### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/1 "2009-09-30T14:12:33Z")
So, with recent/ongoing batshit crazy shenanigans, Randy Quaid and his wife have been arrested, and [one article of dubious legitimacy](http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-28/hollywoods-nightmare-couple/full/) (although given the history of the Quaids’ batshittiness, it’s plausible) claims that Evi Quaid "… believed [Michael] Jackson was murdered along with Heath Ledger, Chris Penn, David Carradine, Natasha Richardson, and other stars who (had been) in movies with Randy.”
So, in the vein of Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon, who else was assassinated for their connection Randy Quaid?
Randy Quaid worked with John Candy in National Lampoon’s _Vacation_. Ergo, John Candy was murdered because he worked with Randy Quaid.
Randy Quaid was in _Out Cold_ with John Lithgow, John Lithgow was in _2010_ with Roy Scheider. Roy Scheider was murdered because he’s connected to Randy Quaid.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/2 "2009-09-30T14:19:09Z")
Imogene Coca was in _National Lampoon’s Vacation_ with Randy Quaid. You thought she died at 92 because she had Alzheimer’s Disease? No, she died because she was Randy Quaid’s Aunt Edna.
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/3 "2009-09-30T14:22:54Z")
Chevy Chase’s career died as a result of being in “National Lampoon’s Vacation” with Randy Quaid.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/4 "2009-09-30T14:24:56Z")
\*\*Carl Reiner \*\*was murdered for having the balls to appear in [The Adventures of Rocky & Bulwinkle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131704/) with Randy Quaid.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/5 "2009-09-30T14:43:22Z")
Randy Quaid did voice work for a cartoon video, _Stanley’s Dinosaur Round-UP_. So did John Ritter. John Ritter was murdered because he was connected to Randy Quaid.
Randy Quaid was in _Hard Rain_, so was Betty White. Fellow Golden Girls Estelle Getty and Bea Arthur were murdered because they are too closely connected to Randy Quaid.
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### Author:  [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/6 "2009-09-30T15:02:51Z")
Chris Penn died?
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huh, guess he did.
Wouldn’t it be easier just to bump off Randy Quaid himself? Unless, it is really Randy doing the killing!
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/7 "2009-09-30T15:31:58Z")
Wow, I did realize that Randy Quaid was so crazy. It seems that his wife is moreso.
Randy Quaid was on Saturday Night Live with Charles Rocket!
Did Charles Rocket commit suicide because he was an untallented suck or was he murdered because he knew too much?
Dun dun dun!
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/8 "2009-09-30T15:35:27Z")
Holy cow, both Phil Hartman and Jason Robards were in Quick Change are now gone as well!
Quick, someone get Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Kurtwood Smith to safety!
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/9 "2009-09-30T16:04:25Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#):
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> Wouldn’t it be easier just to bump off Randy Quaid himself? Unless, it is really Randy doing the killing!
It’s much more sporting to terrorize him first by killing everyone he has worked with, or the people who have worked with the people he’s worked with. Remember Sharon Stone’s brain aneurysm? A narrow escape. She worked with Quaid and is lucky to be alive.
In the late 1980s, Randy Quaid was in a Richard Pryor movie, _Moving_. Hence, Pryor was murdered by Quaid’s stalkers.
> [@Intergalactic Gladiator](#):
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> Wow, I did realize that Randy Quaid was so crazy. It seems that his wife is moreso.
Seems to be a case of follie-à-deux. Particularly creepy is the claim that she said they’d end up like Phil Hartman and wife.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/10 "2009-09-30T16:11:00Z")
Spalding Grey “fell” off the ferry to his death after appearing with Quaid in _The Paper_.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/11 "2009-09-30T16:12:04Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#):
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> Remember Sharon Stone’s brain aneurysm? A narrow escape. She worked with Quaid and is lucky to be alive.
Did she really have one, or was that like her breast cancer?
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/12 "2009-09-30T16:15:50Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#):
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> \*\*Carl Reiner \*\*was murdered for having the balls to appear in [The Adventures of Rocky & Bulwinkle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131704/) with Randy Quaid.
Last I heard Carl was still alive, however they did take out his wife to get to Randy.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/13 "2009-09-30T16:23:57Z")
I was friends with his little sister in college and I almost died earlier this year but I guess that one degree of separation prevented the full effect from taking place. There probably is something to this.
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### Author:  [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/14 "2009-09-30T16:49:33Z")
Why is it that any time Alpine and/or Marfa are in the news, it’s gotta be something like this? I guess they just attract the crazy…
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/15 "2009-09-30T17:10:35Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
>
> Holy cow, both Phil Hartman and Jason Robards were in Quick Change are now gone as well!
>
> Quick, someone get Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Kurtwood Smith to safety!
Or, just Bill Murray and Kurtwood Smith… if you’re pressed for space or anything…
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/16 "2009-09-30T22:58:08Z")
Evi and Randy Quaid ran off on a $10,000 hotel bill at the posh San Ysidro Ranch. This is where JFK And Jackie honeymooned. Oh my god! Randy Quaid assassinated JFK!
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/17 "2009-09-30T23:05:07Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#):
>
> Evi and Randy Quaid ran off on a $10,000 hotel bill at the posh San Ysidro Ranch. This is where JFK And Jackie honeymooned. Oh my god! Randy Quaid assassinated JFK!
All just to make [his part bigger!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093377/) :mad:
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/18 "2009-10-01T18:27:55Z")
Randy Quaid starred in, ugh, **The Adventures of Pluto Nash** with Peter Boyle. Peter Boyle was assassinated in 2006 for his connections to the Quaid crime family.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/19 "2009-10-01T18:33:03Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#):
>
> Randy Quaid starred in, ugh, **The Adventures of Pluto Nash** with Peter Boyle. Peter Boyle was assassinated in 2006 for his connections to the Quaid crime family.
Hey, leave Dennis out of it! He’s innocent, I tells ya!
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-to-randy-quaid-dead-celebrity-challenge/512101/20 "2009-10-01T20:10:23Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
>
> I was friends with his little sister in college and I almost died earlier this year but I guess that one degree of separation prevented the full effect from taking place. There probably is something to this.
You should go into hiding, just to be sure.
Spalding Gray was in _The Paper_ which featured Randy Quaid. It was only made to _look_ like a suicide, but it wasn’t. Nope. The Quaid legacy struck him down!
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