List of Mr. Bean episodes

Act 1: Mr. Bean is late for his mathematics exam and speeds past a Reliant three wheeler, tipping it over. Once he reaches the college, he irritates a fellow candidate by getting out many spare pens and a number of mascots, including a Pink Panther doll. He has studied trigonometry, but he finds a calculus paper in the envelope. He spends the duration of his two hours trying to cheat off another candidate, and doesn't realize until the last minute that there were two papers in the envelope: one calculus, the other trigonometry, with the student given a choice as to which to do.

• This episode, being the pilot episode, was simply called 'Mr. Bean'. Its original opening and end titles did not feature the familiar choral music or street/spotlight theme. The titles were superimposed over Bean's journey to the college and subsequent crash at the end of the episode. For the remastered Region 1 DVD version, the opening titles were removed and the regular titles added.
• Cameo appearance by Howard Goodall as the church organist.
• Reliant gag - Bean over-takes the Reliant Regal pulling in front at a very close distance. The Reliant driver panics and steers off, toppling the vehicle.
• Reliant gag - Bean drives straight at the Reliant on the road leading to the beach. The Reliant driver ends up swerving into a ditch in order to avoid a collision.
• Reliant gag - Bean selects a parking space on a field, coincidentally the space is already occupied by the Reliant which is forced onto the road. Bean, seemingly confused as to how the vehicle got there, runs off.

Act 1: Bean sees a busker playing a saxophone and wants to drop some change in his saxophone case. When he finds he has no change, he places his handkerchief on the ground and dances stupidly to the saxophone music; a woman stops by and leaves him a coin, which he then transfers to the saxophonist's case.

• The first episode to feature the 'Bean falling from sky' theme and the familiar choral music.
• Matilda Ziegler, who later plays Bean's girlfriend, appears as a waitress.
• Rowan Atkinson performs two roles in this episode, the second being a voice over news reporter at the beginning of Act 4.

Act 1: Bean goes to a public swimming pool, and tries out the super-high diving board, and chickens out until two impatient boys push him off. Bean loses his swimming trunks, and tries to get back to the changing room unseen but fails.

• First appearance of Irma Gobb (Matilda Ziegler), Bean's neglected girlfriend.
• The end credits of this episode is one of two to show the reverse of the opening titles where Bean is sucked back into the sky and the only one to do so without the street scenery.
• Reliant gag - Bean speeds across the car park towards the entrance, forcing his nemesis who is in the same lane to rapidly reverse, toppling the car in the process.

Act 1: Bean buys a portable television for his flat, and has difficulty in trying to connect it and find good reception. When he discovers that he can only get reception if he sits in a part of the room where he cannot see the screen, he is distraught. Ingeniously, he strips down and assembles his clothes — underwear and all — on the chair, and the television starts working. That is until the power went out, leaving him in the dark.

• Features cameo appearances of Howard Goodall and Robin Driscoll
• This is the first time we see Mr. Bean's flat.
• The writers allude to Bean being more than just a social anomaly when they demonstrate that he seems to have an mysterious effect on television reception.
• The opening titles now feature the street scene and the music has been re-recorded.
• First episode to be produced and broadcast in stereo.
• Film, instead of video tape, is now used for outdoor scenes.
• 14.42 million viewers watched this episode on the original transmission.

Act 1: Bean oversleeps and is late for his dental appointment in order to save time, he decides to get dressed and brush his teeth while driving to the dentist, using a brick to hold down the accelerator while he changes his trousers, and shooting windshield wiper fluid into his mouth to rinse it after brushing his teeth.

• This was the highest rated episode, with an audience of 18.74 million viewers on the original transmission.
• This is the first time we see Bean's unique technique of immobilising his car by removing the steering wheel.
• Reliant gag - We see the Reliant parked in a boxed parking space outside the Dentists. Bean's mini is seen driving past and off screen. We hear Bean brake, change to reverse and then reappear directly infront of the Reliant. He slowly pushes it out of its space and onto a single yellow line where it promptly gets booked by a passing traffic warden.

