Vintage Jim Henson Commercials - Wilson's Meats (Commercials and Promo)

[@perryjimenez5629]

1:24, and who would have thought that that show would be one of the most successful and longest-running Children's TV shows in History

[@yosefdemby8792]

Nobody, that's who!

[@chantrelllaw894]

Sesame Street!

[@baconfeatureschannel3480]

Yes

[@eblackadder3]

I've never seen Frank Oz with hair!

[@Z-Man7]

Crazy that this man went on to make Dark Crystal.

[@ThereAreThoseWhoCallMeTim]

“We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” -Walt Disney

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Q "And what's the advantage of using your so-called 'muppets' Mr. Henson?" A "Well, the comics code authority doesn't apply to them..."

[@seeleunit2000]

That was a good one

[@CSLucasEpic]

1:20 That means that this commercials gave Jim Henson enough credentials to be given a chance to make The Muppets Show.

[@yosefdemby8792]

No no. The Muppet Show was not just for little kids.

[@littleblackduck3134]

Sesame Street

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@littleblackduck3134 Sesame Street was specifically made for children, yes. The Muppet Show was not.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Scoop and Skip appeared as newscasters for Wilkins Coffee in 1961. They were replacements for Wilkins and Wontkins, who were simply retired.

[@ОксанаПольсман]

Черепашки-ниндзя

[@parker-boy98]

Skip: Actually, I'm a vegetarian Scoop: So you have chosen death.

[@robertdullnig3625]

We need a remake of Mad Men, but it's all from the point of view of Jim Henson.

[@CaptLuser]

jim henson is basically the don draper of felt puppets

[@SZ-tm9xb]

You mean Jim Henson a film based on Mad Men?

[@MrDemonWorm]

If the tone of his narration says anything, he was bored to tears with advertising.

[@jamesbevan9939]

He really loved that "Brand X" gag

[@rexmcdowd]

And no Wilson's meat product is complete without a fresh cup of Wilkins instant coffee

[@ginakranenburg7003]

Imagine them meeting Wilkins and asking wontkins if he like either then getting murdered by main characters in commercials

[@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317]

​@@ginakranenburg7003funny thing in the Wilson commercials both characters get hurt.

[@TheKnobCalledTone.]

8:21 Who spiked my Wilkins Coffee with LSD?

[@CaptLuser]

i blame wontkins

[@OctacleEdits]

4:54 "Well, actually, I'm a vegetarian." BANG!

[@lohphat]

Q: Do you know how you can tell someone is a vegetarian? A: They'll tell you.

[@OctacleEdits]

@@lohphatreminds me of that “how do you find a vegan at a dinner party?” joke from that _awful_ PETA flash game

[@MrKenichi22]

@8:21 Wow, this ad kind of feels like a 90’s ad, but definitely 1960’s.

[@broadcastmyballs]

I thought that too. The collage of clips is very late 80s or 90s. There's even a bit of touch of 00s post-ironic in the 'singing'

[@newbiegamelover4767]

4:46 "What do you have against Jim Henson?" He asked that question to that character that's voiced by Jim Henson.

[@ThereAreThoseWhoCallMeTim]

I wonder if this may have been Jim Henson’s way of coping with his guilt of “selling out”. If he couldn’t say no to doing these commercials, he could at least have fun and make a silly joke out of it.

[@laerwen]

@@ThereAreThoseWhoCallMeTim I believe that is absolutely why these commercials are all so meta. I think he was more comfortable making it deadpan and satirical than anything else - delightfully subversive. It comes across very modern, to my own sense of humor.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Henson & associates working hard.

[@DexterYesMandarkNo]

That's how The Muppets were made.

[@FuriousMan226]

The Muppets existed before these commercials

[@christopherbubb2890]

8:32 Jerry Nelson cameo. He'd go on to perform the Count and Herry Monster in Sesame Street and Gobo, Marjory the Trash Heap and Pa Gorg in Fraggle Rock. And Floyd Pepper, and Camilla the Chicken! To name just a few of the probably hundreds of Muppet characters he performed over the years. I think the little girl may be his daughter Christine, who would later lose a brave battle with cystic fibrosis.

[@astarteswillum5259]

Don't forget Little Jerry.

[@KairuHakubi]

Hey when you die, the cystic fibrosis dies too. That's not a loss, that's a draw. She bravely fought it to a draw.

[@christopherbubb2890]

@@KairuHakubi I like that way of thinking.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@christopherbubb2890 You like that? Norm MacDonald said it.

[@SanderOlbermann]

3:58 And then they had a wilkins coffee break that swings

[@Nickcheezy]

No they don’t

[@avisittodonnalandcapecoral]

4:26

[@shadowhauntjoker8501]

1:12 - Skip gets all up in Scoop's business Scoop brushes him off Skip (in his mind) "Bruh, I know you didn't just touch me like you didn't like it before the camera was on."

