Nestlé

Nespresso 2017

2017 Nespresso commercial

The Swedish Chef selling Nestlé products in The Muppets Take Manhattan

Ulitsa Sezam packaging

Nestlé is a food and beverage company headquartered in Switzerland.

Nesquik, Nestlé's brand of chocolate-flavored milk, released a pencil case as a promotional tie-in with the release of Labyrinth in 1986.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop created animatronic squirrels in 1992 for a Nestlé's Nut Clusters commercial that aired in the United Kingdom.

In 2002, Ulitsa Sezam characters were featured on Russian packaging for Nestlé Classic milk chocolate.

Mentions

In 2017 George Clooney appeared in a commercial for Nespresso (Nestlé's brand of espresso and coffee from coffee capsules) that inserted Clooney into scenes from classic films. The commercial repurposed footage from The Muppet Movie with Fozzie offering Clooney a lift and inserting Clooney into the backseat of the Studebaker with Kermit and Fozzie.

Of appearing in a scene with the characters, Clooney said: "The Muppets - I learned a lot of things from the Muppets. Good acting lessons to learn from the Muppets. They're always happy. You know, they bop their heads like this."

References

• During a game of "Here Are Some Things" in Episode 0113 of Sesame Street, Susan identifies a drawing of cookies as "Toll House cookies"; Toll House is owned by Nestlé.

• The movie theater that Scooter and The Swedish Chef work at in The Muppets Take Manhattan sells Nestlé products including Nestlé Crunch and Nestlé Almond bars, Sno-Caps, and Raisinets.

• In Episode 4075 of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster, hungry for cookies, inquires about a book Gabi is reading. She tells him it's Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, to which Cookie responds, "Tolstoy not cookie, Toll House cookie!"

• Cookie Monster's song "Share It Maybe" makes a lyrical reference to Toll House.