Missing Teddy is the 2nd episode of Season 1 of the Animated Series.
Synopsis
Mr. Bean discovers an organized crime scheme of stealing teddy bears and works to bring the culprits to justice.
Plot
The segment starts off with Mr. Bean looking in his fridge and writing a shopping list. As he enters the living room, he notices the television with the Sergeant of the Police holding a teddy bear, which then shows the two Swarthies' mugshots. It appears that the sergeant is warning that the two are stealing teddy bears. Not wanting Teddy (who was on the sofa watching the television) to see what was on, he covers Teddy's eyes and shuts off the television.
The two Swarthies, Large and Small, are also watching the same programme in their hideout, sitting on their sofa laughing and mocking the Sergeant with the teddy bear he was holding, which they had stolen. Large then proceeds to lift up the bear and move its paw up and down to say "Hello!" in a mocking way before throwing it into a pile full of stolen teddy bears.
While at the store with Teddy, he grabs a jar of strawberry jelly, but then grabs a jar of honey. After a bit of a debate and then asking Teddy, he decides on the honey. After proceeding on to his other unusual tasks, like buying one tomato and one pea pod, he spots a person in a stroller stealing food from a stand. He starts to tell them to put it back, but when he sees it's a 'baby', he tries to calm it, to no avail. His 'mother' then turns around, but Bean had already hid behind a stack of boxes.
As the two leave, Bean grabs a can of whole tomatoes and then notices Teddy isn't in his cart. Outside the store, it is shown that the 'mother' and 'baby' were actually the two Swarthies he saw on television and had stolen. Bean rushes outside, still looking for Teddy, and just as the two drive by, Small taunts Bean.
Bean gets in his car and pursues them, nearly causing multiple traffic accidents along the way, and manages to cause trouble for a blue car by pushing it into a delivery van full of tea sets. Small makes a decoy and then throws Teddy out the window, with Bean veering off the road and nearly crashing into a tree. He spends all day in the forest looking for Teddy and then spots "Teddy" on a tree branch. He grabs "Teddy" and then takes "Teddy" home.
Bean, now home in his flat, has "Teddy" on his knee, putting two fingers up to see if he can identify the number, with no response. In his room, he has "Teddy" in a shoebox with a thermometer in his "mouth", with it showing nothing.
Afterwards, he takes "Teddy" to the vet, getting weird looks from a woman with her duck waiting there. The veterinarian shakes "Teddy", revealing it wasn't Teddy, but it was just Small Swarthie's coat twisted with an apple for the head to look like Teddy. While leaving, he gives a girl the apple and notices their duck quacking loudly. He slaps it, causing it to spit out a fish, which in turn causes a cat to lunge for it, shattering a fishbowl that was stuck on its head, with a dog chasing the cat and breaking the stick that was stuck in its mouth. The stick hit a pitcher of water, spilling on a bird (which looked unresponsive or dead), causing it to wake up. With their problems solved, everyone leaves the room. As he leaves, Bean spots a poster showing a missing cat.
He is then shown hanging up missing posters showing Teddy, when the same cat on the missing poster appears. Not knowing of this, he shoos it away. While at the police station later, he asks an officer if he can put a poster of Teddy up, with the officer pointing at a wall. As Bean looks, he sees 52 missing teddy bear posters on the wall.
At the Swarthies' hideout, Small grabs the real Teddy, along with two stuffed socks, and gives them to Large, who sews them on. After being hung on a line, it is shown that their intent is to put sock ears on every teddy bear.
The next day, Bean spots a boy with a teddy bear but with odd ears. He follows the path the boy came from and finds a van with the two Swarthies selling bunny bears. Upon looking at the van, he spots the real Teddy among others. He then pulls a length of rope out of his jacket and measures the area of a nearby bridge before tying one end to the rear bumper of his car and the other to the rope of the van (from which the teddy bears were hanging). He speeds off with the teddy bears in tow, with the two noticing and getting in their van to chase after Bean. After driving over the bridge, which gets the Swarthies' van stuck (due to it being wider), Bean hides in some bushes, snickering with the real Teddy.
The Swarthies, after climbing out the windows of their van and then into the lake, spot Teddy on the branch of a tree (which Mr. Bean set up). After going over to try and steal it, Bean emerges from the bushes in his car. He circles the thieves, causing the rope to wind around them and tie them to the tree.
Later, the two thieves are arrested and put in a van by the sergeant, while Bean cuts off the ears of the teddy bears and returns them to their rightful owners.
Characters
Trivia
- Mr. Bean's yellow extra room reappears. It first appeared in In The Wild.
- This is the first appearance of the Reliant Regal.
Errors
- The length of the rope tied to the thieves' truck that was tied to Mr. Bean's car seemed to change.
- The number of teddy bears on the rope seems to constantly change throughout the scene when it is tied to Mr. Bean's car and when it is used to capture the thieves.
Gallery
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