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Old 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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Old 12-29-2012, 07:52 PM   #2
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Any idea if it can do Erdős–Bacon numbers?
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 12-29-2012, 08:27 PM   #5
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Anne Frank has a Bacon number of 3? o0
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 12-29-2012, 08:40 PM   #8
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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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Old 12-30-2012, 02:28 AM   #9
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Got a seven
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Old 12-30-2012, 02:45 AM   #10
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Oh hey I know Bollywood stars I'm sure they'll own this-

> Shah Rukh Khan: 3
> Amitabh Bachchan: 2
> Aamir Khan: 3

And just for posterity, Tara Strong's bacon number is 2.

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Eight.
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Old 12-30-2012, 03:06 AM   #12
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Eight.
How? Who?
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Old 12-30-2012, 03:18 AM   #13
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Shafter (Pecos Bill) is seven. Igor Morozov (admittedly, I looked for that one) is eight.

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William Rufus Shafter's Bacon number is 7
William Rufus Shafter and Joseph Wheeler appeared in Surrender of General Toral.
Joseph Wheeler and Russell A. Alger appeared in General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff.
Russell A. Alger and William McKinley appeared in President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff.
William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt appeared in President McKinley Inauguration.
Theodore Roosevelt and Walter McGrail appeared in Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation.
Walter McGrail and Patty McCormack appeared in Here Comes the Groom.
Patty McCormack and Kevin Bacon appeared in Frost/Nixon.


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Igor Morozov's Bacon number is 8
Igor Morozov and Ernst Märzendorfer appeared in Verdi: Aida: Eszter Sumegi.
Ernst Märzendorfer and Slovenská filharmónia appeared in La Traviata.
Slovenská filharmónia and Michael Halász appeared in Russian Fireworks.
Michael Halász and Rossana Potenza appeared in Trilogy of Love: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni.
Rossana Potenza and José Carreras appeared in Jose Carreras: Jose Carreras Gala.
José Carreras and Sting appeared in The Tribute to Pavarotti: One Amazing Weekend in Petra.
Sting and Brad Dourif appeared in Dune.
Brad Dourif and Kevin Bacon appeared in Murder in the First.


I knew loads of kids from Shafter, CA, so.
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Old 12-30-2012, 08:05 AM   #14
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My goal in life is now to get a really big bacon number.
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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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Any pickup line involving bacon is a good pickup line.
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Old 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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Old 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.

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Old 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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Old 12-31-2012, 12:32 AM   #20
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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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