History Series / MrBean

* RecapEpisode: "The Best of Mr. Bean" has Mr. Bean seeking an umbrella in his attic so he can go outside and feed the ducks on a rainy day together with Teddy, unintentionally discovering a few items of his previous hijinks along the way.

* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of "Back To School, Mr. Bean", his Mini is crushed by a tank. This doesn't stop it from showing up again (with the same numberplate, even) in two subsequent episodes, "Goodnight Mr. Bean" and "Hair by Mr. Bean of London". (That said, given the nature of the show, AnachronicOrder or even NegativeContinuity may be in effect.) "" reveals that he kept the remains of his car in his attic since then, so he's likely getting a new one.

* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of "Back To School, Mr. Bean", his Mini is crushed by a tank. This doesn't stop it from showing up again (with the same numberplate, even) in two subsequent episodes, "Goodnight Mr. Bean" and "Hair by Mr. Bean of London". (That said, given the nature of the show, AnachronicOrder or even NegativeContinuity may be in effect. With that said, "The Best of Mr. Bean" reveals that he kept the remains of his car in his attic since then, so he's likely getting a new one.

-> ''"Ecce homo qui est faba."'' [[labelnote:translation:]]Behold the man who is a bean.[[/labelnote]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of "Back To School, Mr. Bean", his Mini is crushed by a tank. This doesn't stop it from showing up again (with the same numberplate, even) in two subsequent episodes, "Goodnight Mr. Bean" and "Hair by Mr. Bean of London". (That said, given the nature of the show, AnachronicOrder or even NegativeContinuity may be in effect.)

-> ''"Vale homo qui est faba"'' [[labelnote:translation:]]Farewell the man who is a bean[[/labelnote]]

* CrazyJealousGuy: In "Mr. Bean Goes to Town", Bean doesn't seem to take well to another guy trying to dance with Irma in a club. ''Mr Bean's Diary'' takes it further with him actually stalking Irma and, when he discovers she has become engaged to someone else, makes plans to kill the guy.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In the "Library" short, after destroying a rare tome, Mr. Bean manages to replace it with the book of another customer. This works out well... until Bean returns to retrieve his bookmark, which he put inside the damaged book.

* FailedASpotCheck: After Bean is done showing off his impressive pen and prop collection at the beginning of the trigonometry exam he's taking and the invigilator tells the students they can open the envelope containing the questions, he pulls out a sheet only containing calculus questions that the man next to him starts working on and not having studied the subject, he spends most of the segment trying to cheat by copying answers off him and despairing over his inability to answer any of the questions. However, a few minutes before the exam time is up, the invigilator mentions a white trigonometry sheet in addition to the green calculus sheet and Bean realizes he never took it out of the envelope and desperately tries to finish the test within the 2 minutes before time is up.

* RemovableSteeringWheel: Present in "The Trouble with Mr. Bean" and "Mr. Bean in Room 426".

However, in October 2014, Mr. Bean returned in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4aD_B3WYA an ad for Snickers chocolate bars]] as part of the brand's "You're Not You When You're Hungry" campaign, where he plays the alter-ego of a Chinese assassin and blunders across rooftops, making a complete ass of himself...until he's told to "eat his Snickers" and reverts to assassin mode. Atkinson also revived the character to take part in Comic Relief 2015, a fundraising event for the similarly named UK charity (founded by Curtis and Lenny Henry). In the short, Mr Bean gets into hijinks... [[TheFunInFuneral at a funeral.]]

** In "Back to School, Mr. Bean", there's a brief scene of Bean in a chemistry lab mucking up a little boy's experiment and causing an explosion, but getting away just in time. In the next scene, Bean is in an art class, ''extremely'' prudish about drawing a nude model, so he scurries away to the pottery section. Just as he does, the boy from the chemistry lab (who is now ''covered'' in blue chemical powder) and his teacher burst into the room to find Bean... only for the teacher to grab the boy and rush right back out as soon as the boy notices the nude model.

** When he cut in front of the young boy at the carnival to win the coin slot game, the boy himself won the coins that he illegally obtained.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Bean is an inexplicable feud with a light-blue Reliant Regal, which he runs off the road [[RunningGag practically every time he encounters it]]. In "Tee Off, Mr. Bean", he's hitchhiking and when the Reliant stops to offer him a lift, Bean refuses. Because the driver is [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen never seen]], Bean seems to object to the car itself.

-> ''"[[GratuitousLatin Ecce homo qui est faba.]]"'' [[labelnote:translation:]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Behold the man who is a bean.]][[/labelnote]]

* BathtubScene: In ''Mr Bean in Room 426'', Mr Bean discovers that his hotel room does not have a bath, and is furious when he puts his ear to the wall and hears his neighbour having a bath. Later, the neighbour finds he cannot get into his bathroom, and it is revealed that Mr Bean is inside using the bath, having drilled and smashed a man-sized hole through the hotel wall.

* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: Mr. Bean accidentally injects his dentist with Novocaine until he passes out completely, forcing Bean to do his own dental work.

