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When a character (usually female) is captured by the Big Bad or seen in a suspicious place by other characters. Also used as a (bad) pickup line. The traditional wording is "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756 |
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In Finding Nemo, Bruce the shark asks Dory and Marlin, "What's a couple of bites like you doing in a zone like this?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756 |
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| Finding Nemo |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13d88835 |
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Cowboy Bebop (2021). In "Cowboy Gospel", Spike Spiegel apologizes in advance for giving what sounds like a bad pickup line before saying the trope to Katerina Solensan. It's actually a relevant question, as she's a Poor Little Rich Kid on the run with the Villain of the Week. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13d88835 |
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| Cowboy Bebop (2021) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d |
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In The Pretender episode A Stand-Up Guy, Jarod strikes up a conversation with a woman whose restaurant has become a gang hangout, and asks her in a joking tone what a nice girl like her is doing in a place like this. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d |
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| The Pretender |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_19a42c6f |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_19a42c6f |
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In the dressing-room scene of A Hard Day's Night, the Fab Four are quipping up a storm. Not to be outdone, their assistant Shake says this to a blank-faced mannequin, which being inanimate doesn't respond. Tumbleweed ensues. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_19a42c6f |
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| A Hard Day's Night |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_20948a39 |
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Guybrush says this to De Singe in Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal: "So, how'd a dazzling urbanite like yourself wind up in a sleepy pirate island like Flotsam?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_20948a39 |
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| Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_20948a39 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02 |
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Evie from The Mummy (1999) gets the line mixed up while drunk. "I know what you're thinking. What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?" Rick responds, "Something like that." |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02 |
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| The Mummy (1999) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d |
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City of Angels: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d |
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| City of Angels (Theatre) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e |
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One of Johnny Cage's intros against D'Vorah in Mortal Kombat 11 parodies the Casablanca example. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e |
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| Mortal Kombat 11 (Video Game) |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783 |
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A Garfield comic had this exchange: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783 |
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| Garfield (Comic Strip) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077 |
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Likewise Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965). "What's a rotten girl like you doing in a nice place like this?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077 |
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| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_53a73ca0 |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Blue Shadow Virus": Dr. Vindi and Padmé: In season 4 a mook tries to hit on Asajj Ventress like this and gets lightsabered for his trouble. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_53a73ca0 |
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| Star Wars: The Clone Wars |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_5e629cf6 |
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This happens twice in Lady and the Tramp: After saving Lady from the vicious dogs in the alley, Tramp asks her, "Hey Pidge, what are you doing on this side of the tracks?" Lady is taken to the dog pound, but she is released when her owners come by to take her home. As the dog catcher lets her out, he tells her that she's "too nice a girl" to be in the pound. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_5e629cf6 |
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| Lady and the Tramp |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_60e46926 |
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Parodied in "Movie Dialogue We'd Like To Hear" from MAD: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_60e46926 |
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| MAD (Magazine) |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1 |
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Upon linking up with the mole in Fallout's Final Dungeon: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1 |
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| Fallout (Video Game) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9 |
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Dick Dastardly in the Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines episode "Fly-By-Knights" laments "What's a nice guy like me doing in a cooped-up outfit like this?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9 |
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| Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562 |
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Inverted on One Life to Live: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562 |
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| One Life to Live |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade |
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George of the Jungle has Ape's book on "human courtship rituals" (Coffee, Tea or Me, a real-life book about two lusty young fictional stewardesses) offer this pickup line: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a plane like this?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade |
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| George of the Jungle |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057 |
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Subverted in Following: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057 |
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| Following |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9 |
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Dragon Quest IV: Psaro says this to the heroine Sofia in the DS version if she speaks to him at the beginning of Chapter 5. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9 |
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| Dragon Quest IV (Video Game) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f |
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Happens in Rocketship X-M (1950), the place being a rocketship in outer space. The woman in question chides the line-giver for thinking she should Stay in the Kitchen. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f |
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| Rocketship X-M |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9 |
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In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the Joker asks a variation of this: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9 |
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1.0 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9 |
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1.0 |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8 |
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Doctor Who: "The Web of Fear": Someone asks a female scientist "What's a girl like you doing in a job like this?" She's not impressed. "The End of the World": While heading through a maintenance duct investigating what's wrong with Platform One, the Doctor asks Plant Alien Jabe why exactly she's attending the event being held: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8 |
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1.0 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8 |
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1.0 |
| Doctor Who |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f |
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Dink Smallwood mod Dry: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f |
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1.0 |
| Dink Smallwood (Video Game) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76 |
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In Disney's Home on the Range: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76 |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76 |
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1.0 |
| Home on the Range |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb |
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Casablanca puts a negative spin on this trope: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb |
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| Casablanca |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd |
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Deadpool (2016) just HAS to put a spin on it: "What's a nice place like you doing in a girl like this?" |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd |
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| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd |
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| Deadpool (2016) |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a flashback scene showing how Angel was sired by Darla. Posing as an aristocratic lady out for illicit adventure, she lures drunken hedonist Liam into an alley to give him a Kiss of the Vampire. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a |
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1.0 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a |
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1.0 |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee |
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Fi from Burn Notice tends to get this whenever she visits a seedy bar or hangout. It never ends well for the guy asking. |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee |
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1.0 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee |
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1.0 |
| Burn Notice |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "11001001", said by Riker to a hologram: "What's a knockout brunette like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?" In "Contagion", the Enterprise rendezvouses with their sister ship, the Yamato, and hails them: |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f |
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1.0 |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation |
hasFeature |
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f |