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{{Infobox television episode
| series       = [[Mr. Bean]]
| image        =
| caption      =
| series_no    =
| episode      = 12
| writer       = [[Robin Driscoll]]<br />[[Rowan Atkinson]]
| director     = [[John Birkin]]
| airdate      = {{Start date|19<!-- This date is as shown on the official website. Do not change it without citing an even more reliable source -->95|9|20|df=yes}}<ref name=TL>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrbean.com/timeline|title=Mr Bean&nbsp;— Timeline|publisher=Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd|access-date=8 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219134210/http://www.mrbean.com/timeline|archive-date=19 December 2013}}</ref>
| length       = 25:25
| guests       = Marilyn Finlay<br />[[David Battley]]<br />[[Grant Masters]]<br />[[Jacqueline Defferary]]
| prev         = [[Back to School Mr. Bean]]
| next         = [[Goodnight Mr. Bean]]
| episode_list = List of Mr. Bean episodes
}}
"'''Tee Off, Mr. Bean'''" is the twelfth episode of the British television series ''[[Mr. Bean]]'', produced by [[Tiger Aspect Productions]] and [[Thames Television]] for [[Central Independent Television]]. It was first broadcast on [[ITV1|ITV]] on 20 September 1995.<ref name="TL"/>
== Plot ==
=== Part One ===
[[Mr. Bean (character)|Mr. Bean]] goes to the [[launderette]] where he experiences a series of mishaps. Firstly, he realises that the cost of washing has increased from £2 to £3, so he takes out another one pound coin from a specially designed envelope in his trousers. A [[Black belt (martial arts)|black belt]] thug ([[Grant Masters]]) arrives and rudely pushes Bean away into the next front-load [[washing machine]]. Bean then proceeds to put his laundry, which consists of some shirts, a inflatable pool toy, a lampshade, his [[Mr. Bean#Teddy|Teddy]], a welcome mat, two oversized fuzzy dice and a few pairs of underpants (each labelled with a different day of the week), into the washing machine.
Bean realises he only put five pairs of underwear in the machine and assumes the missing pair is Wednesday's, only to remember it's today, meaning he’s wearing them. He changes behind a partition but mixes up his trousers with a lady's skirt ([[Jacqueline Defferary]]). Wearing the skirt, Bean walks by the thug who playfully jeers him when he figures it out. Bean then spots a pair of underwear on the floor labeled Sunday, realizing the missing pair he was supposed to put it and not Wednesday's. He ponders retrieving the other pair, but has no choice but to put them on as the machine’s still running. However, the thug steps on them as he tries to put them on.
Finally, having had enough, Bean decides to get revenge by switching out the man's [[Fabric softener|softener]] with a cup of black [[coffee]] from the [[vending machine]]. This works, as the man does not register this while pouring it in, but when he gets suspicious and sniffs the cup, Bean is forced to drink his cup to make it appear as if he is drinking coffee. Later, the thug berates the launderette's manager as his [[martial art]]s gear have come out all stained and discoloured from the coffee.
After retrieving his mutated washing (including a shrunken Teddy) from the clothes dryer, Bean attempts to retrieve his trousers from the lady's wash by climbing into a dryer, just as she returns. Not noticing Bean is inside, the lady closes the door and turns the machine on, resulting in Bean spinning inside the dryer along with the clothes.
=== Part Two ===
Bean heads to a [[golf course]] to play a game of [[mini golf]]. He scores a [[hole in one]] on the first hole, but on the second hole, he hits the ball onto the open grass. The owner ([[David Battley]]) orders him to play properly by using the club to get the ball back to the course and not with his hands. After accidentally hitting the ball outside the golf course, Bean goes on a very elaborate journey as the ball ends up on a bus, inside a lady's shopping bag (she is later seen explaining the scene to a police officer), on a boy's ice cream cone, up the exhaust pipe of a [[Proton Saga (first generation)#Second Iteration (1992–2003)|Proton Saga]] (causing the engine to explode), down a [[storm drain|drain]], into a [[litter bin]], into a [[garbage truck|rubbish collection vehicle]] and finally onto the village green.
When Bean attempts to [[Hitchhiking|hitchhike]] back to the golf course, the first car that drives in is [[Mr. Bean#Characters and recurring props#The Reliant|the blue Reliant]], which Bean ignores although the unseen driver opens the door for him. When another car pulls up, Bean cuts out the patch of [[turf]] the golf ball landed on with a penknife in order to allow him to return to the course without physically touching the ball.
As the sun sets and the ending credits roll, Bean makes it back to the course just as it is closing for the night and finally rolls the ball into the second hole, before leaving with a final score of 3,427 strokes.{{r|"buP5N"}}
== Cast ==
* [[Rowan Atkinson]] – [[Mr. Bean (character)|Mr. Bean]]
* [[Grant Masters]] – launderette [[bully]]
* [[Jacqueline Defferary]] – launderette woman
* [[David Battley]] – [[golf course]] owner
* Marilyn Finlay – woman driver
== Production ==
The opening featured a new recording of the choral theme, performed by the Choir of [[Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford]]. Act 1 was recorded at [[Teddington Studios]] before a live audience. The music of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] is played in Act 1 too.
The [[Vauxhall Omega]] car that stops to give Bean a lift has the (already established) theme tune to ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'' (another Richard Curtis comedy) playing on the stereo. The music was also composed by [[Howard Goodall]]. The golf course is close to Boulters Lock in [[Maidenhead]] – just south of the junction between Ray Mead Road and Derek Road. The Village Green is in Littlewick Green near Maidenhead – also seen in the episode where Teddy enters the Pet Show. The shops where Mr. Bean attempts to putt his ball out of a lady's shopping bag are located on Shifford Crescent, Maidenhead.
Despite the village green and the lady's shopping bag incident being filmed in Maidenhead, Bean was seen boarding a South London 405 bus when his golf ball bounces into it. This bus route runs from [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]] to [[West Croydon station]] and is many miles away from Maidenhead, even though the filming location for this scene is on Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead.
== References ==
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<ref name="buP5N">{{cite book|title=Nutters with Putters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yow5UJcjwQIC&pg=PA40|year=2008|publisher=Prints of Pirates|isbn=978-0-9560799-0-9|pages=40–|quote=In "Tee off Mr Bean", Rowan Atkinson's character gets a hole-in-one on the first and 3,427 on the second.}}</ref>
}}
== External links ==
* {{IMDb episode|0651850}}
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