Two puppets, one lean, one squat and gravel-voiced, stand next to a cannon. You can't help but notice it's aimed directly at the shorter one.
"Ok, buddy, what do you think of Wilkins coffee?" the skinny proto-Kermit looking one with its hand on the trigger, Wilkins, asks.
"Never tasted it," gumdrop-shaped Wontkins grumpily replies.
After a brief look of disapproval, the cannon roars, blasting Wontkins off-screen. Wilkins casually aims the cannon at the viewer.
"Now what do you think of Wilkins Coffee?"
Electrocution. Decapitation. Death by point-blank handgun shot. You'd think Wontkins would give in eventually, but he (almost) never does.
I was watching the first episode of Defuntland's series on the Muppets (I thought it was excellent) and these short spots really stuck out to me. Henson had something like eight seconds per spot to get the audience's attention, and he did it with a kind of gleefully sadistic puppet on puppet violence I normally associated with Itchy and Scratchy from the Simpsons.
Wilkins bombs Wontkins' house. He pushes him to his death. Hell, at one point Wilkins allows Wontkins to drown in a pool full of coffee just so he'll finally drink it.
What do you think of Wilkins Coffee?
"Ok, buddy, what do you think of Wilkins coffee?" the skinny proto-Kermit looking one with its hand on the trigger, Wilkins, asks.
"Never tasted it," gumdrop-shaped Wontkins grumpily replies.
After a brief look of disapproval, the cannon roars, blasting Wontkins off-screen. Wilkins casually aims the cannon at the viewer.
"Now what do you think of Wilkins Coffee?"
Electrocution. Decapitation. Death by point-blank handgun shot. You'd think Wontkins would give in eventually, but he (almost) never does.
I was watching the first episode of Defuntland's series on the Muppets (I thought it was excellent) and these short spots really stuck out to me. Henson had something like eight seconds per spot to get the audience's attention, and he did it with a kind of gleefully sadistic puppet on puppet violence I normally associated with Itchy and Scratchy from the Simpsons.
Wilkins bombs Wontkins' house. He pushes him to his death. Hell, at one point Wilkins allows Wontkins to drown in a pool full of coffee just so he'll finally drink it.
What do you think of Wilkins Coffee?
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