History Film / Bean

* DescriptionCut: The security guy claims "With the system we have here, nothing will touch this painting"-- cut to Bean accidentally defacing it.

** The opening scene of Bean hurriedly mixing all of the ingredients of his morning coffee into his mouth on his way out the door is recreated from a scene in Rowen Atkinson's first staring role on the TV special ''Canned Laughter''.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: After David learned that Bean isn't actually a doctor, he tries to ask Bean if Creator/LeonardoDaVinci was an American basketball player to figure out whether Bean knew anything about art. Considering what they're talking about at the time, most sane people would realize it's a trick question and would immediately answer no, even if they knew next to nothing about Leonardo and basketball. Yet [[TheFool Bean]] is blissfully clueless that it's not even a genuine question and [[InnocentlyInsensitive innocently]] answers yes, which drives David into a mild depression for the rest of the night until the next morning.

* MusicalisInterruptus: David is silently lamenting over his wife and kids vacating his house because of Mr. Bean as Wet Wet Wet's "Yesterday" plays. David then prepares to enter the shower, then "Yesterday" stops when it turns out Bean is also in the shower.

* ShowerOfAwkward: David turns on the shower and then sits on his bed for a while contemplating his worries. When he enters the shower, he finds that Bean decided to take one in the meantime. They both freak out, but David is forced to answer the phone while all this is happening. Unfortunately for him, Bean answers it first and when the caller wants David, he cheerfully states that "yes, he's here in the shower with me!".

** The whiplash is only accentuated by Music/TheBeatles' "Yesterday" playing in the background, only to be interrupted by David and Bean screaming.

* MusicalisInterruptus: David is silently lamenting over his wife and kids vacating his house because of Mr. Bean as the Beatles' "Yesterday" plays. David then prepares to enter the shower, then "Yesterday" stops when it turns out Bean is also in the shower.

* MoodWhiplash: The whiplash is only accentuated by Music/TheBeatles' "Yesterday" playing in the background, only to be interrupted by David and Bean screaming.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: David's daughter and her biker boyfriend. It doesn't work out ''too'' well for her.

** Zig-zagged. Just after it seems Bean and David have resolved the ''Whistler's Mother'' fiasco, Detective Brutus appears, leading them to think the police discovered what they did to the painting. He's actually there because David's daughter got caught in a motorcycle accident.

* MagicalDefibrillator: In the words of the "novelisation", "all you have to do is put the round things on someone's chest, yell 'Clear!' and then they come back to life!... But I thought I'd better try the round things on my chest first." - which launches him through the air to land on [[spoiler:David's daughter (who was in a coma following a motorcycle accident)]] and accidentally revive [[spoiler:her]]. Admittedly residual electrical current in Mr Bean might have helped there but it's still crazy (though electricity always did act weirdly around Bean).

* WetBlanketWife: David's wife Allison isn't all that unreasonable in not wanting Bean to stay with them, but immediately taking the kids to her mother's place and later threatening to leave David ''for good'' over the matter does seem like a bit of overreaction. Even worse that she already acts like this before actually meeting [[ManChild Be]][[CloudCuckoolander an]].

* MistakenForProfound: When Bean has to describe his job to someone, he states that his job is to "sit and look at the paintings". The audience at the ''Whistler's Mother'' unveiling ceremony is impressed by it, thinking that his job is philosophical in nature and involves analyzing things like the message and emotions the artist was trying to convey with their art, when in reality, all Bean meant that he was a museum security guard and not a very good one at that.

** Mr. Bean gets immensely nervous when told he's about to hold an analytical speech about ''Whistler's Mother''.

* DescriptionCut: The security guy claims "With the system we have here, nothing will touch this painting"-- cut to Bean accidentally defacing it.

** It doesn't help that in the TV series, citizens are usually [[ApatheticCitizens apathetic]] to his antics. Here? Not so much. In fact, Bean got a ''lot'' of belligerent looks from a lot of people throughout the movie due to his antics. Much of this is due to the fact that Bean spends most of the movie in America, where the concept of a StiffUpperLip is typically frowned down upon and the lack of a culturally-mandated WeirdnessCensor results in people being more openly weirded out by those who deviate even slightly from the norm, which doesn't help the almost alien-like ManChild that is Bean.

* AdaptationDeviation: Bean doesn't seem to have a job in the original series (as well as the animation series). In this movie, it is revealed that he works as a security guard at the Royal National Gallery.

** Creator/BurtReynolds as the General.

* ActorAllusion: [[Film/GhostbustersII Peter [=MacNicol=] knows his way around a painting.]]

->''"[[WhatAnIdiot The British gave him an air ticket. Their government gave him a passport. The USA gave him a visa of entry.]] Now, there's no stopping him. He's on his way... to America."''

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Bean saves the life of Detective Brutus by ''accidentally'' removing the bullet from his abdomen, ''without using any surgical tools'', while searching for a peanut M&M [[{{Squick}} he had dropped into the wound]]. He even puts the bullet back (being unsure it belongs in there) and then repeats the feat in front of an utterly stunned surgical team.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: During his speech, Bean describes Whistler's mother (the person, rather than the painting) as "a hideous old bat, who looked like she'd had a cactus lodged up her backside". Grierson momentarily looks perturbed, but decides against saying anything after seeing that General Newton clearly finds the remark amusing.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: David yelled at his family and forced them to agree with his decision to accept Mr. Bean in their house. He regretted it later after he learned [[CloudCuckoolander Be]][[PhonyDegree an]] isn't a doctor he expected to be, until Bean helped him and his family, at least.

** When aired on ITV and [=ITV2=], David's horrified ClusterFBomb upon seeing the destroyed painting was edited and shortened.

