Grab your tots and lace up for a moon boot-clad journey back to the halls of Preston High; Jesse and Jason are rewinding the clock to the delightful idiosyncrasies of 'Napoleon Dynamite.' This week's episode is a treasure trove of memories and revelations as we chat about the film's unexpected rise from indie oddity to cultural phenomenon. You'll get a kick out of behind-the-scenes tales, including Jon Heder's commitment to that legendary perm and Aaron Ruell's braces-bound dedication to Kip. We're dissecting the scenes that have us hitting rewind for another laugh and sharing why this quirky tale of friendship and high school triumph still tugs at our hearts.
Picture this: a school dance where your most awkward moment becomes your crowning glory, and the 'Vote for Pedro' shirt you once owned is now a badge of honor. That's the essence of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' and in our analysis, we're not just revisiting the iconic moments like the Rex Kwon Do dojo; we're peeling back the layers on the film's subtle commentary on teenage life. From Napoleon's cringeworthy attempts at romance to Pedro's campaign for class president, we explore how these endearing characters mirror our own high school escapades and remain relevant in today's meme culture. Plus, we're unpacking the post-credits scene that left us with a happy-ever-after for Kip and La Fonda.
Wrap up your tetherball game and join the conversation as we serve up our personal review of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' complete with a forecast for next week's epic discussion on 'Dune Part 1' with special guest Dakota. Your high school self is cheering from the bleachers, urging you to revisit the charm of this cult classic with us. Tune in, share your thoughts with us through the magic of email and social media, and let's keep the dance of nostalgia alive on the We Recommend Podcast.
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
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Grab your tots and lace up for a moon boot-clad journey back to the halls of Preston High; Jesse and Jason are rewinding the clock to the delightful idiosyncrasies of 'Napoleon Dynamite.' This week's episode is a treasure trove of memories and revelations as we chat about the film's unexpected rise from indie oddity to cultural phenomenon. You'll get a kick out of behind-the-scenes tales, including Jon Heder's commitment to that legendary perm and Aaron Ruell's braces-bound dedication to Kip. We're dissecting the scenes that have us hitting rewind for another laugh and sharing why this quirky tale of friendship and high school triumph still tugs at our hearts.
Picture this: a school dance where your most awkward moment becomes your crowning glory, and the 'Vote for Pedro' shirt you once owned is now a badge of honor. That's the essence of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' and in our analysis, we're not just revisiting the iconic moments like the Rex Kwon Do dojo; we're peeling back the layers on the film's subtle commentary on teenage life. From Napoleon's cringeworthy attempts at romance to Pedro's campaign for class president, we explore how these endearing characters mirror our own high school escapades and remain relevant in today's meme culture. Plus, we're unpacking the post-credits scene that left us with a happy-ever-after for Kip and La Fonda.
Wrap up your tetherball game and join the conversation as we serve up our personal review of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' complete with a forecast for next week's epic discussion on 'Dune Part 1' with special guest Dakota. Your high school self is cheering from the bleachers, urging you to revisit the charm of this cult classic with us. Tune in, share your thoughts with us through the magic of email and social media, and let's keep the dance of nostalgia alive on the We Recommend Podcast.
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
To quickly follow us on social's or listen on another platform follow the link!
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason and vote for me. I'll make all your wildest dreams come true, because this week we recommend Napoleon Dynamite. So this movie like changed a generation, I feel like in high school it was all anyone could talk about whenever people found out about this movie and it was just quoted constantly Dana, eat your food.
Speaker 2:Dana, you fat lard. Oh idiot, so mad at that. Llama yes.
Speaker 1:Kip was a man, I mean, I couldn't like on the bus like I would get roasted for not knowing about this movie. Like people were like you haven't seen it. I was like, no, I haven't. I don't even know how to get to see this movie yet. It's like I can't go to the theaters. I had to wait for it to come out and I just bought it. I'm like as soon as it came out and then I watched it and I was underwhelmed. I was like wait a second, this insane, crazy, hilarious movie. Then it's just like just the driest offbeat humor and I was like, oh man, people really should have told me about this movie before I went into it. But then it's like a movie that over time, every time you watch it, it's funnier and funnier and funnier and it's one of the most quotable movies ever.
Speaker 2:I definitely. I saw it in theaters when, I was in college and I saw it twice like back to back nights. It was so funny, I loved it immediately.
Speaker 1:I wish I got to see it. I wish it was a movie I saw before everyone else. I would have loved it had been the first person in school. Y'all should have watched this movie.
Speaker 2:Like opening weekend. Or maybe it wasn't the opening weekend, but when we went to the theater to see it in downtown Nashville, we were like the only two people in the theater.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I bet it was such an indie movie. I don't think a lot of people heard about it. It was just a very word of mouth movie, because I know it was made for $400,000. That's it and grossed over like $52 million.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. That's one of the best grossing movies ever.
Speaker 1:So the film stars. It stars John Heeter as Napoleon Dynamite. I mean I'm sure you've seen a lot of his stuff, he kind of disappeared all of a sudden, like the one where they were on the Glowrie.
Speaker 2:Little big baseball team.
Speaker 1:Benchwarmer oh dude, I love Benchwarmer, yeah, but Blades of Glory and I mean really that's like I'm looking like. Oh, that's kind of it after Blades of Glory.
Speaker 2:Pretty big ones though.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, I mean I know he had that run for a second but he never really fully took advantage of it. It looks like it kind of sucks.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's just like that kind of actor that says, all right, I'm done, I made enough money.
Speaker 1:Well, he's still doing stuff. This is like the most random stuff you've never heard of. And then it also stars Efren Ramirez as Pedro, john Gris as Uncle Rico, aaron Rule as Kip, deidre Bader as Rex yes, Our boy.
Speaker 2:Second time he's been on the podcast.
Speaker 1:It's been a lot of fun. Tina Mazzorno as Deb and Sandy Martin as Grandma Haley Duff as Summer Wheatley.
Speaker 2:No shit, I didn't realize, I know.
Speaker 1:This time I was like wait a second. She looks so familiar. Oh, that's what's her name, hillary Duff's sister. But I love that Sandy Martin is also the grandma. She's the grandma or she's the mom, and it's always sunny Philadelphia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's always smoking. Yeah, she's so gross it's great Everybody goes over to try to have sex with her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's like you're not my type. You're not my type. It's like what do you mean? I'm not your type. So whenever this movie came out, was it something that you couldn't get away from for a while. How old, like what were you in college at? This point I was in college, I was probably 19. Nice Because I was, I think, like a sophomore in high school or junior. I know, it was great. It was great.
Speaker 2:So you were the one telling everybody about the movie instead of the opposite way. I think songs told us.
