Just watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time.

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never saw combat/left the country :umad:

only did 1 enlistment for that free college money :umad:

2nd degree is in arms reach :umad:
if thats the case
good for you
i cant be mad
cause i been gettin mine for a looooooong time now
so...
stay positive
keep doin the damn thang
 

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Low key Napoleon Dynamite stereotypes and makes fun of the Mormons culture. Especially small town Mormons. It's why there is a weird sense of humor to the whole movie.

Although it doesn't say it in the movie, Napoleon is a Mormon kid.
The clues are everywhere. His "Ricks College" t-shirt is a dead give away. Ricks College is a Mormon school, (now called BYU Idaho)
. The second-hand store where Napoleon shops is one store in a whole chain of stores scattered throughout Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada called "Deseret Industries", (pronounced Des..err...et) or "DI" for short, and is owned and operated by the Mormon Church.

Napoleon talks about scout camp. The Boy Scout program is almost single-handedly run by the Mormon (LDS) Church in the west, and is a very significant part of their development program for boys. The director and his co-writer wife are Mormon, so is the actor who plays Napoleon. Most of the cast/crew are from Brigham Young University, (BYU)and most of the cool words that Napoleon uses like flip and gosh have been used by Mormon kids for decades.

Even the liger has roots in growing up in the Mormon west...the liger was a real half-lion half-tiger that actually lived for many years at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, and is well known to legions of Mormon kids who went to Hogle Zoo on field trips. After it died it was stuffed and mounted and is still on display at the zoo.

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Yeah, I don't think I thought it was funny the first time I saw it, but after watching it a few more times I started loving the subtle comedy in it. So much little shyt in there
 

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It was funny the first time I saw it, but I grew to hate it just because it came out my senior year in HS and every white kid was quoting this movie. Almost my entire senior year was kids just quoting this movie trying to be funny.

Going back to watch it now, it's still kinda funny. Uncle Rico and Rex Kwon Do are still funny as shyt to me :pachaha:
 
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