- Christmas adventures of Mr. Bean include shopping, Christmas Eve at home, and preparing the Christmas turkey.
- While Christmas shopping, Mr Bean purchases a bulky string of tree lights before making a shambles of a department store toy section. He later manages to acquire a free turkey and Christmas tree, and attempts to conduct a Salvation Army band. Finally, during Christmas dinner, Bean has quite a surprise in store for his long-suffering girlfriend.—Anonymous
- Act 1: Christmas Shopping Seeking to prepare for the big day, Mr. Bean ventures into town on Christmas Eve and visits Harrods to buy some Christmas decorations, continuing his trend of behaving inappropriately in such a prestigious department store. After parking directly at the front of the store, and harassing a man dressed as Santa Claus (C. J. Allen) by plucking on his false beard, Bean proceeds to test two different baubles, going with the one that bounces off the ground instead of the one that smashes to the floor. He then looks to test out some Christmas lights, and managing to get into a storeroom while an employee (Owen Brenman) is busy dealing with a customer, tries it out on a socket being used for the store's exterior lights, plunging the entire exterior of the store into darkness in the process.
As the employee sorts out his purchases, Bean spots the shop's Nativity scene display and performs a creative yet inaccurate story by playing around with it and some nearby toys, first by making some of the figurines shush anything that could wake the baby Jesus, having a shepherd figurine round up some toy sheep, and then having two toy tanks and a toy Dalek battle with a toy Tyrannosaurus Rex, eventually having the little baby Jesus figurine airlifted by an angel attached to a magnet hanging down from a toy helicopter to the bedroom of a doll house alongside his parents' figurines. His fun is soon disrupted by the store manager - introducing a toy policeman into the Nativity scene to halt proceedings - who hands him his purchases and watches as Bean leaves the shop.
Following his fun, Bean heads to a local Christmas market, where he spots another man dressed as Father Christmas. Again he pulls the man's beard, only to find that it is real, prompting Bean to take a quick exit while the man recovers. Later, he meets up with his girlfriend, Irma Gobb (Matilda Ziegler), and is dragged to the shop window of a jeweler's, whereupon she tries to give him the message that she wants a sparkly ring in the display by pointing at it through the glass. Bean nods to her in agreement (albeit expressing disgust when she kisses him on the cheek), and heads into the shop, much to Irma's delight. However, Bean thought Irma wanted the portrait and goes to buy it.
Afterwards, Bean volunteers to help the conductor (John Warner) of a Salvation Army brass band performing "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" at the market collect money in his bucket; in doing so, he catches a young pickpocket (Lee Barrett) with a wallet in his hand and forces him to surrender all the items he stole, include cash and jewelry and the ring he hid in his mouth. Bringing these to the conductor, who secretly decides to check out what he brought back (implying that he is greedily stealing the goods rather than donating them), Bean finds himself conducting the band, and has some fun with them, before having them conduct the same song with an upbeat, jazzy feel to it, earning a big round of applause from the crowd. With the conductor now back, Bean attempts to buy a Christmas tree from a stand, only to get to the stand just as the last two trees are bought. Frustrated and wanting a tree, he cuts down the market's large tree, attaches it to the roof of his Mini and drives home with it, with everybody at the market (including the band and the conductor) completely oblivious to the theft.
Act 2: Christmas Eve Back at his flat, Bean has set up a piece of his stolen Christmas tree with his new lights and his bauble, before he leans out of his window and pushes the rest of the tree away, letting it crash onto the street below. He then writes a few Christmas cards (all of the same design) and sealing them in envelopes, then stepping outside and posting them to himself. Satisfied with his decoration, Bean searches a cupboard for some Christmas crackers, but is underwhelmed by the lack of a loud pop from one, and so decides to take out the fuses of the other crackers and stuff them all into one to make a "super cracker".
Warming up his flat with a fire, Bean hangs up three stockings in his room: one for Teddy, one for himself, and one for a tiny mouse living in a hole. Enjoying a box of chocolates and drinking a glass of sherry, Bean tries to find something good to watch on TV but finds only war and horror films. As he turns his TV off, he hears muffled singing coming from his door, whereupon opening it he finds a small group of young carol singers performing "Away in a Manger". Deciding to watch them perform from his seat as if he was watching TV, Bean soon becomes bored and rudely shuts the door on them just as they finish the song before heading for bed.
Act 3: Christmas Day The following morning, Bean wakes up excited that it's Christmas morning, and proceeds to check the stockings - Teddy's contains a tin that holds a pair of drawing pin eyes within; his as a sock that has the other sock of the pair inside; the mouse's contains a piece of cheese, which Bean immediately places onto a mousetrap.
Bean soon gets to work in the kitchen on preparing the large turkey he won at the market, but while stuffing it, his watch comes off and gets lost inside. Unable to find it, Bean sticks his head into the turkey, whereupon he finds himself unable to pull it off just as his girlfriend, Irma arrives. He asks her for some cup of tea if Bean is having one, even though he can't get the turkey off his head. He then gets a saw, but Irma screams in terror. After attempting to cover up his predicament, Irma eventually helps him to remove it, allowing Bean to recover his watch but at the cost of the turkey as it is lost out of the window in the process.
With the turkey gone, Bean and Irma instead eat cranberry sauce sandwiches along with carrot slices for dinner, whereupon Irma refuses to give Bean his present until she gets a Christmas kiss, only for him to distract her and rudely snatch it, ignoring her anger as he finds it to be a model ship. Realizing he is being forgetful, Bean produces Irma with her present, only for her excitement to turn into confusion and disappointment when he reveals that he bought her the portrait in the jeweler's display that was next to the ring, believing it to be what she really wanted. When Irma begins to sob quietly, he reveals that he "forgot the main bit", and produces a ring box, which surprises Irma. When she opens the box, however, she discovers that it contains not the ring she wanted, but a screw-in hook for hanging the portrait. A furious Irma storms out of the flat, leaving Bean puzzled and muttering to himself "What was wrong with it?" Realizing that she cannot pull his super cracker with him, he decides to do it himself, saying "Merry Christmas" to himself crestfallen. As he does so, the act cuts to a view of his window from the street, along with a sudden white flash and a loud banging sound.
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