Early Muppet Marketing
Kermit: This guy’s lost.
Waiter: Maybe he sould try Hare Krishna.
Kermit: Good grief, it’s a running gag.
~ The Muppet Movie (via Jack Burns & Jerry Juhl)
You know, I really think I preferred when marketing was flat-out shameless. It was funnier. It also had muppet murder:
The Smithsonian had a great exhibit on Jim Henson last year that talked quite a bit about the early use of the Muppets for advertising. How things have changed ….
Commented by Alisa Fitzpatrick on June 19, 2009 at 3:12 PM