american express

[AVALOVE007]

Is it weird that a credit card commercial makes me cry? Cause I really started to cry. I love Jim Henson with all my heart. He is my hero. He is greatly missed. :'(

[AntiVenom36]

People should care about Jim Henson because he's the creators of The Muppets and the original voice of Kermit the Frog.

[ElfDa]

i miss you, Mr Henson. :'c

[LextheRobot]

This one's more complete at the very beginning than the OgilvyMuseum version that can be found here on YouTube, but I like the other one's picture quality better. Maybe someone can cobble them together.

As for Strangepork, that's the "At the Dance" proto-Strangepork in the purple tux, seen in Season One. He was converted into Dr. Julius Strangepork for Season Two, if I remember correctly, so that could nail down the timeline to within the first Season of the Muppet Show.

[Leon108]

We still miss you, Jim.

[collgoff]

This is silly!

[Musiclover19]

It's kind of a shame that last, I don't know, two seconds are cut. When Jim goes the American Express card and all you hear from the Muppets are "Don't leave home without....

As for when this was made, since I seen Niguel (the yellow muppet) and Jim doesn't have a more gray bread he got from later years. So I'm thinking during season 1 or at the most season 2 of the Muppet show. So I'm thinking 1976 or 1977. No later than 1978, I'm thinking.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

I didn't know he did this, interesting that by the looks of it (since main muppets aren't in it I presume) it was made in the early seventies possibly, before the muppet show and it's after the 50s and 60s ads.

[ZeppoThePuppetMan]

It has to be after The Muppet Show started because Scooter's in it.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Good spotting, I didn't notice that, the others are just background muppet sthough so it was hard to pinpoint.

[ErnieandBert1]

...and Floyd.

[neohemp]

@doctorwhoobawooba I get the impression that it's just simply archive footage. The card at the end doesn't look like any specific card (American Express or otherwise) so it may just be footage from something else?

[superleviathan]

When was this commercial made? Floyd, Scooter and Julius Strangepork are among the Muppets, so i'm guessing late 70's-early 80's?

[Musiclover19]

@superleviathan Sorry I removed by last comment. I was thinking of a different American express card that uses this extact same footage as this one, but this isn't it. This one must of been from the 70s or 80s. But they reused this footage in 2008 and that's what I was thinking of. again sorry for my mistake.

[mkluvsdabees]

I <3 JIM HENSON! One of my heroes!

[Reyrocksall]

Long Live Jim!

[MptLvr]

I love that SO MUCH!!! Who's seen the new mastercard commercial with scenes from in this in it yet? It's around here somewhere...

[Basssinger86]

"You know me? I created the Muppets

BIG DEAL!!!

lol, awesome

[HCShannon]

I <3 his vest!

[FLPman]

i miss Jim dearly

[miffleman182]

You can really hear his muppet voices in his voice.

[solidfoamsoul]

Jim Henson did a commercial? Awesome! And love the vest. But it is really choppy.

[rangerkom]

actually he did a lot of commercials when he was younger. look for the wilson coffee, commercials and others.

[solidfoamsoul]

Oh I meant Jim Henson as HIMSELF. That's impressive. LOL

[MptLvr]

Love it... can anyone fix it up?

[F1315NJ]

its choppy.

[gfarkwort]

COOL!...That was a Fun commercial....never even knew he did this. Thanks for putting it up!