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Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean
| # | Airdate | Guest |
| 10 | 10 January 1994 | Robert Austin Rupert Vansittart |
| Act 1: Bean invites his two best friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year's party, but bores them so much that when he goes to prepare a snack, Twiglets (which are actually twigs coated with Marmite) and sugared vinegar as a substitute for champagne, they turn his clock in the living room to midnight, singing "Auld Lang Syne" to celebrate the new year, and then leave, saying that they are tired. However, they merely go into the apartment across the hall, where a swinging New Year's party is taking place. Bean is in bed when the real New Year begins. His blood boils with anger when he finds out Rupert and Hubert have deceived him and attended a larger party next door. However, Hubert forgets his hat in Bean's apartment (see act four). |
| Act 2: Bean arrives at Arding and Hobbs department store to take full advantage of the January sales. Other people have queued overnight to get there first, however Bean manages to jump the queue and annoy everyone in the process by exposing the figure in the sleeping bag at the head of the queue as a fake he placed there the night before. He then enters the store and attempts to purchase a new recliner, but an old woman sits in the chair and a store attendant explains that it is an automatic recliner. Bean, determined to purchase the recliner for himself, unplugs the chair to make it not work for her, but the attendant sees the problem and plugs it back in. While the woman sleeps in the chair, Bean sneaks up behind the chair and opens up the controls, and messes with the wires and closes the controls. The old woman then presses the button again, and this time the recliner begins to crush the woman in between the back of the chair and the leg supports. Bean watches on as the chair sets her free and she falls backwards. This scene is seen on syndicated versions of the episode and cut on children TV channels and ABS-CBN. |
| Act 3: Later, Bean has bought several items including the chair, paint cans and an assortment of brushes and mops. After strapping the chair to the roof and squeezing everything else inside the car he realises there's no room left for himself. He then has an idea. Bean successfully constructs a way of remotely driving the car from the chair attached to the roof, and embarks on a daredevil driving expedition, which goes incredibly well until he ends up on a steep decline and his only braking device is to run the car into a parked van filled with pillow feathers. |
| Act 4: Bean decides to give his flat a makeover. He first realises that moving a table is impractical, as he can no longer put objects on it through the hole in the kitchen wall. Bean's solution - just move the hole. He then decides to paint his room white, resorting to using Teddy's head as a paintbrush when he finds the bristles of the brush are ruined. He quickly tires of using this method as he ends up getting paint on things. Bean's solution - he covers everything in his room (including each individual grape in his fruit bowl) in newspaper and plants a super-firework in a can of white paint, ignites the firework, and runs out of the room. Bean returns to find his newly invented paint bomb worked; however while he was gone, Hubert returned to the flat for his hat he'd left the night before and got caught in the blast. Bean is shocked to find that there's a trail of white footprints leading out of his flat, and a silhouette of Hubert reaching for his hat is frozen onto a section of wall as the only unpainted area. |
Notes: - The MythBusters TV show ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can. However, his method was proven impossible by the test.
- Bean appears to have moved flat for a third time.
- Bean's duvet cover is of Thunderbirds.
- Videotape was used entirely for this episode and later Mr. Bean episodes because of the high cost of film. John Birkin returned as the director.
- The scene where Bean removes the control cover on the chair and switches the wires around was adapted for The Inventor in the Mr. Bean animated series.
- The episode is an indirect sequel to "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", with the first act connecting between the Christmas and New Year seasons.
- Rupert's "driving" gesture (to signify the warning "Don't Drink and Drive") when Bean tried to give him the sugared vinegar (wine) is a reference of Bean's earlier use of the gesture on "The Return of Mr. Bean".
- Although this episode and Back to School Mr. Bean were first aired in 1994, they were still copyrighted by Tiger Aspect for the year 1993.
- The music Bean turns the volume up to in the department store so that no-one can hear the old woman's cries for help in the deleted scene is the fairground incidental music from Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean.
- Since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on 31 August 1997, the part of Act 4 where Bean decapitates her picture while cutting a new serving hatch has been cut, and shows only Prince Charles, whose head he cuts through with the chainsaw.
