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Wilkins Instant Coffee

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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    drink Wilkins Instant Coffee or we'll kill your wife. That's right, we'll kill your wife! And you better buy ten or you're a dead motherfucker
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I mean, basically
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I love how violent these are; you could never get away with most of these today

    It's a shame instant coffee sucks, though
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    Central Avenue said:

    It's a shame instant coffee sucks, though

    central avenue then got run over by a monster truck
  • thenamelesssamuraithenamelesssamurai



    Found even more of these.
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    These are good.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Crystal said:

    These are good.

    even when they discriminate against birds?

    *cheep cheep*
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    drink wilkins or we'll slit your throat
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Fossilmaiden said:

    drink wilkins or we'll slit your throat

    your fucking :D avatar really makes this post
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Crystal said:

    These are good.


  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    The first time I saw one of those ads, in black-and-white, I thought Wilkins was supposed to be Kermit.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Wilkins_Coffee#Public_appeal

    The Wilkins Coffee ads stood out from the usual commercial fare. In a press release issued February 19, 1959, Senator John Marshall Butler (R-MD) strongly criticized the quality of broadcast television, but praised the Wilkins ads: "The Maryland Senator, an opponent of pay television, called on the networks and individual stations to re-examine their programming and advertising policies at once to provide the public with better television fare. He said that the Senate Commerce Committee, of which he is a member, will explore the entire situation... As to advertising, it insults the intelligence of the viewer. It is geared at know-nothings. As far as I am concerned, if I hear 'a thinking-man's filter and a smoking-man's taste,' I promptly switch to another channel. About the only clever advertising on the air today is 'Wilkins and Wontkins'. It pleases rather than irritates television audiences, and I am happy to learn that this series is bringing increased sales to the sponsor."
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    MetaFour said:

    The first time I saw one of those ads, in black-and-white, I thought Wilkins was supposed to be Kermit.


  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Crystal said:

    These are good.

    This just in: Crystal likes a Muppets thing
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    MetaFour said:

    The first time I saw one of those ads, in black-and-white, I thought Wilkins was supposed to be Kermit.

    pretty much the predecessor, no?
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Odradek said:

    Crystal said:

    These are good.

    This just in: Crystal likes a Muppets thing
    I'm surprised too tee bee aych.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Calica said:

    MetaFour said:

    The first time I saw one of those ads, in black-and-white, I thought Wilkins was supposed to be Kermit.

    pretty much the predecessor, no?
    I assume so, but the Muppets wiki article about him doesn't say anything on that subject? 

    Still, the evolution from "sociopathic coffee shill" to "everyman" is rather amusing.
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