Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean (1989)

91 mistakes in season 1

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Starring: Rowan Atkinson

Genres: Comedy, Family

Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Bean brings in his new chair after his "incident", he wheels his old chair over to the wall with a minimal gap to accommodate the new chair. But when he is accidentally dropping things out of the gap in his wall, he goes and looks at the mess he has made and the chair has moved forward considerably without anyone touching it. (00:14:50)

Mind The Baby, Mr. Bean - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Bean is playing the dart game, he cheats by putting a card on a dart and throwing it at the wall. When he throws it, the card sticks to the wall on an angle, but when he calls for the guy to look at it, the camera cuts back and now the card is straight and not on an angle. (00:17:10)

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Mr. Bean puts Christmas cards in envelopes, then seals each envelope by licking each flap. Then he puts the envelopes through the mail slot in his door, pretending that someone else mailed them to him, which is funny. Then he opens each envelope just by unfolding the flap instead of tearing open the envelope, that means that each flap had not been sealed.

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Suggested correction: There is only a few moments between Bean licking the envelopes and then posting them to himself. Obviously the glue on the envelopes hasn't dried yet.

If the envelope Mr. Bean had opened were actually the envelope he had licked, then some part of the glue would have stuck, even though there were only a few seconds between licking, mailing and opening, so we would have seen him have a little resistance from the envelope when he opened the envelope. Also, he licked only one envelope, but he mailed three envelopes, so presumably prior to him coming home in the episode, he had licked the other two envelopes. Because he licked one envelope, it is reasonable he would have licked the other two envelopes earlier.

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: During the Nativity scene, the Baby Jesus ends up facing to the right (primarily after Mary "jumps in shock" at the dinosaur when the manger gets knocked). When the helicopter comes in to pick the Baby Jesus up, he has been rotated to face the camera again.

Neil Jones

The Return Of Mr. Bean - S1-E2

Visible crew/equipment: Just as Mr. Bean sits at the new table and the manager places the napkin on his lap, a large camera shadow is projected onto the table. Later, when the waiter brings him the food, the camera's shadow is also projected onto him. Finally, when the same manager opens the silver tray, part of the camera is visible in the upper right corner of the frame. (00:17:11)

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The Return Of Mr. Bean - S1-E2

Visible crew/equipment: When Mr. Bean has his hand stuck in the other person's pocket and they both enter the bathroom, the camera takes a top-down shot of the toilet, revealing a cable on the left side of the floor that moves just before the zoom as they enter. (00:07:59)

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Tee Off, Mr. Bean - S1-E17

Continuity mistake: When Mr Bean writes down the number 1 on his score card after getting a hole in one, he writes it simply as a vertical straight line, but at the very end of the episode, when he writes down 3,427, the '1' above it that he wrote down earlier now has the serif at the top, completely different to how he originally wrote it.

The Curse Of Mr. Bean - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: It's clear Mr Bean is hanging from the diving board by one hand by the time the boy decides to stamp on his hand. When the boy does stamp on him, watch the position of Bean's left arm in the next shot – he appears to be holding on with both hands.

Neil Jones

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The Trouble With Mr. Bean - S1-E8

Deliberate mistake: When Bean is putting on his socks as he is driving, his foot presses the horn in the centre of the steering wheel. Except that the horn control is actually on the right-hand column stalk (you can see the horn symbol on it). This was most likely an added comical sound effect.

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: After Mr. Bean's musical performance, there's a shot of people applauding him. There's a man at the right of the group. In the next scene that same man is seen buying the last two Christmas trees, right before Mr. Bean gets a chance to buy any. There's only five seconds between the scenes. The man couldn't have run to the Christmas tree salesman, talk to him, and pay him for the trees within those five seconds. (00:10:25)

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Answer: In Mr Bean animated there is an episode where you see Mr Bean as a young boy and had the teddy then and he also liked mini cars. There is another Animated episode where Mr Bean discovers a UFO full of people who look just like him and they each have their own individual stuffed toy.

Dan23

Answer: It's never been revealed.

Tailkinker

May be able to find out more on the animated series.

Dan23

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