News You Can Bruise for 2006 August 4 (entry 0)

(2) Fri Aug 04 2006 16:39 That's capitalist coffee, you traitor!: Sumana's coworker Jacob has a Muppet obsession similar to mine. He sent us these 10-second coffee commercials from the 1950s featuring a proto-Kermit beating up on a proto-Waldorf for not liking the brand of coffee advertised. Sample commercial:

Proto-Kermit: Have some Willkins coffee?
Proto-Waldorf: No thanks, gimme Brand X!
[Proto-Kermit shoves an X-shaped branding iron into Proto-Waldorf's chest.]

I've never seen such violent Muppets.

Comments:

Posted by Brian Donovan at Fri Aug 04 2006 17:00

Thanks for posting this!

Posted by Kevan at Sat Aug 05 2006 10:24

Excellently harsh stuff. The proto-Waldorf seems to be called "Wontkins", splendidly.