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** Coach Bobson, played by comedian Creator/BillBurr, tells Kenny Boy that he could be a standup comedian.

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** Coach Bobson, played by comedian Creator/BillBurr, Bobson tells Kenny Boy that he could be a standup comedian.comedian. Both Bobson (Creator/BillBurr) and Kenny (Creator/KirkFox) are stand-up comics.



* AmusingInjuries: Cheese isn't careful with his shovel and smacks White Steve in the face on the backswing, luckily with no lasting effects.



* BackForTheFinale: After single-episode cameos, [[spoiler:Danny's parents]] appear in the finale. So too does [[spoiler:William Knifeman,]] who had been absent from the majority of the season.



* ButNowIMustGo: There's no specific reason given, but [[spoiler:William Knifeman makes one final visit to Bear during Fixico's funeral.]] "Goodbye" is considered a colonial term, though, so he refuses to use it.



* TheCameo: Creator/AmberMidthunder plays [=MissM8tri@rch=], a Native American activist in "Decolonization" with a well-meaning though rather ditzy and romanticized worldview.

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* TheCameo: Creator/AmberMidthunder plays [=MissM8tri@rch=], a Native American activist in "Decolonization" "Decolonativization" with a well-meaning though rather ditzy and romanticized worldview.



* CentralTheme: The show emphasizes the importance of community, and also that the youth have knowledge that can help elders in the same way that the elders' knowledge helps them.



* EndingMemorialService: The series finale "Dig" centers around [[spoiler:Old Man Fixico's funeral.]]



* MayDecemberRomance: Played with for [[spoiler:Hokti's SpiritAdvisor]] and her new beau. She's a young woman in appearance while he's a white-haired old man, but she lived and died a century before him.



* MovingAwayEnding: [[spoiler:Elora moves to the dorms for college and Rita moves to Oklahoma City for a promotion]] at the end of the finale.



* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Kenny Boy and White Steve act like they're part of the Muscogee community, even though they're distinctly Caucasian. This earns them perplexed side-eyes.



* ShipTease: Bear and Jackie have a SleepCute moment together, keep texting each other [[spoiler:while he's on the Rez Dogs pilgrimage to California]], and are paired together in IHS cleaning chores (the ensuing argument from which Bev sees as BelligerentSexualTension).

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* ShipTease: Bear and Jackie have a SleepCute moment together, keep texting each other [[spoiler:while he's on the Rez Dogs pilgrimage to California]], and are paired together in IHS cleaning chores (the ensuing argument from which Bev sees as BelligerentSexualTension). [[spoiler:It's hinted in the finale that they're together when Jackie helps Bear and Rita pack for Rita's move to OKC.]]


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** Mose and Mekko's parting words [[spoiler:at Fixico's casket]] are "see you at the crossroads," a reference to Music/BoneThugsNHarmony's biggest hit "Tha Crossroads" (which is, fittingly, [[spoiler:a GriefSong]]).

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''Reservation Dogs'' is an American comedy series created and written by Sterlin Harjo and Creator/TaikaWaititi. It premiered on August 9, 2021, on [[Creator/FXNetworks FX on Hulu]]. Midway through its debut season, it was renewed for a second. Its third and final season airs August 2023.

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''Reservation Dogs'' is an American comedy series created and written by Sterlin Harjo and Creator/TaikaWaititi. It premiered on August 9, 2021, on [[Creator/FXNetworks FX on Hulu]]. Midway through Hulu]] and concluded on its debut season, it was renewed for own terms with a second. Its third and final season airs August finale on September 27, 2023.



The show is notable for the sheer number of Natives working in front of and behind the cameras. The directors, writers, and most of the cast and crew are Native, while Taika Waititi is himself part indigenous Māori.

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The show is notable for the sheer number of Natives working in front of and behind the cameras. The directors, writers, and most of the cast and crew are Native, while Taika Waititi is himself part indigenous Māori.



* ActorAllusion: Creator/AmberMidthunder's character does a land acknowledgment for Native American tribes. But she keeps going further back to include Neanderthals, dinosaurs, and the [[Film/Prey2022 "Star People"]].

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* ActorAllusion: ActionPrologue: The show kicks off with the Dogs' frenzied carjacking of the Flamin' Flamers truck before scaling back the action as they go back to their lives (now with some money and many boxes of chips to offload).
* ActorAllusion:
** Coach Bobson, played by comedian Creator/BillBurr, tells Kenny Boy that he could be a standup comedian.
** Nathan Apodaca, whose first-ever acting role is as Uncle Charley, gets two allusions in "Roofing" to the viral 2020 [=TikTok=] in which he filmed himself skateboarding down a highway while lipsynching to Music/FleetwoodMac's "Dreams" and drinking a bottle of Ocean Spray cranberry juice. Charley wants cranberry juice with lunch, then later dances for a presumed [=TikTok=] video that Marc Don films.
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Creator/AmberMidthunder's character does a land acknowledgment for Native American tribes. But she keeps going further back to include Neanderthals, dinosaurs, and the [[Film/Prey2022 "Star People"]].



** Bear gets his hopes up trying to see his dad after two years, to the point of buying him pricey gifts, despite everyone telling him [[DisappearedDad his dad NEVER visits him.]] Unfortunately, [[ForegoneConclusion they're right.]]

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** Bear gets his hopes up trying to see his dad after two years, to the point of buying him pricey gifts, despite everyone telling him [[DisappearedDad his dad NEVER visits him.]] him]]. Unfortunately, [[ForegoneConclusion they're right.]]right]].



** It's unclear if the guy who picked up Jackie and Elora was trying to kidnap him or if he really was just trying to go to a gas station off the road.

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** It's unclear if the guy who picked up Jackie and Elora was trying to kidnap him them or if he really was just trying to go to a gas station off the road.



** In one episode, Bucky makes copper wire sculptures, one of which appears to have two penises. Big accidentally gets high several episodes later and sees a giant version walking through a field.

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** In one episode, Bucky makes copper wire sculptures, one of which appears to have two penises. Big accidentally gets high several episodes a season later and sees a giant version walking through a field.



* CallBack: When Rick walks over to confront Elora for tailing him, she warns him that she has a knife and she's used it before. This calls back to the previous season's hitchhiking misadventure, when she stabbed the salesman driving her and Jackie.



** The IHS psychiatrist spends most of his short session with Rita gushing over Creator/LouDiamondPhillips and speaks with a stereotypical affect.

