Funny / Mr. Bean

I guess he got the turkey on.

The majority of the show is absolutely filled with Funny Moments, which is why the show is so beloved. But here are some moments that stand out:

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• From the pilot episode:
  • Mr. Bean walks down a very long staircase (requiring several jump cuts) to a beach at the foot of a cliff, and is about to change into his swimming trunks when he notices another beachgoer looking in his direction. He proceeds to put his trunks on over his trousers, then he removes his trousers one leg at a time to avoid exposing himself to the other beachgoer; it's a convoluted process, but it does work. Just as Mr. Bean is basking in his triumph, the other beachgoer stands up to leave... and picks up a white walking stick, revealing himself to be blind.
  • When Mr. Bean goes to church and tries to discreetly have a sweet, he drops it just as everyone stands for the hymns, during which Mr. Bean tries to pick up the sweet without drawing too much attention to himself. When he does, he starts cheering "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" at the same time as the other church goers. At the end of the sketch, he is about to pop the sweet into his mouth when the man next to him, one Mr. Sprout (Richard Briers) looks at him, and he stuffs it into his pocket... which he had previously used as a replacement hankie after sneezing and needing to blow his nose.
• From "The Curse of Mr. Bean":
  • Mr. Bean at the pool. He tries sliding down a kiddie slide, but gets a whistle blown on him by a lifeguard (Angus Deayton), after which he makes a spectacular fool of himself scurrying back up. He then makes an even bigger fool of himself trying to jump off the high dive (to the mounting impatience of the two boys immediately behind him in the queue)... and tops himself still further when he loses his trunks upon landing in the water and a little girl scoops them out with a snorkel just as the lifeguard blows his whistle and orders everyone out of the pool. He succeeds in hiding from the lifeguards until they leave... but not from the ladies' swim team for whose benefit the lifeguards cleared the pool.
  • On his lunch break, Mr. Bean sits next to another man (Deayton again) on a park bench whose lunch consists of two sandwiches in a plastic case and a styrofoam cup of tea. Mr. Bean proceeds to make his own sandwich using various items kept from inside his jacket. He cuts two pieces off a loaf of bread with scissors and spreads butter on them with a credit card ("My flexible friend!", he tells the other man^note  A reference to a contemporary ad campaign for Access cards), washes a lettuce leaf in a drinking fountain and strains it with his sock, produces a jar of live sardines which he kills by bashing them on the bench and holding them to his ear to listen for a heartbeat, and puts some peppercorns in his hankie and crushes them with the heel of his shoe. He also dunks a teabag in a hot water bottle and puts in some milk from a baby bottle (by taking a drink from it and then spitting it into the hot water bottle). But just as he is about to take a bite of the sandwich, the pepper makes him sneeze so hard that he hurls the sandwich away and squeezes the contents of the hot water bottle all over himself. The other man, who has been watching the display with a mixture of mounting disgust and confusion, offers him half of his sandwich, which Mr. Bean accepts.
  • Going to a horror movie with his girlfriend, bringing a big bucket of popcorn for himself and a tiny box for his date. He takes some out of hers, but when she tries to do the same he slaps her hand and yells "NO! These are mine!". As well as his general behaviour throughout the film, which he finds absolutely terrifying; at one point, he pulls the collar of his jumper over his head so he doesn't have to see the carnage on screen, and his girlfriend turns to look at him, sees what looks like a headless man, and screams. Finally, when he has had all he can stand, he puts a kernel of popcorn in each ear, then he dumps the rest onto the floor and puts the empty bucket over his head for the rest of the film.
• "The Trouble with Mr. Bean":
  • The episode opens with Mr. Bean oversleeping for his 9am dentist's appointment, leaving himself just fifteen minutes to get dressed and drive to the dentist's surgery. So... he decides to do both at once.
    • First, he strips off his pyjama top and puts on his shirt, nearly running off the road while buttoning the cuffs. Then, he puts a brick on the accelerator, struggles out of his pyjama bottoms, and tries to put on his trousers, only to decide he'll only have enough room if he moves to the back seat. He proceeds to steer (and operate the turn indicator and horn) with his feet as he puts on his blazer and socks as well. He moves back into the front seat and sends the car full speed around a mini-roundabout while he puts on his tie and shoes.^note  Although this sequence is rife with continuity mistakes - the scenery through which Mr. Bean is driving changes completely after almost every shot - at least one shot shows the entire car, not being pulled or pushed along by a camera truck, seemingly genuinely being driven by Rowan Atkinson with his feet.
