Driving in Chrysler's with Sesame Muppets!

The Sesame Street Muppets are back behind the wheel of their Chrysler Pacifica's!

Chrysler released two new videos featuring the Sesame gang this week. (If you missed the first batch you can watch them here.)

In the first video Bert, Ernie, Elmo, and Abby take their Pacifica to the beach:

The second video features Ernie carpooling the gang to school while Grover shows off his ever expanding collection of random letter objects, and the return of Luis!

Sesame Street Slings for Chrysler!

The Muppets have always been known for making commercials. Since the very beginning, Jim Henson financed his company by using his characters to sell products. You can see many of these early commercials here. 

The Sesame Street characters, however, were mostly shielded from this practice. They were used to sell numbers and letters, not actual commercial products. Even when they did stray into shilling for products they usually featured a Sesame product whose sale fed back into Sesame Street itself. 

That doesn't seem to be the case of these new Sesame Street spots for the Chrysler Pacifica. Their very clever just like the old school Henson commercials were (minus the carton violence) and the characters and relationships are all intact. It just feels odd seeing these characters hawk a product that's not directly aimed at children.