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When Muppets violently sold coffee (Henson's early work) (Original Post) underpants Feb 2021 OP
You could get your own set of Wilkins and Wontkins puppets - 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2021 #1
Was this a regional product? underpants Feb 2021 #2
Not sure, but I think Wilkins coffee may have local to the DC area, where we were/are. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2021 #4
I looked it up. Yep DC area underpants Feb 2021 #8
Some Internet comedian should update this Grokenstein Feb 2021 #3
I'm so ancient I remember them in Nash's Coffee ads. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #5
I've never seen these, but I love them! So much better than today's glitzy commercials where you Karadeniz Feb 2021 #6
Basically Tom n Jerry ultraviolent cartoons underpants Feb 2021 #9
I thought the poker one was the best Major Nikon Feb 2021 #7

50 Shades Of Blue

(9,771 posts)
1. You could get your own set of Wilkins and Wontkins puppets -
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 06:14 PM
Feb 2021

I was too young then to remember now how my mother did it, must have involved sending in a Wilkins coffee lid or label along with some $, but one day when I was about 5, she surprised my sister and me with our own set of Wilkins and Wontkins. I do still remember my disappointment - those puppets were made out of vinyl, not cloth, like the ones we saw in the commercials! I don't remember what happened to them.

But years later, it turned out that the man I ended up marrying had possession of his own family's set of W&W puppets which his mother had ordered for him and his siblings when they were kids. We still have them.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
3. Some Internet comedian should update this
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 06:42 PM
Feb 2021

so the guy who doesn't like Wilkins gets the drop on his proto-Kermit wannabe-murderer and has the last laugh.

Karadeniz

(22,270 posts)
6. I've never seen these, but I love them! So much better than today's glitzy commercials where you
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 07:27 PM
Feb 2021

Remember the glitz, but can't remember what it was for.

underpants

(182,274 posts)
9. Basically Tom n Jerry ultraviolent cartoons
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 07:36 PM
Feb 2021

I mean the cartoons I watched growing up were really really violent.

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