Muppets Named Top Scientists

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 6, 2004 @06:09AM from the meep-meep-meep-meep-meep-meep-meep dept.

praedictus writes "Apparently Bunsen and Beaker of Muppet fame have been nominated favorite TV scientist in a poll conducted by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). and the BBC, soundly beating other contenders such as Mr. Spock, and Agent Scully."

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Re:Two Things by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-06 06:12 · Score: 1, Funny

2. That would be only logical.
Bunsen's Friends Supportive by DrunkenTerror · 2004-09-06 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny

The Swedish Chef had these words of congratulation:

"He-a's a greet mun, a guud freeend. Thees echeeefement feenelly recugneezes zee cuntreebooshuns he-a hes mede-a tu zee sceeence-a und zee betterment ooff hoomuneety. I shell beke-a a ceke-a in hees hunur! Bork Bork Bork!"
Good News Everyone! by Kohath · 2004-09-06 06:19 · Score: 3, Funny

It has to be Professor Farnsworth
Re:Two Things by DarkHelmet · 2004-09-06 06:20 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm guessing Spock would win due to the nerd contingent.
In a forum of virgin nerds, you have to give the nod to Scully.

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Where's Frink? by BiggerBoat · 2004-09-06 06:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Come on! Where's Frink from the Simpsons? Nerdy scientist with Jerry Lewis gyrations... he gets my vote. Maybe the French would have rated him higher too.
1. Re:Where's Frink? by hoto0301 · 2004-09-06 06:35 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Um hoIVEn flOiVeN!! Professor Frink, professor Frink - he'll make you laugh, he'll make you think. He definitely is the best scientist of our generation...real or fiction...hands-down. QED
Missing Poll Option... by sigma · 2004-09-06 06:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Batman!
Marge : There's a man here who says he can help you.
Homer : Is it Batman?
Marge : He's a scientist.
Homer : Batman's a scientist.
Marge : It's not Batman!
Beaker Miffed by DrunkenTerror · 2004-09-06 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

His exact words for YOU, Mr. Anoymous Coward: "Meep mee, me meep meep meemeemee meep!" Dag, yo. You got served! You better apologize.
beaker's comments by admiralfrijole · 2004-09-06 06:22 · Score: 4, Funny

omitted from the original article was beaker's comments upon hearing he was sharing the top prize:
Mee mee meeeee me meeeeee mee meee meeeee. Meeee me meeee mee meeeee me.

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Racist title by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-06 06:25 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't believe slashdot would run a story with that title. "Bunsen, Beaker Named Top Scientists" would have been much more dignified. You would never see "Whites Named Top Scientists" or "Hispanic, Woman Named Top Scientists" would you? Please, Bunsen & Beaker are scientists first, muppets second.
1. Re:Racist title by mccalli · 2004-09-06 09:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Bunsen & Beaker are scientists first, muppets second.
  Reminds me of a scene from Veterinarian's Surgery, featuring Ralph as Doctor Bob and Miss Piggy as, err, Nurse Piggy.
  Doctor Bob: Nurse Piggy, you cannot let your feelings interfere with your duty. You are a nurse.
  Nurse Piggy: I may be a nurse, but I'm a woman first!
  Doctor Bob: Wrong. You're a pig first. Nurse second. I don't think woman made the top ten...
  Cheers,
  Ian
The converse poll... by the_twisted_pair · 2004-09-06 06:33 · Score: 4, Funny

...could be good fun too: Top scientist named a Muppet poll anyone?
Hmm, think I'll vote for Pons and Fleischmann.....
outraged by contagious_d · 2004-09-06 06:34 · Score: 3, Funny

What is going on in the UK? I thought they were our allies. I mean, before I saw this article, I was a huge fan of Honeydew and Beaker. But after seeing this picture, it is obvious that Dr. Honeydew is a terrorist, and, furthermore, is violating Beaker's civil rights with the electrical cord from a washing machine. This kind of thing cannot be tolerated. What would Mr. Wizard say? And why is Kermit supporting this? If things keep going this way, I know that it is clear to us all that we will have to liberate the citizens of the United Kingdom from the terrorists and cults that are being imposed on them by their evil dictators.

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Re:What about the Professor???? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-06 06:36 · Score: 1, Funny

yea but scully had better coconuts!
Beaker in Las Vegas by Jack+Action · 2004-09-06 06:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Beaker "sings" Feelings.
Truly one of the funniest things you will ever see.
Re:Two Things by aiabx · 2004-09-06 06:43 · Score: 2, Funny

I'd still vote for Beaker and Bunsen. It's refreshing to see a realistic portrayel of the respect scientists have for their assistants. Besides, they aren't cops or adventurers or political advisors or crap like that. They'e scientists! They sit around in a lab and mess around with stuff. If we got to see Bunsen grubbing for grants, it would be perfect.
-aiabx

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Re:Missing options... by BRSloth · 2004-09-06 06:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Also...

What about MacGyver? He didn't stay all day on a lab or something like that, but he surely knew a lot about physics and chemistry.

