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* TrainingMontage: Midge puts the kids through one, complete with 90s synthesizer music, to teach them how to keep their faces neutral.
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* TownContestEpisode: Molly, Tooey, and Auntie Midge bring the funny face competition back to Qyah, and most everyone in town competes.
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* BetweenMyLegs: When Merna arrives at the tribal hall, the townspeople are framed between her legs as they gasp.
* CameraFiend: Nina takes the pictures of everyone for Molly's book.
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* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: [[spoiler: Tooey pulls out a win against Aunt Merna, the champion of legend.]]
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* EyelidPullTaunt: Midge does this while practicing for the competition.
* EyelidPullTaunt: Midge does this while practicing for the competition.
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* ReactionShot: The episode includes multiple shots of the contestants laughing at Merna's funny faces.
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* UncattyResemblance: Dolt'ol is just as stone-faced as Merna.
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* {{Dedication}}: Molly dedicates her book to Auntie Midge's Uncle Isaac, "the original funny face champion," so that everyone knows he was a very happy man, not at all like what was shown in the previous book he featured in.
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* InMemoriam: Molly dedicates her book to Auntie Midge's Uncle Isaac, "the original funny face champion," so that everyone knows he was a very happy man, not at all like what was shown in the previous book he featured in.
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* InMemoriam: Molly dedicates her book to Auntie Midge's Uncle Isaac, "the original funny face champion," so that everyone knows he was a very happy man, not at all like what was shown in the previous book he featured in.
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* ChirpingCrickets: Grandpa Nat opens the competition with a joke that falls flat. Daniel makes a [[LampshadeHanging very poignant cough]] in response.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: As each contestant falls to Merna's faces, Nat makes a joke that incorporates the contestant's occupation.
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* AgeInsecurity: When asked her age for a caption in Molly's funny face competition book, Merna responds, "None of your business."
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!!"The Funny Face Competition" contains the following tropes:tropes:
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: The author of the book Molly wants to fix insisted that everyone he photographed wear regalia for every day tasks and refrain from smiling, as that was the perception his audience had of Alaska Natives.
* ChildhoodFriends: Merna and Midge have known each other since they were girls, and Merna used to attend Qyah's funny face competitions.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: [[spoiler: Tooey pulls out a win against Aunt Merna, the champion of legend.]]
* HiddenDepths: Aunt Merna puts her [[TheStoic stone face]] to good use to catch her opponents off guard when she makes some hilarious faces.
* SeriousBusiness: Funny face reigning champion Aunt Merna treats the contest like this, despite its theme. She even travels hundreds of miles from Sitka to compete, and it's implied she's been traveling for this competition since she was a child (she grew up in the Yukon).
* TheStoic: The winner of the contest is the person who can avoid laughing at anyone else's funny faces. Aunt Merna has been the reigning champion since she was a child.
* TownContestEpisode: Molly, Tooey and Auntie Midge bring the funny face competition back to Qyah, and most everyone in town competes.
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* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: The author of the book Molly wants to fix insisted that everyone he photographed wear regalia for every day tasks and refrain from smiling, as that was the perception his audience had of Alaska Natives.
* ChildhoodFriends: Merna and Midge have known each other since they were girls, and Merna used to attend Qyah's funny face competitions.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: [[spoiler: Tooey pulls out a win against Aunt Merna, the champion of legend.]]
* HiddenDepths: Aunt Merna puts her [[TheStoic stone face]] to good use to catch her opponents off guard when she makes some hilarious faces.
* SeriousBusiness: Funny face reigning champion Aunt Merna treats the contest like this, despite its theme. She even travels hundreds of miles from Sitka to compete, and it's implied she's been traveling for this competition since she was a child (she grew up in the Yukon).
* TheStoic: The winner of the contest is the person who can avoid laughing at anyone else's funny faces. Aunt Merna has been the reigning champion since she was a child.
* TownContestEpisode: Molly, Tooey and Auntie Midge bring the funny face competition back to Qyah, and most everyone in town competes.
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'''Air date:''' May 9, 2020 (CBC); March 23, 2021 (PBS)[[note]]Thirty-sixth in broadcast order[[/note]]
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'''"Big Sulky":''' Qyah's oldest tree falls down in a storm, so Molly and Tooey create an exhibit to remember it.
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* HiddenDepths: Mr. Patak knows a little Russian and is able to translate Big Sulky's original name.
* MourningAnObject: Everyone in Qyah is sad to see Big Sulky has been knocked down, so the kids put together an exhibit at the library to commemorate it. The opening of the exhibit ends with the planting of a spruce sapling in Big Sulky's place.
* NaturalizedName: Big Sulky's original name, Visokiy, means "tall one" in Russian. Visokiy was corrupted into "Big Sulky" by an English speaking settler who got the name from the Russians.
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'''"The Funny Face Competition":''' After finding a book that inaccurately portrays Alaska Natives as perpetual frowners always dressed in regalia, Molly organizes a funny face competition to set the record straight.
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'''"Big Sulky":''' Qyah's oldest tree falls down in a storm, so Molly and Tooey create an exhibit to remember it.
!!"Big Sulky" contains the following tropes:
* HiddenDepths: Mr. Patak knows a little Russian and is able to translate Big Sulky's original name.
* MourningAnObject: Everyone in Qyah is sad to see Big Sulky has been knocked down, so the kids put together an exhibit at the library to commemorate it. The opening of the exhibit ends with the planting of a spruce sapling in Big Sulky's place.
* NaturalizedName: Big Sulky's original name, Visokiy, means "tall one" in Russian. Visokiy was corrupted into "Big Sulky" by an English speaking settler who got the name from the Russians.
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'''"The Funny Face Competition":''' After finding a book that inaccurately portrays Alaska Natives as perpetual frowners always dressed in regalia, Molly organizes a funny face competition to set the record straight.
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