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3* ''YMMV/{{Bean}}''
4* ''YMMV/MrBeansHoliday''
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6!! The Series:
7* AccidentalInnuendo: Irma's reactions to the horror movie could easily be mistaken for arousal.
8* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
9** Opinions are divided on Mr. Bean's personality.
10*** While most people simply view him as a happy-go-lucky {{Cloudcuckoolander}} living in his own crazy little world, others (notably Creator/RogerEbert in his [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bean-1997 review]] of ''Film/{{Bean}}'') believe him to be an evil-minded [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who delights in causing madness and devastation wherever he goes.
11*** Some also think that he's actually a humanoid alien who is completely unfamiliar with Earth's society and technology (the AnimatedAdaptation heavily implies that this theory is true with the episode "Double Trouble").
12*** Due to the opening credits (Bean falling from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by soft, hymn-like Latin chanting), some theories state that he is a FallenAngel who was so clumsy and troublesome that he was dismissed from heaven, or perhaps an AngelUnaware.
13*** [[DiagnosedByTheAudience Many have suggested]] that Bean is [[UsefulNotes/HighFunctioningAutism autistic]], given his [[NoSocialSkills difficulty with social interactions]], his eccentric ways of solving mundane problems and his [[ManChild childlike persona]].
14** Then there's Irma, Bean's girlfriend. For a long time, viewers have asked the reasonable question as to what she sees in him, but given that her speech patterns seem to be as meagre as his, did she perhaps sense a kindred spirit in him? After all, she certainly doesn't seem too upset by his actions in "The Curse of Mr. Bean" and "Mr. Bean Goes To Town", and actually expects him to propose to her in "Merry Christmas Mr Bean" (although she does leave him forever when he fails to do so). Perhaps she's far closer to being his DistaffCounterpart than she is to actually being his bride.
15* AmericansHateTingle:
16** It seems most Americans and Germans find ''Mr. Bean'' alienating and bizarre, and can't quite understand why this series is as popular as it is. This is very much not the stereotype in Britain, where instead it is widely believed that ''Mr. Bean'' is insanely popular in both the United States and Germany, largely as a disparaging comment on those countries having simplistic senses of humour (as the humour in ''Mr. Bean'' is visual rather than verbal).
17** In one episode of ''Series/{{QI}}'', Bill Bailey says he heard a sharp criticism of the series while in Australia, by a man whose objection was that Bean "-wouldn't last ten minutes in the bush."
18* CrossesTheLineTwice:
19** Bean makes fun of a woman covered in bandages and casts in "Goodnight, Mr. Bean." Then takes advantage of her being paralyzed in order to get further ahead in the hospital queue. However, he does eventually get his comeuppance.
20** Bean pours water over a boy's trousers to make it look like he's wet himself, just so he can get hold of the comic the kid is reading in the dentist's waiting room.
21** Bean trimming a Buckingham guard's moustache to make him look like UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. (He probably thinks it makes him look like Creator/CharlieChaplin.)
22** Then there's the [[AllThereInTheManual spin-off book]] ''Mr. Bean's Diary'', which has a few rather disturbing entries, including the deaths of two animals as a result of Bean's negligence (pets that he forgot to feed in both cases, one being his landlady's dog, the other his own pet terrapin who lasted less than a week), an [[StalkerWithACrush obsession]] with Music/ShirleyBassey, an attempt to donate blood by filling a jam jar with his own blood and posting it to the blood bank, a detailed plan to kill Irma's new boyfriend and various instances where Bean's actions come to the attention of the police.
23* SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The remix of the theme song that plays when he rushes to his dentist appointment in "The Trouble with Mr. Bean".
24* EpilepticTrees: Some fans suspect that Teddy is actually alive and has superpowers, given how he bounces back from being decapitated and shrunk.