And what about the Professor, from PowerPuff Girls? Oh, I mean, I never saw it... I mean... Damn!
Re:What about by the+HIM · 2004-09-06 06:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Beakman!! Nothing says quality scientist like a giant rat and a drug addict female cohost! It brought me through the hard early years of science, to be sure. "Ok, kids...for today's experiment, you'll need a spoon, a lighter...."
Wile E. Coyote by wideBlueSkies · 2004-09-06 06:57 · Score: 4, Funny

How about: Wile E. Coyote Super Genius ?

wbs.

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I know why Dr.Strangelove lost... by thrill12 · 2004-09-06 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

...a few years ago, I was visiting a local videostore, suddenly feeling the need to see Peter Sellers again in his wonderful appearance of the mad german scientist.
I asked the clerk if he could provide me with the movie "Dr.Strangelove".
Immediately, the man points to the back of the store : the x-rated section...

I guess most people seeing the vote were disgusted when they saw this name in the contest :)

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Mr. Lizard! by zogger · 2004-09-06 07:22 · Score: 5, Funny

That muppet like show "Dinosaurs" was hilarious, they had a Mr. Wizard clone called "Mr. Lizard" IIRC. He was always wasting his kid assistants with bad science going even worse--> BOOM! "Oh well, guess we need ~another~ Billy!"
Re:Two Things by JabberWokky · 2004-09-06 08:03 · Score: 2, Funny

My SO (a grad student) and I were watching a show about Stonehenge. They had two professors, each surrounded by a flock of grad students, trying out their pet theories on how the huge stones were dragged across the land from the quarry to the eventual site.
The first one was highlighted, and went on and on about how he was going to use ropes, wind them around the stone and unwind it. They went into pretty good detail, interviewing the professor and students.
The view switched to the other team, all staring at a giant rock, and the narrarator chimed in with "Professor Soandso's method, on the other hand, involves..." and I cut in with "...rolling the huge stone over the screaming bodies of grad students".
Which pretty much sums up how science works these days.
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Re:Missing options... by Scrameustache · 2004-09-06 08:06 · Score: 2, Funny

What about Samantha Carter from Stargate?

Its fave scientist, not hottest scientist.
Beaker n a bikini though...that's notion.

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Re:Missing options... by satherto · 2004-09-06 08:17 · Score: 2, Funny

I would vote for the Professor from Gilligans Island. I always found it amazing the number of things he could make from Coconuts. :)

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Re:Two Things by Scrameustache · 2004-09-06 08:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Ahhh... Peter Venkman. Yes.

Now you got me wishing for the ultimate 80's sci-fi team up: Venkman, doc Brown and Buckarro Banzai fighting pan-dimensional time-travelling ghosts!
: )

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if only... by neuraloverload · 2004-09-06 08:42 · Score: 2, Funny

we could somehow get these guys into farscape.....
Sample Farnsworth Quotes by Amorpheus_MMS · 2004-09-06 09:24 · Score: 5, Funny

"Buddha! Zeus! God! one of you guys do something! . . . Help! Satan! You owe me!!!"

"I still don't understand why you wouldn't let me craft a laser cannon onto your chest, to crush those who disobey you..."

"Sure, everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but put it in the body of a great white shark... oooooh, suddenly you've gone too far!"
1. Re:Sample Farnsworth Quotes by RsG · 2004-09-06 10:57 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Speaker: "And the winner is ... Number 3, in a quantum finish."
  Farnsworth: "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
  
  Farnsworth: "I'm even dating a young Brazilian retired actress!"
  Crew: *whoohoo sounds*
  Farnsworth: "Some say I'm robbing the cradle, but I say she's robbing the grave!"
  
  Farnsworth: "Fry, that monkey is my most important experiment. If you two don't stop fighting I'll have you both neutered."
  Fry: "Hehe, that'll show him."
  Farnsworth: "Oh, I always feared he might run off like this. Why, why, why didn't I break his legs??"
  Leela: "So he just ran away in the middle of the exam?"
  Farnsworth: "I'm afraid so. All he handed in was a paper smeared with feces. He tied with Fry."
  
  (stolen from gotfuturama.com)
  
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Bunch of bloody Muppets by hedley · 2004-09-06 09:26 · Score: 2, Funny

As we used to say in Old Europe.
Re:What about scully by jd_esguerra · 2004-09-06 09:53 · Score: 2, Funny

I cant believe scully didn't get it. She was always doing autopsies, and she was hot. In the early episode, you even go booby shots. That beets a muppet any day.
"Beating the muppet" to booby shots aye? It THAT what they're calling it now? OK then...
Re:X-Files by mabinogi · 2004-09-06 10:59 · Score: 2, Funny

It died...that's what happened to it.

And then they fucked the corpse.

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What ever happened to Bunsen by gijoel · 2004-09-06 11:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Apparently things got really tough after the show was axed. Desperate to pay off the civil suit brought against him by Beaker, he went to Iraq and worked on Saddam's REALLY Big Rubber Hammer project. He was later killed in Belgium in what was believed to be a Mossad hit.
Addendum to the Ultimate 80's Sci-Fi Team Up by Scrameustache · 2004-09-07 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Correction: I want Dr. Egon Spengler, not Venkman.
I got the names confused. Venkman was just the front man, with no real scientific passion. Egon is the man. He designed all the gear, he develloped all the theories, he made the speech about the twinky.

Venkman is Egon's Marty McFly, he's lovable, but replacable ;-)

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