Wearing my KidScreen hat, I've been attending international licensing events for several years and always come back to the office grilling RealScreeners about why I hadn't seen much non-fiction fare during my scouting. I'm a perfect target purchaser for non-fiction consumer product. I quite honestly didn't know what a stud finder was, but went out to the local hardware store and picked one up after a particularly inspiring episode of Trading Spaces one weekend. If there were a Ty Pennington brand on the shelf would I have bought that instead of the generic one? Absolutely. Ditto for Iron Chef brand knives. I haven't gotten the Jamie Oliver fry pans, but that's probably only because I bought a new set before his came out.

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