


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. at Honeywell") well-known at the time of The Muppet Show. 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. īunsen's first name is derived from Robert Bunsen, after whom the Bunsen Burner was named. Bunsen'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. He is a bald, yellow-green 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 sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show, created and performed by Dave Goelz.
