I was talking about Beaker today with some friends. No not laboratory glassware, but Beaker, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew’s assistant. If you’re still not sure who I am referring to, you’re either much younger than I am, or just plain clueless about Muppets trivia.

Either way, let me school you a bit about Beaker, one of the quietest characters that was a favorite with Muppet Show fans. He was perpetually worried looking, and rightfully so since he was subjected to some crazy experiments by Dr. Honeydew. Beaker’s high pitched voice squeaking, “Mee-mee-mee- mee,” was a hit with audiences. He did have a musical performance with a couple of my favorites The Swedish Chef, and Animal. There would be no Tommy Lee if there had been no Animal. Beaker’s solo performance of the song “Feelings” can be seen here via Youtube:

In 2008 he was involved in the controversial online meme known as “Rickrolling”. This is much too techy for me to explain but if you’re interested you can check out our good friend Wikipedia to find out more.

The Muppet Show has an official website but you have to travel through the big Disney internet portal to see it. Just like most great ideas, Disney bought The Muppets in 2004. The site is interactive with videos, music, and games, and even some retro clips from their DVD season releases. If you go to the music section you can see the Weezer video starring the Muppets called “Keep Fishin”. Not my favorite Weezer song, that would of course be the song Suzanne, but its fun watching Miss Piggy and friends on stage with them. I could devote a whole website to the Muppets but that’s been done already. I like this one called Muppet Wiki. If you have any exciting, interesting or underground knowledge of the Muppets you can even submit it to them to keep the wiki going. What a great word that is… wiki. Which leads me to this 80’s rap tune Jam On It by Newcleus… all you wannabe break dancers out there remember this one, if not just listen for the wiki wiki wiki wiki…. shut up!