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"Every bit Joe and Rita lay dormant, the years passed and mankind became stupider at a frightening charge per unit. Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."

— Narrator

Idiocracy is a 2006 science fiction comedy past Mike Judge, starring Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers, a totally boilerplate soldier who is volunteered for a suspended animation experiment, forth with a hooker named Rita (played by Maya Rudolph), who refers to herself every bit a painter and refers to her pimp, Upgrayedd, as her "boyfriend/manager". The experiment is supposed to run for only a yr, just they current of air up forgotten for 5 hundred years. When they finally emerge, they notice that due to 500 years of the dumb outbreeding the intelligent and earth culture gradually dumbing down to the Lowest Common Denominator, society has become ridiculously crude and dim-witted. Joe and Rita are at present by far the smartest people around, and the world's looking at them to solve some serious problems.

The picture show wasn't granted a wide theatrical release, and every bit such did not do well in theaters. Since its DVD release, nonetheless, the film has get a Cult Classic.

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Idiocracy provides examples of the post-obit Extra BIG-ASS TROPES:

• Accidental Misnaming: Joe says "I'grand not sure if..." to a machine, which proceeds to assume his name is literally "Not Sure". It asks for confirmation, but promptly misreads Joe's tone when he says "my name is not Not Certain!", takes information technology literally once again and tattoos this name on his arm. Anybody calls him "Not Sure" for the rest of the movie.

  Secret Service Amanuensis: That's Secretary Non Sure to you, ma'am!

• Advert-Overloaded Time to come: Meet Product Placement.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted in that the machines are not exactly AI, simply were meant to assist humanity to the bespeak that they completely depend on them for things like food and energy. Examples include:
  • An automated Carl's Jr. kiosk that takes a woman's coin, does non dispense the product, then gasses her with a soporific when she bangs on the screen demanding the nutrient.

    Kiosk: Enjoy your Extra Big-Donkey Fries!
    Woman: You didn't gimme no fries, I got an empty box.
    Kiosk: Would y'all like another Extra Big-Ass Fries?
    Woman: I said I didn't get any.
    Kiosk: Thank you. Your business relationship has been charged. Your balance is zero.
    Woman: What? Oh, no. No!
    Kiosk: Please come back when you tin afford to make a buy.
    (Woman bangs kiosk on the screen)
    Kiosk: I'm sorry you're having trouble.
    Woman: Come on! My kids are starvin'.
    (Woman hits motorcar again)
    Kiosk': I'g sorry you're having problem.
    (Kiosk sprays woman in face with some kind of mist)
    Kiosk: This should help yous calm down. Please come back when y'all can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl'due south Jr. believes no child should become hungry. You are an unfit female parent. Your children volition be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. "Fuck yous. I'k eating."

  • The diagnosis machine at "St. God's Memorial Hospital"

    Chipper machine phonation: You have Hepatitis! Aw, is someone not feeling well? Your affliction is very important to united states!

