2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

This is an episode guide for the television series Mr. Bean, starring Rowan Atkinson, which ran from 1 January 1990 to 31 October 1995. Episodes are usually divided into three to five acts.

Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
1	1 January 1990	Richard Briers, Paul Bown, Rudolph Walker, Roger Sloman
Act 1: Mr. Bean is late for his mathematics exam and speeds past a Reliant three wheeler, nearly tipping it over. Once he reaches the college, he irritates a fellow candidate by getting out many spare pens and a number of mascots, including a Pink Panther doll. He has studied trigonometry, but he finds a calculus paper in the envelope. He spends the duration of his two hours trying to cheat off another candidate (Paul Bown), and doesn't realise until the last minute that there were two papers in the envelope: one calculus, the other trigonometry, with the student given a choice as to which to do.
Act 2: Bean goes to the beach and tries to change from his street trousers and underpants into his swimming trunks without ever becoming naked, in order to prevent a nearby man (Roger Sloman) from seeing him. After he succeeds, it emerges that the man was actually blind.
Act 3: After a parking altercation, once again involving the Reliant, Bean attends a church service. Unfortunately he doesn't know the words to the hymns, sneezes loudly and falls asleep out of boredom, much to the annoyance of Mr. Sprout (Richard Briers) who is sitting next to him. To stay awake, he tries to put a mint in his mouth without being seen. On the way back home, he takes a wrong turn and crashes his Mini.
Notes: Ben Elton's only appearance as writer of Mr. Bean is in this episode. This episode, being the pilot episode, was simply called 'Mr. Bean'. Its original opening and end titles did not feature the familiar choral music or street/spotlight theme. The titles were superimposed over Bean's journey to the college and subsequent crash at the end of the episode. Another major difference was the fact that his Mini was orange-red as opposed to the more familiar lime green that was used for other episodes. For the remastered Region 1 DVD version, the opening titles were removed and the regular titles added. Rudolph Walker plays the examiner. He and Rowan Atkinson would later go on to co-star in The Thin Blue Line The church service sketch was also performed live by Atkinson (and Angus Deayton) on tour, including in Boston, 1991. Cameo appearance by Howard Goodall as the church organist. Rowan Atkinson performs the role of the vicar's voice, giving an apparently gibberish sermon. Reliant gag - Bean over-takes the Reliant Regal pulling in front at a very close distance. The Reliant driver panics and steers off, toppling the vehicle. Reliant gag - Bean drives straight at the Reliant on the road leading to the beach. The Reliant driver ends up swerving into a ditch in order to avoid a collision. Reliant gag - Bean selects a parking space on a field, coincidentally the space is already occupied by the Reliant which is forced onto the road. Bean, seemingly confused as to how the vehicle got there, runs off.

The Return of Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
2	5 November 1990	John Junkin, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Matilda Ziegler
Act 1: Bean sees a busker playing a saxophone and wants to drop some change in his saxophone case. When he finds he has no change, he places his handkerchief on the ground and dances stupidly to the saxophone music; a woman stops by and leaves him a coin, which he then transfers to the saxophonist's case.
Act 2: Bean tries out his new American Express charge card at Allders department store. After appearing to suffocate whilst going through the perfume department, he does his shopping by first testing everything he wants to buy — he opens and uses a toothbrush, tries on a bath towel, peels a potato with a peeler he wants to buy, and pulls a large fish out of his pocket to see if it fits on a frying pan. He also chooses the telephone from the receptionist's desk as the one he wants and takes it with him, plug and all, because it was the only phone that gave a dial tone when picked up - he assumed the other phones (disconnected display models) were broken. At the register, he accidentally swaps cards with an old man who has the same kind of card as him; Bean pick-pockets the man and gets his card back (instead of speaking with the man, of course), but his hand gets stuck, and the man accidentally pulls him all the way into a toilet stall. In the toilet stall, he recovers his card, and shocks the man when he finds Mr Bean in the toilet with him.
Act 3: Bean goes to a restaurant on his birthday and orders a steak tartare, which he expected to be a real steak. Disgusted by the tartare's taste and appearance, he cuts it up and hides the pieces in different places (ashtray, tiny vase, sugar basin, a hollowed-out roll, under a plate, violinist's trousers, handbag). Conveniently, a waiter walks by and spills his tray all over Bean's table, which provides him with an opportunity to cover up his actions by showing the waiter and the maitre d' that the tartare has ended up inside the vase, inside his bread, under his plate, in the violinist's trousers, and in a woman's handbag. The maitre d' apologizes and promptly moves Bean, who is quite content, to another table, where the waiter brings out another dish, which, unfortunately for Bean, is another steak tartare.
Act 4: Bean is waiting to meet Queen Elizabeth II at a royal premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema, but is quite unprepared (his nails and teeth are dirty, his breath smells, and his shoes are unpolished). He manages to rectify most of these problems to his satisfaction (using spit to polish his shoes, folding back the corners of a postcard to serve as a pocket handkerchief, and using a loose thread from an usherette's uniform to floss his teeth), but when he uses his trouser zipper to clean his fingernail, the zip gets stuck, and he only manages to force it back up just before the Queen greets him. Preparing for a bow, Bean accidentally headbutts the Queen, who is knocked to the floor. During the confusion, Bean makes a run for it.
Notes: The first episode to feature the 'Bean falling from sky' theme and the familiar choral music. Matilda Ziegler, who later plays Bean's girlfriend, appears as an usherette at the royal premiere scene. Rowan Atkinson performs two roles in this episode, the second being a voice over news reporter at the beginning of Act 4. John Howard Davies produced and directed this Mr. Bean episode, as well as "Mr. Bean" (the first episode) and "The Curse of Mr. Bean", both released 1990. Act 4 is the actual opposite of a later Mr. Bean, The Animated Series episode called "Royal Bean", but Act 2 did inspire another short called "Restaurant".

