Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes For 'Sexual Aspect' Of 'Bee Movie': It 'Really Was Not Intentional'

Jerry Seinfeld is apologizing for the sexual undertones between his leading bee character and a human woman in the 2007 film "Bee Movie."

Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Friday in part to promote all nine seasons of his show "Seinfeld" coming to Netflix, the comedian, who co-wrote and starred in "Bee Movie," owned up to the bizarre nature of the animated flick.

"I apologize for what seems to be a certain uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect of the 'Bee Movie,'" Seinfeld told Fallon.

He continued, "[It] really was not intentional, but after it came out, I realized this is really not appropriate for children because the bee seemed to have a thing for the girl. And we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment."

"Bee Movie" stars Seinfeld as a bee named Barry B. Benson who becomes friends with a human florist named Vanessa Bloome (voiced by Renée Zellweger). The film briefly seems to suggest that Barry harbors romantic feelings for Vanessa. Barry ends up suing the human race for exploiting bees for their honey.

The strange nature of "Bee Movie" gave it a second life as fanfiction and a series of internet memes have made the rounds on various social media platforms over the years, including a popular video on YouTube titled "The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster."

"This was a reaction not just to the movie itself but to the realization among millennials that they'd been shown a truly odd movie as children and thought nothing of it. The 'Bee Movie' memes are all, on some level, expressions of disbelief," Inverse's Gabe Bergado wrote in 2017.

Meanwhile, the 180-episode sitcom "Seinfeld" debuted on Netflix Friday. All the seasons were bought by Netflix for a total of $500 million in 2019, NPR reported.

The 10-time Emmy Award-winning comedy series was created by Seinfeld and fellow comedian Larry David. It aired on NBC for nine seasons and ended in 1998.

"Larry and I are enormously grateful to Netflix for taking this chance on us. It takes a lot of guts to trust two schmucks who literally had zero experience in television when we made this thing," Seinfeld was quoted as saying by Rolling Stone. "We really got carried away, I guess. I didn’t realize we made so many of them. Hope to recoup god knows how many millions it must have taken to do. But worth all the work if people like it. Crazy project."