While Christmas shopping, Mr Bean purchases a bulky string of tree lights before making a shambles of a department store toy section. He later manages to acquire a free turkey and Christmas... See full summary » Storyline While Christmas shopping, Mr Bean purchases a bulky string of tree lights before making a shambles of a department store toy section. He later manages to acquire a free turkey and Christmas tree, and attempts to conduct a Salvation Army band. Finally, during Christmas dinner, Bean has quite a surprise in store for his long-suffering girlfriend. Written by Anonymous
"Merry Christmas Mr. Bean" is the seventh episode of the television series Mr. Bean broadcast on ITV on 29 December 1992. It was produced by Tiger Television. Bean visits Harrods during a very busy Christmas shopping spree, causing his usual brand of chaos by behaving rather inappropriately while inside such a prestigious department store. After parking directly at the front of the store and harassing a man dressed as Father Christmas by pulling his fake beard, Bean proceeds to shop for Christmas decorations, subjecting them to his usual scrutiny—if it breaks, do not buy it. He also tests some Christmas lights using the same socket used for the exterior Christmas lights, plunging the exterior of the store into darkness in the process. He then starts playing with the figurines in a nativity scene in-store display, performing a rather inaccurate Nativity scene involving a T. rex, two army tanks, a Dalek, a helicopter, a delivery truck and also the bedroom of a dollhouse where he transports the figures to. The store manager stops him by putting a figurine of a policeman onto the set and gives him his bag of Christmas shopping and Bean leaves while the store manager looks on. Bean meets Irma Gobb in the town, where she sees a sparkly ring a shop window. She points to the ring in the window, where it sits next to a picture of a couple getting engaged. Bean seems to understand what she means, and Irma is delighted to see him entering the shop after she leaves. He then participates in a "guess the weight" game, with the prize being a turkey. He wins, whilst standing on scales and using a calculator, and is able to determine the correct answer (to three decimal places). Then upon seeing another man dressed as Father Christmas he pulls the beard again like earlier, only for the beard to be real, causing Bean to make a quick exit while the man recovers. He also volunteers to collect money for a Salvation Army brass band. He then catches a young boy robbing people and gives the thief's items to the band's conductor. Bean then ends up conducting the band in a ridiculous way while the conductor tries on the items that the pickpocket stole. After Bean conducting to the band, he tries to get a Christmas tree, but the last ones are taken and he ends up leaving, but not before he takes the town's very large Christmas tree home with him, the people watching the band play "Silent Night" and roaming police officers equally unaware. He then drives home. When Bean goes home later that night, he prepares for Christmas by setting up the Christmas tree that he stole (it is also revealed that he is cutting bits of it with a saw while it stands outside). Then he puts out three stockings for Father Christmas; one for himself, one for Teddy and a tiny one for a mouse. He makes a super cracker, a Christmas cracker with many fuses from other crackers inside. Bean mails himself several Christmas cards—all of the same design. He then tries to find something good to watch on TV, however Bean becomes bored when there are war films on every channel and a horror film. As Bean shuts the TV off, young carol singers arrive at his door singing "Away in a Manger". Bean sits down to listen to them while eating chocolates from a box, but after a few seconds gets drowsy, he then walks to the door with the chocolate box, seemingly for them, but then shuts the door rudely without giving them anything and then takes off his robe and goes to bed. The next morning Bean wakes up and eagerly gets out of bed acting like a child for a minute and then discovers what Father Christmas gave him. He got a new sock that matches the stocking so he puts both of them on, Teddy got a tin of two drawing pins to replace his eyes as his button eyes were took off, the pins give Teddy a new look and Bean holds up three fingers to "test his new eyes", and the mouse got a piece of cheese—which Bean immediately places on a mousetrap. Later that day Bean goes in the kitchen to get his turkey ready. He then tries to prepare the turkey, but loses his watch while stuffing it, and pokes his head inside to find it. However just as his girlfriend arrives he gets the turkey stuck on his head and tries to prevent Irma from seeing it. He picks up a crosscut saw to try to get it off, but accidentally freaks her out. She then helps Bean get the turkey off. Later, they have dinner (cranberry sauce sandwiches), Irma gives Bean her present but wanted a Christmas kiss off him first but Bean outsmarted her and rudely grabbed it. He opens it to find a modelling ship. Bean gives his girlfriend her present however it is not the ring she wanted but the picture of the engaged couple that was next to it (having not realised what she was pointing to). She begins to cry, but Mr. Bean mutters "I forgot the main bit!" He takes out a ring box and hands it to her. As she opens the box eagerly, she discovers that it was not the ring but a screw-in hook, meant for hanging the picture. She leaves the flat, very upset slamming the door behind her. Bean mutters to himself looking at the portrait "What was wrong with it?" At the end of the episode, an outside view of Mr Bean's window is given, as he pulls the "super cracker" he made earlier, saying: "Merry Christmas Mr. Bean"; which produces a bright flash seen through the curtains. Bean appears to have moved as the flat and its exterior have changed. This is the last episode to star Matilda Ziegler as Irma Gobb. Some of Mr. Bean's art collection, including a famous photo of Shirley Bassey, were later packed and brought along in "Mr. Bean in Room 426", in which Bean hung his art collection inside his hotel room. In this episode, Irma Gobb saw Teddy for the first time, although it was the only time in this series. They would not see each other again until Mr. Bean, The Animated Series, this time with Irma's own female Teddy. This was the final episode written by Richard Curtis. The market scene was shot in Kingston. Although not the highest rated episode of Mr Bean, it came very close, with 18.48 million viewers watching the original transmission. The scene where Mr Bean buys the turkey was cut out on some children's channels. The scene where Irma Gobb helps Mr. Bean to get the turkey off was edited out when broadcast on Nickelodeon UK for unknown reason. During Act 1, when Mr. Bean plays with the toys, he hums "The British Grenadiers" when using the soldiers. This tune is also the theme tune for Blackadder Goes Forth, also starring Atkinson. The retail version of this episode includes an extra scene where Bean attempts to win the turkey he eventually ended up wearing on his head. The contest being to guess the turkey's weight, he sneaks a pair of scales to the counter; having already weighed himself, he subtracts his weight from the combined weight using a Casio calculator. The person in charge of the contest is shocked when Bean guesses the exact weight (to three decimal places) and wins it. The turkey is then thrown into the boot of Mr. Bean's Mini uncovered. The deleted scene is inserted into the Act 2 of this episode between when Bean purchases his girlfriend's present from the jewellers and when Mr. Bean assists the Salvation Army band. The A&E DVD release (distributed in the US by New Video) is missing this scene. After its broadcast on American cable television network HBO, this episode won the 1995 CableACE award for best comedy special. The 'lights on a well known building being accidentally switched off' gag is used by comedian Peter Kay at the end of his Live at the Top of the Tower DVD. The first Bean film also contained the turkey joke, although they eventually tried to cook the turkey before the microwave explodes. This scene like others were cut out of the film and is seen on the special feature "Deleted Bean" The turkey scene also inspires another Mr. Bean, The Animated Series short called "Dinner for Two". The turkey scene may have also inspired the Friends episode "The One with All the Thanksgivings" where Joey gets a turkey stuck on his head (in a flashback to 1992) and afterwards Monica puts a turkey on her head. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" at the Internet Movie Database
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