Yes, that’s the point of the game. Supposedly, you can connect absolutely anyone in the movies to Kevin Bacon in six moves or fewer. However, some people have the imp of the perverse, and like to play a metagame where they find people for whom the original game’s premise is false.
It’s similar to another phenomenon: people who, instead of actually playing Freecell, spend their time coming up with card permutations where the game is unwinnable. All because Microsoft originally debuted the game as always being winnable. (Not realizing that Microsoft already beat them to it, having given some permutations a negative identification number, which meant they were unwinnable.)
Or maybe a more well-known example: people who try to prove that someone does have identical fingerprints or claim to have found two snowflakes that are exactly alike. That’s what always happens when you tell someone something is impossible.
It wasn’t easy, but thanks to Crow and Tom Servo, I stumped the computer!
Seriously- enter John Reynolds, who payed Torgo in ***Manos: The Hands of Fate. ***He does not connect to Kevin Bacon at all. He gets a score of infinity degrees separation.
Finding people who come up with a Bacon Number of infinity is not really that tough; you just find semi-amateur movies like that and you can find infinities.
I found an error in their data base, that’s my only claim to doing anything good with this.
I tried Paul Mecurio and it came up with a bacon no of infinity.
But when I actually looked at his history (cos I didn’t believe it), he should be 3 or less as he was in a movie called Exit to Eden with Dan Aykroyd who has a bacon no of 2.
I figured that I wouldn’t even have a Bacon number but then I remembered that summer when I worked as a stagehand at a local theater company. This guy was in one of the two plays I worked.
And his number is two, so I guess that makes me a 3.!
I think that if one is going to count experimental reels made by Edison, and the like, then one is really forced to also include TV shows. Though one must then ask whether being in the same series is enough, or if one must be in the same episode (though you can usually connect people in any two episodes of a series with just one additional step through one of the series’ main characters).