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** The IHS psychiatrist spends most of his short session with Rita gushing over Creator/LouDiamondPhillips and speaks with a stereotypical affect.affectation.



* ClusterFBomb: All over the place, but Elora and Willie Jack take the cake. Wille Jack, in particular, can't seem to go a single ''sentence'' without squeezing a "fuck" in it.

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* ClusterFBomb: All over the place, but Elora and Willie Jack take the cake. Wille Willie Jack, in particular, can't seem to go a single ''sentence'' without squeezing a "fuck" in it.it. This includes when addressing elders.



** Episodes 5, 6, 7 are dedicated to Cheese, Willie Jack, and Elora each spending a day bonding with an adult mentor. Cheese with Officer Big, Willie Jack with her father, and Elora with Coach Bobson. In the third episode of Season 2, Bear bonds with Daniel's dad, Danny.

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** Episodes 5, 6, 7 are dedicated to Cheese, Willie Jack, and Elora each spending a day bonding with an adult mentor. Cheese with Officer Big, Willie Jack with her father, and Elora with Coach Bobson. In the third episode of Season 2, Bear bonds with Daniel's dad, Danny. Again in the third season, Episode 2 focuses on Bear and new character Maximus, 6 focuses on Cheese, 8 has some focus on Willie Jack, and 9 focuses on Elora.



** The seventh episode of Season 3 focuses on Rita.



* DivineRaceLift: Discussed. Images of Jesus that appear in the show depict him as white and characters gree them with a [[RunningGag "'Sup, white Jesus?"]] However, William Knifeman claims to have met Jesus and says he's a brown man. [[spoiler:The Rez Dogs eventually meet him and he appears as a white man.]]

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* DivineRaceLift: Discussed. Images of Jesus that appear in the show depict him as white and characters gree greet them with a [[RunningGag "'Sup, white Jesus?"]] However, William Knifeman claims to have met Jesus and says he's a brown man. [[spoiler:The Rez Dogs eventually meet him and he appears as a white man.]]



* DrunkDriver: A drunken motorcycle ride [[spoiler:killed Elora's mom and her boyfriend. Big hasn't forgiven himself for not being able to stop them.]]

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* DrunkDriver: DrunkDriver:
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A drunken motorcycle ride [[spoiler:killed Elora's mom and her boyfriend. Big hasn't forgiven himself for not being able to stop them.]]
** Maximus drives his friends home while still tripping on acid because he's comparatively sober. He somehow manages to avoid crashing despite not being fully with it or awake, then [[spoiler:a UFO appears and he stops the car to greet TheGreys.
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* EthicalSlut: Rita, Bev, Teenie, and Natalie are all unapologetic about their love of no-strings-attached sex. Bev is especially proud of all her "kills" at IHS conferences.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Big is immediately established as an ineffective cop who's a bit nutty, as his first scene is him in his squad car totally missing the stolen Flamin' Flamers truck driving by because he's too busy watching a conspiracy theory video on his phone.
* EthicalSlut: Rita, Bev, Teenie, and Natalie are all unapologetic about their love of no-strings-attached sex. Bev is especially proud of all her "kills" at IHS conferences. Nevertheless, they are responsible parental/auntie figures to the younger generation.



* EveryCarIsAPinto: Kenny Boy's ancient school bus, whose engine starts smoking, bursts into flames right after everyone escapes it.

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Kenny Boy's ancient school bus, whose engine starts smoking, smoking upon its return to the rez, bursts into flames right after everyone escapes it.



* FreeRangeChildren: During his ride along with Big, Cheese helps him pull over the NDN Mafia. Based on their conversation at the beginning of the episode, this episode is occurring on a school day. It is light out, but Big never asks the NDN why they aren't in school or if they are driving during lunchtime.

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* FreeRangeChildren: During his ride along with Big, Cheese helps him pull over the NDN Mafia. Based on their conversation at the beginning of the episode, this episode is occurring on a school day. It is light out, but Big never asks the NDN teens why they aren't in school or if they are driving during lunchtime.



** ** Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that at [[ShrineToTheFallen Daniel's shrine in the Rez Dogs' hangout]], the kids left [[TrueCompanions a bottle of LACTAID tablets among the offerings]].

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** ** Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that at [[ShrineToTheFallen Daniel's shrine in the Rez Dogs' hangout]], the kids left [[TrueCompanions a bottle of LACTAID tablets among the offerings]].



* GetawayDriver: Kenny Boy is hurt that his only role in Bear's caper is as the getaway driver. The kids defuse the situation by pointing out he's the only one with a CDL license. When they actually make their getaway, he decides his role is actually fun.

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* GetawayDriver: GetawayDriver:
** Elora drives both the stolen chip truck and her own clunker when her driving instructor needs to escape a methhead he shot.
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Kenny Boy is hurt that his only role in Bear's caper is as the getaway driver. The kids defuse the situation by pointing out he's the only one with a CDL license. When they actually it's time to make their getaway, he decides his role is actually fun.



* HorsingAround: William Knifeman calls his horse a "little shit" because it tripped in a gopher hole and fell on him at the Battle of Little Big Horn. It also lies down while he's on its back, apparently just to spite him.

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* HorsingAround: William Knifeman calls his horse a "little shit" because it tripped in a gopher hole and fell on him at the Battle of Little Big Horn. It also ignores him. When he wants it to move forward, it either stands still or lies down while he's on its back, apparently just to spite him.down.



* MoodyMount: William Knifeman's horse ignores him. When he wants it to move forward, it either stands still or sits down. He's already annoyed at it for causing his UndignifiedDeath.



** Maximus' reaction when [[spoiler:the UFO stops the car]].

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** Maximus' reaction when [[spoiler:the UFO stops the car]].car.]]



* TakingTheHeat: Big intends to charge everyone involved with Maximus's return to Okern with a misdemeanor. [[spoiler:Kenny tells him that he can't let the kids get in trouble for doing something good for their elders, so he insists the only people involved were him and Ansel.]]
* TeenPregnancy:

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* TakingTheHeat: Big intends to charge everyone involved with Maximus's return to Okern the flaming school bus with a misdemeanor. [[spoiler:Kenny tells him that he can't let the kids get in trouble for doing something good for their elders, so he insists the only people involved were him and Ansel.]]
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* ThisMeansWarpaint: Kenny Boy reaches under the bus's steering column to coat his fingertips with some kind of oil, which he uses to draw dark stripes on his cheeks as warpaint. Only then can TheCaper commence.