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[edit] Back to School, Mr. Bean
| # | Airdate | Guests |
| 11 | 26 October 1994 | David Schneider
John Barrard
Christopher Ryan
Rupert Bates |
| Act 1: This outing follows Mr. Bean attending an open school day: Unable to park his car, he spots a similar-looking Mini and substitutes the cars. During his time at the open day he confuses a band of cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator. When a weaving lady takes the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up and cover her upper body, revealing her legs. Bean promptly exits the scene. |
| Act 2: In the chemistry laboratory, Bean experiments with several chemicals and makes an unstable chemical reaction, eventually causing a violent 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 a blue chemical powder. In a still-life art class, Mr Bean is shocked and appalled at having to draw a nude woman model, and promptly fashions a brassiere by taping together clay pots and strings to put on her, allowing him to draw her without embarrassment. Later, at a judo lesson, a frightened Bean is reluctant to allow himself to be thrown, but ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David Schneider) by running behind him during the bowing process and roll him up in a mat. However, when changing back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else (Christopher Ryan) and goes on a long search for his own ones. In the gentlemen's toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting on the toilet. Bean distracts the man, frantically grabs him 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. |
| Act 3: Just as Mr Bean exits the school, there is an announcement over the loudspeaker saying that there will be a demonstration shortly. Mr Bean walks over to where he parked his car at the beginning of the day, but soon realises it is not where he parked it. After looking, he sees his car in the middle of the carpark, with a lot of people watching it from behind. Unbothered by this, Bean makes to get into his car, but on the way, he is distracted by a woman's cake stall set up near his car. He walks over to the stall and buys a cake, unaware that a giant army tank has just appeared on the parking lot and is now driving over his car with a huge crushing noise. This does not bother Bean. After the tank leaves, Bean turns around, does a double take, drops his cake on the ground, and walks over to his Mini slowly with a sad look on his face. After the credits roll we see that all is not lost for the Mini, as Bean finds that the padlock he uses to lock his car with is not damaged. He smiles and walks off. |
Notes: - It is not disclosed to the viewer what Mr. Bean did with the lock he salvaged (on the Best Bits of Mr. Bean Video/DVD, he is seen with the lock, still working, yet loose, as he used it to remember this episode/life stage), it is only assumed that Bean claimed the Mini that should have been crushed by the tank as his own. However, an identical Mini does appear in later episodes complete with padlock, bolt and the original registration plate (SLW 287R).
- Before the tank crushes Mr. Bean's Mini, there is a bunch of people behind it, watching the demonstrations, yet after the tank has gone, the crowd has gone. After the tank has gone, and the crushed Mini is giving off smoke and steam, you can see the crowd starting to disperse.
- The art class scene in Act 2 inspires one short on the animated version of Mr. Bean called "Artful Bean", while one part of Act 1 where Mr. Bean tried to use the Van de Graaff generator is also seen in the short "Gadget Kid".
- Portions of the art class scene involving the backless, nude woman model were cut on the Disney Channel, as well as Nickelodeon. Also the scene where Bean gave the weaver the paper containing the static electricity that caused her dress to rise and reveal her panties was cut as well.
- The whole episode was shot in a real school - (Waldergrave School For Girls, in Twickenham, Middlesex.)
- The Mini identical to Mr. Bean's possibly inspired the animated episode "Double Trouble".
- The tank appears to be a Challenger I.
- Although this episode and Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean were first aired in 1994, they were still copyrighted by Tiger Aspect for the year 1993.
