Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean
An excited Mr. Bean has invited his two friends, Rupert and Hubert, over to his flat for a party during New Year's Eve 1993, and is putting the finishing touches on his decorations, consisting of a circle of chairs in the living room and a bunch of balloons hanging from the front door.
Bean then heads back to the kitchen and takes peanuts from a bird feeder outside and pours them onto a plate.
Right outside the door, Rupert and Hubert come across two women who laugh at their paper hats before heading into the neighbour's flat, where a swinging New Year's party is underway.
However, he hears the countdown process at the party across from him as well as everyone singing "Auld Lang Syne", indicating the real New Year has arrived.
He is angered when he finds out that Rupert and Hubert deceived him and attended the larger party next door, before switching off the light and going back to sleep.
On New Year's Day, Bean drives to the Arding & Hobbs department store in order to take full advantage of the January sales.
When he loses the head of the broom trying to operate the brakes, he resorts to driving the Mini into the back of a lorry delivering mattresses.
After getting exact measurements using three pencils (one in his mouth and one in each hand), he uses a reciprocating saw to cut out a section of the wall before moving it into the original hole.
As the elderly woman tries out the reclining feature this time, it folds over, sandwiching her in the middle; she yells to her hearing-impaired husband for help but is unheard, despite being only a couple of metres away.
The scene where Bean decapitated the picture of Princess Diana was cut from the later airings following her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
Location scenes were recorded on ENG videotape at Arding & Hobbs (run at the time as an Allders department store) in Battersea.
[4][5] In 2015, a recreation of the car stunt scene was staged in central London to promote the 25th anniversary of the series, ending with a photo call outside Buckingham Palace.