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* TraumaticHaircut: The first thing the children are subjected to at the residential school is their long braids being lopped off. TruthInTelevision, as haircuts were reserved for significant situations like mourning, so the residential schools' policy of forcibly cutting hair was just one of many ways they removed children from their cultural practices.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: The way Clifford begins breaking news to Rita makes it sound like he's about to lay her off. [[spoiler:He informs her that she's been offered a promotion.]]

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: The way Clifford Clinton begins breaking news to Rita makes it sound like he's about to lay her off. [[spoiler:He informs her that she's been offered a promotion.]]



* BlackComedy: Hokti's SpiritAdvisor remarks that she smiled more walking the Trail of Tears, a genocidal trek, than Hokti does presently.

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* BlackComedy: BlackComedy:
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Hokti's SpiritAdvisor remarks that she smiled more walking the Trail of Tears, a genocidal trek, than Hokti does presently.presently.
** Bear suggests [[spoiler:to Elora]] having a father-child relationship like he does with his dad. While this might sound positive devoid of context, Bear's dad is a GlorifiedSpermDonor.



* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Big ignores Bucky's warning to only use a drop of his homemade ghost pepper/jalapeno hot sauce. He soon regrets it/

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Big ignores Bucky's warning to only use a drop of his homemade ghost pepper/jalapeno pepper/jalapeño hot sauce. He soon regrets it/it.



** Season 2 has a running gag of characters saying "'Sup, white Jesus" whenever they see a statue or painting of him. White Jesus actually appears in the finale.

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** Season 2 has a running gag of characters saying "'Sup, white Jesus" whenever they see a statue or painting of him. White [[spoiler:White Jesus actually appears in the finale.]]



* CallingParentsByTheirName: Rick Miller is not referred to as Dad because [[spoiler:he's been out of Elora's life since her first birthday and has made no effort to reconnect.]]



* CampGay:
** The IHS psychiatrist spends most of his short session with Rita gushing over Creator/LouDiamondPhillips and speaks with a stereotypical affect.
** The college intake counselor keeps a Chippendales photo framed on his desk, dresses femininely, and has an even more stereotypically gay voice.



* HoldMyGlasses: Willie Jack takes off her earrings before going to fight the NDN Mafia in the IHS parking lot.



* IncrediblyObviousTail: It doesn't take Rick many turns on suburban roads for him to realize the red sedan making all the same moves as him is following him. He pulls into a gas station to confront the driver, who didn't realize the obviousness.



* LongLostRelative: In "Elora's Dad" Elora finally meets Rick, her birth father, and discovers that she also has three half-siblings who are very happy to have an older sister.

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* LongLostRelative: In "Elora's Dad" Season 3 episode [[spoiler:"Elora's Dad," Elora finally meets Rick, her birth father, and discovers that she also has three half-siblings who are very happy to have an older sister.]]



* PopUpTexting: The Rez Dogs' group chat pops up on screen with labels as to who's texting.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to Uncle Brownie, Elora looks so much like her mother Cookie it's like looking at a ghost. Aunt Teenie in the second season agrees that Elora is a spitting image of her mother.

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* TheStoner:
** Brownie has been a pothead since his youth, rocking a marijuana leaf patch on his vest.
** Rick Miller is smoking a joint for most of his screen time. Elora even calls him a stoner in the Rez Dogs group chat.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to Uncle Brownie, Elora looks so much like her mother Cookie it's like looking at a ghost. Aunt Teenie in the second season agrees that Elora is a spitting image of her mother. [[spoiler:Rick Miller only needs to take one look at her to know she's his daughter.]]



* WaxingLyrical: The spirit guide quotes "[[Music/{{Kansas}} Carry On My Wayward Son]]" to Bear when pressed to offer advice. If Bear notices the reference, he doesn't acknowledge it.
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* LongLostRelative: In "Elora's Dad" Elora finally meets Rick, her birth father, and discovers that she also has three half-siblings who are very happy to have an older sister.
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* ProfoundByPopSong: The [[SpiritAdvisor spirit warrior]] quotes Music/{{Kansas}} to Bear when pressed to offer life advice he doesn't have. If Bear notices the reference, he doesn't acknowledge it.
--> '''Spirit:''' Take responsibility for yourself, young warrior. "Carry on, my wayward son. There will be peace when you are done." ''[throws french fry at Bear's face]'' Aho.
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* Rita, Bev, Teenie, and Natalie have episodes focusing on them, the strain on their relationship, and their grief over Cookie's (Elora's mother) death.

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* ** Rita, Bev, Teenie, and Natalie have episodes focusing on them, the strain on their relationship, and their grief over Cookie's (Elora's mother) death.

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* ParentsAsPeople: Willie Jack's dad, Leon, apologizes to Willie Jack if he seems different to her over the past year. It is implied that not only the Reservation Dogs were deeply affected by Daniel's passing, but a few of the adults in their lives as well, based on his dialogue with his daughter.

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* ParentsAsPeople: The older characters are as developed as the younger ones and often get their own flashback episodes.
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** Daniel's parents, Danny and Hokti, both get episodes focusing on them. Danny is a roofer who becomes Bear's coworker and the two discuss Daniel together. Hokti is in prison for unknown reasons and has a spirit guide of her own.
* Rita, Bev, Teenie, and Natalie have episodes focusing on them, the strain on their relationship, and their grief over Cookie's (Elora's mother) death.
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* HeritageDisconnect: "City Indians" such as Jackie, Augusto Firekeeper, and [=MissM8tri@rch=] have trouble fitting in on the reservation. The latter two come off as overcompensating with their activism, and [=MissM8tri@rch=] also seems embarrassed to admit that she comes from the Bay Area. Creator/AmberMidthunder, who played her, noted in an interview too that her outfit is a mishmash from different tribes' traditional clothing, subtly indicating that she's not actually too familiar with their traditions.

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* HeritageDisconnect: "City Indians" such as Jackie, Augusto Firekeeper, and [=MissM8tri@rch=] have trouble fitting in on the reservation. The latter two come off as overcompensating with their activism, and [=MissM8tri@rch=] also seems embarrassed to admit that she comes from the Bay Area. Creator/AmberMidthunder, who played her, noted in an interview too that her outfit is a [[TipisAndTotemPoles mishmash from different tribes' traditional clothing, clothing]], subtly indicating that she's not actually too familiar with their traditions.
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** Another ''Willow'' shout-out: Kenny Boy's business is named "[[https://willowufgood.fandom.com/wiki/Burglekutt Burglecutt]] Salvage."