The Curse of Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
3	30 December 1990	Angus Deayton, Matilda Ziegler
Act 1: Bean goes to a public swimming pool, and tries out the super-high diving board, and chickens out until two impatient boys push him off (by stamping on his hand as he attempts to climb down). Bean loses his swimming trunks, and is unable to retrieve them as a small kid fishes them out of the pool with a fishing net. Bean, naked, tries to get back to the changing room unseen and almost succeeds, but the lifeguard appears near the change room. He hides behind a corner, but a women's swimteam appears behind him. The members of the swimteam scream and go back to the changing room immediately.
Act 2: Bean finds he can't pay the ridiculously high parking price of £16.00 at the swimming pool car park, and tries to leave through the entrance by wheeling a refuse container in front of the entrance to trick the machine into issuing a ticket and opening the barrier. He succeeds and drives his car past the barrier and into the entrance lane. Just as he was moving the container back, a black Mercedes arrives and he is forced to reverse back into the car park. He eventually escapes by waiting for another car to enter the car park and lift the barrier, and then driving full tilt at the entrance lane, driving out of it and knocking the other car out of the way. The victim turns out to be the Reliant and, once again, it topples over.
Act 3: Bean goes to the park to have a lunch break, and makes himself a sandwich in a really ridiculous way, using ingredients and tools he has stashed with him in his coat. He cuts the bread with scissors, spreads the butter with his credit card (his "flexible friend"), washes the lettuce in a drinking water fountain and uses his sock to dry it, pretends to kill two dead goldfish, and crushes the peppercorns with his shoe. He even makes tea in a hot water bottle, using his mouth to transfer milk from a baby bottle to the hot water bottle. Eventually, however, the pepper makes him sneeze and he drops the sandwich. The man next to him (Angus Deayton) offers Bean half of his own pre-packed sandwich, which Bean gratefully accepts.
Act 4: In this brief act, when Bean approaches a left turn at an intersection, he has to stop at a red light. He then sees a cyclist, also doing a left turn through the intersection, dismounting from his bike and pushing it over the control line of the still-red traffic lights. Bean gets out of his car and pushes it across the intersection too, just like the cyclist did. (This scene was filmed in Feltham, about a mile down the road from where Act 2 was filmed.)
Act 5: Bean goes to see A Nightmare on Elm Street with his girlfriend. He buys himself a giant popcorn tub, and her a small one, even stealing from hers but slapping her hand when she tries to do the same. Before the film, he teases her and scares her, spills popcorn and interrupts the other people there. He then gets scared witless himself by the actual feature and tries to avoid watching it by any means necessary (including pulling his sweater over his head—causing a huge shriek from his girlfriend when his head has apparently disappeared—and using popcorn as earplugs). After the film, as the two of them leave, his girlfriend puts her coat over her body and Bean shakes one of her coat's sleeves, under the impression that her hands have been amputated, making her jump.
Notes: First appearance of Irma Gobb (Matilda Ziegler), Bean's neglected girlfriend. This episode (and "The Return of Mr. Bean") are the only episodes to have the black background where Mr. Bean lands from; however, this episode and a later one (Mr. Bean Rides Again) shows Bean getting sucked back from the sky at the start and the end. Both episodes were directed and produced by John Howard Davies. Reliant gags - Bean charges towards the entrance barrier when the driver of the Supervan takes a ticket, and, in the end, topples over. The shot in which Mr Bean's car begins accelerating towards the car park entrance lane once the barrier is opened is a reference to the movie Christine; the second horror movie reference in the episode. The horror movie that Mr Bean goes to see appears to be called A Nightmare, but the poster shown is obviously for A Nightmare On Elm Street with the camera placed to cut off the last three words - although an obvious picture of Freddy Krueger is shown. In spite of this, the implied events in the film do not match any of the Elm Street films. First appearance of Mr. Bean's green Mini. At the end of Act 4 a Mini the same color as Mr. Bean's can be seen in the background. There is a reference to Evil Dead 2, when Mr. Bean scares Irma by pretending to use a chainsaw to cut off his hand. Act 5 inspires one episode of Mr. Bean, The Animated Series called "Scaredy Bean"

