3/22/2023 0 Comments Beaker the muppetMost of Bunsen’s nicknames for Beaker are fairly obvious, like “Beakie.” However, he has referred to Beaker not once, but twice, as “Beakie-Poo,” which tilts a little further in the “behind-the-scenes dating” direction. Sure, we all have nicknames for our friends and co-workers. ![]() ( The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight: Various) (That’s why this is #7.) But it sure makes this whole relationship more plausible than I initially thought. Bunsen instantly tells Beaker that he looks “very cute.” Conclusive? Absolutely not. Our favorite guinea pig arrives to work dressed as a tourist with a tiny sunhat. However, unlike many of Bunsen’s inventions, Beaker is thrilled to test this one. When Bunsen invents a luggage compressor, it really only takes one guess to figure out who or what is going to wind up getting crushed by the end of the bit. We good? Now, without further ado: the seven moments that most convinced me that Bunsen and Beaker have…er-hem…an oddly sexual relationship. Though I am a Muppet expert, not a relationship expert, I do feel qualified enough to alert you that if electrocution, explosives, and immolation are major parts of your relationship, you and your boyfriend should at least have a talk. Bunsen would surely admire (but be unable to replicate) the level of scientific professionalism with which I explored this topic, and now we can all rest assured that what follows will be the single most thorough look at Bunsen and Beaker’s relationship on the entire Internet.īut before we proceed, I need to give a disclaimer: neither I, nor any of the ToughPigs staff, are advocating the sort of relationship that heavily involves lighting your boyfriend on fire. You see, in an effort to test Joe’s hypothesis, I sat down and watched every B & B moment from The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, a handful of web videos and Odyssey Channel bumpers, most of the Muppet movies, and my least favorite Muppet Christmas specials and took pages and pages of notes. ![]() But let’s focus on that first one, shall we? Firstly, everything makes sense now and secondly, Toughpigs is a much weirder website than I had ever thought. He listed some articles he’d like to see written for this fine website, beginning with the no-doubt life-altering phrase “Bunsen and Beaker’s oddly sexual relationship.” That all changed one fateful day when I got an email from ToughPigs’s own Joe Hennes. So why would he stay? That’s a question that certainly seemed like it needed to be answered, but after a couple of minutes thinking about it, I got distracted by a bunch of Youtube clips of Pepe the King Prawn or something and forgot all about it. But of course, he didn’t, and, by now it’s likely that Beaker has tested (and been hurt by) upwards of fifty different inventions. I mean, you’d think that after just one season of being electrocuted, crushed, and thrown to wild mountain gorillas, Beaker would’ve quit Muppet Labs and become a full-time barbershop quartet soprano. ![]() But take a look deeper, and it’s clear that our favorite inventors are hiding some deep dark mysteries. Bunsen invents something, tests it on Beaker, Beaker explodes, Bunsen is oblivious, rinse, repeat. Even the most casual of Muppet fans know and love Bunsen and Beaker, and any Muppet fan can clearly describe their simple dynamic.
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