Best Lines from Napoleon Dynamite: My lips hurt real bad!

Trivia

• Every dish shown during the opening credits is eaten by a character later in the movie. The dishes presented in the opening credits were the work of the three people who present them.
• The scene of the farmer shooting the cow in front of the school bus full of children is a true anecdote from the director's childhood.
• Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was asked to do many scenes in which he was eating steak. Gries, who is a vegetarian, would chew the steak and later spit it out. In fact, there is one scene, in which you can see Gries spitting the chewed meat into his hand.
• Due to the film's surprise success at festivals and at the major city box offices, Fox Searchlight is going to re-release the film with nationwide distribution and add a 5 minute epilogue at the end of the film. This epilogue, which was filmed after the initial theatrical run, apparently features a surprise "wedding scene". And cost about half of what the entire feature cost to make.
• Features one of the longest credited cast lists in movie history; all 181 student extras' names are listed in the closing credits.
• The "liger" is a real animal, created when a male lion mates with a female tiger
• Jon Heder's big dance scene was the last scene scheduled and they ran out of film while shooting it. The sequence was edited together from less than 10 minutes of him dancing.
• Jon Heder drew all of the "drawings" in the movie except the unicorn.
• Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite. The movie grossed over $40,000,000 in the United States.