Memes / The Road to El Dorado

Like Shrek and Bee Movie after it, The Road to El Dorado is known for being highly quotable since its release in 2000.

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• "The stars are not in position for this tribute!"
  • "Like he said! Stars. Can't do it. Not today."^Explanation Tulio and Miguel's excuse for not sacrificing an innocent man to Xibalba.
• "I am Miguel." "And I am Tulio." "And they call us Miguel and Tulio!"
• "Both?" "Both." "Both!" "Both is good."^Explanation Tzekel-Kan wants to celebrate the gods' arrival with a ceremony. Chief Tannabok wants to celebrate with a feast. When they ask Miguel and Tulio, the duo concisely approves both of their plans. A GIF of this exchange is a common reaction to other situations where two options are equally desirable.
  • What really makes this is Tulio and Miguel nodding to each other at the end.
• GIFs of Miguel's intense lute playing◊ during the gambling scene are quite popular on Tumblr.
• "Tulio! The hip! The hip!"
• "...And then we row back to Spain!"
• "Ha, you fight like my sister!" "I fought your sister, that's a compliment."
• "On the one hand, gold! On the other hand, painful, agonizing failure!"^Explanation Tulio explains the pros and cons of El Dorado to Chel. It gained memes for showing a positive figure for "gold" and a negative figure for "painful agonizing failure".
• Comparing the movie to Dungeons & Dragons by referring to it as "the bard and the rogue have their own adventure" and "a series of natural 1s and 20s", among others.
• The scene where Chief Tannabok gets news about the upcoming invasion has spawned numerous edits that replace the dialogue with something else, usually a copypasta.
• A similar meme exists using the scene where Miguel and Tulio lie to the Chief.

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