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In fiction, no one ever shares matchbooks with a friend or accquaintance. Once it's in your pocket, it's locked there like a [[Clingy MacGuffin]], a permanent memento of your journey.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'': Loomis finds a plumber's abandoned pickup, and in it is the same matchbook carried by the nurse who was with him when Michael Myers escaped the previous night; she left her matches in the car Michael stole, and they wound up in the truck of the guy he stole his jumpsuit from.
* Hartigan in the ''[[Sin City]]'' movie finds Nancy with the help of a book of matches in her apartment. He does, however, [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] in the narration that it's his ''only'' lead.
** The time period in which ''Sin City'' is set [[Retro Universe|isn't entirely clear]]; some characters dress like 90s [[Anti
* A minor plot point in ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future Part II]]'': Marty steals a matchbook from Biff's crapsack 1985 "pleasure paradise". Once things return to normal, the matchbook changes the name of Biff's business from "pleasure paradise" to "auto detailing", [[Chekhov's Gun|which Biff asked Marty's opinion on earlier in the movie]].
* Used in the film ''[[But I'm a Cheerleader]]''. The woman who runs True Directions (a camp that is meant to make homosexual teens straight), finds a matchbook for the gay bar some of the teens snuck out to under the main character's bed (the bar is called the Cocksucker).
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== Live Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]!'', Drebin dismisses a suspect's alibi by presenting a matchbook from his favorite club that had been found at the crime scene. Of course, since this is ''Police Squad!'', when he is asked to explain the matchbook, the suspect briefly explains how rubbing sulfur against a surface can produce fire.
* In a flashback on ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' we see that Lily has quite a collection of matchbooks with Hispanic names and phone numbers written on them. Of course, she's never been to the bars or met the guys, she just left them around the house for her mother to find....
* One classic ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' episode depended on a bad guy noticing something about a matchbook in order to fall for the team's [[Batman Gambit]]
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