• Aluminum Christmas Trees:
  • Ass, a motion-picture show which was nothing simply a close-up of someone'south ass? That sounds too ridiculous to be true — oh, expect... Past Andy Warhol, no less. ^note It was not, still, a commercial success which won viii Oscars, including All-time Screenplay.
  • 1 scene shows the intake clerk of the hospital using a fast-food style annals with pictures of aliments and no words. Currently, there is a growing moving ridge of people who are simply "iconerate" in that they tin can recognize symbols like stop signs and biohazard symbols, but can't actually read. Plus, emojis are common shortcuts for text now, in the age of social media.
  • Amusingly, Carl's Jr.'s slogan in this film isn't too far off to what they actually used at ane bespeak ("Don't carp me, I'1000 eating"), though obviously information technology's less vulgar than presented here.
• Anti-Intellectualism: Permeates the culture of the 2500s. Anyone who shows any kind of intelligence were rudely insulted.
• Arc Words: "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." Joe prefers to get out of the way and his Character Evolution involves him learning that sometimes beingness neutral isn't an selection.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
  • "The economy was in a state of deep neglect. A bang-up grit basin had ravaged nutrient supplies. And the number-one motion picture in the country was called Ass."
  • In court, Frito objects that Joe's pod bankrupt his window, that he won't be able to pay his lawyer fees, and most of all, that he interrupted him while he was watching "Ow My Balls!" That is NOT okay!
• Artistic License – Gun Condom: See Juggling Loaded Guns entry.
• Asskicking Equals Authority: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn superstar and five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion. He is conspicuously much more than intelligent and competent than the boilerplate citizen, to the extent he probably only qualifies equally an idiot by our own world's standards - which is quite a feat in the moving picture's setting, where idiocy has get insanely dysfunctional. Bated from his accomplishments in wrestling and porn, this is presumably the reason why he was chosen equally president.
• Automobile-Md: There are semiautomatic medical stations; the probes have to be inserted by person. Encephalon Bleach happens when that person gets confused on which probes should exist used on which hole, leading to enormous risks of misdiagnosing each new patient, what with all the bacteria and germs from dissimilar patients mixing on the same probes. Like sharing needles, but grosser. Especially disgusting since the patient earlier Joe was diagnosed with Hepatitis and the probes didn't seem to get disinfected betwixt uses...
• Awesome, but Impractical: Beef Supreme's Donkey-Dozer is a Monday Night Rehabilitation crowd pleaser, being several stories tall and capable of breaking physical, but it'due south as well large to fit into the building and gets cached by rubble before it can actually participate.
• Bad Future: And how. Everyone is a complete idiot and at that place are mountains of trash everywhere.
• Babies Ever After: The film ends with Rita and Joe, and Frito and his 8 wives, all producing children, while the narrator specifically mentions Frito'southward are some of the dumbest on the planet.
• Berserk Push: Practise Not interrupt Frito while he's watching Ow My Balls! That is NOT OK!
• Large Bad: The unnamed CEO of Brawndo, whose corporate abuse is why there'south a dust bowl and the economy is on life support.
• Big Expert: President Dwayne Elizondo Mount Dew Camacho, he might exist a moron but he's genuinely invested in solving the many crises afflicting his land, actively seeks proficient advisors and does his best to keep the country together.
• Big "OMG!": Joe's reaction when he finally realizes how long he has been hibernated.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • Frito Pendejo. In Spanish, Frito means fried, and 'Pendejo' is roughly the equivalent to 'dumbass' in English.
  • The main grapheme'southward name is Joe Bauers, who is fabricated the Secretary of the Interior, charged with trying to solve the issue of crops not growing in the future. "Bauer" is the High german word for "farmer".
• Bloodshot Catastrophe: It turns out the time automobile Frito told Joe about is just a theme park ride, meaning Joe and Rita are stuck in the future. However, Joe climbs the ranks in politics, eventually becoming the President of the United States, and marrying Rita, with whom he has the globe's three smartest children. In his election speech, Joe makes a passionate plea for people to finish viewing beingness stupid equally the norm and as absurd, and it appears that social club is on its way to betterment, fifty-fifty though stupid people are still having as well many children.
• Bizarre Drink Use: The Stupid Future People of Twelvemonth 2505 America water their crops with Brawndo sports drink, never listen that's killing their crops, literally salting the earth, and driving the country into a dust bowl.

  Advertisement: It's got electrolytes! It'south what plants crave!

