“All of a sudden I had to remember some words that Marlowe had told me over fifteen years ago: 'Dead men don't wear plaid.' Hmm… Dead men don't wear plaid. I still don't know what it means.”

—  Steve Martin

As "Rigby Reardon" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

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