Blog Post 7

In the video I chose we stars a very popular character from The Muppet Show, Beaker other wise known as professor Honeydew’s assistant. The screen is split into six sections and we see Beaker in each square singing a different part of “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s 9th symphony. The video starts with one Beaker starting off the metronome and singing the first part. Then later he is joined by three other singing Beakers, a Beaker playing the timpani and finally a violinist Beaker. After one full run of the song the Beaker in the top center square hits a high note causing his glass to shatter. That intern causes the bottom center Beaker to jump and bump the metronome speeding up the song.

Once the song is sped up this causes many of the Beakers to go into a speedy frenzy of comical chaos. The top left Beaker is being shaking by the bottom left Beakers timpani as the bottom right Beaker begins to fiddle so fast that his violin catches fire and the smoke from said fire begins to alarm the beaker directly above him. At that point the top center Beaker who was still freaked out by the shattering glass runs into the top left Beakers square and out of frame, the other Beaker soon follows suit, then their screen goes dark. Finally the Beaker in the bottom right screen catches fire and he to runs out of screen hitting something causing a lamp to fly in screen hitting the center bottom beaker knocking him out. As all of that happened the bottom left beaker throws a timpani stick and runs out of screen. Then sitting in total darkness the lone remaining Beaker tries to turn the power back on only to electrocute himself in the process.