Vintage Jim Henson Commercials - Southern Bread

Jim Henson produced commercials for Southern Bread featuring the Southern Colonel between 1965 and 1966.

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

“Don’t worry! Southern Bread shall rise again” 🤣

[@parker-boy98]

"To prove my love for Southern Bread, I'm gonna jump off the Empire State Building *jumps off and comes back up* Actually, Southern Bread never lets you down. Y'all try it."

[@scoutman66]

Nowadays with all the Confederate statues being toppled I'm curious what people's reaction would be to that commercial nowadays

[@DefendUrPolicyDontScapegoatLie]

@@scoutman66 It’s just a glimpse in time. I’m a child of former Confederates and we realize that it wasn’t good even for us. After the Civil War A LOT of former Confederates, who kept in mind were poor homesteaders turned to crime. Literal Bandits and Highwaymen like in a fantasy RPG or Fallout. In fact if the Confederacy had just been abolished, you could argue the slaves would be in the same spot but the end of slavery would’ve lead to a steady income for workers which would’ve made sure we had a strong economy. But it would’ve meant less (not none) money for the elites so of course that’s gotta go.

[@tadpolegaming4510]

@@DefendUrPolicyDontScapegoatLie Hey, he figured it out

[@nogginlightbulb326]

"It's in the bag."

[@suzylux]

ok THIS...is vintage. All the confederacy jokes! I couldn't help but laugh at the Jim Henson-ness and the tongue-in-cheek humour of it.

[@lukelyall5879]

Suprised no racial stereotyping

[@carloseltercero1209]

These are funny, without mentioning anything racial.

[@dimthecat9418]

What’s exactly the tongue and cheek humor?

[@hilotakenaka]

@@dimthecat9418 “let’s murder the Yankees” (Yankee was the slur for union-supporters at the time) “The south(ern bread) shall rise again” “I get paid in confederate money” AKA worthless

[@dimthecat9418]

@@hilotakenaka yes I understand the jokes, but what makes them “tongue and cheek” and not just jokes?

[@parker-boy98]

Imagine being in a baseball stadium, and there's a puppet with a cowboy hat in the audience.

[@yosefdemby8792]

All those who saw were lucky and probably didn't even know it yet.

[@parker-boy98]

@@yosefdemby8792 Yeah

[@solomonreal1977]

Every time I try to imagine anythang, all I see's is that Suthun Bread...... :(

[@parker-boy98]

@@solomonreal1977 You need to see a psychiatrist.

[@micycles1200]

I'd do anything for Southern bread. I'd even eat Kern's bread with Wilkins coffee!

[@theodorecarter6601]

And have Munchos as a light snack in between meals.

[@ZnotQ633]

Or McGarry sausage with Claussen’s bread

[@pilpyfimbleton8918]

And a tray of Wheels, Flutes, and Crowns before bed

[@MuppetsFanatic]

Not to mention La Choy noodles.

[@parker-boy98]

​@@pilpyfimbleton8918Just make sure your house is protected against wheel stealers, flute snatchers and crown grabbers!

[@misseli1]

I like how these are the reverse of the Wilkins Coffee and Claussens Bread ads. In those two the muppet supporting the brand is harming someone else for rejecting that brand, but in these Southern Bread ads the muppet promoting the brand is the one putting themselves in harm's way.

[@buttbuttson737]

Jim Henson was treading new ground here. He finally discovered that you can advertise a product without threatening to murder people who don't buy it.

[@mothichorror446]

@@buttbuttson737 a real advertising pioneer

[@jadsi]

Ikr

[@parker-boy98]

He even questions why he does it at one point.

[@otaking3582]

The original "What would you do for a Klondike bar?"

[@davidjunker2772]

Jim Henson was born and raised in Mississippi. His family moved to the Washington DC area when he was 12. So he probably had a southern accent as a kid.

[@WebVManReturns]

Washington Darn Confederates

[@crimsondynamo615]

Some interviews you can definitely hear that familiar Mississippi twang.

[@2ndHandSmoker]

If they still had more creative commercials like this nowadays I wouldn't skip it

[@parker-boy98]

"I'd even take on boxing champions for Southern Bread!" *gets his ass kicked and carried on a stretcher* "Hopefully I don't get put on the liquid diet, so I can still enioy Southern Bread."

[@13thvarebel16]

@T3K3 Same here!

[@13thvarebel16]

"Let's moiduh da yankees!" "I might actually like it up here!" DeD 😂😂😂😂

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

"I'd do anything for Southern Bread. I'd even risk getting canceled in about 50 years' time!"

[@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc]

Southern guy: but of course that never going to work. Try some southern bread.

[@handlesRdumb]

Jim Henson is five dimensions ahead of us he checked out long before he could be cancelled

[@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc]

vision until Disney owns it that is.

