Home Movie

Home Movie
Season	4
Episode	1 (53rd overall)
Air date	February 16, 2015
Written by	Tony Haase
Directed by	Tim Fehrenbach
Previous	Double Trouble
Next	Fish Sitting

Home Movie is the 1st episode of Season 4 and 53rd episode overall of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series. It is the first episode to be premiered in 2015 and 2010s decade.

Synopsis

YouTube

Mr. Bean attempts to make his own home movie - a horror thriller with Mrs. Wicket as the star!

IMDb

Mr. Bean decides to create a horror movie starring himself, Irma, Mrs. Wicket, and Teddy.

Plot

Bean is watching a horror movie in the cinema, but according to him, it's not interesting at all.

Mr. Bean is watching a Frankenstein movie in the theaters, but he isn't scared unlike the rest of the audience, so he leaves the movie. But as he goes outside, he sees a long line to the movie he just left. Realizing that the movie is actually a success, he imagines himself receiving an award for his successful movie. So he attempts to make his own home movie. Arriving home, he uses the creaking noise of the gate as sound effects for the movie. Then, he checks his window. When he arrives at the door, Mrs. Wicket suddenly opens it, shocking him. Mr. Bean then checks her and goes inside. Inside his room, he pulls out a camera from his closet. Inside his kitchen, he removes tissue paper from the roll and tries to use it as an improvised megaphone but it's not loud enough so he throws it away. He then gets a pitcher and peels the lower part with a can opener. He says: "Action!", through the pitcher and it's loud enough so he decides to use it as an improvised megaphone. Then he is typing the movie script on his typewriter.

After several cups of coffee drunk later, Bean finally finishes writing the script of his home movie.

The next day, he finishes writing the script and his room is a mess after making several drafts, left empty plates on the floor and he drank coffee to stay awake. Then he drives to a costume shop to buy a costume. Later, he goes to Irma's house and wears gummy vampire teeth. Before ringing the doorbell, he tests hissing or Irma to see if she's scared. Then, he rings the doorbell and tries to scare her, but fails as she isn't scared at all. Mr. Bean tells Irma that he wants to make a movie with her and brings her to his flat. He shows Irma the plan of the movie and she draws a heart on one of the drawings of Mr. Bean and her, annoying him. Then he flips the page and shows a drawing of a haunted house and flips it again to show the Frankenstein's monster. Irma asks Bean if Teddy is the monster to which Bean tells her the monster is Mrs. Wicket. Irma likes that idea.

Mr. Bean and Irma presenting the plan and the story of the film to Mrs. Wicket, encouraging her to take part in it too.

Soon, Mr. Bean knocks at Mrs. Wicket's door and tells her they're making a film. He flips the page and tells her they want her to be the star. Impressed, Mrs. Wicket imagines herself as a successful celebrity with a bodyguard, so she accepts their offer. He then says: "Let's make movies!" through the pitcher which makes his voice louder. In his room, Mr. Bean takes out a photo of himself and cuts off the eyes to make it look like the eyes are moving while Irma puts makeup on Mrs. Wicket to make her look like Frankenstein's monster. Mr. Bean puts Teddy in a skeleton costume. Then in the kitchen, he presses on the lever of the rubbish bin that he can use for the movie. Outside, he pulls up a stone floor with a shovel and draws a skull and a spider there to make it resemble a gravestone. Mrs. Wicket now resembles Frankenstein's monster and she wants to look at herself in a mirror but Irma doesn't want her to look at the mirror so she grabs the mirror from her. Irma then puts a dryer on Mrs. Wicket's head. Outside, Mr. Bean attaches a rope to the rubbish bin and puts it in the ground below the stone floor. He pulls the rope to make the lid open and puts Teddy on the rubbish bin and puts ketchup on Teddy to resemble blood. After that, he buries Teddy by putting soil over him.

Bean and Irma filming a part of the movie in Julia's kitchen.

