Statistics Saturday: 20 Things I Do Not Know About _Napoleon Dynamite_

• Whether Napoleon is the one who always tells the truth and Dynamite is the one who always lies or vice-versa.
• What the movie’s original release title was in English in India.
• Whether there is a diamond- or a drug-smuggling heist subplot in the middle of the main hijinks.
• Whether there are hijinks in the middle of the diamond- or drug-smuggling heist main story.
• What plot holes have been brilliantly rationalized by the novelization, which I do not know exists.
• Whether the movie was originally based on a comic book, a sketch, a property, or a sneeze by a well-connected film person.
• Whether anyone warns him, “Careful with that dynamite, you don’t want to be Napoleon Blown-A-Part!”
• Whether he is blown-a-part after all that.
• What actions are needed on my part now that I have gone some number of years without seeing it.
• Whether there has been a side-quel based on a relative I will suppose existed, such as Louis-Napoleon Nitrocellulose.
• Whether Napoleon Dynamite showcases the moment where Flo Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame discovers the song “Look For The Silver Lining”. (Truth to tell, I have a strong suspicion about the answer.)
• What scenes of the film would be appropriate for a community tableaux vivant exhibition.
• Whether Napoleon Dynamite was allergic to poison ivy.
• How funny it would be if Napoleon Dynamite were accidentally sent the payment for a military contract intended for Napoleon Dynamics and then he spent all the money on frivolities and then had to come up with something to present to the Senate oversight committee on 12 hours’ notice.
• If there had been a Napoleon Dynamite special menu at Jersey Mike’s how any of the items on it would have tasted.
• What opinion Napoleon Dynamite had about whether David Rice Atchison was president of the United States for one day.
• Whether friends have been quoting it at me and I never suspected.
• How many times Napoleon Dynamite has appeared in the comic strip Tank McNamara.
• Whether Napoleon Dynamite ever has the theme song to Charles in Charge caught in his head.
• How many pebbles are on-screen in the film.

Reference: The Story of English, Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil, and William Cran.