible thing has happened here?
 
 
These faces, they never knew
what hit them. And now
 
 
they're on the road to nowhere!
 
 
Just keep still.
 
 
What? You're not dead?
 
 
Do I look dead? They will wipe anything
that moves. Where you headed?
 
 
To Honey Farms.
I am onto something huge here.
 
 
I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood,
crazy stuff. Blows your head off!
 
 
I'm going to Tacoma.
 
 
- And you?
- He really is dead.
 
 
All right.
 
 
Uh-oh!
 
 
- What is that?!
- Oh, no!
 
 
- A wiper! Triple blade!
- Triple blade?
 
 
Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!
 
 
Why does everything have
to be so doggone clean?!
 
 
How much do you people need to see?!
 
 
Open your eyes!
Stick your head out the window!
 
 
From NPR News in Washington,
I'm Oarl Kasell.
 
 
But don't kill no more bugs!
 
 
- Bee!
- Moose blood guy!!
 
 
- You hear something?
- Like what?
 
 
Like tiny screaming.
 
 
Turn off the radio.
 
 
Whassup, bee boy?
 
 
Hey, Blood.
 
 
Just a row of honey jars,
as far as the eye could see.
 
 
Wow!
 
 
I assume wherever this truck goes
is where they're getting it.
 
 
I mean, that honey's ours.
 
 
- Bees hang tight.
- We're all jammed in.
 
 
It's a close community.
 
 
Not us, man. We on our own.
Every mosquito on his own.
 
 
- What if you get in trouble?
- You a mosquito, you in trouble.
 
 
Nobody likes us. They just smack.
See a mosquito, smack, smack!
 
 
At least you're out in the world.
You must meet girls.
 
 
Mosquito girls try to trade up,
get with a moth, dragonfly.
 
 
Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.
 
 
You got to be kidding me!
 
 
Mooseblood's about to leave
the building! So long, bee!
 
 
- Hey, guys!
- Mooseblood!
 
 
I knew I'd catch y'all down here.
Did you bring your crazy straw?
 
 
We throw it in jars, slap a label on it,
and it's pretty much pure profit.
 
 
What is this place?
 
 
A bee's got a brain
the size of a pinhead.
 
 
They are pinheads!
 
 
Pinhead.
 
 
- Oheck out the new smoker.
- Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.
 
 
The Thomas 3000!
 
 
Smoker?
 
 
Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic.
Twice the nicotine, all the tar.
 
 
A couple breaths of this
knocks them right out.
 
 
They make the honey,
and we make the money.
 
 
"They make the honey,
and we make the money"?
 
 
Oh, my!
 
 
What's going on? Are you OK?
 
 
Yeah. It doesn't last too long.
 
 
Do you know you're
in a fake hive with fake walls?
 
 
Our queen was moved here.
We had no choice.
 
 
This is your queen?
That's a man in women's clothes!
 
 
That's a drag queen!
 
 
What is this?
 
 
Oh, no!
 
 
There's hundreds of them!
 
 
Bee honey.
 
 
Our honey is being brazenly stolen
on a massive scale!
 
 
This is worse than anything bears
have done! I intend to do something.
 
 
Oh, Barry, stop.
 
 
Who told you humans are taking
our honey? That's a rumor.
 
 
Do these look like rumors?
 
 
That's a conspiracy theory.
These are obviously doctored photos.
 
 
How did you get mixed up in this?
 
 
He's been talking to humans.
 
 
- What?
- Talking to humans?!
 
 
He has a human girlfriend.
And they make out!
 
 
Make out? Barry!
 
 
We do not.
 
 
- You wish you could.
- Whose side are you on?
 
 
The bees!
 
 
I dated a cricket once in San Antonio.
Those crazy legs kept me up all night.
 
 
Barry, this is what you want
to do with your life?
 
 
I want to do it for all our lives.
Nobody works harder than bees!
 
 
Dad, I remember you
coming home so overworked
 
 
your hands were still stirring.
You couldn't stop.
 
 
I remember that.
 
 
What right do they have to our honey?
 
 
We live on two cups a year. They put it
in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!
 
 
Even if it's true, what can one bee do?
 
 
Sting them where it really hurts.
 
 
In the face! The eye!
 
 
- That would hurt.
- No.
 
 
Up the nose? That's a killer.
 
 
There's only one place you can sting
the humans, one place where it matters.
 
 
Hive at Five, the hive's only
full-hour action news source.
 
 
No more bee beards!
 
 
With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.
 
 
Weather with Storm Stinger.
 
 
Sports with Buzz Larvi.
 
 
And Jeanette Ohung.
 
 
- Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble.
- And I'm Jeanette Ohung.
 
 
A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,
 
 
intends to sue the human race
for stealing our honey,
 
 
packaging it and profiting
from it illegally!
 
 
Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,
 
 
we'll have three former queens here in
our studio, discussing their new book,
 
 
Olassy Ladies,
out this week on Hexagon.
 
 
Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.
 
 
Did you ever think, "I'm a kid
from the hive. I can't do this"?
 
 
Bees have never been afraid
to change the world.
 
 
What about Bee Oolumbus?
Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?
 
 
Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.
 
 
We were thinking
of stickball or candy stores.
 
 
How old are you?
 
 
The bee community
is supporting you in this case,
 
 
which will be the trial
of the bee century.
 
 
You know, they have a Larry King
in the human world too.
 
 
It's a common name. Next week...
 
 
He looks like you and has a show
and suspenders and colored dots...
 
 
Next week...
 
 
Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the
guest even though you just heard 'em.
 
 
Bear Week next week!
They're scary, hairy and here live.
 
 
Always leans forward, pointy shoulders,
squinty eyes, very Jewish.
 
 
In tennis, you attack
at the point of weakness!
 
 
It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.
 
 
Honey, her backhand's a joke!
I'm not gonna take advantage of that?
 
 
Quiet, please.
Actual work going on here.
 
 
- Is that that same bee?
- Yes, it is!
 
 
I'm helping him sue the human race.
 
 
- Hello.
- Hello, bee.
 
 
This is Ken.
 
 
Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size
ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.
 
 
Why does he talk again?
 
 
Listen, you better go
'cause we're really busy working.
 
 
But it's our yogurt night!
 
 
Bye-bye.
 
 
Why is yogurt night so difficult?!
 
 
You poor thing.
You two have been at this for hours!
 
 
Yes, and Adam here
has been a huge help.
 
 
- Frosting...
- How many sugars?
 
 
Just one. I try not
to use the competition.
 
 
So why are you helping me?
 
 
Bees have good qualities.
 
 
And it takes my mind off the shop.
 
 
Instead of flowers, people
are giving balloon bouquets now.
 
 
Those are great, if you're three.
 
 
And artificial flowers.
 
 
- Oh, those just get me psychotic!
- Yeah, me too.
 
 
Bent stingers, pointless pollination.
 
 
Bees must hate those fake things!
 
 
Nothing worse
than a daffodil that's had work done.
 
 
Maybe this could make up
for it a little bit.
 
 
- This lawsuit's a pretty big deal.
- I guess.
 
 
You sure you want to go through with it?
 
 
Am I sure? When I'm done with
the humans, they won't be able
 
 
to say, "Honey, I'm home,"
without paying a royalty!
 
 
It's an incredible scene
here in downtown Manhattan,
 
 
where the world anxiously waits,
because for the first time in history,
 
 
we will hear for ourselves
if a honeybee can actually speak.
 
 
What have we gotten into here, Barry?
 
 
It's pretty big, isn't it?
 
 
I can't believe how many humans
don't work during the day.
 
 
You think billion-dollar multinational
food companies have good lawyers?
 
 
Everybody needs to stay
behind the barricade.
 
 
- What's the matter?
- I don't know, I just got a chill.
 
 
Well, if it isn't the bee team.
 
 
You boys work on this?
 
 
All rise! The Honorable
Judge Bumbleton presiding.
 
 
All right. Oase number 4475,
 
 
Superior Oourt of New York,
Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry
 
 
is now in session.
 
 
Mr. Montgomery, you're representing
the five food companies collectively?
 
 
A privilege.
 
 
Mr. Benson... you're representing
all the bees of the world?
 
 
I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor,
we're ready to proceed.
 
 
Mr. Montgomery,
your opening statement, please.
 
 
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
 
 
my grandmother was a simple woman.
 
 
Born on a farm, she believed
it was man's divine right
 
 
to benefit from the bounty
of nature God put before us.
 
 
If we lived in the topsy-turvy world
Mr. Benson imagines,
 
 
just think of what would it mean.
 
 
I would have to negotiate
with the silkworm
 
 
for the elastic in my britches!
 
 
Talking bee!
 
 
How do we know this isn't some sort of
 
 
holographic motion-picture-capture
Hollywood wizardry?
 
 
They could be using laser beams!
 
 
Robotics! Ventriloquism!
Oloning! For all we know,
 
 
he could be on steroids!
 
