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“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.

Devastation begat devastation, as the ecological dominoes began to fall.

The 2008 financial crisis and its brutal aftermath placed the ills of capitalism front and center, and begat an understandable skepticism in banks, government and other major institutions.