** After Bean's speech, David asks him where he put the original Whistler's Mother, but he doesn't get the chance to answer. At the very end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Bean took it home to hang on his bedroom wall.]]

** One of the board members in the opening of the movie is played by Peter Capaldi, who is nowadays most known for playing [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor the Twelfth Doctor]].

* ChekhovsGun: The "Whistler's Mother" poster seen early in the film, which the guy showing off the gift shop stuff to David makes sure to mention is the same size as the actual painting.

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Subverted when Mr. Bean is forced to give an improvised speech on the Whistler's Mother painting. After fumbling for a bit, he handles the speech quite well, although it lacks any meaningful content. General Newton and much of the audience just appreciate Bean's straightforward remarks on ThePowerOfFamily. The characters who might have been offended take it as dryly comical ribbing at their earlier request not to have a boring lecture of art history, and maybe insert a joke or two into the speech, since they assumed Bean to be a stereotypical British academic.

* DrowningMySorrows: After Bean destroys Whistler's Mother, he and David start frequenting L.A. bars to drown their sorrows. Later on, after Dave gets ExiledToTheCouch on the night before the ruined painting is due to be revealed, a depressed Bean can be seen sat in the kitchen, sipping milk from the carton with a straw.
* EurekaMoment: Kevin hanging out with Bean while the latter is up late at night and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone despondent over the destruction he's caused over the past few days]] -- during which, he tells him that he has ''"some great posters of Creator/CindyCrawford on his wall"'' -- [[spoiler:is what gives Bean the idea to use a modified poster of Whistler's Mother to replace the destroyed painting]].

** Zig zagged. Just after it seems Bean and David have resolved the Whistler’s Mother fiasco, Detective Brutus appears, leading them to think the police discovered what they did to the painting. He's actually there because David's daughter got caught in a motorcycle accident.
** A shorter one happens after Bean successfully cleans the snot and ink stains off Whistler's Mother using paint thinner, revealing clean unblemished paint underneath... only for the paint itself to start dissolving a few seconds later, irreparably destroying the masterpiece.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Kevin establishes one with Bean over the course of the film.

* MistakenForProfound: When Bean has to describe his job to someone, he states that his job is to "sit and look at the paintings". The audience at the Whistler's Mother unveiling ceremony is impressed by it, thinking that his job is philosophical in nature and involves analyzing things like the message and emotions the artist was trying to convey with their art, when in reality, all Bean meant that he was a museum security guard and not a very good one at that.

* NervousWreck: David, specifically in his reaction to Bean's bastardization of the ''Whistler's Mother'' painting.

** Mr. Bean gets immensely nervous when told he's about to hold an analytical speech about Whistler's Mother.
** Once Bean's speech is over, Detective Brutus arrives and wishes an audience with Bean and Langley, with the latter two believing their tampering with Whistler's Mother have been caught.

** [[spoiler:Bean accidentally dropping an M&M into the police chief's body undergoing surgery]] heavily resembles the "Junior Mint" episode of Seinfeld which involves a similar situation, but with the titular candy instead.
** The opening scene of Bean hurriedly mixing all of the ingredients of his morning coffee into his mouth on his way out the door is recreated from a scene in Rowen Atkinson's first staring role on the [=TV=] special ''Canned Laughter.''

Mr. Bean (Creator/RowanAtkinson) is a rather incompetent security guard at Britain's Royal National Gallery. Desperate to get rid of him but unable to fire him, thanks to a good word from the chairman, the gallery's board [[ReassignedToAntarctica sends Bean to a gallery in Los Angeles]] to deliver and officiate the return of Whistler's Mother to the United States. Believing him to be a fine arts scholar, the [=LA=] gallery pairs Bean up with their mousy curator David Langley (Creator/PeterMacNicol) to accommodate him and ensure that nothing happens to the painting, all while Langley tries to keep his familial troubles at home under control. [[HilarityEnsues Naturally, everything goes wrong.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Television broadcasts of the film are edited to remove the part where a biker flips Mr. Bean the middle finger and Mr. Bean mimics him, thinking it's a friendly gesture ([[FlippingTheBird It's not]], troper kids).

Bean would later get another movie in 2007, ''Film/MrBeansHoliday'', which was a stand-alone sequel with little relation to this film aside from the presence of the title character and served to be truer in tone to the original series.

Mr. Bean (Creator/RowanAtkinson) is a rather incompetent security guard at Britain's Royal National Gallery. Desperate to get rid of him but unable to fire him, thanks to a good word from the chairman, the gallery's board [[ReassignedToAntarctica sends Bean to a gallery in Los Angeles]] to deliver and officiate the return of Whistler's Mother to the United States. Believing him to be a fine arts scholar, the [=LA=] gallery pairs Bean up with their mousy curator David Langley (Creator/PeterMacNicol]) to accommodate him and ensure that nothing happens to the painting, all while Langley tries to keep his familial troubles at home under control. [[HilarityEnsues Naturally, everything goes wrong.]]

Mr. Bean (Creator/RowanAtkinson) is a rather incompetent security guard at Britain's Royal National Gallery. Desperate to get rid of him but unable to fire him, thanks to a good word from the chairman, the gallery's board [[ReassignedToAntarctica sends Bean to a gallery in Los Angeles]] to deliver and officiate the return of Whistler's Mother to the United States. Believing him to be a fine arts scholar, the [=LA=] gallery pairs Bean up with their mousy curator David Langley (Peter [=MacNicol=]) to accommodate him and ensure that nothing happens to the painting, all while Langley tries to keep his familial troubles at home under control. [[HilarityEnsues Naturally, everything goes wrong.]]