Capitalizing on the internet's obnoxiously loud love of bacon (seriously, hipsters, you like bacon, we f*cking get it), Google has introduced "The Baconator," which will now tell you the number of degrees of Kevin Bacon an actor is just by typing the actor's name and "bacon number" into a Google search. It's the cheater method of playing that old "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, which was of course invented by Eli Whitney at the 1896 World Fair, but popularized by Thomas Edison, who tried to discredit Whitney by electrocuting Sacco and Vanzetti on trumped up anarchy charges. Or so the Elders of Zion would have you believe.
I've included a number of my Baconator searches on the following pages, and you can decide for yourselves whether this thing is on the fritz. The only Bacon Number I can get is two. Bruce Greenwood? Two. Boo Boo Stewart? Two. Marlon Brando? Two. I think if you find an actor whose Bacon number is higher than two you get a prize. You can find people without Bacon Numbers (Michael Spinks), but rarely people with a bigger Bacon Number than two. Google senior communications associate Roya Soleimani tells NY Magazine:
"The 'Bacon Number' feature is based on Google's Knowledge Graph, which is our 'map' of real-world people, entities, and the connections between them," Soleimani tells us in an e-mail. "For most celebrities and some public figures, the feature will return their Bacon Number based on the connections in the Knowledge Graph. Our team is constantly working to make search smarter, and features like the Bacon Number equip our users with ways to explore and discover more."
WAIT, I DID IT! I had to pick an obscure character from Most Valuable Primate, but I finally found someone with a Bacon Number of 3. Yeesh.
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Thanks to kissable cherub Chase for the tip.
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Justin Bieber is a Number 4!
This was a relevant feature a decade ago.
Lon Chaney Sr. is a 3.
Bela Lugosi is a 3
God damnit Vince, could you not post a link to the Baconator?? I had to Google “google” AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO THAT???
Pablo Picasso is a 3. BOOM art.
so is Ron Mueck, go art/muppeteers!
Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, and Leopold Stokowski also with 3.
Adrian Peterson’s Bacon number is 4
Adrian Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson appeared in NFL: In Just One Play.
LaDainian Tomlinson and Tom Brady appeared in Friday Night Phenoms: Vol. 1.
Tom Brady and Rhona Mitra appeared in Stuck On You.
Rhona Mitra and Kevin Bacon appeared in Hollow Man.
Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick are 3′s. And Edie is a removed cousin of Kyra’s and why am I spending time on this?
Lenny Bruce = 4
Hattie McDaniel (yes, Academy Award-winning Hattie McDaniel!) is also a 3.
Sergei Eisenstein = 5.
Which is to say, Hattie McDaniel is a 10 in my book, but Bacon # 3.
Dorothy Dandridge is a 3.
Dorothy was a 10.
I think I broke it. Adam Scott doesn’t have a Bacon Number!
Weird. He was one of the first people I tried too.
I think it must confuse Google because there are too many Adam Scotts
Adam Scott (I)
was in
Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011)
with
Laura Dern
was in
Novocaine (2001)
with
Kevin Bacon
Well, sucks to Google! How does it expect itself to become self aware, if it can’t even sift through all the Adam Scotts in its directory and pick the one I vaguely want it to have picked.
Obviously, you’re not a golfer…
William Rufus Shafter: 7
god damn Eli Wallach. He’s the link to every actor over the age of 70.
My prefered baconator comes from Wendy’s and shaves hours off my existence.
Humphrey Bogart was the first person I could get with 2.
THREE not 2
A Serbian Film’s Srdjan Todorovic is a 3
James Dean’s Bacon number is 3
James Dean and Dennis Hopper appeared in Rebel Without a Cause.
Dennis Hopper and Chris Penn appeared in True Romance.
Chris Penn and Kevin Bacon appeared in Footloose.
James Deen is also a 3
Via the Lohan movie, House at the End of the Street and X-Men: First Class.
Goddamn right you used Richard Karn.
Charles Cullen: Broke the Baconator.
Jenna Jameson and Betty White are both 2s, which is about right in my book.
Michael Fassbender is a 1, which only works if your chart is in reverse.
I Googled “Kevin Bacon Bacon Number” and long story short, I have to comment on my phone from now on.
Kevin Bacon is 0. Kevin El Tocino, his non-union Mexican counterpart is working under Rod Steiger’s old Bacon Number – 2.
Alison Brie’s Bacon number is 2
Alison Brie and Neve Campbell appeared in Scream 4.
Neve Campbell and Kevin Bacon appeared in Wild Things.
The important thing here is that Alison Brie was in Scream 4, which I didn’t even know was a thing.
Marley Shelton’s Bacon number is 2
Marley Shelton and Neve Campbell appeared in Scream 4.
Neve Campbell and Kevin Bacon appeared in Wild Things.
Which means I just bumped Scream 4 to the top of my Netflix queue.
JOHN WILKES BOOTHE – 5
1. Booth appeared in an 1863 production of MacBeth with Louisa Lane Drew.
2. Drew appeared in an 1896 production of The Rivals with Lionel Barrymore.
3. Barrymore appeared in It’s A Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stuart in 1948.
4. Stuart appeared in Airport ’77 with Jack Lemmon in 1977.
5. Lemmon appeared in JFK with Kevin Bacon in 1991.
Fucking hell, I was going to try Christopher Marlowe but you win.
Most impressive.
Interesting that the guy that assassinated Lincoln is connected to Bacon through a movie about the assassination of JFK.
