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“Things just seem to happen to people who don’t drink Wilkins”

So says the character “Wilkins” just after his best fiend “Wontkins” once again meets his maker after proclaiming a distaste for Wilkins Coffee. Who knew Jim Henson could put together such a psychotically violent set of advertisements?

There are many more compilations of wilkins coffee ads up on youtube. They’re all worth a look. These 8 second TV commercials are the work of Jane and Jim Henson, with Jim doing both the Kermit-like voice of the character “Wilkins” and also the Waldorf-like voice of the grumpier “Wontkins”.

If these commercials ran today, they’d be very effective. I’d eschew water for Wilkins Coffee, wear the T-shirt, buy a gun¹, and “convince” everyone I knew to drink Wilkins. Yeah.

1. Other weapons used in the ads: cannon, club, explosives, arrows, motor vehicles, trees. [↩]

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