Baby Bunsen

PERFORMER	Howie Mandel seasons 1-2
	Dave Coulier seasons 3-8
	Eric Bauza (2018 series)
DEBUT	1984

Baby Bunsen in a Disney Junior Music video.

Baby Bunsen appeared semi-regularly throughout the run of Muppet Babies as a baby version of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (and appeared in the opening to every episode). He was accompanied by Baby Beaker to present his latest invention to the other babies, or just to play.

On the original show, the character's head is egg-shaped and sprouts a single, curly hair on top. He exclusively wears a nightgown, red scarf, and bunny slippers. He wears large rectangular, but rounded glasses, that ever so slightly bend up or down from the bridge in order to mimic eye brow movement and indicate his emotions.

Muppet Babies reboot

For the 2018 reboot series Muppet Babies, Baby Bunsen 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. The redesign provides him with a rounder bald head, reminiscent of his adult self.

His original costume is replaced by an off-white lab coat over a dress shirt and vest, tie, and sneakers. His glasses are now fully circular. And while they are more static in the reboot, the animators regularly position his glasses' shadow line on his face to mimic closed eyes in different strategic ways to display his emotions.

Bunsen now creates and tests his inventions at the show's version of Muppet Labs, often imagined in the Playroom's kitchen play set, with Beaker assisting.

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 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 401: Muppetland
    (non-speaking cameo in music sequence)
  • Episode 404: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before
  • Episode 414: Old MacKermit Had a Farm
  • Episode 804: Remote Control Cornballs
• Disney Muppet Babies (2018)
  • Episode 105: One Small Problem
  • Episode 107: Summer Penguin P.I. (silent cameo)
  • Episode 113: Bunsen Knows All
  • 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
• Disney Junior Music
  • Ready for Preschool: "The Vowels"