[@caseydubois3645]

From 8:20 forward is pure Gen Z goofy ahh humor

[@weebunny]

Then Gen Z inherited a good sense of humor - that is absurdist Boomer-era material. Reminds me of Terry Gilliam's animations for Monty Python projects. (I'm Gen X myself, but I love that stuff.)

[@m.r.keller9642]

Loved that Pall Mall cigarette cameo.

[@madhat2k]

SMOKE

[@m.r.keller9642]

@@madhat2k Are you smoking, yet? LOL

[@AlexPerrine]

5:19 Would've been cool if Wilkins did that to Wontkins.

[@eblackadder3]

Man, they're making short work of all that Wilson's lunch meat!

[@laffytaffy1726]

7:37 what a threat.

[@synaesthesia2010]

bloody hell, a young Frank Oz

[@Obsessedwithcookies757]

BEFORE he had a mustache! And before he lost his hair.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

So did Jim Henson do the voices for all the puppets, while only performing one at a time? Because it would be impossible for him to perform them all at the same time, yet they all sound like him.

[@KermiClown]

He prerecorded the vocals, and then he and others lip synched the puppets to the vocal tracks.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

@@KermiClown Thanks for that! I always wondered. Testament to their skill that I honestly couldn't tell.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@andrewmorrice9139 Frank Oz was still afraid to do voicework at the time.

[@WebVManReturns]

But do they eat their Wilson’s Meats on Kerns Bread or Southern Bread?

[@bengineer8]

Or Claussen’s?

[@90139]

@@bengineer8 or tastybread?

[@ferbusgddc]

This is amazing

[@BetterCallMiles]

I love having Wilson's Certified Bacon with Wilkins Coffee

[@josecrane4132]

I crack up at the guy getting shot. 4:55.

[@angelaabreu823]

8:38 a rare Royal Crown Cola commercial

[@dimasgirl2749]

That second to last one had to be done by Monty Python.

[@aflhabalafhabab]

Actually, it was made about 2 years before Monty Python introduced themselves to the world.

[@timbarnes-trb]

Interestingly, Jim Henson neither drank coffee nor ate meat, but he built his career doing commercials for both while never once actually endorsing his personal consumption of either.

[@ZBC3]

9:03 (WM) what???? 9:13 how spill my willkins coffee!!?? 9:20 (Wm) help me pl-

[@marella-yoplaitlimited7745]

8:37 the sound from Community Coffee - TV Set

[@Alexs23743]

0:22: Proto-Ernie clearly had a rough life before he found Bert and moved to Sesame Street. ("I'm a vegetarian!" BLAM!!!)

[@RandomTrinidadian]

Let it not be said the Jim Henson Didnt like to troll himself

[@SaifooStudios2020]

4:42 this one is my favorite

[@maddestmike5791]

"upcoming daily children's show." Was that Sesame Street?

[@MadMorgie6318]

I wonder the same thing

[@bigsidfan]

Yes

[@BrianSmith-wh9bi]

Jim Henson said it was a pilot for SBC.

[@BrianSmith-wh9bi]

ABC

[@SoundClaw09]

No.

[@moisesdanielalvarado5578]

So Kern's Bread and Wilkins Coffee and Wilson's Certified Meat are all from Jim Henson and he also made the Muppets

[@BasementTermites]

He doesn't own the products, he made ads for 'em

[@WebVManReturns]

@@BasementTermites No, but he owned the competition with these ads.

[@BasementTermites]

@@WebVManReturns Hgaahgaha I like that

[@yosefdemby8792]

These _are_ Muppets.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@BasementTermites And he owned the characters.

[@alextavalesthemuppetmaniac5607]

Back then, the Muppets were in black and white.

[@berlinrubios9455]

7:22 "No." "WHAT???" *Wham!*

[@laffytaffy1726]

Wontkins: 10, 9, 8, 7 Willkins: hey Wilkins coffee makes me astronauts too Wontkins: No. 6, 5, 4, Wilkins: but they're coffee into a drinking. Wontkins: look your won't get any where by drinking Wilkins coffee. 3, 2, 1 (Wilkins blastoff) Wontkins: well I could be wrong.

[@kpyng]

How did a pack of Pall Malls sneak into that last ad?...

[@anthonymarshall6868]

Scoop sounds like Jim Henson and Skip sounds like Kermit the Frog.

[@christopherbubb2890]

Also Jerry Juhl cameo at 8:29.

[@MrPhantaze]

Man i just got it: Rolf is good side of Wontkins

[@MuppetDude]

8:38 -- The hell?!

