- Everyone's uncomfortable interactions with each other, with many of them looking like they're on the verge of breaking down into tears because of Nai Nai's condition is ominously hilarious.
- The Running Gag of Nai Nai's sister telling her that all the doctor's saw on her x-ray scans were "benign shadows". When other people hear this, they react by asking what a benign shadow was.
- Hao Hao and Aiko feeling uncomfortable while taking their wedding photo, causing Nai Nai to remark what they would do in the bedroom.
- The Large Ham fake crier that shows up in a cemetery when the family visits Billi's grandfather's grave.
- As they place and burn offerings at the gravesite, Billi's father lights a cigarette which Nai Nai disapproves of. He tells her it was fine, but she argues that their father had told her he quit smoking months before he died. Billi's father and her uncle both break the news to Nai Nai that their father never actually quit smoking and lied to her.Uncle: Let him enjoy his cigarette. What's the worse it can do? He's dead now. [signaling to the gravestone] Enjoy your cigarette, dad.
- As Billi talks to the doctor about her Nai Nai's condition, she asks why they still shouldn't tell her about the cancer. The doctor explains that it was in order not to worry their elders and how even he lied to his grandmother when she was terminally ill.Billi: How's your grandma?
Doctor: She's dead. - Near the end, sandwiched between the very emotional scenes of Billi sitting silently with Nai Nai and Billi and Nai Nai silently hugging each other... is about five seconds of Nai Nai and Billi's mother talking very loudly over each other about whether Nai Nai needs to come down the stairs to send the family off.
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- Since this was based on the director's true story, her own grandmother only found out she had the cancer because her friend read aloud a review for the movie.
- In an interview, the director tells the audience that after she asked her dad what he thought of the film, he replied that it was "pretty good". She proclaims that that statement, "was like an Asian A+".
