Back to School Mr. Bean

For the animated episode with a similar title, see Back to School.

Back to School Mr. Bean
Season	1
Episode	11
Air date	October 26, 1994
Written by	Robin Driscoll, Rowan Atkinson
Directed by	John Birkin
Previous	Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean
Next	Tee Off, Mr. Bean

Back to School Mr. Bean is the eleventh episode of the live-action TV series. It originally aired on ITV on October 26, 1994.

Plot

Act 1: Checking out the exhibitions

Mr. Bean arrives at an adult education school to attend an open school day. Unable to find a parking spot for his car, he spots a similar-looking Mini and substitutes the cars, making a group of Army Cadets push the car, thinking it's his and it won't go. He walks over to a standing troop of Army Cadets while the drill instructor has gone into an office. When Bean clears his throat, they respond by stomping once simultaneously, so he gives them commands, eventually causing them to stand in an unusual ceremonial stance. When Bean sees the drill instructor returning, he hides from him. When the drill instructor returns, he scolds the troop while Bean sneaks away and enters the school. Bean deliberately blocks people from looking at displays, messes up a stamp album, and distracts and frightens a calligrapher. He also tries a Van de Graaff generator, which does not make his hair rise, leaving him electrostatically charged. Bean picks up and reads a syllabus but cannot put it back because it is attracted to his body. When a woman takes the syllabus from Bean, the syllabus attracts the dress, causing it to rise up, cover her upper body, and expose her legs and girdle, causing two nearby women to help her lower her dress down and Bean to flee the scene (this scene was cut in Disney Channel Asia).

Act 2: Science

Mr. Bean's Chemistry Experiment

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 quickly manages to escape just in time, but a younger student is not lucky and is caught in the explosion.

Act 3: Art

In a still-life art class, the students have to draw a bowl of fruit. Bean draws a banana. When the art teacher sees his work, she advises him to add detail and draws the stem. Bean, annoyed by this, crumbles up the paper into a ball and throws it across the room. While drawing a banana again, the bowl changes to a nude female model. Not knowing this, Bean inadvertently draws her breasts with the banana in the middle, but when he realizes he is supposed to draw the model, he becomes shocked and appalled. He draws a mouth so his drawing looks like a face. When the teacher sees his drawing, she tells him to draw the model's body. However, he refuses to look at the model and fashions a brassiere out of clay to put on her breasts. Meanwhile, the young student from the chemistry lab, covered in blue powder, and his teacher, enter the room. The chemistry teacher asks the art teacher if Bean is in her class. The young student looks around and shakes his head, but he ogles the nude model, shocking and appalling his teacher, who drags him out of the room. Bean puts the clay bra on the model and finishes his drawing without further embarrassment. He leaves the class and the art teacher is impressed with his drawing.

Act 4: The Judo

Later, in a judo class, the instructor (David Schneider) checks the students' breakfalls by throwing them onto the ground, frightening Bean. During his turn, he successfully overcomes the instructor by confusing him, pushing him to the ground, and rolling him up in a mat.

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. In the gents' toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting on the toilet. Bean distracts, then frantically grabs the man by the legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his underwear. As he does this, the Army drill instructor from earlier enters the bathroom. When Bean sees him, he pretends to shine the man's shoes. When the drill instructor leaves, he continues to pull his trousers off the man. After doing so, he throws the man's trousers and underwear back to him over the stall door. However, his underwear lands in the toilet bowl.

Act 5: So long, Mini

Bean returns to his car, which is now missing. He spots it in the middle of a car park with lots of people strangely watching it. Unbothered by this he continues towards his car intending to get in it. On his way he's distracted by a generous selection of cakes on a nearby stand. He then chooses a cake and eats it. He is too busy eating the cake that he fails to notice a giant army tank rolling in behind him. The tank drives right over the top of the Mini crushing it in the process. It takes Bean several seconds to notice this, he does look around briefly to see what all the noise is about and then goes back to his eating. When he turns around the second time, he does a double take and drops his cake on the ground. At the end, Bean sadly walks around his car again and finds his padlock which is the only undamaged part. He plays with it, smiles and walks off.

Behind the scenes

• There were three cars crushed during filming. Two cars specially built for filming of this episode painted with the same colour scheme as the main car but with the engines removed. One of these two Mini was also used for the part where Mr. Bean substitutes his car with the same looking car with registration ACW 497V. One of the three main cars with his engine removed was also crushed by the tank.
• It isn't disclosed to the viewer what Mr. Bean did with the lock he salvaged (on The Best Bits of Mr. Bean episode, he is seen with the wreckage of his destroyed Mini). However an identical Mini does appear in later episodes complete with padlock, bolt and the original registration plate (SLW 287R). It is only assumed that Mr. Bean claimed the Mini that should have been crushed by the tank as his own.
• The art class scene in Act Two inspires one short on the animated version of Mr. Bean called "Artful Bean", while one part of Act One 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 bare-backed, nude woman model were cut on the Disney Channel as well as Nickelodeon.
• The scene where Bean searches for his trousers was also cut out on Boomerang Australia.
• The animated series episode, "Double Trouble", the possible inspiration from this episode, is shown that there are two Minis whose second identical Mini belongs to Mr. Pod.
• In the Philippine channel, ABC 5 (now TV5), where Mr. Bean was formerly aired, the scene where the lady's dress gets lifted was frozen before her white panties was shown before the commercial break. It is also done the same in Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
• In Act One, where Mr. Bean turned the Mini the other way, you can see on one of his wheels he is missing a wheel cap.
• Up until The Best Bits of Mr. Bean, this episode would go back to being shot entirely on video tape.
• This episode marked the first episode since The Trouble with Mr. Bean to have a bonus scene during the credits.
• This episode and Tee Off, Mr. Bean are the only episodes where the "Qui Est Faba" (sung twice) in "Vale Homo" are missing in the credits.

Video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVonJchNPEA