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plays the song at the bar) walks up to the corpse afterwards, thinking it's a living person, and tells him that, since its closing time, he needs to leave... adding "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here". Diffie then claps the corpse on his shoulder and leaves. The corpse begins to sway and collapses next to the jukebox. The video has been described as "
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