- Mr. Bean goes back to school for an orientation day while he sees the different projects and activities in which he gets into mischief.
- Act 1: At School Attending the opening day of a new school, Mr. Bean is unable to find a parking space but spots a Mini looking near-identical to his own (albeit with missing wing mirrors) in a reserved parking space, finds it unlocked and replaces the one in the parking space with his own. Two Army Cadets then find him pushing his Mini (actually the one moved from the parking space) and help him. While they push the Mini, Bean slowly closes the door and runs behind a wall and makes a humorous sound as if he were inside. He then confuses a troop of Army Cadets, while the commander has gone into an office, by coughing, which causes them to respond by stomping once simultaneously, and then giving military-like commands (The commands of the drill instructor were nothing more than grunts really) which cause them to respond by standing in unusual ceremonial stances and heads inside the school while the angry commander (Al Ashton) scolds his troop of Army Cadets upon his return.
Bean then gets in another man's way while looking at various things on the wall, messes up a philatelist's (John Barrard) stamp collection and frightens a calligrapher (John Clegg), causing him to make a mistake. Later, he sees a woman using a Van de Graaff generator to make her hair stand on end, and then tries it himself but finds it doesn't work on him. However, it leaves his body electrostatically charged, such that when he then picks up a leaflet to read it, it remains stuck to him. After multiple failed attempts to get rid of the leaflet, he hands it to a woman (Harriet Eastcott), but the static electricity causes her skirt to rise up to cover her head and reveal her legs and white granny knickers. Bean promptly leaves while other people try to pull down her skirt.
Act 2: Laboratory Trouble and the Art Class In the chemistry lab, Bean experiments with several chemicals and makes a creative but very unstable chemical reaction, forcing Bean to escape from the laboratory as a young boy (Sam Driscoll) enters and inspects the experiment. As Bean walks out of the laboratory, a violent explosion erupts, with blue smoke emerging from beneath the door.
In a still-life art class, Bean is first made to draw a bowl of fruit. A moment later, the bowl of fruit is replaced with a nude model (Cindy Milo); he does not notice this immediately, but then suddenly realizes he has drawn the woman's breasts and not a piece of fruit; like he initially thought he was doing. Bean is so appalled at realizing what he was drawing was a naked woman, he is reluctant to draw any further despite the French art teacher's (Suzanne Bertish) attempts to persuade him.
While the teacher is tending to somebody else, Bean goes over to the potter's wheel and makes some clay pots; when he is doing it, the boy from the chemistry lab, now covered in blue chemical powder, and his teacher (Lucy Fleming) arrive inside the room to seek the person responsible for causing the explosion. Failing to find him, and having just noticed the nude model, they rush out of the classroom. After Bean finishes making clay pots, he puts them on the model's breasts, allowing him to draw her without embarrassment. The teacher confronts Bean for drawing the wrong object again, suddenly realizing that the grimaced woman's chest is covered in a clay bra. After that, Bean finishes his work and walks proudly out of the class, while the teacher looks at Bean's work and turns out to be impressed with it.
Act 3: The Judo Class and the Toilet At a judo class, a frightened Bean is reluctant to allow himself to be thrown, but ultimately manages to confuse his teacher (David Schneider) by running behind him during the bowing process, push him over from behind, and roll him up in a mat. After the class, when Bean has just changed back into his regular clothes, he finds that he has swapped trousers with someone else and goes on a long search for his own. In the men's toilets, he spots them, cleverly seeing his name on the label while the man is sitting on the toilet. Bean distracts the man, frantically grabs him by the legs and tries to grab his trousers. While this is happening, the drill commander enters the toilet and Bean fools him by cleaning the man's shoes and the commander immediately leaves the toilet. Bean continues and finally retrieves his trousers, as well as the man's underwear, which he throws back to the man-though his underpants end up falling into the toilet.
Act 4: The Unexpected Disaster Just as Bean exits the school, there is an announcement over the PA system stating that there will be a demonstration shortly (the man giving the announcement is voiced by Rowan Atkinson). Bean walks over to where he parked his Mini at the beginning of the day, but soon realizes it is no longer where he parked it. After looking, he sees his Mini in the middle of the car park, with a lot of people watching it from behind. Not bothered by this, Bean makes a beeline for his Mini, but on the way, he is distracted by a woman's cake stall set up nearby. He walks over to the stall and buys a delicious cupcake, unaware that a giant Chieftain tank has just appeared in the car park and that the crushing sound he hears is his Mini being crushed. After the tank leaves, Bean turns around, does a double take, drops his cupcake on the road and slowly walks over to his Mini with a sad look on his face. As the ending credits roll, Bean examines the destroyed Mini and finds that the padlock he uses to lock his Mini was left intact and unharmed. Seemingly satisfied with this, he pulls the lock off and happily leaves as the episode ends.
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