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- "Oh, yes. I've concentrated on trigonometry."
- — Mr. Bean's first line
Mr. Bean is the titular main protagonist of the comedy series of the same name. He is a slow-witted, sometimes ingenious, selfish, and generally likable buffoon who brings various unusual schemes and connivance to everyday tasks.
Background
Mr. Bean lives alone in his small flat in Highbury, North London. He's almost always seen in his trademark tweed jacket and skinny red tie. Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does, it's generally only a few mumbled words, which are in a comically low-pitched voice. He's been shown in the first episode to have a strong knowledge of trigonometry.
His ingenuity often leads him to finding ridiculous and impractical solutions to these problems (such as painting a room by putting fireworks into a paint can). Bean will often get confused at the world, not understanding what's going on. He's also quite selfish — if someone is doing something he doesn't like, he gets very agitated. He also doesn't like people taking his things.
Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the program usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, redecorating, or going to church. The humor largely comes from his original (and often absurd) solutions to problems and his total disregard for others when solving them, his pettiness, and occasional malevolence. He acts silly sometimes.
Mr. Bean in the animated version of the show
The original live-action TV show
At the beginning of episode 2 onwards, Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba (Behold the man who is a Bean). These opening sequences were initially in episodes 2 and 3, and they were intended by the producers to show his status as an "outcast cast into the spotlight". But later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St. Paul's Cathedral. Rowan Atkinson himself has acknowledged that Bean "has a slightly outcast aspect to him".
Personality
Mr. Bean is often portrayed as a childish buffoon. He is usually obnoxious, crazy, selfish and sometimes seems stupid. He can sometimes be a gentlemen towards other women, like Roxy and Sabine, but he doesn't show much care to his girlfriend which was proven in many episodes (live-action and animated). Mr. Bean often pretends his teddy is real but he doesn't always treat Teddy nicely. Mr. Bean is also a pain to the Reliant Regal in loads of episodes becoming a running gag in the series. In a few occasions, Mr. Bean had been a bit kind but he rarely shows it. He also tends to hate Irma kissing him, and whenever Irma does this to him, he would usually smudge his cheek.
Clothing
Mr. Bean (TV Series)
Mr. Bean is mostly seen wearing a brown tweed jacket, a white shirt, a thin red tie, brown trousers and black shoes. Occasionally, he will change his outfit (often to suit the scene he is in). He is sometimes seen holding a brown suitcase. He also usually wears a digital calculator watch.
In the episode The Return of Mr. Bean, when Bean is heading to a fancy restaurant to celebrate his birthday, he wears a grey suit with a dark red tie. In the same episode, when Bean heads to meet the queen, he wears a tuxedo.
In the episode The Curse of Mr. Bean, when Bean is heading for the park to make a sandwich for his lunch, he wears a long dark green overcoat with a light green shirt and a dark green tie. In the same episode when Bean visits a cinema, he is wearing his trademark clothes, but instead of his brown tweed jacket, he wears a light brown sweater.
Mr. Bean Animated Series
Quotes
- Teddy! (Every time Mr. Bean sees/thinks something bad happen to Teddy)
- Right! (Every time he is mad/planning for revenge)
- Help! Help! (Every time he plays around Teddy or some games and tricks)
- How much?! (When he sees the price of a random item)
- I wonder... (Every time Mr. Bean has a cunning, usually good idea)
- AAAAGGGHHH!!! (When he sometimes fearfully, angrily or painfully screams)
- I'll be right back! (Every time Mr. Bean leaves Teddy to do something)
- Oh no! (Every time Mr. Bean commits mistakes or fails to accomplish his task)
- What?! (When he sees something ridiculous)
Trivia
- Despite Mr. Bean rarely speaking in most of his live-action appearances, in the animated series of Mr. Bean, he tends to talk more often following the revival of the latter.
- His first name (he names himself Bean to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned. In the first film adaption, the 'name' "Mr." appears on his passport in the "first name" field, and he is shown employed as a guard at London's National.
- He is known to have a criminal record due to the acts he has committed (although he is never seen being punished for this). These include:
- (Accidentally) headbutting the Queen's Mother.
- Vandalizing the hotel's property (including sawing a hole in his neighbour's hotel room to access their bathroom after realising his own didn't have one) and wandering around the corridors naked (using items found inside the hotel to cover his privates).
