Trivia / Bean

• Blooper: When Mr. Bean begins to ride the skateboard, Rowan Atkinson grunts with his own unaltered voice instead of his "Mr. Bean voice".
• Breakaway Pop Hit: While the film uses Randy Newman's original recording of "I Love L.A.", the soundtrack album spawned a reasonably successful cover by the New Zealand band OMC.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Some of the gags (such as Bean getting his head stuck in the turkey) are missing from certain prints of the movie.
  • Johnny Galecki has prominent billing in the credits, but only appears for a few seconds as Jennifer's boyfriend and has no lines, suggesting most of his scenes were cut from the finished film.
  • Generally, if you think some scenes in the theatrical cut look like random big lipped alligator moments, that's because other scenes related to it were deleted. The whole incident where Bean pretends to have a gun in the airport? It would make more sense if these scenes weren't deleted: After the Royal National Gallery board members told him that he's going to America, a later scene shows Bean outside the gallery celebrating this supposed "promotion" by playing up Finger Gun around people to show what he exactly thought about America at the time: a lot of guns.
  • The turkey gag appears in the US version, the extended fridge gag and an alternate cut of Bean and David with the microwave appears in the international version. This was done due to the difference in reaction to both scenes in test screenings.
• Digital Destruction: In 2007, the UK cut of the film was re-released on DVD in certain territories as a "Beantastic Edition" to promote Mr. Bean's Holiday. The video quality was noticeably DNRed compared to the original release and, due to the PolyGram Filmed Entertainment logo being replaced by the 1997 Universal logo, the first few seconds of the score are missing. The same transfer was used on the 2010 Blu-Ray release.
• Irony as She Is Cast: A good part of the movie's humor comes from Bean being mistaken for an academic specialized in arts (specifically, a Doctor of Arts) and, later for a time, a medical doctor, while in reality he is anything but academic. As many of Rowan Atkinson's fans would tell you, Rowan himself is an academic with actual degrees^note BSc-ElecEng, Newcastle; MSc-ElecEng, Oxford and also briefly embarked in doctoral works.
• Life Imitates Art: In the movie, Bean destroys a priceless painting, and attempts to fix it by drawing a new face over the top, and eventually replacing the original with a poster. In 2012, a 90-year-old fresco of Christ was "restored" by an amateur who essentially painted an... unorthodox face over the original. An official was quoted as saying, "If we can't fix it, we will probably cover the wall with a photo of the painting."
• Orphaned Reference: There's a passing remark by the chief of security that the only possible threat to Whistler's Mother is the whole gallery being brought down by an earthquake. This was intended to foreshadow a scene where an earthquake damages the painting's frame, revealing that Bean replaced it with a poster.
• Popularity Redo: As this was made to appeal to an American audience unlikely to already be familiar with Mr. Bean, the film recreates many of the show's most famous gags, such as Bean falling asleep while on the job, Bean trying to entertain a sick boy on the plane, and Bean getting a turkey stuck on his head while cooking. The gag of him pouring all of the ingredients of a cup of coffee in his mouth while hurrying out the door, meanwhile, came from a different character Rowan Atkinson played in the TV special Canned Laughter.
• Promoted Fanboy: Combined with So My Kids Can Watch; Burt Reynolds was a big fan of Mr. Bean, as was his adoptive son, and so agreed to play the part of General Newton for a nominal fee.
• Reality Subtext: The aversion of Apathetic Citizens trope during Bean's entirety in America and the overall Deconstruction in the movie may be a nod to Americans Hate Tingle for the TV series, as many Americans in the 1990s found Mr. Bean alienating and bizarre, and couldn't quite understand why the show was as popular as it was.
• Same Content, Different Rating: The film recieved a PG-13 rating in the United States but a PG rating in the United Kingdom, while the sequel also has a PG rating in the United Kingdom, it has a G rating in the United States.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Steve Martin auditioned for the role of David Langley.
  • An earlier attempt at a Mr. Bean feature was initially set up at 20th Century Fox in Fall 1991; two remake shorts (Mr. Bean Goes to a Premiere and Mr. Bean Takes an Exam) were released from September of that year to gauge interest.

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