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'Ferris' clip is a Super Bowl ad for Honda

Actor Matthew Broderick arrives for the taping of "TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman", at Sony Studios in Culver City, California on June 9, 2011. The special will air June 19th on TV Land. UPI/Jim Ruymen
Actor Matthew Broderick arrives for the taping of "TV Land Presents: AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman", at Sony Studios in Culver City, California on June 9, 2011. The special will air June 19th on TV Land. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A 10-second clip of Hollywood actor Matthew Broderick channeling his iconic film character Ferris Bueller has gotten more than 1.5 million hits on YouTube.

The video shows the now 49-year-old, but still boyish-looking, actor opening a window and musing to the camera, "How can I handle work on a day like today?" -- a nod to his 1986 dodging-high school-classes comedy "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." The clip, which hit the Internet Thursday, ends with the numbers 2.5.12.

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The Web site Jalopnik said the mysterious, yet wildly popular clip is not an ad for a sequel to the 1980s classic, but rather a Super Bowl commercial for Honda.

The report said Honda hired "The Hangover" writer/director Todd Phillips to make the "Ferris Bueller" spoof, spotlighting its vehicles.

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