Watch the First Commercial for General Mills X Henson's Monster Cereals!

Along with the official announcment, General Mills released the first commercial featuring Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry reimagined by The Jim Henson Company’s 

Take a look as the monsters get ready for their close up in "Behind the Scenes":

Booking.com Books The Muppets For Big Game Commercial!

Booking.com has "booked" The Muppets for a series of commercials debuting during the "Big Game."

The campaign features, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Gonzo, and Statler and Waldorf in a series of ads highlighting their different vacation needs.

From the Booking.com's press release:

Building on its playful and optimistic creative strategy, the new campaign features a colorful cast of characters - spanning from relatable everyday travelers to beloved cultural icons, The Muppets. Whether it’s Kermit the Frog lounging at a beachfront vacation rental, Miss Piggy booking a high-end boutique hotel, a family finding the perfect resort with a waterpark, or a bachelorette party enjoying a classic Vegas hotel experience, Booking.com makes it easier for everyone to find and book their perfect stay with features such as the easy-to-use app and free cancellation.

The integrated campaign will run across TV, streaming, online, audio, paid social and owned channels. It features the 30-second Big Game spot and a variety of 15-second spots, all of which can be viewed on YouTube.com/@bookingcom, as well as creative assets that will run across social channels.

You can watch a two of the spots below:

Be on the lookout during the "Big Game" as our favorite friends try to find the perfect vacation spot Sunday, Feb 9th. 

Animal Appears in New GEICO ad!

Insurance company GEICO has a long history of using famous licensed characters in their ads and now it's The Muppets turn to shill for your 15 minutes to save to 15%. 

Animal appears in the first ad titled "There's An Animal In The Attic."

Sure, maybe there’s an Animal in your attic. And maybe that Animal has been working on that drum solo all night. But at least you can bundle and save with GEICO.

I'm going to go out a limb and guess we'll be seeing Kermit as a non-sequitur "frog in someone's throat", or Miss Piggy's "hamming it up" in future spots. But hey, anything that keeps the characters we love in their preverbal 15 minutes of fame, can't be all bad just as log as they don't lose 15% of their charm along the way. 

DoorDash's New Sesame Street Campaign and Super Bowl Ad!

DoorDash is teaming up with Sesame Street for a new marketing campaign. The food delivery service will have new commercials and content featuring the Sesame Street Muppets including on airing during the Super Bowl.

DoorDash will mark it's first Super Bowl with our Sesame Street friends in as part of a larger campaign to showcase its other services beside food delivery.

The first 60-second spot "The Neighborhood" will run during the first quarter of the game and stars actor/ rapper Daveed Diggs along side Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Grover.

"The Neighborhood" reimagines the clastic Sesame Street song "People in Your Neighborhood"  to highlight all the things that people can order from stores in their communities through DoorDash such as convenience stores, pharmacies and pet suppliers. The spot was directed by Academy Award winner Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

As part of their partnership, DoorDash will donate $1 to Sesame Workshop for every order it receives on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7, up to $1 million.

DoorDash released the teaser below for their Super Bowl ad titled "Reading" feat. Daveed Diggs, and Cookie Monster:

"Daveed Diggs and Cookie Monster spend some time reading while they wait for their DoorDash order to arrive. When Cookie Monster learns that Daveed is expecting their takeout any moment, the blue Muppet decides he needs to finish his book right away. His voracious appetite takes over and he shoves the book straight into his mouth. Although the book has a picture of his beloved baked treats on the cover, Cookie Monster determines that it's a "tough read" when it doesn't break into a million crumbs like the real food."

DoorDash's Sesame Street campaign premiere's during the Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 on CBS.

Oscar's Trashy Squarespace Experience!

Oscar's trash becomes the art word's treasures in this new ad for Squarespace.

Check out the “the worst thing that’s ever happened" to him below/:

Portal's Muppet Holiday Connection!

While there isn't a new Muppet holiday special this year, this extended Portal ad is as close as we'll get and it's amazing. 

A new version of "Rainbow Connection" and the return of Walter make this a must see!

More Muppet Portal Commercials On Your TV!

3 more Facebook's Portal commercials with The Muppets are now airing... on your TV!

