Article on Favorite TV scientist

[Xevious]

Two muppets named top scientists
Sunday, September 5, 2004 Posted: 7:53 PM EDT (2353 GMT)

EXETER, England (Reuters) -- Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of "X Files" fame and Star Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists on Monday.

They beat their closest rival by a margin of 2 to 1 and won 33 percent of the 43,000 votes cast in an Internet poll.

Spock came in a distance second with 15 percent followed by The Doctor, from Dr Who, who garnered 13 percent. Scully, the only woman in the poll, came in sixth.

"They are accessible, humorous and occasionally blow each other up," said Roland Jackson, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).

The balding, white-coated Honeydew and flame-haired, bulging-eyed Beaker created an array of crazy gadgets on the popular television show.

"They're the kind of scientists you would like to be but never quite dared to," said Alan Slater, a scientist at the University of Exeter in southwestern England.

The poll, sponsored by the BA and the BBC cult television website gave the public five weeks to choose their favorite scientist from a shortlist of 10 that included Dr. Evil from the film "Austin Powers," Dr. Frankenstein, Frank N. Furter, of the "Rocky Horror Show Picture Show," Dr. Emmett Brown, of the film "Back to the Future" and Q of James Bond fame.

Results of the poll were announced at the start of the week-long BA science conference here.

[gamefreak117]

Bill Nye was cool too. :)

[Ledhed]

Bill Nye made learning fun. God bless that man.

[Moxio]

Bill Nye made learning fun. God bless that man.

Rofl. He had a catchy theme, I'll give him that.

[pimp_daddy_smurf]

yeah, i remember watching him in like 4th grade, that was the shit and it was cool

[starman9000]

I saw this article too. Long live all that is Henson!!!

[BlueWingX]

Bill Nye was awesome. It's a shame Disney is gouging schools on the DVD's. I found their educator's DVD website, and it was something like $40 a DVD, with one episode per disc, or you can get 80 episodes on DVD for $2679.00 That's so wrong.

[Ledhed]

Bill Nye was awesome. It's a shame Disney is gouging schools on the DVD's. I found their educator's DVD website, and it was something like $40 a DVD, with one episode per disc, or you can get 80 episodes on DVD for $2679.00 That's so wrong.

:shock: Shameful. Chalk up another reason as to why Disney is now a shadow of its former wondrous self.

[epobirs]

Bill Nye was awesome. It's a shame Disney is gouging schools on the DVD's. I found their educator's DVD website, and it was something like $40 a DVD, with one episode per disc, or you can get 80 episodes on DVD for $2679.00 That's so wrong.

Jeez, has Disney put CMOT Dibbler in charge of their education sales? They could put a set of these in every school in the nation if they just put it out at consumer pries which would still give them handsome margins.

[epobirs]

Besides, Beakman kicks Nye's butt.

[Ledhed]

Besides, Beakman kicks Nye's butt.

I don't think Nye has a butt to be kicked. He seems to suffer from Wall-Ass, where your ass is basically an extension of your back. There is no defined lump as you would see on a normal person. It's like his back just keeps going.

[epobirs]

Besides, Beakman kicks the region between Nye's upper thighs and lower back.

[Moxio]

Beakman, as in Beakman and Jax?

[epobirs]

Not to mention Dr. Science, the true sage of the airwaves. He has a Masters Degree in Science!

http://www.ducksbreath.com/

[Ledhed]

Anyone remember Mr. Wizard? He was entertaining. Enough.

By the way epobirs, your response almost made me spit Ocean Water all over my monitor.

[epobirs]

Anyone remember Mr. Wizard? He was entertaining. Enough.

By the way epobirs, your response almost made me spit Ocean Water all over my monitor.

Oops! We're gonna need another Timmy!

[epobirs]

Beakman, as in Beakman and Jax?

After Googling, yes, I believe so. The TV series was Beakmans\'s World. He had the advantage of a whacky sidekicks including a giant rat who was alternately actually a giant rat, a guy in a rat suit, and a guy inexplicably born with ratlike attributes. The ambiguity was one of great ongoing touches to the series.

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/4567/

And Beakman's DVD is only $10. Take that you greedy self-destrutive bastards!
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1784

[Wshakspear]

Seeing as it was British research, i agree...but add in Bill Nye, and he wins hands down.

...the best learning program of all time is Square One, though.

