Litterbugs is the 7th episode of Season 4 and 59th episode overall of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series.
Synopsis[]
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Mr. Bean is furious with the untidy state of the streets so he goes on a one-man mission to clean up the town.
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Bean takes it upon himself to rid the city of garbage and to stop littering.
Plot[]
The episode starts at the look on the apartment, we can also see a bit of the untidy streets and littered sidewalks. Mr. Bean uncovers his windows and wipes the damp window using Teddy to take a look outside the window. He gasps and is stunned upon seeing litter being practically everywhere. A trash bag gets thrown out of a van and a car coming from the opposite way rides into it, making rubbish come from it and land on the road. He is even more shocked when he sees the Bruiser Family exiting their flat with some food they immediately throw on the ground even after not fully finishing it. Bruiser Sr. chugs on a fizzy drink, burps, squishes the can and throws behind him. Mr. Bean is irritated by that so he comes up with an idea. He puts on yellow cleaning gloves and sneaks to Mrs. Wicket's room to get a mechanical arm grabber while she is sleeping. When he moves it slightly, Mrs. Wicket only wakes up for a short while but fortunately doesn't notice Bean so he takes it and goes out of her room. Then he takes a rubbish bag from his pocket and goes outside. He begins on picking up some rubbish from the pavement by using the manual arm to pick up the rubbish and puts it in the sack. He notices a banana peel and pretends to slip on it but then quickly grabs it. Bean then goes to the park to pick up more litter. He begins pulling on a piece of fabric, later turning out to be a blanket, behind a bush. Once Bean pulls it hard enough, a baby lands on his lap, shocking him so he throws the baby back. The baby lands directly on a chocolate cake, which causes the icing to scatter on the mother's face, that was busy reading a book. Mr. Bean then goes further and sees two boys standing on a bench, one of them is eating a cheeseburger and the second one, the blond-haired one is chewing bubblegum and is holding a pack of chips. While Bean is cleaning all the rubbish around them, the brunette boy throws the rest of his burger on the ground, Bean immediately picks it up. The blond-haired boy throws a chip on the ground and Bean puts it in his rubbish bag. Both boys laugh and the blond-haired boy keeps throwing chips onto the ground, frustrating Bean. Once the chip box is empty, the boy throws it on the ground, making Mr. Bean scold them. While laughing, the blond-haired boy accidentally chokes on his gum so the brunette boy hits his back and the gum lands on Bean's forehead. Both boys laugh at Bean and they walk off. Mr. Bean removes the blue bubblegum from his face and tries to put it in the dustbin, but it stretches and gets stuck on his glove, which annoys him.
Later on, Bean continues walking through the park and picks up even more rubbish from the ground. He notices a woman picking up her dog's poo with a small bag, but the rubbish bin is over full and she can't throw it here so Bean takes the poo in the bag from her and puts it in his large rubbish bag, to which the woman thanks him. He is happy until he notices the Bruiser Family sitting on benches with a wooden table and eating tons of unhealthy food, making a huge mess around them as afterwards they just throw the rest of the food or the packagings directly on the ground instead of in the rubbish bin. Mr. Bean is deeply irritated by the Bruisers' behaviour, knowing he has to clean after them if he wants to clean the entire park. He collects the litter until night. He puts all of the bags next to a bin that's next to two trees. He also notices a "THROW RUBBISH IN HERE" sign on the bin, coming up with an idea to design his own signs. He drives to a petrol station to print some copies of the sign and places those signs everywhere he can near-and-in the park. A fox finishes eating a chip from a box and another fox points at the sign with its nose, so the fox smartly puts the box into the dustbin, with the second one even nodding. The next day, Bean parks his Mini outside the park and he placed many 'throw rubbish here' signs on the fence. A father throws his paper on the ground just as his son tells him to look at the signs. So the father follows the sign and throws the paper in the bin. Bean then returns to the park and sees a sign ripped on the ground. And then he sees more of his signs torn on the ground, leaving an angry Bean. The two boys have been tearing them and turning them to paper planes. Bean confronts them and calls them a disgrace. A paper plane lands behind his head, making the two boys laugh at him. Finally having had enough of the bullies, Bean returns to his Mini and pulls out a camera from the boot, so he can stealthily film the two boys littering and the baby throwing food; the baby cries when he sees Bean. Bean then films the Bruisers eating messily and the rubbish, only for Fang to growl at him so Bean slowly backs off.
