Visible crew/equipment: Throughout the first sketch when he is loading the washing machine, the reflection of the cameraman can be seen reflected in the side of the silver washing machine. (00:01:15 - 00:07:50)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Bean goes to get some coffee to switch with the rude man's liquid detergent, when he places the coffee down on the washing machine, you can tell it is a coffee which has milk in it. But when the man tips it into his washing machine, you can easily see it is plain black coffee. (00:10:05)
Continuity mistake: After Mr. Bean has replaced the detergent with the coffee, he takes the detergent back to his seat and you can see through the plastic cup that it is only half full. But when Mr. Bean goes to take a drink out of it when the other man gets suspicious, you can now see the detergent is almost at the top. (00:10:50)
Audio problem: When Mr. Bean is at the Putt-Putt golf course, he watches a little boy trying to hit the ball. As the boy hits the ball with his club, the sound of the club hitting the ball comes three seconds after he hits the ball. (00:14:05)
Visible crew/equipment: When Mr. Bean takes The Bus Stop sign as he drives away with another person, when the camera turns, you can see the cameraman in a yellow jacket ducking down in the bottom of the back window. Also, you can see an old man in a hat watching the filming. He is over by the tree reflected in the window. (00:16:50)
Audio problem: When Mr. Bean is on the bus and is trying to retrieve the golf ball, he is hitting the ankles of the passengers. When he hits the ankles of the last two women closest to the camera, they go "Ow" yet their mouths don't move. (00:17:15)
Continuity mistake: When Mr Bean writes down the number 1 on his score card after getting a hole in one, he writes it simply as a vertical straight line, but at the very end of the episode, when he writes down 3,427, the '1' above it that he wrote down earlier now has the serif at the top, completely different to how he originally wrote it.
Revealing mistake: When Mr. Bean shoots the golf ball out of the sewer, you can see that the ball is already waiting at the hole where it was probably shot with an air cannon.
Continuity mistake: Mr Bean goes to a launderette - Teddy ends up getting washed then found shrunk to a miniature size. Mr Bean check he's alive and puts him in his pocket. But after this episode we see teddy back to normal size with no explanation.
Visible crew/equipment: When Mr. Bean is opening the washer door, you can see a crew member reflected on the glass door of the washer.
Chosen answer: I'm guessing it is because he bought a new car. At the end of the first Bean, he crashed the mini. You hear the crash and see his wheel bouncing down the road. Safe to assume it was a write-off.
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