Speaker 1:Oh really, I don't know. It's awesome, I just wish where they hadn't. I mean, I'm assuming they'd probably actually make a lot of movies like this, but I wish there was something more that would like pop out and be this great. So the guy that plays Kip Aaron Rule. He suggested Kip Dynamite have braces in the film and he assumed a makeup team would have some sort of fake braces device to glue to his teeth for the film, but it turns out he had to get real braces. He said they were the real deal and quite painful. For the first week they moved my teeth. They said this was only going to make them straighter or they wouldn't have set them on. So it's like I love when people like oh yeah, I actually got real braces for this and stuff like that. It's awesome. But it helped him, though. Right, yeah, I got him into character. That's why he won the Oscar for it. He did no, I'm just kidding, that would be wild. Wow, what a breathtaking performance.
Speaker 2:Who's your? Favorite character in this I don't know, maybe Deb Deb, yeah, she's. Oh, and apart from Napoleon, he's all, yeah, he's gonna say Napoleon, so I think maybe. Deb is my second or I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's tough. I think Deb is probably my second, and then Pedro Freaking Rico.
Speaker 2:They're so good.
Speaker 1:So in order to deceive Japanese audiences, fox changed the name to Bus man in Japan In order to ride the coattails of another popular film in the country called Train man. The two movies could not be more different, and Fox eventually apologized for deceiving Japanese audiences what a boss move. And so their dance was improvised. Heter says he had the first eight counts sort of figured out the shuffling essentially but told Hester to play three different songs and he would dance to each one until he felt like puking. They played a Michael Jackson song and two Jamiroquois songs, eventually ending with Cante by Jamiroquois. Heter says the two were obsessed with this artist at the time. Jamiroquois what a time.
Speaker 2:It's so funny that our cousin is Jamiroquois Lafondas. Oh yeah, Lafondas.
Speaker 1:God, that's wild. So for the origin of pulling down on my name, the filmmakers went to Brangyom Yung University Jared and Terusha. Also, it's based on Mormons, yeah, I guess. So that's hilarious, yeah, and so the two riders, which they were married couple, were members of the Mormon church. Jared was on his mission in Chicago. A hess met an Italian name, an Italian man named Napoleon Dynamite. This sounds real and he says now, that's what I call a sign from God.
Speaker 2:I already told you.
Speaker 1:I guess it made $46 million at the box office. It's pretty good. Did you watch the post credits? Yeah, I didn't know. I had post credits for the longest time.
Speaker 1:It had to be like four years ago when I rewatched it, I was like I just let it play through the credits, like what I did not know. So yeah, I just let it. La Fonda's real family appeared in the film. That was so fucking good. It's called Shondrella Avery, who played La Fonda and said you remember that there were no black people in Preston, idaho, right? Do you think your family might want to be in the movie? Avery agreed, resulting in many of her family members appearing in the post credit scene at Kip and La Fonda's writing. You know how?
Speaker 2:there's no black people in this town.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, and Giresha Hess had the idea of Napoleon to have a perm, but the hair studio he went to ended up making his curls too large so that he looked like Shirley Temple, jared said. My wife and her cousin spent the whole night re-perming his hair until maybe two or three in the morning just doing a water perm. Then they told me that John couldn't wash his hair for the next three weeks, so he had this stinky dude in the Idaho heat for three weeks where we were shooting near dairy farms and there were tons of flies.
Speaker 1:They're all flying in and out of his hair. Oh God, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Just imagine Napoleon Dynamite there. Oh gosh, these flies. Oh stupid idiot flies.
Speaker 1:So, deb, she's based off the director's wife, which is Jerusha Hess. Apparently, this is what she was really like growing up as Deb Nice. Her mom made her a dress when she was going to middle school dance and she said I hadn't really developed yet. So my mom overcompensated and made some very large, fluffy shoulders. Some guy dancing with her patted the sleeves and actually said I like your sleeves, they're really big, just like in the film.
Speaker 2:That's so great, yeah, she's adorable, I know.
Speaker 1:So John had her. He was only played, paid a thousand dollars to be in this film, which is wild. And so this is originally a short film. When they came up with the original idea, the original version of Napoleon Dynamite was actually a class project at Brigham Young University entitled Palooka. The entire film is in black and white and Napoleon is named Seth, but the heart and energy stay the same.
Speaker 1:Heston had her, shot the film in just two days and has his hometown of Preston, idaho, preston, idaho. Yeah, that's pretty much all the facts I got. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I love all small movies like this, just like the idea of down very super indie movies you just have, like the writer and director just, and someone else working on the dude's hair, for like three am in the movie just completely destroying their head of hair because of it. But I don't know. And there's another one. Idaho unanimously passed a bill praising Jared Hess and Druscha Hess for making the film, citing amongst their reasons that the Preston High School administration and staff, particularly the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention. Tater Tots, figuring prominently in the film, had promoted Idaho's most famous export.
Speaker 2:That's so funny, so it's a great movie for potatoes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:I have eggs.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:God Tater Tots has became so popular around this time because of this movie. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to counter on that one. Tater Tots have always been the shit, that's true.
Speaker 1:I'm actually not a big top boy, but man watching this movie I'll always choose, like French fries over Tater Tots, but this movie made me not want to choose French fries over Tater Tots. So is this what your high school life was like though? My high school, yeah, I definitely. You know any kids like Napoleon Dynamite?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, it shares what he has Like. He's a collection of all of their weird characteristics in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1:When I see Napoleon Dynamite, I think this is how I must have been in high school. There was no way I was not this quiet idiot kid. I definitely wasn't. It wasn't this funny? Well, we had a guy that was a quiet loser.
Speaker 2:We had a guy that would lie to impress people all the time and he was such a dork Gosh I couldn't stand. He couldn't stand being around for more than five minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's horrible. It's funny, though, because there's some people that we know. And I feel like they're very similar to Napoleon Dynamite, without the gosh type of thing, but very similar in personalities, where it's like, yeah, you're the best, you could do anything. You got so many skills.
Speaker 2:You got to kill 50 Wolverines. So with a 12-gauge shotgun, what do you think?
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to hop into the film you ready, bro. So we start off with plates of food and items like books and wallets, just telling us the casting crew, which is awesome. It reminds me of something like Wes Anderson would do, which? I'm sure they were inspired by that a little bit and I just love it's always like the Trapper Keeper.
Speaker 2:It's so nice and it's.
Speaker 1:Mexican food or steaks that's always being set down to, or just like corn dogs and hot dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to watch it. Every time they're in a cafeteria they're eating some kind of hot dog. Yeah, exactly, Corn dog.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's just like that's what our lunches were. We were just fed the best stuff in school, you know. So we start with Napoleon waiting for the bus, which is see him. He's this goofy looking kid with glasses. He's always mouth breathing, his eyes are always halfway closed, and so he gets on the bus and he just goes to sit down. I love that he looks like a 30-year-old on a bus with only elementary school teachers, which I'm pretty sure is just there to show you that he's uncool. He has no other ride but the bus to get to school.
