Wilkins Coffee - Wilkins and Wontkins (1957-1961, USA) 

"Do you drink Wilkins?" "No" *Commits acts of domestic terrorism*

"Do you like Wilkens Coffee?" "No" *Starts nuclear warfare*

I like how their marketing tactic is just "if you don't drink our coffee were gonna make it look like an accident"

Him wiping the blade clean while stating "Some learn, some don't" is incredibly raw.

Everything happening in 2020 is the result of people not drinking Wilkins Coffee

Someone: *has a different opinion* Literally every fanbase ever:

“Some learn, some don’t.” Took me a second to realize he was wiping blood off his sword.

I can’t watch a 15 second modern ad, but I just spent 15 minutes of my life watching coffee ads from a company that probably doesn’t even exist anymore.

"Do you drink Wilkins Coffee?" "No" *Current Objective: SURVIVE*

"50s humour was slow paced and extremely safe/innocent"

Jim Henson never liked coffee, which is how he came up with all the ideas for these commercials. He was Wontkins and Wilkins was everybody and anybody who tried to make him drink coffee. ☕️

I absolutely love these, they’re so unapologetically aggressive

Damn some of these are dark... But not as dark as a hot, fresh cup of Wilkins Coffee.

Advertising used to be so easy; "DRINK OUR COFFEE OR DIE"

My mom was a guinea pig for the original Sesame Street as a toddler. It’s one of her earliest memories. Her uncle worked with Jim Henson to design Big Bird, so that’s how this happened. It’s not a shock that we’re big Jim Henson fans in our family. He had such a sick sense of humor and I love it.

list of crimes this guy committed: 17 accounts of first degree murder 4 accounts of assault with a deadly weapon 4 accounts of second degree murder 8 accounts of assault and battery countless accounts of harassment stalking 3 accounts of threatening deadly violence 5 accounts of negligent homicide 8 accounts of aggravated assault 5 accounts of torture 6 accounts of cruel and unusual punishment 2 accounts of civil terrorism bombing private property 4 accounts of vandalism 3 accounts of conspiracy extortion false imprisonment

John Kennedy: This coffee is really bad... Wilkins: *peace was never an option*

"Do you drink Wilkins Coffee?" "No" "So you have chosen death."

Wilkins Coffee hasn't been available for more than 31 years. We are living in fear of his retribution.

“Would you like a cup of Wilkins coffee” “No” *gets impaled* “You’re insides just don’t feel the same without Wilkins”

_"buy our coffee or go to hell"_

Nobody gonna talk about the fact that Wilkins just straight up stabbed a guy and wiped to blood off of his sword, for not liking Wilkins coffee?

"It's autumn and the nuts are beginning to fall." That's my favorite one. XD

These commercials are just amazing as a whole, but the one where he swordfights with Wontkins is absolute art. Like, "Some learn, some don't," while Wilkins wipes his sword is, as another commenter said, raw as hell.

Breaking news: Kermit the frog’s cousin kills elmo’s grandad Edit: okay actually elmo’s grandad is apparently immortal, as he is somehow still alive. We are currently investigating the murders, and trying to get this murderer. Their names are Wontkins and Willkins. A theory about why Willkins was killing Wontkins is that he refused Willkin’s coffee.

“Drink wilkin?” “Negative” *murder*

"Do you drink Wilkins coffee?" "No." *THEN PERISH.*

"some learn, some don't". This was the motto of Wilkins "Crazy Coffee" Frog. Wilkins was a notorious mobster, coffee runner and sadistic killer. He had two relatives who he was close to. His uncle who was referred to as Mr.Wilkins( his mother had gave him her maiden name as his first) and his younger brother wontkins. The brothers were born in the 1920s and joined their uncle's crime syndicate in the 50s. He soon had married a woman name petunia an had a son named Kermit. His most notorious crime was the murder of his brother, wontkins. Who tried to kill Wilkins, his family and his uncle after Wilkins was chosen to be underboss. Wilkins son had almost died during wontkins attack, which then lead Wilkins to torture his brother before blowing him up in his house. Wilkins died in 95, at 75, he was never caught for any of his crimes. According to his son Kermit, Wilkins was a kind and gentle man. He raised his son in a modest home an upon his passing left a fortune for his son. Who then became one of television greatest showman of all time.

It’s 60 years later and I still drink Wilkins coffee. Because I know he’s watching.

It turns out that Jim Henson actually didn't like drinking coffee, and would make these commercials so violent because he was thinking of ways that would convince him to drink coffee, being killed by a Kermit the frog prototype was apparently enough.

3:59 What makes this one even more sinister is that we don't hear or see anything else after he pulls the lever

1:30 This might be my favourite one. Relatively harmless but still incredibly sadistic, and cleverly written.

If commercials were still like these, I wouldn’t skip them every time.

As a person who literally CANNOT drink coffee, I am now in deep fear for my life.

13:09 This is the most 1950s commercial I have ever seen.

8:34 "I see you don't drink Wilkins instant coffee." "What about my future?" *BANG* "You don't have a future." That was the funniest part in my opinion.🤣

The most memorable slogan ever: "Things just seem to happen to people who don't drink Wilkins!"

