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The Cost of a Super Bowl Ad

January 19, 2009

How much does it cost to get a ad during the Super Bowl?  Only $3 Million for a 30 second spot during this years (2009) Super Bowl.  NBC states that it has sold 90% of its add spots for this years program, and is estimating around 100 million viewers in the US.

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Morris the Cat

October 27, 2008

“Morris the cat, famous for his many television commercials for 9-Lives cat food, began his career more than 3 decades ago. From homeless to hollywood, the original Morris was rescued from a Chicago animal shelter in 1968. Morris has been portrayed by many different, yet similar looking cats over the years, and after lying low for a few years, Morris is now back.”

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TV Aspect Ratio

“HDTVs have an aspect ratio of 16:9, like a movie screen, while standard defintion television have an square shaped aspect ratio of 4:3.”
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List of Homer Simpson’s Jobs

Excluding these non-canon jobs, Homer has had 109 jobs as of now.
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Jumping The Shark

From wikipedia.org
“Jumping the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak, or has introduced plot twists that are illogical in terms of everything that has preceded them.” 
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