Funny / A Scanner Darkly

• After about a half-page of discussing the homemade silencer, and how that friend likely had some secret compartment to hide the gun for just when he needs it, complete with a locking mechanism and other doodads, Arctor's inner monologue reveals he has his service weapon in a much more devious hidden place, where nobody will ever find it: his glove compartment.
• Charles Freck's suicide attempt. Nuff said. (Beware the multi-eyed eight-foot-high being with the endless scroll!)
  • Who will be reading you your sins in shifts throughout eternity!
• The argument about how a 18-speed bicycle works, leading the drug-addled characters to determine that someone stole nine gears from it.
  • It gets even more confused when Luckman thinks he sees one more gear than the rest do. Then two less. Then two more again.
  • "LET'S GO RESCUE THOSE ORPHAN GEARS!"
• Barris is going to find out who's got something against Arctor. How? He's set up a a microphone to start recording when someone comes through the front door. To increase the chance that intruders will enter via the front and not another way, he's left a note on the door saying that it's unlocked. Arctor and Luckman are shocked and not even sure whether he's being serious or not.
  Barris: Of course I'm kidding! Only a psychotic would do that, leave the front door of the house open with the door unlocked and a note on the door.
  Arctor: What'd you write on the note, Barris?
  Barris:...I wrote, "Come on in, the door's unlocked."
  • Then The Reveal that Donna had done just that, but wondered why the hell they'd leave their door unlocked, let alone write a note like that.
• The homemade silencer, which just makes gunshots even louder. So much so that Arctor is startled awake by the gunshot and grabs his gun.
• Barris taunting a skittish Freck by speaking in a strange language and voices.
• ...which was preceded by a silly Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? between Barris, Luckman and Arctor:
  Barris: How much does this Impala weigh?
  Arctor: A thousand pounds with passengers and a full tank of gas.
  Luckman: How many passengers?
  Arctor: Twelve.
  Luckman: Six in the front and six in the back?
  Arctor: No, that's eleven in the back and the driver sitting alone up front. All the weight in the wheels is to keep the car from fishtailing.
  Barris: What are we talking about, twelve fifty-pound passengers?
  Arctor: Kids soccer team.
  Luckman: Is that metal or plastic cleats?
  Arctor: Metal... for safety.
  Barris: OK, my computations are complete, you are just huckletweet and you are just bugbyte squared.
  Luckman: What kind of bug?
  Barris: About-to-get-fucked-up-bitch-beetle!
• Luckman freaking out on the highway while Arctor and Barris just calmly stand by.
• "What if they come in through the backdoor or the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song?"
• Woody Harrelson's character expecting a fight and picking up a bow—but no arrows!

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