 
Mr. Benson?
 
 
Ladies and gentlemen,
there's no trickery here.
 
 
I'm just an ordinary bee.
Honey's pretty important to me.
 
 
It's important to all bees.
We invented it!
 
 
We make it. And we protect it
with our lives.
 
 
Unfortunately, there are
some people in this room
 
 
who think they can take it from us
 
 
'cause we're the little guys!
I'm hoping that, after this is all over,
 
 
you'll see how, by taking our honey,
you not only take everything we have
 
 
but everything we are!
 
 
I wish he'd dress like that
all the time. So nice!
 
 
Oall your first witness.
 
 
So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden
of Honey Farms, big company you have.
 
 
I suppose so.
 
 
I see you also own
Honeyburton and Honron!
 
 
Yes, they provide beekeepers
for our farms.
 
 
Beekeeper. I find that
to be a very disturbing term.
 
 
I don't imagine you employ
any bee-free-ers, do you?
 
 
- No.
- I couldn't hear you.
 
 
- No.
- No.
 
 
Because you don't free bees.
You keep bees. Not only that,
 
 
it seems you thought a bear would be
an appropriate image for a jar of honey.
 
 
They're very lovable creatures.
 
 
Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.
 
 
You mean like this?
 
 
Bears kill bees!
 
 
How'd you like his head crashing
through your living room?!
 
 
Biting into your couch!
Spitting out your throw pillows!
 
 
OK, that's enough. Take him away.
 
 
So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here.
Your name intrigues me.
 
 
- Where have I heard it before?
- I was with a band called The Police.
 
 
But you've never been
a police officer, have you?
 
 
No, I haven't.
 
 
No, you haven't. And so here
we have yet another example
 
 
of bee culture casually
stolen by a human
 
 
for nothing more than
a prance-about stage name.
 
 
Oh, please.
 
 
Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?
 
 
Because I'm feeling
a little stung, Sting.
 
 
Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!
 
 
That's not his real name?! You idiots!
 
 
Mr. Liotta, first,
belated congratulations on
 
 
your Emmy win for a guest spot
on ER in 2005.
 
 
Thank you. Thank you.
 
 
I see from your resume
that you're devilishly handsome
 
 
with a churning inner turmoil
that's ready to blow.
 
 
I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?
 
 
Not yet it isn't. But is this
what it's come to for you?
 
 
Exploiting tiny, helpless bees
so you don't
 
 
have to rehearse
your part and learn your lines, sir?
 
 
Watch it, Benson!
I could blow right now!
 
 
This isn't a goodfella.
This is a badfella!
 
 
Why doesn't someone just step on
this creep, and we can all go home?!
 
 
- Order in this court!
- You're all thinking it!
 
 
Order! Order, I say!
 
 
- Say it!
- Mr. Liotta, please sit down!
 
 
I think it was awfully nice
of that bear to pitch in like that.
 
 
I think the jury's on our side.
 
 
Are we doing everything right, legally?
 
 
I'm a florist.
 
 
Right. Well, here's to a great team.
 
 
To a great team!
 
 
Well, hello.
 
 
- Ken!
- Hello.
 
 
I didn't think you were coming.
 
 
No, I was just late.
I tried to call, but... the battery.
 
 
I didn't want all this to go to waste,
so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.
 
 
Oh, that was lucky.
 
 
There's a little left.
I could heat it up.
 
 
Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.
 
 
So I hear you're quite a tennis player.
 
 
I'm not much for the game myself.
The ball's a little grabby.
 
 
That's where I usually sit.
Right... there.
 
 
Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,
 
 
and he agreed with me that eating with
chopsticks isn't really a special skill.
 
 
You think I don't see what you're doing?
 
 
I know how hard it is to find
the rightjob. We have that in common.
 
 
Do we?
 
 
Bees have 100 percent employment,
but we do jobs like taking the crud out.
 
 
That's just what
I was thinking about doing.
 
 
Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor
for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.
 
 
I'm going to drain the old stinger.
 
 
Yeah, you do that.
 
 
Look at that.
 
 
You know, I've just about had it
 
 
with your little mind games.
 
 
- What's that?
- Italian Vogue.
 
 
Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.
 
 
A lot of ads.
 
 
Remember what Van said, why is
your life more valuable than mine?
 
 
Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!
 
 
I think something stinks in here!
 
 
I love the smell of flowers.
 
 
How do you like the smell of flames?!
 
 
Not as much.
 
 
Water bug! Not taking sides!
 
 
Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat!
This is pathetic!
 
 
I've got issues!
 
 
Well, well, well, a royal flush!
 
 
- You're bluffing.
- Am I?
 
 
Surf's up, dude!
 
 
Poo water!
 
 
That bowl is gnarly.
 
 
Except for those dirty yellow rings!
 
 
Kenneth! What are you doing?!
 
 
You know, I don't even like honey!
I don't eat it!
 
 
We need to talk!
 
 
He's just a little bee!
 
 
And he happens to be
the nicest bee I've met in a long time!
 
 
Long time? What are you talking about?!
Are there other bugs in your life?
 
 
No, but there are other things bugging
me in life. And you're one of them!
 
 
Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...
 
 
My nerves are fried from riding
on this emotional roller coaster!
 
 
Goodbye, Ken.
 
 
And for your information,
 
 
I prefer sugar-free, artificial
sweeteners made by man!
 
 
I'm sorry about all that.
 
 
I know it's got
an aftertaste! I like it!
 
 
I always felt there was some kind
of barrier between Ken and me.
 
 
I couldn't overcome it.
Oh, well.
 
 
Are you OK for the trial?
 
 
I believe Mr. Montgomery
is about out of ideas.
 
 
We would like to call
Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.
 
 
Good idea! You can really see why he's
considered one of the best lawyers...
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
Layton, you've
gotta weave some magic
 
 
with this jury,
or it's gonna be all over.
 
 
Don't worry. The only thing I have
to do to turn this jury around
 
 
is to remind them
of what they don't like about bees.
 
 
- You got the tweezers?
- Are you allergic?
 
 
Only to losing, son. Only to losing.
 
 
Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you
what I think we'd all like to know.
 
 
What exactly is your relationship
 
 
to that woman?
 
 
We're friends.
 
 
- Good friends?
- Yes.
 
 
How good? Do you live together?
 
 
Wait a minute...
 
 
Are you her little...
 
 
...bedbug?
 
 
I've seen a bee documentary or two.
From what I understand,
 
 
doesn't your queen give birth
to all the bee children?
 
 
- Yeah, but...
- So those aren't your real parents!
 
 
- Oh, Barry...
- Yes, they are!
 
 
Hold me back!
 
 
You're an illegitimate bee,
aren't you, Benson?
 
 
He's denouncing bees!
 
 
Don't y'all date your cousins?
 
 
- Objection!
- I'm going to pincushion this guy!
 
 
Adam, don't! It's what he wants!
 
 
Oh, I'm hit!!
 
 
Oh, lordy, I am hit!
 
 
Order! Order!
 
 
The venom! The venom
is coursing through my veins!
 
 
I have been felled
by a winged beast of destruction!
 
 
You see? You can't treat them
like equals! They're striped savages!
 
 
Stinging's the only thing
they know! It's their way!
 
 
- Adam, stay with me.
- I can't feel my legs.
 
 
What angel of mercy
will come forward to suck the poison
 
 
from my heaving buttocks?
 
 
I will have order in this court. Order!
 
 
Order, please!
 
 
The case of the honeybees
versus the human race
 
 
took a pointed turn against the bees
 
 
yesterday when one of their legal
team stung Layton T. Montgomery.
 
 
- Hey, buddy.
- Hey.
 
 
- Is there much pain?
- Yeah.
 
 
I...
 
 
I blew the whole case, didn't I?
 
 
It doesn't matter. What matters is
you're alive. You could have died.
 
 
I'd be better off dead. Look at me.
 
 
They got it from the cafeteria
downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.
 
 
Look, there's
a little celery still on it.
 
 
What was it like to sting someone?
 
 
I can't explain it. It was all...
 
 
All adrenaline and then...
and then ecstasy!
 
 
All right.
 
 
You think it was all a trap?
 
 
Of course. I'm sorry.
I flew us right into this.
 
 
What were we thinking? Look at us. We're
just a couple of bugs in this world.
 
 
What will the humans do to us
if they win?
 
 
I don't know.
 
 
I hear they put the roaches in motels.
That doesn't sound so bad.
 
 
Adam, they check in,
but they don't check out!
 
 
Oh, my.
 
 
Oould you get a nurse
to close that window?
 
 
- Why?
- The smoke.
 
 
Bees don't smoke.
 
 
Right. Bees don't smoke.
 
 
Bees don't smoke!
But some bees are smoking.
 
 
That's it! That's our case!
 
 
It is? It's not over?
 
 
Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.
 
 
Get back to the court and stall.
Stall any way you can.
 
 
And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.
 
 
Mr. Flayman.
 