That night, Mr. Bean prepares his camera and goes to his Mini. He yells "Action!" through the pitcher at Irma's face. They then drive to the entrance. Bean yells "Cut!" through the pitcher at Irma. Meanwhile, the dryer is still on Mrs. Wicket's head. Later, Bean and Irma are in Mrs. Wicket's kitchen and Mr. Bean tells Irma to scream when she sees the monster. When he starts recording, Irma screams weakly, which Bean disapproves and tells her to scream like she's really scared. Irma laughs when Bean records again so he pokes her with a fork, and she screams in pain; Bean now likes her scream. Soon there's smoke coming out from Mrs. Wicket's room, and they realize they forgot to turn the dryer off. Irma turns the dryer off and Wicket's hair is now black and resembles a monster's hair. Mr. Bean and Irma approve of Mrs. Wicket's hairstyle. A long queue for the movie is shown outside Bean's flat so Mr. Bean readies the movie equipment.

The audience watching Bean's film.

Then it's night and the long queue is gone, leaving only the Bruiser Family, the neighbours. Bruiser Sr. hopes the movie will be good just as he pays Mrs. Wicket. When everyone is seated, Bean presses the button and the movie starts. The first scene shows Mr. Bean holding a lightning bolt and the next scene shows him and Irma in his Mini. Bruiser Sr. laughs at the movie, believing it to be rubbish. Irma rings the doorbell and the door opens by itself. Mr. Bean flips the light switch but the lights won't work so he turns on his flashlight and Irma screams. Miss Wince laughs and Mrs. Wicket shushes her. Both Mr. Bean and Irma go upstairs. The photo of Mr. Bean on the wall suddenly has eyes that move around, scaring a couple who is watching the movie. Mr. Bean opens the door to his room and suddenly a vampire hisses at them from the bed scaring the audience. Mr. Bean and Irma run downstairs to escape the vampire but the vampire is at the door, hissing at them again so they run to Mrs. Wicket's room.

Julia is shocked by her role in the movie she wasn't told all this time until now. Both Miss Wince and Irma approve of her acting.

Mr. Bean turns on the light switch and they get scared when they see Frankenstein's monster that wakes up. Mrs. Wicket is shocked when she sees herself as the monster. The audience gets scared at Frankenstein's monster. Miss Wince and Irma praise Mrs. Wicket for her role and she becomes happy when she realizes they like her role. Mr. Bean then says the best bit will start. Bean and Irma return to Bean's Mini but a bloody skeleton, which is actually Teddy, jumps to the Mini's front window, scaring both of them.

Mr. Bean bows to the audience, alongside his co-stars: Mrs. Wicket and Irma.

Then the movie ends. The audience applauds at the movie, cheering on how good it was. Then, Mr. Bean goes to the front and bows; and his costars; Irma and Mrs. Wicket go to the stage as well. The three of them bow and Irma kisses Bean on the cheek to which Bean wipes it off as usual. Mr. Bean then shows to the audience that Teddy is the monster at the end.

Characters

Starring

• Mr. Bean

Featuring

• Teddy
• Irma Gobb
• Julia Wicket
• Miss Wince
• Bruiser Sr.
• Bruiser Jr.
• Bruiser Sr's wife
• Bruiser Sr's Daughter
• People in the movie theatre
• Cinema manager
• Other people on Mr. Bean's backyard during the movie

Locations

• Mr. Bean's flat; his room, his kitchen
• Mrs. Wicket's flat; her room and her kitchen
• The backyard
• The frontyard
• The movie theater
• Costume shop (outside only)
• Irma's house (outside only)

Transcript

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Home Movie/Transcript

Quotes

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"This isn't scary AT ALL!" - Mr. Bean

"That film was rubbish!" - Mr. Bean

"Thank you, thank you very much! I'd like to thank Teddy, very much. Thank you very much! Thank you!" - Mr. Bean

"We're going to make a movie! You and me!" - Mr. Bean

"Oh, what? You mean Teddy?" - Irma Gobb

"No, no, no, no! Mrs. Wicket!" - Mr. Bean

"We're making a film!" - Mr. Bean

"Action!" - Mr. Bean

"CUUUUT!" - Mr. Bean

"This better be good!" - Bruiser Sr.