• Blackness One-act Rape: The Cabinet is not-at-all subtle about how they will care for Rita if Joe stops vouching for her. It makes 1 wonder how the Attorney General has managed to function all this time.
• Blood Sport: "Rehabilitation", in which the i being rehabilitated will actually be killed by 2 monster trucks.
• Boxed Crook: Convicts are given an IQ test and put to piece of work, which is how Joe, with his whopping 100 IQ points, becomes Secretary of the Interior.
• Brick Joke: After Joe spends the whole moving-picture show calming Rita down and finally convinces her that she is condom from Upgrayedd, The Stinger shows Upgrayedd appearing from a third cryostasis pod.
• Barrel-Monkey: Joe ends up taking a lot of abuse for anybody'southward amusement; also, to a (slightly) lesser degree, the guy on Ow, My Balls!
• The Cameo: Sara Rue appears as the Attorney General of the United States.
• Cardboard Prison: The prison Joe is sent to has tons of security, but Joe easily tricks the guards into letting him leave. Averted when he gets sent back to prison house, and they chain him to a big rock and so he tin't possibly escape.
• Catchphrase:
  • "I like money" — Frito Pendejo.
  • The police always start with "okay sir" when explaining anything, and telephone call any suspect, detainee or escapee "particular individual", even in sentences such every bit "being a particular private in jail" or the jail being named "house of particular individuals".
• Chekhov's Gag: Officer Collins becoming a footling too friendly with Upgrayedd leads to the cancellation of the hibernation projection, and Joe and Rita'due south incarceration for half a millennium, when he's arrested for running his own prostitution band.
• Chekhov'south Gunman: Upgrayedd.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: The Secretary of Energy looks to be about twelve or thirteen, drinks heavily, and got his job by winning an unspecified contest; none of this makes him seem particularly less competent than any other Cabinet member... though that'southward not saying much.
• Cleavage Window: The Attorney Full general (played by an uncredited Sara Rue), who is referred to as "Funbags," to boot. Subsequently, Rita too.
• Cluster F-Bomb: An apparent byproduct of the order's intellectual devolution is that "vulgarity filters" have largely been washed abroad with. In other words, people curse and use vulgar words all the fourth dimension, including advertisers, doctors and politicians.
• Cold Sleep, Common cold Hereafter: This film is Mike Approximate's homage (and update) of Woody Allen'southward like simply far less pessimistic Sleeper. The hero really spends well-nigh of the movie having to make anybody in the futurity realize they're living in a Crapsack World.
• Comically Missing the Point: Frito Pendejo could well be the Trope Codifier for this. At no point does he truly empathise what Joe is proverb to him.

  Frito: "How many billions is eight minus 6?"

  Joe: "Uh, it'due south fifty. l billion dollars, Frito!"

  Frito: "I similar money."

• Compensating for Something: The monster trucks in Monday Night Rehabilitation—the Dildozer and the Ass-Blaster. And the terminal one which is several times larger than the other two combined: the Ass-Dozer.
• Crapsack World: Idiocracy depicts the future America as a horrifically dirty and overcrowded wasteland where humanity is crude, impossibly dumb, and hostile. In addition, America is suffering from dustbowls and starvation (due to crops being irrigated with a sports drink make, killing them off and salting the earth), and the economic system is in a terrible country, with Ridiculous Future Inflation existence displayed in total event.
• Creator Cameo: Mike Judge voices two announcers, the one for the Masturbating Channel and the stadium one for Rehabilitation.
• Cyberpunk for Flavor: Or rather, Cyberpunk Played for Laughs, its aesthetics applied to a trailer park instead of a City Noir. Advanced technology in the easily of Stupid Future People is mostly directed towards enabling man laziness and creating an Advertizement-Overloaded Future, and nigh of it is falling apart because they've forgotten how to maintain information technology.
• A Engagement with Rosie Palms: Devolved into the word "batin'" and given its ain aqueduct on tv set. It doesn't seem to carry quite the same connotations, though.
• Delusions of Eloquence: Anybody except Joe and Rita. Particularly the police—the merely long words they don't mangle is "item private," and simply then because they utilize that phrase every time they refer to any person.
• Design Student'south Orgasm: Everything in the futurity has a very bright and overproduced 'food court artful.'
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Beef Supreme comes out of retirement in the biggest, baddest wrecking vehicle he can discover... only to arrive too big to fit in the edifice, and coffin information technology under tons of rubble when he tries to ram his style through the arch anyway.
  • Frito knew the Time Masheen was just a ride the whole moving picture, but chose non to tell Joe, because he wanted the billions promised to him in the deal they fabricated. Except that the only way Frito was even getting the money was through Joe's plan to open a bank business relationship in the past that would accumulate lots of interest in 500 years, making the whole thing moot since Joe can't actually travel back in time. Joe tries explaining Frito's flawed logic dorsum to him, simply gives up because the idiot is unable to understand even such a simple thing.
• The Ditz: A whole guild comprised of these.
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • Frito and the cameraman forget to flick the plants because a nearby Starbucks is having a handjob sale.
  • Afterwards invoked by Rita to get someone out of the control berth, and failing afterwards using several different methods, seizes upon this method:

    Rita: "At that place's a bunch of whores in the hallway!"

