

The duo appear in the 2011 feature film The Muppets, where they have been apparently working at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider after The Muppet Show ended.

He had Beaker go deliver it to Santino Marella for his match against Jack Swagger. In the Halloween 2011 episode of WWE Raw, Bunsen developed a specially formulated energy drink that provides strength, agility and fresher smelling breath to those who take it. He also appeared in a small supporting role with Beaker in The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008), though in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) Bunsen and Beaker only appeared as background characters in the wedding scene.
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Bunsen's eyes have only been seen once, during a sequence in The Great Muppet Caper.įilms where he appeared in major roles include The Muppet Movie (1979), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets from Space (1999), It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) with Beaker. Occasionally, Honeydew removes his glasses to clean them, or lifts them as if to get a better look at things, which is something of a running gag. One of his most endearing features is his lack of visible eyes, despite the fact that he wears glasses. The character that owns the Muppet theatre only appeared a couple of times and I always - in looking back - wished that I had made that to look just like Lew Grade because he's very caricaturable. It would have been easy to make him much more like Lew Grade if we had tried to and, in retrospect, I wish that we had. Henson responded in a Judy Harris interview:īunsen Honeydew was not specifically Lew Grade when we did him. He was rumored to be modeled after Lew Grade, whose company ITC Entertainment produced The Muppet Show.
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Bunsen Honeydew's moniker is derived from the traditional piece of lab equipment, the Bunsen burner, plus the fact that his head was shaped and colored like a honeydew melon. In response to the ancient quest of alchemy to turn lead into gold, Honeydew created a device that turned gold into cottage cheese.ĭr. Some of the inventions that were created and tested included: edible paper clips, dish tenderizer, exploding hats, a gorilla detector, hair-growing tonic, banana sharpener, a robot politician (played by Peter Ustinov) and an electric nose warmer. Honeydew worked alone in the first season of The Muppet Show with the following seasons aided by the luckless Beaker. Honeydew's experiments usually cause great harm to his very nervous and long-suffering assistant Beaker, a nearly mute Muppet with a shock of reddish hair. at Honeywell") well-known at the time of the original Muppet Show.
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It is also a reference to Honeywell Labs, a technology company which aired TV commercials ( "That someday is today. His last name is a reference to the honeydew melon, which his head is virtually shaped like. His first name is derived from Robert Bunsen, after whom the Bunsen Burner was named. He is a bald, yellow-skinned, bespectacled, lab-coated scientist who presented periodic science segments from "Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today." The character has no eyes, only completely transparent, lensless glasses, giving the appearance of a stereotypical absent-minded intellectual. Bunsen Honeydew is a Muppet character from The Muppet Show, performed by Dave Goelz. First they invent a combination ticket/timer/inflatable pillow to replace the regular tickets, then they show Kermit the Curtain clapper (the curtain falls when it hears applause), and last but not least, the Burning Bulbs of Brilliance. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker of Muppet Labs are always coming up with ways to improve life, and tonight they want to help the Muppet Show. First they invent a combination ticket/timer/inflatable pillow to replace the regular tickets, then they show Kermit the Curtain clapper (the curtain falls when it hears applause), and last but not leas It definitely helps to have an appreciation of the Muppets before reading this book, but it can be read by those who have never heard of them. It definitely helps to have an appreciation of the Muppets before reading this book, but it can be read by those who have never heard of them.
