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This is an episode guide for the television series Mr. Bean, starring Rowan Atkinson, which ran between 1 January 1990 and 15 November 1995. Episodes are usually divided into three to five acts, which were filmed every two weeks.

That said, Mr. Bean is seen to possess some level of social conscience. The most obvious example is ‘Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean’ (S1E10), where, under comically unfortunate circumstances, Mr. Bean attempts to reunite a baby with their mother. Suffice to say, he does not kill the baby in this situation. Many viewers have assumed that Mr. Bean is an alien. It is true that Rowan Atkinson, the series creator, admitted to the Buffalo News the character ‘has a alien aspect to him’. But this underscores the moral play that runs throughout Mr. Bean, and in turn provides the character with such unusual appeal. The thesis of this section is that Mr. Bean signifies ordinary social values of the 1990s that are now radical in context to modern audience. It is therefore a plausible argument that Mr. Bean can be viewed and discussed as a creative work with implications of political relevance, particularly in social policy. Bob Dylan was once quoted by the New York Daily News, ‘A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do’. If success is a union of man with his will, unconstrained by the burdens imposed by society, is not Mr. Bean an wildly successful man?

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Act 2: Bean enters a museum, photographs the inside of a dustbin, and pries a sundial off its stand so that he can place his camera on it and get a photo of himself with a Queen's Guard. He irritates the Guard by dressing him up with flowers and other things, trims the Guard's moustache, 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, just before the camera snaps the photo. A photo of Bean chasing after the Guard was taken at the end of this act. Act 1: Bean is late for his mathematics exam and speeds past a Relia nt three wheeler, nearly tipping it over. Once he reaches the college, he irritates a fellow candidate (Paul Bown) by getting out many spare pens and a number of mascot, including a Pink Panther doll whose tail is positioned to appear as a penis - a rare instance of overt sexual reference not evident in most of the rest of the series. 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 the other candidate, and doesn't realise 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. 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 in a rather silly way to the saxophone music; a woman stops by and leaves him a coin, which he then transfers to the saxophonist's case. In a sense, much of the humour of Mr. Bean is intended to lie in the character’s unmediated impulses. Mr. Bean is a man directed by his id. He is not deterred by simple trifles as moral conscience or self-restraint. Often in the series does Mr. Bean commit acts that others would consider criminal. He does not care. Act 3: Later, Bean has bought several items including the 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. 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 a daredevil driving expedition, which goes incredibly well until he ends up on a steep decline and his only braking device is to run the car into a parked van filled with pillow feathers.

Act 2: After a series of misfortunes involving a dodgem, a large dog and the baby's pram, Mr. Bean decides to go off on his own, leaving the baby in a Postman Pat kiddie ride with nine coins in it while he gets bored on a roller coaster, shoots an arrow at a stall tender and attempts to cheat in a games arcade. (When he does win, a young boy steals his prize). Meanwhile, a huge queue builds up by Postman Pat. Eventually he is forced by a disgruntled mother who curses at him to retrieve the baby when he comes to put more coins in the ride. There is also the fact that the character and physical comedy of Mr. Bean is inelegant. Atkinson often depicts the titular character in promotions through grotesque gurns and vacant smiles. There is an incorrect impression to be made that Mr. Bean is a foolish comedy because it is about a foolish character. Despite this, viewers find catharsis in Mr. Bean’s chaotic responses to daily conflicts. It acts as a sort of wish fulfilment. In his rule-breaking and queue-skipping lies a rejection of the values of decorum and civility that viewers are socialised to respect, particularly British viewers, who are usually boring. the fact that people enjoy seeing that Bean dares to go where we do not dare to go. Mr Bean has a natural anarchy within him to be brave enough to break outside that social norm and to just do what he wants. People enjoy that. Act 4: Later, after winning a goldfish at a game booth, Mr Bean 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.Act 2: Bean goes to the beach and tries to change from his street trousers and underpants into his swimming trunks without ever becoming naked so a nearby man (Roger Sloman) won't see him. After he succeeds, it turns out the man was actually blind.