• Divided States of America: The American flag has just twenty-5 stars on information technology, so it's possible half us accept seceded. On the other hand, there are also just 11 stripes, then it's possible everyone has simply forgotten what the stars and stripes are supposed to represent, or that nobody tin can count that loftier anymore.
• The Dreaded: Upgrayedd is clearly this to Rita, who spends most of the flick fearing that he's coming to find her, the fact that she's 500 years in the future be damned. And judging from The Stinger, her fears are not unfounded.
• Duct Record for Everything: Rather than actually repair dilapidated buildings, people simply use tons and tons of duct tape to hold them together.
• Embarrassing Slide: Officer Collins has dozens of these. While presenting his project on hibernation to several army officials, he reveals he took a lot of pictures with him hanging out with Upgrayedd, Rita's pimp. He has to mash on the slide button several times to get dorsum to the original presentation. It becomes a Chekhov's Gag.
• The Stop... Or Is It?: Subsequently the credits, a scene is shown of a third cryogenic pod opening and releasing Upgrayedd, who is intent on tracking down Rita.
• Entendre Failure: Whenever Rita uses a Sexual Euphemism, Joe never understands what she intends.
• Ballsy Fail: In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed abroad from a heart set on while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination.
• The Everyman: Invoked; Joe and Rita are specifically called for the experiment because they're completely average in every regard... but are nonetheless considered geniuses by the standards of the future.
• Everything'southward Improve with Dinosaurs: The Fourth dimension Masheen ride features an interpretation of the events of WWII and the years following which involves model dinosaurs wearing swastikas.
• Exactly Exty Years Ago: Joe and Rita are frozen in 2005 and thawed in 2505.
• Exactly What It Says on the Can: A hilarious Show Inside a Prove example. The narrator mentions that the year'due south biggest blockbuster movie was Donkey. "...and that's all information technology was, for ninety minutes." Yeah, what he said. "It won viii Oscars that year, including one for 'Best Screenplay'."
  • The most popular show on Boob tube is "Ow, My Balls!"
• Expecting Someone Taller: The offset thing the President says to the 'smartest man in the world' is "I thought your head would be bigger."
• Fallen States of America: Played for laughs. Then once more, the balance of the world is implied to be but every bit bad.
• Fanservice with a Grinning: Everywhere in the future, fifty-fifty the news anchors are barely dressed and highly attractive.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Joe and Rita are from 2005 and see how drastically the futurity has changed 500 years from then.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • The very modest Surgeon General's alert seen on the Tarrylton'southward Cigarettes billboard reads: "Alert: The Surgeon Full general has one lung and a voicebox but he could still kick your deplorable donkey", Comically Missing the Point on what constitutes a warning in that context.
  • When Joe is being apprehended by the law in Costco, the background screens brandish why he is wanted: "For being a dick," "For excaping from jail" and "For fucking up lots of shit."
• Funny Groundwork Event: Specifically the pictures of President Camacho in the White House. But throughout the movie y'all tin can meet people doing stupid things in the groundwork.
• Future Imperfect: The Fourth dimension Masheen ride is clueless near WW2 as it shows the Nazis had dinosaurs and were led past Charlie Chaplin.
• Gigantic Gulp:
  • All drink cups in the future are super-sized mugs with bendy straws.
  • Not to mention the beer that comes through a tube from somewhere on the wall. It seems that beer has gone the way of cable Goggle box...
