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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?

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29 feature instances
27 referencing feature instances

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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?	comment	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756	featureConfidence	1.0
Finding Nemo	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13652756
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13d88835	type	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	comment	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.
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_13d88835
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_17024c6d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pretender	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_19a42c6f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Hard Day's Night	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_19a42c6f
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_20948a39	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_20948a39	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mummy (1999)	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_2b113e02
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d	type	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	comment	City of Angels:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3274a15d	featureConfidence	1.0
City of Angels (Theatre)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortal Kombat 11 (Video Game)	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_3504b58e
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783	type	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	comment	A Garfield comic had this exchange:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_44e0b783
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_526bb077
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_53a73ca0	type	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_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Blue Shadow Virus": Dr. Vindi and PadmÃ©: 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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_53a73ca0	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars: The Clone Wars	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_53a73ca0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_5e629cf6	type	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_5e629cf6	comment	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.
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Lady and the Tramp	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_5e629cf6
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_60e46926	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_60e46926	featureConfidence	1.0
MAD (Magazine)	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_60e46926
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1	type	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_6c1d09b1	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6c1d09b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout (Video Game)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9	featureConfidence	1.0
Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_6e884bf9
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562	type	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	comment	Inverted on One Life to Live:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_78b8e562	featureConfidence	1.0
One Life to Live	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade	featureConfidence	1.0
George of the Jungle	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_7ad0ade
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057	type	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_8f046057	comment	Subverted in Following:
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_8f046057	featureConfidence	1.0
Following	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_959e6c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_a301927f	featureConfidence	1.0
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ab4f6c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	Dink Smallwood mod Dry:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c4ed1c1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Dink Smallwood (Video Game)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	In Disney's Home on the Range:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_c9125d76	featureConfidence	1.0
Home on the Range	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	Casablanca puts a negative spin on this trope:
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d3634dbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Casablanca	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_d7626bdd	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadpool (2016)	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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	featureApplicability	1.0
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_f4e799ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Burn Notice	hasFeature	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	type	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	comment	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:
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Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? / int_ff9ab17f

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?	processingCategory2	This Trope Is X
Skyhold Academy Yearbook (Fanfic) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
A Hard Day's Night / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Casablanca / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Flashdance / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Following / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
George of the Jungle / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Rocketship X-M / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
The Mummy (1999) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Sheik Yerbouti (Music) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
CDT Adventure (Roleplay) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Orange Is the New Black / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Day of the Tentacle (Video Game) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Dragon Quest IV (Video Game) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
SPY Fox (Video Game) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Cars / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Finding Nemo / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Lady and the Tramp / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
The Aristocats / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?

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