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5 unusual facts about Mr. Bean


Dave O'Higgins

O'Higgins was the busking saxophone player on the second Mr Bean episode ("The Return of Mr. Bean") - accompanying Bean as he performed a dance routine to earn money to pay the busker.

Dursley McLinden

Mr. Bean Shoe Salesman in Mr. Bean Goes To Town 1991

Jaipongan

Jaipongan songs have been taken and set to Mr. Bean, a character created by Rowan Atkinson, and other modern popular cultural references in YouTube videos.

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story, and said two scenes are "clumsily borrowed" from Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

While he is on the farm, the bicycle is run over by a passing tank.


Back to School Mr. Bean

During his time at the open day he confuses a band of Army Cadets by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, gets in other people's way, messes up a stamp album, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator.

DAK Industries

The Los Angeles Times once called DAK "the L.L. Bean of consumer electronics", adding though that Kaplan was reclusive and rarely granted interviews, and refused to be photographed.

Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean

The MythBusters TV show ran tests to see if it was really possible to cover an entire room with paint by exploding a firework in a paint can.

Bean invites his two best friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year's party, but he apparently has not got a good party lined up as he makes paper party hats.

Harold Orlob

Among his works were the short run of Corianton: An Aztec Lovestory, a work pushed through by Orestes U. Bean's salesmanship and based on the novel Corianton by B. H. Roberts.

Jon Glover

He also did voices on other animated programmes such as Little Ghosts, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Mr. Bean (2002), Ludwig, Metalheads, The Baskervilles, Zombie Hotel and Dennis the Menace.

Kirbyville, Texas

Ernest "Bubba" Bean graduated from Kirbyville High School in 1971 and was a standout running back at Texas A&M University as well as with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean

Bean finds a Postman Pat kiddie ride and decides to let the baby ride in it to cheer it up, but then puts nine coins in it so it will play indefinitely and keep the baby safe while he can have his fun.

A clip of the scene where Mr. Bean puts the balloons on the pram was shown to illustrate the expected result of a myth in MythBusters; the myth that a large number of balloons could lift a small child into the sky.

Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents

The show features, in addition to sketches starring Mr. Bill, also other sketches, most notably ones starring British personality Mr. Bean portrayed by actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson.

Robert Bean

Robert S. Bean (1854–1931), American judge, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

Stuart Lafferty

He has modeled for stores such as Ocean Pacific, Champs Sports, and L.L. Bean and began performing in commercials at a young age.

The Return of Mr. Bean

Jazz saxophonist Dave O'Higgins appears as the saxophone-playing busker Bean dances to.

This is the first episode to feature the 'Bean falling from sky' opening and the theme tune (Ecce homo qui est faba) performed by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral.

The Trouble with Mr. Bean

Bean arrives at the dentist's office, where he cannot find anything in the waiting room to read except for a Batman comic book with The Road Warriors on the back cover, which a young boy is already reading (he brought the comic from home).

While in the chair, when Mr. Peggit turns on the tape recorder playing The Blue Danube, he meddles with the controls on the dentist's chair and the dentist's equipment while his back is turned, even draining Mr. Peggit's cup of coffee with the suction tube.

Trond Kirkvaag

which was inspired by such diverse influences as the absurd humour of Monty Python; the nonsensical, wordy Blackadder; Not the Nine O'Clock News; the childlike mime-esque Mr. Bean, made famous by Rowan Atkinson; and even the slapstick of the silent movie era and the quick-fire wise-cracking of the Marx Brothers.


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Alan Shaxon

Shaxon taught Tom Cruise the sleight of hand for "Mission Impossible", and appeared in Rowan Atkinson's "Mr. Bean".

Mr. Bean in Room 426

The elevator percussive organ music Mr. Bean dances to in the hotel lobby resembles the Mario Paint "pushups" song and was used in a WLIW intro.

When Mr. Bean plays with the remote control, a few lines from the film Algiers by actor Charles Boyer can be heard.

William Vandyck

He also featured as "Man at Till" in The Return of Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson, and The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and Ripley and Scuff.