    • Now dressed, he takes the brick off the accelerator and steers with his teeth as he attempts to squirt some toothpaste on his toothbrush - only to miss and get it all over the dashboard, so he simply smears the brush in the paste, cleans his teeth while checking them in the wing mirror, rinses his mouth from the windscreen blower, and spits out of the window... right into a builder's backside. The builder, seeing the color of the substance that hit him in the arse, assumes a bird has defecated on him, although he's clearly puzzled by the smell of mint.
    • Mr. Bean finally gets to the dentist's, and knocks the ever hapless Robin Reliant out of the only available parking spot in front of the surgery. A meter maid (played by a pre-Men Behaving Badly Caroline Quentin) walks past and writes a ticket for the Reliant, but not before looking at Mr. Bean's trousers in shock - his pyjama bottoms are still sticking through his fly. Mr. Bean pulls them out quickly, stuffs them through his car's open window, zips up his fly, and gives the meter maid an indignant look before sweeping off.
  • Later, he has a picnic in the park, and is constantly bothered by an annoying wasp. Every time he apparently manages to silence it, it just starts back up again. Having the subtitles on for this part just makes it even funnier, because it constantly switches from "[Buzzing stops]" and "[Buzzing resumes]"... Over and over again. It gets to the point where you start wondering "No way are they gonna say the same thing again... it's been ten times now..." and then the subtitles say "[Buzzing resumes]" again for the eleventh time and you just LOSE it.
• "Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean":
  • His New Year's Eve "party". He has nothing to serve his guests, so he uses both seeds from a bird feeder outside of his window and twigs dipped in Marmite for appetizers and vinegar mixed in with sugar for a drink. Even better, he occasionally takes a sip of the "wine". His face says it all. He also has newspaper hats for his guests and even invites Teddy to join them (and gave him a hat, too!).
  • His method of repainting the room, with one of his guests caught in the blast. One of the funniest parts of this segment is when he's trying desperately to get out of the room before the paint can explodes while dramatic music plays in the background. When he succeeds in getting out, he covers his ears and the music instantly stops. It's like the music was playing in his head!
  • Driving his Mini from an armchair tied to the roof. After buying it along with some paint cans, a mop, and broom among others, he realizes that he can't fit himself inside his car anymore, so he resorts to the aforementioned method. At first, it goes as smoothly as he expected... until he goes down a steep downhill street (passing by a police car) and ends up in a mattress lorry, which becomes his only braking method when he cannot slow the Mini down himself.
• "Good Night, Mr. Bean"
  • Near the end when he attempts to count sheep. He can't figure out how many sheep are in the picture, so he uses a calculator. The instant he gets the number, he nods in fascination and instantly falls asleep.
  • He attempts to get himself to sleep by watching a chess game on TV. Shortly after the chess game cuts to a very loud ad (the Bodyform song here specifically), startling and waking him up.
  • In the same scene, he shoots his bedroom lightbulb with a handgun simply to turn it off. Notice that he's also got dozens and dozens of spare bulbs in the same cabinet, implying that this is what he does every night.
  • At one point while trying to get to sleep, Bean gets disturbed by cats loudly yowling outside of his window. He quietens them down by dressing up as a dog — putting a sock on each ear and tying a paper cup to his nose — opening the window, and loudly barking at them.
• "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" has some absolute classic bits.
  • Mr. Bean's take on the Nativity. Just as he's paying for his shopping in a department store, Bean is distracted by a huge nativity scene, and he plays with all the figures, bringing in marching soldiers, Daleks, tanks, a dinosaur, and a truck full of plastic sheep. Finally he uses a helicopter to lift the Baby Jesus out of the manger, taking him to a nearby dolls' house. He is puzzled by an "Ahem", and then shocked by the sudden appearance of a toy policeman, held by the shopkeeper, who wordlessly hands him his shopping bag.
  • Of course, "Have you got the turkey on?" (pictured above). Which predated Friends doing the same thing.
  • Mr. Bean can't resist pulling on the beard of every street Santa he sees ... until he eventually runs into one with a real beard.
  • While buying Christmas lights, Bean wants to make sure they work, so he looks around the store for an outlet, and finds one already in use. When he unplugs it, it somehow shuts off all the exterior decorations on the street outside.
  • When Bean misses the last Christmas tree sold in a market, he tips a huge ornamental one (not for sale) on to his car, and drives home with it on his car roof, ripping out the power cable for the lights. When he gets home, he only uses a tiny piece of the enormous tree.