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Tee Off, Mr. Bean
| # | Airdate | Guests |
| 12 | 20 September 1995 | Grant Masters
David Battley
Jacqueline Defferary |
| Act 1: Bean goes to the launderette to wash his clothes, an inflatable dragon (which is still inflated), some fluffy dice, a lamp shade, a doormat and his Teddy, but Bean sees that the wash no longer costs £2 and costs £3. He gets intimidated by a man who takes his washing machine and frequently makes threatening gestures towards him. Bean realises he's wearing underwear he wanted to wash so he stands behind a partition to change out of them, accidentally getting his trousers mixed up with a lady's skirt. This escalates the taunting from the bully so Bean decides to get revenge on him. He substitutes the bully's soap detergent with black coffee. Unfortunately, Bean is forced to drink some detergent to disguise the fact he switched the cups. This works, and when the bully's martial arts gear emerges severely stained from the wash, he blames the owner of the launderette. Later, after retrieving his mutated washing (including a shrunken Teddy) from the drier, Bean needs to retrieve his trousers from the lady's washing. He resorts to climbing into a drier to find them just as the lady returns and closes it (and starts it) with Bean still inside. |
| Act 2: Bean plays a game of 'Krazy Golf'. He scores a hole-in-one on the first hole then on the second hole he hits the ball onto open grass. The owner forces him to obey a rule of having to get the ball back to the course by only touching it with his club. He then hits the ball out of the golfing grounds and this takes Bean on a very elaborate journey as the ball ends up on a London Country Leyland National bus, inside a lady's shopping bag, on a boy's ice-cream, up the exhaust pipe of a Proton car, down a sewer, on a rubbish cart and finally onto a village green. Bean hitchhikes a lift back to the golf course with the ball still on the patch of turf it landed on, which Bean cut out of the green. As the sun sets, he finally taps the ball into the hole with a final score of 3,427, 3,425 shots over par for that hole. |
Notes: - The Vauxhall Omega car that stops to give Bean a lift has music playing on the car stereo, the music is the (already established) theme tune to The Vicar of Dibley, another Richard Curtis comedy. The music was also composed by Howard Goodall.
- Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of repeats on children’s channel Nickelodeon UK.
- Reliant gag - Bean attempts to hitchhike back to the golf course, the first car that approaches is the blue Reliant. Evidentially in an effort to reconcile their differences the Reliant driver pulls over and opens the passenger door. Bean pretends he's not seen him and the Reliant drives off. During this scene, a keyboard-only version of the original Mr. Bean theme song was being played.
- Different theme song performance, done by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (this version was later used in the opening of the 1999-documentary "The Story of Bean").
- After Mr Bean gets £1 from his zipper, he forgot to close it after and leaves his zipper still open.
- Act 1 did inspire the short "Spring Clean" from the animated series, while its conclusion where Mr. Bean went inside the washing machine is also seen on "Goldfish".
- Even though Bean wrote down his score for Hole #2 as "3,427" his score was actually 41 (39 over par).
- The Miniature Golf course is close to Boulters Lock in Maidenhead - just south of the junction between Ray Mead Road and Derek Road.
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Goodnight, Mr. Bean
| # | Airdate | Guests |
| 13 | 31 October 1995 | Elizabeth Bennett
Rupert Bates
Suzy Aitchison |
| Act 1: Act 1: Mr. Bean has to go to hospital after getting his hand stuck in a teapot, but becomes impatient while waiting his turn. His number ticket was 76, and the digital counter showed 22. First, he starts a fight to clear two men from the queue, then steals a lower-numbered ticket (52) from a more seriously injured patient and overturns a digital counter (so that 25 looks like 52), and eventually manages to lose his place anyway. Frustratedly, he throws his ticket into the dustbin, only to get his other hand caught in the dustbin. He is compelled to pull out another ticket, using his mouth. |
| Act 2: Bean enters a museum, photographs the inside of a dustbin, and pries a sundial off its stand so that he can place his camera on it and get a photo of himself with a Queen's Guard. He irritates the Guard by dressing him up with flowers and other things, trims the Guard's moustache, and impales his Teddy on the Guard's bayonet. Just before he can take the photo, the charge is called, and the Guard walks away, Teddy and all. A photo of Bean chasing after the Guard was taken at the end of this act. |
| Act 3: Bean prepares for bed, then puts Teddy to sleep and turns off the light with a pistol, but has trouble falling asleep. After trying several methods for getting to sleep (scares noisy cats by barking like a dog, watches a chess game on TV, etc.), he finally falls asleep by counting sheep in a picture, using a calculator, and then during the credits, falls out of bed. |
Notes: - This was the last episode produced for ITV during the original run.
- Features the alternate theme song performance, by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (this version was later used in "The Story of Bean" documentary opening).
- Mr. Bean yet again appears to have moved to a new flat.
- A scene on Act 3 involving Mr. Bean firing a pistol to an incandescent lamp to turn it off was cut out on some children's channels due to the violent nature of this scene.
- A scene in Act 2 where Bean covered the penis of the naked statue of an angel with plastic for censorship purposes before it was pictured was also recycled in the Mr. Bean, The Animated Series episode "Art Thief". The other episode "Big TV" also featured Bean turning on his television with a glove attached to a broomstick, as referenced on the latter part of Act 3.