Bean arrives at the police station and he shows the police what he had filmed. The police ignores Bean because the police has more serious problems to deal with and shows Bean a large amount of wanted posters. The police eats a sweet and throws the wrapper on the floor, angering Bean when he realizes that even the police litters so he decides to take matters in his own hands. In Bean's room, he draws up plans for a road cleaning machine that he can use to clean the streets of London. Bean takes a rope from Wicket's kitchen sink, the speaker of a record player, a washing machine, and various items and puts them outside the shed. Bean then builds his cleaning machine overnight. When he is done, he attaches them to his Mini. He uses his new cleaning machine to remove rubbish from the ground. The Mayor is about to cut the ribbon when he sees Bean's cleaning machine removing all the litter, fascinating him. While Bean is cleaning, the machine also sucks away a policeman's doughnuts and coffee, staining his uniform and angering him so he gets in his car to chase Bean.
Bean sees the policeman chasing him and tells him to pull over. The policeman goes in front of Bean to make him stop but much to his refusal, Bean turns an umbrella, making a makeshift propeller spin and making his Mini fly like a helicopter, shocking and angering the police. Bean is now flying around London and sees waste scattered throughout the park so Bean lands his Mini there and uses his cleaning machine to remove the Bruisers' waste. Bean is forced to leave the park when the policeman arrives there. Bean stops his Mini when the Mayor's car is in front of him. The Mayor opens the window and is impressed with the way Bean cleans up the city. The cop stops and arrests Bean, but the Mayor stops him because Bean did an excellent work cleaning up the city. Bean introduces himself to the Mayor just as the cop tears off the ticket because he can no longer arrest Bean. The cleaning machine sucks the paper and overloads the machine, causing a huge explosion. The city becomes dirty again, leaving behind an angry police officer.
Characters[]
Starring[]
Featuring[]
- Bruiser Sr.
- Bruiser Jr.
- Bruiser Family
- Baby Bruiser
- Fang
- Policeman
- The Mayor
- Petrol/gas station seller man
- Two foxes
- Two bad boys
- A father and his son
- A mother and her baby
- A woman and her dog
Locations[]
- Mr. Bean's flat; his room
- Mrs. Wicket's flat; her room, kitchen
- The backyard; the shed
- The park
- Petrol station
- Police Station
Transcript[]
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Quotes[]
Coming soon.
Trivia[]
- Litterbugs are irresponsible people who throw litter everywhere they can.
- While the overloaded rubbish bag explodes in Cat-Sitting, the same scene happens at the end.
- This is the second time the entire Bruiser Family appeared in Season 4 since "Home Movie".
- This episode marks the first appearance of Two Naughty Boys. In Season 4, they would later reappear in episodes like "Back to School" and "Viral Bean".
- This episode marks the first appearance of Pet Shop Seller in Season 4.
- The short thief reappears in this episode on a wanted poster. In Season 4 he would later also appear in "Valuable Lessons" along with his friend.
- The Restaurant Owner (or his lookalike) is seen on a wanted poster in the Police Station as well.
- This episode marks the first appearance of The Mayor in Season 4.
- At 8:04, the Policeman is seen about to eat doughnuts and drink coffee for lunch, which is stereotypically considered to be food liked by police officers.
In Other Languages[]
| Language | Title |
|---|---|
| French | L'Aspirateur à déchets |
| German | Der Dreck muss weg |
| Italian | Il paladino dell'immondizia (TV) Lotta alla spazzatura (DVD) |
| Polish | Śmieciuchy |
| Romanian | Gunoiul |
| Slovenian | Smeti |
Videos[]
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6329XzE6U (First upload on March 28th, 2017 on the Official Channel)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsWKcvT-UYM (Second upload on October 4th, 2017 on the Cartoon World Channel)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0VJ1NSscG4 (Storyboard - From original drawings to animation)
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