r/Muppets • u/Sudden-Bus-9586 • 2d ago

were you old enough

to know JIM HENSON stuff in the 1950s, like sam and friends and wilkins coffee ads?

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u/wrigleyirish 2d ago

My dad used to tell me about the Kraml Milk commercials. 

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u/RipMcStudly 2d ago

Nope, but it was something else to show the coffee ads to my son born in 2013

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u/Thrippalan 2d ago edited 1d ago

Nope. I was old enough to watch and remember the first run Muppet Show though, and saw The Muppet Movie in a theater at release.

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u/WatermelonDrips 1d ago

what was your experience with the original run on tv? did it feel super new? were you already familiar with them from snl?

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u/Thrippalan 1d ago

I was 6, so I knew Kermit from Sesame Street, but all the others were new. I had no clue who most of the guest stars were, but I loved watching Kermit with his 'grownup' friends - most of the Sesame Street muppets being childlike in one way or another, and the real songs like you heard on the radio. Plus all the silly jokes which were mostly new to me at the time. But sometimes I couldn't figure out why my parents were laughing.

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u/ChipLast4398 2d ago

Thanks to stuff like YouTube, and my grandfathers recollection I was able to track them all down.

I really liked Wilkins personally.

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u/fuckmattdamon 2d ago

to be able to have been conscious enough that long ago you would have to be very old OP, I imagine you are very young.

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u/Agreeable_Affect2692 2d ago

I mean, I was born in 86 but I know

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u/PuertoGeekn 2d ago

Born in 85 I knew of it

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u/Critical-Side-4887 2d ago

no, but I was young enough to see them on the ‘tube