![]() ![]() Beaker won the Webby Award and accepted the award at the June 8th ceremony. The video was nominated in the Music category of the 2009 Webby Awards, as well as the 'People's Voice' award. In July 2008, Beaker starred in the popular, award-winning viral video "Ode to Joy." Beaker performed the song in a split-screen number: playing violin, timpani, metronome, and vocals (replacing the lyrics with extended "Meemeee"-ing). Spock, their closest rival, by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of the 43,000 votes cast. Bunsen Honeydew were voted Britain's favorite cinematic scientists. In a 2004 Internet poll sponsored by the BBC and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Beaker and Dr. Beaker survived.īeaker does a mean Little Richard impression and knows how to beatbox, as seen in Muppets Tonight. ![]() During the film's climax, Constantine tries to blow up the Muppets, but Beaker is able to plant the bomb in the Thames River, saving everyone. Honeydew creates the Bomb-attracting vest. Some of Beaker's more memorable roles in the specials have been in The Muppets Go to the Movies, in which Beaker plays the role of "The Angel of Death" in a foreign film and in The Muppets at Walt Disney World, where he gets a bucket stuck on his head throughout the special. On a few occasions, such as in The Great Muppet Caper and The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show, Beaker has been electrocuted, causing his eyes to light up. On The Muppet Show, Beaker has sung "Feelings" and, accompanied by The Swedish Chef and Animal, "Danny Boy." He has been shrunk, cloned, punched, deflated, zapped, turned invisible and blown up, but he always comes back for more. Honeydew's experiments and inventions always seem to go awry and Beaker is their perpetual victim. The timid assistant added a new level of comedy to the sketches. Honeydew appeared in the Muppet Labs segments by himself, thus being the victim of his own inventions. then later performed by Steve Whitmire until 2016, and he's now performed by David Rudman in 2017. He was originally performed by Richard Hunt until his death in 1992. In another one of his movie roles, Beaker appeared in The Great Muppet Caper to help foil the villainous robber Nicky Holiday despite another of his accidents while trying to pry open the window. Toward the end of The Muppet Movie, Beaker and his famed doctor are first chronologically introduced to Kermit when they are about to demonstrate the insta-grow pills. He only speaks in high-pitched "mee-mee-mee" noises. Kermit the Frog describes Beaker by saying, "If somebody has to get hurt, it's almost always Beaker." Whenever Bunsen's experiments start to go bad, Beaker has been the recurring victim, mostly blown up and deflated. He was introduced in the Muppet Labs sketches during the second season of The Muppet Show. Unnamed girlfriend Source Beaker is a humanoid Muppet who serves as the shy, hapless assistant to Dr. ![]()
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