Q voted UK`s fourth favourite on-screen boffin

06-Sep-2004 • Bond News

"Without Q-Branch you'd have been dead long ago" - Q to James Bond in "Licence To Kill" (1989)

James Bond relies on Q and the Q-Branch boffins to create many life saving and destructive gadgets, and now the on-screen scientist (some would argue, engineer) has been voted as the UK's 4th favourite in cinema and television history.

Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his trusty assistant, Beaker from The Muppets, 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.

UK's TOP CULT TV BOFFINS
1. Honeydew and Beaker (The Muppets) - 33%
2. Mr Spock (Star Trek) - 15%
3. The Doctor (Dr Who) - 13%
4. Q (James Bond) - 9%
5. Dr Emmett Brown (Back To The Future) - 8%
6. Dana Scully (The X Files) - 8%
7. Dr Strangelove - 5%
8. Frank 'N' Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) - 4%
9. Dr Evil (Austin Powers) -4%
10. Dr Frankenstein - 1%

Thanks to `007` for the alert.