[@Mason58654]

Why, because he’s Southern?

[@GrindWeCrust]

Someone sounds like a snowflake using buzzwords

[@mannydekhar-antipov9954]

"I'd do anything for Southern Bread, I'd even stop the Germans invading France with my bare hands" (German troops approach) "Slow down, Germany" (German troops get closer) "I said woah!" (German troops get even closer without slowing) "STOP!" (Gets run over) "On top of it all I get paid in French money"

[@trogo3402]

Did not laugh

[@johnmarston9999]

@@trogo3402 I did

[@JoCox4048]

“Y’all try it.”

[@Maddybreenofficial]

Mark Felton has entered the chat

[@parker-boy98]

You just took the locomotive and replaced it with Germany, I still chuckled, but come on, be more creative than that! Have him into a boxing ring or something.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I can literally not find out anything about this brand of bread online. I wonder where it was distributed in the South and when it went out of business or merged with another bread producer. These commercials are very funny.

[@swyjix]

The branding reminds me of BUNNY bread.

[@raichu0479]

"Id even break the sound barrier for southern bread" Me: but an F-104 costs far more than a loaf of bre- F-104: *Explodes* Me: well ok then

[@parodysam]

“I say whoa” killed me

[@zachoroth]

As someone from the south, I can confirm that I would do anything for Southern Bread

[@solomonreal1977]

Southern Bread

[@aksaraylicelali]

Texan bread when

[@solomonreal1977]

@@aksaraylicelali oh why do you ask these things for Texan Bread?

[@zachoroth]

@@solomonreal1977 WHERE!?!?

[@Stereo6400]

“I’d even break the sound barrier for southern bread” These were way ahead of their time

[@parker-boy98]

"Course I'd break anything for Southern Bread."

[@John_Bendy_Demon]

0:43 hey his eyes got big realizing that train ain’t stopping

[@TheUnusualBlu]

I didn’t notice that

[@joshuamay407]

Lol

[@solomonreal1977]

I say WHOA

[@parkeryanez3033]

STOOOOOOOOOP!!!!

[@willywins0446]

On top of it all, I get paid in Confederate money.

[@schachmaster]

"Odd-vertising only came around in the '90's. Jim Hensen, in the 60's: Am I a joke to you?

[@joeywomer]

This guy looks like Colonel Sanders

[@suzylux]

I think a lot of ad campaigns then took inspiration from these Jim Henson ads. They must've been so different at the time?

[@parker-boy98]

@@suzylux Or an archetypical southerner.

[@tyhillbroussard4924]

I have to agree with this comment

[@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc]

Southern guy: I do anything for southern bread, I even try to destroy Kentucky Fried Chicken places. ( at the destroy all the damage to the place, the police arrested southern guy. ) but of course it was a bad idea to do that from the beginning.

[@joshuamay407]

Yes he does

[@joliekczyk7299]

1:50 “Southern Bread scores again!”

[@clunkster]

Fun Fact: At 0:05, the Elephants are paper cutouts

[@solomonreal1977]

Fun Fact: Southern Bread

[@chickenbradly]

@@solomonreal1977 Facts are fun

[@solomonreal1977]

@@chickenbradly Why, I think anythin's fun with Suthun' Bread! Even typin' with muh face!! :D lkk eDekqosdffkja'f AFSpj'h4gw435qoohwhy do I do these things for Suthun' Bread... :(

[@krakenofthesea106]

The first shot of the train looks like a miniature

[@SnDFrostey]

Still very convincing

[@Dorodigital]

Thats a Young Frank OZ at 1:35 behind the shouter trying to act like a non concerned patron

[@joemanuel805]

Elephants North Pole Never lets you down Locomotive Rocket ship Cannon Mountain Yankee stadium Football Plane

[@drevianedwardsproductions9244]

Now that it's just very amazing you find all of these rarest commercials of Muppets you are doing pretty good you're doing great

[@abondvd8241]

Yeah. Trains definitely slow down to: “slow down train”

[@parker-boy98]

@Matthew Munroe *gets run over* On top of it all, I get paid in Confederate money!

[@dahmaricloyd1858]

@@parker-boy98 Buy Southern Bread!

[@solomonreal1977]

and charming little fuzzy pseudo-humans are impossible!! there's definitely something fishy going on in these.... I can't quite but my finger on it.....

[@АнастасияИсайкина-я6е]

Here's the extra pointment for southern bread. SOUTHERN BREAD SCORES AGAIN

[@Terrakinetic]

Southern Bread today, Southern Bread tomorrow, Southern Bread forever

[@superspeedbros2422]

Oh why do I do these things for Southern Bread?

[@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc]

Southern guy: oh right, it's because I love it.

[@gameoholic1994]

1:02 “It’s in the bag.” (Ba dum TSSS)

[@TheRSTD1]

Rare footage of Dr Teeth before trying LSD.

