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When Mr. Bean's car is crushed by the tank, there is a large crowd standing nearby watching the military display. But when he approaches his crushed car, the crowd has disappeared. [If you watch the crowd through the smoke, you can see them starting to disperse.]
Corrected by Neil Jones
When Mr. Bean is going to bed and he hears the other people across the hallway cheering "Happy New Year", Mr. Bean looks at the clock he has in his drawer and it reads 12:00 yet the second hand is not moving. Either it failed as soon as he picked it up or they froze the shot. [On analogue alarm clocks, the alarm is triggered when the hour hand passes over the alarm hand to complete the circuit to make it beep. In 99% of clocks of this type, the alarm hand is coloured typically red or yellow to distinguish it from the second hand, if one exists. In Bean's case, the shot isn't frozen in post-production (you can see Bean moving it slightly) therefore the yellow hand must be the alarm hand.]
Corrected by Neil Jones
Why was the old lady still walking down the stairs at around midnight in the first place? Also, wouldn't it be a bit darker on the staircase? [I think she is still walking down the stairs from the first time. She is old and senile, and it's also probably part of the gag.]
Corrected by Hamster
When Bean starts making up his own tunes whilst being in temporary control of the band, it is quite obvious in some shots that the band members are not following his instructions and are actually playing the tunes from the music sheets fixed to their instruments. [It is quite correct for the musicians to be playing the music from the score in front of them while reading the beat from the conductor. There is no way for a conductor to convey a melody to the band.]
Corrected by Moose
Bean supposedly unplugs the lights on the outside of the Harrods building when he is testing his own set of lights, but if you watch closely, some of the Harrods lights go off moments after the others. (When they're plugged in again, the same sort of thing happens: some of the lights come on moments after the others.) [This isn't a mistake, this isn't unique to Harrods and I'm willing to bet that the same thing happens with your Christmas lights at home. The effect is a trick of the light and also because it takes slightly longer for the power to reach the bulbs further along the track. The sequence with Harrods building lights is the same thing only on a much larger scale so it's far more noticeable.]
Corrected by Neil Jones
During the first part of the Postbox scene, the weather is dry, but immediately after the break, the weather is wet. This is even more noticeable on the video when there is no break. [Mr. Bean was inside the postbox a day so it could have easily rained overnight or earlier that day. This makes sense because Bean gets into the postbox as the postman comes to collect the mail and then gets out again when the postman collects the mail...the same time the next day.]
Just after Mr Bean cuts out the panel on the wall, he gets out the paintbrush. As he walks through the doorway you can see plainly the panel is still there. [Whem Bean is carrying the paint can and the brush into the living room, the hole he cut out is there complete with sawdust and the wreckage of his pictures on the table underneath.]
How did the muffin Bean had in the cake box stay exactly in the middle of it? [And? Ever thought it could be a mere coincidence?]
After Bean has repaired the controller for the model boat, he plays with the boat - however, the switch on the controller is off at first, and yet the boat is moving about as if someone is controlling it. [Look again - the switch is in the ON position. I have watched this many times and can be sure of that.]
When Mr Bean arrives with his new TV, the room is dark, so he has to switch on the light. However, when he starts undressing, he closes the curtains, which were open, and it's daylight outside: so the room should have been light when he arrived. [If you take a look inside his home, its a very dingy studio flat with dark colours, explaining why it is so dark when he comes home.]
The TV shouldn't work at all as Bean didn't wire the plug up - he simply pushed the cable into it. [Obviously. Its an intentional gag. This doesn't even class as a mistake.]
In the swimming pool scene, watch out for the shots from the diving board where you can see the pool in the background - sometimes, on the extreme left, behind the railing, there is a small section of kind of platform that perhaps is used to support another camera. [This is actually the other diving board. If you watch when Bean climbs the stairs, he passes one diving board on the way to the top. Its this that is appearing in the shot.]
Corrected by Neil Jones
When Mr Bean is shopping at Alders, as he goes up the escalator a box has appeared in his basket that wasn't there before. [At varying points in the sketch Mr Bean is seen having more things in his basket than we see him actually buying. It's quite feasible that the item to which the contributor is referring was put in the basket by Mr Bean before he stepped onto the escalator.]
Corrected by Neil Jones
Towards the end of the examination, the examiner says "Two minutes, ladies and gentlemen." (i.e. 2 minutes left until the end of the exam). However, he then tells everybody to stop writing less than one minute later. [The show is not in real-time.]
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