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The entire series can be seen on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/show/mrbean?s=1 here].
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* [[Adult Child]]
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* [[Funny Character Boring Actor]]: Atkinson doesn't regard himself spontaneously witty. A "making of" video of ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' shows how meticulous Atkinson is in planning all of the gags.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Bean seems to have great difficulty handling everyday problems, but comes up with quite intricate and ingenious ways to navigate them.
* [[Hey
** A young Angus Deayton plays the lifeguard.
** Stephen Frost is the guy on the train laughing while reading his book.
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* [[Slippery Swimsuit]]: In front of a group of schoolchildren.
* [[Special Guest]]: The late female impersonator Danny LaRue in "Mr. Bean in Room 426".
* [[Star
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Poor Teddy gets decapitated in "Mr. Bean in Room 426", used as a paintbrush in "Do-It-Yourself, Mr. Bean", and shrunk in the wash in "Tee Off, Mr. Bean", but is back to normal at the beginning of the next episode.
** Possibly [[Doing in The Wizard|explained]] in the final episode of the animated series, in which it's revealed that {{spoiler|Teddy is possibly of alien origin, because Mr. Bean is from a race of [[Human Alien|human-like aliens.]]}}
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* [[Title Drop]]: Take a wild guess what Mr. Bean says at the end of "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean".
* [[Too Soon]]: "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean" was going to be aired on February 17th 1993. However, due to the much-publicized abduction and murder of 3-year-old James Bulger, "Mr. Bean in Room 426" took its place.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: It's a bit complicated. On occasion he can be casually cruel, as when he torments the calligrapher in "Back to School, Mr. Bean." On the whole, however, his misdeeds are the result of childish selfishness, curiosity, or misunderstanding, and when [[Laser
* [[Vacation Episode]]: "Mr. Bean in Room 426". Also, both movies feature this, each taking Mr. Bean to a different country.
* [[Vertigo Effect]]: Used in "Mr. Bean in Room 426", when he realizes he's just consumed a bunch of rotten oysters.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: At the hospital, Bean runs into the security guard he had drugged earlier.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: After Bean destroyed Whistler's Mother, he and David start frequenting L.A. bars to drown their sorrows.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Inverted. Just after it seems Bean and David have resolved the Whistler’s Mother fiasco, Detective Brutus appears, leading them to think the police discovered what they did to the painting. He's actually there because David's daughter got caught in a motorcycle accident.
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