Mr. Bean

I like the bit where he didn't find the right paper till the very end

Well if this is the first episode I wonder what iam gonna see next

For me Mr Bean started with its greatest episode.

I personally find all three main sketches hilariously funny and have so much admiration for Rowan Atkinson's physical performance in each one.

All three are centred around his physical actions, facial expressions and mannerisms with very little else to carry burden of making people laugh. The writers give him three fantastic situations that bring the best of the character.

Anyone who has sat an exam should love the first sketch. So much of it is simply down to what Atkinson does whilst at and around a desk. For me it is a great performance and on par with the famous silent comedians.

The beach is another classic that involves a great physical performance and ends with a fabulously ironic punchline.

In the church scene (similarly to the exam sketch) Bean is in a fixed position for the duration and it is all down to Atkinson's amazing performance to entertain and hold your attention. It is recognisable to anyone who has attended a tedious event where you are talked at for a sustained period by a monotonous presenter. Nowadays church could easily be replaced by a work meeting or "death-by-powerpoint" presentation.

Each sketch is linked by those funny short sequences involving the cars that introduce the running gag well.

Haven't seen much of the first episode of Mr. Bean, his Mini car originally coloured orange.

I didn't realise, much after first watching this episode, that the exam invigilator is played by Rudolph Walker - who is known as Patrick Trueman in Britain's EastEnders.

As the students had a choice to do either the calculus or trigonometry exam papers, thought invigilator should've logically stated that from the start! As much I don't want to be caught cheating in exam, or spying on someone else's work, would do it better than Mr. Bean was doing - using his feet to shift over. Even if I passed the exam, I personally wouldn't feel like celebrating!

Act 2, he heads to Peacehaven beach yet he's got at one person nearby who will see him changing into his swimming trunks. I don't know why Bean didn't do that sooner, or look for a dressing room, somewhere discrete in a building.

I don't much like the third segment at Stanmer church when he annoys the man next to him, has no tissue for his nose, using his coat pocket instead, has some sweet before it falls down instead his shirt and trousers.

What you get here sets the tone for the rest of the series, comic genius, innocent fun and total cringe worthy laughs.

Split into two segments, the first sees Mr Bean sit an exam, the second sees him try to put on his bathing shorts, but he has an audience.

The two segments are funny, but the first is a work of genius, which of us hasn't been in an exam, and had a moment of pure panic, when a question has made us feel utterly stupid. The way he tries to spy an answer is genius, and that scene with the Pink Panther is a real laugh out loud moment.

The sequences with the Reliant Robin genuinely make me laugh out loud.

It's 2021 and there are rumblings about him perhaps returning? I'm not too sure it would work now, it is off the time, and boy, wasn't it a great time. 9/10.