season 1 of Peter Gunn, a character describes his friendship for the murder victim by saying that people referred to them as "Damon and what's-his-name." In a 1997 episode of the TV series Highlander entitled "A Modern Prometheus," a character portraying Lord Byron mentions Damon and Pythias before he jumps with another man to their "death." In Season 9, Episode 22 of Law & Order, “Admissions”, ADA Carmichael used the reference to describe the relationship between two graduate students who were covering each other in the murder of a fellow female student. In the Anthony Trollope novel The Three Clerks, when two of the clerks have a falling out he says, "Damon and Pythias [were] no longer; that war waged between them." References 4th-century BC philosophers Greek mythology Pythagoreans Friendship Duos