Here's What Happens When Cohle From True Detective Meets The Kids From Those AT&T Ads [THE BRIEF]

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Actor and comedian Ross Marquand has made a terrific parody of AT&T's popular "It's Not Complicated" ads, that previously featured a group of schoolchildren giving goofy answers to simple questions from the comedian Beck Bennett. In it, Marquand plays Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey's bizarre True Detective character, quizzing a group of kids instead of answering questions from other detectives. Here's how it went down:

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