Funny / Smoke Signals

• Pretty much anything involving Lester Fallsapart.
• John Wayne's teeth.
  Are they false? Are they real?
  Are they plastic? Are they steel?
• This exchange:
  Victor: You gotta look mean or people won't respect you. White people will run all over you if you don't look mean. You gotta look like a warrior! You gotta look like you just came back from killing a buffalo!
  Thomas: But our tribe never hunted buffalo - we were fishermen.
  Victor: What! You want to look like you just came back from catching a fish? This ain't "Dances With Salmon" you know!
• Thomas and Victor use the warrior face, only to realize that it doesn't work (well sometimes anyway).
• "The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV... are Indians watching Indians on TV."
• The two girls with the busted transmission when they pick Victor and Thomas up, driving backwards the whole way.
  • They agree to give the boys a lift, in exchange for one of Thomas's stories. As Thomas is talking, Victor stands around with "This is the dumbest thing I've ever done" written all over his face.^note Thomas tells a probably-fictional story about Victor's recently-dead father, which may be hitting a nerve or two.
    Arnold got arrested, you know—but he got lucky. At first they charged him with attempted murder. But then they plea-bargained that down to assault with a deadly weapon. And then they plea-bargained that down to being an Indian in the twentieth century. Then he got two years in Walla Walla.
  • The backwards driving also evokes images of traditional trickster spirits and sacred clowns who do everything backwards.
• Thomas's story about Arlene's frybread. For some reason, the word itself keeps getting funnier as he keeps saying it.
  There was gonna be a frybread riot for sure!