PERFORMER | Frank Welker 1984-1990 |
Matt Danner 2018 | |
DEBUT | 1984 |
Baby Beaker appeared in several episodes of Muppet Babies as a baby version of Beaker. Like his adult counterpart feels about Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's inventions, Baby Beaker dislikes testing Baby Bunsen's inventions because they usually end up hurting him.
One of the few episodes to focus on Beaker is "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Dark?", in which Beaker, after watching a scary movie, is afraid of the dark, and the other babies try to get him out of his fear.
Another notable moment for Beaker is in "Musical Muppets," in which Beaker plays in a one-man band and then meeps to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," with the help of a bouncing ball.
In "Good Clean Fun," it is revealed that Beaker has a peanut for a brain when Baby Bunsen looks into his head with a microscope.
Muppet Babies reboot[]
For the 2018 reboot series Muppet Babies, Baby Beaker has been redesigned. The CGI-nature of the show allows for a more puppet-like look by texturing the characters' skin by imitating their respective fabric structures. While on the original show, the character's hair was more casually wild and sometimes sprouted a single, zigzagged hair on top, the reboot version's redesign provides him with the upstanding hairdo that is reminiscent of his adult-self.
His original turquoise nightgown and purple slippers are replaced by a light green lab coat, tie and sneakers. While his mouth is more flexible, allowing for a regular smile, rather than a perpetual frown, this iteration's change does not alter his traditionally meeping vocabulary.
Beaker now assists Bunsen at the show's version of Muppet Labs, often imagined in the Playroom's kitchen play set.
Filmography[]
- Jim Henson's Muppet Babies (1984)
- Episode 103: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Dark?
- Episode 105: Scooter's Hidden Talent
(appeared near the end) - Episode 106: The Case of the Missing Chicken
(fantasy sequence only) - Episode 107: Eight Take-Away One Equals Panic
(appeared very briefly on a plane in a Go Bye-Bye segment) - Episode 109: Close Encounters of the Frog Kind
(fantasy sequence only) - Episode 113: Good Clean Fun
- Episode 201: Once Upon an Egg Timer
- Episode 206: Snow White and the Seven Muppets
- Episode 207: I Want My Muppet T.V.
- Episode 208: Musical Muppets
- Episode 211: The Muppet Museum of Art
(non-speaking appearance in fantasy sequence) - Episode 212: By the Book
(fantasy sequence only) - Episode 301: Pigerella
(fantasy sequence only) - Episode 305: The Muppet Broadcasting Company
- Episode 308: The Daily Muppet
(appears in a picture on the back of Gonzo's newspaper in a Go Bye-Bye segment) - Episode 309: Scooter's Uncommon Cold
(appears in one of Gonzo's photos) - Episode 401: Muppetland
(appears very briefly in music sequence) - Episode 404: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before
- Episode 414: Old MacKermit Had a Farm
- Episode 507: Scooter By Any Other Name
(cameo in music sequence) - Episode 804: Remote Control Cornballs
- Disney Muppet Babies (2018)
- Episode 104: Piggy's Time Machine
(appears as an icon on the scribble screen) - Episode 105: One Small Problem
- Episode 107: Summer Penguin P.I. (silent fantasy sequence cameo)
- Episode 113: Bunsen Knows All
- Episode 117: Summer's Super Fabulous Holiday Surprise (fantasy sequence as a graffiti)
- Episode 118: Planet Gonzo
- Episode 119: Counting Kermits
- Episode 120: Puppy for a Day
- Episode 120: No Laughing Matter
- Episode 202: Starship Piggy (fantasy sequence cameo)
- Episode 206: Mystery on the Muppet Express
(silent cameo) - Episode 207: The Karate Cub (silent cameo)
- Episode 207: Don't Over Duet
- Episode 209: Beaker 2.0
- Episode 212: Meatball Mayhem
- Episode 212: Bunsen Honeydew, Show Stopper
- Episode 213: Best Friends Fixer Uppers
- Episode 213: Gonzo's Coop Dreams
- Episode 216: Gonzonocchio
- Episode 217: Summer's Big Kerfloofle
- Episode 219: Secret Agent Double-Oh-Frog
- Episode 220: Friend-a-versary
- Episode 304: Rowlf Gets the Blues
- Episode 305: The Copy Cub
- Episode 306: Gonzo's Bubble Trouble
- Episode 311: The Invisible Frog
- Episode 312: Best Pals Pizza Delivery (brief cameo)
- Episode 314: It's Not Easy Being Greeny
- Episode 319: Summer's Car Trouble
- Episode 330: The Muppet Babies Show
- Episode 104: Piggy's Time Machine
- Disney Junior Music
- Ready for Preschool: "The Vowels"