Speaker 2:That's what I just said, yeah, he's probably a senior. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:And we have a kid. He's like what are you going to do today, napoleon? Whatever, I feel like gosh. And then he ties a string to an action figure and quickly throws it out. After watching this me and my buddy at the time we did this.
Speaker 2:We just took some of our wrestling action figures and he could drive and I was like all right, let's go down some roads that no one drives down.
Speaker 1:Let's throw some action figures out. It's actually really fun. It's really fun.
Speaker 2:I think if because I had to ride the bus for a very long time. Very long time for me and I would have loved to do something like this. It'd have been awesome.
Speaker 1:We would, it wouldn't work, because people would have noticed me like oh.
Speaker 2:Jesse.
Speaker 1:Then I got in trouble, so we think of them drawing in class. It's like this weird, you know riding a unicorn or something, or just a bunch of unicorns.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just several unicorns.
Speaker 1:They all look almost good. Very, yeah, it's just it's because, like you can see, you can kind of draw, but it's just everything looks off. It's like if I could draw a little bit, that's what it would be like. He then goes up in front of the class and gives a speech about the Loch.
Speaker 2:Ness that Japanese are bombing it.
Speaker 1:This is current event. Yeah and then that the certain wizards were there to thank them for and everything.
Speaker 2:The wizards were casting protective spells over the like to protect Nessie.
Speaker 1:Thing is, that was probably real. It's probably something that did happen, some Japanese people blowing something up and then you're dead. To some people, I'm a wizard, you're a wizard, harry.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm wearing my wizard hat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw that. I noticed it. That's what made me think of it. At recess we see Napoleon just hit. What do you call the words?
Speaker 2:like volleyball on a rope, I don't remember.
Speaker 1:He's playing that and he's going hard at it Tetherball? Yeah, he's just dunking on it. That's his favorite guy. We learned that last summer Napoleon shot 50 Wolverines with a 12 gauge shotgun. He was asked by in.
Speaker 1:Alaska. Yeah, he was asked by some of the jocks and I love it, because the whole time he's just like, yeah, of course you idiot. And then he immediately cuts to him being like a headlock by the same bully. I love it. Napoleon then uses his phone. He goes up to the, I guess like the secretary lady at the office. We learned that he's calling home because he doesn't feel good and Kip answers we meet Kip. Napoleon wants his grandma to get him, but she's not home.
Speaker 1:Kip puts on, we just see he's making nachos and it's just like shredded cheese is, so much it's like a giant pyramid of it.
Speaker 2:He doesn't have a lot and then it cuts back. Every time he cuts back, it cuts bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, it's so funny. Kip doesn't want to go to school to pick up Napoleon, but he just wants his. Can you at least bring my chapstick?
Speaker 2:He still doesn't use the office chapstick.
Speaker 1:Oh, gross. And Kip, he's just this guy who has like a very soft and kind of feminine-esque voice. I would say Kind of like whatever, napoleon, I'm not coming, just use the, just use the nurses chapstick.
Speaker 1:I'm on the line talking to chicks. I love him. He's such a player too. That's what really makes him cool. And then we meet Pedro. He's just getting talked to, I guess, by the principal. Napoleon comes up. Is he a new student or something? Napoleon shows him around. Napoleon tells him there are a bunch of gangs. He says like they all want me because I have all these skills. Then we cut to Pedro showing off his bike. He's like oh sweet bike.
Speaker 2:I bet you can do some sweet tricks on that. It's a sledgehammer.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then so he's like, hey, can you do any sweet jumps? And then he goes and jumps and he's like, cool, can I try? He's just immediately like wrecks.
Speaker 2:Wrecks, wrecks is nuts on the ball.
Speaker 1:He's just that nerd that wants to do stuff, but he just has no hand-eye coordination or anything. It's like what was keeping me from going completely. Napoleon, I was able to be a little athletic.
Speaker 2:I think that's what saved me so we're back at Napoleon's house.
Speaker 1:Kip is typing a poem on his thing. He's just like just texting some sweet nothings to a girl online. We learned his grandma was going on a trip, so it's just going to be the boys at the house. What are we going to eat?
Speaker 2:Make a case of dealer.
Speaker 1:We're out of states or whatever. However, how she says it, Make yourself a dang case of dilla. Yeah, exactly, Case of dilla. We learned that Kip is talking to girls online and training to be a cage fighter Boy and he's put on some mass. He shows off his skills as they fight. So he's just like come on, Napoleon, Come on, Just give me what you got. He just smacks. There's two cats. Then Kip is like Napoleon goes to remove Kip's slaps and then slaps him right in the forehead. And then we hear the doorbell ring and then Napoleon is like oh, smacks him in the face, then runs to the doorbell.
Speaker 1:Then we meet the sweet and gentle dev selling beauty supplies. Do you want to look like this? This is a girl. I know she's so adorable, she's got the side ponytail, which became very popular in high school. We see Rex's Rex's Kwan-Do commercial.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's so great. He's got the strength of a grizzly reflexes of Puma and wisdom of a man Can you see in that when he says that he's strangling a woman? Yeah, her head's got her in a headlock.
Speaker 1:After the commercial we're back to Deb showing off bracelets and key chains. We learned that she's earning money for college. And then in the back, kip, your mom goes to college. Then she just runs away. It leaves all of her stuff there. I heard her feelings Where'd you go, kip? And then we get the classic iconic line. We're already just hitting some of the most iconic things in the last I don't know 20 years of filmmaking. And so we get the scene where he feeds Tina. Come on, tina, you fat lord, come eat some dinner. He throws them out. So apparently this was the director's mom's llama, oh sweet.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he starts throwing food down and Tina's not budging. He's like eat your food, so mad at this llama. So great. We see Kip. He's tying his roller blades on. Putting some roller blades on. It'd be nice if he could pull me into town?
Speaker 2:No, it's okay. Why don't you just roller blade? No, it's okay. His roller blades are like bright, green and purple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then so essentially they roller. He hitches a ride on his bike to Rex's gym.
Speaker 2:Did you see what was written on the wall behind Rex?
Speaker 1:Oh no, I didn't see that.
Speaker 2:On the top. It was like you will respect Rex Really and you will respect Rex Rex Kwon Do.
