Funny / Better Off Dead

• The Running Gag turned Memetic Mutation:
  "I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!"
• The trenchant social commentary provided when Lane is found enduring the horror of being in the garbage truck:
  "Now that's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."
• "I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
• "It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."
  • Unfortunately the food didn't like to get poked at with a fork. Lane's utterly expressionless face just nails the gag home.
• The skiing instructions everyone gives Lane in order to beat the K-12.
  "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."
• Practically everything Curtis Armstrong as Charles de Mar says and does:
  • "Lane, I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy!"
  • "This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?!"
  • "I think I just froze the left half of my brain! Look! (Waves arm around stiffly) I can't move my right arm!"
  • When Stalin offers a rather lame insult to Lane and Charles, Charles bursts into laughter. Like, a lot of laughter. So much laughter that Stalin eventually walks away in disgust, only for Charles to later interrupt Stalin's romantic dance with Beth because he's still gut-laughing.
• Lane's Christmas presents. All he gets are a bunch of frozen TV dinners. His and his father's utterly nonplussed expressions, combined with his mother's enthusiasm, really sells it
  • "I remember how much you liked the chocolate nut brownie in this one. And look! Corn and seasoned salt. He likes corn."
• "Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?"
• A subtle one: In the supermarket, Lane and Charles are talking, and Charles holds up a spray-can of whipped cream, and says, "I can't even get any decent drugs around here!"
• During one of the drag races, Lane almost runs down a line of nuns attempting to cross the street. Not only are all of the nuns wearing variously colored aviator sunglasses, one of them is carrying a huge ghetto blaster boombox, for some reason.
  • After crashing into a large puddle of water, Lane checks on his passengers. Monique is fine but can't stop laughing. Ricky, on the other hand...
  "Oh, my God. Ricky's dead. Ricky, are you dead? I think he's dead!"