- The Crazy Interviewer: Good evening. Tonight, we're taking a look at Beekeeping, and here to tell us all about it, we have in the studio a man who's been keeping bees for over forty years. Mr. Reginald Prawnbaum. Good evening, Mr. Prawnbaum.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Good evening.
- The Crazy Interviewer: Tell me. What first interested you in the bee world, Mr. Prawnbaum?
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Well, um, even as a child, I used to...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I'm sorry, shouldn't I have said that?
- The Crazy Interviewer: No, of course you should have. Pay no attention, please. When I say "Ssshh", it's just a nervous mannerism I've picked up. If, uh, if I want you to be quiet, I will say "Sush". You were saying?
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Oh, well, even as a child, I used to wander around...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: [Briefly pauses] Oh, sorry. In the fields near my home, watching the bees fly from flower to flower...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...and taking note of the flowers that they visited.
- The Crazy Interviewer: Sush.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Was that wrong?
- The Crazy Interviewer: I'm so sorry, did I say "Sush"? I meant "Ssshh". Do go on, it's most interesting.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: And so, I have grown to love the little...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...creatures. I mean, nature really has produced a little masterpiece in the life...
- The Crazy Interviewer: QUACK! Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm afraid that's a reflex action too. I squawk whenever someone mentions the word "life"... QUACK! You see, even when I mention it myself. I should have told you. Please go on.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Oh, uh, very well. Well, the bees are divided into different categories.
- The Crazy Interviewer: Sssssshhhhh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Uh, the Queen Bee, whose lifespan...
- The Crazy Interviewer: QUACK!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...whose living expectancy is only one year.
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: The worker bees, on the other hand, have a much longer...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Sush!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Do you want me to stop?
- The Crazy Interviewer: Yes, you were just about to say "life"... QUACK!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I wasn't!
- The Crazy Interviewer: [Almost laughing] Well I'm so sorry. Please, continue.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: As I was saying, the worker bees have a much longer life.
- The Crazy Interviewer: QUACK!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It's just... you've got me rather rattled now!
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Well, this is how the bee community works: the Queen Bee...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: [Slightly irritated] ... stays in the hive...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Prrt!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Is that because I said "hive"?
- The Crazy Interviewer: Pardon? Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Did you make that noise because I said the word "hive"?
- The Crazy Interviewer: Oh, no, no, no, no.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Well why did you make it then?
- The Crazy Interviewer: I was just practising.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Practising?
- The Crazy Interviewer: Practising for a word you're bound to say very soon. Do go on.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: [Rolling his eyes] While the worker bees...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...fly from flower to flower...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...collecting...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...the...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh.
- [Long pause. Prawnbaum prepares to say the word, and notices the Interviewer preparing to make the noise again]
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...pollen.
- The Crazy Interviewer: Prrt.
- [Prawnbaum looks down, finally fed up]
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I see. Pollen!
- The Crazy Interviewer: Prrt!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: Pollen! Pollen! Pollen!
- The Crazy Interviewer: Prrt! Prrt! Prrt!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I mean this is the... the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life!
- The Crazy Interviewer: QUACK!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I mean every time I say, I say "pollen"...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Prrt!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...or "hive"...
- The Crazy Interviewer: Ssshh!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: ...or "life"...
- The Crazy Interviewer: QUACK!
- Reginald Prawnbaum: I mean... How did you ever get the job of being an interviewer?