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Mr. Bean
This episode includes three frolics. First, Bean goes to
a college to sit a Mathematics exam. He has studied
Trigonometry, but he finds a Calculus paper in the
envelope (he thinks that Calculus is the only option,
and doesn't realise until the last minute that there
were TWO papers in the envelope: one calculus, the other
trigonometry); Second, Bean goes to the beach and tries
to take off his trousers and undergarments without a
nearby man seeing him (after he succeeds, it emerges
that the man was actually blind); Third, Bean goes to a
church, doesn't know the words to the hymns, sneezes
loudly and falls asleep out of boredom, much to the
annoyance of the man next to him (Richard Briers). He
tries to put a mint in his mouth without being seen to
stay awake.
The Return of Mr. Bean
This episode includes four frolics. First, Bean helps a
busker by dancing stupidly to his music; Second, Bean
tries out his new credit card at Allders. He does his
shopping (he tests everything he picks up first) and
accidentally loses his credit card to an old man who has
the same card. Bean pick-pockets the man and gets his
card back, but his hand gets stuck, and the man
accidentally pulls him all the way into a toilet
cubicle; Third, Bean goes to a restaurant on his
birthday and orders a steak tartare (he thought it was a
real steak). Disgusted by the tartare's taste and
appearance, he cuts it up and hides the pieces in
different places (ashtray, handbag, violinist's pants);
Fourth, Bean meets the "Queen" in a Royal Line-up, but
quite unprepared (dirty nails, unbrushed teeth,
unpolished shoes and smelly breath). He uses his
trouser-zip to clean his fingernail, but the zip gets
stuck, and he only manages to force it back up just
before the Queen greets him. Preparing for a bow, Bean
headbutts the Queen, and, during the confusion, makes a
run for it.
The Curse of Mr. Bean
This episode includes four frolics. First, Bean goes to
a public swimming pool, and tries out the super-high
diving board, and chickens out until two impatient boys
push him off. Bean loses his swimming trunks, and must
get back to the changing room unseen; Second, Bean finds
he can't pay the ridiculously high parking price, and
tries to get out through the entrance; Third, Bean goes
to the park to have a lunch break, and makes himself a
sandwich (he cuts the bread with scissors, he washes the
lettuce with a fountain and uses his sock to dry it, he
crushes the pepperballs with his shoe), but at the last
minute, he sneezes and loses the sandwich. The man next
to him offers Bean his other sandwich, which Bean
gratefully accepts; Fourth, Bean goes to see A Nightmare
on Elm Street with his girlfriend, and gets the scare of
his life.
Mr. Bean Goes To Town
This episode includes four frolics. First, Bean buys a
portable television for his flat, ands finds difficulty
in trying to connect it and find a good reception
(somehow, Bean is forced to strip and sit in a certain
spot for the television to work) Second, Bean tries out
his new Polaroid in the park, but it gets stolen by a
thief (Nick Hancock). Bean, using a bin and a pencil,
eventually tracks the thief and gets his camera back;
Third, Bean gets an itch in his foot while in the town,
so he takes off his shoe and sock, to scratch it. But he
puts his shoe on a car's roof, and the car goes off,
leaving Bean to hop through the town to find it (which
he eventually does); Fourth, he attends a magic show and
disco with his girlfriend, only to mess up the magic act
and embarrass his girlfriend so much that she dumps him
for another man. Frustrated, Bean leaves the disco, but
not before shutting off the power first. The Trouble with Mr. Bean
This episode has three frolics. First, Bean oversleeps
for his appointment at the dentist and finds himself
forced to change clothes and brush his teeth while
driving to the dentist; Second, he arrives at the
dentist's office, where he sees a comic book he wants to
read held by a young boy. He pours water into the boy's
lap to make his mother belive he wet himself, causing
her to take him home. After getting the comic, he is
immediately called in to see the dentist (Richard
Wilson). While in the chair, he accidentally numbs the
dentist's leg, causing him to fall over. Bean decides to
treat himself, drilling each of his teeth because of
confusion with the diagram. When the dentist awakens,
Bean leaves; Third, Bean goes to a park and tries to
have a picnic, but a nearby wasp falls desperately in
love with Bean's icing-bun. Frustrated, Bean ultimately
leaves his picnic site and throws the bun at a car-thief
(who Bean managed to fool by taking off the steering
wheel and bringing it with him during his picnic). This
was the highest rated episode, with an audience of 18.74
million viewers on its original transmission. Mr. Bean Rides Again
This episode has four frolics. First, Bean wants to go
to the post office, but he drops his car keys down a
drain, so he decides to catch a bus. But at the bus
stop, the one man with him has a heart attack, and Bean
tries to revive him with an electric shock. He succeeds,
but overdoes it and causes the man to have another heart
attack. An ambulance comes, and Bean drains the energy
from it for his own Mini, and heads for the post-box;
Second, on his way to the post-box, Bean accidentally
swallows his stamp, so he steals one from a lady's
letter. But when the lady comes back, he hides in the
post-box as the post man empties it, and gets stuck for
a few hours inside; Third, Bean tries to pack for a
holiday, ridiculously reducing the size of his
properties to fit them in a small briefcase. After
finally managing to fit his things in the tiny
briefcase, he reaches under the bed and discovers that
he owned another briefcase, almost double the size of
the small one; Fourth, Bean's travel starts on a train,
where he tries to read a book when another man in the
compartment starts laughing his head off at his joke
book. Bean plugs his ears with a leftover gum, and does
not hear the ticket-inspector come to see his ticket.
