Bunsen is a is a character from the 1993 Disney educational animation short Recycle Rex.
Background[]
Personality[]
Bunsen is shown to be good friends with a group of dinosaur children Rex makes along the way. Everywhere Rex leads them, Bunsen and the other follow to where he goes, especially when it comes to them trying to find a solution in keeping the Earth clean. Although he does not speak, he is capable of being creative as in the case of using his innovative skills in making a wagon out of recycle objects to help Rex and his friends to help them to recycle the trash. When Rex and his friends arrived at the big city at the Dino Store and realizes the importance of recycling, this inspires Bunsen and his friends to help recycle and keep the planet clean, showing that he shows good citizenship in taking care of the planet through the recycling method.
Physical appearance[]
Bunsen is a slender pale teal sauropod (presumably a diminutive-sized Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus) who wears a pink longsleeve shirt around his body. He also wears a pink propeller cap on top of his head, although it is detached from it as in Rex's case.
Role in the short[]
Bunsen is first seen with the rest of Rex's friends with Rex himself narrates about the field they are standing on, while Turbo tells him that he would play soccer. After Ethel makes a positive comment about the field being green and perfect, Tucker tells his friends Edsel and Turbo that he would use his Book of Everything to suggest a good name for the field they are present, just as Bunsen and the others are discussing which name they would pick for the field, while Knock and Ping approach the group from behind, just before being approached by an engineer riding his Trash-o-Matic dumping garbage on the field. After the engineer leaves with all the trash scattered, Tucker looks on his book's entry of garbage to find a way how to recycle the garbage, which Bunsen reacts to what the phrase "Close the loop" means. He then sees the scattered garbage he saw earlier and decided to innovate it into a makeshift wagon. After Tucker reacts to the makeshift wagon that Bunsen built using recycled objects, Edsel also reacts to what he said, just as he asks Rex to know where he should get rid of it; Rex leads his friends to take out the trash without throwing it away so that the engineer won't have to start dumping the trash on the field, suggesting his friends to find some place a town where they can get rid of the trash.
As Rex and his friends arrive at the big city, Edsel, Tucker, and Ethel follow Turbo inside the Dino Store, much to Rex's worry of telling his team to stay focused while Bunsen also becomes worried of it. Bunsen and Rex later enter the store where Ethel is present at the shampoo aisle, where she tells the two that she shows good citizenship and finds out that the bottle she is holding is refillable. Bunsen and Rex happily react to Ethel that when she reuses the bottle of shampoo, it causes less garbage from being littered, reminding him of the field Rex and his friends hang out.
Later, as Bunsen and the rest of his friends are having a problem with the garbage they have, Rex realizes that the bottle he is holding is recyclable that they should learn how to reuse, especially with all the junk. Rex then borrows Tucker's book (unaware that he is still discussing with Turbo) and reads the definition of the word "recycle", leading Rex, Bunsen, and his friends to recycle. Bunsen then participates in the musical sequence "Close the Loop", where Rex teaches his friends the importance of recycling. He is last seen at the baseball field with the rest of Rex's friends playing baseball just before Rose encourages them the importance of recycling so that they can help clean the Earth.
Trivia[]
- Bunsen is the member of Rex's friends in the short who does not speak and therefore has no voice actor.