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If you're the type of oaf who can't help but interrupt your child's school play by shouting inanely from the audience, eBay will still take your money.
So says this ad, the fifth in a new series from Venables Bell & Partners for the online auction brand. The spot opens on a stage, and cuts quickly to a glassy-eyed, gaping-mouthed man, presumably a father, dozing off in the seats. The grade-school performers, wearing period costumes that evoke 19th-century westward pioneers (read: the Oregon Trail), begin to sing a vanilla rendition of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain."
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