Mr. Bean Goes to Town

#	Airdate	Guests
4	15 October 1991	Nick Hancock, Dursley McLinden, Matilda Ziegler
Act 1: Bean buys a portable television for his flat, and has difficulty in trying to position the antenna to get good reception. When he discovers that he can only get reception if he sits in a part of the room where he cannot see the screen, he is distraught. Ingeniously, he strips down and assembles his clothes — underwear and all — on the chair, and the television starts working - just as his pre-paid electricity meter runs out.
Act 2: Bean tries out his new Polaroid camera in the park, but it is stolen by a thief (Nick Hancock) when he asks him to take his photo. Although Bean chases down and stops the thief by putting a rubbish bin over his head and poking him with a pencil, he gets away again as Bean tries to alert a passing police officer. Later, Bean is at the police station being asked to identify the thief in a police line up. However he only successfully identifies the thief after he's subjected the entire line to a pencil poking test while the suspects are all wearing bins over their heads.
Act 3: Bean gets an itch in his foot while in the town, so he takes off his shoe and sock to scratch it. But he puts his shoe on a roof of a parked Mazda. The car drives away, leaving Bean to hop through the town to find it (which he eventually does).
Act 4: Bean goes to the I.D. picture machine, where he took pictures of himself. It took only a few seconds, and his pictures were released after he slapped the machine, only to find out that he took pictures of his back to check his hair cut.
Act 5: Bean goes out with his girlfriend at night to a magic show and disco. He deliberately messes up the magic act in an attempt to retrieve his watch the magician "stole" as part of a trick, and embarrasses his girlfriend so much that she dumps him for another man. After attempting to interfere with his attempts to dance with her, Bean leaves the disco, but not before shutting off the power first. On his way home Bean passes a window display of television sets, which individually lose their picture just as he passes them.
Notes: Features cameo appearances of Howard Goodall and Robin Driscoll - a cameo appearance by the writers of this show. This is the first time we see Mr. Bean's flat. The writers allude to Bean being more than just a social anomaly when they demonstrate that he seems to have a mysterious effect on television reception. The opening titles now feature the street scene and the music has been re-recorded. First episode to be produced and broadcast in stereo. Film, instead of video tape, is now used for outdoor scenes. Paul Weiland is the film director, while John Birkin is the videotape director. Sue Vertue is the producer. The producer-director tandem of Vertue and Birkin would also collaborate on later Mr. Bean episodes. The threesome, as mentioned, also collaborated on "The Trouble with Mr. Bean" and "Mr. Bean Rides Again", both of which were also released in 1991. 14.42 million viewers watched this episode on the original transmission. Act 1 inspired an episode of Mr. Bean, The Animated Series called "Big TV".

The Trouble with Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
5	1 January 1992	Richard Wilson, Caroline Quentin, Sam Mead, Christine Ellerbeck, Hugo Mendez, Michael Godley, Nathan Lewis
Act 1: Bean oversleeps and is late for his dental appointment. In order to save time, he decides to get dressed and brush his teeth while driving to the dentist, using a brick to hold down the accelerator while he changes his trousers and puts on his shoes and socks and shooting screenwash into his mouth to rinse it after brushing his teeth.
Act 2: Bean arrives at the dentist's office, where he cannot find anything in the waiting room to read - except for a Batman comic book with The Road Warriors on the back cover which is already being read by a young boy (the comic is actually his which he brought from home with him). When the boy refuses to let him share the comic, he stealthily pours water from a vase into the boy's lap to make his mother believe he wet himself, causing her to take him home. After getting the comic, he is immediately called in to see the dentist (Richard Wilson). While in the chair, he meddles with the controls on the dentist's chair and the dentist's equipment while his back is turned, and as a result accidentally numbs the dentist's leg with an injection of Novocain, causing him to pass out. Bean, feeling inconvenienced by this, decides to treat himself - however he can't tell which tooth needs attention, so he performs the procedure on all of his own teeth. Just as the dentist recovers, Bean leaves, content with his work.
Act 3: While in a park Bean spots a young boy who is having difficulty with his remote control boat. Bean generously tries to help him by opening the controller and tweaking some circuitry. Amazingly the controller now works, but unknowingly to both Bean and the boy it is now also controlling an electric wheelchair behind him. After hogging the boat for some time, and causing mayhem behind him, Bean finally gives the controller back to the boy, but only when (unknown to both of them) the wheelchair is already behind the boy, moving towards him. As Bean moves away, a loud splash is heard.
Act 4: Still in the park, Bean tries to have a picnic, but a nearby wasp falls desperately in love with Bean's cupcake. After trying to catch the wasp by swatting at it, jousting with it, chasing it around, and trapping it in a bottle of juice, he swats it between the pages of his book, only to pique the interest of an entire swarm of wasps, which attack him. Bean ultimately races away from his picnic site and throws the bun at a car thief (whose thieving attempts Bean managed to foil by removing his steering wheel and bringing it with him on his picnic).
Notes: This was the highest rated episode, with an audience of 18.74 million viewers on the original transmission. First appearance of Teddy, though this version had a smaller head in comparison to later Teddys used in later episodes. This is the first time we see Bean's unique technique of immobilising his car by removing the steering wheel (he also did this trick in "Mr. Bean in Room 426"). Mr. Bean's duvet cover at the beginning of the episode was of The A-Team Reliant gag - We see the Reliant parked in a boxed parking space outside the Dentists. Bean's mini is seen driving past and off screen. We hear Bean brake, change to reverse and then reappear directly in front of the Reliant. He slowly pushes it out of its space and onto a single yellow line where it promptly gets booked by a passing traffic warden. Act 2 also inspires another Mr. Bean, The Animated Series short called "Toothache", while Act 4 inspires another short "The Fly".

