History Main / WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis

* Happens in ''Film/RocketshipXM'', the place [[StayInTheKitchen being a rocketship in outer space]].

* ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' (1965). "What's a rotten girl like you doing in a nice place like this?"

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-->'''Bull #1:''' What are a couple of ladies like you...
-->'''Bull #2:''' Doing on a drive like this?

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-->'''The young man:''' So what's a nice girl like you-\\

'''The young man:''' -doing with a bald old cunt like that?

* ''Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' (1965). "What's a rotten girl like you doing in a nice place like this?"


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--> ''Well, when I was a little girl I thought I'd like to be a scientist, so I'' became ''a scientist.''

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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 ComicStrip/{{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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-->“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.”

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* Used in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', in the virus episode.

* John Schneider's "What's A Memory Like You(Doing In A Love Like This)"

* A {{Garfield}} comic had this exchange:

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8794482/18/Snake-Whisper Snake Whisper]]'' Harry spots a short thirteen-year-old trying to reach one of the higher bookshelves in a mildly-dodgy section of Flourish and Blotts.

* Used in ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'', in the virus episode.

* In ''Another Case Solved'' a certain stage of the "Perky Promotion" case is called "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"

* 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.

* BobDylan: "What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?"

* FrankZappa ''loved'' this line and used it in at least five different songs.

* 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 Creator/SandyDuncan on ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.

* 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?"

* ''{{Casablanca}}'' puts a negative spin on this trope:

* 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.

* Creator/HannaBarbera's animated musical version of ''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]]).

* {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated musical version of ''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]]).

* Evie from ''[[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."

* ''{{Casablanca}}'' features an inversion or complementary trope to this:

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* {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated musical version of ''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]]).
* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Bruce the shark asks Dory and Marlin, "What's a couple of bites like you doing in a zone like this?"
* In Disney's ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'':
-->'''Bull #1:''' What are a couple of ladies like you...
-->'''Bull #2:''' Doing on a drive like this?
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', the Joker asks a variation of this:
-->'''The Joker''' So, what's an old-timer like you want with a two-timer like me?