Speaker 1:And then I can't remember what the other one, said I would totally go to this gym, though he's pretty great. But yeah, and so Rex is just this big meathead that he talks like this Welcome to Rex Kwon. Do he's a great guy. He's asking for a volunteer and Kip volunteers. It's about your sensei. Kip tries to sweep his legs, but it doesn't work so slow yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like that was a nice move, thanks. He's like all right, he's going to go show him a move. So he goes like grab my arm, other arm, no, my other arm. He's like all I'm going to do is break the wrist and walk away. Break the wrist and walk away. He slaps his hand. It's like I broke the wrist and then I walked away. Then Kip tries to kick him and gets straight up smacked.
Speaker 2:He smacks him with his head.
Speaker 1:He's like kick, and he blocks it with his leg every time and then smacks the crap out of him. That's just how he trains people, yeah, and then Rex explains his rules. It's like use the buddy system and discipline your image. I like this because after this point, the buddy system, both Napoleon and Kip use this buddy system yeah.
Speaker 1:Because Kip gets Uncle Rico, napoleon gets Pedro and discipline your image, which kind of comes in later for both of them, with Kip becoming kind of a gangster and Napoleon you know, I don't know just dancing getting into politics and wearing suits in his vote for Pedro show. But I love it where it's like discipline your image. You think anyone wants a roundhouse kick when I'm wearing these bad boys because he's got the.
Speaker 1:American flag and Napoleon goes no, no. And then he's like next learn about self respect. Think anyone thinks I'm a failure because I go home, to go home to Starla every night.
Speaker 2:She's like an American gladiator. Yes, Huge.
Speaker 1:And so we cut to next day. Napoleon is going to school, and then we get like some guy, it has like his shotgun out and getting ready to shoot this cow, and then school, the gospel of children.
Speaker 1:As the gun goes off, they're all like apparently for the director, this actually happened to him while he was on the school bus and he said it happened often. That's so funny. And in class we see some girls in Napoleon signing a song. That's where you get the classic like whatever. I think it's so funny because we did this in church all the time growing up. I remember doing it too. It's so weird, it seems so normal. And then you see it happen in Napoleon Donovan. It's like wait a second, is this lame?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was forced to go to church camp a lot, and at this one camp he had to pick an activity. I chose American sign language. Yeah, that's pretty cool, no it was this, is this the one? It was just this.
Speaker 1:We actually didn't learn sign language. You learned fake sign language. We just learned to dance.
Speaker 2:We're just going to do movements to work, and they should they never say in the beginning you will have to perform this in front of everyone on stage.
Speaker 1:So we're doing this like every Sunday almost. This is like it seems so cool when we're doing it.
Speaker 2:No, not for me.
Speaker 1:Now not so much. No, because we're doing like the exact same type of stuff and it's like, oh wait, that looks really lame. But now we're in gym class. Napoleon is confirming that him and Pedro are now friends, so we're like pretty much best friends right now.
Speaker 2:It's like, yeah yeah, I'm not going to do Pedro's voice. That's how you get canceled right there.
Speaker 1:But now it's the buddy system. Napoleon is asking if Pedro is going to the dance and who he's going with. He says he is going to ask Summer Wheatley, the school bay. Don't know, I'll bake her a cake or something build her a cake.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:Just love Pedro the way he gets girls. Just give him something. Yeah, Works in high school, you know. Hey, here's this romantic gesture. Do you love me now? Napoleon explains his old girlfriend was gonna go with him, but she is too busy modeling. He shows a picture and it's the one dept show she left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll go to the mall and got her some glamour shots.
Speaker 1:Yeah now we're at. Lunch is where we get the classic. Are gonna eat your tots.
Speaker 2:And he'd like take stuff of.
Speaker 1:It is yeah, yeah which now those, those type of pants are super in style, though this is essentially like jogging pants, oh yeah running pants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe his shoes are really what gets me.
Speaker 1:Well, it's weird because this is a I don't know when this supposed to be taking place. I'm assuming like early 2000s or something, but everybody's kind of dressed in the 80s, almost. Yeah, like there's really no new cars. But I'm assuming it's like a play on. Oh, it's a small town.
Speaker 2:Everybody's like two decades behind yeah they all go to the same thrift store to buy the clothes. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Whatever goodwill has, essentially the locals have donated.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So he sees Deb and it's like he makes Pedro dare him to ask, to dare him to go talk to her. He sits down at his table. I see you. I see you're drinking 1% because you think you're fat, because you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to. What a couple. I'm telling. I'm totally losing my voice. She's got the bread on her face. Yeah, so uncomfortable. He then tells her all her stuff is in her locker. They get it and he asked for a key chain since he returned it. And then he gets it and he's like so excited he kicks his locker in front of her Like everybody's, like what the heck was that so weird?
Speaker 1:and now we're with grandma who's riding the desert dunes. She crashes, she's like she goes, takes like a giant jump. She just falls immediately off. She's like Well, we'll learn, as she broke her coccyx. We then see someone that will learn to. That is Uncle Rico practicing his football moves. Oh my god, like he's. We hear a phone call. I'm fucking guy. He's ridiculous, he's a creep, that's right, I don't know In his van, though, and now we're back to school.
Speaker 1:Napoleon is eating his tauts in class, then the guy next to him asked for him tauts. So give me your tauts. He's remind your fuses and squishes his tauts, freaking idiot.
Speaker 1:Now we're back at home. We see Uncle Rico. If we go, we see Uncle Rico pulling up to their house. He explains that grandma broke her coccyx. He said it weird though. Yeah, coccyx, I don't know, he said it very pronounced it weird, or something like that. Rico is eating steaks. It's the only thing he eats, boy, he's not gonna make it to 50 meat and cheese. Napoleon doesn't want him to stay, but keep does. Rico shows him a video he made.
Speaker 2:It's him it's essentially just him passing the ball.
Speaker 1:This is pretty much the worst video ever made. Kip. There's a lot of videos. There's no way we'd build and do that. Rico, kit and kit they're going out to eat together. We learned that Rico is single.
Speaker 2:Whatever like Napoleon leaves, and then Uncle Rico puts his he's like. Well, look at that. He puts his hand on Kip's leg.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then then Kip starts moving over. He's like very uncomfortable by it Because I don't know Rico gives me bad vibes.
Speaker 2:Yes, man, he's just desperate to go back in time. Yes, Touches people and talks to him weird, it's so he's such a creep, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So Rico and Kip were out together. We learned that Rico is single. Kip says him and an internet girlfriend are going pretty, are getting pretty serious and he's trying to save money to bring her down. Rico says he has an idea to make some money. Have you ever heard of nylon Palmer To?
Speaker 2:be aware.
Speaker 1:Pedro and Napoleon are dropping off a cake for summer.
Speaker 2:It's funny, it's like the other sneak and don't dig some cake to letting jumps on the back.
Speaker 1:Head out. There's a lot of doing something immediately running away as fast as possible. Kip and Rico, they're eating steaks on the front porch. He's reminiscing about back in 82. He says back in 82. I could throw a pig skin a quarter mile.