Mr. Bean Rides Again

#	Airdate	Guests
6	17 February 1992	Roger Sloman, Su Douglas, John Rolfe, Nick Hancock, Stephen Frost
Act 1: Bean wants to go to the post office, but the battery in his car is dead, so he decides to catch a bus instead. He reaches the bus stop where a man is already waiting for the bus. Unfortunately the man suddenly suffers from a heart attack. Bean tries to revive him by hitting him, stuffing pills down his throat, trying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and using electric shock treatment using jump leads connected to a nearby lamp post. This initially works, but he forgets to remove the jump leads from his hands when the man offers a handshake, giving the man another electric shock which makes him pass out again. An ambulance comes, but while the paramedics treat the man, Bean uses the battery in the ambulance to jump start his Mini. Bean drives off, leaving the ambulance disabled due to a dead battery.
Act 2: Bean heads to a postbox and on his way he accidentally swallows his stamp. He offers to post a letter for a lady, pretends he's posted it but hangs on to it until she's gone so that he can get another stamp for his own letter. He then steals the stamp by using steam from his car radiator and sticks it to his own letter using a sweet stuck to the inside of his pocket and strikes it to his own letter with a fist (when using just one finger to stick it down doesn't work). The postman arrives to empty the box just as the lady returns to find her letter on the ground and complains to the postman that there was a stamp on her letter but she doesn't know what happened to it. Bean hides inside the postbox to avoid getting told off by the postman for the theft of the stamp and gets locked inside for an unknown amount of time (the original commercial break occurred here), though as the postbox had a "1" showing, it ought to have been the next day. When he is finally released (by another postman) he loses his keys down a drain and has to get the bus home.
Act 3: Bean tries to pack for a holiday, but his small case does not have space for his clothes as well as his tins of baked beans. He ridiculously reduces the size of his things (often using scissors) to fit them in a small briefcase, by cutting up a pair of trousers (which was unnecessary since he already had shorts), breaking up his toothbrush, pouring some toothpaste down the sink, taking just one sandal, and using a flannel for a towel but hasn't the heart to cut up teddy. After finally managing to fit his things in the tiny briefcase, he reaches under the bed and discovers that he owned another briefcase, almost double the size of the small one. But since his small briefcase is already packed, he just puts it into the larger suitcase along with the one thing he couldn't pack before — a book.
Act 4: Bean boards a train and then reads a book across from another man (Stephen Frost) in the same compartment who is also reading. The man begins laughing loudly and continuously at a passage in his book. Bean struggles to plug his ears to avoid the laughter, eliciting curious stares when the man looks up. Finally the conductor (Nick Hancock) comes in and asks for tickets. Bean is startled by his presence, accidentally ejecting his book, with the ticket tucked inside, out the train window.
Act 5: Bean then boards an aircraft, but is forced to look after a sick boy next to him. He tries to cheer the boy up by various means, by sticking magazine bits on his face to amuse him, playing with a self-inflating life jacket (it later flies out of Bean's seat) and by blowing air into a paper bag and trying to pop it. He discovers that the bag is too small, and starts rummaging for another bag. While his back is turned, the boy vomits into a Mid-flight Sick Bag when the aircraft experiences a bit of turbulence, and offers the bag to Bean, who takes it unaware and smashes the vomit-filled bag. The act ends with the popping noise of the bag, not showing the outcome.
Notes: The joke of Mr. Bean popping a vomit filled bag is reused in the movie Bean, although in this episode the scene ends without showing the outcome. The joke of Mr. Bean cheering up the boy on the plane using paper strips torn from a magazine is reused in the 2nd Mr Bean film, cheering up the film director's son on the train. The airplane that Mr. Bean went to was a British Airways Boeing 737. The end credits of this episode is one of two to perform a volte-face: showing the reverse of the opening titles where Bean is sucked back into the sky, and the only one to do so with the street scenery. The heart attack scene was cut on Nickelodeon UK.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
7	24 December 1993	Owen Brenman, Matilda Ziegler, Jonathan Stratt
Act 1: It's Christmas Eve and Bean decides to visit Harrods causing his usual brand of chaos by behaving rather inappropriately while inside such a prestigious department store. After parking directly at the front of the store and harassing a man dressed as Father Christmas by pulling his fake beard, Bean proceeds to shop for Christmas decorations subjecting them to his usual scrutiny - if it breaks, don't buy it. He also tests some Christmas lights using the same socket used for the exterior Christmas lights, plunging the exterior of the store into darkness in the process. He then starts playing with the figurines in an in-store display, performing a rather inaccurate Nativity scene involving T. rex, army tanks and a Dalek. The store manager stops him by putting a figurine of a policeman onto the set. It took Bean several seconds to react to that.
Act 2: Bean meets his girlfriend Irma Gobb in the town, where she tries to give him the message that she wants an engagement ring as a present. He wins a free turkey (by cheating) and then catches a pickpocket and gives the thief's items to a Salvation Army brass band conductor. Bean then ends up conducting the band in a ridiculous way while the conductor tries on the items that the pick-pocket stole. Bean leaves but not before he takes the town's very large Christmas tree home with him.
Act 3: Bean prepares for Christmas Eve by setting up the Christmas tree that he stole. Then putting out the stockings for Father Christmas; one for himself, one for teddy and a tiny one for a mouse. He makes a “super cracker”, a Christmas cracker with many fuses from other crackers inside. Bean gives himself several Christmas cards – all of the same design. He swiftly despairs of war films on every channel, and then shuts the door rather rudely on young carol singers without giving them anything, even though he brings a box of chocolates to the door.
Act 4: This act starts on Christmas morning when Bean discovers what Father Christmas gave him. He got a new pair of socks, Teddy got a tin of two drawing pins to replace his eyes and the mouse got a piece of cheese - which Bean then places on a mousetrap. He then tries to prepare the turkey, but loses his watch while stuffing it with olives, and pokes his head inside, getting it stuck on his head just as his girlfriend arrives. He picks up a crosscut saw to try and get it off, but accidentally freaks her out. She then helps Bean get the turkey off. Later, they have dinner (Jam sandwiches), and Bean gives his girlfriend her present: not the engagement ring she wanted, but a portrait used as part of the shop's window dressing for the ring, which he believed is what she was pointing to. She begins to cry, but Mr. Bean mutters "I forgot the main bit!" he takes out a ring box and hands it to her. As she opens the box eagerly, she discovers that it was not an engagement ring but in fact a hook, meant for hanging the picture. She leaves the flat, very miserable and very upset. At the end of the episode, an outside view of Mr Bean's window is given, as he pulls the “super cracker” he made earlier; it produces a bright flash seen through the curtains.
Notes: Although not the highest rated episode of Mr Bean, it came very close, with 18.48 million viewers watching the original transmission. The 'lights on a well known building being accidentally switched off' gag is used by comedian Peter Kay at the end of his Live at the top of the Tower DVD. Bean appears to have moved as the flat and its exterior have changed. Change of presentation style for this and the following episodes: The title sequence now simply says 'Mr. Bean'. At the end of the sequence a separate caption appears stating the title of the episode. It was also the last appearance of Richard Curtis as one of the writers of Mr. Bean. Later episodes only featured Robin Driscoll and the show's main actor, Rowan Atkinson as co-writers of Mr. Bean. Last appearance of Matilda Ziegler as Irma Gobb. This is the last Mr. Bean episode to have been produced for Thames Television on behalf of ITV due to that company losing its ITV franchise at the end of 1992. Subsequent episodes were produced in association with Thames Television for Central Television. The market scene took place in Kingston. During Act 1, when Mr. Bean plays with the toys, he hums The British Grenadiers when using the soldiers. This tune is also the theme tune for Atkinson's Blackadder Goes Forth. The retail version of this episode includes an extra scene where Bean attempts to win the turkey he eventually ended up wearing on his head. The contest is to guess the turkey's weight, and as such he sneaks a pair of scales to the counter, having already weighed himself, thus being able to state the exact weight and winning the turkey. All scenes in this episode were shot on videotape, by John Birkin. The American version of Bean also contained the turkey joke, although they eventually tried to cook the turkey before the microwave explodes. The turkey scene also inspires another Mr. Bean, The Animated Series short called "Dinner for Two". The episode also has an indirect sequel, in "Do It Yourself, Mr. Bean", where the Christmas and New Year seasons intertwine. Some of Mr. Bean's art collection, including a famous photo of Shirley Bassey, were later packed and brought along in "Mr. Bean in Room 426", in which Mr. Bean hung his art collection inside his hotel room.

