Beaker (muppet)

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a character from the Muppet Show. The muppet was a bald, bespectacled, lab-coated scientist who would do periodic science segments from "Muppet Labs...where the future is being made today". The face of the muppet had no eyes, only glasses, and his experiments always went awry, usually causing great harm to his long-suffering assistant Beaker, a nearly mute muppet with shocked red hair.

Beaker would end up blown up, electrocuted, eaten by large monsters, or having body parts fall off. Beaker only communicated by expressions of fear, typically "meep". He rapidly became one of the audience favourites who sympathized with his humourous sufferings. Occasionally, Beaker got his own back, especially when he inadvertently made several copies of himself and spent the rest of the episode chasing Honeydew in revenge.

The two scientists were later incorporated into the Muppet Babies animated series. Dave Coulier voiced Bunsen, and Frank Welker provided Beaker's squeaky meeps.