Tee Off, Mr. Bean


"Tee Off, Mr. Bean" is the twelfth episode of the British television series Mr. Bean, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and Thames Television for Central Independent Television. It was first broadcast on ITV on Wednesday, 20 September 1995.

Plot

Act 1: The Laundry

goes to the launderette where he experiences a series of mishaps. Firstly, he realises that the cost of washing has increased from £2 to £3, so he curses and has to take out another pound coin from a specially designed envelope in his trousers. A black belt thug arrives and rudely pushes Bean away into the next front-load washing machine. Bean then proceeds to put his laundry, which consists of some shirts, an inflatable toy, a lampshade, Teddy, a welcome mat, two oversized fuzzy dice and a few pairs of underpants, into the washing machine.
Bean then realises he has the wrong day's underpants on, so he stands behind a partition to change out of them, accidentally getting his trousers mixed up with a lady's skirt. As Bean, now wearing a skirt, walks past the man, this motivates the thug into taunting him. Bean then realised that another pair of underwear has accidentally not been put into the machine, but by this time, the machine has already been turned on, so he simply tries to put them on but the bully interferes by stepping on them for his own amusement.
Finally having had enough of being bullied by the thug, Bean decides to get revenge by replacing the man's softener with a cup of black coffee from the vending machine. This works, as the man does not realise that he is pouring the coffee into the machine instead of his detergent. However, when the thug gets suspicious after sniffing the cup, Bean is forced to actually drink the softener to make it look as if he is drinking coffee. Later, the thug blames the launderette's manager as his martial arts gear comes out of the machine, all severely stained from the coffee.
After retrieving his mutated washing from the clothes dryer, Bean attempts to retrieve his trousers from the lady's washing by climbing into a dryer to find them just as the lady returns. Not noticing Bean is inside, the lady closes the door and turns the machine on, resulting in Bean spinning inside the dryer along with the clothes.

Act 2: The Game of Golf

Following the launderette, Bean heads to a golf course to play a game of mini golf. He scores a hole-in-one on the first hole, but on the second hole, he hits the ball onto the open grass. The owner orders him to play properly by using the club to get the ball back to the course and not with his hands. After accidentally hitting the ball outside the golf course, Bean goes on a very elaborate journey around London as the ball ends up on a bus, inside a lady's shopping bag, on a boy's ice cream cone, up the exhaust pipe of a Proton Saga, down a drain, into a litter bin, into a rubbish collection vehicle and finally onto the village green.
When Bean attempts to hitchhike back to the golf course, the first car that drives in is the blue Reliant, which Bean ignores although the unseen driver opens the door for him. When another car pulls up, Bean cuts out the patch of turf the golf ball landed on with the golf club in order to allow him to return to the course without physically touching the ball.
As the sun sets and the ending credits, Bean makes it back to the course just as it is closing for the day and finally rolls the ball into the hole, before leaving with a final score of 3,427 strokes.

Deleted Scene

Act 3: The blu-ray exclusive (nineteenth hole)

As a special feature on the 2019 release of the Mr Bean's Holiday Blu-ray, additional, deleted scenes were included from this episode.
The groundskeeper comes over, and informs Bean that the course is now shut, and he must return his ball to the ground. Bean hands over his ball, but accidentally gives him Teddy as well. The groundskeeper gets into his golf buggy and drives away. Shortly afterwards, Bean pats his pockets, to reveal that he no longer has Teddy. Bean runs after the buggy, but cannot catch up.
Bean looks around, sees another golf buggy near a bunker, and jumps in. He starts it in reverse by accident and crashes it into the bunker, overturning it. Unscathed, he climbs out, and sees his golf bag. He positions it with the wheels down at the top of a hill, jumps on, and rides the bag down the hill. He skids to a halt at the bottom, to see the groundskeeper disappearing into the trees. Bean pulls out a golf club and gives chase.
Making it back to the clubhouse, panting, Bean sees the golf buggy, now empty, and makes his way inside. After being ignored by the barkeeper, he spots someone at the bar wearing the club uniform, and spins them around threateningly. They aren't the groundskeeper, and Bean is embarrassed. Upset, he orders a drink. When it arrives, Teddy is inside the glass, he looks over, and the barkeeper, revealed to be the groundskeeper, smiles at him. He leaves the bar, walking past the buggy in the bunker, now on fire. He holds Teddy up to do a little wave at the clubhouse before turning around and walking away.

Cast

The opening featured a new recording of the choral theme, performed by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Act 1 was recorded at Teddington Studios before a live audience.
The Vauxhall Omega car that stops to give Bean a lift has the theme of the theme tune to The Vicar of Dibley playing on the stereo. The music was also composed by Howard Goodall. A new version of the theme is used in the opening titles, performed by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The golf course is close to Boulters Lock in Maidenhead – just south of the junction between Ray Mead Road and Derek Road. The Village Green is in Littlewick Green near Maidenhead – also seen in the episode where Teddy enters the Pet Show. The shops where Mr. Bean attempts to putt his ball out of a lady's shopping bag are located on Shifford Crescent, Maidenhead.
Despite the Village Green and the lady's shopping bag incident taking place in Maidenhead, Bean was seen boarding a South London 405 bus when his golf ball bounces into it. This bus route runs from Redhill to West Croydon station and is many miles away from Maidenhead, even though the filming location for this scene is on Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead.
The scene were Bean shreds a bar of soap with a cheese grater to create makeshift laundry detergent was later reproduced in an episode of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series titled "Spring Clean", while the scene where Mr. Bean went inside the washing machine and is spun around is replicated at the end of the episode "Goldfish".

Censorship

The scenes where Bean drinks the laundry detergent and climbs into the dryer are usually removed from reruns on Nickelodeon, along with the scene where the car engine explodes due to the golf ball stuck inside the vehicle exhaust pipe.