"When Bravo jumped in, you can imagine the people at the Food Network wringing their hands and thinking, 'How could they be capitalizing on something we created?' " he said.
"Frasier" does, in fact, capitalize on something that those 1930's and 40's movies reveled in: the special connection between a rather hesitant, girlishly soft, unbelievably innocent man and a more down-to-earth, sharp-tongued, worldly-wise woman.
Whether it is an organized effort to improve a baby's communication skills or a marketing technique to captivate anxious parents and capitalize on something instinctively known by parents for generations remains a matter of debate.
But how much can someone really love mango?! Clearly these clever girls had capitalized on something.
Lao: I think [there was this] alternative way of thinking from the late-90s made the kids think that if you are an artist, earning money is bad and it's wrong, because you're capitalizing on something that should be for free.
Draw Something capitalizes on one of the surprises of the Internet era: that communication, if you fracture and constrain it enough, can become a game in itself.
Early response to the controller device has been lukewarm, with many criticizing its battery life (three to five hours) and how it can't operate as a standalone device without the Wii U base, something Sony is capitalizing on by making the Vita a second-screen device for some PS3 games.
And people sometimes find rule-breakers attractive ― something Trump has capitalized on throughout his campaign by presenting himself as an outsider who's not afraid to say what people are really thinking.
American tourists have been able to travel to the country on their own via what's known as individual "people-to-people" educational trips (something airlines have capitalized on by adding direct flights from the U.S. to Cuba), but they will now have to qualify for a visa under one of 12 authorized travel categories, which will be more intensely enforced.
"I got nervous right away that what we were capitalizing on was something that I'm sometimes very tired of in myself," she said.