25* FirstInstallmentWins: The 1990 series is easily the crown jewel of the franchise compared to [[WesternAnimation/MrBeanTheAnimatedSeries the inferior but still enjoyable cartoon spin-off]] and the [[Film/{{Bean}} two]] [[Film/MrBeansHoliday films]].
26* FridgeLogic: "Mr. Bean in Room 426" opens with Mr Bean driving up to the hotel's entrance, opening the boot of the car and taking his suitcase out. The next scene has the valet come up to Bean and ask for help moving his car. Mr Bean then opens his suitcase and takes out the car's steering wheel. How did he manage to drive to a hotel without access to his steering wheel?
27* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show is widely popular around the world due to its physical, non-verbal comedy being easily able to transcend language barriers:
28** There is a rumour that a crowd of fans in Japan nearly tore Creator/RowanAtkinson to bits when he visited their country. An episode of the animated series referenced his popularity thereby having Bean befriend a Japanese boy.
29** People in the Philippines have been known to call awkward or funny individuals "Mr. Bean". The country also produced a comedy series featuring "Ogag" (which, when [[SdrawkcabName spelled backwards]], means "silly" or "foolish"), a character very similar to Mr. Bean.
30** Malaysia also created their own knock-off named "Bendul", as well as having a thriving industry of Mr. Bean impersonators to the point where BBC Asia will occasionally hold official Mr. Bean impersonation contests. Also, any Austin or Clubman Minis (of which there are plenty in the country owing to being part of the British Commonwealth and a former British colony) are nicknamed “Mr. Bean cars”. The show's popularity is such that Mars Foods Malaysia imported the Chinese assassin Snickers ad from the U.K. in 2016 despite hefty restrictions placed on imported ads by the local broadcasting bodies -- seems that the appearance of Atkinson in character alone outweighed the massive cost and red tape that was presumably involved.
31** For many former Communist countries, the show was one of the first British shows the population got to see following the fall of the curtain, which may have contributed to its popularity there.
32** One of Mr. Bean's earliest appearances (before the TV show) was at the Montreal comedy festival "Just for Laughs" in 1987. Creator/RowanAtkinson insisted that he perform on the French-speaking bill as a way of testing if his pantomime skills were good enough to appeal to a non-English-speaking audience. Needless to say, it paid off tremendously, and Canada became yet another country that loves the character.
33** As for France, being a country that loves its physical comedy, such as Creator/JerryLewis and Creator/JacquesTati's Monsieur Hulot (which Atkinson admitted as being an influence on Bean), ensured that Bean would be popular there as well.
34** Though not to the same degree as all the aforementioned places, other countries that appreciate Mr. Bean include the United States and Germany (see AmericansHateTingle above), as well as Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Denmark (where reruns still air from time to time).
35* HilariousInHindsight:
36** While playing with a nativity scene, Bean brings in several other figures, including a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]]. Creator/RowanAtkinson later played the Doctor in Creator/StevenMoffat's spoof "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath The Curse of Fatal Death]]".
37** In "Back to School Mr. Bean", the judo teacher is portrayed by actor David Schneider, who a few years later produced a children's comedy similar to ''Mr Bean'' titled ''Uncle Max''.
38** Mr. Bean put a turkey on his head years before [[Series/{{FRIENDS}} Joey and Monica]] did.
39** One of the skits in "The Trouble with Mr. Bean" has the titular character battling a bee who disturbs his picnic time. Fast forward years later and Creator/RowanAtkinson decide to [[Series/ManVsBee make a series out of it]].
40* JerkassWoobie: Mr Bean, of course. You can't blame anyone for avoiding him, yet it's still quite sad seeing him all alone at times. His reaction to his beloved car getting destroyed will really tug at your heartstrings.
41* MemeticMutation:
42** "If you know what I mean."[[labelnote:Explanation]]An image macro of a vector tracing of Mr. Bean making a pervy facial expression, often used in Webcomic/RageComics as a way of highlighting a sexual innuendo ({{accidental|Innuendo}} or otherwise).[[/labelnote]]
43** The fact that the show consists of only 14 episodes despite feeling much longer (thanks to those episodes being ''very'' spread out in terms of airdates) has gained a lot of traction on social media as a Mandela Effect-type LogicBomb.
