America Finally Thanks France for the Statue of Liberty in Etsy's Debut Super Bowl Ad

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If you can remember back to grade school and the inevitable lesson about the Statue of Liberty, you probably recall that it was a gift to the United States from France. You might remember that it arrived in 1885. You may even recall that Gustave Eiffel built the iron framework inside the statue.

But did you know that the 151-foot-tall copper statue showed up in New York Harbor standing on the deck of a ship?

Well, actually, it didn’t—but it does in the Super Bowl ad for Etsy released today.

Titled “Thank you, France,” the 30-second ad is a rich (if not entirely accurate) historical tableau that invokes the biggest gift America ever received to pose a question that many of us can relate to: Once someone gives you a killer present, what on earth do you give them in return?

“We started the whole thing with this notion of: how do we turn...

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