Editing Mr. Bean (section)

===Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean===

====Act One: Mr. Bean's party====
It's New Year's Eve 1993, and Mr. Bean is filled with excitement. He's invited his two best friends, Rupert and Hubert, to his flat for a party. He puts the finishing touches on his minimal decorations—a circle of chairs in the living room and balloons hung on the front door. Greeting his neighbor, also hosting a party, he quickly returns inside to prepare for his guests' arrival.

Rupert and Hubert soon arrive, but it's not quite the party they anticipated. Bean presents them with party hats made from newspaper and assigns them designated chairs. The sole form of entertainment is a radio. Realizing he forgot refreshments, Bean heads to the kitchen and retrieves a tin of Twiglets and a bottle of champagne. However, there's only one Twiglet left and just enough champagne to half-fill a cup. Undeterred, Bean improvises by chopping a tree branch with a butcher knife outside, dipping it in a tin of Marmite to mask the taste, and sweetening vinegar with sugar.

As the evening progresses, Rupert and Hubert become increasingly dissatisfied. They discover the Twiglets are not genuine (Rupert finds a small leaf on his) and are put off by the vinegar's smell. Despite Bean eating and pretending to enjoy his improvised snacks, Rupert and Hubert refuse to partake. Bean returns to the kitchen and brings out more "snacks," this time pouring the contents of a bird feeder onto a plate.

Frustrated, Rupert and Hubert turn the living room clock to just before midnight while Bean is occupied. As the clock strikes midnight prematurely, they cheer "Happy New Year!" surprising Bean, who remarks, "Doesn't time fly when you're having fun." They link hands (almost forgetting Teddy) and sing "Auld Lang Syne," with Bean rushing excitedly through the song.

Rupert and Hubert then pretend to yawn and claim exhaustion, prompting Bean to reattach the doorknob to the door (which he had inexplicably placed in a fruit bowl earlier—a running gag in the episode) and bid them goodnight. Just outside the door, they encounter two women who laugh at their newspaper hats, causing the men to hurriedly remove them. They observe the women entering the neighbor's flat, where a lively New Year's party is in full swing. After a brief deliberation, Rupert and Hubert decide to leave and join the festivities.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bean is in bed, placing Teddy beside him before switching off the light and preparing to sleep. However, he hears the sounds of a countdown and "Auld Lang Syne" coming from the neighboring party. Perplexed, Bean turns the light back on and looks at the living room clock, which displays 1:40 AM. He retrieves a smaller clock from his chest of drawers, showing just past midnight, revealing that the true New Year has begun. Bean becomes irate upon realizing that Rupert and Hubert deceived him by attending the neighboring party. As he switches off the light again, someone from the party shouts, "Three cheers for Rupert and Hubert!"

====Act Two: The Sale====
On New Year's Day 1994, Bean hurriedly makes his way to the Arding and Hobbs department store to capitalize on the January sales, nearly causing accidents as he parks his car. Dozens of eager shoppers have camped overnight to secure their place in line, but Bean skips ahead to the front where an alarm clock sits next to a sleeping bag, supposedly occupied by someone. He taps his watch, signaling the alarm to go off, startling an elderly couple nearby. Swiftly, Bean retrieves a beanie hiding a cauliflower under the sleeping bag, discards it into a nearby bin, and pops a balloon figure, revealing his ruse—there was no person, just a dummy he set up the previous night to cheat his way to the front.

With the store finally opening, Bean rushes inside, brimming with excitement but unsure where to begin, ultimately heading downstairs. He indulges in a shopping spree, acquiring various items including the display armchair, paint cans, and an assortment of cleaning tools. After securing the armchair to the roof of his Mini, Bean encounters a predicament—having packed everything else inside the car, there's no space left for himself. Undeterred, he ingeniously rigs up a makeshift contraption to drive: a brick tied to a string holds the car in place, the handbrake is released, and he uses cans of paint, strings, and a mop-broom hybrid to operate the clutch, gear stick, steering wheel, accelerator, and brakes.

Initially successful, Bean navigates smoothly until he encounters a danger sign on a steep downhill slope, swerving to avoid a roadworks barrier. However, things take a turn when the broom's head gets stuck under the pedals and breaks loose during Bean's attempts to free it. With no means to stop the car, Bean hurtles uncontrollably towards a parked lorry loaded with mattresses. The inevitable collision ensues, resulting in a flurry of feathers exploding into the air as Bean crashes into the truck.

====Act Three: The Window====
Back at home, Mr. Bean positions the new armchair with a sigh, removes the doorknob, and places it in the fruit bowl. Coughing out feathers from the earlier mishap, he proceeds to replace the old armchair with the new one. Suddenly, he realizes he must fill the hole near the counter where items frequently fall through, such as a ketchup bottle, a coffee jar, and the fruit bowl. Armed with measurements and pencils held in his mouth and hands, Bean moves to the opposite wall.

He begins drilling along the marked line, unaware that he's also cutting through strings holding up a painting of a teddy bear's birthday, slicing through the lower corner of a kitten painting, and severing the phone line, which stops ringing abruptly. Pausing momentarily, thinking he heard something, Bean resumes drilling, accidentally decapitating the top of Queen Elizabeth II's portrait, slicing through Princess Diana and Prince Charles at their necks, and grazing the legs and groin of a shiny, tanned bodybuilder painting. Collecting the rectangular piece he cut out, Bean fits it into the other hole he intended to patch up.

He takes out the dried-solid paintbrush and begins softening it with a hammer. Moving into the living room, he dips the brush into the paint, causing it to bubble and the bristles to sink into the thick liquid. Mr. Bean then takes Teddy, instructs him to look away, and inserts the brush handle (the metal end) into his rear. Dipping his own head into the paint, he attempts to paint the wall but manages only a few erratic lines, splattering paint on the nearby lampshade and nightstand where the paint can was placed.

Realizing he needs a solution, he grabs a newspaper and meticulously wraps every item in the room, including each individual grape from a bunch. Left with only the clock uncovered, he uses Hubert's forgotten hat to cover it. Discovering a large cracker in a dusty box under the footstool, he gets another idea. Bean places it in the tin of paint, lights the fuse, and rushes towards the door—but he realizes there's no doorknob. Quickly unwrapping it, he barely manages to escape just as the fuse reaches its end. He runs around the corner, plugs his ears, and shuts his eyes.

Meanwhile, Hubert, tired and slightly intoxicated, leaves the neighboring party and realizes he forgot his hat. Knocking on Mr. Bean's door with no answer, he decides to enter. As he steps inside, the cracker detonates. Mr. Bean returns to inspect the aftermath, seeing the exploded tin dripping paint, satisfied that his paint bomb tactic worked. However, he's surprised and puzzled to find white footprints leading from his front door and a silhouette of Hubert frozen on the wall, the only unpainted area, where Hubert had fetched his hat.