Speaker 2:You believe that? Yep, it's like yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, he then throws his steak at Napoleon. That's what? Oh, kip, that's what I'm talking about. Rico, how much you want to bet I could throw one of these over the mountain? Oh, that's Patrick, my homes.
Speaker 2:You know, he's got it on like Rico then he just he gets so serious like, yeah, I gotta go back.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I could have been pro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely yes.
Speaker 1:Kip, do you? So you're like well with the cyberspace, right? Is there anything on there where I could maybe go back in time, kip? He's like oh, trust me, I've already looked it up. Napoleon plays the. What, what, what do we call it? The game, the?
Speaker 2:other ball, tether ball.
Speaker 1:He's trying to impress the girls, they start taking his super hard.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:Was too like jump kicks. Then we see summer. She comes over and asked Napoleon to give him a card to Pedro. He opens the card up and it just reads no, Poor Napoleon but she still use little hearts for exclamation points. Yeah, you know, at least you put some hearts on it.
Speaker 2:We see Napoleon.
Speaker 1:Napoleon relating for the bus Deb come up and ask what he's drawing. It's like what are you drawing? A liger.
Speaker 2:That's a liger.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and tiger mix. Deb then asked about Pedro. It's like, where's Pedro? It's like he's not here today. Rico picks Napoleon up. Deb seems bummed that he had to leave. Napoleon makes a phone call and it's a course of one on the court and he takes it all the way outside to the front port.
Speaker 1:We see he's calling Pedro. I guess like Pedro's sister answers and he's like it's Pedro there. He's like no, he's super sick. Okay, boy, this just runs in, hangs up, and it's like your name is.
Speaker 2:Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 1:And then we see that Kip and Rico, they're planning their like sales route or whatever. Then we see that they're out bowling and this is where you have Kip. He throws the ball down, please.
Speaker 2:My daughter did that last night. It was so funny really, yeah, cuz I told her is like all right, we got to do this, but you don't have to, you know, do this other thing. She's like silent, fist down like yes, I did it. I got out of doing something that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So Rico asked about his transportation issues. We learned that he doesn't have a car or anything working on it. They said he says you'll let him borrow the van. Rico says they need to look legit and wants to get their picture taken. Then we cut to Deb taking their pictures. This scene so quiet, soothing and Extremely relaxing and this is what it's like a ASMR, randomly in the middle of this movie. Cuz she's so quiet and she's like just put your arm under here.
Speaker 2:Yes, like this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:Is that the end?
Speaker 1:of. He's like whoa. That was relaxing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like a holy crap dude and I was super tired this morning watching this I was like you just watch this on the loop and fall asleep.
Speaker 1:Awesome, love it. So we cut to. The next day at lunch we learned that Pedro got sick. Napoleon tells him summer said no, and we learned Pedro asked Deb out and he's like oh you did. Napoleon is pissed and while talk, while talking, deb comes up and gives him a piece of paper, gives Pedro a piece of paper and it says yes, I thought it was even funny how they folded the paper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like 15. Bunch, and then it was upside down.
Speaker 1:It's like a? It's like that. Of course that would happen. Um, napoleon is worried that he has nobody to ask out now. He doesn't have any good skills, you know, like non-chuk skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girl, he's right, girls only want boyfriends who have great skills. So, true, pedro is like well, what can he do? He's like I can draw. We'll draw him a picture of a girl and if she likes it, she'll give it. Anything, give it to her. So funny. So at home he's going through his yearbook and he finds Trisha Stevens. He starts drawing her immediately.
Speaker 2:It's a blocking white photo.
Speaker 1:I can't wait.
Speaker 2:We cut to Rico selling to war immediately starts drawing and it's already bad yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like as soon as he did the giant you, I'm like oh.
Speaker 2:So we cut to Rico. He's telling some tug of war yeah.
Speaker 1:We learned that if you buy for 24 pieces of tug of war they get a cell. He brings it out. The girls like I want that there's a very successful sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get, it goes totally like see if you look like a strong pops. If you break this, he's like trying to rip it.
Speaker 1:She's, his wife is looking at him, so Disappointed, like try and then he stops, I can't. And then we cut to keep trying to sell it to the where he puts it under, puts it under the van and runs over and it just essentially explodes. He's like, and then it's immediately drives off. That's probably like the one of the best visual gags in it Cracked me. So Napoleon goes to Trisha's, but she isn't there. We see Rico in her living room. It's like oh, that's my, that's my Nephew, napoleon. He hands off his letter to the mom. Rico tells Trisha's mom Then Napoleon is a very tender boy and still what's?
Speaker 2:the bed.
Speaker 1:We cut to Napoleon, putting Kip in a headlock. What the heck is this uncle Rico at my girlfriend's house Does he immediately call on the call on my girlfriend? Rico comes home and him and Napoleon kind of a little fight. Rico and Kip brag about how much money they make. You see this. This is a check for a hundred and fifteen dollars, kip. I'm moved seventy five dollars.
Speaker 2:I could make that in five seconds yeah.
Speaker 1:We cut to Trisha at home. Trisha opens the gift. It's a horribly drawn picture Behind them. You're you're going to the dance with that boy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:So Napoleon is at a chicken house. I guess I can barn. Yeah, to make some money. Yeah, he finds it super gross.
Speaker 2:He's carrying two chickens.
Speaker 1:He like oh, pushes it in and this starts running.
Speaker 2:Oh, had to work at a chicken house for a while I did.
Speaker 1:I actually thought it was kind of fun but I was a child. I was an adult, sorry for that. My boom, my dog, was getting pets and sorry that I can handle it bump thing. It's okay. It's okay. I just wanted to explain it because it was also kind of cute to see happen. She's super interested in that, mike Sanford's, whatever reason. And then we cut to lunch at the chicken farm and the grossest thing, because we see it's a spread.
Speaker 1:It's the sandwiches, eggs, and then what looks like, because then it's also like hard boiled eggs, yes, and then what looks to be orange juice, until the one that Farm guys cracks the egg and dumps it into the thing I'm like.
Speaker 1:Raw eggs. This is the grossest thing ever. Yeah, it's like take this, then it gets home, or in like before that. It's like I, I'm gonna I don't have my checkbook with you, I'm gonna have to pay you and change. It's like, isn't? It gets home and counts it six dollars. It's a dollar an hour, oh, terrible. So it makes me think maybe it is the 80s, if that's the amount they got paid.
Speaker 2:So it's just those people yeah, terrible fucked them over cuz I knew they could. It's a bunch of teenage boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like a grown-up posing as a teenage boy than that actual high school. So Trisha calls and tells them that she will go to the dance with them. Her mom is next to essentially telling her what to say yeah and we learned it took him three hours to draw the pic or as three hours alone on the shading.
