Editing Mr. Bean (section)

====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!"