- Act 1 served as inspiration for the hospital scenes in the animated series episodes "Roadworks" and "Nurse!".
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Hair by Mr. Bean of London
| # | Airdate | Guests |
| 14 | 15 November 1995 | Colin Wells Frederick Treves |
| Act 1: Bean goes to Derrick's barber shop for a haircut. Just as he is about to have the cut, the barber has to take a long telephone call. While he waits, three other customers come in assuming Mr. Bean is the new hairdresser, and he ends up cutting their hair very awfully. They later return and blame Derrick for their strange haircuts, while Mr. Bean sneaks off hiding his face under a calendar of Prince Charles (with one nearsighted customer greeting him as such). |
| Act 2: Bean goes to a fair and cheats at the indoor games. First, he plays the Electro wire by switching it off at the plug. Then he plays "Hit the Headmaster" (in which the late George Webb is the "headmaster") and gets a bit carried away, and starts throwing objects like canned peas and cereal boxes at the "headmaster" (he almost throws a chair, but is stopped thanks to a nearby teacher). |
| Act 3: Bean enters a dog show and uses his Teddy as his pet; he wins a huge bone but gets the honey for Teddy, throwing the bone back into the tent and creating mayhem among the kids and the dogs. |
| Act 4: Bean goes to a railway station. Unfortunately, he has lost his ticket, and decides to sneak past the guards. However, he ends up hiding inside a post office bag destined for Moscow. |
Notes: - This episode was taped in 1995 as an unaired episode and was included as an extra on the VHS and DVD releases but was not originally screened on UK television until 25 August 2006, when it was shown on satellite, pay TV and cable channels Nickelodeon UK and Comedy Central Extra, but for some time remained the only full-length Mr Bean episode not to air on UK terrestrial television. This episode was even shown on the Irish television channel RTÉ One in 2005 before being broadcast on any British television channel, and was also shown on the ABC in Australia and on TV3 in New Zealand. It has since been broadcast on ITV.
- Act 1 inspired a short on Mr. Bean, The Animated Series called "Haircut".
- The intro used the original introductory song, by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral, but it was incorrectly credited to the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford at the end of the episode.
- Act 4 was actually a continuation of Act 4 of a prior Mr. Bean episode Mr. Bean Rides Again.
- On the door of the railway coach next to the English inscription of Moscow we see some pseudo-cyrilic baloney instead of Москва
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The Best of Mr. Bean
The Best of Mr. Bean (also titled The Best Bits of Mr. Bean) is a feature length episode broadcast in 1997 which involves clips from some of the episodes from the series in the early '90s.
Plot
Mr. Bean and Teddy go into the loft in search of an umbrella. Whilst looking, Bean uncovers a piece of paper with a smile showing teeth and 9.00 written under it (from the episode "The Trouble With Mr. Bean"). After a flashback, Bean opens a basket, takes out a boomerang and throws it away, but it comes back and lands back in the basket. Bean takes out two baubles and remembers "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean".
After another flashback, Bean tries to introduce Teddy to "Mr. Spider", a rubber figure on a fake web in the loft. However, Bean ends up accidentally throwing Teddy through the hatch and out of the loft. As Bean retrieves it, he has a flashback of "The Curse of Mr. Bean". Mr. Bean then brings Teddy back into the loft using a vacuum cleaner and closes the hatch. Bean looks at the window and sees that it's still raining, and as he turns around, he nearly trips over a brush and a mop tied together. He examines them, and remembers what he used it for in "Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean".
Bean then notices a Cable running across the loft's floor. He pulls the wire out the floor, with the sound of a television coming closer. He then looks behind him and gets a scare when he sees the television (loft) aerial, therefore noticing he is actually pulling up his television, and drops it in scare, smashing the screen on the floor below.
After a few more flashbacks, Bean goes over to another part of the loft, and sees a white sheet with flowers on it. Thunder and lightning flash outside and Bean remembers his Mini being crushed by a tank in "Back to School, Mr. Bean". After the flashback, Bean views the undamaged parts of the Mini, which have been neatly arranged in the loft. Bean respectfully covers it again with the white sheet and the flowers, then steps back, salutes it and bows. Bean then finds his umbrella, but the rain stops and the sun comes out. Disappointed, Bean walks away from the window. After he does, the boomerang comes back and stops by the window.
