Now then boys and girls you've seen me review all sorts of things and well I thought this time I would try and review a little bit harder to review that being a couple of Mr. Bean episodes. Now I know what your thinking how can reviewing a couple of Mr. Bean episodes be hard well it's because none of them have any story and there's very little dialog and so it's hard to judge the acting and so here is my review of the first episode of Mr. Bean "Mr. Bean" and the fifth episode of the series "The Trouble With Mr. Bean" enjoy.
Like I just said it's hard to judge the stories of these episodes for two reason the first one being as I just said they have no story and the second one being each episode is split up into three , four or five different sketches. With each sketch having very little to no connection to the one before it I will say tho that I enjoyed the I guess you could say sketches in the first episode just because those setups feel very fresh and new.
Starring in these episodes of course franchise start , co-creator and co-writer Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean and the vicar. Also starring in these episodes are Paul Bown as the student , Rudolph Walker as the examination invigilator , Roger Sloman as the blind man on the beach , Howard Goodall as the church organist , Richard Briers as Mr. Sprout , Richard Wilson as Mr. A. M. Peggit , Sam Mead as the schoolboy , Christine Ellerbeck as The Schoolboy's Mother , Hugo Mendez as the Boy in the Park , Michael Godley as the Man in a Wheelchair , Nathan Lewis as the Car Thief and Caroline Quentin as The Traffic Warden.
Now I have to admit I had no idea how many big comedy names appeared in The Trouble With Mr. Bean and I have to admit I didn't recognize either of them. That being said the acting in these episodes is kind of hard to judge since there's very little dialog and all the scenes are are people reacting to what Mr. Bean is doing but I can say that Rowan really does do a solid job as this character he knows what face to make during what scene and where to get the best laugh.
Now what I found while doing some research for this review is that they only made a very small amount of episodes per year with the production team only making two or three episodes a year. This to me makes alot of sense because why bother putting thirteen OK episodes when you can put out two or three great ones doing this means that the production team can fully develop sketches and make them as funny as they can be which for a comedy is what you really freaking want.
Now of course being the first episode there is one thing that didn't make it to rest of the series and that's Mr. Beans orange mini. When I was growing up because I was so used to his famous green mini I was always taken a back by the fact that the character started out with an orange one which to me really doesn't suit the character and that colour doesn't look that good on the car the green doesn't look good on the car either but you could at least by the fact that a character this strange and odd would buy a car who's main colour looks off putting at least to me it looks off putting anyways.
Now funnily enough The Trouble With Mr. Bean actually features the debut of a key character to the Mr. Bean franchise that being Mr.s Beans teddy bear Teddy. It only appears once at the start of the episode but that one short segment that the I guess character appears in actually does show us how Mr. Bean treats him since he outs his bed covers over him because he thinks that he's still asleep which says that Bean treats his teddy as if it were a real person something which we do see more of in future episodes and even in the feature films.
These episodes where around thirty minuets each and honestly I wish that they were longer just because I was having such a good time watching the episodes. Both of the episodes are perfectly paced and so when it gets to the ending it really does catch you of guard because there's nothing that sets up that this is the end of the episode it just happens and honestly I wished more comedies had this kind of pacing since alot of them feel longer then what they actually are where as this one feels shorter then what it actually is.
The debut episode also introduced us to the gag of Mr. Bean causing some form of harm or damage to the Reliant Regal. I have to say for a gag this simple just having one car bump into another it really does work really well it's no wonder that they've carried this joke on in the Mr. Bean animated series and if i'm right this debut episode actually features the most times this gag is done with it being done at least three times.
I was originally going to do this review just based of the very first episode that being "Mr. Bean" but I honestly thought that I wouldn't have enough material just from the first episode and so I watched another. Which i'm honestly glad that I did because I had such a fun time watching these episodes watching them again took me back to when I was kid watching these episodes for the first time either on VHS or on TV because yes i'm old enough to remember alot of the original Mr. Bean episodes being shown on TV.
Overall I'd say that both episodes are really freaking good and are both really freaking funny. I honestly cannot choose a favourite out of these two episodes just because they are both so freaking good as such they get a collective score of an 8.5 out 10 from me. Just to give you an idea of how much my computer hated me during this review parts of the review wouldn't save and so I had to write them out again so even my laptop agrees it was hard to review any Mr. Bean episode let alone two
All images used in this review were gathered from the official Mr. Bean fandom wiki page or Google Images. I have to fully admit that I wasn't expecting these images to be as high definition as they are and as such I have to say feel free to use either website if you want high definition Mr. Bean images but I personally prefer the Mr. Bean fandom wiki page as they are shocking high definition you actually wouldn't believe it.