The real people behind the nerdy characters in “Napoleon Dynamite” took the stage for a night of clips and questions — some even more quirky than the film’s many quotable punch lines.

Efren Ramirez, better known as Pedro, answered his first question in character, only to receive a gasp from the crowd when he spoke a bit quicker than Pedro’s slow, muffled voice.

Kip, played by Aaron Ruell, who is also credited for the film’s widely talked about opening title sequence, kept a good balance by answering the more serious questions while still keeping it light by going in and out of character as Napoleon’s older, Internet-obsessed big brother.

Ruell said he would always do impressions of his younger brother Adam in front of Jared Hess, the director. Hess liked what he saw, and Kip came to life. As to what his brother had to say when he saw the movie — “Oh, it’s pretty good,” Ruell said in his best Kip voice.

Ruell and Ramirez gave high praise to Hess for the film’s creativity and clean-cut humor.

“The movie is so much Jared’s comedic sensibility,” Ruell said.

When the mic was opened up for questions, marriage proposals and requests for moon boots were just some of the off-the-wall requests the two actors received.

Surprisingly, a majority of the questions came from many younger members of the audience interested in tater tots and what it was like to play a nerd.

Ruell said that although they originally thought the film would appeal the most to college students, younger audiences really took to the film.

The audience twice pushed for Ruell to sing the technology song from the film, but he declined, saying he didn’t remember the lyrics because they were freestyled on the spot.

He said there were only two words he remembered wanting to put in the song — technology and “World Wide Web.”

He ended the night by reluctantly agreeing to sing the lyrics off an audience member, who happened to have the lyrics on her T-shirt.

But not all questions were tough to answer. When asked if the two were afraid people would really think they were nerds, Ramirez had a quick reply.

“We are nerds,” he said.