- Causing a car to break down, littering, and destroying a lady's shopping whilst trying to get back a golf ball.
- Pretending to be a barber and giving three people horrible haircuts, while profiting off two of them.
- Wandering around the swimming pool naked after losing his swimming trunks to a little girl.
- Causing an explosion in the chemistry lab and covering an attendee to be covered in blueish chemicals.
- Stabbing his dentist with his own syringe, causing him to lose consciousness.
- Throwing packaged food and cans at an old man from "Hit the Headmaster" after running out of water balloons, even attempting to throw a chair at him.
- Attempting to awake an unconscious old man in a way that hurt him.
- Stealing the ambulance's electrical power while they tried to go on their way to the hospital to recover the unconscious old man that Mr. Bean (accidentally) had knocked out (again after already saving him from unconsciousness).
- Parking too near behind an ambulance, obstructing the rear ambulance doors.
- Causing two men to get into a fight in a hospital while they are waiting in line, twice.
- Staining a man's clothes with coffee as revenge for bullying him at the laundromat (actually Bean had swapped the coffee he had purchased with a detergent the man already had sitting on top of the washing machine leading him to inadvertently pouring the coffee into the machine instead of detergent which resulted in staining his own clothes).
- Driving recklessly and dangerously and parking illegally (on almost all episodes).
- "Stealing" his trousers back from a man while he is in a bathroom stall after the man accidentally took his trousers.
- Stealing a disabled patient's queue ticket in a hospital.
- Turning the hospital's counter upside down to result in the number to appear as if it matches the number on the ticket he stole which was actually another number causing confusion to the other patients.
- Following a man into a bathroom stall together after his hand gets stuck in the man's back pocket.
- Accidentally ruining an expensive and rare book in a library, before trying to pin the blame on another person.
- Tampering with an electronic reclining chair to dissuade an old couple from buying it, causing the wife sitting in it to get sandwiched by the chair (deleted scene).
- Putting steak tartare into everything on the dining table in the restaurant.
- Using health scale and calculator to cheat when guessing the turkey's weight (deleted scene).
- Hiding himself inside a mailbag to sneak past the guards.
- Driving while sitting on the armchair on the car roof.
- Stealing a teddy bear from a little girl to make a diaper for baby.
- Crossing a driving car suddenly to retake his shoe on the car roof.
- "Decorating" the Queen's Guard to make the Guard "beautiful" before taking photo with the Guard.
- Mr. Bean claims his tweed suit was given to him as a gift.
- Mr. Bean apparently is artistic, due to the reaction of the Art Teacher in Back to School, Mr. Bean.
- He makes an appearance in the music video of the Boyzone song "Picture Of You". This is the song that was heard in the end credits of Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie.
- Being the titular character, he is the only character to appear in every episode of the series and every Mr. Bean related movie.
- Mr. Bean is implied to be extraterrestrial as shown in some episodes:
- In Tee Off, Mr. Bean, he drinks a cup of detergent which is extremely poisonous. Later in the episode, Mr. Bean also goes into a cloth dryer which would have killed him, but he somehow survived.
- In Mr. Bean's Holiday, when he accidentally gets locked inside an old outhouse, he gets hit by a passing truck, but he somehow survived.
- In Bean's Bounty, when he accidentally gets a nuke attached to his mini, when Mr. Bean drives down the hill, the nuke detached itself and exploded right on him and his mini, but somehow he survived, and his mini didn't get any damage.
- In Roadworks, when Mr. Bean lit a match on the middle of the roadworks, it causes the whole road to explode, but somehow Mr. Bean survived.
- In The Bottle, he gets placed into the milk machine which would have burned him to death, but he survived.
- In The Newspaper, he gets crushed underneath his own furniture, but he somehow didn't get hurt.
- In What a Load of Rubbish, he jumps on a bed which sent him high into the air, but he survived the fall.
Gallery
Popular Culture
- In the 23rd season of the show Saturday Night Live. There was also the sketch called "Set Our Nanny Free" on November 8, 1997, hosted by Jon Lovitz. Mr. Bean was also featured in it & he was played by Norm MacDonald. He was seen in the studio playing his fingers pretending to be in prison.