[@MuppetDude]

Wow, these are among the best of Jim's commercials I've seen. Thanks for sharing them!

[@BryanMoyer-l1q]

Thanks for Southern Bread

[@archenema6792]

"On top of it all, I get paid in Confederate money." Actually a sound investment these days with hyper-inflation just revving up.

[@martinakubecova3570]

Thanks for finding the Southern Bread "Football" commercial.

[@LuppetCentral]

This is very unlike the other vintage Muppet commercials I've seen with one guy who gets punished for not liking the product, but that's not to say it's worse.

[@arealteletubby1923]

I’d do anything for southern bread,I’d even go to the gulag

[@WBFan-ti5xr]

1:52

[@videonut1988]

Colonel Sanders’ nephew... LOL

[@aksaraylicelali]

Actually this is gold.

[@aksaraylicelali]

Creative, funny and friendly

[@russellsidell]

Dude, he's making fun of racist old southerners! Thank God for Jim Henson.

[@retrorobbyreviews]

The train one is my favorite out of them all in this video.

[@parker-boy98]

"On top of it all, I get paid in Confederate money".

[@monkeybanana713]

I'm pretty sure Numerblock Seven would do anything for Southern Bread. He'd try everything the Southern Colonel would do and he'd succeed without a scratch.

[@DiscoverGuy]

He'd even kill all the BFDI ships in existence, including this guy!

[@MrBrassBalls]

Slave owner endangers himself for bread (circa 1850)

[@joshuamay407]

Then he challenged the Union in 1863 for Southern Bread rights

[@solomonreal1977]

@@joshuamay407 oh why did they DO these things for Southern Bread.. :(

[@julianhermanubis6800]

They had amazing camera work in the antebellum era.

[@zgjohusociety6063]

The yeast shall rise again.

[@AquaStockYT]

In an alternate universe there is a contingent of southern bread consumers who cannot descend from their standing elevation...

[@Brunito2010_mkay]

Would he say the n word for southern bread?!?!?!

[@waynecurran6215]

I'd even go to mars for southern bread

[@waynecurran6215]

You know southern bread must let you down

[@waynecurran6215]

Try it!

[@chipstermidster5402]

I'll do anything for southern bread. I'll even fight both Goku and Superman.

[@zaythecreator846]

0:21 I can Imagine people who watch this commercial starts buying Southern Bread and then they try to fall down a high building

[@armoredangel01]

I could be wrong, but I think Merita Bread, Kern's Bread, and Taystee Bread are the only bread brands that are still around that Jim Henson did commercials for back in the 60s. Correct me if I am wrong

[@CaptUnstoppable]

Now want some Southern bread

[@DaveTheUseless]

Colonel Sanders' Shocking Past

[@Mafon2]

On top of it all he gets paid in confederate money xD.

[@nogginlightbulb326]

Uh... no black and white here.

[@kinemasterpowerdirectoredi8955]

Y'all Try It. ×2 0:30/1:25

[@Nickcheezy]

KineMaster & PowerDirector & Editor Fan 2007 0:31 1:25

[@prowolf633]

At least nobody terrorizing him like Wilkins or Mack do to Wonkins or Kermit

[@solomonreal1977]

And at most....... Southern Bread :)

[@sarahboulton2757]

0:40-0:47 Trying To Stop A Speeding Ambulance Be Like

[@parker-boy98]

Relatable, I got hired to do that, and they paid me in Confederate money.

[@buster5661]

Just give him some bread already

[@SaifooStudios2020]

0:43 Train (1989) Reference

[@jonathanhauer960]

“I’d do anything for Southern Bread! I’d even call Jack Horner an irredeemable monster!” “Wha? Wha? What took ya so long? IDIOT!” (Southern Colonel gets his Southern Bread brown up) “Oh why do I do these things for Southern Bread?”

[@alextavalesthemuppetmaniac5607]

Southern Colonel, he is that same Muppet that appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with Rex Robbins during the Change Of Face sketch.

[@WebVManReturns]

Too bad the Colonel’s career went South shortly after filming these commercials.

[@ItzTommy345]

0:33 my favorite ad.

[@parker-boy98]

These are the same formula as the Klondike bar.

[@suzzy1790]

He looks like Colonel Sanders with a white hat lol😂 :)

[@cimengngialah2735]

If he took off his hat and wore a pair of glasses, this maybe the first Colonel Sanders muppet…

[@JasontheFolf]

These commercials are the best.

[@rosswalkman9652]

But what would he do for Wilkins. Coffee!!??

[@bradleyhauertheedtruncanfa5020]

Southern’s Bread is like music to my ears!

[@devinbarlow2021]

"What are the symbols for?"

