Mr. Humphries is never elaborated upon. Though Mr. Humphries exhibits many of the behaviors typical of a gay stereotype, his true sexual orientation is never explicitly confirmed in the series. The reticence was a necessity given prevailing attitudes at the time the series was produced: after the first five episodes of "Are You Being Served?", a senior BBC executive ordered David Croft to "Get rid of the poof" from the show – Croft declined, saying: "If the poof goes, I go." Many jokes throw Mr Humphries into heterosexual clinches. At one point he is asked to fill in for Mrs. Slocombe at
Tee Off, Mr. Bean soap using a grater was later reused in an episode of "Mr. Bean: The Animated Series" titled "Spring Clean", while the scene where Mr. Bean went inside the washing machine and is spun around is reused at the end of the episode "Goldfish". Bean drinking the detergent and getting in the drier are usually edited out of reruns on Nickelodeon (UK and Ireland), along with the scene where the car explodes due to the golf ball inside the car's exhaustion pipe. Tee Off, Mr. Bean "Tee Off, Mr. Bean" is the twelfth episode of the British television series "Mr. Bean",