Bean Bunny

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Bean Bunny is a fictional character, one of the Muppets. He is performed by Steve Whitmire (with a voice similar to Rizzo the Rat). Among Muppet fans, Bean is very unpopular and not viewed in the same light as the older, 'original' Muppets.^{[citation needed]} Even the Jim Henson Company staff doesn't really like him much, as Brian Henson stated on The Muppet Christmas Carol DVD: "Inside the Muppet Company, we love to hate Bean Bunny."^{[citation needed]}

In Muppet Babies, he was voiced by Dave Coulier, who took over all of Howie Mandel's roles (except for Skeeter, for whom Frank Welker provided the voice for 1985-1990).

Bean Bunny first appeared as the central character of the 1986 television special The Tale Of The Bunny Picnic. This special featured all new Muppet characters, without any of the usual Muppet Show cast.

He joined the Muppet Show family in the series The Jim Henson Hour, in which it was a running joke that, when he was outside his native heartwarming-TV-special context, people found him insufferably cute. In The Muppet Christmas Carol, he was the young boy to whom the reformed Scrooge entrusts the task of purchasing the giant turkey for the Crachits.

In Muppets From Space, he makes a small appearance. He's opening a door when Ms. Piggy swings it open. The result is a slightly squashed Bean.

He has also appeared in several later Muppet specials, all subsequent Muppet movies, a season of the TV cartoon series Muppet Babies, and the Disney theme park attraction Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3D, in which at one point he escapes the film and appears inside the theater.