#bacon number

[janmisali]

a while back I saw a version of this poll made by someone who didn't understand what "bacon number" means so let's do a real one. for science

[ivys-garden]

Dear Whoever suggested doing the Bacon Number for youtubers:

I hate you.

You are my mortal enemy.

I tried to do it, I really did.

But

LOOK AT THIS

NO ONE CAN POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THIS.

AND THIS WASNT EVEN CLOSE TO DONE

No, I'm not doing it. Sucks to suck.

When I find you I will kill you.

Sincerely, Your friend, Ivy Gardener

[air--so--sweet]

In today's installment of weird shit that pleases my brain - all of the main cast members of The Umbrella Academy have a Bacon number of 2, except Aidan Gallagher, who has 3, and Elliot Page,who has 1. I went with all the first connections that it generated for each cast member and none of them crossed over - even when Justin H Min was connected to Kevin Bacon via Super, a film Elliot Page was in, it chose to connect him via Steve Agee.

[bolognamayhem117]

Does anybody still play the Bacon Number game?

[paulyhedral]

Wanna see my favorite list on Wikipedia?

[bicokun]

TBH I’m finding it a challenge to find anyone who has a Bacon number over 3. Even, like, black and white movie actors from the golden age of movies are getting 2s and 3s. Hell, my Bacon number is at most a 3 through William Shatner since he and I are both in Exodus: An Oratorio in Three Parts (he’s the narrator, sadly replacing the originally planned Leonard Nimoy due to some personal issues that came up, I’m in the background choir).

Do you know what your Bacon number is in Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?

2 apparently.

If you include TV, it's still 2...

[puzzlenation]

Constructors, What's Your Salomon Number?

I’m a nerd. I know that probably comes as a huge shock to you, fellow puzzler. Positively astonishing that a guy who has spent over twenty years making puzzles — more than ten writing about them here — and even more years running D&D games, LARPs, escape rooms, and murder mystery dinners is a nerd. But that’s the truth. And as a nerd, I love watching people quantify things in strange ways.…

[semisweetstuffs]

Today's topic: Bacon number

[nottobeadickoranything]

I was a featured extra in Milk starring Sean Penn, who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon, so my Bacon number is 2 BUT I also took acting classes with Robert Sedgwick, who's sister is married to Kevin Bacon, so what is it really??

[minecraft-llama]

@hollow-point-heart rizzed up a nepo baby

[kchasm]

Ryu Number: Kevin Bacon

Let's be real, this is the obvious ask. The Ryu Number is the Bacon Number for video games, so one of the first questions anyone's going to put out there is whether Kevin Bacon has a Ryu Number.

... Is what I'd like to say, but the fact is, most of the time when I try to explain the concept of a Ryu Number by saying "It's like the Bacon Number, except for Ryu—you know, six degrees of Kevin Bacon?" the response I get is, "What's 'six degrees of Kevin Bacon'?"

Hey, when was the heyday of the Bacon Number, again? Oh, thirty years ago. That doesn't feel good.

Anyway, Kevin Bacon has a Ryu Number of at most 4.

Jimmy Fallon (who I keep confusing with Jimmy Kimmel) has a cameo in Jurassic World.

This is enough to get him a place as one of the oodles of minifigs you can trot around in Lego Jurassic World. And if you think that's a kind of flimsy foundation to stick a character into a game over, please understand that this is par for the course for the Lego series of games. In Lego Jurassic World alone, you can play as Donald Gennaro, the "Unlucky Bastard" from The Lost World (here called "Unlucky Bystander"), the kid Alan Grant terrorizes at the dig site in Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg, and Jophery Brown.

What, you don't know who Jophery Brown is? You know, the guy who gets killed in the opening scene of Jurassic Park. Muldoon goes "Jophery, raise the gate," and everything. And then he dies. Because raptor.

We didn't even know his last name was "Brown" until this game. He was named after his own actor, that's the rank of character we're dealing with here.

... Wait, does this mean we can go straight from Owen Grady to certain baseball games? I've got to think about this. Is "Scientist Phil" allowable as Phil Tippet? Is "Pilot Pat" the same person as Patrick Crowley, who produced Jurassic World and cameoed as a pilot? If Patrick Crowley has an actual pilot's license, does that change the answer?

I am entirely uninterested in answering these questions until the issue is unavoidable!

The version of You Don't Know Jack available for play in The Jackbox Party Pack 5 is You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream, hosted by YDKJ longtimer Cookie Masterson. Depending on this or that, Cookie might just welcome Jimmy Fallon to guest-host one of the questions, which Jimmy is pretty hyped up about. So hyped up, in fact, that he'll refuse to leave afterward, much to Cookie's bemusement. Which makes sense: If you're gonna have Jimmy Fallon cameo in your video game, you're gonna squeeze as much Jimmy Fallon out of Jimmy Fallon as you can.

Dude really is a longtimer, by the way. He's been around since the original You Don't Know Jack, and while he doesn't host the game in You Don't Know Jack Vol. 2, he does get to rush the players through game setup. And the actual host, Buzz Lippman, has the chance to dial out to one of a number of celebrity guests—Kevin Bacon included.

That's an appearance both ways! Counts!

[janmisali]

yeah, I'll say it. I don't like Sabbath Numbers as the canonical music equivalent of erdos/bacon numbers. like the canonical thing to do would be to base it on which artists have featured each other, and for the Zero Point to be one specific person known for featuring a lot of artists and/or being featured by a lot of artists (like, say, DJ Khaled). but no it's based on people performing live together, and the zero point is just any member of Black Sabbath. it's very clearly not that well thought out

[an-albino-pinetree]

Cw: Snake!

Introducing, Kevin ✨

[putnamspuppeteer]

Have you ever wondered how many degrees of separation there are between these guys

and these guys?

Well, wonder no more!

I've built a website that will let you plug in any two bands from the Metal Archives and find out how many degrees of separation are in between them! So long as you spell their names exactly right!

For the record, the answer to the question posed above is 4.

[iron-sides]

okay at this point i do think it's fair for woogie to not realize they're still mad at him for being mean to hannah. however how do you deliberately make yourself, personally, an entire teams enemy, and then get surprised when they want to kill you 😭

[baconshakincomics]