His only iconic car...
Hilarious the series may be, but there are times when the studio audience stops laughing and instead produces a collective sympathetic "aaaawwwwwww"...
- Once you get past the ridiculous meaning of the lyrics,note the iconic choir theme song is so beautiful and melancholy to listen to that you can't help but shed a tear.
- Mr. Bean's girlfriend walking out on him in the middle of their Christmas evening together. After botching the dinner, they sit down to exchange gifts; unfortunately Mr. Bean has bought the wrong thing (when Irma pointed to an engagement ring in the store, Mr. Bean thought she was pointing to the portrait behind the ring). She starts to cry, but then Bean initially cheers her up by showing her the ring. At first she's happy... but then it turns out to be the hook that hangs the picture. Realizing she isn't getting the romantic proposal she thought she was, she tearfully runs out the door, just as Bean is cheerily hanging the portrait on the mantle. What sells it is Mr. Bean's hurt response to the door slamming.Mr. Bean: "W... what was wrong with it?"
- In his defence, however, she never explicitly mentioned she wanted a proposal, she only pointed to the ring, which itself was next to the portrait, and expected him to know which one she wanted.
- His reaction to his iconic car being run over by a tank. "The Best of Mr. Bean" reveals that he kept the remains of his car and they've sat in his attic since then.
- In Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean, when Bean realizes that his "friends" set his clock ahead to get away from him earlier and celebrate New Year's somewhere else. Too follow on from this, there is something incredibly heartbreaking about a man who sends himself birthday and Christmas cards as it implies two things: 1) that he desperately wants friends but is unable to get them due to his personality and 2) that Teddy is his only friend in the world after his breakup with Irma. Knowing this, it actually adds another layer onto that New Year's Eve party as he was probably very excited that he had finally made some friends only to realise that he hadn't in the worst possible way.
- During the dance club scene in "Mr. Bean Goes to Town," Mr. Bean sees his girlfriend slow dancing with another man and he simply just walks out of the club with a sad look on his face. He does get even though when he shuts off the power to the whole club.
- In "Mind the Baby, Mr Bean", Mr. Bean has a particularly horrible Kick the Dog moment, when he steals a girl's teddy bear, before mutilating it to use as an emergency nappy for the baby. The girl's reaction is not seen, only her distant cry of "My teddy!" is heard.
- While it's Played for Laughs, Mr. Bean giving himself a birthday card in "The Return of Mr. Bean" may come off as a bit sad, since this shows that (except for Irma, who, for some reason, doesn't give him one) Mr. Bean has no friends.
