Non-verbal communication consists of subtle gestures that often, the transmitter isn’t even aware of. The Rowan Atkinson comedy series “Mr. Bean” consists mainly of non-verbal humour.
In one scene, Mr. Bean has a silent competition of male dominance at an exam. The man with which he shares a table draws out a pen and sets is above his paper. Rowan’s character does the same. The other man draws out another writing utensil and Mr. Bean proceeds to reveal oodles and OODLES of pens, pencils and markers from his jacket, pocket, and briefcase as well as a miniature lorry, an alarm clock, and a toy pink panther, thusly showing his male superiority.
During the exam, he falsefies many gestures in attempts to disguise his attempts to cheat off of his neighbor’s paper.
In another sketch, Mr. Bean goes to the beach and after looking very, excitedly around with his rather girly swim trunks, he notices a man lounging nearby. He starts in suprise and to cover up his embarassment, mimes blowing his nose with his swim trunks, as if they were a handkerchief. Meanwhile, the man stares stoicly at the ocean, very obviously disgruntled by Atkinson’s presence and sits cross-armed with a slight frown on his face. The irony of the skit is this man is blind. 
In a skit where Mr. Bean goes to church, he very obviously communicates boredom by staring slack-jawed and glazed eyed at the celing. As Mr. Bean falls asleep, the man beside him leans away in discomfort and disgust as he leans on his shoulder and into his lap until falling awkwardly onto the floor. In this position, the man is fasinated by his progression and is startled when Mr. Bean wakes suddenly with a cry and gallops awkwardly back to his seat.
Next in this skit, the man to is right refuses to share his hymnal. Mr. Bean mumbles the bits of song he doesn’t know, but belts obnoxiously loud the Allelujiah’s at the top of his lungs.
In another scene, Mr. Bean walks by a street musician appreciatedly digs in his pocket to throw some change in his case but can only find pound notes. Well, that seems a bit much to spend on a starving musician, at tries to make change in case but gives up, unhappily. Finally, he lays down a handkerchief and a few pelvic thrusts later, an old lady throws a bit of change at him, which he deposits in the musician’s case and walks away.
(NOTE: Why is there a mirror in the towel department of this store?)
Mr. Bean is a lovely awkward character that carries potatoes in his pocket.
…and a whole trout.
Disgruntly, Mr. Bean goes through the phone department, picking up the phones and throwing them back down when he hears no dial tone until he picks up the secretary’s phone and, satisfied, throws it in his shopping cart.
Brilliant.
Poor Mr. Bean, wrote himself a birthday card and opened it excitedly, geturing to the people around him how incredibly sweet the “sender” was to have thought of him.