Mr. Bean in Room 426

#	Airdate	Guests
8	17 February 1993 (replaced "Mind the Baby Mr. Bean" - see below)	Danny La Rue, Roger Brierley, Matthew Ashforde, Michael Fenton Stevens
Bean stays in a posh hotel where he gets into many escapades. He jumps on the bed, decapitates teddy by putting him in the drawer, hands the bellhop a cough drop instead of a tip, drills holes in the walls to hang his pictures, turns his television on at full volume, and sneaks into his neighbour's bathroom to have a bath by drilling a hole through the wall behind his wardrobe. On the way to lunch, after finding out the lift is out of order, Mr. Bean is forced to take an unconventional route downstairs to avoid an elderly lady by hanging on the outside of the bannister, only to be caught between her and her frail husband. At lunchtime, after pushing through the queue, he copies his neighbour by taking the same food as him only twice as much and mimicking his movements. But he also saves his oysters for last, which his neighbour discovers to be rotten after Bean has devoured them. That night, he is feeling unwell with a high temperature and has a terrible dream about the oysters. Waking up in a sweat, Bean removes his pyjamas, but while attempting to sleep, his other neighbour plays loud music. Bean walks out of his room stark naked to knock on the door, but his own door closes, and Bean finds himself locked out of his room naked. He manages to get to the ground floor by covering himself with a fire extinguisher and various signboards marked "Private", "Exit","Out of Order" and "No Entry". He attempts to get down to the lobby and find the spare key, as the manager is distracted by Danny La Rue's show. To avoid being caught naked, Bean sneaks into LaRue's spare frock, and asks the manager for the spare key. But Danny sees him and rips a clip-on earring off his ear for stealing his frock.
Notes: 14.31 million watched this episode on the original transmission. This is the first episode to incorporate only one storyline instead of separate acts / sketches. The entire episode is filmed on location in a real hotel. It is also shot entirely on film, as opposed to video tape through the directorial prowess of Paul Weiland and producer Peter Bennett-Jones. The hotel the episode was filmed at was the Queens Hotel in Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire. [1] The elevator percussive organ music Mr. Bean dances to in the hotel lobby resembles the Mario Paint "pushups" song and was used in a WLIW intro. The ending credits read "Mr. Bean was in Room 426."

Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
9	25 April 1994 (postponed from 17 February 1993 owing to the abduction and murder of James Bulger)	Nick Scott, Andy Bradford
Bean goes to a funfair at Southsea in Portsmouth, but accidentally leaves his Mini's boot unlocked, and the handle pulls a baby's pram with it to the funfair. Once Bean notices the "kidnapped" baby, he sees no choice but to look after it while enjoying himself. After a series of misfortunes involving a dodgem, a large dog and the baby's pram, Mr. Bean decides to go off on his own, leaving the baby in a Postman Pat kiddie ride with nine coins in it while he gets bored on a roller coaster, shoots an arrow at a stall tender and attempts to cheat in a games arcade. (When he does win, a young boy steals his prize). Meanwhile, a huge queue builds up by Postman Pat. Eventually he is forced by disgruntled mothers to retrieve the baby when he comes to put more coins in the ride. Bean then notices that there is a smell coming from the baby. He realises that its nappy needs changing, and manages to remove it near the entrance to a ride. Unable to find any fresh nappies, he rips open a girl's teddy bear and uses that as a makeshift nappy. Unfortunately the dirty nappy takes a haphazard journey across the amusement park, landing in the faces of several people along the way. Later, after winning a goldfish at a game booth, Mr Bean is forced to keep the fish in his mouth after splitting the bag. However, he accidentally swallows it after winning at Bingo, then subsequently splutters it across the room into a bowl with another goldfish. After the bingo game, he cannot stop the child from crying and decides to buy a huge bunch of helium-filled balloons to cheer it up. However, the balloons lift the baby and pram into the air. Bean is forced to use his archery skills, with the pram landing beside its mother, who is overjoyed to get her baby back, although confused by the teddy bear nappy which Bean had put on it earlier. Meanwhile, Bean drives off in his Mini - which, unknown to him, is also carrying a rather fierce dog.
Notes: The entire episode is filmed on location at Clarence Pier, Southsea, Portsmouth. Despite being shown on ITV like all episodes, the original transmission of this episode did not include an advertisement break. It also did not include acts. A clip of the scene where Mr. Bean puts the balloons on the pram was shown to illustrate the expected result of a myth in MythBusters; the myth was that an obscene amount of balloons could lift a small child into the sky. Although the situation in the relevant scene is that the nappy is dirty/soiled, when Mr. Bean removes it, it actually seems clean and likewise when the 'dirty' nappy goes into the people's faces it also seems clean and not soiled.

