I’ve never watched the TV show 9-1-1 So I have no idea if this is the sort of thing they do regularly, but Bee-nado? Seriously? Or are they running headlong into shark-jumping?
Yes, this is the sort of thing they do regularly. It’s all great campy fun. They started out doing a big spectacular disaster show every season, but after you’ve done the earthquake, and the tsunami, and the wildfire, and the dam breaking, and sunspots causing some kind of electrical disruption, and the zoo escape with giraffes and elephants roaming the streets of LA, you have to move on to even crazier ideas. Last year they did The Poseidon Adventure, with everyone trapped on an overturned cruise ship. After that, Beenado seems a little tame to me. But Angela Bassett is the best thing on television, so I wouldn’t miss it.
Huh. Maybe I should give it a whirl, then. The detective/rescue/etc. shows that take themselves seriously usually bore me so I hadn’t watched it.
I watch it on occasion. Usually the older episodes on USA network late at night. I agree that the increasing special episodes can be fun in a suspend your disbelief kind of way. I also think it still takes itself too seriously. It’s not like the show is funny. It could have a much better sense of humor.
She’s obviously a good actor but Athena Grant may be the worst cop on TV.
I don’t watch the show, but I know someone who does, and she describes it exactly like this. It’s ridiculous over-the-top trashy silliness, she says, and it knows full well what it’s doing. Sometimes viewers want serious, emotionally challenging drama, but sometimes they want to stretch out on a beach chair to enjoy something hilariously stupid and low-effort. That, she says, is the audience they’re aiming for. If you try to take it seriously, you’ll be frustrated and annoyed. But if you realize you’re actually watching a classy Asylum video, you can have fun.
My wife loves this show. I do enjoy the beginning where you find out what kind of absurd disaster they have to survive. After that I find something else to do.
May I ask HOW and WHY a truck was hauling 22 MILLION killer bees?! Please don’t tell me that it was unintentional and that, somehow, no one noticed the 22 MILLION killer bees on the truck.
A delivery to Doctor Bees? Or possibly Skitter. Somebody clearly wanted a whole lot of them.
Same reason the roads in California have barrels of gasoline strategically placed to cause a fiery explosion when a car runs into them. That’s why they make so many TV shows there.
Did it specifically state that they were killer bees?
Sure did, and they have a Rap Sheet a mile long. 
With all the buzz around it, I now wanna watch this episode.
It’s a bee-nado. It gives you a whirl.
Good news! I did some research and discovered that, like regular relatively benign bees, killer bees can only sting once and then die. So, if worse came to worse and the horde was unstoppable, they would sting themselves out in a relatively short time. Figure that killer bees are known for swarming their targets in great numbers, you might have 25 to 50 bees stinging a single person. At that rate, human casualties would be limited to, give or take, a million. Since L.A. has millions of people, the swarm attack would be limited geographically to that area. I say warn people to stay indoors and just wait until the swarm stings itself out.
“You see, killer bees have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.” - Captain Zap Brannigan, LAFD
Was this limit negotiated in a Treaty? 
“I know how to kill many of them; just use one of those electronic tennis racket fly swatter things to zap 'em.” - Captain Wave Brannigan, LAFD
This bee-nado plot certainly sounds like Apoidea to me.
I watched that episode yesterday. About as crazy as you’d expect, though with an added complication at the end of the episode; Angela Bassett’s character is on a flight from Phoenix to Los Angeles transporting a prisoner when there’s a mid-air collision and she ends up needing to fly the plane. It’s the first in a three-episode arc.
With a bee?