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Video: Vintage Muppets Videos Show Trippy, Dark Side Of Henson

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Muppet time machine? Nope. Electric chair.

The Henson Company has uploaded a couple of new vintage gems to the YouTubes. First up, listen to a couple of cool cats Muppets talk about jazz, man. It's like a scene out of Reefer Madness!

Then there's some early commercial work by Henson, for Wilkins Coffee. In which non-Wilkins drinkers get shot, punched, thrown out of a plane, stomped on, and electrocuted!

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By Jen Carlson in on August 24, 2011 3:35 PM

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  • smorrebrod

    I work in the museum "industry" and I highly recommend the Jim Henson exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.

  • BotanistPrime

    also, these are great thanks for posting

  • BotanistPrime

    so kids were the taget demographic for coffee in these days?

  • this is making my day.

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