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Buy Wilkins Coffee or we'll shoot this Muppet

Posted Jun 19th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Commercials, Reality-Free

Jim Henson's Muppets doing a commercial for Wilkins Coffee

Everybody in television has to start at the bottom, even the Muppets.

Jim Henson's Muppets got their big break in the 1950s as two spokesmuppets for the Wilkins Coffee Company in a series of eight-second commercials featuring the most ballsy commercial concept of all time: buy Wilkins Coffee or we will shoot you in the face.

I'd like to see Billy Mays take on that concept.

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