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Big ignores Bucky's warning to only use a drop of his homemade ghost pepper/jalapeno hot sauce. He soon regrets it/



* TheCaper: The Rez Dogs' plan to kidnap Maximus from his mental hospital involves a team to distract the front desk, a team to cut the phone lines, a team to retrieve Maximus, a lookout, and the getaway drivers. Though the breakout is Willie Jack's idea, Bear calls the shots.



* ClashingCousins: Maximus doesn't want to associate with his cousin Fixico. To him, Fixico doesn't recognize how privileged he is having a well-respected career path paved for him. Fixico wants to mend fences, thinking that the falling-out was over something more superficial.

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* ClashingCousins: Maximus doesn't want to associate with his cousin Fixico. To him, Fixico doesn't recognize how privileged he is having a well-respected career path paved for him. Fixico wants to mend fences, thinking that the falling-out was over something more superficial. [[spoiler:They don't reconcile until Fixico's on his deathbed.]]



* EveryCarIsAPinto: Kenny Boy's ancient school bus, whose engine starts smoking, bursts into flames right after everyone escapes it.



* GetawayDriver: Kenny Boy is hurt that his only role in Bear's caper is as the getaway driver. The kids defuse the situation by pointing out he's the only one with a CDL license. When they actually make their getaway, he decides his role is actually fun.
* GirlsNightOutEpisode: "Wide Net" focuses only on the aunties as they let loose at the IHS conference. They party, snag, commiserate, and mend rifts.



* InterrogationFlashback: "Send It" is framed by Big interrogating everyone involved with breaking Maximus out of his hospital, intercut with the phases of the plan as it unfolded.



* LazyAlias: White Steve's race-based aliases for him and Bone Thug Dog are Mr. White and Mr. Brown. The latter is nixed, so White Steve hastily revises his friend's alias to Mr. Dog.



** Maximus meets a "[[TheGreys Star Person]]" who claims to be his "relative." In a show where spirits exist, it might be real though Maximus was high on acid at the time.

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** Maximus meets a "[[TheGreys Star Person]]" who claims to be his "relative." In a show where spirits exist, it might be real real, though Maximus was high on acid at the time.



* MoodyMount: William Knifeman's horse ignores him. When he wants it to move forward, it either stands still or sits down. He's already annoyed at it for causing his UndignifiedDeath.



* OminousOwl: Owls are considered a bad omen in many Native cultures, so it's treated as such when it appears in any form.

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* OminousOwl: Owls are considered a bad omen in many Native cultures, so it's they're treated as such when it appears appearing in any form.



* ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: The Rez Dogs intend to invoke an unsanctioned psychiatric hospital breakout. [[spoiler:Only to learn that Maximus can leave whenever he wants; he only gets taken to the hospital when he goes off his meds and uses the place like an apartment/hotel.]]



* PornStash: Big's childhood encounter with a Bigfoot family only happens because he snuck into the woods to read his collection of Playboy magazines.

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* PornStash: Big's childhood encounter with a Bigfoot family only happens because he snuck into the woods to read his collection of Playboy ''Playboy'' magazines.



* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Weeze gets bogged down by the details of how exactly he's supposed to scream for everyone's attention if something goes down while he's on lookout. It's then pointed out that he can just text the group chat.



* TakingTheHeat: Big intends to charge everyone involved with Maximus's return to Okern with a misdemeanor. [[spoiler:Kenny tells him that he can't let the kids get in trouble for doing something good for their elders, so he insists the only people involved were him and Ansel.]]



* UnusualPopCultureName: Elora Danan Postoak is named for the baby Elora Danan in ''Film/{{Willow}}'', which is immediately lampshaded when the junkyard owner learns her name.
-->'''Kenny Boy:''' That's a great movie.
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* BlackSpeech: In a flashback to an [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Indian residential school]], the abusive English-speaking nuns and teachers have their words dubbed with meaningless gibberish. This shows the boarding school experience from the point of view of Native children who do not speak English.

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* BlackSpeech: In a flashback to an [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Indian residential school]], the abusive English-speaking nuns and teachers have their words dubbed with meaningless gibberish. This shows the boarding school experience from the point of view of Native children who do not speak English. Their tone is always very harsh, which serves to make them sound guttural and quite menacing, even monstrous, appropriately enough.

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* BlackComedy: Hokti's SpiritAdvisor remarks that she smiled more walking the Trail of Tears, a genocidal trek, than Hokti does presently.



* BlackComedy: Hokti's SpiritAdvisor remarks that she smiled more walking the Trail of Tears, a genocidal trek, than Hokti does presently.

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* BlackComedy: Hokti's SpiritAdvisor remarks that she smiled more walking BlackSpeech: In a flashback to an [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Indian residential school]], the Trail abusive English-speaking nuns and teachers have their words dubbed with meaningless gibberish. This shows the boarding school experience from the point of Tears, a genocidal trek, than Hokti does presently.view of Native children who do not speak English.
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* OhCrap: A very justifiable reaction to being suddenly confronted with the paranormal.
** Bear is terrified when he realizes he's eating with the Deer Lady.
** Maximus' reaction when [[spoiler:the UFO stops the car]].
** Rita freaks out when [[spoiler:Cookie's spirit appears in her room.]]

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* TeenPregnancy: Rita and Cookie had their children at about 17 years old.

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* MaliciousSlander: The aunties ignore a perfectly nice man who greets them at the IHS conference because Teenie insists that Seminoles can impregnate a woman with just a glance. [[spoiler:Bev snags him that night anyway.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In keeping with the MagicRealism, it's never definitively spelled out if [[spoiler:White Jesus is delusional or actually Jesus.]] The kids certainly treat him as if he's real.

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* MaliciousSlander: The aunties ignore a perfectly nice man who greets them at the IHS conference because Teenie insists that Seminoles can impregnate a woman with just a glance. [[spoiler:Bev snags him that night anyway.]]
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* NoEyeInMagic: The aunties avert their eyes from Seminole man who greets them at the IHS conference because Teenie insists that Seminoles can impregnate a woman with just a glance. [[spoiler:Bev snags him that night anyway.]]

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* AntiSmotherLoveTalk: Rita is daunted by the prospect of leaving Bear by himself [[spoiler:when she's offered a promotion she'd have to leave Okern for.]] Bev has to talk her into accepting that he's matured and capable of independence.



* BaitAndSwitchComment: The way Clifford begins breaking news to Rita makes it sound like he's about to lay her off. [[spoiler:He informs her that she's been offered a promotion.]]



