Ray of Sunshine is the 18th episode of Season 3 of the Animated Series.
Synopsis
Mr. Bean goes to the beach to have suntan. However, when the country man arrives and preventing him from exposing to the sun, he finds another place. When the nimbus cloud covers the sun, he is desperate and chases the beam of sunlight across the town.
Plot
Mr. Bean arrives at the beach to enjoy a fun and relaxing day there. However, he immediately notices that one side is too crowded so he decides to drive to the least populated part of the beach. Upon arriving there, he proceeds to unpack his stuff while scaring a crab back into the water.
After unpacking his stuff, Mr. Bean then starts his day of fun and relaxation by building a sandcastle and later relaxing on his beach chair with Teddy. Not long after, he's moment of relaxation is interrupted by the arrival of a recreational vehicle driven by an American tourist, who provides Mr. Bean unwanted shade when he needs to sunbathe and, upon seeing his sandcastle, creates an inflatable one. Irked by the foreigner's antics, Mr. Bean proceeds to drive to the cliff overlooking the beach so he could finally relax. Suddenly, nimbus clouds begin to cover the sky and Mr. Bean notices a lone beam of sunshine and drives there. As he tries the relax underneath the sunbeam, it then moves away from him since it couldn't stay in one spot for more than a few seconds. This eventually leads to Mr. Bean chasing that beam through the streets of London until it stops near a pond in Grassy Park. This finally gives Mr. Bean the chance to relax under it again, but this was interrupted again by a crane's counterweight, much to Bean's dismay. He then proceeds to control the crane so that the counterweight will be out of the sunbeam's way.
Upon waiting for the construction worker to go into a portable toilet to do his business, Mr. Bean climbs into the operator cabin, where he briefly gets frightened by how high he is from the ground. Using the levers to make the crane turn, he successfully moves the counterweight away from the sunbeam while unknowingly scooping up the portable toilet with the crane hook (which makes the frightened construction worker lock himself inside as soon as he is finished). Once Mr. Bean is finished, he noticed the portable toilet hung on the crane hook and pulls a lever to lower the portable toilet down by the pond. The construction worker looks outside to make sure he is safe but upon stepping outside, he falls into the water. Mr. Bean returns to where sunbeam is, only to see that a lot of people have taken his spot. Eventually, the sunbeam starts moving again as Mr. Bean gives chase. He follows the beam through the streets again, where he briefly stops to relax at a roundabout when the beam stops there. He eventually follows the beam to the countryside, where his relaxation in a wheat field is interrupted by a harvester and the beam moves again. Soon after, he also tries to sunbathe in the most inopportune places, specifically at a church where a wedding photo is taken and in a football stadium where a match is ongoing.
Eventually, the chase leads Mr. Bean to a seaside cliff, where he stops his car as the beam continues to move into the ocean away from him. Still needing to find a way to follow it, Mr. Bean see a car carrier at the pier and as he tries to cut himself in the line of wheeled vehicles, he slips under a truck as he boards the ship. Once the ship is now moving, Mr. Bean climbs on the deck so he can relax under the sunbeam again, only for it to move away again. Undeterred this time, he tells the captain to turn left (port) to where the sunbeam is and when it moves away again, Mr. Bean tells the captain to turn right (starboard) and follow the beam . This continues on as the episode ends with the captain understanding Mr. Bean, who thanks him.
Characters
Starring
Censorship
There are five scenes were cut:
- The scene in which the camera pans to people wearing beach costumes,
- The second is the scene in which Mr. Bean rans over the beachers,
- The third one in which Mr. Bean looks again to the beachers,
- The fourth one in which Bean rans over the beachers again,
- The fifth one in which Bean gets back from his place where he stayed.
Trivia
- This is 50th episode of Mr. Bean Animated Series.