The Muppets have made commercials for decades, both before and after they became established with shows of their own.
1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s
1950s
- Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Faygo (1958-1959) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- La Touraine Coffee (1958-1962) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Life Savers (1958-1959)[1]
- Nash's Coffee (1958-1961) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Community Coffee (1959-1969) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Esskay Meats (1959-1963, Sam and Friends sponsor) : Kermit, Harry the Hipster, Rowlf, Moldy Hay, King Goshposh
- Martinson's Jomar Instant (1959) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- National City Bank (1959) : Wilkins and Wontkins
1960s
- Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) : Wilkins and Wontkins (1960)
- Calso Water (1961) : Cal and So (Wilkins and Wontkins) -- 6 8-second IDs, 2 20-second ads
- Frank's Beverages (1961-1963) : Frank and Fink (Wilkins and Wontkins)
- Kraml Dairy (1962) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Dugan's Bread (1962-1963) : Wilkins and Wontkins -- 3 ads
- On-Cor Frozen Foods (1962) : Onky
- Donovan Coffee Company (1962-1967) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Purina Dog Chow (1962-1963) : Rowlf and Baskerville
- Chase Manhattan Bank (Puerto Rico, 1963) : Kermit, Rowlf, Scoop
- Florida Orange Juice (1963)
- Marathon Gasoline (1963) : Pitchman Pumps
- Merita Bread (1963) : Wilkins and Wontkins
- Federal Housing Administration (1963-1969) : Kermit, Scoop and Skip, Big V, Conrad Love
- Fortrel Pillows (1963)
- American Photocopy Equipment Company (industrials, 1964)
- Celanese Chemical Company (industrials, 1964)
- Claussen's Bakery (1964) : Mack and Kermit
- Ivory Liquid (1964) : Male and Female Hands
- Cloverland Dairy (1965) : Cow
- Pak-Nit (industrials, 1965) : Shrinkel and Stretchel, Taminella, Big V, Mack
- Aurora Bath Tissue (1965-1966) : Glove hand ballerina
- C & P Telephone Co. of VA (1965) : Mack and Suzy
- La Choy (1965-1967) : Delbert the La Choy Dragon and Mert
- McGarry's Sausage (1965-1968) : Mack and Kermit
- Southern Bread (1965-1966) : Southern Colonel
- Wilson's Meats (1965-1967) : Scoop and Skip
- American Can Company (1966) : Gloved hand -- one 60-second ad, one 30-second ad
- American Oil/Standard Oil (1966) : Clyde and Charlie
- IBM (industrial, 1966-1967) : Rowlf, Cookie Monster
- Ideal Toys puppets (1966) : Kermit, Rowlf, Snerf
- Kern's Bakery (1966-1969) : Tommy and Fred
- Royal Crown Cola (1966) : Nutty Bird and Sour Bird
- Southern Bell Telephone (1966-1968) : Mack and Suzy
- Wheels, Flutes and Crowns (1966) : Cookie Monster, Beautiful Day Monster
- Linit Fabric Finish (1967) : Sir Linit
- Bufferin (1967): "Memories"
- Taystee Bread (1967) : Wilkins and Wontkins -- 9 commercials, Texas markets
- Tastee Freez (1967) : Boss and Homer
- Flying A Dealers (industrials, 1968)
- Gleem Toothpaste (industrials and a test commercial, 1968): Clyde and Horace
- Kenner Easy Bake Oven (1968): Kenner Gooney Bird
- Monarch Margarine (1968)
- Munchos (1969) : Arnold, Fred
- Mars Sprint Chocolate Wafers (1969)
- RCA (industrials, 1969-1970)
- Thom McAn (industrials, 1969)
1970s
- Hawaiian Punch (1970)
- American Express (late 1970s)
- Mirinda (industrials, 1975-1978)
- Muppet Meeting Films (industrials, 1975-1993)
- Cheerios (1979)[2]
1980s
- Polaroid (1981) (YouTube)
- National Wildlife Federation (1983-1990)
- I Love New York (1984)
- Pampers (1984)
- Swim-a-Thon (1984)
- Cröonchy Stars (1988)
- TNT (1988)
- Better World Society (1989)
- Muchamp Champignons (late 1980s)
1990s
- Target (1994)
- Cheerios (1995)[3]
- Kohl's (1995)
- Frito-Lay (1996)
- TGIF Bumpers (1996)
- United States Mint (1999)
2000s
- Save Louisiana Wetlands (ca. 2000)
- V-chip (2000)
- America's 50 State Quarters Program (2001)
- Shriners Hospitals for Children (2001)
- Virgin Atlantic (2001)
- Denny's (2002)
- Long John Silver's (2002)
- MasterCard (2002-2003)
- UPS (2002)
- McDonald's (2002)
- Pizza Hut (2004-2006)
- Target (2005)
- CanTeen (2005)
- Disney Channel Bumpers (2005)
- Dove (2005)
- NBA (2005)
- Ford (2006)
- Will Rogers Institute (2006)
- Association of Zoos & Aquariums (2008)
- The ESPYs (2008)
- Give a Day. Get a Disney Day. (2009-2010)
2010s
- Wonderful Pistachios (2011 & 2014)
- Underwriters Laboratories (2011)
- Alamo Rent a Car (2011)
- Bounty (2012)
- Orange (2011)
- Cravendale (2012)
- SportsCenter (2013)
- Lufthansa (2014)
- Major League Baseball (2014)
- Toyota (2014)
- Subway (2014)
- Go-Gurt (2014)
- Lipton (2014)
- Sky Movies (2014)
- Audi (2015)
- Warburtons (2015)
- Capital One (2015)
- Small Business Saturday (2015)
- Xfinity (2017)
- PAM (2017)
- Barclaycard (2018)
- Facebook Portal (2019)
2020s
- Adidas (2021)
- GEICO (2021)
- Oris (2023)
- Booking.com (2025)
Sources
- ↑ document acquired during a 2006 visit to the Henson Archives
- ↑ Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography, ebook location 5196 (chapter 10)
- ↑ (YouTube)