QI, Series G

Alan Davies:
You know when you find a bee, and it's crawling on its last legs.

Rob Brydon:
I always rescue them.

Alan Davies:
You give it honey. It's the only thing they eat, makes sense when you think about it.

[audience laughter]

Alan Davies:
No point in just talking to it. Give it honey!

David Mitchell:
They're very much a one-recipe species, aren't they?

Dara Ó Briain:
I'm intrigued, because I would, um, I generally give it a sole of my shoe. You know, not to be harsh, but…

Alan Davies:
[exasperated] You step on a struggling, crawling bee? Trying to get back to the hive?

Dara Ó Briain:
What? As opposed to rehabilitate it?

Alan Davies:
I like honey! I have it on my porridge! You murderer!

David Mitchell:
[after the argument has gone on for a while] But isn't it true, though, that a bee, in its entire lifetime, makes absolutely tiny amount of honey overall? So you don't have to give much rehabilitating honey to this one bee before the nation, the world, is making a net loss! I mean, it's useless. If you only get one teaspoon of honey from a whole bee's lifetime, and every time you have to get it back on its feet it takes a teaspoon and a half, suddenly there's no honey at all! You're insulting it apart from anything else! It's like showing a very tired mason a whole cathedral!