Do-It-Yourself, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guest
10	10 January 1994	Robert Austin
Act 1: Bean invites his two friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year party, but bores them so much that when he goes to prepare a snack, Twiglets (which are actually twigs coated with Marmite) and sugared vinegar as a substitute for Champagne, they turn his clock in the living room to midnight, sing Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the new year, and then leave, saying that they are tired. However, they merely go into the apartment across the hall, where a swinging New Year's party is taking place. Bean is in bed when the real New Year begins. His blood boils with anger when he finds out Rupert and Hubert have deceived him and attended a larger party next door. Rupert, however, leaves his hat in Mr Bean's apartment.
Act 2: Bean arrives at Arding and Hobbs department store to take full advantage of the January sales. Other people have queued overnight to get there first, however Bean manages to jump the queue and annoy everyone in the process by exposing the figure in the sleeping bag at the head of the queue as a fake he placed there the night before. He then enters the store and attempts to purchase a new recliner, but an old woman sits in the chair and a store attendant explains that it is an automatic recliner. Bean, determined to purchase the recliner for himself, unplugs the chair to make it not work for her, but the attendant sees the problem and plugs it back in. While the woman sleeps in the chair, Bean sneaks up behind the chair and opens up the controls, and messes with the wires and closes the controls. The old woman then presses the button again, and this time the recliner begins to crush the woman in between the back of the chair and the leg supports. Bean watches on as the chair sets her free and she falls backwards. This scene is seen on syndicated versions of the episode.
Act 3: Later Bean has bought several items including a chair, paint cans and an assortment of brushes and mops. After strapping the chair to the roof and squeezing everything else inside the car he realises there's no room left for himself. Unfortunately, he then has an idea. Bean successfully constructs a way of remotely driving the car from the chair attached to the roof, and embarks on a daredevil driving expedition which goes incredibly well until he ends up on a steep decline and his only braking device is to run the car into a parked van filled with pillow feathers.
Act 4: Bean decides to give his flat a make-over. He first realises that moving a table is impractical as he can no longer put objects on it through the hole in the kitchen wall. Bean's solution - just move the hole. He then decides to paint his room white, using the head of Teddy as a paintbrush. He quickly tires of using this method as he ends up getting paint on things. Bean's solution - he covers everything in his room (including each individual grape in his fruit bowl) in newspaper and plants a super-firework in a can of white paint, ignites the firework, and runs out of the room. Bean returns to find his newly invented paint bomb worked; however while he was gone, Hubert returned to the flat for his hat he'd left the night before and got caught in the blast. Bean is shocked to find that there's a trail of white footprints leading out of his flat, and an image of Rupert reaching for his hat is frozen onto a section of wall as the only unpainted area.
Notes: The MythBusters TV show ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can. However, his method was proven impossible by the test. Mr. Bean appears to have moved flat for a third time. Videotape was used entirely for this episode and later Mr. Bean episodes because of the high cost of film. John Birkin returned as the director. The episode is an indirect sequel to "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", with the first act connecting between the Christmas and New Year seasons.

Back to School, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
11	26 October 1994	David Schneider, John Barrard, Christopher Ryan, Rupert Bates
Act 1: This outing follows Mr. Bean attending an open school day: Unable to park his car, he spots a similar-looking Mini and substitutes the cars. During his time at the open day he confuses a band of cadets, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator. When some weaving lady takes the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up and cover her upper body.
Act 2: In the chemistry laboratory, Bean experiments with several chemicals and makes an unstable chemical reaction, eventually causing a violent explosion, with blue smoke emerging from the laboratory. Bean manages to escape in time, but a younger student is not so fortunate and is later seen covered head to toe in a blue chemical. In a still-life art class, Mr Bean is shocked and appalled at having to draw a naked woman, and promptly fashions a brassiere out of clay, allowing him to draw the woman without embarrassment. Later, at a judo lesson, a frightened Bean ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David Schneider) and roll him up in a mat. However, when changing back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else (Christopher Ryan) and goes on a long search for his own ones. In the gents' toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting on the toilet. Bean frantically grabs the man by the legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his underwear, which he throws back to the man — though it ends up falling down the toilet.
Act 3: Bean returns to his car, which is now missing. He spots it in the middle of a car park with lots of people strangely watching it. Unbothered by this he continues towards his car intending to get in it. On his way he's distracted by a generous selection of cakes on a nearby stand. He then chooses a cake and eats it. He is too busy eating the cake that he fails to notice a giant army tank rolling in behind him. The tank drives right over the top of the Mini crushing it in the process. It takes Mr Bean several seconds to notice this, he does look around briefly to see what all the noise is about and then goes back to his eating. When he turns around the second time he does a double take and drops his cake on the ground and runs over to his car and starts crying over it. At the end he walks around his car again and finds his padlock which was not crushed. He plays with it, smiles and walks off.
Notes: It isn't disclosed to the viewer what Mr. Bean did with the lock he salvaged (on the Best Bits of Mr. Bean Video/DVD, he is seen with the lock, still working, yet loose, as he used it to remember this episode/life stage), it is only assumed that Bean claimed the Mini that should have been crushed by the tank as his own. However an identical Mini does appear in later episodes complete with padlock, bolt and the original registration plate (SLW 287R). Before the tank crushes Mr Bean's Mini, there is a bunch of people behind it, watching the demonstrations, yet after the tank has gone, the crowd has gone. (After the tank has gone, and the crushed Mini is giving off smoke and steam, you can see the crowd starting to disperse. The art class scene in Act 2 inspires one short on the animated version of Mr. Bean called "Artful Bean", while one part of Act 1 where Mr. Bean tried to use the Van de Graaff generator is also seen in the short "Gadget Kid". Portions of the art class scene were cut on the Disney Channel.

