“You know people who don’t drink Wilkin’s coffee just blow up sometimes.”
“No one under 25 drinks coffee anymore. Just Pepsi. They pour it on their Frosted Flakes.”
This is an actual ad Jim Henson did for Wilkin’s coffee in 1958. The ad is both strangely violent and quirky but it’s no wonder Don was skeptical that he could make coffee cool to the young folks when he was handed the Martinson account. Henson also did a series of muppet ads for Martinson coffee in 1962.
Enter the hip young ad men with some breezy Bossa Nova.
(Source: http://madmenfootnotes.com/)
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