 Big Dan Teague (John Goodman (I) (qv)) sniffs out Everetts  (George Clooney (qv)) Dapper Dan hair gel and that is how he  recognizes that he is in disguise as the KKK character during the  lynching scene. In the Coen Brothers earlier movie,  _Raising Arizona (1987)_ (qv), Leonard Smalls (Randall Tex Cobb  ) smells out Gales (Goodman again) hair gel and that leads to him  tracking down H.I. (Nicolas Cage (qv)).