** Some characters can [[ISeeDeadPeople see and interact with spirits]]. [[spoiler:It's [[SuperpowerfulGenetics in the blood]] for Rita and Bear.]]



* MistakenForInsane: Rob thinks Rita's lost her mind because she's talking to thin air. [[spoiler:She's talking to the spirit of Cookie.]]



* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Spirits exist, but they can only be seen by some people. Spirits can eat, use bathrooms, and physically interact with the people they appear to.



* ShipTease: Bear and Jackie have a SleepCute moment together, keep texting each other [[spoiler:while he's on the Rez Dogs pilgrimage to California]], and are paired together in IHS cleaning chores (the ensuing argument from which Bev sees as BelligerentSexualTension).



* TheShrink: Larry the IHS psychiatrist appears prone to digressions about his own weird issues. He tells Rita about the time he mistook a Hopi welder for Creator/LouDiamondPhillips and attributes everything (including that) to native generational trauma.



* SkepticNoLonger: It takes [[spoiler:Cookie manifesting]] for Rita to believe Bear that [[spoiler:he was driven home by the Deer Lady.]] Up until then, she'd dismissed his claims as a lie that disrespectfully invoked spirits.



** [[spoiler:Cookie has been giving Rita guidance as a spirit, though she doesn't make herself known to Rita for a decade and a half.]]



* TeenPregnancy: Rita was a teen mom, and it's likely her friend Cookie was, too. At the group home in Season 2, Cheese's new friend Tino reveals that he fathered (at least) two children before being locked up at age 16.

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** Bev begs the Creator for the opportunity to move anywhere that's outside Okern. Kansas City, DC, or even Texas. Rita calls her out on that last one, and Bev admits she wouldn't move there.
* TeenPregnancy: Rita was a teen mom, and it's likely her friend Cookie was, too. had their children at about 17 years old.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Bear's house number is 1491, the last year before Christopher Columbus came to the American continents. Creator/The1491s are a sketch comedy troupe that members of the cast and writers, including Dallas Goldtooth (Spirit) and Sterlin Harjo (show creator), are part of.

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** ** Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that at [[ShrineToTheFallen Daniel's shrine in the Rez Dogs' hangout]], the kids left [[TrueCompanions a bottle of LACTAID tablets among the offerings]].



** Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that at [[ShrineToTheFallen Daniel's shrine in the Rez Dogs' hangout]], the kids left [[TrueCompanions a bottle of LACTAID tablets among the offerings]].
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* BrickJoke:
** In one episode, Bucky makes copper wire sculptures, one of which appears to have two penises. Big accidentally gets high several episodes later and sees a giant version walking through a field.
** [=MissM8tri@rch=] does a land acknowledgement for the ancient [[AncientAstronauts "Star People"]] in season 2. In season 3, Bear meets a man who believes in the Star People and is preparing for their return.

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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Tall Man, who Leon thinks he sees in the early morning of episode 6. He couldn't get a good look at it, but could see it was human-shaped and very hairy. [[spoiler:Willie Jack thinks it was Daniel's spirit saying good-bye to Leon.]] In real life, there are folktales about hairy human-like creatures all over North America with different tribes from Canada to Mexico referencing some kind of human-sized creature that can be a monster like the Wendigo to a harmless forest spirit.

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The Tall Man, who Leon thinks he sees in the early morning of episode 6. He couldn't get a good look at it, but could see it was human-shaped and very hairy. [[spoiler:Willie Jack thinks it was Daniel's spirit saying good-bye to Leon.]] In real life, there are folktales about hairy human-like creatures all over North America with different tribes from Canada to Mexico referencing some kind of human-sized creature that can be a monster like the Wendigo to a harmless forest spirit. spirit.
** Big swears he saw four Bigfoot when he was young, having snuck into the woods to read ''Playboy'' magazines. Cheese finds his assertion dubious. [[spoiler:TheStinger of the episode cuts to two Bigfoot NatureTinkling.]]



** Cheese presses down a dilapidated hallway in combat gear, slaughtering HighPressureBlood zombies with a blade and delivering snappy one-liners. It's then revealed that he's playing a VR game.

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** Cheese presses down a dilapidated hallway in combat gear, slaughtering HighPressureBlood zombies with a blade and delivering snappy one-liners. It's then revealed that he's playing a VR game.zombie game in his bedroom.



** Downplayed. The aunties eat edibles at the IHS conference, thinking they're only 10mg. Only after do they learn that Teenie lied: the edibles were actually ''25'' mg. The women end up on the dancefloor swaying like zombies after the weed hits.

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** Downplayed. The aunties eat edibles at the IHS conference, thinking they're only 10mg.10 mg. Only after do they learn that Teenie lied: the edibles were actually ''25'' mg. The women end up on the dancefloor swaying like zombies after the weed hits.



* NatureTinkling: While in the wilderness, Bucky, Big, Brownie, and Cheese all pee together lined up like they're at a urinal. The pee streams are shown first.

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* NatureTinkling: While in the wilderness, Bucky, Big, Brownie, and Cheese all pee together lined up like they're at a urinal. The pee streams are shown on-screen first.



* NeglectedRez: Okern, Oklahoma is a run-down rez town, with drugs and poverty running rampant. Elora points out that living in this place is what [[DrivenToSuicide killed their friend Daniel]] a year before the start of the series. Despite this, there is room for healing and growth across the generations of people who call the rez home.



* OminousOwl: Owls are considered a bad omen in many Native cultures, so this comes up a few times.

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* OminousOwl: Owls are considered a bad omen in many Native cultures, so this comes up a few times.it's treated as such when it appears in any form.



* TheRez: The gang live in the third variety. Elora points out that living in this place is what killed their friend Daniel a year before the start of the series.



* TheStinger: In the middle of the credits, "Frankfurter Sandwich" cuts to two Bigfoot creatures pissing on a log.

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* CampingEpisode: Cheese is dragged out on an overnight fishing trip by Big, Bucky, and Brownie after spending a week cooped up in his room gaming.



* ChekhovsGag: "White Jesus" pops up a couple times as a RunningGag about the Middle Eastern figure's DivineRaceLift in Western depictions, only for the Rez Dogs to encounter [[spoiler:a homeless white man dressed as and acting like Jesus who leads them to Skid Row after their car is stolen in L.A. They readily refer to him as "White Jesus" and all but Elora are quick to follow him.]]

