Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker are a pair of characters featured from the Jim Henson-produced television series The Muppet Show. Bunsen is the show's resident scientist , and the host of the Muppet Labs sketches. In season one of The Muppet Show he worked alone, but in season two, his assistant Beaker was added to the show. Bunsen is always eager to show off his latest scientific discovery, but his excitement about progress tends to render him short-sighted. Beaker usually ends up being harmed by Dr. Honeydew's inventions.
Appearances in Christmas specials
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie - At the beginning of this 2002 made-for-TV movie, in a parody of The Gift of the Magi, Beaker sells his periodic table of the elements to buy a stand for Bunsen's electron microscope, but Bunsen sold the microscope to buy rare mutagenic elements, which cause Beaker to grow a second head.
- A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
- Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular
External links
- Bunsen and Beaker's bios on Disney.com
- Muppet Wiki: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker
- Disney Wiki: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker
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