  • He cheats in a "guess the weight of the turkey" competition, standing on some scales while he holds the turkey, then using a calculator (to subtract his own weight from the read-out from the scales) after he has put the turkey down.
• Playing the one-note synthesizer harmony from the Chariots of Fire theme at the 2012 Olympics.
• The entirety of "Mr. Bean in Room 426" is among the best ones made:
  • Locking himself out of his hotel room nude. Rowan Atkinson is a brave, brave man.
  • Mr. Bean discovers that his room doesn't include an en-suite bathroom, so what does he do? He saws through the wall to the room next door and uses the bathtub there.
  • He gets stuck on the stairs because of an old woman who slowly makes her way down. After getting increasingly impatient, Bean manages to climb around her by holding on to the bannister, and hoists himself up in triumph... only to discover that there's an old man in front of the woman, and he's now trapped between them. At this point, he just gives up and moves down the stairs at their glacial pace.
    • After being locked out, Bean tries to make his way down to the lobby, only to discover that the old woman is there again.
• In "The Best Bits of Mr. Bean", Mr. Bean sees a spider's web and wants to show "Mr. Spider" to Teddy. Teddy refuses to look, so Bean forces Teddy to look, resulting in Teddy jumping out of Mr. Bean's hands and through the trap door of the attic they are in, reminding him of the Diving Board from "The Curse Of Mr. Bean".
• From "Back To School Mr. Bean":
  • After putting his hands on a Van de Graaff generator, Mr Bean winds up absorbing all the static and finds that everything he touches sticks to his skin. When a woman in a long skirt takes a sheet from his hand, he inadvertently sends all the electricity into her, causing her skirt to fly up, showing her legs and her panties.
  • Barking out silly orders behind the backs of a bunch of soldiers. When the sergeant returns he is not happy to find them all standing while waving, with their guns held in front of them, and the left and right rows standing on one leg.
  • Mr. Bean walks out of a changing room and realizes that he's switched trousers with someone else. He tracks the person down in the men's room, reaches under the cubicle door and wrenches his trousers off the poor man. He also tosses the man's underpants down the toilet. When the sergeant from before walks in halfway through, Bean unconvincingly polishes that man's shoes, giving the sergeant the most indignant look when he continues to stare.
  • Blowing up a chemistry lab after screwing with the sample chemicals. Cue a lot of vibrant blue smoke and Mr. Bean hastily leaving the scene of the crime.
    • A few minutes later, a boy who was unfortunately caught in the explosion (which he survives unscathed, though covered in blue powder) is dragged into a still life art class, with his teacher asking him if Mr. Bean is in said class. They don't know he's at the back of the room.
  • The episode seems poised for a Downer Ending when Mr. Bean's beloved Mini is crushed flat by a passing tank, apparently leaving him despondent as he searches through the wreckage during the credits... only for it to turn out that his concern was actually for the padlock that he strapped to the driver's door. Seeing it perfectly intact, he puts it in his pocket and walks off happily like nothing happened.
• Mr. Bean entering Teddy in a pet show at a village fete, especially when he aces the obedience tests.
• "Hair by Mr. Bean of London":
  • How Mr. Bean cuts a boy's hair: first he uses a bowl for a literal bowl cut, and then he shaves his head in the middle like a reverse mohawk. Surprisingly, the boy likes his new haircut.
  • Bean accidentally cutting off a man's ponytail and shaving off another man's toupee.
  • When the customers return to the hair salon to complain to the actual hairdresser, including the mother of the boy with the weird haircut protesting that her son looks like an alien (even though the boy insists that he likes it), and the man who had the ponytail saying he spent nearly two-and-a-half years growing it, when Mr. Bean chopped it off in less than two minutes. Just as the man who had the toupee walks in, he notices Mr. Bean with his face disguised with a Prince Charles calendar and, mistaking Bean for the real Charles thanks to his poor eyesight, bows to him.
• The ending sketch in "The Return of Mr. Bean", where Mr. Bean is in a line up to meet the Queen Mother. Right as she appears, he has trouble zipping up his pants, and struggles as she slowly approaches him. At one point, he sticks his index finger through the zipper, looking like he's sticking his dick out. He somehow manages to get zipped just in time... and in the process of bowing to the Queen Mother, accidentally headbutts her.
• "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean": Mr. Bean sticks the baby he's acquired in a Postman Pat kiddie ride - putting in a lot of coins so he doesn't have to keep coming back for a while - while he goes and has fun at the rest of the fair. By the time he comes back, a huge line for the kiddie ride has formed and the first in line chews him out for hogging the ride.

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