Mr. Bean

Sheer comic brilliance.

The original tv series is quite hilarious. Mr. Bean is the closest we will ever get to the comedic genius of Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton in the modern era. It's hard to be funny without using words, but Mr. Bean found a way every week. Slapstick comedy at it's finest.

I suspect that this is likely to show up on my Criticker Special Features-generated Most Contentious Rankings list. And that's fine. Admittedly, I usually prefer more refined comedy, but Rowan Atkinson is hysterically funny to me in this series (no no, this is not a Critickerape, I assure you), and I find many of the gags hi-bloody-larious.

Never found this character amusing. I blame Tati.

Absolutely loathsome. The very dessicant to the British comedic condition we see today. But, one can't deny the comedic genius of a man they were able to simply turn a camera on for, to create a full 'story' with an inciting incident, rising and falling action, multiple climaxes, and a resolution all out of sitting at a bus stop. Atkinson's face alone has more range than half of Hollywood. Just not my cup of tea.

Probably the first comedy show I ever watched. I've always been amused by it and sometimes even thrilled by the slapstick (particularly of the vehicular kind), even though I get more laughs out of words than physical antics. A wonderful comedy show that so effortlessly made Bean seem so sympathetic, so antagonistic, and so relatable.

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Mr Bean is clearly a psychopath, everything he does is for his own pleasure, including vandalism, violence and lying. He really has no redeeming qualities at all, except that he is not clever enough to be one of those "evil" psychopathic people, therefore he is rather entertaining. I quite enjoy this series, usually a good few laughs per episode, but at least the films actually gave Bean some redeemable qualities, though they may be weak on jokes, they make Bean a much nicer character.

This guy is funny in these episodes of Mr. Bean. He does all these funny scenes and it's like watching The Pink Panther as he is silent and does all these funny things in situations that go against him.

Mr. Bean is an iconic character and so are some of the incidents depicted herein. Atkinson displays excellent comic timing and ingenuity, his physical comedy being the backbone of the show. The writing in the first handful of episodes is very good, as the main traits of the character unfold in a series of very memorable setpieces. Unfortunately, as the show progresses they resort to just placing Bean in this situation or the other, this location or the other, with nothing new to offer.