Book Review – Mr. Bean

By Emika Uetake

I’ll talk about Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean is a very famous TV show that showed from 1991-1995. Mr. Bean is a man who is so selfish like a boy nine-years-old, quiet and loves a teddy bear named Teddy. He causes many accidents, but it is very funny.

There are two stories in this book. The first story is about the date of Mr. Bean’s birthday. He went to a nice restaurant to celebrate his birthday by himself. He ordered a steak, but the manager thought he ordered a steak tartare (it is a raw steak!). A minute later the waiter arrived with his food. Mr. Bean looked at the food in front of him. He put his nose near the meat and smelled it. “What’s this?” he thought. He put some of the meat into his mouth. It’s terrible!!! “What can I do with it?” he thought. “I can’t eat this; where can I hide it?” Then he had an idea. Carefully, he put the mean into the mustard pot and put the cover on it. Next, he took flowers out of the vase and put some meat into the vase and pushed the flowers in on top of it. But there’s a lot of it. When he is being in trouble, he found a bag. Mr. Bean took and opened it and pushed some meat inside it. “Nobody’s watching me,” he thought.

Then the waiter walked past and fell on to Mr. Bean’s table, on the floor. There was a loud CRASH! His table became dirty, and the food can’t be eaten. Mr. Bean was moved to another table and his food was changed by the manager. “Yes! I can eat a steak! Not tartare!” he thought. He was waiting for a minute. But the manager came with a steak tartare . . .

The second story is the launderette. Br. Bean went to the launderette to wash a lot of dirty clothes. Mr. Bean started to put his clothes into his washing machine. There were some pairs of underpants. “Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday . . . Mr. Bean stopped. “Where are Wednesday’s underpants?” He noticed, “I’m wearing now.” He went behind the partition and carefully took off his brown trousers and Wednesday’s underpants.

A young woman put some of her clothes into one of the very big washing machines. Then he put his hand round the partition. He took something, but it wasn’t his brown trousers. It was a long brown skirt. The young woman put his trousers into the washing machine with her clothes! Mr. Bean wore the skirt reluctantly and sat down on a bench. Then he got his black bock and he found something. “Oh! Sunday’s underpants!” he said. He tried to stop his washing machine and open the door. But the machine didn’t stop. So he word Sunday’s underpants with this skirt, and he sat down opposite a large dryer.

The young woman took some clothes out of the machine and put them into a bag. Then she went back to the big washing machine for her other things. Mr. Bean started to look through her clothes for his trousers, but he couldn’t find them. “Where are they?” he thought. “Perhaps she left them in the dryer.” He looked inside it. First, he put his head into the machine. Next, he climbed into the machine.

Then she took something out of the big washing machine. Her eyes opened wide. “A pair of trousers! I haven’t got any brown trousers!” she thought. She threw them on to one of the other washing machines, then she took her clothes across to the dryer. Mr. Bean was inside the dryer. Suddenly, the woman’s washing began to fly into the machine—a skirt, a dress and some shirts, and the dryer door shut with a BANG!

“Help!” he shouted through the window in the door. But the woman couldn’t hear him. Suddenly, it was very hot inside the dryer. There was a noise and the machine started!

The clothes and Mr. Bean began to go round and round . . . and round . . . and round.

I enjoyed reading this book a lot. It was a pleasure to turn over the pages one by one. I nearly burst into laughter!