Wilkins Coffee Rare Commercials

They even inspired the production of wilkins and wontkins hand puppets that were sold to consumers who mailed in one dollar along with an inch of the winding band on a wilkins coffee can.

Wilkins coffee rare commercials. It’s fun to see folks encounter old, rare muppet clips for the first time. Wilkins and wontkins were born, created expressly for the coffee commercials. Friends, just think what might happen to you if you drank the wrong coffee.

Dolls and puppets muppet collectibles. Rare 1950s wilkins coffee can advertising jim henson's wilkins & wontkin. Coffee company to produce commercials for wilkins coffee.

The ads were initially filmed at rodel studios in washington d.c. The “cannon” spot was one of his most popular and. Wilkins and wontkins are in an airplane, we see wilkins dressed in drag as a hostess and wontkins sitting in a passenger seat:

From 1957 to 1961, henson made 179 commercials for wilkins coffee and other wilkins products, including community coffee and wilkins tea. Usually in them, wilkins (the fellow on the left) would offer wontkins (the blobish thing on the right) some wilkins coffee. Now the way the commercials worked, wilkins was the stand in for wilkins coffee.

Wilkins coffee | muppet wiki | fandom. The characters, wilkins and wontkins, would engage in slapstick and often violent comedy bits that. The various wilkins and wontkins commercials were initially produced in black and white before shifting to colour in 1966.

Wilkins & wontkins edit in 1957, jim henson was approached by a washington, d.c. In the center for puppetry arts, there was a montage of commercials and some were rare. The best way to describe the commercials is the looney tunes on steroids, or maybe wile e coyote vs the road runner.