Dickinson's giant talking bee, voiced by Jason Mantzoukas, first appeared in The Nice Guys

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Creator Alena Smith came up with the bee idea before seeing Shane Black's 2016 neo-noir crime black comedy starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. “I went and saw the The Nice Guys, and Ryan Gosling in that movie smokes weed with a bee in a car," Smith tells Vulture. "And I’m like, What the f*ck? Someone else thought of a bee smoking weed? Then we go into production on Dickinson and they tell me, ‘Well, we’ve got this bee puppet. It’s the one that was designed for The Nice Guys.'" As for casting Mantzoukas, Smith says: “I don’t know who else would do a puppet bee.”