Speaker 2:A.
Speaker 1:We cut to Napoleon. He's bragging about it. They talk about what they're going to wear Him. This is to Pedro. They go to a store in. Napoleon buys a woman's suit. I do like this suit. It looks good, but he looks hell.
Speaker 2:He's like walking down the street I'm like hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what are you, john Travolta and Stan alive? It's a nice suit, or is it Saturday Night Fever? Stan loves his sequel, and so we're back at home. He asked Rico to give him a ride to Trisha's. Rico has to make a cell first, we learn what the heck? Oh, man, oh, when they go to the cell, rico is taking too long. I mean, essentially was in there one minute and he immediately goes and off the door and that's like 540 and then he's like Screw it and then he starts running down the road, just gonna run there.
Speaker 1:Then, for whatever reason, he decides to stop and then he checks his watch again. It's been 14 minutes. Then we see this car coming down. Hell yeah, it's like a low rider. Then two Latino guys pick them up and there we learned it's like so you guys are a Pedro's cousins.
Speaker 2:And rescue.
Speaker 1:They got a Pedro's house. The dad answers it's like who are you, napoleon? I'm here to pick up your daughter. What is that? My ride? I can't remember. I used to know it's just like. And then we cut to it and like Trisha's in the front seat and the pollens in the back. So we're at the dance. They go and sit. Trisha obviously hates being there. He asked her to dance and she immediately walks away and got with summer. Then Napoleon goes to the bathroom to freshen up and eat beef jerky.
Speaker 2:You know, beef breath gets him every time.
Speaker 1:Trisha, and summer they walk off. Trisha first like looks over at Napoleon because I guess she wasn't gonna leave him. She just went to go talk. But seeing that he was gone, she's like, alright, I'm out, cool, yeah. And now Napoleon is alone. And then when, then edit, it's like Napoleon standing up. And then all of a sudden he's like oh, there's Pedro and Deb right next to him. Now they're hanging out. Pedro, because he's the best guy ever, lets Napoleon and Deb dance. I Like your sleeves, they're real big. Yes, if Pedro and Deb are getting serious, she says no, he asked about her photography and offers him free self portraits. Then they dance and it's kind of an iconic scene. Man, that's how I felt in my life. The soundtrack kind of rules soundtrack is greatness. So Pedro sees a sign for class president as he goes to get a drink of water while they're dancing and he smiles. This is when we get the vote for Pedro. Oh, yeah, pedro's gonna run for class president.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a chance Pedro.
Speaker 1:Pedro, do you think people will vote for me? Napoleon, heck, yes, I'd vote for you. Like, what are my skills? Well, you have a sweet bike. You're really good at hooking up with chicks, plus, you're like the only guy school can have a mustache, that's true, it's cool how good friends there.
Speaker 1:I know it's very sweet. Napoleon is going to help and he can be a secretary or something. Napoleon says I'll be a great bodyguard. Where's bodyguard? Napoleon sees a contraction on his kitchen table. This is back at home. Kip says that it's Rico's time machine.
Speaker 2:He decides to try it out.
Speaker 1:So and he has to put this metal to between his like up against his crotch and something around his head, and when they turn it on, it's just straight up electrocute. Let's raise your balls it doesn't work. I could tell you that, oh, so good.
Speaker 2:Oh, so funny.
Speaker 1:Dying over there. Yeah, I love that girl. They go to the store and like he's still walking, like he's hurt. Rico's super loud and he's super cheap, because every time he brings up something 24 pack. What do you think I'm made out of? It's like. And then we see summer as the cashier. It's super embarrassing for him. And then we see Napoleon. He's at the national FFA organization. Yeah, he's good at this. He's a. I guess it's like a competition. He's drinking milk and guessing their defects. The first one, it's like that one has bleach in it. I remember what.
Speaker 2:The second one was, and then this one tastes like I got a cow, got that onion patch.
Speaker 1:Yeah exactly. Pedro's having a judge, the cow butters, and he's like, oh, this other looks good, it's got four, except you can see in the back, and that's a fifth one, and they're only supposed to have four.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:That's what FFA was. I think I could probably do it. I had to taste blue chin onions and know how many others we then see. Summer she's also running for class. President Pedro is feeling super hot for some reason.
Speaker 2:We're not yet.
Speaker 1:So this is just regular hair and he's like is it getting hot in here? And I'm assuming it's just because he's so nervous and anxious about the Maybe I thought he was sick.
Speaker 1:I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. I'm like did he have like a disease or something? I try to look in the facts. I was like what was he supposed to be going through? He says his head is burning. We see Pedro. He goes home to lay down. Don the bully comes up and asks him to vote for summer. Napoleon asked for a button and then just tosses it down the hallway. It runs off, it throws. It was so much like Conviction and power and just runs off.
Speaker 1:It's so funny, yeah, so Kipp and Rico. They're out eating. Rico is still wishing he could go back to the 82 Because he could have just scored the touchdown and everything would have been different. Be a millionaire. We learned that Kipp's girl is named La Fonda and that she's coming to visit him soon. Napoleon goes to visit Pedro. We see, pedro was so hot from school and decided it was his hair that was making him so hot, hot, so shaved it just sitting outside I. So Napoleon says he has an idea and he takes Pedro to devs to find him a wig. It's again immediately a hundred percent soothing the scene. They decide on one and they both go to reach for it and touch hands and it's like it's love Her backdrops.
Speaker 2:What was that branded? Trapper keeper? That's what it's kind of remind Lisa, or something. Oh, I don't know, I don't know you know they're like had stars and unicorns and like dolphins.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. So now the Pedro has a wig, he is ready to go to school. It's love, it's iconic, because you see him with this giant wig and then go for Pedro shirt on.
Speaker 1:Napoleon. They tape up all the flyers. It's Pedro riding a unicorn. Did you ever have a vote for Pedro shirt? I did. No, I never did. I think I got it for Christmas or my birthday from somebody who was pretty sweet is dope, I wore it often. A bully asked a kid for 50 cents and then starts shaking him. Napoleon takes him by the back of the head to shake it. It's like okay, dude, what is this? Napoleon sees this and tells the nerdy kid that Pedro offers him protection. Then we see the kid is getting bullied again at the bike rack and then Pedro's cousins come up and just stare him and he.
Speaker 1:Runs off, so Driving around the school waiting for a kid. So keep is at the bus station now waiting for La Fonda. She's this tall black woman and they smooch Perfect match, we learn. It's sweet, it's very sweet comical it is, it's also kind of yeah definitely.