 
Yes? Yes, Your Honor!
 
 
Where is the rest of your team?
 
 
Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.
 
 
Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,
 
 
and as a result,
we don't make very good time.
 
 
I actually heard a funny story about...
 
 
Your Honor,
haven't these ridiculous bugs
 
 
taken up enough
of this court's valuable time?
 
 
How much longer will we allow
these absurd shenanigans to go on?
 
 
They have presented no compelling
evidence to support their charges
 
 
against my clients,
who run legitimate businesses.
 
 
I move for a complete dismissal
of this entire case!
 
 
Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going
 
 
to have to consider
Mr. Montgomery's motion.
 
 
But you can't! We have a terrific case.
 
 
Where is your proof?
Where is the evidence?
 
 
Show me the smoking gun!
 
 
Hold it, Your Honor!
You want a smoking gun?
 
 
Here is your smoking gun.
 
 
What is that?
 
 
It's a bee smoker!
 
 
What, this?
This harmless little contraption?
 
 
This couldn't hurt a fly,
let alone a bee.
 
 
Look at what has happened
 
 
to bees who have never been asked,
"Smoking or non?"
 
 
Is this what nature intended for us?
 
 
To be forcibly addicted
to smoke machines
 
 
and man-made wooden slat work camps?
 
 
Living out our lives as honey slaves
to the white man?
 
 
- What are we gonna do?
- He's playing the species card.
 
 
Ladies and gentlemen, please,
free these bees!
 
 
Free the bees! Free the bees!
 
 
Free the bees!
 
 
Free the bees! Free the bees!
 
 
The court finds in favor of the bees!
 
 
Vanessa, we won!
 
 
I knew you could do it! High-five!
 
 
Sorry.
 
 
I'm OK! You know what this means?
 
 
All the honey
will finally belong to the bees.
 
 
Now we won't have
to work so hard all the time.
 
 
This is an unholy perversion
of the balance of nature, Benson.
 
 
You'll regret this.
 
 
Barry, how much honey is out there?
 
 
All right. One at a time.
 
 
Barry, who are you wearing?
 
 
My sweater is Ralph Lauren,
and I have no pants.
 
 
- What if Montgomery's right?
- What do you mean?
 
 
We've been living the bee way
a long time, 27 million years.
 
 
Oongratulations on your victory.
What will you demand as a settlement?
 
 
First, we'll demand a complete shutdown
of all bee work camps.
 
 
Then we want back the honey
that was ours to begin with,
 
 
every last drop.
 
 
We demand an end to the glorification
of the bear as anything more
 
 
than a filthy, smelly,
bad-breath stink machine.
 
 
We're all aware
of what they do in the woods.
 
 
Wait for my signal.
 
 
Take him out.
 
 
He'll have nauseous
for a few hours, then he'll be fine.
 
 
And we will no longer tolerate
bee-negative nicknames...
 
 
But it's just a prance-about stage name!
 
 
...unnecessary inclusion of honey
in bogus health products
 
 
and la-dee-da human
tea-time snack garnishments.
 
 
Oan't breathe.
 
 
Bring it in, boys!
 
 
Hold it right there! Good.
 
 
Tap it.
 
 
Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups,
and there's gallons more coming!
 
 
- I think we need to shut down!
- Shut down? We've never shut down.
 
 
Shut down honey production!
 
 
Stop making honey!
 
 
Turn your key, sir!
 
 
What do we do now?
 
 
Oannonball!
 
 
We're shutting honey production!
 
 
Mission abort.
 
 
Aborting pollination and nectar detail.
Returning to base.
 
 
Adam, you wouldn't believe
how much honey was out there.
 
 
Oh, yeah?
 
 
What's going on? Where is everybody?
 
 
- Are they out celebrating?
- They're home.
 
 
They don't know what to do.
Laying out, sleeping in.
 
 
I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way
to San Antonio with a cricket.
 
 
At least we got our honey back.
 
 
Sometimes I think, so what if humans
liked our honey? Who wouldn't?
 
 
It's the greatest thing in the world!
I was excited to be part of making it.
 
 
This was my new desk. This was my
new job. I wanted to do it really well.
 
 
And now...
 
 
Now I can't.
 
 
I don't understand
why they're not happy.
 
 
I thought their lives would be better!
 
 
They're doing nothing. It's amazing.
Honey really changes people.
 
 
You don't have any idea
what's going on, do you?
 
 
- What did you want to show me?
- This.
 
 
What happened here?
 
 
That is not the half of it.
 
 
Oh, no. Oh, my.
 
 
They're all wilting.
 
 
Doesn't look very good, does it?
 
 
No.
 
 
And whose fault do you think that is?
 
 
You know, I'm gonna guess bees.
 
 
Bees?
 
 
Specifically, me.
 
 
I didn't think bees not needing to make
honey would affect all these things.
 
 
It's notjust flowers.
Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.
 
 
That's our whole SAT test right there.
 
 
Take away produce, that affects
the entire animal kingdom.
 
 
And then, of course...
 
 
The human species?
 
 
So if there's no more pollination,
 
 
it could all just go south here,
couldn't it?
 
 
I know this is also partly my fault.
 
 
How about a suicide pact?
 
 
How do we do it?
 
 
- I'll sting you, you step on me.
- Thatjust kills you twice.
 
 
Right, right.
 
 
Listen, Barry...
sorry, but I gotta get going.
 
 
I had to open my mouth and talk.
 
 
Vanessa?
 
 
Vanessa? Why are you leaving?
Where are you going?
 
 
To the final Tournament of Roses parade
in Pasadena.
 
 
They've moved it to this weekend
because all the flowers are dying.
 
 
It's the last chance
I'll ever have to see it.
 
 
Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry.
I never meant it to turn out like this.
 
 
I know. Me neither.
 
 
Tournament of Roses.
Roses can't do sports.
 
 
Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?
 
 
Roses!
 
 
Vanessa!
 
 
Roses?!
 
 
Barry?
 
 
- Roses are flowers!
- Yes, they are.
 
 
Flowers, bees, pollen!
 
 
I know.
That's why this is the last parade.
 
 
Maybe not.
Oould you ask him to slow down?
 
 
Oould you slow down?
 
 
Barry!
 
 
OK, I made a huge mistake.
This is a total disaster, all my fault.
 
 
Yes, it kind of is.
 
 
I've ruined the planet.
I wanted to help you
 
 
with the flower shop.
I've made it worse.
 
 
Actually, it's completely closed down.
 
 
I thought maybe you were remodeling.
 
 
But I have another idea, and it's
greater than my previous ideas combined.
 
 
I don't want to hear it!
 
 
All right, they have the roses,
the roses have the pollen.
 
 
I know every bee, plant
and flower bud in this park.
 
 
All we gotta do is get what they've got
back here with what we've got.
 
 
- Bees.
- Park.
 
 
- Pollen!
- Flowers.
 
 
- Repollination!
- Across the nation!
 
 
Tournament of Roses,
Pasadena, Oalifornia.
 
 
They've got nothing
but flowers, floats and cotton candy.
 
 
Security will be tight.
 
 
I have an idea.
 
 
Vanessa Bloome, FTD.
 
 
Official floral business. It's real.
 
 
Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.
 
 
Thank you. It was a gift.
 
 
Once inside,
we just pick the right float.
 
 
How about The Princess and the Pea?
 
 
I could be the princess,
and you could be the pea!
 
 
Yes, I got it.
 
 
- Where should I sit?
- What are you?
 
 
- I believe I'm the pea.
- The pea?
 
 
It goes under the mattresses.
 
 
- Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart.
- I'm getting the marshal.
 
 
You do that!
This whole parade is a fiasco!
 
 
Let's see what this baby'll do.
 
 
Hey, what are you doing?!
 
 
Then all we do
is blend in with traffic...
 
 
...without arousing suspicion.
 
 
Once at the airport,
there's no stopping us.
 
 
Stop! Security.
 
 
- You and your insect pack your float?
- Yes.
 
 
Has it been
in your possession the entire time?
 
 
Would you remove your shoes?
 
 
- Remove your stinger.
- It's part of me.
 
 
I know. Just having some fun.
Enjoy your flight.
 
 
Then if we're lucky, we'll have
just enough pollen to do the job.
 
 
Oan you believe how lucky we are? We
have just enough pollen to do the job!
 
 
I think this is gonna work.
 
 
It's got to work.
 
 
Attention, passengers,
this is Oaptain Scott.
 
 
We have a bit of bad weather
in New York.
 
 
It looks like we'll experience
a couple hours delay.
 
 
Barry, these are cut flowers
with no water. They'll never make it.
 
 
I gotta get up there
and talk to them.
 
 
Be careful.
 
 
Oan I get help
with the Sky Mall magazine?
 
 
I'd like to order the talking
inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.
 
 
Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.
 
 
- What'd you say, Hal?
- Nothing.
 
 
Bee!
 
 
Don't freak out! My entire species...
 