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* ChekhovsGag: "White Jesus" pops up a couple times as a RunningGag about the Middle Eastern figure's DivineRaceLift in Western depictions, only for the Rez Dogs to encounter [[spoiler:a homeless white man dressed as and acting like Jesus who leads them to Skid Row after their car is stolen in L.A. They readily refer to him as "White Jesus" and all but Elora are quick to follow him. By the time they leave his care, they all appreciate him.]]



* CuttingBackToReality: When Maximus looks out his window, he sees a group of grey-clad star people striding toward him. When Bear looks out, he sees squad cars have arrived to usher Maximus back to his psych ward.
* DartboardOfHate: Brownie has a painting of UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson on his wall that he uses like this.

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** Cheese presses down a dilapidated hallway in combat gear, slaughtering HighPressureBlood zombies with a blade and delivering snappy one-liners. It's then revealed that he's playing a VR game.
* DartboardOfHate: Brownie has a painting of UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson on his wall that he uses like this.as a dartboard.



* DisappearedDad: Bear's dad hasn't seen him in two years, is constantly bailing on visits with him and his mom, and he needs a reminder for ''what age Bear is''.

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* DisappearedDad: Bear's dad hasn't seen him in two years, is constantly bailing on visits with him and his mom, and he needs a reminder for ''what age Bear is''. Of the Rez Dogs, only Willie Jack's dad is present in his child's life.



* EverybodyCries: Once Big pours his heart out to the camping group and breaks down in dramatic sobs, Brownie and Bucky are moved into confronting their own grief and join him. Cheese admits that his sharing circle idea was more effective than expected.



** Multiple shots in "This Is Where the Plot Thickens" reference scenes from Creator/ZahnMcClarnon's role in ''Series/{{Fargo}}''.



* ImpairmentShot: Big's psychedelic trip when shown from his perspective includes all sorts of kaleidoscopic effects on his surroundings.



* MagicRealism: Nestled neatly in a realistic story of delinquent kids growing up on the rez, we see Big's childhood encounters with the mythical Deer Lady, and the Tall Man may or may not hang out in the nearby woods. Bear also receives regular messages from a dead ancestor, and may have seen Daniel's spirit lingering near where he died.

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* MagicRealism: Nestled neatly in a realistic story of delinquent kids growing up on the rez, we see Big's childhood encounters with the mythical Deer Lady, and the Tall Man may or may not hang out in the nearby woods. A Bigfoot family, too. Bear also receives regular messages from a dead ancestor, warrior, and may have seen Daniel's spirit lingering near where he died.



* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In keeping with the MagicRealism, it's never definitively spelled out if [[spoiler:White Jesus is delusional or actually Jesus.]] The kids certainly treat him as if he's real.



* NatureTinkling: While in the wilderness, Bucky, Big, Brownie, and Cheese all pee together lined up like they're at a urinal. The pee streams are shown first.



* PornStash: Big's childhood encounter with a Bigfoot family only happens because he snuck into the woods to read his collection of Playboy magazines.



* TheStinger: In the middle of the credits, "Frankfurter Sandwich" cuts to two Bigfoot creatures pissing on a log.



* TakeThat: A nun who teaches at a Native boarding school where Native children were forced to go to learn English and convert to Christianity is named in the credits as Sister Stitt, likely as a dig at Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt for his ongoing conflict with tribal governments in eastern Oklahoma.

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** "Go Washington Foreskins" is seen among the graffiti in William Knifeman's porta-potty. This takes a jab at Washington DC's NFL team, which until 2020 was called the Washington Redskins (a racial slur).



* ToiletHumor: The spirit talks to Bear about grief and hardship while seated in the adjacent porta-potty, nonchalantly taking a dump while doing so.

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** Brownie has Cheese listen quietly to ambient nature at the lake, only to rip one loudly.


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* YouRemindMeOfX:
** Bear reminds Deer Lady of [[spoiler:her determined childhood friend that she met at the residential school.]]
** Cheese reminds Bucky and Brownie of their long-estranged friend Maximus.

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* ClashingCousins: Maximus doesn't want to associate with his cousin Fixico. To him, Fixico doesn't recognize how privileged he is having a well-respected career path paved for him. Fixico wants to mend fences, thinking that the falling-out was over something more superficial.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Deer Lady," we see flashbacks depicting her as [[spoiler:a young Native girl forced into a horribly abusive Indian residential school, where the nuns beat her and her friends are murdered by a white Native hunter working for the school. Eventually she escapes and encounters a deer spirit who gives her the strength to kill the lead nun. Years later, while helping Bear get back to the Rez, Deer Lady finds the hunter as an old man and kills him too.]]



** "Come And Get Your Love" focuses on Officer Big and his unusual backstory with the Deer Lady. Cheese joins him on a ride-along, and the other Dogs only appear in a quick flashback.
** "Hunting" follows Willie Jack and her dad Leon as they cope with Daniel"s death.

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** "Come And Get Your Love" focuses on Officer Big and his unusual backstory with the Deer Lady. Cheese joins him on a ride-along, and He gets focus again in the other Dogs only appear in a quick flashback.
** "Hunting" follows Willie Jack and her dad Leon as they cope with Daniel"s death.
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* DeadPersonConversation: Mabel appears to Elora, offering her motivational words and threatening to haunt her should she sell Mabel's favorite dish set.

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** The third episode of Season 3 delves into the Deer Lady's past.
** The fifth episode of Season 3 flashes back to the grandparents' generation in high school.
* DeadPersonConversation: Mabel [[spoiler:Mabel appears to Elora, Elora,]] offering her motivational words and threatening to haunt her should she sell Mabel's [[spoiler:Mabel]]'s favorite dish set.



* DrugsCausingSlowMotion:
** Big and Kenny's psychedelic trip in the woods is accompanied by slowed, wavy visuals.
** Maximus's first time dropping acid slows the world around him down so much that Bucky's voice gets pitched down to nigh incomprehensibility.



* FlashbackBPlot: "Deer Lady" switches between the titular spirit in the present [[spoiler:eating pie with Bear in a diner and driving him home]] and scenes from decades prior [[spoiler:of her abusive experiences as a child in an Indian residential school.]]



* GenderEqualEnsemble: Following Daniel's death, the Rez Dogs gang is comprised of two boys and two girls.



* HumanoidAbomination: The Deer Lady takes the form of a beautiful, slightly hippie Native woman. Guys who meet her are so entranced they don't notice she has cloven hooves instead of feet.

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* HumanoidAbomination: The Deer Lady takes the form of a beautiful, slightly hippie Native woman. Guys who meet her are so entranced they don't HowManyFingers: After Cheese fails to notice she has cloven hooves instead how much of feet.the graffiti had yet to be removed, Willie Jack holds up some fingers to test his eyesight. He guesses wrong.