Act 1: Bean wants to go to the post office, but the battery in his car is dead, so he decides to catch a bus instead. He reaches the bus stop where a man is already waiting for the bus. Unfortunately the man suddenly suffers a heart attack. Bean tries to revive him by hitting him, stuffing pills down his throat, trying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and using electric shock treatment using jump leads connected to a nearby lamp post. This initially works, but he overdoes the electric shock and causes the man to have another heart attack. An ambulance comes, but while the paramedics treat the man, Bean uses the battery in the ambulance to jump start his Mini. Bean drives off leaving the ambulance disabled due to a flat battery.

• The joke of mr. Bean popping a vomit filled bag is reused in the movie Bean.
• The end credits of this episode is one of two to show the reverse of the opening titles where Bean is sucked back into the sky and the only one to do so with the street scenery.

Act 1: It's Christmas and Bean decides to visit Harrods causing his usual brand of chaos by behaving rather inappropriately for being in such a prestigious department store. After parking directly at the front of the store and harassing a man dressed as Father Christmas. Bean proceeds to shop for Christmas decorations subjecting them to his usual scrutiny - if it breaks, don't buy it. He also tests some Christmas lights using the same socket used for the exterior Christmas lights plunging the outside of the store into darkness in the process. He then starts playing with figurines performing a rather inaccurate Nativity scene involving dinosaurs, army tanks and a Dalek. The owner of the store stopped him by putting a figurine of a policeman onto the set. It took Bean several seconds to react to that.

• Although not the highest rated episode of Mr Bean, it came very close, with 18.48 million viewers watching the original transmission.
• The 'turkey on head' gag is used in US sitcom Friends.
• The 'lights on a well known building being accidentally switched off' gag is used by comedian Peter Kay at the end of his Live at the top of the Tower DVD.
• Bean appears to have moved as the flat and its exterior have changed.
• Change of presentation style for this and the following episodes: The title sequence now simply says 'Mr. Bean'. At the end of the sequence a seperate caption appears stating the title of the episode.
• Last appearance of Matilda Ziegler as Irma Gobb.

Bean stays in a posh hotel where he gets into many escapades. He jumps on the bed, hands the bellhop some medicine instead of a tip, drills holes in the walls to hang his pictures, turns his television on at full volume and sneaks into his neighbour's bathroom to have a bath by drilling a hole through the wall behind his wardrobe. On the way to lunch, after finding the lift is out of order, Mr. Bean is forced to take an unconventional route downstairs to avoid an elderly lady by hanging on the outside of the bannister, only to be caught beween her and her frail husband. At lunchtime, after pushing through the queue, he copies his neighbour by taking the same food as him only twice as much and mimicking his movements. But he also saves his oysters for last, which his neighbour discovers to be off after Bean has devoured them. That night, he is feeling unwell with a high temperature and has a terrible dream. Waking up in a sweat, Bean removes his pyjamas, but while attempting to sleep, his other neighbour plays loud music. Bean walks out of his room stark naked to knock on the door, but his own door closes, and Bean finds himself locked out of his room naked. He manages to get to the ground floor by covering himself with various signboards marked "Private", "Exit", and "Out of Order". He attempts to get down to the lobby and find the spare key, as the manager is distracted by Danny La Rue's show. Bean sneaks into LaRue's spare frock, and asks for the spare key when the manager comes back. But Danny sees him and rips a clip-on earring off his ear.

• 14.31 million watched this episode on the original transmission.
• This is the first episode to incorporate only one storyline instead of separate sketches.
• The entire episode is filmed on location in a real hotel.