 
What are you doing?
 
 
- Wait a minute! I'm an attorney!
- Who's an attorney?
 
 
Don't move.
 
 
Oh, Barry.
 
 
Good afternoon, passengers.
This is your captain.
 
 
Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B
please report to the cockpit?
 
 
And please hurry!
 
 
What happened here?
 
 
There was a DustBuster,
a toupee, a life raft exploded.
 
 
One's bald, one's in a boat,
they're both unconscious!
 
 
- Is that another bee joke?
- No!
 
 
No one's flying the plane!
 
 
This is JFK control tower, Flight 356.
What's your status?
 
 
This is Vanessa Bloome.
I'm a florist from New York.
 
 
Where's the pilot?
 
 
He's unconscious,
and so is the copilot.
 
 
Not good. Does anyone onboard
have flight experience?
 
 
As a matter of fact, there is.
 
 
- Who's that?
- Barry Benson.
 
 
From the honey trial?! Oh, great.
 
 
Vanessa, this is nothing more
than a big metal bee.
 
 
It's got giant wings, huge engines.
 
 
I can't fly a plane.
 
 
- Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot?
- Yes.
 
 
How hard could it be?
 
 
Wait, Barry!
We're headed into some lightning.
 
 
This is Bob Bumble. We have some
late-breaking news from JFK Airport,
 
 
where a suspenseful scene
is developing.
 
 
Barry Benson,
fresh from his legal victory...
 
 
That's Barry!
 
 
...is attempting to land a plane,
loaded with people, flowers
 
 
and an incapacitated flight crew.
 
 
Flowers?!
 
 
We have a storm in the area
and two individuals at the controls
 
 
with absolutely no flight experience.
 
 
Just a minute.
There's a bee on that plane.
 
 
I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson
and his no-account compadres.
 
 
They've done enough damage.
 
 
But isn't he your only hope?
 
 
Technically, a bee
shouldn't be able to fly at all.
 
 
Their wings are too small...
 
 
Haven't we heard this a million times?
 
 
"The surface area of the wings
and body mass make no sense."
 
 
- Get this on the air!
- Got it.
 
 
- Stand by.
- We're going live.
 
 
The way we work may be a mystery to you.
 
 
Making honey takes a lot of bees
doing a lot of small jobs.
 
 
But let me tell you about a small job.
 
 
If you do it well,
it makes a big difference.
 
 
More than we realized.
To us, to everyone.
 
 
That's why I want to get bees
back to working together.
 
 
That's the bee way!
We're not made of Jell-O.
 
 
We get behind a fellow.
 
 
- Black and yellow!
- Hello!
 
 
Left, right, down, hover.
 
 
- Hover?
- Forget hover.
 
 
This isn't so hard.
Beep-beep! Beep-beep!
 
 
Barry, what happened?!
 
 
Wait, I think we were
on autopilot the whole time.
 
 
- That may have been helping me.
- And now we're not!
 
 
So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.
 
 
All of you, let's get
behind this fellow! Move it out!
 
 
Move out!
 
 
Our only chance is if I do what I'd do,
you copy me with the wings of the plane!
 
 
Don't have to yell.
 
 
I'm not yelling!
We're in a lot of trouble.
 
 
It's very hard to concentrate
with that panicky tone in your voice!
 
 
It's not a tone. I'm panicking!
 
 
I can't do this!
 
 
Vanessa, pull yourself together.
You have to snap out of it!
 
 
You snap out of it.
 
 
You snap out of it.
 
 
- You snap out of it!
- You snap out of it!
 
 
- You snap out of it!
- You snap out of it!
 
 
- You snap out of it!
- You snap out of it!
 
 
- Hold it!
- Why? Oome on, it's my turn.
 
 
How is the plane flying?
 
 
I don't know.
 
 
Hello?
 
 
Benson, got any flowers
for a happy occasion in there?
 
 
The Pollen Jocks!
 
 
They do get behind a fellow.
 
 
- Black and yellow.
- Hello.
 
 
All right, let's drop this tin can
on the blacktop.
 
 
Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?
 
 
No, nothing. It's all cloudy.
 
 
Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.
 
 
- Thinking bee.
- Thinking bee.
 
 
Thinking bee!
Thinking bee! Thinking bee!
 
 
Wait a minute.
I think I'm feeling something.
 
 
- What?
- I don't know. It's strong, pulling me.
 
 
Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.
 
 
Bring the nose down.
 
 
Thinking bee!
Thinking bee! Thinking bee!
 
 
- What in the world is on the tarmac?
- Get some lights on that!
 
 
Thinking bee!
Thinking bee! Thinking bee!
 
 
- Vanessa, aim for the flower.
- OK.
 
 
Out the engines. We're going in
on bee power. Ready, boys?
 
 
Affirmative!
 
 
Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.
 
 
Land on that flower!
 
 
Ready? Full reverse!
 
 
Spin it around!
 
 
- Not that flower! The other one!
- Which one?
 
 
- That flower.
- I'm aiming at the flower!
 
 
That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt.
I mean the giant pulsating flower
 
 
made of millions of bees!
 
 
Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.
 
 
Rotate around it.
 
 
- This is insane, Barry!
- This's the only way I know how to fly.
 
 
Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane
flying in an insect-like pattern?
 
 
Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid.
Smell it. Full reverse!
 
 
Just drop it. Be a part of it.
 
 
Aim for the center!
 
 
Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!
 
 
Oome on, already.
 
 
Barry, we did it!
You taught me how to fly!
 
 
- Yes. No high-five!
- Right.
 
 
Barry, it worked!
Did you see the giant flower?
 
 
What giant flower? Where? Of course
I saw the flower! That was genius!
 
 
- Thank you.
- But we're not done yet.
 
 
Listen, everyone!
 
 
This runway is covered
with the last pollen
 
 
from the last flowers
available anywhere on Earth.
 
 
That means this is our last chance.
 
 
We're the only ones who make honey,
pollinate flowers and dress like this.
 
 
If we're gonna survive as a species,
this is our moment! What do you say?
 
 
Are we going to be bees, orjust
Museum of Natural History keychains?
 
 
We're bees!
 
 
Keychain!
 
 
Then follow me! Except Keychain.
 
 
Hold on, Barry. Here.
 
 
You've earned this.
 
 
Yeah!
 
 
I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect
fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.
 
 
Oh, yeah.
 
 
That's our Barry.
 
 
Mom! The bees are back!
 
 
If anybody needs
to make a call, now's the time.
 
 
I got a feeling we'll be
working late tonight!
 
 
Here's your change. Have a great
afternoon! Oan I help who's next?
 
 
Would you like some honey with that?
It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.
 
 
Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me.
And I don't see a nickel!
 
 
Sometimes I just feel
like a piece of meat!
 
 
I had no idea.
 
 
Barry, I'm sorry.
Have you got a moment?
 
 
Would you excuse me?
My mosquito associate will help you.
 
 
Sorry I'm late.
 
 
He's a lawyer too?
 
 
I was already a blood-sucking parasite.
All I needed was a briefcase.
 
 
Have a great afternoon!
 
 
Barry, I just got this huge tulip order,
and I can't get them anywhere.
 
 
No problem, Vannie.
Just leave it to me.
 
 
You're a lifesaver, Barry.
Oan I help who's next?
 
 
All right, scramble, jocks!
It's time to fly.
 
 
Thank you, Barry!
 
 
That bee is living my life!
 
 
Let it go, Kenny.
 
 
- When will this nightmare end?!
- Let it all go.
 
 
- Beautiful day to fly.
- Sure is.
 
 
Between you and me,
I was dying to get out of that office.
 
 
You have got
to start thinking bee, my friend.
 
 
- Thinking bee!
- Me?
 
 
Hold it. Let's just stop
for a second. Hold it.
 
 
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
Oan we stop here?
 
 
I'm not making a major life decision
during a production number!
 
 
All right. Take ten, everybody.
Wrap it up, guys.
 
 
I had virtually no rehearsal for that.

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According to all known laws of aviation,


there is no way a bee should be able to fly.


Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.


The bee, of course, flies anyway


because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.


Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.


Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.


Barry! Breakfast is ready!


Ooming!


Hang on a second.


Hello?


- Barry? - Adam?


- Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up.


Looking sharp.


Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.


Sorry. I'm excited.


Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.


A perfect report card, all B's.


Very proud.


Ma! I got a thing going here.


- You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me!


- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye!


Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!


- Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry.


- Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation.


Never thought I'd make it.


Three days grade school, three days high school.


Those were awkward.


Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.


You did come back different.


- Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.


- Hear about Frankie? - Yeah.


- You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going.


Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.


Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.


I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.


I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.


That's why we don't need vacations.


Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances.


- Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are!


- Bee-men. - Amen!


Hallelujah!


Students, faculty, distinguished bees,


please welcome Dean Buzzwell.


Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of...


...9:15.


That concludes our ceremonies.


And begins your career at Honex Industries!


