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. Beaker performed the song in a split-screen number: playing violin, timpani, metronome, and vocals (replacing the lyrics with extended "Meemeee"-ing). In July of 2008, Beaker starred in the popular, award-winning viral video Ode to Joy. 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. 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.īeaker does a mean Little Richard impression and knows how to beatbox, as seen in Muppets Tonight. 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. Honeydew appeared in Muppet Labs segments by himself, but the timid assistant added a new level of comedy to the sketches.
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