Posts Tagged ‘muppets’

Proto-Muppet Protection Racket Advertising

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

There is an extensive explanation for this wild and bizarre sequence at the Muppet Wiki. Here’s a bit of it:
In 1957, Jim Henson was approached by a Washington, D.C. coffee company to produce ads for Wilkins Coffee. The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the commercials had to be lightning-fast — [...]

A Sunday Miscellany

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Well, I’ve had a very busy weekend here in Melbourne–which I may get around to writing up at some point later tonight–and now I’ve made it back to my hotel/apartment, and it seems like a good time for me to do a little bit of value-added linkblogging. So, no theme, just lots of things that [...]