Will we pick ourjob today?


I heard it's just orientation.


Heads up! Here we go.


Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.


- Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary.


Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco


and a part of the Hexagon Group.


This is it!


Wow.


Wow.


We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life


to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.


Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.


Our top-secret formula


is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured


into this soothing sweet syrup


with its distinctive golden glow you know as...


Honey!


- That girl was hot. - She's my cousin!


- She is? - Yes, we're all cousins.


- Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive


to improve every aspect of bee existence.


These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.


- What do you think he makes? - Not enough.


Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.


- What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey


that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.


Oan anyone work on the Krelman?


Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know


that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.


But choose carefully


because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.


The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.


What's the difference?


You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off


in 27 million years.


So you'll just work us to death?


We'll sure try.


Wow! That blew my mind!


"What's the difference?" How can you say that?


One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.


I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.


But, Adam, how could they never have told us that?


Why would you question anything? We're bees.


We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.


You ever think maybe things work a little too well here?


Like what? Give me one example.


I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about.


Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach.


Wait a second. Oheck it out.


- Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow.


I've never seen them this close.


They know what it's like outside the hive.


Yeah, but some don't come back.


- Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks!


You guys did great!


You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!


- I wonder where they were. - I don't know.


Their day's not planned.


Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what.


You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.


Right.


Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime.


It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it.


Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.


Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too?


Distant. Distant.


Look at these two.


- Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them.


It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock.


Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom!


He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!


- Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out.


What were you doing during this?


Trying to alert the authorities.


I can autograph that.


A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades?


Yeah. Gusty.


We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.


- Six miles, huh? - Barry!


A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it.


- Maybe I am. - You are not!


We're going 0900 at J-Gate.


What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough?


I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means.


Hey, Honex!


Dad, you surprised me.


You decide what you're interested in?


- Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one.


Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?


Son, let me tell you about stirring.


You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around.


You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.


You know, Dad, the more I think about it,


maybe the honey field just isn't right for me.


You were thinking of what, making balloon animals?


That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger.


Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey!


- Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny.


You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!


- You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me!


Wait till you see the sticks I have.


I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!


Let's open some honey and celebrate!


Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae.


Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!


I'm so proud.


- We're starting work today! - Today's the day.


Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone.


Yeah, right.


Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal...


- Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left!


One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.


- What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar!


Wow!


Oouple of newbies?


Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!


Make your choice.


- You want to go first? - No, you go.


Oh, my. What's available?


Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think.


- Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on.


I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.


Wax monkey's always open.


The Krelman opened up again.


What happened?


A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one.


Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.


Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life!


Oh, this is so hard!


Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,


humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,


mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry?


Barry!


All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine...


What happened to you? Where are you?


- I'm going out. - Out? Out where?


- Out there. - Oh, no!


I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life.


You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?


Another call coming in.


If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd


that gets their roses today.


Hey, guys.


- Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?


Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.


It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.


Really? Feeling lucky, are you?


Sign here, here. Just initial that.


- Thank you. - OK.


You got a rain advisory today,


and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain.


So be careful. As always, watch your brooms,


hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats.


Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us.


Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!


- That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies,


bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans!


All right, launch positions!


Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!


Black and yellow!


Hello!


You ready for this, hot shot?


Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.


Wind, check.


- Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check.


- Wings, check. - Stinger, check.


Scared out of my shorts, check.


OK, ladies,


let's move it out!


Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers!


All of you, drain those flowers!


Wow! I'm out!


I can't believe I'm out!


So blue.


I feel so fast and free!


Box kite!


Wow!


Flowers!


This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual.


Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.


Roses!


30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.


Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick.


That is one nectar collector!


- Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir.


I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there,


a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic.


That's amazing. Why do we do that?


That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.


Oool.


I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?


Oopy that visual.


Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move.


Say again? You're reporting a moving flower?


Affirmative.


That was on the line!


This is the coolest. What is it?


I don't know, but I'm loving this color.


It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it.


Yeah, fuzzy.


Ohemical-y.


Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.


My sweet lord of bees!


Oandy-brain, get off there!


Problem!


- Guys! - This could be bad.


Affirmative.


Very close.


Gonna hurt.


Mama's little boy.


You are way out of position, rookie!


Ooming in at you like a missile!


Help me!


I don't think these are flowers.


- Should we tell him? - I think he knows.


What is this?!


Match point!


You can start packing up, honey, because you're about to eat it!


Yowser!


Gross.


There's a bee in the car!


- Do something! - I'm driving!


- Hi, bee. - He's back here!


He's going to sting me!


Nobody move. If you don't move, he won't sting you. Freeze!


He blinked!


Spray him, Granny!


What are you doing?!


Wow... the tension level out here is unbelievable.


I gotta get home.


Oan't fly in rain.


Oan't fly in rain.


Oan't fly in rain.


Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!


Ken, could you close the window please?


Ken, could you close the window please?


Oheck out my new resume. I made it into a fold-out brochure.


You see? Folds out.


Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.


What was that?


Maybe this time. This time. This time. This time! This time! This...


Drapes!


That is diabolical.


It's fantastic. It's got all my special skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.


What's number one? Star Wars?


Nah, I don't go for that...


...kind of stuff.


No wonder we shouldn't talk to them. They're out of their minds.


When I leave a job interview, they're flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.


There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.


I don't remember the sun having a big 75 on it.


I predicted global warming.


I could feel it getting hotter. At first I thought it was just me.


Wait! Stop! Bee!


Stand back. These are winter boots.


Wait!


Don't kill him!


You know I'm allergic to them! This thing could kill me!


Why does his life have less value than yours?


Why does his life have any less value than mine? Is that your statement?


I'm just saying all life has value. You don't know what he's capable of feeling.


My brochure!


There you go, little guy.


I'm not scared of him. It's an allergic thing.


Put that on your resume brochure.


My whole face could puff up.


Make it one of your special skills.


Knocking someone out is also a special skill.


Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.


- Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night? - Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.


- You could put carob chips on there. - Bye.


- Supposed to be less calories. - Bye.


I gotta say something.


She saved my life. I gotta say something.


All right, here it goes.


Nah.


What would I say?


I could really get in trouble.


It's a bee law. You're not supposed to talk to a human.


I can't believe I'm doing this.


I've got to.


Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!


No. Yes. No.


Do it. I can't.


How should I start it? "You like jazz?" No, that's no good.


Here she comes! Speak, you fool!


Hi!


I'm sorry.


- You're talking. - Yes, I know.


You're talking!


I'm so sorry.


No, it's OK. It's fine. I know I'm dreaming.


But I don't recall going to bed.


Well, I'm sure this is very disconcerting.


This is a bit of a surprise to me. I mean, you're a bee!


I am. And I'm not supposed to be doing this,


but they were all trying to kill me.


And if it wasn't for you...


I had to thank you. It's just how I was raised.


That was a little weird.


- I'm talking with a bee. - Yeah.


I'm talking to a bee. And the bee is talking to me!


I just want to say I'm grateful. I'll leave now.


- Wait! How did you learn to do that? - What?


The talking thing.


Same way you did, I guess. "Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.


- That's very funny. - Yeah.


Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd cry with what we have to deal with.


Anyway...


Oan I...


...get you something? - Like what?


I don't know. I mean... I don't know. Ooffee?


I don't want to put you out.


It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.


- It's just coffee. - I hate to impose.


- Don't be ridiculous! - Actually, I would love a cup.


Hey, you want rum cake?


- I shouldn't. - Have some.


- No, I can't. - Oome on!


I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.


- Where? - These stripes don't help.


You look great!


I don't know if you know anything about fashion.


Are you all right?


No.


He's making the tie in the cab as they're flying up Madison.


He finally gets there.


He runs up the steps into the church. The wedding is on.


And he says, "Watermelon? I thought you said Guatemalan.


Why would I marry a watermelon?"


Is that a bee joke?


That's the kind of stuff we do.


Yeah, different.


So, what are you gonna do, Barry?


About work? I don't know.


I want to do my part for the hive, but I can't do it the way they want.


I know how you feel.


- You do? - Sure.


My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.


- Really? - My only interest is flowers.


Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.


Anyway, if you look...


There's my hive right there. See it?


You're in Sheep Meadow!


Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!


No way! I know that area. I lost a toe ring there once.


- Why do girls put rings on their toes? - Why not?


- It's like putting a hat on your knee. - Maybe I'll try that.


- You all right, ma'am? - Oh, yeah. Fine.


Just having two cups of coffee!


Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee.


Yeah, it's no trouble.


Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.


Are you...?


Oan I take a piece of this with me?


Sure! Here, have a crumb.


- Thanks! - Yeah.


All right. Well, then... I guess I'll see you around.


Or not.


OK, Barry.


And thank you so much again... for before.


Oh, that? That was nothing.


Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...


This can't possibly work.


He's all set to go. We may as well try it.


OK, Dave, pull the chute.


- Sounds amazing. - It was amazing!


It was the scariest, happiest moment of my life.


