Mr. Bean: The Animated Series (shown as just Mr. Bean on the opening screen) is an Animated Adaptation of Mr. Bean which first aired in 2002. Like the original, it is a physical, dialogue-less comedy that focuses on Mr. Bean as he bumbles his way through life. However, some additional characters were added. Now part of the main cast is Mrs. Wicket, Bean's cranky landlord, who doesn't like him too much, and her pet cat Scrapper, who not only also hates Bean, but also hates everyone who isn't Wicket. Additional supporting characters include a duo of burglars who are always being foiled by Bean, and his neighbors, the middle-class Bruisers.
After airing from 2002 to 2004, the show saw a surprise Revival in 2014, where it then ran on to 2019. It's much the same as the previous run, but with stiffer Flash animation done in-house at Tiger Aspect, a reworked opening, more dialogue, and a nicer Mrs. Wicket. In January 2024, it was announced that the show had been revived once again, with a new series due for release in 2025.
This Show Contains the Following Examples:
- Actor Allusion: In an episode from Season 2, Bean's Safari, Mr. Bean visits a safari park and Rowan Atkinson has already dealt with African animals. Expecially lions.
- Adaptational Intelligence: While he's still somewhat portrayed as a bumbling buffoon, Mr. Bean is notably much more competent and less bizarre here than he was in the live-action series. It is likely helped that the entire world is more cartoonish this time round, making Bean seem like less of a Fish out of Water.
- Barbershop Episode: In "Haircut", Mr. Bean has two cowlicks that won't stay down, so he goes to the barbershop. However, he becomes impatient when the barber is working on someone with very thick hair, so he goes home to give himself a haircut. Unfortunately, his cowlicks still stick up no matter how much he cuts off, forcing him to shave himself bald.
- Big "NO!": Bean tends to let one of these out in various episodes when something goes wrong for him (e.g. the ending of "Bean's Bounty"), but lets out a huge one in "Neighbourly Bean" when he finds his favorite show has ended after going around his flat trying to watch it in peace. The Bruisers manage to hear it and dismiss it.
- Butt-Monkey: Bean, as usual, but Scrapper has it worse, though he deserves it.
- Canon Immigrant: Mrs. Wicket, Mr. Bean's crotchety old landlady in the animated series, first appeared in "Mr. Bean's Diary" (a tie-in to the TV series).
- Cats Are Mean: Scrapper, Mrs. Wicket's cat, hates Bean with a passion and usually tries to inflict misfortune on him.
- Company Cameo: In "Wanted", shortly after Mr. Bean incorrectly gets sent to jail (due to a similar-looking escaped convict who takes refuge in Bean's flat), one inmate mentions that he really wants to get sent to Varga. Varga is the animation studio that provides the overseas animation for the first season.
- Cranky Landlord: Ms. Wicket is Mr. Bean's landlord. She's also a Jerkass who does not like Bean, and is grumpy overall. She gets better in the revival though, to the point where she throws a birthday party for Bean.
- Criminal Doppelgänger: Bean was once mistaken for a criminal who looked exactly like him. The two ended up switching places for a short time, and the convict decided to break back into his jail cell after he couldn't stand Mrs. Wicket and her chores for him.
- Denser and Wackier: Even more so than the live-action series. Justified since it is animated, the writers can take more liberties with the scenarios.
- DIY Dentistry: In "Toothache", after bearing the pain from a loose tooth after eating popcorn, Bean tries to pull out his aching tooth such as the classic doorknob method. When this attempt failed when the knob fell off, he tried by pushing a drawer out of the window with string attached in tooth. When that didn't work either, he tried by tying that string to a tree and wait for a passing vehicle to come by, and still nada. The tooth only came out when he ate popcorn again.
- Floating Limbs: When the characters wear shoes, they physically do not have ankles, with their legs and feet being totally separated from each other.
- Foul Ball Pit: Played for drama in the episode "Ball Pit" in Season 4 where Bean keeps trying to get in the ball pit (which is only for children) and thrown out by a security guard after a female assistant notices (probably because of of the unfortunate implications a grown man of Vague Age would have. Then he converts his flat into a ball pool, but it becomes a tourist trap, and then eventually, he does earn his happy ending for that episode after the same assistant allows him to play in it, but she also considers him a huge Manchild as well, as a Silent Snarker. But then again, Status Quo Is God and Negative Continuity is in full swing on this show, so the ball-pool thing was temporary madness for Bean.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Every character in the cartoon has four fingers on each hand.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In "SuperMarrow", Mr. Bean and the Bruisers father-and-son compete to grow the heaviest marrow squash
in town. When the latter saw the former's marrow outgrowing theirs, they attempt to sabotage Bean's vegetable by putting caterpillars inside it. While the attempt failed, they didn't realize the caterpillars managed to land on it anyway. Come tomorrow, the Bruisers swap their marrow with Bean's while he's not looking... not knowing they've sabotaged that very vegetable. - House-Hunting Montage: In "Homeless", Mr. Bean is kicked out by Mrs. Wicket after scaring her at night (she was sleepwalking and Bean had to carry her back to her room, but Scrapper woke her up when he succeeded, causing Bean to hide under her blanket and Wicket to take that as perversion), forcing him to go house-hunting. The first one has him appalled when he is given exotic food, the second one forbids stuffed items (like his beloved Teddy), the third one had him be forced to live with pigs, and the fourth one was a fake house (with only the front walls having been put up) set up by the criminal duo to scam him. He is eventually welcomed back into his flat at the end after "saving" Wicket from another man (actually himself in disguise).
