but hesitates. At that, his boss puts in the dig, "What's wrong? You aren't superstitious, are you, Chris?" The 1946 Hollywood film The Best Years of Our Lives makes reference to the superstition, as the three protagonists (Captain Fred Derry, Sergeant Al Stephenson and sailor Homer Parrish) are returning to their hometown in the nose of a B-17. After lighting Fred and Al's cigarettes with a match, Homer asks if anyone is superstitious, and although his compatriots reply that they aren't, Homer states that he is and uses another match to light his own cigarette. The climax of the Popeye short subject "I Don't Scare" sees Popeye using this superstition, among others, to his advantage by lighting three sticks of dynamite in Bluto's mouth. The satirical 1983 British film Bullshot starts out in the trenches of World War I with the hero of the story, Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond, explaining/demonstrating the concept of "three on a match" to some of the young soldiers under his command. At the conclusion of his explanation, the third soldier is shot and killed by a sniper. American television series Mad Men referenced the superstition in Season 1, Episode 7 ("Red in the Face"). While Roger Sterling, Jr. refers to the "original" World War I superstition, the character of Don Draper makes light of it, referring to Kreuger's canny marketing ploy. including the fact that it was used in an attempt to sell more matches. The Perry Mason story (and the TV series episode based on it) The Case of the Howling Dog have a reference to 'three cigarettes one match'. Perry Mason uses one match to light Della Street's cigarette then Paul Drake's cigarette and is prevented from lighting his own with the same match by Della Street. In Dario Argento's film The Stendhal Syndrome, a character stops short of lighting a third candle from one flame, calling it "unlucky". The Edwin McCain song "Take Me" from the album Misguided Roses uses extensive metaphors about warfare, including the verse: "Well, now, three on a match is suicide / In the foxhole of my mind / And way off in the distance / The air raid sirens whine." In a flashback during the Archer episode "The Double Deuce" to Woodhouse's time in World War I, the pilot to whom Woodhouse served as a personal assistant (and developed romantic feelings towards) was killed after asking Woodhouse