* LastDayOfSchoolPlot: "House Made of Bongs" takes place on the last day of school in 1976. The teens head to a party in the woods, get high, and talk about their intended futures.



* MissingMom: Elora's mother Cookie died when she was little. [[spoiler:She died in a drunk driving accident.]]



* ProductPlacement: Brownie frequently eats at Sonic and has cups with their logo all over his home.
* ReallyGetsAround: Bev wears all her host-tribe snags' ID cards as conquest trophies at the IHS conference. Her whole chest is covered in them, and that's before she even snags this year.

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* ProductPlacement: Brownie frequently eats at Sonic and has cups with their logo all over his home.
* ReallyGetsAround: Bev wears all her host-tribe snags' ID cards
home. It gets frequent reference as conquest trophies at a place for the IHS conference. Her whole chest is covered in them, and that's before she even snags this year.characters to go to.



* ShippingGoggles: When Bear and Jackie have an argument while assigned to sweep the IHS lobby, Bev tells Rita that she's going to be a grandmother. Rita disagrees and thinks she's reading too far into their interaction.

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* ShippingGoggles: ShippingGoggles:[[invoked]] When Bear and Jackie have an argument while assigned to sweep the IHS lobby, Bev tells Rita that she's going to be a grandmother. Rita disagrees and thinks she's reading too far into their interaction.



** Leon calls Bear and Jackie "Film/{{Zoolander}} and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinker-hell]]."



--> '''Bear:''' It's like, they don't even teach you anything, just expect you to know.
--> '''William Knifeman:''' Yeah. That's the native way of teaching. We have this, uh, traditional pedagogy of, uh: Just get out there and learn, fսckеr.
* SleepCute: Bear and Jackie fall asleep on Mabel's couch together. Jackie is disgusted when she wakes up and realizes it's happened.

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* SleepCute: Bear and Jackie fall asleep on Mabel's couch together. Jackie is disgusted when she wakes up and realizes it's it happened.



* UndignifiedDeath: William Knifeman died after his horse tripped on a gopher hole at the Battle of Little Big Horn and fell on him, before he ever got to fight Custer and his men.



* UnusualPopCultureName: Elora Danan Postoak is named for the baby Elora Danan in ''Film/{{Willow}}'', which is immediately lampshaded when a meth head learns her name.

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* UnusualPopCultureName: Elora Danan Postoak is named for the baby Elora Danan in ''Film/{{Willow}}'', which is immediately lampshaded when a meth head the junkyard owner learns her name.



* WildTeenParty: Bear has one while Rita is out of town at an IHS conference, though the episode focuses more on her antics than his. In the following episode, Rita uses the party as reasoning for why Bear has to help her with setting up for the youth summit.

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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Season 3's "House Made of Bongs" takes place entirely in 1976, following the grandparents' generation on the last day of the school year.
* WildTeenParty: Bear has one throws a rager while Rita is out of town at an IHS conference, though the episode focuses more on her antics than his. In the following episode, Rita uses the party as reasoning for why Bear has to help her with setting up for the youth summit.

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The series follows four Muscogee teenagers (nicknamed the Reservation Dogs or Rez Dogs) in rural Oklahoma: Bear Smallhill (D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora Danan Postoak (Creator/DeveryJacobs), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis). The four of them get into trouble as they commit crimes to get enough money to move to California, but when a rival gang moves into the area, Bear decides that he's had enough and they should fight to protect their land.

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The series follows four Muscogee teenagers (nicknamed the Reservation Dogs or Rez Dogs) in rural Oklahoma: Bear Smallhill (D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora Danan Postoak (Creator/DeveryJacobs), (Creator/KawennahereDeveryJacobs), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis). The four of them get into trouble as they commit crimes to get enough money to move to California, but when a rival gang moves into the area, Bear decides that he's had enough and they should fight to protect their land.



* BlatantLies: Punkin' pretends he's at the airport and learning his flight was canceled to keep from having to meet Bear on the rez. He does a piss-poor job of acting like he's talking to an airline clerk and Bear isn't fooled for a second.

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* BlatantLies: Punkin' Punkin pretends he's at the airport and learning his flight was canceled to keep from having to meet Bear on the rez. He does a piss-poor job of acting like he's talking to an airline clerk and Bear isn't fooled for a second.



* ConspiracyTheorist: Of two flavors.
** From his first scene, Big is established as a JFK/moon landing conspiracist. He also believes sugar was invented to kill Native Americans.
** Maximus, introduced in the third season, believes in [[InsistentTerminology star people]] (read: extraterrestrials) who come in contact with him that he gifts eggplants to.



* FreudianThreat: Maximus threatens to use Bear's "little ''hushwa''" as catfish bait.



* GangInitiationFight: The best day of White Steve's life was when he joined the NDN Mafia. A flashback shows that his initation involved getting the crap kicked out of him by the other three members.

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** The circumstances surrounding Daniel's death. He seems to have been dealing with mental or emotional issues the night before [[spoiler:he hangs himself]], resulting in his manic behavior at the honky-tonk Elora took him to. Whether it was mental illness, addiction, or something else hasn't been revealed.

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** The circumstances surrounding Daniel's death. He seems to have been dealing with mental or emotional issues the night before [[spoiler:he hangs himself]], resulting in his manic behavior at the honky-tonk Elora took him to. Whether it was Hints about his home life point toward mental illness, addiction, or something else hasn't been revealed.health problems.



* DudeNotFunny: Willie Jack's contrite after making a crack about Jackie's brother and learning [[DrivenToSuicide he killed himself]], trying to apologize. Jackie [[RejectedApology doesn't accept though]], saying to watch her back. She's forgiven however after offering one free punch to Jackie.

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* DrivingTest: Elora needs to pass her driving test so that she can drive everyone to California. Her instructor turns out to be her old basketball coach.
* DrunkDriver: A drunken motorcycle ride [[spoiler:killed Elora's mom and her boyfriend. Big hasn't forgiven himself for not being able to stop them.]]
* DudeNotFunny: Willie Jack's contrite after making a crack about Jackie's brother and learning [[DrivenToSuicide he killed himself]], trying to apologize. Jackie [[RejectedApology doesn't accept though]], saying to watch her back. She's forgiven however after offering one free punch to Jackie.Jackie.
* EasterEgg: There are two blink-and-you'll-miss-it references to Creator/The1491s, the comedy troupe involved with all aspects of the show (creation, production, writing, acting). Bear's house number is 1491, and that's also the number of the bus in the third season premiere.



