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Beaker (Muppet)
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Beaker is a Muppet from The Muppet Show, played by Richard Hunt. He is the long running assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, a nearly mute Muppet with shocked red hair. In the first season of The Muppet Show, Honeydew worked alone. In the second season and beyond, he was accompanied by Beaker.
Originally, Beaker would end up blown up, electrocuted, eaten by large monsters, or missing body parts. Beaker can only communicate in a nervous, high-pitched squeak that sounds like "Mee-mee-mee mee!" (In books and merchandise, the sound is spelled "Meep".) (Although in The Muppet Movie, at the end of a scene, he appeared to say something other then "mee" or "meep", but it was incohearant.) His tone or expression helps to communicate his meaning. He rapidly became a favourite with audiences, who both sympathized with and enjoyed laughing at his humorous sufferings. Occasionally, Beaker was able to take revenge, particularly an episode in which he inadvertently made several copies of himself and spent the rest of the episode chasing Honeydew.
The two scientists were later incorporated into the Muppet Babies animated series. Howie Mandel and Dave Coulier voiced Bunsen, and Frank Welker provided Beaker's squeaky meeps. Following Richard Hunt's death in 1992, the role of Beaker was taken over by Steve Whitmire.
In a 2004 Internet poll sponsored by the BBC and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew were voted Britain's favourite cinematic scientists. They beat Mr. Spock, their closest rival, by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of the 43,000 votes cast.