Beakman's World: Difference between revisions

* [[Becoming the Costume]]: In a way; Lester apparently has an empathic connection with his rat suit...causing him to cry when Beakman stands on the suit's tail, and causing him to burst into giggle fits when someone tickles his rat feet...when he's not even wearing them.

* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: [[Punny Name|Art Burn]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Poor Lester just cannot catch a break...

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: All the girls could sing, so the show gave 'em a chance. Senta Moses could break boards, so the show gave her a chance to do that, too.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Herb: "Turn Beakman on." Don [sensually]: "I love you, Beakman." Lester the Rat was shown on the phone to an unidentified female telling her that "I can keep the nose on if that's what you like..."

** While pretending to be a Dingo in a segment about dogs, Lester pulls off a pun that can be considered literally getting crap past the radar:

** In one scene, Lester is reading [[Playboy|A Ratboy magazine]], which he scrambles to hide when Beakman and Liza come into the scene.

** Roy G Biv is quite obviously [[The Stoner]]. Pointed out in his second appearance, when he admits that his memories of his last visit were pretty hazy, and Beakman notes afterward that they were lucky he even found his way to the lab.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: [[Once an Episode]] by the time Phoebe came around, though the early episodes were no slouch when it came to wordplay either.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: On the question "How can birds talk?" (and remember that Don and Herb are penguins):

'''Herb:''' Of all the ideas. }}

* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Paul Zaloom's ''other'' main job is as a political puppeteer...and those shows are very much not safe for kids...

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Lester's theme" plays anytime the rat appears and says something off the wall...which is about every 30 seconds or so.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Art Burn.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Played a little differently with each character. Lester wore the same rat suit every episode, the girls had a rather colorful wardrobe, and Beakman had a fairly extensive wardrobe of ugly shirts, covered up by his trademark green labcoat.

* [[Logo Joke]]: This show had a rocket flying around the Columbia logo, which had just recently changed when the show debuted.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Normal for a mail-in-your-questions show, but they still play with it occasionally. In one episode, Lester provides an intelligent and concise explaination of the science behind a Beakman Challenge. When Beakman asks Lester how he knew that, Lester says that he read Beakman's cue cards. And then, of course, Beakman regularly converses with Ray the Cameraman.

** When discussing electrical plugs:

* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: Lester does many of these...several of them ''to himself''.

* [[Parental Bonus]] / [[Noodle Implements]] (One experiment requires "A bowling ball, a chainsaw, a Macintosh apple, a picture of Raymond Burr in short pants sitting on vinyl furniture..." sadly, this is interrupted before we find out what it entails.)