* PassingTheTorch: Fixico doesn't have anyone to pass his medicinal knowledge to, which is unfortunate because he feels his time is coming soon. [[spoiler:Willie Jack asks to be his apprentice.]]



* ShippingGoggles: When Bear and Jackie have an argument while assigned to sweep the IHS lobby, Bev tells Rita that she's going to be a grandmother. Rita disagrees and thinks she's reading too far into their interaction.



** Big names his car Redbone One after the all-Indian band and frequently listens to "Come and Get Your Love" while working. The episode ends with actual video of the band performing the song.
** On his first day as a roofer, Bear is sent on a SnipeHunt for a [[Series/GameOfThrones fake tool that supposedly stretches something.]]

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** Big names his car Redbone One after [[Music/{{Redbone}} the all-Indian band band]] and frequently listens to "Come and Get Your Love" while working. The episode ends with actual video of the band performing the song.
** On his first day as a roofer, Bear is sent on a SnipeHunt for a [[Series/GameOfThrones fake tool that supposedly stretches something.]]something]].



** Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that at [[ShrineToTheFallen Daniel's shrine in the Rez Dogs' hangout,]] the kids left [[TrueCompanions a bottle of LACTAID tablets among the offerings.]]

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* BathroomBreakOut: Subverted. Bear tries to break out of Maximus's trailer through the bathroom window, but fails to pry it open.



* BestServedCold: Deer Lady kills the wolf of a man [[spoiler:who abused native children at her residential school]] decades after they first crossed paths. By this point, he's elderly.



* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Tall Man, who Leon thinks he sees in the early morning of episode 6. He couldn't get a good look at it, but could see it was human-shaped and very hairy. [[spoiler: Willie Jack thinks it was Daniel's spirit saying good-bye to Leon.]] In real life, there are folktales about hairy human-like creatures all over North America with different tribes from Canada to Mexico referencing some kind of human-sized creature that can be a monster like the Wendigo to a harmless forest spirit.

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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Tall Man, who Leon thinks he sees in the early morning of episode 6. He couldn't get a good look at it, but could see it was human-shaped and very hairy. [[spoiler: Willie [[spoiler:Willie Jack thinks it was Daniel's spirit saying good-bye to Leon.]] In real life, there are folktales about hairy human-like creatures all over North America with different tribes from Canada to Mexico referencing some kind of human-sized creature that can be a monster like the Wendigo to a harmless forest spirit.



* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: "Deer Lady" in Season 3 shows Native children forced into a residential school during the 1930s away from their families. They are forbidden to speak their language while there (even when none speak English), forced to do manual labor, harshly punished for breaking any rules (to the point some are killed) and hunted down if any run away. Sadly, it's all TruthInTelevision.

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* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: "Deer Lady" in Season 3 shows Native children forced into a residential school during the 1930s early 20th century away from their families. They are forbidden to speak their language while there (even when none speak English), forced to do manual labor, harshly punished for breaking any rules (to the point some are killed) and hunted down if any run away. Sadly, it's all TruthInTelevision.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Deer Lady," we see flashbacks depicting her as a young Native girl forced into a horribly abusive home for children, where the nuns beat her and her friends are murdered by a white Native hunter working for the school. Eventually she escapes and encounters a deer spirit who gives her the strength to kill the lead nun. Years later, while helping Bear get back to the Rez, Deer Lady finds the hunter as an old man and kills him too.

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* CuttingBackToReality: When Maximus looks out his window, he sees a group of grey-clad star people striding toward him. When Bear looks out, he sees squad cars have arrived to usher Maximus back to his psych ward.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Deer Lady," we see flashbacks depicting her as a [[spoiler:a young Native girl forced into a horribly abusive home for children, Indian residential school, where the nuns beat her and her friends are murdered by a white Native hunter working for the school. Eventually she escapes and encounters a deer spirit who gives her the strength to kill the lead nun. Years later, while helping Bear get back to the Rez, Deer Lady finds the hunter as an old man and kills him too.]]



* IdiotBall: While Cheese is normally the most mindful Rez Dog, the NDN Mafia know he was the one who tried to sabotage their car because he forgot to take the funnel labeled with his name with him when he fled the scene.

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** Nobody realizes that the long-haired guy in front of Cheese in the bus queue isn't Bear, and thus that Bear isn't on the bus, until they reach home and he doesn't disembark with everyone else.



* LanguageBarrier: PlayedForHorror. The children in "Deer Lady" don’t speak English, so from ''their'' perspective, the fundamentalist missionaries are speaking complete gibberish. It also makes their abusive attacks seem that much more random and unmotivated.

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* LanguageBarrier: PlayedForHorror. The children in "Deer Lady" don’t speak English, so from ''their'' perspective, the fundamentalist missionaries adults are speaking complete gibberish. It also makes their abusive attacks seem that much more random and unmotivated.



* ParallelParking: Coach Bobson has Elora parallel park in a spot too small for her car. Her CrocodileTears get him to swap places with her, only for him to resort to ramming into the adjacent cars until hers is free.



* ParkingProblems: Coach Bobson has Elora parallel park in a spot too small for her car. Her CrocodileTears get him to swap places with her, only for him to resort to ramming into the adjacent cars until hers is free.
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* LanguageBarrier: PlayedForHorror. The children in "Deer Lady" don’t speak English, so from ''their'' perspective, the fundamentalist missionaries are speaking complete gibberish. It also makes their abusive attacks seem that much more random and unmotivated.
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* TakeThat: A nun who teaches at a Native boarding school where Native children were forced to go to learn English and convert to Christianity is named in the credits as Sister Stitt, likely as a dig at Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt for his ongoing conflict with tribal governments in eastern Oklahoma.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Deer Lady," we see flashbacks depicting her as a young Native girl forced into a horribly abusive home for children, where the nuns beat her and her friends are murdered by a white Native hunter working for the school. Eventually she escapes and encounters a deer spirit who gives her the strength to kill the lead nun. Years later, while helping Bear get back to the Rez, Deer Lady finds the hunter as an old man and kills him too.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: In the second episode, Elora tries to offer some of the meat pies she and Willie Jack are selling to the staff at the clinic...while going in for help with her upset stomach, with predictable results.
-->'''Bev:''' Hey, this girl with ''stomach pains'' is outside selling ''meat pies''. Y'all want any? ''(the others just stare)''

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