McGarry's Sausage

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Kermit and Mack appeared in ads for McGarry's Sausage. 30 scripts were offered, including two written especially for the commercials, but only 11 ten-second ads were produced back in 1964, and they aired from 1965 to 1968, and in 1968 the ads were rerun and some were even dubbed in French. The ads were very similar to the ads produced for Wilkins Coffee (1957-1961) and Claussen's Bakery (1964-1966), among others.
Mack's agenda of pushing McGarry's Sausage intruded on the bounds of his friendship with Kermit on several occasions. Somehow, it was hilarious and struck a chord with customers. In one ad ("Wake Up"), Mack whispers to a sleeping Kermit, "Do you eat McGarry's Sausages for breakfast?" Kermit murmurs and settles back down to sleep. Undaunted, Mack replies, "You should," and produces a pistol. He fires the gun into the air, yelling, "They start your day with a BANG!" Kermit leaps out of bed with a loud shriek, shaking and fearing for his life as he's woken up.
In the other ads, some of the torments Mack inflicts on Kermit include biting him on the arm, threatening him with a cleaver, making him explode, dropping a heavy ball on him, and dropping him from a high window.
Image:Donsahlin3.jpg|Don Sahlin A behind the scenes pic of a McGarry's commercial.
==Commercials==
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Additional titles that appear in Henson's files are "Attention," "Give 'Em Eggs," and "My Dead Body."
==External Links==
*Jim Henson's Red Book -- 3/31/1964 -- Filmed McGarry's Sausage in Toronto
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Category:TV Commercials