[extzed]

Mr. Wizard was awesome.... from way back in the days of early nick that and you can't do that on tv:)

[starman9000]

Noone else here agrees with the study? C'mon!

[JSweeney]

Seeing as it was British research, i agree...but add in Bill Nye, and he wins hands down.

...the best learning program of all time is Square One, though.

Mathman... Mathman... Mathman....

[Wshakspear]

:)

Video Games + Math = Fun

also, having the Bare Naked Ladies and Wierd Al do music clips helped.

BNL=
"There was darkness, there was light,
There was day and there was night,
There was wrong and there was right...
And then there was me.

You didn't even know me, but you treated me like dirt.
(And then there was me)
You didn't even know me, but you called me a jerk.
(And then there was me)

I'm from a planet near a star
You wouldn't know (it's very far).
The're calling me the man from Mars
And I think they're insulting me.

They tried to take my special suit.
(Insulting me)
They said my head looks like fruit (what is fruit)
(Insulting me)
Put your hands up or I'll shoot!
I don't have hands...

Across the galaxy I flew,
Heard a peaceful message sent by you.
Now I find you're judged by color and size.
I can't believe what you call my...

I'se the guy who sails the sky, but I think I'd like to live
here.
I'd like to share your mountains, share your trees, and share
your rivers.
I've never seen so many people of so many colors.
I'd like to think that someday maybe I could call you brothers.

(And then there was we)
I'd like to learn about your pizza and your weather,
(And then there was we)
Then we could learn about how beings live together.
(And then there was we)

So if you're thinking about being a spaceman,
It don't matter if you're black or white
Or purple or blue or green or red
Or yellow with polka dots on your head
Or made of snow or made of wheat
Or looking like something that's kind of a treat.

I like your hat... (fade)"

[epobirs]

Another great source for a fairly well known band doing something silly yet educational is a CD of songs from the Carmen Sandiego quiz show, including They Might Be Giants explaining the Sun.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001L7F/qid=1094439069/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-6245537-3256901

[JSweeney]

Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina,
She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize,
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry Uncle,
From the Red Sea to Greenland they'll be singing the blues,
Well they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe,
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!

Well she'll ransack Pakistan and run a scam in Scandinavia,
Then she'll stick 'em up Down Under and go pick-pocket Perth,
She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Oh tell me where in the world is... Oh tell me where can she be?

Ooh, Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam,
Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu...!

Well she glides around the globe and she'll flimflam every nation,
She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery,
Her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

I'm sorry. It had to be done :)

[Wshakspear]

i actually get sad thinking about those shows...

One two three four, Five. Six seven eight nine, ten. Eleven Twe-e-e-e-e-lve!

[Xevious]

Wow....When I created this thread, I had no idea it would spiral out of control like this.

[ykryptonite13]

Bill Nye was awesome. It's a shame Disney is gouging schools on the DVD's. I found their educator's DVD website, and it was something like $40 a DVD, with one episode per disc, or you can get 80 episodes on DVD for $2679.00 That's so wrong.

Yup... Disney's all for the kids

... and their parents' and anybody else's money they can get their grubby Mickey Mouse paws on.

Well, their mascot is almost a rat so maybe that means something.

[ykryptonite13]

Seeing as it was British research, i agree...but add in Bill Nye, and he wins hands down.

...the best learning program of all time is Square One, though.

Mathman... Mathman... Mathman....

Square One was pretty cool. Never really understood that math detective part at the end though. I think it was called Mathnet and one of the guys was called Tuesday like Dragnet's Joe Friday.

I do recall this one series of episodes where a guest star who played a girl who asked for their help in finding for a gorilla (her pet??? escaped from a zoo??? idk, PBS can be pretty weird). But yeah, I remember that girl had a very distinctive voice. Turns out I recoginzed it later when she popped on another show, Yeardley Smith as the voice of Lisa on the Simpsons.

And we got here all from a scientists popularity contest from britain thread.

[zionoverfire]

So people like muppets, that's wierd I've always been partial to lunatic destroy the world mad scientist type.

[starman9000]

Square One was pretty cool. Never really understood that math detective part at the end though. I think it was called Mathnet and one of the guys was called Tuesday like Dragnet's Joe Friday.

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I was just thinking about mathnet. I watched Grumpy Old Men last night and Im pretty sure that guy from Mathnet was the pharmacist in the movie. Weird....