Mr Bean is the title character of the British comedy series created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, first broadcast in 1990. Atkinson plays Bean as a childlike, mostly silent man who solves everyday problems in absurd ways, communicating more through grunts, mumbles and single words than dialogue. Because that hello captures his voice so neatly, the clip has been lifted for soundboards, edits and reaction posts online, where it works as a recognisable greeting from a character almost everyone knows by sight even if they never watched a full episode.