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= April 5 =

Best Girls credited
I remember watching the fifth and final Lynda Carter prime time special Body and Soul. During the closing credits, I remember seeing a Best Girl credited. How many other movies and/or TV shows have Best Girls credited? Anyone know?2604:2000:1281:4B3:9504:D5BB:302F:864C (talk) 00:59, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Best boy article mentions Being Human end credits as an example (unsourced). 2606:A000:1126:28D:2D2C:2116:A139:E8FD (talk) 03:30, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * As to "how many", it is unlikely that a source could be found, especially since that might change daily. An estimate could be made by statistical analysis, but the result would essentially be: "a few, but not many". 2606:A000:1126:28D:2D2C:2116:A139:E8FD (talk) 04:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The IMDB used to make more of its data freely available than it does now. Until 2018, files for a large part of the data were available for FTP at the FU Berlin web site.  The last files delivered there in 2018 are still present at [ftp:ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/movies/database/frozendata ftp:ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/movies/database/frozendata].  The file miscellaneous.list.gz in that place is 117,603,254 bytes of gzipped text, which expands to 573,290,123 bytes, containing 7,619,159 credits.


 * Of all these, there are just 15 credits that include the term "best girl". These are on the movies Creep 2 (2017), Yogi Bear (2010), X2 (2003), Tositarkoituksella (2015), and Jackie Brown (1997); the TV-movie Visitor from Space (2016); and the TV series Blood & Oil (2015) and Secrets and Lies (2015). That makes 15 because the credit occurs on multiple episodes of one of the TV series.  Only two of the examples (Creep 2 and Visitor from Space) are simply "best girl"; all the others are variations like "best girl/DIT" and "best girl accountant".


 * --69.159.8.46 (talk) 20:44, 5 April 2020 (UTC); FTP URL corrected 18:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC). (Say, why doesn't that format the way I expected?  Does [] in wikitext only work with http: URLs?)

re-used melody
Do the refrains of Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay and La donna è mobile use pretty much the same melody? Neither article mentions the resemblance. Thanks. 2601:648:8202:96B0:E0CB:579B:1F5:84ED (talk) 02:29, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * A melody is more than just the notes. Even the notes don't really match except superficially, but the time signature and rhythm are quite different. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  02:46, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Even if it were so, it would be inappropriate to add that factoid to the articles without a valid source. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah it was about my own recollection. But Jack is right, they are not that similar, now that I remember the operatic one more accurately.  Thanks.  2601:648:8202:96B0:E0CB:579B:1F5:84ED (talk) 04:39, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * "Boom" from One Fierce Beer Coaster has a chant like that, "word"-wise, but with three "ta-ra"s where one "ta-ra-ra" seems to rightly go, so I don't know, worth a listen? InedibleHulk (talk) 22:50, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I Googled the phrase "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay and La donna è mobile" and found plenty of articles that noted the similarity, without any concrete connection. Alansplodge (talk) 12:15, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * A candidate (either way round) for One song to the tune of another? AndrewWTaylor (talk) 14:51, 6 April 2020 (UTC)