[@MamaLissy-cy5qx]

​@@devinbarlow2021 this a very symbolic commercial.

[@poni_poki]

1:34 Bob???

[@ev4898]

“I’d do anything for southern bread I’d love BFB” - silly men

[@jamesborlan2850]

Southern bread the Klondike bar of the 60s

[@parker-boy98]

Luckily Muppets get great health benefits.

[@battybuddy]

But would you drink Wilkins coffee for southern bread?

[@parker-boy98]

This guy simps for Southern Bread.

[@DingusMcCheese]

The original Klondike bar commercials

[@SuperSonicDash9281]

I’d do anything for southern bread I’m gonna swim with the sharks on second thought maybe not

[@xonox_868]

how man F'ing bread companies did Henson make adds for this seems really bizzare

[@matthewwasson2906]

Did Jim Henson come up with a bunch of commercials which inevitably led businesses to fail? Why do I imagine him coming up with these against the wishes of the CEOs

[@theyakkomanguy7522]

The puppet reminds me of a mix between Uncle Travelin' Matt from Fraggle Rock and Colonel Sanders. I wouldn't be surprised if the puppet builder who built Matt took direct inspiration from this.

[@DefendUrPolicyDontScapegoatLie]

Sergeant Claghorn….

[@skunkman9815]

This should become a meme

[@pillowmcnormalman2753]

“I even get paid in confederate money” 😳

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Some single pieces of rare Confederate currency sell for over $1000. I'd gladly get paid in genuine Confederate money if it were high-grade and collectible and the amounts equal to modern pay rates. I'd be rich after a few years.

[@kylekeller3398]

Southern Colonel: Here's an extra point for Southern Bread! (kicks bread over the field goal) Crowd: (cheering) Southern Colonel: Southern Bread scores again!

[@czonczike630]

There we go! Jim Henson's ads are all based on torture.

[@michiganspencer6920]

Somewhere in Kentucky...Harlan Sanders must have been PISSED!!!!

[@iaincampbell6959]

This guy reminds me of Travelling Mapp from Fraggle Rock

[@dwarfflesh]

The southern bread will rise again

[@My-cat-is-staring-at-you]

Bread is the only southern can actually rise.

There's a reference in one commercial to "Confederate money". It's definitely suggestive and not that appropriate.

[@LaytonGallagher]

Im assuming this was the sixties so while it’s prejudiced and we shouldn’t condone it, this was the norm and people didn’t exactly see it the way we do now. Should jim be alive today I’m sure he might’ve regretted writing those kinds of jokes.

@@LaytonGallagher Yeah. It was probably related to the American hobby for coin collections, you know? Most of the South knew the Confederate money was dead.

[@vfspectrum4652]

who cares its funny

@@vfspectrum4652 I care. Do you think I'm important?

[@vfspectrum4652]

Alexandro Julián yes clearly

[@rottenroads1982]

0:33. He Tried to Stop a Moving Train, And Failed. I ain’t surprised. You can never beat a Train.

[@cineplexuk-fabian7976]

Do national city bank next

[@xboxgamesxbox9455]

I dont think he has any national city bank commercials.

[@cineplexuk-fabian7976]

What About Red Diamond Coffee Next

[@muppetcommercialsandmore4356]

Mrs Butterfly Productions Ltd I think he doesn’t have Red Diamond, idk

[@xboxgamesxbox9455]

@@cineplexuk-fabian7976 he doesn't have that either.

[@muppetcommercialsandmore4356]

Xbox games Xbox oh

[@glepnervon9486]

Never heard of southern bread also that was more commercials for it than usual

[@realquemulroy]

I’d do anything for Southern Bread. I’d even ride an extreme roller coaster!

[@parker-boy98]

*cut to him getting off and puking in a trash can* At least now I got plenty of room for a sandwich made with Southern Bread!

[@realquemulroy]

Y’all try it.

[@izaacreatherishere]

I'd do anything for southern bread, I'd even rob the bank

[@baconknightproductions8297]

"Y'all try it." after trying to jump off a building is crazy

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

Just like a toon

[@FaltbushdevkidnameMetro]

I really like the locomotive kind because you could see his eyes move not really but each time it showed the locomotive and then him was just picture perfect they changed the eyes change the eyebrows and was really good actually

[@FaltbushdevkidnameMetro]

Compare the thumbnail and what the guy actually looks like in the video

[@perryjimenez5629]

THE YANKEES ONE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@matthewleexuanbin7332]

I’d do anything for Drink Wilkins Coffee I’d even Stop a speeding locomotive with my bare Hands Come on dream i say Whoa Stop eeeee On Top OF It All l Get Paid in Confidence Money by Wilkins Coffee

[@nordhausen8883]

These are fantastic.

[@sagediamond3300]

This Isn’t as good as Wilkins and Wontkins from Wilkins coffee