Back to School Mr. Bean

Act 1: At School

Attending the opening day of a new school, Mr. Bean is unable to find a parking space for his Mini but then spots a similar-looking Mini (albeit with missing wing mirrors) in a reserved parking space, finds it unlocked and replaces the one from the parking space with his own. Two Army Cadets then find him pushing his Mini (actually the one moved from the parking space) and help him. While they push the Mini, Bean slowly closes the door and runs behind a wall and makes a humorous sound as if he were inside. He then confuses a troop of Army Cadets, while the commander has gone into an office, by coughing and causing them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances and heads inside the school while the angry commander scolds his troops upon his return.

Bean then gets in another man's way, messes up a philatelist's stamp collection and frightens a calligrapher, causing him to make a mistake. Later, he sees a girl using a Van de Graaff generator to make her hair stand on end, and then tries it himself but finds it doesn't work on him. However, it leaves his body electrostatically charged, and as a result he finds when he picks up a leaflet to read that it remains stuck to him. When a lady takes the offending piece of paper, the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up to cover her head and reveal her legs and white knickers. Bean promptly leaves while other people try to pull down her skirt.

Act 2: Laboratory Trouble and the Art Class

In the chemistry laboratory, Bean experiments with several chemicals and makes a creative but very unstable chemical reaction, forcing Bean to escape from the laboratory as a young boy (Sam Driscoll) enters and inspects the experiment. As Bean walks out of the laboratory, a violent explosion erupts, with blue smoke emerging from the laboratory.

In a still-life art class, Bean is first made to draw a bowl of fruits. A moment later, the bowl of fruit is replaced with a female nude model (Cindy Milo); he does not realize this immediately, but then realizes he has drawn the breasts of the model. Bean is so appalled at realizing what he was drawing was a woman, he is reluctant to draw any further despite the French art teacher's (Suzanne Bertish) attempts to persuade him.

While the teacher is tending to somebody else, Bean goes over to the potter's wheel and makes some clay pots; when he is doing it, the boy covered in blue chemical powder and his teacher arrive inside the room to seek the person responsible for the laboratory explosion. Failing to find him, and having just noticed the nude model, they rush out of the classroom. After Bean finishes making clay pots, he puts them on the model's breasts, allowing him to draw her without embarrassment. The teacher confronts Bean for drawing the wrong object again, suddenly realizing that the grimaced woman's chest is covered in a clay bra. After that, Bean finishes his work and walks proudly out of the class, while the teacher looks at Bean's work and turns out to be impressed with it.

Act 4: The Judo Class and the Stolen Pants

At a judo class, a frightened Bean is reluctant to allow himself to be thrown, but ultimately manages to confuse his teacher by running behind him during the bowing process and roll him up in a mat.

After the class, when Bean has just changed back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else and goes on a long search for his own. In the gentlemen's toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the man is sitting on the toilet. Bean distracts the man, frantically grabs him by the legs and forces the trousers off him, as well as his underwear, which he throws back to the man—though his underpants end up falling into the toilet.

Act 5: The Unexpected Disaster

Just as Bean exits the school, there is an announcement over the intercom stating that there will be a demonstration shortly. Bean walks over to where he parked his Mini at the beginning of the day, but soon realizes it is no longer where he parked it. After looking, he sees his Mini in the middle of the car park, with a lot of people watching it from behind. Not bothered by this, Bean makes a beeline for his Mini, but on the way, he is distracted by a woman's cake stall set up nearby. He walks over to the stall and buys a delicious cupcake, unaware that a giant Chieftain tank has just appeared in the car park and that the crushing sound he hears is his Mini being crushed. After the tank leaves, Bean turns around, does a double take, drops his cupcake on the ground and walks over to his Mini slowly with a sad look on his face. As the credits roll, Bean examines the destroyed Mini and finds that the padlock he uses to lock his Mini was left intact and unharmed. Seemingly satisfied with this, he smiles and walks off.

Continuity

During The Best Bits of Mr. Bean, Bean finds the wreckage of his destroyed Mini in his loft.

Although the Mini has been crushed it reappears 2 episodes later in "Goodnight, Mr Bean". This Mini was also Austin Citron Green with a matte black bonnet also with the registration number SLW 287R

It is possible that this Mini was the one (registration ACW 497V) that was supposed to have been crushed in "Back to School, Mr Bean" and that Bean took it in as his own after his was destroyed by the tank.