Idaho’s legislators. Freakin’ idiots! Gosh!

Confession: I have not seen Napoleon Dynamite. But as with The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live, I’ve been able to absorb most of the cult movie through pop culture. Lately, especially, there has been surge of N.D. references: my friends loudly misprounouncing the word “quesadillas” at Mexican restaurants; my cousin admitting she’s seen it 20 times. Now the Idaho legislature has gotten into the act with a well-meaning gesture. Before wrapping its fifth-longest session ever, the Idaho senate and house passed a resolution honoring the film’s creators, Jared and Jerusha Hess. (The movie is based in Preston, Idaho. And Jared has, by the way, gone on to a prolific commercial-directing career with Moxie Pictures.) Sponsors of the bill said those who didn’t vote for it would be “forever labeled freakin’ idiots.” We guess that’s another N.D. reference.

—Posted by Mae Anderson

April 13, 2005 in Anderson | Permalink