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Topic: Hitler

Hitler Sells Shampoo in Turkish TV Commercial Spot pitches 'a real man's shampoo'

In the most bizarre ad fail of the year so far, Adolf Hitler takes a break from selling condoms to pitch shampoo in this TV spot, which is airing on…

March 26 2012

ESPN Drops Hank Williams Jr. Song for Obama-Hitler Remark Singer defends comments

Sports broadcaster ESPN pulled its signature song from Monday night’s NFL broadcast after country singer Hank Williams Jr. seemingly compared Barack Obama to Hitler during an interview earlier in the…

October 04 2011

Fashion ad's pink Hitler has Italy seeing red

Hitler is already a theme this week. This time, a clothing company in Italy put up billboards in Palermo showing the Nazi leader in a pink uniform with a…

May 24 2010

Jordan's Hanes Hitler 'stache raising a furor

That new Michael Jordan campaign for Hanes, which we wrote about last week, really does have people buzzing, though it's not Jordan's "lie-flat collar" that they're fixated on. Viewers…

May 24 2010

PETA gets away with doggie Hitler-tisement

Hitler rears his ugly head all the time in rogue ads. Just in the past year, we seen him having sex in an AIDS awareness campaign, swimming with sperm…

March 25 2010

Retailer's ad stars Hitler-James Dean hybrid

Adolf Hitler and James Dean were both resurrected for ads recently—Hitler for that racy AIDS-awareness campaign from Germany, Dean for a South African insurance spot. But now, thanks to…

October 01 2009

Sleeping with Adolf Hitler never a good idea

I thought I'd make it safely through the week without another ad surfacing to rival DDB Brazil's 9/11 WWF work in terms of bad taste. I also figured I'd…

September 04 2009

Use a condom, thwart that evil Hitler sperm

Do condom ads reflect the mind-sets of nations? In the U.S., we get faux-patriotism and soft-core porn, while the French have safe sex on the beach. Now, from Germany,…

April 13 2009

Hat company breaks Germans' Hitler taboo

What's the difference between Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin? "It's the hat," suggests the ad above, for Hut Weber hats. Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports that the ad “is groundbreaking…

April 15 2008

Don’t even ask Hitler about getting a Wii

It can always be a tough job to make Microsoft look like a good guy. I mean, John Hodgman can’t carry all the weight. But sometimes a company gets a…

June 08 2007

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