12-29-2012, 06:23 PM | #1 |
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Google's Bacon Number
You probably know the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but did you know that Google got in on the fun earlier this year? If you type any actor's name and follow it with the words "bacon number", you'll get their shortest connection to Kevin Bacon.
Examples: tom hanks bacon number: 1 Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13. jamie foxx bacon number: 2 Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Aniston appeared in Horrible Bosses. Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Bacon appeared in Picture Perfect. benicio del toro bacon number: 2 Benicio del Toro and Gary Oldman appeared in Basquiat. Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon appeared in Criminal Law. jerry seinfeld bacon number: 2 Jerry Seinfeld and Elizabeth Perkins appeared in The Thing About My Folks. Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Bacon appeared in He Said, She Said. david duchovny bacon number: 2 David Duchovny and Ed Harris appeared in Phantom. Ed Harris and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13. john rhys davies bacon number: 2 John Rhys-Davies and Sean Astin appeared in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Sean Astin and Kevin Bacon appeared in White Water Summer.
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12-29-2012, 07:52 PM | #2 |
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Any idea if it can do Erdős–Bacon numbers?
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12-29-2012, 08:04 PM | #3 |
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So did anyone manage to get 4 or above?
The problem is if they're too obscure it doesn't show any results >>; The most I can get is 3 with anime VAs, but a lot of famous actors voice characters in Studio Ghibli films so it's still quite easy to make the Kevin Bacon connection.
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12-29-2012, 08:24 PM | #4 |
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I couldn't off the top of my head, emp. Thought I'd get it easily, but turns out Wilt Chamberlain and Shaquille O'Neal both have Bacon numbers of 2.
Highest I found was Evel Knievel and Carl Sagan, with a Bacon Number of 3. EDIT: Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein have a 3 as well.
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Anne Frank has a Bacon number of 3? o0
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12-29-2012, 08:30 PM | #6 |
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Aha!
Tim Tebow and Helen Keller have Bacon numbers of 4.
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12-29-2012, 08:38 PM | #7 |
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I remembered Serena Williams voicing a character in Avatar: The Last Airbender. She has a a bacon number of 4. Then I tried her sister Venus who has a bacon number of 5.
Venus Williams's Bacon number is 5 Venus Williams and Roger Federer appeared in 2008 Wimbledon Official Film. Roger Federer and Andy Roddick appeared in Wimbledon 2009 Official Film. Andy Roddick and John McEnroe appeared in Unstrung. John McEnroe and Marisa Tomei appeared in Anger Management. Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon appeared in Loverboy. I would've thought a guest appearance in The Simpsons would've reduced her number to 2.
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It claims James May has a bacon number of five, but that's wrong as it gives Jeremy Clarkson a bacon number of two. I happen to know an eight (the Kevin Bacon conversation being one my friends have had lots of times) and google recognises it. Haven't been able to personally find any higher than a four though.
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12-30-2012, 03:06 AM | #12 |
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My goal in life is now to get a really big bacon number.
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12-30-2012, 08:23 AM | #15 |
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Sounds like a pickup line. "Hey, baby, want to see my Bacon number? It's in the double digits."
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12-30-2012, 09:53 AM | #17 |
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The real trick seems to be in getting something that's obscure enough to not be a 2 or 3, but not so obscure that Google doesn't recognise it.
Tried a few Japanese VAs and while Google knows some of them, as soon as I start typing in minor bit-parts it just twiddles its thumbs and is all like 'no man, I dunno what you're talking about'
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12-30-2012, 05:25 PM | #18 |
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According to this, which used all 2.1 million of IMDb's actor database, there is only 32 people with a Bacon number of 8. 8 being the highest Bacon number there is.
William Rufus Shafter is the highest Bacon Number I've found, with 7. Last edited by Treepandaone; 12-30-2012 at 05:27 PM. |
12-30-2012, 11:18 PM | #19 |
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Deoxys has a bacon number of 3.
Deoxys met John de Lancie. John de Lancie and Jeff Bridges appeared in Fearless. Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon appeared in R.I.P.D.. |
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Amras.MG had sex with all women.
Kevin Bacon's mother is a woman. So is that 2? |
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