** "Do It Yourself, Mr. Bean": During Bean's failed New Year's party, one of his friends leaves his hat on the mantel, and leaves the party without it. The next day, when Bean paints the apartment with explosives, we hear a door open while he waits for the explosion. When he enters the room, everything has been painted perfectly white... but the silhouette of Bean's friend retrieving his hat is visible by the mantel.

* BritishRoyalGuards: In "Goodnight Mr. Bean", Bean does an assortment of increasingly pesky things to a guard in preparation for a posed photograph, all while the guard remains perfectly still. It all basically amounts to one hell of a MotionlessMakeover. Among the things Bean does to the guard, he polishes the trigger of his gun, trims the guard's moustache to resemble [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler's]], and decorates him with flowers. [[spoiler: At the end, the guard receives his orders to march to his next post, just before the picture can be taken.]]

** In ''The Best Bits of Mr. Bean'', after the church scene from the first episode, Mr. Bean throws a boomerang away, but it comes back to him. He throws it away again, and we see the "meeting royalty" skit from "The Return of Mr Bean". After that, the boomerang comes back again, and Mr. Bean, frustrated, throws the boomerang out the attic window. In the end, Mr. Bean reopens the window to discover that it stopped raining, and, inconvenienced, shuts the window again, and the boomerang comes back to rest on the roof.

* ClipShow: ''The Best Bits of Mr. Bean'' is a direct-to-video example.

* CountingSheep: Parodied. In "Good Night, Mr. Bean", Bean tries to get to sleep by literally counting the sheep in a large photograph. When he gets frustrated that he keeps losing count, he counts the sheep along two adjoining sides and then multiplies the results in a calculator. After marvelling at the tally, he instantly falls unconscious.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: When Bean buys household appliances and furniture, he puts everything in and on his Mini, and has to tie the chair he bought on the roof. No longer being able to fit in the car, he instead rigs some wires ''to control the car while sitting in the chair''!

* DangerousKeyFumble: Played with in "Do it yourself, Mr Bean", although not with the key, but the doorknob itself. Mr Bean paints his room by putting a firework in a can of paint and wrapping everything not to be painted in newspapers. He lights the fuse on the firework and dashes for the door, only to remember that the doorknob is detached and in the fruit bowl, wrapped in paper. He hastily unwraps an apple and tries to open the grabs an object, unwrapping an apple, and fails to open the door with it, before realizing, finding the knob, and making his escape.

* DetachableDoorknob: Bean often removes the doorknob from his apartment door, which causes a hitch in his strategy to repaint his living room by detonating a firecracker in the paint can. He's also shown to often remove the steering wheel from his car, which once foils a car thief.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In the ''Library'' short, after destroying a rare tome, Mr. Bean manages to replace it with the book of another customer. This works out well... until Bean returns to retrieve his bookmark, which he put inside the damaged book.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Some victims of Mr. Bean's antics actually deserve it, such as TheBully in "Tee Off, Mr. Bean" and the man who stole his pants in "Back to School, Mr. Bean." If you actually look closely when the man took Mr. Bean's pants, you'll realize that he actually took them on ''purpose'' rather than by mistake as he warily looked at Bean when he took the pants.
** Mr. Bean himself, especially in the hospital episode, where his hand is stuck in a teapot and he steals the ticket of a woman in a full body cast to get ahead in the queue. He gets his comeuppance when the woman gets back her ticket and Bean gets his other hand stuck in a vertical stand-up ashtray after trying to get another ticket and everyone in the waiting room laughs at his clumsiness.

* SpecialGuest: The late female impersonator Danny [=LaRue=] in "Mr. Bean in Room 426". Bean steals some of his drag to cover up after getting locked out of his room naked.
* StaircaseTumble: In ''Mr Bean in Room 426'', Mr Bean has a staircase tumble inside a trunk. He hides in one to steal Danny La Rue's outfit, and a porter wheels the trunk away, but drops it down the hotel steps.

* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: Just before the closing credits of ''Mr. Bean Goes to Town'', an entire window display of televisions goes fuzzy when he passes, in a reference to earlier in the episode, when his television at home would do the same thing.

* SixIsNine: In "Goodnight, Mr. Bean", he is waiting in a doctor's office. Bean has ticket #52. He realizes that on the digital display, #25 and #52 are the same number flipped upside down, so he flips the counter over after #24 is called, causing his number to be called next by a confused receptionist.

* NoPeripheralVision: Literally any extra character in ''any'' episode of Mr. Bean. One would think he could do anything and get away with it, because no other character ever seems to notice anything he does unless he's directly in front of them, and, maybe not even then.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "Artful Bean", Bean uses various condiments as a substitute for actual paint. This results in his painting attracting a lot of flies.

* ChorusOnlySong: [[invoked]] In the first episode, Mr. Bean is in church when the congregation begins to sing the hymn "All Creatures of Our God and King". He doesn't know any of the lyrics save for the repeated "Alleluia" chorus, which he happily sings at the top of his lungs.

* OffscreenCrash: The ending of the first episode. "The Trouble with Mr. Bean" has what could be called an Offscreen Splash.