--- title: Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro Reunite for Burger King Commercial description: Twelve years after Napoleon Dynamite won our hearts, he's teaming up with old pal Pedro to make a commercial for Burger King's tater tots. canonical: https://time.com/4586156/napoleon-dynamite-and-pedro-are-still-bffs-in-a-hilarious-new-burger-king-commercial/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-30T18:28:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:02.667Z og:title: Watch Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro in Burger King's New Commercial og:description: Give me some of your tots! og:url: https://time.com/4586156/napoleon-dynamite-and-pedro-are-still-bffs-in-a-hilarious-new-burger-king-commercial/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro in Burger King's New Commercial twitter:description: Give me some of your tots! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro Are Still BFFs in a Hilarious New Burger King Tater Tots Commercial > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 30, 2016 6:28 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 30, 2016 6:28 PM UTC Twelve years after [Napoleon Dynamite](http://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/) won our hearts (and Deb’s) with [his dexterous dancing skills in the film](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/10/bueller-bueller-top-10-quotable-movies/) that shares his name, he’s teaming up with his old pal Pedro to make a commercial for — what else? — tater tots. Following the [“Whopperito”](http://time.com/4443210/burger-kings-whopperrito-burger-burrito/) and those infamous [Cheeto chicken fries](http://time.com/money/4487352/cheetos-chicken-fries-burger-king/?iid=sr-link1), Burger King is now offering [cheesy tater tots](http://time.com/money/4584993/burger-king-cheesy-tots/) and they enlisted Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) and Pedro (Efren Ramirez) to [recreate their memorable cafeteria scene](https://media.giphy.com/media/aMBang3Obq6Y/giphy.gif) from the movie in one of their restaurants. In the clip, Heder asks Ramirez for one of his tater tots before proceeding to steal all of his tots; unfortunately for us, Heder doesn’t put them all in his pocket [as Napoleon did in the film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7B00dCAal4). 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