Recently I purchased The Whole Bean–all 14 episodes plus some great extras. All on 3 DVDs. I’d taped quite a few episodes off of TV in the past, but there were still four or five that I’d never seen until I got this complete set.

One I’d actually never seen was “Merry Christmas Mr. Bean,” where he gets the turkey stuck on his head. (And WHAT a HUGE turkey!! It was almost obscene!) The clip below is a hilarious part from that episode, where Mr. Bean plays with a Nativity Scene in a department store window. You may need to turn up your volume a little, since the sound isn’t too strong in this one.

What was REALLY cool was that the last DVD in the set had some great bonus features, like some Mr. Bean sketches that were never aired and a really interesting biography, complete with interviews with his writers/co-workers who knew him and worked with him back when Rowan Atkinson was in college at Oxford and was doing comedy already. Great stuff!

Here’s a clip of one of the sketches that was “never before seen on tv” but was on the DVD.

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