Bean goes to a funfair, but accidentally leaves his Mini's boot unlocked, and the handle pulls a baby's pram with it to the funfair. Once Bean sees the "kidnapped" baby, he sees no choice but to look after it while enjoying himself. After a series of misfortunes involving a dodgem, a large dog and the baby's pram, Bean decides to go off on his own, leaving the baby in a Postman Pat kiddie ride with hundreds of coins in it while he gets bored on a rollercoaster, fires an arrow at a stall tender and attempts to cheat in a games arcade. Meanwhile, a huge queue builds up by Postman Pat.

Later, after winning a goldfish, he is forced to keep the fish in his mouth after splitting the bag. However, he accidentally swallows it after winning at Bingo, then subsequently splutters it across the room into a bowl with another goldfish.

After being forced to retrieve the baby by disgruntled mothers, he cannot stop the child crying and decides to buy a huge bunch of helium-filled balloons to make it stop. However, the balloons lift the baby and pram into the air. Bean is forced to use his archery skills, with the pram landing (luckily) beside its mother, who is overjoyed to get her baby back, although confused by the teddy-bear nappy which Bean had put on it. Meanwhile, Bean drives off with the large dog in the back of his Mini without realising it.

• This episode was produced, and was intended to be broadcast, at the same time as Mr. Bean in Room 426, however the original broadcast date coincided with the abduction and murder of toddler James Bulger and therefore jokes involving an accidental baby kidnapping were considered poor taste. It was premiered over a year later.
• The entire episode is filmed on location at Clarence Pier, Southsea, Portsmouth),

Act 1: Bean invites his two friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year party, but bores them so much that when he goes to prepare a snack, Twiglets (which are actually twigs covered with Marmite) and sugared vinegar as a substitute for Champagne, they turn his clock to midnight, and say that they are tired. Thinking that he wasted New Year's Eve, Bean "coincidentally" goes to bed when the REAL New Year begins. His blood boils with anger when he finds out Rupert and Hubert have attended a larger party next door.

Act 2: Bean arrives at a department store to take full advantage of the January sales. Other people have queued overnight to get there first, however Bean manages to jump the queue and annoy everyone in the process by exposing the figure in the sleeping bag at the head of the queue as a fake he placed there the night before.

Act 3: Later Bean has bought several items including a chair, paint cans and an assortment of brushes and mops. After strapping the chair to the roof and squeezing everything else inside the car he realises there's no room left for himself... unfortunately, he then has an idea. Bean successfully constructs a way of remotely driving the car from the chair attached to the roof and embarks on another dare devil driving expedition which goes incredibly well until he ends up on a steep decline and his only breaking device is a van filled with pillows.

Act 4: Bean decides to give his flat a make-over. He first realises that moving a table is impractical as he can no longer put objects on it through the hole in the kitchen wall. Bean's solution - just move the hole. He then decides to paint his room white, but he quickly tires of the traditional method as he ends up getting paint on things. Bean's solution - He covers everything (including the grapes) in newspapers and plants a super-firework in a can of white paint, he ignites the firework and runs out of the room. Bean returns to find his newly invented paint bomb worked however while he was gone, Hubert returned to the flat for his hat he'd left the night before and got caught in the explosion. Bean is shocked to find that there's a trial of white footprints leading out of his flat and a section of wall untouched by the paint shaped just like a man reaching to pick a hat up off the shelf.

• US show Mythbusters ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can. Not suprisingly, they failed to achieve Mr. Bean's results.

This outing follows Mr. Bean attending a school open day. Unable to park his car, he spots a similar-looking Mini and substitutes the cars. During his time at the open day he distracts a calligrapher, messes up a stamp album, confuses a band of cadets, gets in other people's way, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator. When a lady helps Bean remove the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to blow up.

In the science laboratory, Bean experiments with several solutions, eventually causing an explosion, with blue smoke emerging from the laboratory. Bean manages to escape in time, but a younger student is not so fortunate and is later seen covered head to toe in blue.