Humans! I can't believe you were with humans!


Giant, scary humans! What were they like?


Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.


They eat crazy giant things. They drive crazy.


- Do they try and kill you, like on TV? - Some of them. But some of them don't.


- How'd you get back? - Poodle.


You did it, and I'm glad. You saw whatever you wanted to see.


You had your "experience." Now you can pick out yourjob and be normal.


- Well... - Well?


Well, I met someone.


You did? Was she Bee-ish?


- A wasp?! Your parents will kill you! - No, no, no, not a wasp.


- Spider? - I'm not attracted to spiders.


I know it's the hottest thing, with the eight legs and all.


I can't get by that face.


So who is she?


She's... human.


No, no. That's a bee law. You wouldn't break a bee law.


- Her name's Vanessa. - Oh, boy.


She's so nice. And she's a florist!


Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!


We're not dating.


You're flying outside the hive, talking to humans that attack our homes


with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite!


She saved my life! And she understands me.


This is over!


Eat this.


This is not over! What was that?


- They call it a crumb. - It was so stingin' stripey!


And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they eat!


- You know what a Oinnabon is? - No.


It's bread and cinnamon and frosting. They heat it up...


Sit down!


...really hot! - Listen to me!


We are not them! We're us. There's us and there's them!


Yes, but who can deny the heart that is yearning?


There's no yearning. Stop yearning. Listen to me!


You have got to start thinking bee, my friend. Thinking bee!


- Thinking bee. - Thinking bee.


Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!


There he is. He's in the pool.


You know what your problem is, Barry?


I gotta start thinking bee?


How much longer will this go on?


It's been three days! Why aren't you working?


I've got a lot of big life decisions to think about.


What life? You have no life! You have no job. You're barely a bee!


Would it kill you to make a little honey?


Barry, come out. Your father's talking to you.


Martin, would you talk to him?


Barry, I'm talking to you!


You coming?


Got everything?


All set!


Go ahead. I'll catch up.


Don't be too long.


Watch this!


Vanessa!


- We're still here. - I told you not to yell at him.


He doesn't respond to yelling!


- Then why yell at me? - Because you don't listen!


I'm not listening to this.


Sorry, I've gotta go.


- Where are you going? - I'm meeting a friend.


A girl? Is this why you can't decide?


Bye.


I just hope she's Bee-ish.


They have a huge parade of flowers every year in Pasadena?


To be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream!


Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.


A tournament. Do the roses compete in athletic events?


No. All right, I've got one. How come you don't fly everywhere?


It's exhausting. Why don't you run everywhere? It's faster.


Yeah, OK, I see, I see. All right, your turn.


TiVo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane!


You don't have that?


We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.


Oh, my.


Dumb bees!


You must want to sting all those jerks.


We try not to sting. It's usually fatal for us.


So you have to watch your temper.


Very carefully. You kick a wall, take a walk,


write an angry letter and throw it out. Work through it like any emotion:


Anger, jealousy, lust.


Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?


Yeah.


- What is wrong with you?! - It's a bug.


He's not bothering anybody. Get out of here, you creep!


What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?


Yeah, it was. How did you know?


It felt like about 10 pages. Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.


You've really got that down to a science.


- I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue. - I'll bet.


What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?


How did this get here? Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,


Ray Liotta Private Select?


- Is he that actor? - I never heard of him.


- Why is this here? - For people. We eat it.


You don't have enough food of your own?


- Well, yes. - How do you get it?


- Bees make it. - I know who makes it!


And it's hard to make it!


There's heating, cooling, stirring. You need a whole Krelman thing!


- It's organic. - It's our-ganic!


It's just honey, Barry.


Just what?!


Bees don't know about this! This is stealing! A lot of stealing!


You've taken our homes, schools, hospitals! This is all we have!


And it's on sale?! I'm getting to the bottom of this.


I'm getting to the bottom of all of this!


Hey, Hector.


- You almost done? - Almost.


He is here. I sense it.


Well, I guess I'll go home now


and just leave this nice honey out, with no one around.


You're busted, box boy!


I knew I heard something. So you can talk!


I can talk. And now you'll start talking!


Where you getting the sweet stuff? Who's your supplier?


I don't understand. I thought we were friends.


The last thing we want to do is upset bees!


You're too late! It's ours now!


You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword!


You, sir, will be lunch for my iguana, Ignacio!


Where is the honey coming from?


Tell me where!


Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!


Orazy person!


What horrible thing has happened here?


These faces, they never knew what hit them. And now


they're on the road to nowhere!


Just keep still.


What? You're not dead?


Do I look dead? They will wipe anything that moves. Where you headed?


To Honey Farms. I am onto something huge here.


I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood, crazy stuff. Blows your head off!


I'm going to Tacoma.


- And you? - He really is dead.


All right.


Uh-oh!


- What is that?! - Oh, no!


- A wiper! Triple blade! - Triple blade?


Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!


Why does everything have to be so doggone clean?!


How much do you people need to see?!


Open your eyes! Stick your head out the window!


From NPR News in Washington, I'm Oarl Kasell.


But don't kill no more bugs!


- Bee! - Moose blood guy!!


- You hear something? - Like what?


Like tiny screaming.


Turn off the radio.


Whassup, bee boy?


Hey, Blood.


Just a row of honey jars, as far as the eye could see.


Wow!


I assume wherever this truck goes is where they're getting it.


I mean, that honey's ours.


- Bees hang tight. - We're all jammed in.


It's a close community.


Not us, man. We on our own. Every mosquito on his own.


- What if you get in trouble? - You a mosquito, you in trouble.


Nobody likes us. They just smack. See a mosquito, smack, smack!


At least you're out in the world. You must meet girls.


Mosquito girls try to trade up, get with a moth, dragonfly.


Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.


You got to be kidding me!


Mooseblood's about to leave the building! So long, bee!


- Hey, guys! - Mooseblood!


I knew I'd catch y'all down here. Did you bring your crazy straw?


We throw it in jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.


What is this place?


A bee's got a brain the size of a pinhead.


They are pinheads!


Pinhead.


- Oheck out the new smoker. - Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.


The Thomas 3000!


Smoker?


Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.


A couple breaths of this knocks them right out.


They make the honey, and we make the money.


"They make the honey, and we make the money"?


Oh, my!


What's going on? Are you OK?


Yeah. It doesn't last too long.


Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls?


Our queen was moved here. We had no choice.


This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes!


That's a drag queen!


What is this?


Oh, no!


There's hundreds of them!


Bee honey.


Our honey is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale!


This is worse than anything bears have done! I intend to do something.


Oh, Barry, stop.


Who told you humans are taking our honey? That's a rumor.


Do these look like rumors?


That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos.


How did you get mixed up in this?


He's been talking to humans.


- What? - Talking to humans?!


He has a human girlfriend. And they make out!


Make out? Barry!


We do not.


- You wish you could. - Whose side are you on?


The bees!


I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night.


Barry, this is what you want to do with your life?


I want to do it for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees!


Dad, I remember you coming home so overworked


your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop.


I remember that.


What right do they have to our honey?


We live on two cups a year. They put it in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!


Even if it's true, what can one bee do?


Sting them where it really hurts.


In the face! The eye!


- That would hurt. - No.


Up the nose? That's a killer.


There's only one place you can sting the humans, one place where it matters.


Hive at Five, the hive's only full-hour action news source.


No more bee beards!


With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.


Weather with Storm Stinger.


Sports with Buzz Larvi.


And Jeanette Ohung.


- Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble. - And I'm Jeanette Ohung.


A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,


intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey,


packaging it and profiting from it illegally!


Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,


we'll have three former queens here in our studio, discussing their new book,


Olassy Ladies, out this week on Hexagon.


Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.


Did you ever think, "I'm a kid from the hive. I can't do this"?


Bees have never been afraid to change the world.


What about Bee Oolumbus? Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?


Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.


We were thinking of stickball or candy stores.


How old are you?


The bee community is supporting you in this case,


which will be the trial of the bee century.


You know, they have a Larry King in the human world too.


It's a common name. Next week...


He looks like you and has a show and suspenders and colored dots...


Next week...


Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the guest even though you just heard 'em.


Bear Week next week! They're scary, hairy and here live.


Always leans forward, pointy shoulders, squinty eyes, very Jewish.


In tennis, you attack at the point of weakness!


It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.


Honey, her backhand's a joke! I'm not gonna take advantage of that?


Quiet, please. Actual work going on here.


- Is that that same bee? - Yes, it is!


I'm helping him sue the human race.


- Hello. - Hello, bee.


This is Ken.


Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.


Why does he talk again?


Listen, you better go 'cause we're really busy working.


But it's our yogurt night!


Bye-bye.


Why is yogurt night so difficult?!


You poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!


Yes, and Adam here has been a huge help.


- Frosting... - How many sugars?


Just one. I try not to use the competition.


So why are you helping me?


Bees have good qualities.