Check the new ads featuring Dr. Teeth, Bunsen & Beaker and Ma Bear!

More Muppets Connect Via Portal!

After launching last month, Portal (by Facebook) unveiled a slew of new commercials featuring The Muppets. 

Check out the next 8 commercials below, some featuring characters we haven't seen in years!

A Very Muppet Portal Launch!

The Muppets star in a brand new ad for Portal by facebook.

Watch all the video conferencing mayhem below:

What a great ad! Melancholy and yet still funny, it shows off each characters personality and the choice of characters used was fantastic. Who saw Emily Bear making a comeback? The full Electric Mayhem - yes even Lips! The real question is who was conferencing with Rowlf??

Let's hope this is just the first of many of pieces of new content featuring The Muppets, as Fozzie said... I miss you guys!

More Dark Crystal AOR Trailers & Commercials!

More commercials and trailers have surfaced for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

If you're wondering what all the hype is about here's some behind the scenes footage with the cast and crew:

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance premieres August 30th on Netflix!

The Muppets Shill for Barclaycard Entertainment!

You may have heard that The Muppets are performing a set of live shows at London's O2 arena in June.

What you may not know, is that Barclays bank is an official partner of the venue, and now the all three have teamed up to promote the shows. 

Over the weekend Barclay's had a wrap around ad in the UK paper Evening Standard. As you can see below, the ad features Kermit, Floyd, Animal, Beaker, The Swedish Cehf, Camilla, and Gonzo.

Photos courtesy of Ben Piddington

Yes, they're all basic stock images we've seen before, but they work well in the ads. 

That's not all though. To coincide with the ads, Barclays enlisted the actual Muppets for a TV commercial as well. 

The whole things is timed to promote The Muppet Take the O2 July 13 & 14th. Tickets are on sale now. 

Big Bird and Oscar Appear in New IBM Ad!

Big Bird and Oscar popped up this week in a new ad for IBM. 

Our Sesame Street friends make "very brief cameos" along with the numbers 9 and 5.Titled "A New Day at Work"

Kermit Appears in New Sainsbury Ad!

Sainsbury, the UK's second largest chain of supermarkets, has released their official Christmas commercial "#everybitofChristmas." The jingle is sung by people all over Britain, including Kermit!

Even better, Mat Vogel was assisted by friend of the blog Warrick Brownlow-Pike!

You can see Kermit's all too brief segments in the complete ad below:

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. 

Swedish Chef Plays with PAM!

The Muppets have a had long tradition of appearing in commercials. This week Conagra Foods released two new ads for PAM featuring everyone's favorite culinary calamity - The Swedish Chef!

Both ads come in 30 and 16 second varieties. Bon Appetit!


The Swedish Chef Makes Sautéed Vegetables: (30 Seconds)

The Swedish Chef Makes Sautéed Vegetables: (16 Seconds)

The Swedish Chef Makes Croquembouche: (30 Seconds)

The Swedish Chef Makes Croquembouche: (16 Seconds)

 For a Throwback Thursday bonus, check out the chef is this 2012 ad for Bounty:

Cookie Monster Asks "Hey Siri" in New iPhone Ad!

In the 90's, Apple had a series of successful ads featuring "Mac vs PC" today Apple unveiled it's latest celebrity ad "Timer," and now it's time for Cookie Monster vs Siri!

That's right, everyone's favorite cookie fiend is the star of Apple's latest campaign touting the virtues of hands-free Siri.

The ad has another Muppet connection as well the song played while Cookie Monster waits is Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle", which was song by Jim Henson on The Muppet Show:

Kermit and Miss Piggy in New Ad for Capital One!

We shared a screenshot of the very of this ad over the weekend and now we can share it in it's entirely!

As you'll see the ad also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Charles Barkley, and Spike Lee!

Throwback Thursday: Delbert, The La Choy Dragon!

Yesterday our friends at The Muppet Mindset showcased The La Choy Dragon as part of their Weekly Muppet Wednesdays series.

For today's Throwback Thursday check out the fire breather in action in these La Choy commercials that aired between 1965 and 1967. 

Delbert, the dragon's actual name, was not only  featured in commercials but also on packaging as well. 

He was even available for kids at home to play with via a 3 ft inflatable version and hand puppet!