Tee Off, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
12	20 September 1995	Grant Masters, David Battley
Act 1: Bean goes to the launderette to wash his clothes, an inflatable dragon (which is still inflated), some fluffy dice, a lamp shade, a doormat and his Teddy, but Bean sees that the wash no longer costs £2 and costs £3. He gets intimidated by a man who takes his washing machine and frequently makes threatening gestures towards him. Bean realises he's wearing underwear he wanted to wash so he stands behind a partition to change out of them, accidentally getting his trousers mixed up with a lady's skirt. This escalates the taunting from the bully so Bean decides to get revenge on him. He substitutes the bully's soap detergent with black coffee. Unfortunately, Bean is forced to drink some detergent to disguise the fact he switched the cups. This works, and when the bully's shirt emerges severely stained from the wash, he blames the owner of the launderette. Later, after retrieving his mutated washing (including a shrunken Teddy) from the drier, Bean needs to retrieve his trousers from the lady's washing. He resorts to climbing into a drier to find them just as the lady returns and closes it (and starts it) with Bean still inside.
Act 2: Bean plays a game of 'Krazy Golf'. He scores a hole-in-one on the first hole, then on the second hole he hits the ball onto open grass. The owner forces him to obey a rule of having to get the ball back to the course by only touching it with his club. He then hits the ball out of the golfing grounds and this takes Bean on a very elaborate journey as the ball ends up on a London Country Leyland National bus, inside a lady's shopping, on a boy's ice-cream, up the exhaust pipe of a Proton car, down a sewer, on a rubbish cart and finally onto a village green. Bean hitchhikes a lift back to the golf course with the ball still on the patch of turf it landed on, which Bean cut out of the green. As the sun sets, he finally taps the ball into the hole with a final score of 3,427.
Notes: The Vauxhall Omega car that stops to give Bean a lift has music playing on the car stereo, the music is the (already established) theme tune to The Vicar of Dibley, another Richard Curtis comedy. The music was also composed by Howard Goodall. Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of repeats on children’s channel Nickelodeon UK. Reliant gag - Bean attempts to hitchhike back to the golf course, the first car that approaches is the blue Reliant. Evidentially in an effort to reconcile their differences the Reliant driver pulls over and opens the passenger door. Bean pretends he's not seen him and the Reliant drives off. During this scene, a keyboard-only version of the original Mr. Bean theme song was being played. Different theme song performance (this version was later used in "The Story of Bean" documentary opening). After Mr Bean gets £1 from his zipper, he forgot to close it after and leaves his zipper still open. Act 1 did inspire the short "Spring Clean" from the animated series, while its conclusion where Mr. Bean went inside the washing machine is also seen on "Goldfish".

Goodnight, Mr. Bean

#	Airdate	Guests
13	31 October 1995	Elizabeth Bennett, Rupert Bates, Suzy Aitchison
Act 1: Mr. Bean has to go to hospital after getting his hand stuck in a teapot, but becomes impatient while waiting his turn. First, he starts a fight to clear two men from the queue, then steals a ticket from another more seriously injured patient and overturns a counter, although he eventually manages to lose his place anyway. Frustratedly, he throws his ticket into the dustbin, only to get his other hand caught in the dustbin.
Act 2: Bean irritates a Queen's Guard with a camera by dressing him up with flowers and other things. He trims the Guard's moustache into a toothbrush style, and impales his Teddy on the Guard's bayonet. Just before he can take the photo, the charge is called, and the Guard walks away, Teddy and all. A photo of Bean chasing after the Guard was taken at the end of this act.
Act 3: Bean prepares for bed but has trouble falling asleep. After trying several methods for getting to sleep, he finally falls asleep by counting sheep with a calculator, and then during the credits, he falls out of bed.
Notes: This was the last episode produced for ITV Different theme song performance (this version was later used in "The Story of Bean" documentary opening) Mr. Bean yet again appears to have moved to a new flat. One scene on Act 3 involving Mr. Bean firing a pistol to an incandescent lamp to turn it off was removed on some children's channels to remove the violent nature of this scene.

