Monty Python - Eric the Half-a-Bee (1972)

[HailCesar1987]

I just first heard this song by accident yesterday and now I'm addicted ;-)

[VOIDkio]

2 people are three quarter bee

[AdamNYou]

he guy in the back on the right looks like Dexter from well Dexter

[Hexhand]

@AdamNYou

Rather, the guy from Dexter looks like Terry Gilliam (the sole American from the Monty Python troupe)

[CCNuck]

I now want to get an orange tabby cat and name it Eric the Half-a-Bee.

[quizmaster85]

2 people said Cyril Connolly.

[joejoewba4lyf]

Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso, facto half not be. But half the bee, has got to be, vis a vis its entity. D'you see? But can a bee, be said to be, or not to be, an entire bee. When half the bee, is not a bee, due to some ancient injury.

Singing

L A D E E D E E, O N E T W O T H R E E, E R I C T H E H A L F A B E E

[TheKeller101]

I actually happen to have this record!

[dwieselmcallister]

Two people are named Cyril Connolly...

[morwenmur]

Thumbs up if you replayed this song until you learned the words then sang along like mad. (Don't judge me!)

The two people who disliked this are far too normal and sensible for their own good.

"The end" XD

[notmemate]

Even all these years later Python are STILL ahead of their time.

[IrishBoris]

Kemal Attaturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul

[kirkster8000]

I love this!

[that1weirdkid27]

In honor of Monty Python, I am going to name all my pets Eric.

...That, and I just freaking love Eric Idle. XD <3

[mrgibssssss]

lol

[MrDog427]

You mean a demi-bee?

[ohmydinosare]

This is litterally the best song ever.

[InspectorKaramazov]

Hehehe. He's cute when he tries to sing.

[CreaganFhithich]

2 people loved Eric the half a bee carnally.

[KetchupSplodge]

That picture...With Graeme puffing his bloody pipe, grrrr.

[scottandrenae]

You can find this and a bunch of their skits on Monty Python "The Final Rip-off." I had it on cassette when I was a teenager in the 80s. I bought it on iTunes and now my 15 yr old son is hooked.

[DSMegasolid]

Does any1 no were to get this track regulary and as a backing track

[dilledilledilledille]

hahaha these guys invented humor xD

[DeadParrotJones]

I could not stop smiling while I sang along!

[mlawren7]

What a conundrum of philosophical logic is half a bee?

[idol1506]

@rofffelmao eric

[hafabee]

Hahaha!  It's all true.

[raksana0]

I didn't like this one when I first saw it over 30 years ago, but there is something ridiculously catchy about it. It has stuck in my brain all these years, and apropos of nothing, that darned tune pops into my head..........

[eoanthropus]

Who sings lead on this? Sounds like Cleese, the least musical of the lot of them.

[ProcolHarum1967]

@eoanthropus 'tis indeed Cleese.

[MrMcOwnage]

Eric The Half-A-Bee

[33dgtp]

OMGGG EEERRIIIIC!11 11

[rebth1st]

He loves him carnally - semi-carnally.

[dalek32]

i love this song!

[stooart2008]

i've got a slug.

can it talk.

not really.

[DieGLAZERDie]

cyril connolly?

[MagicAccent]

Are all your pets called Eric?

[ProcolHarum1967]

Eric the fruit bat.

[wolfmanfilms101]

@ProcolHarum1967 i love this song since i heard one day npr thx

[olemuckspreader]

My friend has a (whole and entire) black labrador named Eric

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

I finally understand my Metaphysics, literature and music classes. Now I am thoroughly useless!

Thank you very much.

[00WolfSpirit]

Sadely... I know this song by heart lol Like almost all the python songs lol

[ProcolHarum1967]

Don't worry I know it off by heart aswell.

[DieGLAZERDie]

@00WolfSpirit Who is Lol? Any mate of Sam?

[DeclanCorkerry]

@00WolfSpirit not sadly at all dude!

[TheSpeed0fDarkness]

Once again it is clear that Monty Python can do absolutely anything and still make me laugh. After all I've seen from them you would think it would get less funny after a while... but that's not the case.

I love this song carnally.

[deathbinder]

Apparently this was written when John Cleese was dressed as li'l Red Riding Hood.

[ProcolHarum1967]

Yea when they were doing the German episodes. There is a documentary on it, "the Python Years: ERIC the half a Bee"

[Hikarinonakade]

Cyril Connelly...

[trublgrl]

I've actually called people a "wretched Nemi-bee".

... drink was involved.

[ProcolHarum1967]

Some how that doesn't surprise me.

[21Kyzix12]

amazing song gotta love monty python. btw im pretty sure its demi-bee not nemi

[ProcolHarum1967]

I thought so too but then again it did say drink was involved.

[stufast]

.. isnt it wretched demi-bee? what does nemi even mean?

[ProcolHarum1967]

I'm not sure, I think someone said something similar.

[shadowman080]

you mean Demi-bee

[MrDog427]

@trublgrl Do you mean a demi-bee?

[betlamed]

@trublgrl Isn't it a Demi-bee?

[mckenzieserenity]

@trublgrl It's demi-bee, not nemi-bee. Actually, it might be hemi-bee. I can't tell, but both would indicate partial bee-full-ness.

[Fronarch]

@trublgrl do you pronounce it wrech'd or wrechèd if i may ask?

[1993MURDODUNLOP]

One of the best songs ever written.Beats any crap nowadays. 5/5

[ProcolHarum1967]

Yea and they were just jokeing about and having fun.

[XxBeatlesforeverxX]

I love the album Lust for Glory xD

[ProcolHarum1967]

Yea. It's mostly sketches from the TV show.

[dougienancy]

lmao