Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge the fact that this can be a very intense and controversial topic, so I´d like to save the mods some time and ask that everyone remain civil during this intense debate and respect everyone´s opinions. Let´s leave other people´s moms out of this, except for perhaps Mr Bean´s mom, since that could be relevant to the discussion.
So, I was recently rewatching some episodes of one of my favourite childhood shows, which I hadn´t check out in maybe 20 years. Something I never paid much attention to was the intro, which now I find revealing:
My immediate reaction was "holy fuck Mr Bean is an alien!"
So I looked it up and there are actually a couple of different fan theories. The first one is the alien one; Mr Bean was sent to Earth to live among us and learn about humans. It would explain why he´s so wonderfully weird and mischevious.
Ok, it makes sense, but then you must consider the second theory; Mr Bean was a normal guy who got abducted by aliens. The aliens fucked with his brain among some other alien stuff and returned him to Earth. It would explain why, despite how weird and dysfunctional he is, he managed to get an apartment, a car, some cash and a girlfriend, as well as a stuffed bear that he feels a great attachment towards.
And then I came up with a third theory: I translated to the best of my high school Latin knowledge the lyrics of the initial song: Eccehomo qui est faba. More or less: Look at the bean man. So maybe it´s as simple as that, he is not an alien, he is not an abducted dude, he´s just a bean man, whatever that is.
Rowan Atkinson, the man behind the man, has been asked about it, to which he answered that there was certainly some alien aspect to Mr Bean. Thanks, Rowan, that could literally apply to any of the three possibilities.
So, ERA, what do you think is the truth behind Mr Bean´s mistery?
So, I was recently rewatching some episodes of one of my favourite childhood shows, which I hadn´t check out in maybe 20 years. Something I never paid much attention to was the intro, which now I find revealing:
My immediate reaction was "holy fuck Mr Bean is an alien!"
So I looked it up and there are actually a couple of different fan theories. The first one is the alien one; Mr Bean was sent to Earth to live among us and learn about humans. It would explain why he´s so wonderfully weird and mischevious.
Ok, it makes sense, but then you must consider the second theory; Mr Bean was a normal guy who got abducted by aliens. The aliens fucked with his brain among some other alien stuff and returned him to Earth. It would explain why, despite how weird and dysfunctional he is, he managed to get an apartment, a car, some cash and a girlfriend, as well as a stuffed bear that he feels a great attachment towards.
And then I came up with a third theory: I translated to the best of my high school Latin knowledge the lyrics of the initial song: Eccehomo qui est faba. More or less: Look at the bean man. So maybe it´s as simple as that, he is not an alien, he is not an abducted dude, he´s just a bean man, whatever that is.
Rowan Atkinson, the man behind the man, has been asked about it, to which he answered that there was certainly some alien aspect to Mr Bean. Thanks, Rowan, that could literally apply to any of the three possibilities.
So, ERA, what do you think is the truth behind Mr Bean´s mistery?
