These Forgotten Toys Want to Know What Love Is. They Want You to Show Them

Freeview revives a classic '80s power ballad

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If your once-loved, coldly discarded belongings could share their feelings of loss and exile, what would it sound like? Like Foreigner, that's what.

In this Leo Burnett spot for British TV service Freeview, a bunch of "left behinds"—mainly unsold toys and figurines—spring to life after a parish rummage sale and sing along with Foreigner's 30-year-old power ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is."

The church's janitor looks appropriately amazed, and kind of horrified, at this unexpected display of free entertainment.

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