Speaker 1:Trisha and summer are walking home Just randomly and Rico stops to talk to them. Rico asked them to give flyers to their mom so that she can hand out. The flyers are for breast enhancement supplements. Jeez Rico, can you be any creep? And then to make it even worse is and once you, ladies, are ready to fill out, come, give me come talk to me, it's like oh, but Rico's a dang-ass freak, I don't know. He's a crazy man and he's be put in jail. Um, and then they put all their flyers.
Speaker 2:Because he was. She was jealous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not because he was a terrible person. Back in 82, yeah so we see, keep in La Fonda, they're flirting in the park. She takes off his glasses and gives him a big, giant golden necklace yeah, and then they play footsie and he's got like his gross sock on Rubbing her in bare feet.
Speaker 2:It looks like oh like hose yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, like panty hose yeah it's like hose. So Rico is driving, then splat, napoleon threw orange at his car. They kind of a standoff and like trying to juke him out, throwing another orange and a bully hits him with the orange, and then Rico just tackles them.
Speaker 2:It's so funny, like cuz you can't see my life. Yeah, but you can kind of see in their movements like Kind of makes it look like this weird awkwardness runs in the family. Yeah, it's exactly.
Speaker 1:Rico is just as awkward as Napoleon was.
Speaker 1:He had no chance of becoming a famous football player. Get off, you ruin my life. What you just go away just like hits him in the stomach and runs off and jumps the fence. Just like the falls on his face. Then we cut the page up, we're back at school and you just see a pinata of summer is being hit by some kids. Yeah, hell yeah. And then we cut to Napoleon at Goodwill buying a bunch of random stuff. And then he see, and then we see Pedro getting in trouble for his pinata.
Speaker 1:I don't know how they do it in in war as, war as. But we have respect around here. Then we see Nepal Paulian in his room. He puts in the tape of Dequan's dance tape, oh yeah, and pay the Pegasus x-ing.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Oh God, he's so cool and we Pedro is in trouble for for the pinata, but he's still able to run for president. He doesn't understand why it's okay to smash a pinata in Mexico but not here. Different cultures, different cultures we see it as a threat. Oh Napoleon, yeah, it's rad. I'd love someone to smash a pinata out of me. Maybe that's what like couples should do whenever they're really upset.
Speaker 1:They smash pinata versions of their spouses. That's genius. So we's. Napoleon comes home and La Fonda is in the kitchen. Napoleon is super sweaty. He tells her he is dancing. She's like, oh, you like to dance?
Speaker 2:I didn't know that working on my sweet dance moves or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Kip comes in completely dressed differently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's gangster.
Speaker 1:Now La Fonda gives Napoleon a mixtape for my guess her cousin or something, and Kip thinks La Fonda is his soulmate. He seems happy. Yeah, he does. Hey, he might look ridiculous now, but it looks ridiculous before he's being nicer. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:He's happy and then at Deb's studio, rico is there for more pictures. While she is setting up the shot, rico starts moving to her and it gets real weird. Looks like he's about to come on to her, but he gives her the breast enlargement flyer and he says that Napoleon said she would want this. Rico, you do, but he's so mad at him. You know he did that on purpose. Yes, then we cut to Napoleon dancing. He's just seeing like in the crack of the door him dancing. Then we see that he gets a phone call and he cuts the debt. She's in the by a random road in the middle of nowhere, next to a payphone. Oh, why would you do that there? And she calls Napoleon a shallow friend. Um, it's real sad. It is very sad.
Speaker 2:Then Napoleon.
Speaker 1:Napoleon goes outside, tells Rico to leave because he's ruining his life. Oh, call the cops. So fine, call the cops on me, maybe I will Gosh. He calls Pedro instead of the cops, though, and so like they're on the phone having the conversation. Pedro's like do you have anything to give her? This is his go-to. Just buy her, just give her something. Napoleon asks if he is ready for a speech tomorrow and Pedro says yes. The next day Napoleon catches the bus with his vote for Pedro shirt on. Rico is making a self to Starla Rex's girl from earlier.
Speaker 2:He is pushing the breast enhancements on her, but she is uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rico, kind of, is trying to put his skirt on. But then we see Rico comes home. Rex comes home and Rico is putting the plots over and he's like they could be about this big, and then Rex is beat up Rico.
Speaker 2:Thanks.
Speaker 1:God got a roundhouse to the face Rex's arm yeah. We are at school now where Summer gives her speech with me. It will be Summer all year long. She gets a pretty big clap for that. This is a popular one. We learned that she has to perform a skit now, and Pedro did not know they were supposed to perform a skit.
Speaker 1:He's like oh no, I'm going to lose. Now and Summer comes out and her skit is a dance and it's to the Backstreet Boys song larger than life, Super lame, it's super lame and it's about to get out to you, but her boyfriend is loving it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he loved it. Y'all, y'all. You say that y'all. So Pedro thinks he's going to lose now and he's like all bummed out. He's like I'll just go out there and just tell everybody to I don't have a lot to say. So Pedro comes out to do a speech like I don't really have anything to say, and while giving this speech, napoleon comes up with an idea. And then at the end of the speech, if you vote for me, all your wildest dreams will come true. And then, after the speech, napoleon comes out and dances and it's iconic. It's so great. I love that, I don't know. I love that. The crowd loves it. I love that the song ends in the middle of it because there's no idea how long the song ends it takes and just his run away from it immediately.
Speaker 1:But everybody would try to do this dance in high school, it's funny.
Speaker 2:I never saw anyone try to do the whole thing.
Speaker 1:It's just like, if you're just alone with your friends, it's like let's do the Napoleon Donovan dance. And you just start moving like, oh man, it's like we're cool, yeah, I just love that. The crowd goes wild. And then the boyfriend in summer is like oh, whatever, this sucks. And we see Napoleon is walking around and sees Kip and La Fonda getting on a bus to leave. He says his grandma is hanging out with Tina Rico is throwing his football around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Rico is throwing his football around and a girl bikes up to him and smiles.
Speaker 2:And then that's his old girlfriend that left him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I think it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2:It's kind of happy, happy ending for him. I just feel like Rico shouldn't get one. He doesn't really deserve it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Pedro is having a party because he's now the class president.
Speaker 2:He's incredibly happy his family is so happy.
Speaker 1:He's like, yeah, His cousins roll up and they're hitting a pinata. In the background, Napoleon is playing Tetherball. Deb comes up to him. I caught you a delicious bass wanna play with me. What the fuck? He's carrying around a bass and a piece of tinfoil all day.
Speaker 2:Is that what that was?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. They play together and Napoleon is intense with it. He just starts hitting it really hard. She's like I'm just trying to catch it. The first hit he does hits her right in the face too. But it's love. Everyone got a happy ending and the movie's over, or is it? But wait, there's more After credits. Kip and La Fonda get married. All they do is pan through the family. You see, everyone's there Pedro, the grandma, rico, rico's like where's Napoleon? He pans through the black family and I guess it's her brother. He just puts his head down and disbelief.
