"Mr. Bean" The Trouble with Mr. Bean (TV Episode 1992) Poster

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10/10
One of the greatest episodes of Mr. Bean
bellino-angelo20148 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This was the first episode of Mr. Bean that I saw, and I laugh a lot every time I re-watch it. Only Rowan can do such things knowing that many people will laugh.

== Part 1 == Mr. Bean realises that he is late for is appointment to the dentist, and decides to dress and wash teeth while driving to the dentist. Once arrived, he succeeds to steal a Batman comic of a boy, but is called to see Dr. Peggitt, the Dentist. While the Dentist's back is turned, Bean plays with the chair and the equipment; he eventually numbs the leg of Mr. Peggitt with an injection of anesthetic, causing him fall over. After this, Bean decides to treat himself, but he doesn't know what tooth needs attention, and he performs the procedure on all his teeth. After Mr. Peggitt recovers, Bean leaves.

== Part 2 == Bean goes to the park for a picnic, but spots a little boy who has difficulty with his remote control boat. Generously, Bean open the remote control and inverts the circuits. Now, the controller works, but also controls an elettric wheelchair (unknown to Bean and the boy), with an old woman sitting. After Bean gives the controller to the boy, the wheelchair moves towards the boy, and after Bean moves away, we can hear a splash (maybe the wheelchair fell into the water, or the boy was knocked into the water by the wheelchair). Bean tries to have a picnic, but a wasp likes Mr. Bean's cupcake and refuses to leave him alone. He then kills the wasp swatting it between the pages of a book, but this only attracts the attention of an entire group of wasps. Bean runs away from his picnic site, and trows the cupcake in a car, and the wheelchair stops near the car.

This is Bean at his best, and this episode is the first where we can see Teddy. This was also Mr. Bean's highest rated episode. A must-see for all Mr. Bean fans!
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10/10
Side splitting fun.
Sleepin_Dragon28 May 2022
Mr Bean wakes up late, and has just ten minutes to get ready, and get to his dentist's appointment.

Is this perhaps the best episode from Series one? It's definitely a contender, this is rip roaring fun from start to finish.

I love the lengths Mr Bean goes to, to wake up, I could do with such a device, it reminded me of Wallis and Gromit, it felt very cartoon like. The dressing scenes in the car are comedy gold.

The scene in the dentist's had me laughing out loud, genuinely hilarious, with Richard Wilson providing laughs as the poor dentist. Nice to see Wilson appear here, at a time where he was perhaps at the height of his popularity playing Victor Meldrew.

Side splitting, pure brilliance, 10/10.
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10/10
Horahh
bevo-1367812 November 2020
There were so many funny things in this episode I'm not sure which was my favourite bit
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5/10
Popular Mr. Bean episode, not my favourite in series
MarkLynnIreland129419 June 2022
I recall videotaping this episode before and after seeing it a number of times, I don't like this episode compared to the others: like episode of Bean at the swimming pool, or the hotel one or Bean episode when he's at the launderette and playing golf.

Part 1: Anyway, it starts with him having a lie-in, like I usually like at 8am in unplanned morning. Only then he isn't bothered with any alarm clocks. I find him idiotic with his sleepwalking and light exercises. He then realises he's got a dentist appointment and he's running late - so much for his alarm clock and hose at his feet. I still don't know the music called yet it's still a classic scene (with a brick he luckily finds near his car, places on the accelerator) he gets dressed (usual clothes) and shoes on and brushing his teeth (brings toothbrush and toothpaste and rinses mouth out with windscreen wash) whilst driving.

Whilst parking takes space of the blue three-wheeled Reliant Regal in only parking space outside the dental surgery - surely the car's driver must be in the practice.

As the surgery's receptionist saying the dentist is ready for him, isn't it the schoolboy's turn as he was there before Bean?

Speaking of the schoolboy, his mother actress Christine Ellerbeck, has stunning pins when she is in the waiting room scene.

The dentist with the name Peggit (strange name) yet he's played by Richard Wilson (actor of One Foot in the Grave - sorta remember the theme). He's quite stern like any dentist (I don't very much like dentist or doctor checkup like any child has).

Part 2: Then he goes to the public park for picnic, he tweaks the circuitry on a boy's controller for his remote-controlled boat. Both Bean and boy oblivious he's also controlling an elderly man's electric wheelchair behind them. The wheelchair is now empty and going amok - quite creepy. I don't know WHY it's off-screen that the empty wheelchair comes up behind the boy, and seemingly, knocked him into the lake.

I initially thought it was a fly, before it was really sound of a wasp that attacked Bean or it seemed wanting his cupcake. Pretty clever idea of luring it onto his book so he can swat it slamming the book closed on it. Then he's attacked by a swarm - for the cupcake or that Bean killed the initial wasp?

If the car thief didn't steal Bean's Mini (as Bean had removed the steering wheel), where's the Mini in the ending credits when Bean tossed the cupcake away and the car thief attacked by the wasps?

There's a number of inspired scenes and stories that were used in the animated series of Mr. Bean: * The scene at the dentist inspired the story for the animated episode called "Toothache".

* The scene between Mr. Bean and the wasp inspired a similar event for the episode "Artful Bean".

* The scene in which Mr. Bean got his shaver stuck on his nasal hair was reused for the episode "Wanted".

* The scene in which Mr. Bean stopped his coffeemaker waking him by plugging up the hose attached to it that sprayed hot water onto his feet was adapted as part of a scene in clock "Birthday Bear"

Anyway, quite a popular Mr. Bean live-action episode yet it's one I don't favourite - presumably I don't like dental appointments, attacked by wasps, and some of my unanswered questions.
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