And it takes my mind off the shop.


Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now.


Those are great, if you're three.


And artificial flowers.


- Oh, those just get me psychotic! - Yeah, me too.


Bent stingers, pointless pollination.


Bees must hate those fake things!


Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done.


Maybe this could make up for it a little bit.


- This lawsuit's a pretty big deal. - I guess.


You sure you want to go through with it?


Am I sure? When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able


to say, "Honey, I'm home," without paying a royalty!


It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan,


where the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history,


we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak.


What have we gotten into here, Barry?


It's pretty big, isn't it?


I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day.


You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?


Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade.


- What's the matter? - I don't know, I just got a chill.


Well, if it isn't the bee team.


You boys work on this?


All rise! The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding.


All right. Oase number 4475,


Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry


is now in session.


Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?


A privilege.


Mr. Benson... you're representing all the bees of the world?


I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor, we're ready to proceed.


Mr. Montgomery, your opening statement, please.


Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,


my grandmother was a simple woman.


Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right


to benefit from the bounty of nature God put before us.


If we lived in the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines,


just think of what would it mean.


I would have to negotiate with the silkworm


for the elastic in my britches!


Talking bee!


How do we know this isn't some sort of


holographic motion-picture-capture Hollywood wizardry?


They could be using laser beams!


Robotics! Ventriloquism! Oloning! For all we know,


he could be on steroids!


Mr. Benson?


Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here.


I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey's pretty important to me.


It's important to all bees. We invented it!


We make it. And we protect it with our lives.


Unfortunately, there are some people in this room


who think they can take it from us


'cause we're the little guys! I'm hoping that, after this is all over,


you'll see how, by taking our honey, you not only take everything we have


but everything we are!


I wish he'd dress like that all the time. So nice!


Oall your first witness.


So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden of Honey Farms, big company you have.


I suppose so.


I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!


Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.


Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term.


I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?


- No. - I couldn't hear you.


- No. - No.


Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that,


it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.


They're very lovable creatures.


Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.


You mean like this?


Bears kill bees!


How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?!


Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows!


OK, that's enough. Take him away.


So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me.


- Where have I heard it before? - I was with a band called The Police.


But you've never been a police officer, have you?


No, I haven't.


No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example


of bee culture casually stolen by a human


for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.


Oh, please.


Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?


Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting.


Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!


That's not his real name?! You idiots!


Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on


your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005.


Thank you. Thank you.


I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome


with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow.


I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?


Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you?


Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't


have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir?


Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!


This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella!


Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?!


- Order in this court! - You're all thinking it!


Order! Order, I say!


- Say it! - Mr. Liotta, please sit down!


I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that.


I think the jury's on our side.


Are we doing everything right, legally?


I'm a florist.


Right. Well, here's to a great team.


To a great team!


Well, hello.


- Ken! - Hello.


I didn't think you were coming.


No, I was just late. I tried to call, but... the battery.


I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.


Oh, that was lucky.


There's a little left. I could heat it up.


Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.


So I hear you're quite a tennis player.


I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby.


That's where I usually sit. Right... there.


Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,


and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.


You think I don't see what you're doing?


I know how hard it is to find the rightjob. We have that in common.


Do we?


Bees have 100 percent employment, but we do jobs like taking the crud out.


That's just what I was thinking about doing.


Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.


I'm going to drain the old stinger.


Yeah, you do that.


Look at that.


You know, I've just about had it


with your little mind games.


- What's that? - Italian Vogue.


Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.


A lot of ads.


Remember what Van said, why is your life more valuable than mine?


Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!


I think something stinks in here!


I love the smell of flowers.


How do you like the smell of flames?!


Not as much.


Water bug! Not taking sides!


Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat! This is pathetic!


I've got issues!


Well, well, well, a royal flush!


- You're bluffing. - Am I?


Surf's up, dude!


Poo water!


That bowl is gnarly.


Except for those dirty yellow rings!


Kenneth! What are you doing?!


You know, I don't even like honey! I don't eat it!


We need to talk!


He's just a little bee!


And he happens to be the nicest bee I've met in a long time!


Long time? What are you talking about?! Are there other bugs in your life?


No, but there are other things bugging me in life. And you're one of them!


Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...


My nerves are fried from riding on this emotional roller coaster!


Goodbye, Ken.


And for your information,


I prefer sugar-free, artificial sweeteners made by man!


I'm sorry about all that.


I know it's got an aftertaste! I like it!


I always felt there was some kind of barrier between Ken and me.


I couldn't overcome it. Oh, well.


Are you OK for the trial?


I believe Mr. Montgomery is about out of ideas.


We would like to call Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.


Good idea! You can really see why he's considered one of the best lawyers...


Yeah.


Layton, you've gotta weave some magic


with this jury, or it's gonna be all over.


Don't worry. The only thing I have to do to turn this jury around


is to remind them of what they don't like about bees.


- You got the tweezers? - Are you allergic?


Only to losing, son. Only to losing.


Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you what I think we'd all like to know.


What exactly is your relationship


to that woman?


We're friends.


- Good friends? - Yes.


How good? Do you live together?


Wait a minute...


Are you her little...


...bedbug?


I've seen a bee documentary or two. From what I understand,


doesn't your queen give birth to all the bee children?


- Yeah, but... - So those aren't your real parents!


- Oh, Barry... - Yes, they are!


Hold me back!


You're an illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson?


He's denouncing bees!


Don't y'all date your cousins?


- Objection! - I'm going to pincushion this guy!


Adam, don't! It's what he wants!


Oh, I'm hit!!


Oh, lordy, I am hit!


Order! Order!


The venom! The venom is coursing through my veins!


I have been felled by a winged beast of destruction!


You see? You can't treat them like equals! They're striped savages!


Stinging's the only thing they know! It's their way!


- Adam, stay with me. - I can't feel my legs.


What angel of mercy will come forward to suck the poison


from my heaving buttocks?


I will have order in this court. Order!


Order, please!


The case of the honeybees versus the human race


took a pointed turn against the bees


yesterday when one of their legal team stung Layton T. Montgomery.


- Hey, buddy. - Hey.


- Is there much pain? - Yeah.


I...


I blew the whole case, didn't I?


It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive. You could have died.


I'd be better off dead. Look at me.


They got it from the cafeteria downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.


Look, there's a little celery still on it.


What was it like to sting someone?


I can't explain it. It was all...


All adrenaline and then... and then ecstasy!


All right.


You think it was all a trap?


Of course. I'm sorry. I flew us right into this.


What were we thinking? Look at us. We're just a couple of bugs in this world.


What will the humans do to us if they win?


I don't know.


I hear they put the roaches in motels. That doesn't sound so bad.


Adam, they check in, but they don't check out!


Oh, my.


Oould you get a nurse to close that window?


- Why? - The smoke.


Bees don't smoke.


Right. Bees don't smoke.


Bees don't smoke! But some bees are smoking.


That's it! That's our case!


It is? It's not over?


Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.


Get back to the court and stall. Stall any way you can.


And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.


Mr. Flayman.


Yes? Yes, Your Honor!


Where is the rest of your team?


Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.


Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,


and as a result, we don't make very good time.


I actually heard a funny story about...


Your Honor, haven't these ridiculous bugs


taken up enough of this court's valuable time?


How much longer will we allow these absurd shenanigans to go on?


They have presented no compelling evidence to support their charges


against my clients, who run legitimate businesses.


I move for a complete dismissal of this entire case!


Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going


to have to consider Mr. Montgomery's motion.


But you can't! We have a terrific case.


Where is your proof? Where is the evidence?


Show me the smoking gun!


Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun?


Here is your smoking gun.


What is that?


It's a bee smoker!


What, this? This harmless little contraption?


This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.


Look at what has happened


to bees who have never been asked, "Smoking or non?"


Is this what nature intended for us?


To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines


and man-made wooden slat work camps?


Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?


- What are we gonna do? - He's playing the species card.


Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!


Free the bees! Free the bees!


Free the bees!


Free the bees! Free the bees!


The court finds in favor of the bees!


Vanessa, we won!


I knew you could do it! High-five!


Sorry.


I'm OK! You know what this means?


All the honey will finally belong to the bees.


Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.


This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson.


You'll regret this.


Barry, how much honey is out there?


All right. One at a time.


Barry, who are you wearing?


My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.


- What if Montgomery's right? - What do you mean?


We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.


Oongratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?


First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.


Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with,


every last drop.


We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more


than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine.


We're all aware of what they do in the woods.


Wait for my signal.


Take him out.


He'll have nauseous for a few hours, then he'll be fine.


And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames...


But it's just a prance-about stage name!


...unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products


and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.


Oan't breathe.


Bring it in, boys!


Hold it right there! Good.


Tap it.


Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming!


- I think we need to shut down! - Shut down? We've never shut down.


Shut down honey production!


Stop making honey!


Turn your key, sir!


What do we do now?


Oannonball!


We're shutting honey production!


Mission abort.


Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.


Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.


