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Dead Nationwide kid speaks out, says "April Fools!" to the country

In a surprising twist to the controversial Nationwide Super Bowl commercial, the dead kid from it, whom oddly enough appeared to be alive when we spoke with him, said, "April Fools, America!"

When asked why the "joke" of a commercial was released on February 1st as opposed to April 1st, the dead kid said, "Come on! What April Fools jokes catch the most people by surprise? Those told in February! Duh!"

He then went on at length about the concept of the commercial, saying, "Like, we were totally going to try and be funny like everyone else, right? But then we quickly realized that none of us were that funny, you know? I mean, we had ideas about there being a food fight in the kitchen of someone's home and then the mom slips on some ice cream, falls to the ground, and yells out, 'Damn you, Ben! Damn you Jerry!" but we didn't want to seem too anti-ice cream or even too, what's that word? Too lac, lax, laxative-intolerant or whatever that is... So, we decided to like, you know, catch everyone off guard by playing an April Fools joke about a dead kid on everyone, and in February no less! The adults in the room were like, and don't tell my mom I said this, but they said, 'This has to be the funniest s**t we've ever come up with!' So, yeah, that's how it happened and stuff. The adults were laughing really hard for some reason. I kept seeing them passing around soda cans and smoke was coming out from them, but I have no idea what that was all about. I think they might have been cooking something."

When asked if the ad's creators ever intended on the commercial being taken seriously, the dead kid said, "No! What do you think we are, stupid or something? I mean, come on! It's not like we threw the ball from the 1-yard-line instead of handing it off to that Beast dude, you know?"

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