British tv from the view of British citizens

[OngBonga]

15 episodes and 2 films of Mr Bean. Not as much as I thought. A fuck ton of commercials and guest appearances, though. It's a hugely successful character, we all know who he is.

[Poopadoop]

We get it right in that regard.

It's hard to know what other episodes would have been like. They might have gotten even better. Most shows start out ok and take time to develop, but it could be these shows were more like Meat Loaf than the Beatles. Either the shows peaked at the start (Meat Loaf) then went downhill fast, or they could have kept on putting out high quality for years (Beatles).

All we know now is they stopped after a period of time and level of success equivalent to the Beatles stopping at a Hard Day's Night. They may not have gone on to make the TV equivalent of Sgt. Pepper's and all those other great albums then got a bit meh at the very end & then packed it in, but they never tried so we'll never know.

15 episodes and 2 films of Mr Bean. Not as much as I thought. A fuck ton of commercials and guest appearances, though. It's a hugely successful character, we all know who he is.

Those movies were pretty shit too imo. It's at that point where you say "this isn't funny any more, they know it isn't funny, and they're just milking it now." Like when they bring some old boxer out of retirement and people pay a shitload of money to see it like they expect to see the young version of the guy, and he ends up getting his ass kicked for $10million. It's always a downer when someone goes out that way.