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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 [1]. 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)