The show mocks Todd's blithe, well-meaning ignorance as much as it lampoons Indians trying to sell catalog items like fake vomit and "jiggle jugs".
(McCaughan, who is both the lead singer of Superchunk and the co-founder of Merge, also had a more pragmatic answer to the question of why Superchunk shouldn't break up: "Because bands that break up don't keep selling catalog records").
Other studios are expected to start selling catalog films on iTunes in the near future, though none have indicated they are willing to cut prices for films just as they hit DVD.
Storage has traditionally been like a cross selling catalog, with vendors filling in their product portfolios by OEM'ing equipment from others Dell actually resells EMC's high-end storage gear today.
After graduating, Ms. Taylor got a job as a receptionist selling catalogs at the Sotheby's outpost in Chester, England.
In many cases, he was offering to sell catalogs that were once independent but over the years had been absorbed into EMI, like those of Virgin, Mute and Chrysalis.
"He saw one of those infomercials where this guy was selling catalogs of government grants for $99," recalled Paul Ruben, an uncle of Mr. Johnson and a software engineer in Murray, Utah.
Ten years later, he sold the catalog to Sony for $95 million and took a 50% stake in the combined catalog, Sony/ATV, which is now worth an estimated $1.7 to $2 billion.
After several failed attempts to find a publisher, the brothers signed with an American distributor that soon went out of business and sold its catalog to Ubisoft, which cancelled the brothers' contract.
At the urging of Alexander Gardner, then the manager of his Washington studio, Brady sold his catalog of portrait negatives to the E. and H. T. Anthony Company in 1861 as the foundation of its photographic publishing business.