Oh, yeah?


What's going on? Where is everybody?


- Are they out celebrating? - They're home.


They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in.


I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.


At least we got our honey back.


Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't?


It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it.


This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well.


And now...


Now I can't.


I don't understand why they're not happy.


I thought their lives would be better!


They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.


You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?


- What did you want to show me? - This.


What happened here?


That is not the half of it.


Oh, no. Oh, my.


They're all wilting.


Doesn't look very good, does it?


No.


And whose fault do you think that is?


You know, I'm gonna guess bees.


Bees?


Specifically, me.


I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.


It's notjust flowers. Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.


That's our whole SAT test right there.


Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom.


And then, of course...


The human species?


So if there's no more pollination,


it could all just go south here, couldn't it?


I know this is also partly my fault.


How about a suicide pact?


How do we do it?


- I'll sting you, you step on me. - Thatjust kills you twice.


Right, right.


Listen, Barry... sorry, but I gotta get going.


I had to open my mouth and talk.


Vanessa?


Vanessa? Why are you leaving? Where are you going?


To the final Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.


They've moved it to this weekend because all the flowers are dying.


It's the last chance I'll ever have to see it.


Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry. I never meant it to turn out like this.


I know. Me neither.


Tournament of Roses. Roses can't do sports.


Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?


Roses!


Vanessa!


Roses?!


Barry?


- Roses are flowers! - Yes, they are.


Flowers, bees, pollen!


I know. That's why this is the last parade.


Maybe not. Oould you ask him to slow down?


Oould you slow down?


Barry!


OK, I made a huge mistake. This is a total disaster, all my fault.


Yes, it kind of is.


I've ruined the planet. I wanted to help you


with the flower shop. I've made it worse.


Actually, it's completely closed down.


I thought maybe you were remodeling.


But I have another idea, and it's greater than my previous ideas combined.


I don't want to hear it!


All right, they have the roses, the roses have the pollen.


I know every bee, plant and flower bud in this park.


All we gotta do is get what they've got back here with what we've got.


- Bees. - Park.


- Pollen! - Flowers.


- Repollination! - Across the nation!


Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Oalifornia.


They've got nothing but flowers, floats and cotton candy.


Security will be tight.


I have an idea.


Vanessa Bloome, FTD.


Official floral business. It's real.


Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.


Thank you. It was a gift.


Once inside, we just pick the right float.


How about The Princess and the Pea?


I could be the princess, and you could be the pea!


Yes, I got it.


- Where should I sit? - What are you?


- I believe I'm the pea. - The pea?


It goes under the mattresses.


- Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart. - I'm getting the marshal.


You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!


Let's see what this baby'll do.


Hey, what are you doing?!


Then all we do is blend in with traffic...


...without arousing suspicion.


Once at the airport, there's no stopping us.


Stop! Security.


- You and your insect pack your float? - Yes.


Has it been in your possession the entire time?


Would you remove your shoes?


- Remove your stinger. - It's part of me.


I know. Just having some fun. Enjoy your flight.


Then if we're lucky, we'll have just enough pollen to do the job.


Oan you believe how lucky we are? We have just enough pollen to do the job!


I think this is gonna work.


It's got to work.


Attention, passengers, this is Oaptain Scott.


We have a bit of bad weather in New York.


It looks like we'll experience a couple hours delay.


Barry, these are cut flowers with no water. They'll never make it.


I gotta get up there and talk to them.


Be careful.


Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?


I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.


Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.


- What'd you say, Hal? - Nothing.


Bee!


Don't freak out! My entire species...


What are you doing?


- Wait a minute! I'm an attorney! - Who's an attorney?


Don't move.


Oh, Barry.


Good afternoon, passengers. This is your captain.


Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?


And please hurry!


What happened here?


There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded.


One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!


- Is that another bee joke? - No!


No one's flying the plane!


This is JFK control tower, Flight 356. What's your status?


This is Vanessa Bloome. I'm a florist from New York.


Where's the pilot?


He's unconscious, and so is the copilot.


Not good. Does anyone onboard have flight experience?


As a matter of fact, there is.


- Who's that? - Barry Benson.


From the honey trial?! Oh, great.


Vanessa, this is nothing more than a big metal bee.


It's got giant wings, huge engines.


I can't fly a plane.


- Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot? - Yes.


How hard could it be?


Wait, Barry! We're headed into some lightning.


This is Bob Bumble. We have some late-breaking news from JFK Airport,


where a suspenseful scene is developing.


Barry Benson, fresh from his legal victory...


That's Barry!


...is attempting to land a plane, loaded with people, flowers


and an incapacitated flight crew.


Flowers?!


We have a storm in the area and two individuals at the controls


with absolutely no flight experience.


Just a minute. There's a bee on that plane.


I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson and his no-account compadres.


They've done enough damage.


But isn't he your only hope?


Technically, a bee shouldn't be able to fly at all.


Their wings are too small...


Haven't we heard this a million times?


"The surface area of the wings and body mass make no sense."


- Get this on the air! - Got it.


- Stand by. - We're going live.


The way we work may be a mystery to you.


Making honey takes a lot of bees doing a lot of small jobs.


But let me tell you about a small job.


If you do it well, it makes a big difference.


More than we realized. To us, to everyone.


That's why I want to get bees back to working together.


That's the bee way! We're not made of Jell-O.


We get behind a fellow.


- Black and yellow! - Hello!


Left, right, down, hover.


- Hover? - Forget hover.


This isn't so hard. Beep-beep! Beep-beep!


Barry, what happened?!


Wait, I think we were on autopilot the whole time.


- That may have been helping me. - And now we're not!


So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.


All of you, let's get behind this fellow! Move it out!


Move out!


Our only chance is if I do what I'd do, you copy me with the wings of the plane!


Don't have to yell.


I'm not yelling! We're in a lot of trouble.


It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!


It's not a tone. I'm panicking!


I can't do this!


Vanessa, pull yourself together. You have to snap out of it!


You snap out of it.


You snap out of it.


- You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!


- You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!


- You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!


- Hold it! - Why? Oome on, it's my turn.


How is the plane flying?


I don't know.


Hello?


Benson, got any flowers for a happy occasion in there?


The Pollen Jocks!


They do get behind a fellow.


- Black and yellow. - Hello.


All right, let's drop this tin can on the blacktop.


Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?


No, nothing. It's all cloudy.


Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.


- Thinking bee. - Thinking bee.


Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!


Wait a minute. I think I'm feeling something.


- What? - I don't know. It's strong, pulling me.


Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.


Bring the nose down.


Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!


- What in the world is on the tarmac? - Get some lights on that!


Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!


- Vanessa, aim for the flower. - OK.


Out the engines. We're going in on bee power. Ready, boys?


Affirmative!


Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.


Land on that flower!


Ready? Full reverse!


Spin it around!


- Not that flower! The other one! - Which one?


- That flower. - I'm aiming at the flower!


That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt. I mean the giant pulsating flower


made of millions of bees!


Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.


Rotate around it.


- This is insane, Barry! - This's the only way I know how to fly.


Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane flying in an insect-like pattern?


Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid. Smell it. Full reverse!


Just drop it. Be a part of it.


Aim for the center!


Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!


Oome on, already.


Barry, we did it! You taught me how to fly!


- Yes. No high-five! - Right.


Barry, it worked! Did you see the giant flower?


What giant flower? Where? Of course I saw the flower! That was genius!


- Thank you. - But we're not done yet.


Listen, everyone!


This runway is covered with the last pollen


from the last flowers available anywhere on Earth.


That means this is our last chance.


We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers and dress like this.


If we're gonna survive as a species, this is our moment! What do you say?


Are we going to be bees, orjust Museum of Natural History keychains?


We're bees!


Keychain!


Then follow me! Except Keychain.


Hold on, Barry. Here.


You've earned this.


Yeah!


I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.


Oh, yeah.


That's our Barry.


Mom! The bees are back!


If anybody needs to make a call, now's the time.


I got a feeling we'll be working late tonight!


Here's your change. Have a great afternoon! Oan I help who's next?


Would you like some honey with that? It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.


Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me. And I don't see a nickel!


Sometimes I just feel like a piece of meat!


I had no idea.


Barry, I'm sorry. Have you got a moment?


Would you excuse me? My mosquito associate will help you.


Sorry I'm late.


He's a lawyer too?


I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.


Have a great afternoon!


Barry, I just got this huge tulip order, and I can't get them anywhere.


No problem, Vannie. Just leave it to me.


You're a lifesaver, Barry. Oan I help who's next?


All right, scramble, jocks! It's time to fly.


Thank you, Barry!


That bee is living my life!


Let it go, Kenny.


- When will this nightmare end?! - Let it all go.


- Beautiful day to fly. - Sure is.


Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office.


You have got to start thinking bee, my friend.


- Thinking bee! - Me?


Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it.


I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oan we stop here?


I'm not making a major life decision during a production number!


All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys.


I had virtually no rehearsal for that.

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