Bean then boards an aeroplane, but is forced to look
after a sick boy next to him. Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean
This episode includes four frolics. First, Bean shops
down Oxford Street, London, and does silly things
(playing with the Nativity figurines, breaking a bauble
while testing it, and unplugging all the Harrod's
Christmas lights while testing his own); Second, Bean
meets his girlfriend in the town, where she tries to
give him the message that she wants an engagement ring
as a present. Later, he wins a free turkey (by
cheating), and then catches a pick-pocket and gives the
thief's items to a Salvation Army brass band conductor.
Bean then ends up conducting the band in a ridiculous
way while the conductor tries on the items that the
pick-pocket stole; Third, Bean prepares for Christmas
Eve, but bores himself with war films, and shuts the
door on young carol singers without giving them
anything; Fourth, Bean tries to prepare the turkey, but
loses his watch while stuffing it, and pokes his head
inside, getting it stuck on his head just as his
girlfriend arrives, and helps him get it off. The
popular US sitcom Friends later re-used this same joke.
Later, they have dinner (Salami sandwiches), and Bean
gives his girlfriend her present: the picture on display
next to the engagement ring she wanted. She leaves the
flat sobbing, leaving Bean to pull his super-cracker
alone. Mr. Bean in Room 426
This is all one big frolic. Bean goes to a posh hotel,
where he gets into many escapades, by drilling holes in
walls to hang his pictures, sneaking into his
neighbour's bathroom to have a bath. At lunchtime, he
copies his neighbour (taking the same food as him and
mimicking his movements). But he also saves his oysters
for last, which go bad, but Bean doesn't notice. That
night, his other neighbour plays loud music, and Bean
walks out of his room stark naked to knock on the door,
but his own door closes, and Bean finds himself locked
out of his room naked. He attempts to get down to the
lobby and find the spare key, as the manager is
distracted by Danny La Rue's show. Bean sneaks into
LaRue's spare frock, and asks for the spare key when the
manager comes back. But Danny sees him and rips a
clip-on earring off his ear. Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean
This is all one big frolic. Bean goes to a funfair, but
accidentally leaves his Mini's boot unlocked, and the
handle pulls a baby's pram with it to the funfair. Once
Bean sees the "kidnapped" baby, he sees no choice but to
look after it while enjoying himself. Do-It-Yourself, Mr. Bean
This episode includes three frolics. First, Bean invites
his two friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year party,
but bores them so much that when he goes to prepare a
snack, Twiglets which are actually twigs covered with
Marmite, they turn his clock to midnight, and say that
they are tired. Thinking that he wasted New Year's eve,
Bean "coincidentally" goes to bed when the REAL New Year
begins. His blood boils with anger; Second, he does a
strange shopping at the January Sale (loads his car up
with D.I.Y. stuff and ties an armchair to his Mini's
roof, but crashes into a pillow truck); Third, Bean
tries some D.I.Y., but makes messes all over the place,
until he decides to paint his room white. He covers
everything in newspapers, and plants a super-firework in
a can of white paint. As the firework ignites, Bean runs
out of the room, but doesn't notice Hubert return to the
flat for his hat and get caught in the explosion. Bean
goes back inside and not only sees his white room, but
the cut-out of Hubert picking up his hat. Back To School, Mr. Bean
This outing follows Mr. Bean attending a school open
day. Unable to park his car, he spots a similar-looking
Mini and substitutes the cars. During his time at the
open day, he distracts calligraphers, gets in other
people's way, and gets paper stuck to his body after
using a Van de Graaff generator. When a lady helps Bean
remove the offending piece of paper, the static
electricity causes her skirt to blow up. In the science
laboratory, Bean experiments with several solutions,
eventually causing an explosion, with blue smoke
emerging from the laboratory. Bean manages to escape in
time, but a younger student is not so fortunate and is
later seen covered head to toe in blue. In a still-life
art class, Mr Bean is shocked and appalled at having to
draw a naked woman, and promptly fashions a brassiere
out of clay, allowing him to draw the woman without
embarrassment. Later, at a judo lesson, a frightened
Bean ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David
Schneider) and roll him up in a mat. However, when
changing back into his regular clothes, he finds that
his trousers are too small, and goes on a long search
for them. In the gents' toilets, he spots them, cleverly
seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting
on the toilet. Bean frantically grabs the man by the
legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his
underwear, which he throws back to the man – though it
ends up falling down the toilet. Finally, Bean witnesses
a tank demonstration, in which the tank crushes his car
(recall the Mini he switched places with at the start of
the episode). From the wreckage, he manages to salvage
the padlock. Tee Off, Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean does his laundry, but manages to lose his
trousers as well as coming into conflict with several of
the other customers. He then he plays a bizarre game of
crazy golf, which involves him accidentally hitting his
ball out of the course and all over the streets of
London just because the manager of the course told him
picking up the ball was against the rules. Goodnight Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean has to go to hospital after getting his hand
stuck in a teapot, but loses patience while waiting his
turn. Firstly he starts a fight to clear two men from
the queue, then steals a ticket from another more
seriously injured patient, although eventually manages
to lose his place anyway. Secondly, he irritates a
sentry guard with a camera by dressing him up in a
ridiculous costume. Later, he prepares for bed but has
trouble falling asleep. Other episodes
Another full length episode "Hair by Mr. Bean of London"
was only available on video. Also unseen on television
were two short sketches, presumably intended for
inclusion in earlier episodes, but ultimately cut: (The
Bus Stop; and The Library).
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