- Identical Stranger: The original series finale "Double Trouble" has Bean meet a doppelganger named Mr. Pod, who looks and acts exactly the same as him except his Mini doesn't have a padlock installed, and he has a penguin toy named Pingy instead. Later on, it's revealed that Mr. Pod came from a race of aliens who all look like Mr. Bean, each having a different stuffed toy.
- Jerkass: Mrs. Wicket, Scrapper, the Bruisers, and the burglars.
- Lost Toy Grievance: "Chocks Away" ends with Mr. Bean crying in bed when he thinks that Teddy was blown up when a remote control plane he bought caught fire and exploded. Thankfully it turns out that Teddy was ejected from the plane and he lands safely in Bean's fireplace.
- Luxury Prison Suite: Treated casually in "Wanted" where Mr. Bean ends up in jail due to his Criminal Doppelgänger and his new surroundings include a prisoner who seems to be some sort of crime boss with such accommodations. Throughout the episode, Mr. Bean takes a disapproving attitude towards crooks, but when he escapes, he's easily bribed into aiding that one as well. They take his key, say "I Lied" and leave their cell unattended, which basically becomes the punchline to the episode.
- Mythology Gag:
- For starters, the opening sequence that starts every episode has Mr. Bean drop Teddy on the floor as he casts his flashlight over him, a reference to the live-action series' opening sequence. The ending of "Double Trouble" has an even more blatant and direct reference to it, with Mr. Bean being ejected from the UFO in a similar fashion, complete with the choir theme (the only usage of it in the animated series).
- The animated series retains the Running Gag of the Reliant Regal being tipped over or experiencing some other form of bad luck almost every time it is seen onscreen.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Teddy was once stolen by a pair of thieves and tossed in a pile of identical teddy bears. Bean was able to tell which one was his by holding each one up to his ear to see which one "talked" to him.
- Nice Mean And In Between: We have Irma as the nice one, as she is willing to put up with Bean despite his flaws, Mrs. Wicket, the mean, abrasive landlady of Bean's flat (though she surprisingly becomes more nice starting by Season 2), and Bean himself as the in-between, as he can be a bad boyfriend to Irma, but does care about her to some extent and is way more pleasant than Wicket.
- Whenever Irma isn't around, a more downplayed example occurs: Scrapper takes over the mean role and Wicket becomes the in-between, having occasionally shown a soft spot for Bean, especially in later seasons, unlike Scrapper, who hates Bean's guts anyway. As such, Bean is the "nice" one by default (he is a decent guy underneath all the madness, but is still too rude and childish to fit the role exactly).
- Obfuscating Disability: In "Nurse!", after seeing his landlady being treated by her friend and her doctor, Mr. Bean pretends to break his leg to get a luxurious stay at the hospital. After a series of mishaps (from an X-Ray where his nurse assumed he swallowed his Teddy to a chase around the corridors on automated wheelchairs), Mr. Bean finally get his luxurious stay only after he broke his leg for real when his nurse accidentally pushed him down a broken lift during the wheelchair chase.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: In "A Royal Makeover", all Mrs. Wicket has to do is place a fake paper crown on her head in order to convince numerous gullible London tourists that she's Queen Elizabeth II.
- Planet of Hats: In one episode, it's revealed that Mr. Pod, Mr. Bean's doppelganger, is actually from a planet where everyone looks and acts exactly like him.
- Pro Wrestling Episode: In "Wrestle Bean" , Bean becomes a wrestling champion by mistake thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Wicket and her friend Miss Wince.
- Running Gag: Whenever someone, mainly Mrs. Wicket, slams a door open or shut, a picture frame or a flower pot falls and breaks.
- Speaking Simlish: The first three series, though not without some clarity, had the characters speak like this. Averted from Series 4 onward, where everyone, including Bean, speaks with coherent sentences.
- Street Performer: The episode "Mime Games" begins with Mr. Bean pestering a living statue (disguised as Cupid) to perform for him, not realizing that the "statue" will only move if you give him a coin. Later on, a mime pesters Mr. Bean in turn....to the point of outright stalking him: following him home, sneaking into his house, and eating all of his food. Mr. Bean finally gets rid of the mime by throwing an "invisible lasso" around his waist and dragging him out of there.
- Thieving Magpie: One episode featured an injured magpie that liked to take shiny things from people' home, right up to the Queen's crown. Naturally, Bean is framed for this.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: An episode of the series had Bean's childhood friend Harry staying with him and taking advantage of his hospitality, leaving him almost broke. Bean finally gets rid of him by ditching him at the restaurant after indulgently encouraging Harry to eat all he wants with empty promises of footing the bill himself (after Harry finished eating, Bean snuck into the bathroom and hid in the ducts), leaving Harry to work off the hefty bill.
- Unmoving Plaid: Used on many objects, including bedsheets.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: When Mr. Bean tries to get his favorite singer Roxy's autograph in "Bean in Love", her bodyguard wheels him away before she can sign, leaving his pencil with the teddy bear eraser behind. Roxy proceeds to finds it and sticks it between her large breasts for safekeeping.
