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The Strange Reason Jerry Seinfeld Apologized for ‘Bee Movie’ 17 Years After It Premiered

“I may not have calibrated that perfectly.”

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While giving a commencement speech for the graduating seniors at North Carolina’s Duke University in 2024, Jerry Seinfeld made the odd decision to apologize for his 2007 animated film Bee Movie.

“I made a cartoon movie about bees you may have watched as a child,” Seinfeld told the students in attendance that day. “If any of you felt slightly uncomfortable about the sexual undertones in the relationship between Barry the bee and Vanessa, the florist who saves his life, I would like to apologize for that now,” he continued. “I may not have calibrated that perfectly.” 

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