(wilkins throws wontkins out from the suspended airplane) Wilkins, the serious, cheerful one who loved coffee, regularly tortured his protagonist, the lovable wontkins, who did not like coffee. Fetco CBS31Aap Single Airpot Auto Coffee Brewer Machine Or else.that’s the message of these curiously sadistic tv commercials produced by jim henson between 1957 and 1961.All wilkins coffee commercials. In fact, they were so popular that in 1958, wilkins coffee decided to cash in on the popularity of wilkins and wontkins, and offered vinyl puppet.