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The traditional wording is "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
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== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* ''[[George of the Jungle (
* A short by [[Martin Scorsese]] is titled "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
* Evie from ''[[The Mummy
* ''[[Following]]'':
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'''The blonde:''' Doing in a place like this?
'''The young man:''' -doing with a bald old cunt like that? }}
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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?"
* [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s animated musical version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', produced in 1966, was subtitled ''What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?'' (which was also the title of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyFSHggHZME one of the songs]).
* In Disney's ''[[Home
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'''Bull #2:''' Doing on a drive like this? }}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[
* 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.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
== Magazines ==
* Parodied in "Movie Dialogue We'd Like To Hear" from ''[[Mad Magazine]]'':
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== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In a cartoon by Swedish artist Beverloo:
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* A [[Garfield]] comic had this exchange:
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'''Arlene''': But this is a nice place.
'''Garfield''': Like I said... What's a girl like '''YOU''' doing in a place like '''THIS'''? }}
== [[Theatre]] ==
* There was a musical revue in the 1970s called "What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This?"
* ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'':
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Upon linking up with the mole in ''[[Fallout]]'''s [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Final Dungeon]]:
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“Uh heh… [[I Always Wanted to Say That|Waiting desperately]] for someone to use that pathetic line on me.” }}
* 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?"
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used in ''[[Star Wars:
** In season 4 a mook tries to hit on [[Dark Action Girl|Asajj Ventress]] like this.
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