Only Fools and Horses

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

The legendary actor sports a serious hair-do!

Every 90s kid will remember the excitement of watching Mr. Bean on television, back then we only had four channels to keep us entertained.

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

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

His naivety once led Bean to blow up a tin of paint to decorate the walls of his flat, rather than use the conventional method of a paintbrush, was a joy to watch!

One episode called The Return of Mr. Bean aired on ITV back in November 1990 and follows Bean as he enjoys a day out visiting a department store, eating at a restaurant, and has an encounter with royalty.

He sits down alone to enjoy his fancy meal but in true Bean fashion he messes up his lunch by mistakenly ordering Steak Tartare and has to hide his unwanted, and awful-tasting, raw meat dish.

This is when Only Fools and Horses legend 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.

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 behavior.

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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