Dotting the surface of the Red Planet's southern pole is, apparently, a geological formation that looks just like the balloon-eyed, scarlet-maned science Muppet, Beaker. Astronomers at the ...

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.

Muppet Labs, along with the Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker characters, will be in the mix for this year’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, which begins at Walt Disney World on July 27.