Napoleon Dynamite (EP19)
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In this episode, we make all of your wildest dreams come true with the 2004 indie cult comedy NAPOLEON DYNAMITE   After Pops defends seeing it NINE times in movie theatres (4:52), we begin the case for keeping it on the pedestal with a discussion about comedy auteurs and if Jared Hess is truly one of them (16:15). We talk about why Kip rules (22:37), Pops posits that there’s a lot more plot going on than meets the eye (30:40), and Shane votes for Pedro as his favorite character (35:08). We move on to the case for knocking it off the pedestal with all the hacky impressions it spawned (48:55), we examine why “Rex Kwan Do” feels like it belongs in an entirely different movie (55:19), and then talk about the creepy turn the film took with Uncle Rico (1:06:18).
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