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Despite the band’s success, Hodgson quit Supertramp after 1982’s “Famous Last Words” album.

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Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called “Last Drink,” we recognize this as the bleakest version of “famous last words.”

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Then he added: "Famous last words."

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Thirty-odd millennia into the future, those are still famous last words.

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But he went on: “Famous last words of Ned Rorem, crushed by a truck, gnawed by the pox, stung by wasps, in dire pain: ‘How do I look?’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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