Kermit the frog before he was kermit the frog - Wilkins Coffee
 

The first clip is "kermit" without the voice, but the second clip that starts at the :09 mark even has the voice. I'd never seen or heard of these commercials or the coffee.

Per the blurb for the video on YT, these were made by Jim Henson.

Seeing and hearing this early kermit is very cool to me. I grew up on the Muppet show and Sesame Street.

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I have never seen the commercials, but we sold Wilkins coffee in our restaurants in the 70's and 80's

And Kermit now
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WTF?!?

I've seen the kermit with "Is your name Emerson? Cuz Emersome big ol' titties."

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I don't know what the second thing is but it is horrible. no wonder this world is falling to ****.