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Ads We Hate: Red Roof Inn guy can multi-task!
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edGod, this ad irritates the hell out of me. Nothing against Red Roof Inns. I'm sure they're fine establishments. It's the angle of the ad that I find...
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Another summer, another annoying Old Navy commercial
Filed under: Gripes, Online, Television, Ads We Hate, Campaign Launch, Op-edFor a major retail chain, Old Navy has been remarkably consistent in its ability to create TV commercials that absolutely...
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Ads We Hate: Andersen windows
Filed under: Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edI'm not sure if this is a regional ad or a national one for Andersen Windows, I just know it annoys me. It starts off with children looking wistfully out of a...
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Ads We Hate: Mike's Hard Lemonade
Filed under: Funny, Television, Ads We HateOnce again, I have to preface this by saying "hate" isn't quite the right word. This is more like an ad that just doesn't impress me all that much. We all...
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Ads We Hate: Dockers Spin the Bottle
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edDockers has been running a series of commercials for awhile now that focus on chance romantic encounters, such as the one where two people spot each...
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Ads We Hate: commercials with badly filled grocery bags
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We HateThis isn't just one ad that irks me, it's several ads I've seen over the years. Whenever they show someone in a commercial carrying a bag of groceries, the...
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Ads We Hate: Commercials for cold drinks
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edI hate summer.There, I said it. I know that might make me seem "weird" to people, but I don't care. It's mostly because of the heat and humidity...
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Ads We Hate: MetLife's The Ifs in Life
Filed under: Television, Ads We Hate, Op-ed, Streaming VideoOkay, I'll admit right up front here that I'm not a very patient person, and that has a lot to do with why this commercial for MetLife kind...
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Ads We Hate: unrealistic car commercials
Filed under: Gripes, Viral, Online, Television, Ads We Hate, Campaign Launch, Op-edI haven't owned a car in years, so maybe I'm not the ideal demographic for car ads, but there is a kind of car...
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Ads We Hate: Frosted Mini Wheats' spelling bee
Filed under: Print, Television, Ads We HateThis ad for Frosted Mini Wheats begins with a young girl at her school spelling bee. She begins to spell "aardvark" incorrectly, but her little edible pal, a...
View ArticleAds We Hate: Audrey Hepburn dances for Gap
Filed under: Television, Ads We Hate, Streaming VideoAt first glance, watching the late actress Audrey Hepburn dance to AC/DC's "Back in Black" is mildly entertaining, but then one has to ask...
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Ads We Hate: Ampd white kid
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edI've been alive long enough to know that advertisers, like that fortysomething man who hangs out at high school basketball games even though he has no...
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Ads We Hate: Loch Ness monster grabs a Toyota
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Campaign Launch, Op-edThis is yet another example of a commercial that is absolutely no help to the consumer whatsoever. A documentary filmmaker is walking...
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Ads We Hate: Nike's The LeBrons
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We HateHas everyone else seen the new Nike ad starring LeBron James? It's the one where James plays four different sides of his personality and is labeled, "The...
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Ads We Hate: Ford lady buys dry cleaning
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edI thought that when I got older, illogical commercials wouldn't be as irritating to me as they were when I was younger. But if anything, I'm even more...
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Ads We Hate: Lexus and the red bows
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edIt's Christmas time, so you know what that means: those damn commercials where one spouse gives a brand new Lexus to their mate. Oh, it's so...
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Ads We Hate: KIA team can't dance
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Campaign Launch, Op-edIt's not an easy thing to create a successful ad that uses singing and dancing. Either the singing is OK but the commercial is...
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The General creeps me out 1.5 times
Filed under: Gripes, Online, Television, Ads We HateStupid jingle that is stuck in my head, *singing* "call 1-800-GENERAL now!" Please tell me that your brain has not had the unfortunate displeasure of...
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Ads We Hate: S.L.O.M.
Filed under: Gripes, Television, Ads We Hate, Op-edHas there ever been an anti-drug commercial that didn't treat its target audience like they were complete idiots? If there is, I haven't seen it yet....
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Cingular rebrand a waste of equity (and money)
Filed under: Funny, Gripes, Online, Print, Radio, Television, Ads We Hate, Wireless, Campaign Launch, Op-edFor some time now, we've been hearing rumors that "the new at&t" would be changing the...
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