Kermit: "mum what was dad like?" Kermit's mum: proceeds to have Flashbacks of this video

"without a wilkins coffe you're nowhere!" The first victim to visit the backrooms i see

We need commercials to go back to this kind of humor

“Do you like Wilkins Coffee?” “No” *Drops nuke* “Strange how people don’t think Wilkins Coffee is the bomb”

James Bond-"Do you expect me to talk?" Proto-Kermit-"No, Mister Bond, I expect you to drink Wilkin's Coffee"

I showed these commercials my grandfather And he said he saw them as a kid and made him ask his father what kind of coffee he drank every morning because he liked these adds

now THESE are the kinds of ads we need in modern day

Yes, yes, yes, and people born in the 50s era is saying video games is causing all the violence. But nobody has actually realized violence is caused by coffee.

This is actually more entertaining than today's ads

“I don’t drink wilkins coffee” “Some learn, some don’t.” *wipes blood off sword*

He was arrested a number of times for these crimes. They could never hold him... ....no grounds.

"You would like a cup of Wilkins Coffee?" "No" **Smothers him with a pillow** "Without a cup of Wilkins Coffee in the morning, you might as well never wake up again!"

“It’s autumn, when the nuts are beginning to fall.” roasted

You can see how Henson is developing his signature movement, voices and style. These are hilarious never heard of it before. 🐸 ☕

6:32 the cheap joke never gets old 😂😂

Rare footage of Kermit's early coffee addiction.

Puppet #1: You drink Wilkins coffee? Puppet #2: No! Puppet #1: Into the gulag, you go.

this is aggressive advertising... and I love it

Thanos: "I have The Infinity Gauntlet, and all the Infinity Stones, What do you have?" Wilkins: "I have a can of Wilkins Coffee." * THANOS SCREAMS IN AGONY AS HE'S SNAPPED AWAY* "Nothing beats a can of Wilkins Coffee!"

Muppet commits atrocities over disagreements about bean juice.

Some learn, some dont. *Wipes blood from his fencing foil*

Honestly, these commercials are incredible.

What do random RU-vid videos and people who don't drink Wilkin's Coffee have in common? They just blow up sometimes.

"Do you Drink wilkins Coffee?" is the original "vibe check"

That is Kermit the Frog’s father. You cannot tell me otherwise.

I love how they straight up just get more and more brutal every advertisement

If these commercials made a return, I feel like this would be what they would say: "Did you miss us? Wilkins coffee is back!" "I didn't miss it." *Wontkins gets ran over by a speeding train* "We won't miss you, either!"

Homelander: im the most psychotic tv character in television history. Wilkins: hold my wilkins coffee...

Since the children weren’t old enough to drink coffee, Wilkins had no other choice to execute the younglings. Anakin style.

I giggled after every single one

Pov: you're watching it without skipping it...

I love how innocent and cute he looks while he commits all these atrocities against the poor dude

"do you drink Wilkins coffee" "No" Kermit: *violates the Geneva convention*

I really wish commercials were more like this today. Still wouldn’t buy the product but I’d be enjoying watching it

"Name a character that went through more pain. I'll wait."

The original 5-second unskippable ad. ‎ ‎

Palpatine: "Do you drink Wilkins Coffee?" Mace: "Of course not." Palpatine: "It's treason, then..." *Ignites lightsaber*

13:09 is funny because it actually used to happen. Russians in the USSR who had their American family visit, or who visited family in America, would smuggle goods into the country due to much higher production quality. Jeans were a big one

the way this would still feel so fresh in modern day. they should remake these lol

"I've got 5 Aces, can you beat that?" "I've got Wilkin's Coffee". *shoots him*

“Strange things happen to people who don’t drink Wilkins coffee.” -Puppet that is definitely not threatening you

This must be how Elmo lost his uncle

Randy Feltface has come a long way. Good to see him acting in his younger years before finding standup

"You either go with Wilkins or you just don't go." That is so incredibly sinister, I feel like this puppet is going to kill me in my sleep.

I think commercials should be more like these today.

0:40 this one commercial proves how godly Wilkins could be, even more so than Thanos.

That frog is a menace to society.

How has this not become a meme yet?

3:58 holy shit that's dark

Never thought I’d say this, but I’m pretty sure if Jim Henson were still alive, he would most definitely have worked on Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.

"You can get more with Wilkins Coffee and a gun, then you can with just Wilkins Coffee." - Jim Henson (Probably)

“Do you like Wilkins Coffee?” “Yeah” “... I am not prepared for this”

These ads are great because they're not pretending like their product is something you can't live without, they're showing you their product is something you won't live without via a murderous puppet.

Every thing in the past 3 years has happened because we didn’t drink Wilkins coffee

If we still had ads like these, I would never have to use an adblocker ever again.

"Strange things happen to people who don't drink Wilkins" *_Man found stabbed to death in his apartment_*

I love how they subvert the predictability by just making Not Kermit even more sinister. You think he's just going to poke the other guy with the tiny sword, but he polishes it and says, "Some learn, some don't," and your imagination invents a worse scenario than they could have shown even during a time where a puppet gets shot with a real revolver and people just laugh.

*Diavolo Death 4766: Diavolo refuses to drink Wilkins coffee and discovers that things seem to happen to people that don't drink Wilkins.*

Wilkin's laugh and stares are stuff of legends

"En garde! Salute Wilkins Coffee!" "But I dont drink Wilkins Coffee." *C L E A N S B L O O D O F F B L A D E* "Some learn and some don't..."

It's amazing that Jim Henson the creator of the Muppets started off doing simple little commercials to then to become one of the biggest names in history

“Boy this bagel reminds me of Spider-Man” “Why?” “Because it always hits the Spot”

Wilkins is more powerful and sadistic than Thanos and Wontinks has so many lives than no even with the infinity gauntlet one may kill him for good. These ads are really something 😂