Hair by Mr. Bean of London

#	Airdate	Guest
14	25 August 1996	Colin Wells
Act 1: Bean goes to Derrick's barber shop for a haircut. Just as he is about to have the cut, the barber has to take a telephone call. While waiting, three other customers come in assuming Mr. Bean is the hairdresser, and he ends up cutting their hair very badly. They later return and blame Derrick for their awful haircuts, while Mr. Bean sneaks off hiding his face under a calendar of Prince Charles (with one customer greeting him as such).
Act 2: Bean goes to a fair and cheats at the indoor games. First, he plays the Electro wire by switching it off at the plug. Then he plays "Hit the Headmaster" (in which George Webb is the "headmaster") and gets a bit carried away, and starts throwing objects like canned peas and cereal boxes at the "headmaster" (he almost throws a chair, but is stopped thanks to a nearby teacher).
Act 3: Bean enters a dog show and uses his Teddy as his pet — he wins a huge bone but gets the honey for Teddy, throwing the bone back into the tent and creating mayhem among the kids and the dogs.
Act 4: Bean goes to a railway station. Unfortunately, he has lost his ticket, and decides to sneak past the guards. However, he ends up hiding inside a post office bag destined for Moscow.
Notes: The episode was filmed in 1995 and was included as an extra on the VHS and DVD releases but was not originally aired on UK television until 25 August 2006, when it was shown on satellite and cable channels Nickelodeon UK and Paramount Comedy 2, but remains the only full-length Mr Bean episode not to air on UK terrestrial television. The episode was even shown on the Irish television channel RTÉ One in 2005 before being broadcast on any British television channel. Act 1 inspired a short on Mr. Bean, The Animated Series called "Haircut". The intro used the old Mr.Bean introductory song, by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral, but it was credited to the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford at the end of the episode.

Director's Cut sketches

Also unseen on television were a number of short sketches. "The Library" and "The Bus Stop" were presumably intended for inclusion in earlier episodes, but ultimately cut and later included on the VHS and DVD releases.

The Bus Stop

Mr. Bean waits at a bus stop behind a man; when the bus arrives, the man gets on, but the driver turns Bean away. Determined to be the first in line for the next bus, Bean tries to cut ahead of a woman with a baby carriage (who gets in line ahead of Bean when he steps away for a moment), and a blind man. Soon after Bean manages to get to the front, several people join the end of the line, and the bus arrives. But the bus doesn't stop in front of Bean, it drives on for another few yards — just far enough so that the end of the line logically becomes the front of the line; everyone but Bean is allowed on the bus, and Bean, now at the end of the line, is left behind again. Notes: Judging by the location and setting, this adventure appears to have originally been part of Mr Bean Rides Again, in which Mr Bean does attempt to board a bus, but perhaps cut for time. This is familiar to a SpongeBob SquarePants episode called "Rock Bottom".

The Library

Mr. Bean visits a rare book library (possibly the British Library), where he reads a rare tome that must be handled with gloves. Soon after he uses a pencil and a crayon to copy a page of the book by shading on a piece of tracing paper, he sneezes, and the tracing paper slips away. He doesn't notice this, and continues to use a crayon for shading, but on the book instead of the tracing paper. When he notices this, he attempts to remove the crayon marks — first by erasing, and then by using correction fluid, but eventually ends up tearing out the pages he has defiled. To neaten up the stubs of the pages he has torn out, he uses a boxcutter knife, but doesn't notice that while doing so, he cuts other pages. His final solution is to swap his book with that of someone else at his table; this plan is working - Bean leaves, and the librarian discovers that the book the other visitor has is damaged - but then Bean returns to retrieve his Dennis the Menace bookmark from his original book.

Notes: A similar scene was later included in the film adaptation: Bean, when after sneezing on a priceless portrait his attempts to clean it escalate into destroying the painting.

Comic Relief sketches

A number of short sketches for the Comic Relief telethon have also been produced and later included on the VHS and DVD releases.

Blind Date

This sketch was a 14-minute spoof of the popular series Blind Date. Posing as an eligible bachelor, Mr. Bean answers the questions posed by a potential date with utter, and ridiculous, honesty, then makes a shambles of a romantic getaway in an English countryside hotel (the prize for winning). A young Alan Cumming can be seen as Bachelor #2.

Torvill and Bean

Mr. Bean wreaks his usual havoc when he attends a performance of "Show on Ice." The title is a play on Torvill and Dean, the famous British ice-skating team.

Mr. Bean TV appearances

"(I want to be) Elected" music video

Mr. Bean stands for parliament in general elections as the single member of "The Bean Party". The sketch makes fun of the ruthless campaigning used by some activists, as Bean forces his way into peoples' homes or buys their votes by offering them money and a television, sticks his poster on a coffin that is being taken to a waiting hearse and after being spotted by a press photographer gives a lollipop to a random child then forcibly takes it back after the photographer departs, and finally replaces the ballot box with the one brought by himself, full of votes for him only. In the background a band called 'Smear Campaign' (with Bruce Dickinson on vocals) plays an Alice Cooper cover "(I want to be) Elected".

"Picture of You" music video

Mr. Bean features in Boyzone's music video, a song featured in Bean. Members of the band dress as look-alikes of Mr. Bean and saw Jesse Schermann

Nissan TV Ad

Mr. Bean appears as an endorser of the Nissan Tino in Japan, as seen endorsing the vehicle in it's ad

Fuji Film TV ad

Mr. Bean appears taking a photo of his teddy bear at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Mr. Bean's Red Nose Day

This was a six-minute skit from 14 March 1997 shown during the Comic Relief telethon. Both this sketch and the "(I want to be) Elected" music video were issued in 1998 on VHS (no. 084 990 3) by Comic Relief, although have not been re-issued.

Mr. Bean on the National Lottery

Mr. Bean appears on "The National Lottery" in hope of cheating his way through to actually win it.

Mr. Bean's Wedding

Mr. Bean causes havoc at a wedding by repeating the vows after the priest instead of the groom, resulting in a fight, the bride being struck, and by his alarm clock sounding during the ceremony. Then he runs off. This was specially made in 2007 for the The Big One Comic Relief telethon and also starred Michelle Ryan and Matthew Macfadyen and also reunited Rowan Atkinson with his former The Thin Blue Line co-star David Haig.

Dr. Bean

Mr. Bean appeared on the first episode of a new series of the Dame Edna Treatment on ITV, posing as a Doctor to gain access to a spa and relaxation room.

External links

• Mr. Bean (TV series 1990-1995) at IMDb
• TV.com episode list