• Giving Up on Logic: Afterwards Joe discovers that crops are beingness irrigated with Brawndo, a sports drink, Joe tries to explicate that Brawndo is killing the crops and tries to convince them that they should switch to obviously water instead. Still, the cabinet insists on using Brawndo because "it'southward what plants crave considering it'due south got electrolytes" (The Narrator explains that the "electrolytes" in Brawndo include salt as a primary ingredient, and is the reason for the ongoing grit basin and ingather failure). When he fails to reason with the cabinet, The Narrator so states that Joe decided to start lying and tell them he tin can talk to plants, and that the plants told him they needed water instead of Brawndo.
• Groin Attack: The Show Inside a Evidence Ow, My Balls! is one Groin Set on later on some other. The unfortunate star of the show suffers such 'tributes' from his fans at public appearances equally well.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Joe gets sent to prison, just immediately talks his way out by convincing them he should be in the line to exist released. Justified because, well, they're all idiots. (They manage to do a little more than thinking the second time he's incarcerated, and chain him to a bedrock.)
• Hair-Trigger Avalanche: A truck adds to a massive pile of garbage. Information technology gets compressed, but stays intact; then a single can falls out of the truck, triggering an avalanche dozens of meters high.
• Hellhole Prison house: The House of Particular Individuals. Though nosotros don't get to run across much of it, information technology appears to be a disgusting and overcrowded facility where the average inmates are starving, fed from buckets like zoo animals, and are abused past the fatter inmates, who sit down on them.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Joe, until Rita and Frito prove that his thought of putting water on crops does in fact work.
• Historical Character Defoliation: At some betoken, Adolf Hitler was confused with Charlie Chaplin.
• Hired for Their Looks: A chip of Truth in Tv there. Ever see what the female anchors on Fox News and CNN look like? Although in Idiocracy, the male anchor is naked at least to the waist. This is also Truth in Television with Canada'south Naked News. If you're not at piece of work, do a search for it. Too, the news anchors demonstrate a considerably better command of the English language language than most of the population, even if it still contains numerous low-cal profanities. Though not the field reporter, interestingly, who is fully clothed and uses terms such as "more than improve". However, they also add together audio effects such as heavy reverb to the male person anchor'due south vocalism to make his words have more impact. As well worth mentioning is when the female person anchor turns to Formica (the street reporter), the anchor turns all the way around every bit if the inset screen will appear behind her or she is physically looking for Formica.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Rita, though a prostitute, is shown to be a rather lovely person, and ends upward helping to relieve the world.
• Human Popsicle: Joe and Rita (and Upgrayedd) are put into stasis for 500 years (though they were simply intended to be in stasis for one year).
• Humans Are Morons: The entire world population. Their vocabulary has devolved into profanities and rough humour, and accept no reasonable system of regime.
• Humiliation Conga: Monday Dark Rehabilitation is both this and a form of public execution, where convicts are forced to participate in humiliating and unfairly matched gladiator sports.
• I Choose to Stay: Rita. Subverted (and mandated) when it turns out the 'Time Masheen' they were looking for is just a cheesy theme-park ride.
• Improbably Low IQ: Averted at the start, where the "smart" people are shown with non-improbable IQs in the 130s and the "stupid" people are shown in the 80s. Played straight later, when the average IQ is stated to be 5 - non only is that impossible, because the average IQ is ever 100, but even if it means a 5 on a modern scale, these people shouldn't even be able to walk and talk unassisted.
• In the Time to come, We Still Have Roombas: A floor cleaning robot is shown repeatedly banging into a wall announcing "Your flooring is at present clean!" over and over. Given the putrid status of the floor everywhere but where the robot is, it had been at this for a long fourth dimension.
• Institutional Wearing apparel: Joe spends a good chunk of the movie in an orange prison house jumpsuit.
• I Will Show You lot 10!:

