Muppets top poll of Britain's favourite TV boffins

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Don't tell the health and safety people but Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his trusty assistant, Beaker, have topped a poll of the UK's favourite cult TV boffins.

The crazy duo whose experiments usually end up destroying their Muppet Labs facility received a third of the votes.

They easily beat Star Trek's Mr Spock and Dr Who's Time Lord in a fun survey to mark the British Association's Festival of Science in Exeter. More than 40,000 votes were cast in the poll through the bbc.co.uk/cult website.

Neither Dr Honeydew nor Beaker were immediately available for comment but their good friend Kermit the frog was quoted as saying: "They have spread the message that science is not just for short round-headed bald guys and their orange-haired goggle-eyed sidekicks. It's also for people like you and frogs like me."