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[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago

He's an alien.

You see him drop to earth in the titles.

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

Actually, he's an 'angel' that has fallen (or returned to Earth because 'God' got so tired of dealing with him) from heaven. That's why they play church choir music during the intro scene.

[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago

Fun fact. The choir sing "Ecce homo qui est faba".

Behold the man who is bean.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

And during the end-credits, they sing "Vale homo qui est faba".

Farewell, the man who is a bean.

[-] plasticcheese@lemmy.one 18 points 1 month ago

I had no idea. That's a excellent attention to detail.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

The animated series says otherwise.

Bean comes from an alien ship full of other Mr Beans that kick him out. So apparently there is an entire race of Beans.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

Let's argue about it like Star Trek: I don't think the Animated Series is canon. :)

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah. I had those on DVD as a kid - pirated, of course, this is Lebanon in the 2000s - and this episode was on the last disc. Somehow it got scratched up or something, and not all of the episodes played, or the DVD player would error out or something.

So the memories I had of this episode were hazy for the longest time, because I’d seen all the other episodes way more times.

Would you believe I revisited the show as an adult? Very budget-looking animation, but maybe I think of it as charming because of how familiar it is to me. Seriously, look at some of those scenes, they really build out a world with minimal lines and objects.

Now if you want to see catastrophe, you can look at the PS2 game they made of the animated series. Actual so-bad-it’s-good game that’s not too long.

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

These images are the same.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

My family always took it to mean he was abducted by aliens and promptly spat back because he was so weird.

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 35 points 1 month ago

Mr. Bean: The In BEAN-Tween Years

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"Young Bean" show in the making

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

I think it was already made, it is called The Black Adder.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The best part of Blackadder was the Christmas special, where the lead character starts off as a great guy and then the ghosts visit him and convince him to become a right bastard, culminating in a hilarious scene where he kicks Tiny Tim's crutch out from under him. Just amazing that nobody else ever thought to do a reverse take on the Christmas Carol cliche like that.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I want a Scarecrow movie.

Psychology professor that is a mastermind of manipulation and fear, with a fear toxin. One of Batman's most brutal and hardest adversaries compared to Joker events.

Literal mind fuck fear-inducing vilain that does—well, he'd say he doesn't—some really, really horrifying things.

So done with Jokers

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That sounds great. They used Scarecrow in the last season of Titans and that was... disappointing. I'd love to see something like Heath Ledger's take on the Joker applied to Scarecrow.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Managing to disappoint people in a series with rock bottom expectations is impressive.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Joker 2 could have actually been great, if the last 20 minutes wasn't what it is.

They set up everything to be what one should expect, and then, instead of continuing, destroyed everything they built.

However, I want to see your Scarecrow movie.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I think a story about an evil man who suddenly went sane is really interesting

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

After the prison rape via the guards, apparently.

But they didn't set up a story of an evil man suddenly going sane. Just like Game of Thrones didn't set up Daenerys suddenly going insane.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

GoT set up Daenerys going insane in book 1. It was so obvious. I don't know about the TV show, but it's clear as day in the first book.

As for joker? It's set up in the cartoon at the beginning. They literally tell you how the movie is going to go in that animation.

Can we just not make movies where villains are the protagonists?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Lead paint.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago
[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 15 points 1 month ago

that's Johnny English innit

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

"It's Beanin' time."

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 month ago

I always considered that he grew up lonely with undiagnosed autism, and there are many Mr beans in the real world

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

A real human bean.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I want a Batman movie, where The Joker is Mr. Bean instead.

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