In a still-life art class, Mr Bean is shocked and appalled at having to draw a naked woman, and promptly fashions a brassiere out of clay, allowing him to draw the woman without embarrassment. Later, at a judo lesson, a frightened Bean ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David Schneider) and roll him up in a mat. However, when changing back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else, and goes on a long search for his own ones. In the gents' toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the wearer is sitting on the toilet. Bean frantically grabs the man by the legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his underwear, which he throws back to the man — though it ends up falling down the toilet.

Bean returns to his car, which is now missing. He spots it in the middle of a car park with lots of people strangely watching it. Unbothered by this he continues towards his car intending to get in it. On his way he's distracted by a generous selection of cakes on a stand. As he chooses a cake a tank rolls past behind him, crushing his car in the process (recall the Mini he switched places with at the start of the episode). Bean is initially distraught until, from the wreckage, he manages to salvage the padlock, and joyfully runs off.

• It isn't disclosed to the viewer what Mr. Bean did with the lock he salvaged, it is only assumed that Bean claimed the Mini that should've been crushed by the tank as his own. However an identical Mini does appear in later episodes complete with padlock, bolt and the original registration plate.

Act 1: Mr. Bean goes to the launderette to wash his clothes, an inflatable animal, some fluffy dice, a lamp shade, a doormat and his Teddy. He gets intimidated by a bully with a black belt in Karate who takes his washing machine and frequently makes threatening gestures towards him. Bean realises he's wearing underwear he wanted to wash so stands behind a partition to change out of them accidentally getting his trousers mixed up with a ladies skirt. This escalates the taunting from the bully so Bean decides to get revenge on him. He substitutes his soap detergent with black coffee. Unfortunately, Bean is forced to drink some detergent to disguise the fact he switched the cups. It worked and when the bully's shirt emerged severely stained from the wash, he blames the owners of the launderette. Later, after retrieving his mutated washing (including a shruken Teddy) from the drier. Bean needs to retrieve his trousers from the ladies washing. He resorts to climbing into a drier to find them just as the lady returns and closes it with Bean still inside.

Act 2: Bean plays a game of 'Crazy Golf'. He scores a hole-in-one on the first hole then on the second hole he hits the ball into the grass and the owner forces him to obey a rule of having to get the ball back to the course by only touching it with his club. He then hits the ball out of the golfing grounds and this takes Bean on a very elaborate journey as the ball ends up on a bus, inside a ladies shopping, on a boys ice-cream, up the exhaust pipe of a Proton car, down a sewer, on a rubbish cart and finally onto a village green. Bean hitchhikes a lift back to the golf course with the ball still on the patch of turf it landed on, which Bean cut out of the green. As the sun sets, he finally taps the ball into the hole with a final score of 3,427.

• The second car that stops to give Bean a lift has music playing on the car stereo, the music is the (already established) theme tune to The Vicar of Dibley, another Richard Curtis comedy. The music was also composed by Howard Goodall
• Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of repeats on children’s channel Nickelodeon UK.
• Reliant gag - Bean attempts to hitchhike back to the golf course, the first car that approaches is the blue Reliant. Evidentially in an effort to reconcile their differences the Reliant driver pulls over and opens the passenger door. Bean pretends he's not seen him and the Reliant drives off.

Act 1: Mr. Bean has to go to a hospital after getting his hand stuck in a teapot, but loses patience while waiting his turn.

First, he starts a fight to clear two men from the queue, then steals a ticket from another more seriously injured patient, although eventually manages to lose his place anyway. Frustratedly, he throws his token into the dustbin, only to get his other hand caught in the dustbin.

Act 2: Bean irritates a Queen's Guard with a camera by dressing him up with flowers and things. He trims the Guard's mustache into a Hitler style, and impales his Teddy on the Guard's bayonet. Just before he can take the photo, the charge is called, and the Guard walks away, Teddy and all.

Act 3: Bean prepares for bed but has trouble falling asleep. He finally falls asleep by counting sheep with a calculator, and then falls out of bed.

• This was the last episode produced for ITV