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Bean, Bean, maniacal nut / The more you watch, you bust a gut!
First unleashed in 1989, this sketch series was embraced by PBS viewers in the
United States. In the tradition of the great silent clowns, Rowan Atkinson
created a character with universal and multi-generational appeal (the sketches
have little dialogue and are driven by often ingenious physical comedy). Like
Bart Simpson, the resourceful, mischievous, and sometimes malevolent Bean is the
inner child incarnate who acts on the impulses polite society normally
represses. Atkinson has described Bean as "a 9-year-old boy, with an apparent
lack of worldly experience, but an ingenuity that is quite clever in dealing
with problems presented to him." These problems include not knowing a single
answer on an exam, tactfully disposing of a revolting restaurant meal, changing
into his swimsuit at the beach without first removing his pants, and, most
hilariously, getting a turkey stuck on his head.
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