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Future Bee Movie "Elbee Chemists" Easter Egg In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)?

2026-02-15 0 Dailymotion

Part 3 - Several past / present & future references & easter eggs connecting to actor Jerry Seinfeld may appear in the 2002 action adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The game's plot is a kind of dark comedic parody of TV & movies set in the American city of Miami, Florida in the 1980's.

- Kramer actor Michael Richards appeared in an episode of one such series the game is based on, Miami Vice (S2.E18 "The Fix"), broadcast in 1986.
- Seinfeld voiced Barry B. Benson in Dreamworks animated comedy Bee Movie (2007). Actor Ray Liotta (Vice City's Tommy Vercetti) voices an animated version of himself in this.
- A future easter egg to Bee Movie may be seen in Vice City. On Prawn Island across the street from the Interglobal movie production studios where many missions take place is a seemingly abandoned drug store called the "Elbee Chemists". The proximity to the film lot may also be a tip off to the nature of the reference.
- I mentioned the possible Kung Fu Panda reference in another video. Actor Wayne Knight (Seinfeld's Newman) voiced Gang Boss in Kung Fu Panda, Jong & Jong's Son in the TV series Kung Fu Panda: Legend's Of Awesomeness (2010-2016) & Big Fun & Hom Lee in Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2016.
- I thought a reference to this be seen in the mission "Riot." Here, hostile real estate developer Avery Carrington (voiced by Burt Reynolds) offers Tommy a job to help him grab a piece of land where a delivery company currently sits. The workers are currently striking in front of the SPAND EXPRESS warehouse & Tommy is told to start a fight amongst the crowd so that chaos erupts. Tommy is then to slip in and do some major damage to the existing infrastructure.
- I noted Carrington mentioned several different animals in his opening pitch, the anthropomorphic world of Kung Fu Panda also features a colorful cast of animals. Knight had previously acted in Steven Spielberg's dinosaur zoo blockbuster Jurassic Park (1993).
- I have found repeatedly that many easter egg references to other works may be seen as word puzzles or word plays.
- The title of the delivery company SPAND EXPRESS made me think about a Chinese fast food chain in America. If you acknowledge the other Seinfeld connections in Vice City and are able to entertain the fact this title may be a reference to PANDA then many possibilities open up.
- Newman works as a Postal letter carrier in Seinfeld.
- Knight voiced Gang Boss in Kung Fu Panda, Jong & Jong's Son in the TV series Kung Fu Panda: Legend's Of Awesomeness (2010-2016) & Big Fun & Hom Lee in Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2016.