Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean is a weekly UK comedy television series, broadcast in America by Home Box Office in 1990. Comedian Rowan Atkinson (The Witches, The Lion King) essays the indelible role of the grace and conversationally challenged Everyman who makes even the most mundane of situations bristle with comedic zaniness. Mr. Bean is a mostly mute fellow who lives in a tiny apartment, and drives a tiny yellow car ' getting into which can, in itself, become a hilarious travesty ' and can get into just as much mischief ordering at a restaurant or visiting a mall counter to make a purchase. Showcasing a Keaton-like nimbleness and mastery of physical comedy, Atkinson makes the character not so easy to forget. The series became so popular that it spawned a feature film version, released in 1997 and titled simply Bean - although it was essentially just a series of the most popular sketches from the show stitched together in only, debatably fluid, narrative chain. MORE