::looks out window for unmarked cars::
William McKinley, our mighty 25th president, is 4. Sure, why not.
Richard Nixon is a 3, though Google didn’t answer it.
William Rufus Shafter at a 7 is the highest I could find. Top this guy:
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Tami Stronach’s Bacon number is 3
Tami Stronach and Gerald McRaney appeared in The NeverEnding Story.
Gerald McRaney and Ann Dowd appeared in Saving Shiloh.
Ann Dowd and Kevin Bacon appeared in Taking Chance.
Unfortunately, NOT in Scream 4.
Anne Sellors broke it too, which somehow makes her imdb page even sadder.
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I’m such an idiot. Thought to myself, who are some dead actors that didn’t really do a lot of movies? I know! John Belushi!.
Porn Stars:
Chloe Nicole – 3, Sasha Grey – 2, John Holmes – 3, Ron Jeremy – 2, Bella Donna – 3, Linda Lovelace – 2, Asia Carrera – 2 (“he fixes the cable?”), Evan Stone – 3 (you’re welcome Vince), Faye Reagan – 3, Cantina the Gizz Donkey – 1 (wait a minute).
Christopher Guest…wait for it…wait for it…- 11. BAM!
I think you accidentally hit the “1″ key twice.
Can’t a man make an obvious, tired This Is Spinal Tap joke without being ridiculed. I thought this was America!
Can’t a man ask a rhetorical question without using the correct punctuation.
There is an 11 out there somewhere…
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Kermit the Frog = 3
LOL, beat me to it!
Chet Haze – 3
Silent Actors!
Ivor Novello = 3
Charlie Chaplin = 2
Louise Brooks = 3
Greta Garbo = 3
Douglas Fairbanks = 4
Lillian Gish = 2
Max Linder = 4
Rudolph Valentino = 3
Mary Pickford = 3
Clara Bow = 3
…ok i’ll stop that.
DOOG LOSS FAR BONKS?! /Dujardin’d
Morgan Goodwin, the new Wendy’s girl… no Bacon number.
I’d like to add one to her sausage number, amirite?
I googled Jon Hamm’s bacon number & have been drooling all over my desk since. Those are some handsome dudes
Better lock your door.
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I love that Hamm and Bacon are both known for their Sausage.
::bow tie spins, acme safe lands on my head::
I’m just making names up now and i still can’t get over 2 or 3.
The really weird thing? Apparently Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Bacon have never been in a film together.
That just don’t seem right.
Darius Miles’s Bacon Number is 3
Which is the same Bacon Number as Ronald Raegan
Alan Bagh, of Birdemic fame broke the baconator as well
Justus D. Barnes who was in The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a 5. He’s also an actor unlike that fraud William Rufus Shafter (7).
Ronald Reagan is 4. Pope Benedict XVI is 4.
Bernie Maddoff is a 1. He ripped Bacon and Baconette off.
I met Fred Grandy on a Hertz bus. Who worked with Gavin MacLeod on Love Boat. Who worked with Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heroes. Who worked with Bacon in Animal House. Four steps – that’s JEDI-level Baconism!
Tommy Wiseau’s Bacon number is 3
Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero appeared in The Room.
Greg Sestero and Stephen Blackehart appeared in Retro Puppet Master.
Stephen Blackehart and Kevin Bacon appeared in Super.
So it only works for celebrities? What a rip-off. I was going to have business cards and everything printed up with my Bacon Number.
Since Google won’t acknowledge it, my Bacon Number is 3 (I went to grad school with a woman who was latger assistant music editor on Howard the Duck which featured Tim Robbins who was in Mystic River with the Bacon Man).
Suck on that, William Rufus Shafter.
Thomas Edison is a 5. Adolf Hitler is a 3.
This seems right.
Glenn Danzig’s Bacon number is 3
Glenn Danzig and Jack Black appeared in Colin’s Sleazy Friends.
Jack Black and John Lithgow appeared in Orange County.
John Lithgow and Kevin Bacon appeared in Footloose.
No hit for Kurt Sutter
The game is Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Six.
Still not a single 6 here.
Yes, you could hijack a seven and find a six. Sure.
Or you could search for an algorithm that delivered pure 6′s whose co-stars all had degrees of 5 or less. Terminal 6′s. You could let the OCD run wild and have the milk jugs filled with urine start lining the walls.
See you in three weeks.
Charlie Chaplin and Tippi Hedren appeared in A Countess from Hong Kong.
Tippi Hedren and Kevin Bacon appeared in Jayne Mansfield’s Car.
uh…….
Roger Clemens – 4
But that is bullshit, b/c he was in Kingpin with Bill Murray – 1, and a ton of people with 2s. Suck it Google.
I just beat the Game (I named my penis after Triple H)
Yeah Hank Aaron is listed at 3, but he was in Summer Catch with Fred Ward who was in Tremors.
Xavier McDaniel is a 2. He was in Singles with Kyra Sedgwick and Matt Dillon.
Michael F. Assbender has been in a lot of stuff.
Jaime Blanch bacon number doesn’t exist! I WIN!
The Baocn numbers Google comes up with are frequently incorrect – based on incorrect data.
Example – Hattie McDaniel comes up as a 3 because she as in “Gone with the Wind” , which we all know is very true, but supposedly also in the cast was Harold Gould, who made his big screen debut in 1962, and in fact had never even been in California before the 50′s. Impossible for him to have been in GWTW.
This is not the only error I have found. They need to improve the accuracy of this.