How do you feel about Mr. Bean?

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I liked the TV series, but didn't like the fact that most jobs I have, people call me "Mr Bean", a woman at my present job keeps threatening to knit me a teddy.

Whilst my face doesn't look like his, there must be something in my demeanour, especially when I worked in an office and found my choice of clothes was rather similar to his

And to reinforce peoples perceptions of me, I cannot seem to help acting in a similar way, for instance, I was decorating my front room and needed to purchase a new picture rail, this is a bit of wood that is about 3 inches wide and long enough to travel all the way around the walls of a room, so you can imagine how long it was.

As I had no car I picked it up on my Honda C70 motorbike thing, to carry the bit of wood home I stuck one end down the side of my boot with the wood then running up the inside of my leg, up my body to my inner shoulder, held there with a belt, and then of course the rest of it sticking up in the air about 20 foot, of course all the men in the builders merchants where coming out and laughing at me, telling me to avoid any low bridges, whereas to me it seemed the most sensible way of getting the wood home in the circumstances available to me.


Another time in the office, I was on the phone to a customer and had to get up from my office chair, to reach a file, when I went to sit down the office chair had rolled away and I ended up on the floor, what sent the women across my desk into fits of laughter though was the way I carried on talking on the phone as if nothing was happening, the customer would have had no idea I was falling backwards and rolling on the floor during mid sentance.

Mr Bean was pure comedy gold, and just like Fawlty Towers and Father Ted they were the few British sitcoms that made me laugh. Although I've heard independent rumors that he is often stereotypically portrayed by the media as having asperger's syndrome which I am rather uncomfortable with. He may be socially immature and eccentric as pointed out by his creative acting, but it's more likely that he had demonstrated aspects of "full blown" atypical autism.

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i did not really like mr bean. the writers wrote some cleverly bizarre solutions to common annoying situations, but i think that they ran out of ideas eventually.

A silly bugger who made everyone laugh and ..still does. I bought some dvd of his oldest films..so typically British there was one where he went to an Alders store, which is ancient now and doesn't exist, typically Cora style shopping, right, he went in and was basically buying useless sh~~ and at the cheque out got his hand caught in some blokes back trouser pocket and I was like.. hah, hah, and then he just trailed along with this guy to the loo, still with his hand in his pocket and the guy didn't notice till he opted for loo roll and bean gave him a piece. haha

I love Mr. Bean, he makes me laugh. I love all of his skits. My favorite one is when he's at the dentist and he plays with the suction tube, with the chair, stabs novacane in the dentist's leg, and almost gets his teeth cemented together, LOL!

Did anyone notice that in the presentation at the beginning of the episode (and at the end) he's presented as an alien? Allusion to "wrong planet"?

You're talking about the credits at the beginning and end, right? The chiming bells and the beam of light before he hits the pavement? Yeah, I could see how he could be seen as that.

I Could not stand him as a child found him completely unbearable boring to watch not funny and made me extremely agitated.

I'm a big fan of the Mr. Bean series. Was happy when I caught it on PBS or CBC.

I love watching Mr Bean and I'm a woman.

I like his Mini. I want one--a real one, not the new ones.