Beaker had to put up with a lot of laboratory mishaps during his time on The Muppet Show, so it's nice he's been enshrined on Mars, far away from any experiments that could go awry.

Beaker could use a win. Since his debut on The Muppet Show, the “meeping” assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew has been the perpetual victim of every science experiment gone awry at Muppet Labs.

As a lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew of Muppet Labs, Beaker has been blinded, bludgeoned, electro-shocked, force-fed "edible" paperclips and unethically cloned, to name a few workplace incidents.

As a lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew of Muppet Labs, Beaker has been blinded, bludgeoned, electro-shocked, force-fed "edible" paperclips and unethically cloned, to name a few workplace incidents.

A new NASA photo of Mars shows a spot on the plant’s surface that looks to some people like Beaker, the scientist Muppet. It’s an “overdue honor for Earth’s most-abused Muppet,” says ...

By comparison, the recent photo that looks like Beaker, the Muppet, was much easier to make. Reach the reporter at 602-444-8072 or [email protected].