44** The image of Mr. Bean copying off of another man's test in an examination they're both taking is this to [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} mock those who get "inspiration" from other people's work.]]
45* NauseaFuel: Occasionally.
46** In the horror film sketch in "The Curse of Mr Bean", Mr Bean stuffs popcorn up his nose to look menacing; he then sniffs them back into his bag of popcorn. Later, he puts two pieces of popcorn in his ears until the film is over; and afterwards, he takes them out and eats them.
47** The dirty nappy in "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean", for example. Worse, there's even a scene where it falls onto a man's candy apple and he just knocks it away, intent on still ''eating'' the apple (thankfully, this makes it fall off too).
48** The bad oysters from "Mr. Bean in Room 426". Gets even worse in Mr Bean's nightmare in that same episode where the oysters are yellow and oozing.
49** While not overwhelmingly gross, the sandwich Mr Bean assembles in one episode from ingredients kept all over his person, ''including his socks''. When Mr Bean accidentally drops the sandwich when he sneezes, the man sitting next to him on the park bench offers him half ''his'' sandwich just so he won't have to watch Mr Bean put together another one.
50** The Restaurant Sketch might qualify depending on how you feel about dishes such as steak tartare.
51* NightmareFuel:
52** Not as extreme as most instances of NightmareFuel, but the opening sequence itself [[AccidentalNightmareFuel is pretty unsettling at first]], with an ominous deserted London street set at night. A spotlight then appears from the sky, and Mr. Bean plummets to the ground from the light in a jarring way that startles viewers. The early version in the second and third episodes does not help either, as the environment is completely pitch-black.
53** In "Mr. Bean Rides Again", a man standing next to Mr. Bean at the bus stop suddenly collapses. Bean's attempts to revive him are actually funny, but that's still a horrifying moment.
54** While the moment is pretty comedic, Bean’s nightmare of the customer laughing at him and eating the bad oysters can be quite terrifying for some young viewers.
55* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The animated series got a Europe-exclusive Playstation 2 game that wasn't recieved very well due to Mr. Bean's unsettling cartoon design becoming even more so in three dimensions, a relatively generic plot involving Teddy being kidnapped, and very generic minigames.
56* SignatureScene:
57** Mr Bean riding his car home -- while sitting on an armchair tied to the roof -- is seen as the moment that succinctly encapsulates his CrazyIsCool nature.
58** Mr. Bean racing to the dentist in his car while simultaneously getting dressed is another off-cited moment of the series because of how hilarious and awesome it is.
59* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: There are a few instances that rather date the show.
60** "Goodnight Mr. Bean" features Mr. Bean using ''a handgun'' to shoot out the light in his bedroom instead of simply flicking the light switch. That episode was broadcast a few months before the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre Dunblane Massacre]], which resulted in the UK's already strict gun laws becoming even more rigid, outlawing private ownership of most handguns like that depicted in the episode.
61** The royal in the receiving line sketch is supposed to be the [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Queen Mother]]. More recently, audiences have started to think that she's supposed to be [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII HM the Queen]], who passed away in 2022.
62** The Mini is an interesting example -- although Mr. Bean's one was fairly old by TheNineties (it's a late 1970s model, going by the registration plate), the Mini itself remained in production until 1999. They were a fairly common sight on British roads at the time; now, much less so.
63* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: Mr Bean's take on the nativity has a few moments that could be seen as a stealthy jab at Christianity. First, there's a bunch of sheep flocking to see the baby Jesus (a metaphor for religion demanding conformity?), then a T-rex crashes the scene (science and natural history contradicting religious scripture?), and finally some tanks and a Dalek wage war with the T-rex (militant fundamentalism?).

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