  Joe: Your Award, I call for a mistrial.
  Joe'due south Lawyer: I'g gonna mistrial my foot up your donkey, (if) y'all don't shut upward.

• Juggling Loaded Guns: A bunch of cops are firing on the automobile Joe had just exited. Ane of them has a rocket launcher—which he proceeds to fire backwards. A few seconds later, a 747 enters the shot going down in flames. Later in the film, the U.S. President quiets down a rowdy crowd in the Firm of Representin' by firing a light support weapon into the air. This is perfectly justified considering the motion picture is literally an invokedIdiot Plot. Also, our introduction to the Secretarial assistant of Education has him absentmindedly resting a shotgun against his face up and occasionally staring down the barrel of it.
• Kangaroo Court: Joe's lawyer objects to things his own client did that are unrelated to the case and assumes Joe is guilty because the other lawyer said so. The jury and judge consider it damning evidence of Joe'due south guilt.
• Kavorka Human: Clevon and his son in the prologue: two fat and ugly rednecks who yet manage to father enough of illegitimate children, contributing to humanity's devolution.
• Large Ham: President Camacho begins his speeches by showboating like a pro athlete and sounds like a televangelist when he starts half-singing them.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: The smart couple who continue putting off getting pregnant (eventually thwarted by Husband Existence Failure) vs. the idiot who doesn't care and winds up with nearly three dozen offspring by v to 8 different women (and even more after a Groin Attack) in the prologue. This continues subsequently a style with Joe and Rita: they have three children of average intelligence—the three smartest kids on Earth—while Frito has xxx of the dumbest kids on Earth.
• Low Culture, High Tech: People in the future use advanced technology that hasn't progressed in ages considering anybody is at present an infantile lackwit.
• MacGuffin: The Fourth dimension Masheen provides Joe'southward principal motivation, though information technology isn't seen until the very terminate of the movie. It's... not what he thinks.
• Manchild: Anybody Joe encounters in the time to come. They talk like middle schoolers, are obsessed with sexual activity and profanity, and near of the buildings and machines take a plasticky Fisher-Toll look.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The boilerplate protagonist is named Joe.
  • Also, Joe's new proper noun that he'southward given in 2505, "Not Sure". He is the smartest human being in the earth by default because everyone else is so stupid, and humanity rests their hopes on him, even though he himself is 'non sure' of what exactly to exercise (although information technology was a Line-of-Sight Name that was given to him).
• Awe-inspiring Impairment Resistance: Despite being implied that the balance of the world in 2505 is only as dumbed downwardly and environmentally wrecked every bit Usa, the Eiffel Tower (intact and in relatively perfect condition) is briefly shown in Ow! My Balls!, though that could have been stock footage, equally the next shot showed him at the Pyramids at Giza.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The commercials for Brawndo, existence commercials, portray drinking the soda as the about badass thing that anyone can do.
• Narrator: If you've always seen a Coors Light beer commercial or NFL Films vignette in your life, the narrator might audio a fiddling familiar…
• My Nayme Is: Upgrayedd. Spelled with an extra D for a "double dose of his pimping."
• Newspaper Dating: Joe finds out what year he's in this way, though he doesn't believe information technology at offset, though this in itself is somewhat of a dated piece, newspapers going obsolete even now in the 21st century.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: The film's premise - a guy with completely average intelligence in a lodge of consummate morons.
• The Non-And so-Harmless Punishment: Joe is sentenced to one nighttime of rehabilitation when his determination to irrigate crops with water caused population riots after the price of the Brawndo Corporation's stock plummeted. Information technology turns out that 'rehabilitation' is a blazon of public execution modelled every bit a Squash Friction match with Homicide Machines.
• Odd Friendship: Collins the military machine scientist and Upgrayedd the pimp.
• 1 Nation Nether Copyright: It'southward mentioned Brawndo purchased the FDA and the FCC, and used their position to replace h2o with their product. If yous look closely at the American flag, each of the stars is actually the logo of Carl's Jr. Also, the scarlet stripes are really ruby text reading, "The following companies are proud sponsors of the United States of Uhmerica: Carl's Jr., Costco, Cavalcade, Flaturin, Tarrlytons, Ronaise, Buttfuckers, Bemco, Nastea, Bonerax, Brawndo, Acne Insurance." ◊ Maybe, these companies own parts of the U.S. government in the same way that Brawndo owns the FDA and FCC.
• 1-Word Title: Idiocracy.
• Simply Sane Man: Joe, and by extension Rita and Upgrayedd.
• Opening Monologue: The narrator gives 1 about the change in human evolution.
• Our Presidents Are Dissimilar: President Dwayne Elizondo Mount Dew Herbert Camacho is a strange mix of Buffoon and Personable types. A v-time Ultimate Smackdown Wrestling champion and porn superstar, Camacho is still an idiot by modernistic standards, just conspicuously more intelligent and well-spoken than the balance of the idiots. He is also likable and charismatic, in a Bouncy Bruiser-type of way, willing to listen to his advisors and not agape to own up to his mistakes.