Speaker 2:They're all in shock.
Speaker 1:And then Kip sings a song why do you love me?
Speaker 2:I still love technology, not as much as you.
Speaker 1:Not as much as you, but I still love technology. And then, after the song, napoleon comes riding up on a horse.
Speaker 2:He's getting. Sorry I'm late, I think your riding is a bit much.
Speaker 1:I just got done training a wild honeymoon stallion for you guys. Kip and La Fonda get on.
Speaker 2:He can talk behind her.
Speaker 1:Lookie, lookie, a little keepsake for you guys. Rico, oh, and he throws the garter or whatever it is, rico smells it. Napoleon, lucky the end, oh man man what a movie it is.
Speaker 2:It's so good.
Speaker 1:I found this to be one of the harder movies to take notes on. I had to pause it 500 times.
Speaker 2:Every line is funny.
Speaker 1:Every little detail about the movie is what makes it so good. It's just so wild. It's crazy at what. I'm assuming they're just using the sets as they are, definitely in the Napoleon house, because there's so many weird little pictures in the background, like classic 90s, bad, like photography and stuff. Where you got. Like. It's like a self portrait, but you have one in the lower half. And then you have the same person in the picture, but on the top corner doing a different pose, like half ghost.
Speaker 1:And it really just, I don't know you can see the comedy in a lot of people just out, like the memes. I feel like I don't know it was doing memes before we were doing memes or something I don't know.
Speaker 1:Every time I watch it I'm like man, this movie is so iconic and crazy, but it's not really a movie that you hear. Anytime someone brings up Napoleon Donovan, everybody's like, yes, I love that movie. It's not really just like a movie a lot of people talk about, even though if you could compare it with another movie that is kind of iconic and it's like a ton of quotes and stuff like Anchorman. I kind of find it funnier than Anchorman.
Speaker 2:I do too sometimes, and I think the awkwardness of that. I felt so awkward all the time. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:But it was funny. It's kinda relatable.
Speaker 2:It's a very relatable man High school it's so awkward we sucked it in high school.
Speaker 1:Just the worst. And why did we ever have to go there? It's terrible. No one should have to go to high school Prepared to be around people, at least that's how I feel.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:Alright, so we're gonna go to our first category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. The good is where we discuss something we thought was good about the movie, a scene, a quote, performance, whatever you got to say the bad is something that you don't like about the movie or around the movie or something. The ugly is something that in age will. The fine is something that did age. Will you wanna start with the good?
Speaker 2:Sure, the good for me was just like how heartwarming it could be sometimes.
Speaker 1:Yes, strangely heartwarming. I love when comedies just kinda hit you with like oh, I didn't realize I was falling in love with the characters. Yeah, I definitely think like the characters are so good, just the just so iconic, it's just so unique, the weird off-beat comedy is great.
Speaker 1:Sean Heder is fantastic in this and I hope he makes a comeback and just starts kinda crushing. I'm sure I know he produces a lot and there's like some TV stuff that they do, but I just really want him to come back. Come back to us Doing Napoleon Dynamite 2. It's where Napoleon's older and he has a kid. Oh man, and he's just the same. So for me the bad is that I'm getting older and this movie's 20 years old. Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2:It's duh pressing.
Speaker 1:I was like no, I was in school, and this was out.
Speaker 2:I wish we could go back in time.
Speaker 1:But like the bad is actually a good thing. It's just because, like I don't know, this movie's so timeless. It just makes me feel old Because it's like I don't know it also it's made to look old, I feel. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause there's like, I guess really not everybody had a cell phone at this point. The iPhone wasn't even out yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like saying, it's 04.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I don't know. Definitely made me feel old seeing that. Yeah, it does every time. What do you got for the ugly?
Speaker 1:Where ours is probably the same, I'm assuming.
Speaker 2:I don't know it was, I guess, just like I got bullied too, Even though I was a big guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bullying is not good.
Speaker 2:It sucked, but I feel like Napoleon took it so well.
Speaker 1:He did. I always feel like he got last day. He always beat everybody in the end. Mine was Rico's creepiness. Yes, that guy was so bad. No good, very bad guy, oh god. And what do you? Got for age the best.
Speaker 2:Maybe the the fashion, the 80s fashion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really did. The fashion that people should dress like this. Yeah, like if everybody went to dances and suits like that, that'd be the best Badass suit. Mine was offbeat comedy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, because we've had nothing but offbeat comedy Ever since this movie came out, it's great.
Speaker 1:So what do you got for double? Our next category is double feature.
Speaker 2:So this almost happened to me. I think I watched this on Hulu and then, right after it was gonna play dodgeball oh really.
Speaker 1:For me it was Super Troopers. No, it was Super Troopers.
Speaker 2:Man Super Troopers is so fucking funny. Yeah, I think that movie has the funniest Like first, like 20 minutes, or that intro the scene with them pulling over the kids in the car. I don't think I ever laughed that hard on that movie At that one when I saw it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it makes me really want to laugh Right meow. Yeah, I need to rewatch it. It's been forever. It had to be since high school. Since I've watched Super Troopers, it's been that long ago.
Speaker 2:Another movie my wife will hate, yup.
Speaker 1:So my double feature is Eagle vs Shark.
Speaker 2:You ever seen it? Uh-uh, that sounds incredible, so it's.
Speaker 1:Taiko Waititi directed it. I think it's like his first film that he did. It's got Jermaine Clement in it. Essentially the guys behind what we do in the shadows, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It's this, it's very dry Offbeat comedy.
Speaker 1:It's very awkward. I remember being in high school and someone coming up to me and be like you should watch Eagle vs Shark. It reminded me of you and I was like I watched it.
Speaker 2:Is that a?
Speaker 1:compliment. It was not a compliment. I mean, the movie is really funny, but I was like Reminded you, I'm hoping, just because it's funny and I'm kind of awkward.
Speaker 2:Funny but like the dude in it is super douchey.
Speaker 1:He's kind of like a. He's a meaner version of Napoleon.
Speaker 2:Dynamite.
Speaker 1:Cause that's what that's usually how it's very awkward comedy.
Speaker 2:They were in my high school, at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's a really good movie. If you haven't seen it, you should watch it. I think you'll actually really love it.
Speaker 2:I really want to know.
Speaker 1:I need to rewatch it, but that's immediately. Anytime I watch Napoleon Dynamite, I always think about this movie as well. It's just a love story essentially. But yeah, so that's the episode this week, and join us next week as we cover Dune. We're bringing back Dakota, we're really pumped up about Dune Part 2, so make sure you join us next week.
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