"Right! Here we go!" - Mr. Bean

"Oh, very good dear, very good!” - Miss Wince

"What's that?" - Irma Gobb

"And now for the best bit...!" - Mr. Bean

"And who's the monster at the end...? Teddy!" - Mr. Bean

Trivia

• This is the first episode written by Tony Haase in the renewed series, Season 4, the 2010s decade and the year 2015.
  • The last episode that he wrote before this one was "Bean in Love". This episode premiered 11 years before this one.
  • He is also one of the writers that have returned to writing the episodes after Season 3 and 11 years after that season premiered.
• This is also the first ever episode directed by Tim Fehrenbach. He would later direct all 52 episodes of Season 4.
• Starting with Season 4, the episodes were only consistently directed by one person throughout the whole season, instead of different/several directors for each episode as it was in seasons 1-3.
• This is the first animated episode with the new opening sequence of Mr. Bean, which is longer and smoother than the previous sequence from the previous three seasons.
• From this episode on, a new font was used for episode title cards. However, the old font was retained for the beginning of the intro with the name of the show and the words "Starring Rowan Atkinson".
• This is the first animated episode that has been animated using Celaction 2D by James Butler.
• While the little dialogue is retained, it is not as limited as it is in the previous three seasons. With this and the follow-up, the dialogue becomes comprehensible and the characters speak in clear and understandable way.
• Mrs. Wicket's voice was changed to less gruff compared to the previous seasons.
• Bean is not scared while watching a horror movie for the 3rd time. The previous ones were in "Scaredy Bean" and "The Curse of Mr. Bean".
  • In the episode "Scaredy Bean", Bean wasn't scared to watch two horror movies when they began, but later on he became really scared of them.
  • The two twin sisters weren't scared to watch the horror movie in "Scaredy Bean" but they were screaming in this episode and were really terrified of the movie.
  • This episode may be considered similar to "Scaredy Bean" due to both episodes revolving around a similar topic of horror movies.
  • This episode may be considered a Halloween episode, due to its topic being about Bean creating a horror movie.
• This is the first episode to be entirely animated with flash and not digital ink-and-paint animation.
• This is the first episode of 2015, and the 2010s decade.
• This episode came out exactly 12 years after "Goldfish" and "Inventor".
• The vampire costume Mr. Bean wore in this episode would later be used by him in the episode "Halloween".
  • In the episode "Halloween" he cut the vampire teeth from a turnip whilst in this one he had gummy vampire dentures.
• In this episode, the gate to Mr. Bean's is creaking, the same would eventually happen in the episode "Ball Pool" from the same season.
• Some of the people from the movie theater and those waiting in the queue outside the cinema to see the movie would later appear watching Bean's movie, including the man holding popcorn, a couple and the twin sisters.
• This the first appearance of characters like Mr. Bean, Irma, Mrs. Wicket, Teddy, Miss Wince and the Movie Theater Ticket Seller Lady since the last decade and in 11 years from the episode "Double Trouble".

Errors

• Sometimes on Boomerang broadcasting, after the title, it plays "Back to School" instead.
• When Mr. Bean draws the spider on Teddy's grave, he draws six legs on it instead of eight.
• According to the creators of Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster is pale yellow, not green.

In Other Languages

Language	Title
French	Cinéma amateur
German	Der Gruselfilm
Italian	Mr. Bean regista (TV) Regista per un giorno (DVD)
Polish	Kręcimy film
Romanian	Filmul
Slovenian	Domači kino

Censorship

• When aired on Boomerang Asia, Cartoon Network and Cartoon Network HD, the scene where Mr. Bean pokes Irma's buttock with a fork was cut due to being painful and inappropriate.

Videos

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbSdzSrpS0 (First Upload on March 28, 2017 on the Official Channel)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIpxwjEJno (Second Upload on September 22, 2017 on the Cartoon World Channel)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VAdQCshEM (Storyboard - From original drawings to animation)

Gallery

Mr. Bean got bored with the movie.

The large queue of people to see the movie.

"Thank you, thank you very much, I'd like to thank Teddy. Thank you very much, thank you!"

"What you up to?"

"Action..."

"Action!"

Bean typing on his typewriter.

Mr. Bean visited Irma.

"We're going to make a film, me and you!"

"Come on!"

"Let me just..."

The haunted house.

The monster.

"Oh, what, you mean Teddy?"

"We're making a film. And we want YOU to be the star!"

"ACTION!"

Teddy in its skeleton costume.

Bean preparing the camera.

"CUUUT!"

"AAAAH!"

"That hurt!"

The result on Mrs. Wicket's hairstyle.

The long queue of people wanting to see Mr. Bean's movie.

The backyard.

"This better be good!"

The audience.

"This film is rubbish!"

The shocked audience.

Mrs. Wicket as the Frankenstein's monster.

"What? ME?"

The End. Everyone is cheering on how good the movie was.

"Thank you very much!"

"And who's the monster at the end... Teddy!"