Who hasn't been ambitious and in search of a mentor like Wall Street's young stockbroker Bud Fox, or frustrated in a dead-end job like American Beauty's suburban ad executive Lester Burnham, or scared of being fired like the desperate real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross?

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Ideally for AMC, all of this will translate into higher ad rates but the network will also benefit from being able to sell Walking Dead into syndication.

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" Another ad showed a couple in the Ozarks who had bought a Beetle to replace their dead mule, explaining: "It was the only thing to do after the mule died.

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