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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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Henson Studios denies rumors about a new Muppet Show

Posted Jul 24th 2007 7:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Industry

muppets There have been a lot of Muppet projects in and out of development over the last couple years or so. Some came to fruition, some never quite made it, and others still remain in limbo.

There has been talk for awhile now about the possibility of a brand new, primetime Muppet series, a rumor TV Guide recently perpetuated, although Jim Henson Studios denies such a project exists. Citing an inside source, TV Guide writes that the new series would use modern technology to allow the Muppets to actually get up and walk around.

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Buy Wilkins Coffee or we'll shoot this Muppet