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  • When Uncle Rico shows his video of him throwing the football to both Napoleon and Kip:
    Napoleon: This is pretty much the worst video ever made.
    Uncle Rico: Y'know what, Napoleon? If you don't like it, you can leave!
    (Napoleon leaves at once)
  • When Napoleon first meets Pedro, he casually tells him that there are some gangs at the school, and a few have tried to recruit him because he's "pretty good with a bo staff."
    • Napoleon and Pedro jumping the ramp. Pedro pulls it off successfully (complete with a deadpan zoom to Napoleon's muted amazement), while Napoleon crashes into the ramp and breaks it. This was unscripted, and Heder's reaction is real.
  • In one scene, Napoleon tries to convince a kid that Pedro will protect him as president after he was bullied at his locker. The next scene has the same bully trying to steal the same kid's bike, but is stopped by Pedro's cousins in their Cool Car with "Vote 4 Pedro" plastered on the side, and all they have to do is shake their heads. Doubles as a Moment of Awesome.
    • In the Spanish audio track, when one of the cousins shakes his head at the bully, there's an "uh-uh-unh", which is also golden.
  • The part where an entire school bus full of children pull up to Napoleon's house right as a farmer shoots a cow in the head. Cue screaming from all the kids.
  • The entire Rex Kwon Do scene. Despite being only two and a half minutes long and irrelevant to the film's "plot," it's responsible for an incredible amount of memes from the film.
    • Napoleon and Kip "driving" to the dojo by having Napoleon tow a rollerblading Kip on his bicycle.
    • Rex showing off his American flag pants, asserting that no one messes him while he's wearing "these bad boys." He's also insistent that nobody thinks he's a failure even though he goes home to Starla, his bodybuilding wife.
    • Rex's demonstration of his skill against Kip, with Kip's miserable attempt at a spinning sweep kick and Rex's instruction to "break the wrist, walk away."
    • "Well, that place was a ripoff."
  • Kip attempting to demonstrate the strength of the Tupperware he's trying to sell.
    • Made funnier by the fact that the bowl was supposed to survive Kip's stress test; the bowl exploding took everyone by surprise and they decided to Throw It In!.
  • "Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner!"
    • Then Napoleon throws the casserole over the fence when Tina the Llama backs away from it.
  • Rico claimed that he could throw a football a quarter mile (1320 ft., ~402 m). He sees Napoleon biking down the road and sees an opportunity to show of his throwing ability. He takes Kip's steak and throws it at Napoleon. His throw is horrible and weird, but he hits Napoleon in the face.
    • Kip's reaction: "That's what I'm talking about."
  • Napoleon, in retaliation for (among several other things) the above steak throw, throwing a grapefruit at Rico's van, and Rico's shriek at it. Then afterwards, Rico puts him in a headlock, until Napoleon calls him a "bodaggit" and elbows him hard in the gut. Then Napoleon climbs over a fence and falls on the other side.
  • The reactions from LaFawnduh's family at her wedding to Kip. One relative can only shake his head in disbelief.
    • Even better when she says "I do." Someone just face palms.
  • The "time machine", which is surely not going to work, but creates suspense in what will happen: Napoleon gets electrocuted in the crotch.
    Napoleon: This thing's a piece of crap, it doesn't work!
    Uncle Rico: *holding an ice pack to his groin* Well, I coulda told you that!
  • Doubles as Awesome: Napoleon's dance near the end.
  • Napoleon's Lame Comeback towards Uncle Rico's belittlement of the former for not having a job:
    Napoleon: Why don't you go eat a decroted piece of crap?!
  • "Your Mom goes to college."

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