Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses legend Roger Lloyd-Pack looks worlds apart from Trigger in Mr. Bean cameo

During the early 1990s, Mr. Bean burst onto our television screens, and followed one man and his inability to complete simple tasks.

The childlike character is famed for wearing his trademark tweed jacket and skinny red tie and finds ingenious ways around life’s everyday problems and chores.

Mr. Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson, lives alone in Highbury and uses very little speech throughout the sitcom and instead, his hilarity comes from his mannerisms and foolish actions.

The episode The Return of Mr. Bean aired on ITV back in November 1990 and follows Bean as he visits a department store, eats at a restaurant, and has an encounter with royalty.

Whilst he sits down to eat his fancy meal, Bean mistakenly orders Steak Tartare and tries to hide his unwanted, and awful tasting, raw dish.

This is when Only Fools and Horses star Roger Lloyd-Pack appears on-screen as a waiter for the first time.

The Trigger actor looks very posh as he wears a smart white jacket, shirt, black bow-tie and sports long hair sleeked back into a ponytail, teamed with very large sideburns.

Rowan Atkinson as Mr.Bean as Roger Lloyd-Pack as a waiter in The Return of Mr. Bean (Image: ITV)

In a strange accent, the waiter approaches Mr. Bean’s table and asks: “You like to try the house wine, sir?”

Later in the scene, the sophisticated waiter trips over Bean’s table and shouts: “Oh excuse me, sir, I do apologise,” as plates of food go everywhere.

Lloyd-Pack plays a more serious character than we ever saw him in Only Fools and Horses however, his earnest cameo is the perfect anecdote to Bean’s odd and immature behaviour.

When in Peckham, Trigger is seen as the more ‘simple’ member of Del Boy’s groups of pals.

The whole Mr. Bean series consisted of only 15 episodes and launched on TV in January 1990, ending with “The Best Bits of Mr. Bean” on 15 December 1995.

*Mr. Bean and Only Fools and Horses are available to stream now on Britbox.

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