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Me meee #MeeemeeeeMeeeMeemee me me’me meeee mememeemeee me meeee me mee Memeeee! [Translation: On this #SomethingElseSunday as we’re still celebrating 70 years of the Muppets!] From the Palisades Toys Muppets line, it’s Beaker!
Usually seen playing the unlucky lab assistant to Muppet scientist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker first appeared in 1977 during the second season of The Muppet Show. Beaker helped up the ante of the Muppet Labs sketches, as there was always a sense of danger and risk involved when Beaker was on screen.
Though he was named after a beaker found in a lab setting, Beaker was soon involved in sketches outside of Muppet Labs, later seen assisting Animal, Beauregard, Dr. Teeth, and even The Swedish Chef in humorous scenarios over the years. His popularity has boomed further in the age of the internet likely due to Beaker’s style of speech, AKA “Meep”. He doesn’t really speak English to viewers, and his voice just gives off a series of high-pitched “mee-mee” sounds.
For the Palisades Muppet toy line, the Beaker figure was exclusive to the Muppet Labs Playset. Besides the Beaker figure, the playset had a design that resembled the Muppet Labs as seen in the MuppetVision 3D theme park show instead of the sets from The Muppet Show, and also came with an experiment table, and a “gorilla detector,” which WAS from The Muppet Show episode 116 before Beaker joined the cast. Fortunately for Beaker fans, Palisades made more three more versions of the character in action figure form, but they were also exclusives in one way or another, available at a higher price point, and still not as good as the original version seen here.
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