yep neverending story it is
why would "nobody ever get" this?
for the generation that grew up watching this flick its only been like permanently embedded in our subconscious. The corny names "atreiu" "valcor" the "didnt you remember when you cried first time you saw that scene" scene where the horse drowns in mud, the scary puppets, and the embarrassing feeling you felt about the empress which you now realize was that you thought she was hot but you hadnt reached puberty yet to understand it as such.
The problem with using a cult movie for quote trivia is that even if only two people belong to that cult, by definition, those two people can spit out every line uttered from the flick