Actually, the commercial itself plays off of the well-known "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" which states, in a paraphrased manner, that any actor (or other member of Hollywood, I suppose) can be linked back to Kevin Bacon in six degrees or less. This is, of course, just a specific example of the degress of seperation. But, the Bacon slant didn't "just show up"...I recall seeing a websitethat would actually show you any actor's linke to Bacon several years ago. I guess it's still around...I dunnno.
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Actually, the commercial itself plays off of the well-known "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" which states, in a paraphrased manner, that any actor (or other member of Hollywood, I suppose) can be linked back to Kevin Bacon in six degrees or less. This is, of course, just a specific example of the degress of seperation. But, the Bacon slant didn't "just show up"...I recall seeing a websitethat would actually show you any actor's linke to Bacon several years ago. I guess it's still around...I dunnno.