[@Nickcheezy]

rare royal crown cola commercial

[@suzylux]

a lot of acid was being taken then..gotta remember ;)

[@vashietru1848]

What's the Nutty Bird doing here?!

[@sebastiangowacki7634]

R.I.B Skip by italy tower

[@dianamancillas8908]

Get your snacks and seat down and enjoy the commercials 0:56

[@dianamancillas8908]

5:01

[@matthiasneidenberger9471]

“What do you have against Jim Henson?” “Nothing.” “What do you have against me?” “You keep hurting me.” “What do you have against Wilson’s Meats?” “They pay you to hurt me.”

[@lohphat]

8:37 Big Bird prototype?

[@devilslayerthesaintofkille1317]

4:22 that poor muppet

[@skunkman9815]

1:31 oh yeah that’s Lisa and Cheril when they where little girls

[@TitusRedwind]

8:21 That honestly could be a modern day shit post and I wouldn't be able to tell.

[@SailorMaxie]

I like Wilson’s with a side of Wilkins.

[@Mr.BaltimoreRavens]

1:34-YEET!

[@kiletaylor94]

8:11 Brand X. that smarts

[@KairuHakubi]

Man, it's so weird seeing a promo for commercials that just sort of explains why you're hearing all this from puppets right now, in case you weren't aware they were popular and already in lots of legit things.

[@kelanjones7281]

Do you have Brand X

[@kelanjones7281]

Give me Brand X!

[@zaythecreator846]

@@kelanjones7281 okay

[@kelanjones7281]

Ouch!!!

[@laffytaffy1726]

4:55 So You have chosen to death?

[@Sumschmuck]

I'll have some Wilson's with a cup of Wilkins

[@isabeld.paredes4923]

Poor Skip... having to carry the mantle of Wontkins and Baskerville. And by the way, his voice sounds somewhat like Kermit the Frog's EDIT: At least, Skip manages to get even with Scoop once in a while

[@zelah4311]

and also called 2001-2010

[@FaltbushdevkidnameMetro]

MAD

[@alextavalesthemuppetmaniac5607]

You say you edited that film together? U huh. What do you have against Jim Henson? Nothing. What do you have against me? Nothing. What do you have against Wilson's Meats? Well Actually, I'm a vegetarian. BANG! Scoop shoots Skip with a gun.

[@ginakranenburg7003]

4:45 u watched jum henson idea man documentary i saw the part and my brother and I cracked up we laghed for 10 min straight ir qas si random

[@laffytaffy1726]

7:37 that's a terrible bacon

[@kittentacticalwarfare1140]

That last segment was psychedelic wtf kekzhu

[@idkabyss9483]

When The Science Teacher teach you work with Bill Nye The Science Guy: 3:58

[@ddespair]

Did Jim have scoliosis? His posture has always seemed hunched.

[@zaythecreator846]

Scoop & skip

[@WebVManReturns]

Wilson’s Sure To Be Fried Bacon

[@LIMJANSEANMoe]

Scoop Wilsons AND Skip Others

[@joemanuel805]

Gun Parachute The champ Astronaut Leaning tower of Pisa Survey Mad scientist Brand x

[@harmonybrandon2059]

Is everybody know who is Johnny Carson

[@ashtonpatton4207]

Godfrey?!?!

[@FaltbushdevkidnameMetro]

The two last commercials were so weird they don't even use their own smokes man or even say why you should buy it just like crazy crazy poop

[@ColesUltimateChannel-xr4sm]

8:24 8:37

[@amandastill5124]

Fix the glitch

[@nattiedraws]

Oh Gene, working hard or hardly working?

[@LightSwitchStudiosOSC]

Well, actually im a vegetarian. **DED**

[@eusouozedamanga]

Wait, do they take turns to see who likes this meat and who doesn't?

[@claytonhenry1308]

6:16

[@claytonhenry1308]

6:39

[@claytonhenry1308]

6:57

[@DiscoverCiaoMondo]

No doubt Jim Henson was a Three Stooges fan!

[@jadsi]

7:37 shit.

[@vfspectrum4652]

so apparently wilsons franks give u diarrhea

[@samp.8099]

Funny stuff

[@m.k.b.3880]

Dryest humor ever

[@tunglamnguyen912]

She hulk

[@stevemandl5140]

boring!!!

[@zaythecreator846]

No the behind the scenes is funny

[@Aluminumtalk]

Do not drink or drink or 5.30am Annoying and I don't want to be a pain

[@tunglamnguyen912]

Critters

[@Bfdiisdoneforever]

5:25

[@alexherrera1648]

8:37

[@samantharodriguez6390]

8:45

[@TheLinkHelios]

7:06

[@TomasPereztorres]

8:38