Not sure if this has been brought up before but while looking but on quiet a few of the episodes he is a complete prick, but of course what goes around comes around and it bites him on butt.
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I thought the one where he rocked the stroller violently and made the baby cry was definitely crossing the line. he also tried to lead a blind guy into oncoming traffic during that same episode. Definitely deserved some harsh punishment for that.
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Yeah, I didn't care for that sketch too much, either. It was a deleted scene in the DVD extras, and I can see why it wasn't originally used. The other deleted sketch, though (The Library) I thought was hysterical. The worst Bean was guilty of in that one was property destruction!
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Well he basically is a 9 yr. old in a grown man's body. A lot of 9 yr. olds can be quite prickish lol.
shareWell, that is the point. Like when he was in the hospital and switched numbers with that woman in the cast to save himself the wait. The point was patience wasn't his strong point.
shareThen again, he carried a baby around a funfair all day so it wasn't left alone, he did a bit of street busking just to get some change for another busker, and he gave a London palace guard a complimentary shoe spit polish. He has his moments of generosity
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I don't remember him giving a London palace guard a complimentary shoe spit polish. Where does he do that?
shareCan't remember the name of the episode, but he wants a photo of himself with one of the guards and spends ages getting everything just right for the picture, polishing the guard's buttons and combing his hat, that sort of thing.
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That was in Goodnight, Mr. Bean. I have that episode. The joke is he goes through all this crap to make the photo interesting, like brush the guards buttons, decorate the guard, accidently trimming the guard's mustache so it looks like Hitler's, etc. The guard does nothing until he realizes his shift is over and walks away with Teddy on his gun just as the photo is about to be snapped. But he didn't give the guard a spit shine. He did that to his own shoes in an episode where he is to meet the Queen though.
shareYes, CooperKid, and in that sense, I'd hesitate to say Bean totally lacks empathy. I just think, as another poster said, his mental age is greatly reduced and he often trouble appraising a situation from anyone's perspective but his own. Even when he shook the baby in the stroller, it didn't seem like he really meant to hurt it. Little kids do stuff like that because they don't know any better until someone tells them, and shaking stuff just seems to be fun for them! They don't have a full sense of cause and effect yet, and they just aren't fully attuned to the world around them. That's part of maturing, which Mr. Bean never really did mentally!
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How about the one where he wants the chair that's on sale and he somehow uses the chair to crush an old lady.
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I thought the one with the boy and the toy tug boat was accidental and he did behave like a 9 year old a little bit and something Mr. Bean didn't do on purpose. When he used the screwdriver to fix the remote control, Mr. Bean was not aware that he had set the toy tug boat and that poor old man's wheelchair on the same frequency. It was not his intention for the wheelchair to hit the boy and push him into the pond. But he did behave like a spoiled little kid, when he was testing the toy tug boat and the boy wanted it.
shareThe one where I thought he was being a douche was when he was staying at that hotel and for some reason was trying to beat that guy that was also staying there at everything he did like eating more than him..racing to their rooms. It was still hilarious..it's actually one of my favorites..but I still don't get what his point was. Was he just trying to show off to him and just be a jerk about it? I guess like others are saying the bad karma caught up to him when he got sick of the oysters after eating way more than the other guy.
shareHe got sick from the oysters because they turned out to be bad. He was trying to beat the other guy by wolfing down the oysters but just as the other guy starts to eat one, he smells it and it smells funny and he asks the waiter if the oysters were okay and the waiter checked and found out they weren't. Bean sees his after he has eaten several and he's like, "OH, CRAP!!!!!"
shareHe was truly a jerkass to his girlfriend, when they were at the movies for a date.
They had bought a box of popcorn each, but it was clear that his was bigger than hers.
And still, he took a fistful of popcorn from her.
But being a very good sport, she decided to say nothing about it.
But she thought that this meant that she could get some of all of his popcorn in return.
However, that was clearly out of the question to him.
Bean pulled his box away from her and just hissed "No, they're mine!"
This stunt is of course understandable if you think of him as an immature manchild.
But I would really have thought twice before I went on another date with him after that.
Even though I must confess that I'm unusually tolerant of weird behavior.
Yeah, evil people are funnier in slapstick comedy than good people.
Too bad they toned him down so much for the movies, you barely recognize him anymore. I wish he had remained a total jerk, would've been hilarious. But hollywtf always has to ruin everything with 'sentimental' and 'injected romance' crap.
He was a dick during the school open day, too. I'd push him away if he'd intentionally stand in front of me just to block the view of a painting.
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