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* BarryManilow inverted it to ask "''What's a nice boy like me/Doing in a place that never closes?''" Later performed (as "Nice [[TheCoverChangesTheGender Girl]] Like Me") by SandyDuncan on ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
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* BarryManilow inverted it to ask "''What's a nice boy like me/Doing in a place that never closes?''" Later performed (as "Nice [[TheCoverChangesTheGender Girl]] Like Me") by SandyDuncan Creator/SandyDuncan on ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
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* A short by MartinScorsese is titled "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
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* According to a piece in ''New Scientist'''s "Feedback" page, a lecturer talking about prosthetics once showed a picture of two ice dancers, one of whom had a fully articulated artificial limb. And speculated that the other was saying "What's a joint like this doing in a nice girl like you?"
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* Dick Dastardly in the ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' episode "Fly-By-Knights" laments "What's a nice guy like me doing in a cooped-up outfit like this?"
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* Evie from ''Film/TheMummy1999'' 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."
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* Evie from ''Film/TheMummy1999'' ''[[Film/TheMummyTrilogy The Mummy]]'' 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."
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--> Evy: *slurring* I'm sure you're wondering...''what's a place like you doing in a girl like this???''
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* In the dressing-room scene of ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', 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. [[ChirpingCrickets Tumbleweed ensues]].
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* Inverted in the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast'', when a dissection of a dead female alien who had been posing as a male human leads to the discovery that her legs each had two knees, one bending forward and one bending backwards. Cue the quip, "What's a nice joint like you doing in a girl like this?"
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* Inverted in the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast'', ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'', when a dissection of a dead female alien who had been posing as a male human leads to the discovery that her legs each had two knees, one bending forward and one bending backwards. Cue the quip, "What's a nice joint like you doing in a girl like this?"
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* In ''FindingNemo'', Bruce the shark asks Dory and Marlin, "What's a couple of bites like you doing in a zone like this?"
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* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' first-season episode "11001001", said by Riker to a hologram: "What's a knockout brunette like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?"
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* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' first-season episode "11001001", said by Riker to a hologram: "What's a knockout brunette like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?"
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* Upon linking up with the mole in ''{{Fallout}}''[='s=] [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Final Dungeon]]:
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* Guybrush says this to De Singe in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'': "So, how'd a dazzling urbanite like yourself wind up in a sleepy pirate island like Flotsam?"
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* Guybrush says this to De Singe in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'': "So, how'd a dazzling urbanite like yourself wind up in a sleepy pirate island like Flotsam?"
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* {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated musical version of ''AliceInWonderland'', 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]]).
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* {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated musical version of ''AliceInWonderland'', ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', 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]]).
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* Inverted in the RobertAHeinlein Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast'', when a dissection of a dead female alien who had been posing as a male human leads to the discovery that her legs each had two knees, one bending forward and one bending backwards. Cue the quip, "What's a nice joint like you doing in a girl like this?"
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* Evie from ''Film/{{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."
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** Season4 a mook tried to hit on [[DarkActionGirl Asajj Ventress]] like this.
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* ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' 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?"
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* ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' 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?"
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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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* ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' 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?"
* A short by MartinScorsese is titled "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
* Evie from ''TheMummy'' 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."
* ''{{Following}}'':
-->'''The young man:''' So what's a nice girl like you-\\
'''The blonde:''' Doing in a place like this?\\
'''The young man:''' -doing with a bald old cunt like that?
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* In ''FindingNemo'', 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 ''AliceInWonderland'', 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 on the Range'':
-->'''Bull #1:''' What are a couple of ladies like you...
-->'''Bull #2:''' Doing on a drive like this?
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* Inverted in the RobertAHeinlein novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast'', when a dissection of a dead female alien who had been posing as a male human leads to the discovery that her legs each had two knees, one bending forward and one bending backwards. Cue the quip, "What's a nice joint like you doing in a girl like this?"
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear 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.
* In ''ThePretender'' 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 ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' first-season episode "11001001", said by Riker to a hologram: "What's a knockout brunette like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?"
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* Parodied in "Movie Dialogue We'd Like To Hear" from ''MADMagazine'':
-->"Ever since I came in here tonight, somethin's been puzzlin' me... what's a crummy girl like you doin' in a nice place like this?"
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* BobDylan: "What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?"
* The Spanish band Burning references the line in the song "¿Qué Hace Una Chica Como Tú En Un Lugar Como Éste?"
* FrankZappa ''loved'' this line and used it in at least five different songs.
* John Schneider's "What's A Memory Like You(Doing In A Love Like This)"
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* In a cartoon by Swedish artist Beverloo:
-->Girl at party: What a nice girl like me is doing at a place like this? I'm a hooker, of course!
* A {{Garfield}} comic had this exchange:
-->'''Garfield''': What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?
-->'''Arlene''': But this is a nice place.
-->'''Garfield''': Like I said... What's a girl like '''YOU''' doing in a place like '''THIS'''?
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* There was a musical revue in the 1970s called "What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This?"
* ''CityOfAngels'':
-->'''Stone''' (to Bobbi): "Let me take you away from all this," is that the routine? "What's a nice kid like you, et cetera?" What ''is'' a nice kid like you, et cetera?
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* Upon linking up with the mole in ''{{Fallout}}''[='s=] [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Final Dungeon]]:
-->“What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?”\\
“Uh heh… [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat Waiting desperately]] for someone to use that pathetic line on me.”
* Guybrush says this to De Singe in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'': "So, how'd a dazzling urbanite like yourself wind up in a sleepy pirate island like Flotsam?"
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* Done in ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'', in the virus episode.
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