"Back to School Mr. Bean" | |
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Mr. Bean episode | |
Episode no. | Episode 11 |
Directed by | John Birkin |
Written by |
Robin Driscoll Rowan Atkinson |
Produced by | Peter Bennett-Jones |
Original air date | 26 October 1994 |
Running time | 24:18 |
Guest appearance(s) | |
David Schneider
John Barrard
Christopher Ryan
Rupert Bates
"Back to School Mr. Bean" is the eleventh episode of the television series Mr. Bean that first aired on ITV on 26 October 1994. It was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions. The episode follows Mr. Bean attending a school open day.
Unable to park his car, Bean spots a similar-looking Mini (albeit with missing wing mirrors) and substitutes the cars. Then two Army Cadets spot him pushing his car and help him. While they push the car Bean slowly closes the door and runs behind a wall and makes a humorous sound. Then he confuses a troop of Army Cadets, while the commander is gone for a while, by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances, the angry commander scolds his troops upon his return.
He then gets in another man's way, messes up a philatelist's stamp collection, distracts and frightens a calligrapher, and gets paper stuck to his body after using a Van de Graaff generator. When a lady takes the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up, revealing her legs and her white knickers. Bean promptly leaves while other people try to pull down her skirt.
In the chemistry laboratory, Bean experiments with several chemicals and makes a creative but very unstable chemical reaction, eventually causing a violent explosion, with blue smoke emerging from the laboratory. Bean manages to escape in time, but a young boy (played by Sam Driscoll) is not so fortunate and is later seen covered head to toe in a blue chemical powder.
In a still-life art class, Bean is first made to draw a bowl of fruits. A moment later, the bowl of fruit is replaced with a female nude model (Cindy Milo); he does not realise this immediately, but then realises he has drawn the breasts of the model. Bean is so appalled at realising what he was drawing was a woman, he is reluctant to draw any further, despite the French art teacher's (Suzanne Bertish) attempts to persuade him.