 When the Biker played by Randall Tex Cobb (qv) enters the rest  stop bathroom, he notices pomade and sniffs it. This was the pomade  Gale used in an earlier scene. Gale (John Goodman (I) (qv)) is  tracked down by the Biker because of the pomade smell. In  _O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)_ (qv), a later Coen Brothers  movie, Big Dan T (Goodman again), during the lynching scene, sniffs  out Everetts (George Clooney (qv)) Dapper Dan pomade. Everett is  also tracked by the posse throughout the movie because of the scent  of the pomade.