Actor - Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean - promotional postcard for film 'Bean' 1997

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• Picture / Image:  'Bean': The Ultimate Disaster Movie 1997 - shows Rowan Atkinson with camera as Mr Bean
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Mr. Bean is a British situation comedy television programme series of fourteen 25-minute episodes written by and starring Rowan Atkinson as the title character. Different episodes were also written by Robin Driscoll, Richard Curtis and one by Ben Elton. The pilot episode was started transmission on ITV on 1 June 1989 until final television episode's ""Hair by Mr. Bean of London"" was ceased transmission on ITV on 15 November 1995.

Based on a character originally developed by Atkinson while he was studying for his master's degree at Oxford University, the series follows the exploits of Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as ""a child in a grown man's body"", in solving various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causing disruption in the process.^[1] Bean rarely speaks, and the largely physical humour of the series is derived from his interactions with other people and his unusual solutions to situations. The series was influenced by physical performers such as Jacques Tati and comic actors from silent films.^[1]

During its five-year run, the series gained large UK audience figures, including 18.74 million for the 1991 episode ""The Trouble with Mr. Bean"".^[2] The series has been the recipient of a number of international awards, including the Rose d'Or. The show has been sold in 245 territories worldwide, and has inspired an animated cartoon spin-off, two feature films, and an appearance at the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

The character of Mr. Bean was developed while Atkinson was studying for his master's degree in Electrical Engineering at Oxford University. A sketch featuring the character was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s.^[3] A similar character called Robert Box, played by Atkinson, appeared in the one-off 1979 ITV sitcom Canned Laughter, which also featured routines used in the 1997 film Bean.^[4] In 1987, one of Mr. Bean's earliest appearances occurred at the ""Just For Laughs"" comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. When programme co-ordinators were scheduling Atkinson into the festival programme, Atkinson insisted that he perform on the French-speaking bill rather than the English-speaking programme. Having no French dialogue in his act at all, programme co-ordinators could not understand why Atkinson wanted to perform on the French bill. As it turned out, Atkinson's act at the festival was a test platform for the Mr. Bean character and Atkinson wanted to see how the silent character's physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience.^[5]

The name of the character was not decided until after the first programme had been produced, with a number of other vegetable-influenced names, such as ""Mr. Cauliflower"", being explored.^[6] Atkinson cited the earlier comedy character Monsieur Hulot, created by French comedian and director Jacques Tati, as an influence on the character.^[7] Stylistically, Mr. Bean is also very similar to early silent films, relying purely upon physical comedy, with Mr. Bean speaking very little dialogue (although like other live-action TV series of the time, it features a laugh track). This has allowed the series to be sold worldwide without any significant changes to dialogue.^[5][8] In November 2012, Atkinson told newspaper The Daily Telegraph he was looking at retiring the character, as ""someone in their 50s being childlike becomes a little sad"".

The title character, played by Rowan Atkinson, is a childish buffoon who brings various unusual schemes and contrivances to everyday tasks. He lives alone in his small flat in Highbury, and is almost always seen in his trademark tweed jacket and a skinny red tie. He also usually wears a digital calculator watch. Mr. Bean rarely speaks, and when he does, it is generally only a few mumbled words which are in a comically low-pitched voice. His first name (he names himself ""Bean"" to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned. In the first film adaptation, ""Mr."" appears on his passport in the ""first name"" field, and he is shown employed as a guard at London's National Gallery.^[9] In Mr. Bean's Holiday, however, his name is listed on his passport as ""Rowan"", the actor's first name.^[10]

Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, using a television set, redecorating or going to church. The humour largely comes from his original (and often absurd) solutions to problems and his total disregard for others when solving them, his pettiness, and occasional malevolence.

At the beginning of episode two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba (""Behold the man who is a bean""). These opening sequences were initially in black and white in episodes two and three, and were intended by the producers to show his status as an ""ordinary man cast into the spotlight"". However, later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St Paul's Cathedral. At the end of episodes three and six he is also shown being sucked right back up into the sky in the respective background scenes (black scene in episode 3 and street scene in episode 6). Atkinson himself has acknowledged that Bean ""has a slightly alien aspect to him"".^[11] In the animated series (episode 38, ""Double Trouble"") he is taken inside a spacecraft with ""aliens"" who look exactly like him and even have their own plushy toys. In an obvious homage, the aliens send him back home in a beam of light similar to the opening of the original Mr. Bean series. Whether Bean himself is an extraterrestrial is not clear. He lives in Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, London.

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