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Muppets' screen chemistry
By David Derbyshire
(Filed: 06/09/2004)

A poll of almost 43,000 people has shown Britain's most popular screen scientists to be a pair of Muppets - Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his hapless assistant Beaker.

Accident prone: Beaker and Dr Bunsen Honeydew
In the vote, conducted by the association with BBC Online, the cloth duo - who spent most of the Seventies embarked in a series of self-destructive experiments - saw off stiff competition from other screen scientists including Star Trek's Mr Spock, Doctor Who and Dr Frankenstein. Dame Julia Higgin, the association's president, said: "I'm not sure that Dr Honeydew is quite the role model we would be looking at for a responsible scientist.
"His treatment of his faithful assistant Beaker is rather alarming, though admittedly rather amusing."
A statement released by Disney, and attributed to Kermit the Frog, said: "They have spread the message that science is not just for short round headed bald guys and their orange haired goggle eyed side kicks.
"It's also for people like you and frogs like me."