Bean is never actually touted as being an extraterrestrial, the evidence is there to think about and adds another dimension to the character when you re-watch the episodes, imagining that the experiences are that of an alien…trying to live in an alien world. At the end of the episode, he is even sent back ‘home’ in the same beam of light and similar accompanying choir-esque music. In the animated series episode “Double Trouble”, the alien aspect of him was brought to light when he was sucked up into a ‘UFO’ with aliens who look exactly like him. Still not convinced? Well, even Atkinson himself admitted that Bean has a “slightly alien aspect to him”. That’s not enough for you? How about at the end of episodes three and six, he is shown being sucked right back up into the sky in that same beam of light. Later episodes show Bean being dropped from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of the St Paul’s Cathedral. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, while the fall is accompanied by the heavenly Southwark Cathedral Choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba which is translated as “Behold the man who is a bean”. Just take for instance the opening credits of the show where Mr. Now I know that I might have lost some of you on this one but bear with me for a second. Bean? Rowan Atkinson himself likened the Bean character to that of “…an 11-year-old boy who’s given the responsibilities of an adult but hasn’t learned better.” “There’s always this sort of feeling of a childlike innocence combined with childlike vindictiveness and selfishness and instinctive anarchy.” So what is the origin of this naive comic hero? Don’t laugh too hard at this or scoff too loudly but I think that Mr. So…besides my adoration for the show, what fuels this blog today you may ask? As I was re-watching the series for the umpteenth dozen time, a thought crept into my mind of which I had never even imagined. Here’s some perspective… The Walking Dead, whom some in the Pop Culture community would consider one of the most popular shows has about half of the number of Facebook likes as Mr. Bean is the second most liked TV show on Facebook at 61.5 million as of 2015. Despite the show’s regular run ending over 20 years ago, Mr. The show has definitely had its impact in the world of Pop Culture because the two most popular TV shows according to Facebook fan likes is The Simpsons and…you guessed it: Mr. Bean character in other venues: Countless sketches for Comic Relief, a performance at the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and even a Snickers commercial. Atkinson has appeared countless times as the Mr. Bean only produced 15 episodes but the show itself has not only has been sold in 245 territories worldwide, but it also inspired an animated cartoon spin-off and two feature films that found Atkinson reprising his role as Mr. Bean rarely speaks in the show and this adds to the hysterical interactions with the people around him.ĭuring its five-year run, Mr. The ‘child in a grown man’s body’ and his teddy are seen in the show solving various everyday problems while causing disruption with the unusual solutions to the seemingly simple tasks. Bean), was based on a character that Atkinson created while he was working on his master’s degree at Oxford University. The British sitcom, created by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson (the man that portrays Mr. Bean, as the sketches would be released throughout the early 90s. Bean.ĭuring the early 90s, my family stumbled across Mr. But after that giant satellite dish was planted in our backyard, I found a familiar face on HBO: Mr. PBS brought me to sci-fi comedy shows like Red Dwarf and introduced me to a show that would become one of my favorites, Doctor Who. Shows like Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances caused me to wake up my parents multiple nights from the laughter that would come from my laughter that broke the quiet in the house. Roger’s Neighborhood but PBS made me laugh. PBS wasn’t just the channel that entertained and educated me through Sesame Street and Mr. Before my parents upgraded to the elephant-sized satellite dish whose movements tracked broadcasting signals beamed down from some celestial satellite in the sky we were stuck with the normal 80s and early 90s TV stations: CBS, Fox, NBC, and my favorite PBS. I have never hidden the fact that I played a lot of video games and watched a ton of TV/movies in my youth.
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