• Overly Long Name: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
• Ow, My Body Part!: Ow, My Balls!
• Pair the Smart Ones: At the beginning of the flick, The Narrator states that due to a lack of predators and other natural hazards, humanity's reproductive rights are no longer awarded to the strongest or smartest and thus contributed to humanity'southward devolution.
  • First in that location'south the instance of Trevor and Clara, a college educated yuppie couple that spent decades debating when was the right time to take child, only for Trevor to die before impregnating his wife. Then at that place'south Clevon, a dimwitted redneck who fathered a bunch of kids with his wife, and with a agglomeration of other women at the trailer park where they live. Later, his son wins a football game and tells a agglomeration of cheerleaders "I'm gonna fuck all y'all!" And then, when Clevon suffers a groin injury, his surgeon says that with the modernistic applied science they tin can repair the damage, allowing him to make fifty-fifty more kids.
  • Joe and Rita were chosen for the cryogenics experiment because of how boilerplate they are, but afterward waking up 500 years later, their boilerplate intelligence makes them the smartest people in the 26th century, and at the end they end up together and take the 3 smartest children in the world.
• Parody of Evolution: The poster shows 1 - as you probably expect, it'southward the "evolves down" variant.
• Parody Product Placement: The pic has product placement everywhere, and it is parodied to show just how shallow and impaired the time to come is:
  • In Carl's Jr., the most mutual or popular portion size is 'Extra Large-Ass', such as their fries, and their motto has devolved into "Fuck you, I'm eating!".
  • Fuddruckers is shown devolving into "Buttfuckers", simply is actually one of the few businesses to keep their office every bit a burger place.
  • Costco has grown to the size of a pocket-sized city, with its ain subway system and a constabulary school. The guy welcoming people repeatedly says "Welcome to Costco. I love you." in an near mindless mode.
  • Crocs shoes are made for prisoners.
  • Flim-flam News Channel is however a news network, but has devolved into pure amusement, with its newscasters dressed like porn stars.
  • Starbucks, H&R Block, and several other places have become brothels.
  • Information technology seems that in the future, parents will proper noun their kids after various companies, mostly food products: Joe'southward lawyer is Frito (Pendejo), the star of Ow, My Balls! is named Hormel (Chavez), a "rehabilitation" official is named Tylenol (Jones), the president's middle name is Mountain Dew, Dr. Lexus, and at that place's even a reporter named Velveeta and one named Formica (Davis). Substantially, every named grapheme from the future has some kind of product placement in their name.
  • 1 Cabinet fellow member constantly drops ad slogans (most notably "Brought to you by Carl's Jr.") into his normal conversation, because they pay him each time he says it.
  • All clothes consist entirely of logos (usually foods).
  • When Rita picks upwards a pay phone, an electronic bulletin says "Welcome to AOL-Fourth dimension Warner-Taco Bong-U.Southward. Regime Long Distance".
  • So there are the misspellings, that seem to accumulate over time due to mankind getting stupider. To list them, they are Buttfuckers, Nas-Tea, Uhmerican Exxxpress and St<A>r8ucks, along with some others.
• The Identify: The title refers to the futurity full of idiots.
• Portmantitle: From "Idiot" meaning, well, idiot, and "-cracy" pregnant dominion. Which makes it too a neologism.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Collins, the scientist who organizes the whole projection, takes to Upgrayedd's slang a bit too readily, which is what gets him outed for associating with the guy.
• Reactive Continuous Scream: When Dr. Lexus realizes that Joe is an "unscannable", while Joe is freaking out about realizing how long he's been frozen.
• Existent Life Writes the Plot: The film was made in the immediate wake of Owen Wilson'due south suicide attempt from the stress of existence a professional thespian. His brother Andrew (Beef Supreme), who had helped talk him out of it, was angry at the Screen Actor'due south Club for existence straight responsible for his blood brother's depression, not to mention helping equally footling as possible in the aftermath. He but appeared in the movie because his other brother Luke twisted his arm about it, and refused to have any speaking lines, every bit doing so would have required him to become an SAG license.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Relative to the typical citizen of 2505, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is intelligent, eloquent, and unselfish. He sentences Joe to "rehabilitation" considering he needs to quell the riots, only quickly pulls Joe out once it'due south revealed that the plan to restore the crops is succeeding. He immediately puts Joe into a political position when he is declared the about intelligent person in America and when Joe is elected president, Camacho happily steps down knowing that America is in safe easily.
• Ridiculous Future Aggrandizement: This occurs, not every bit a side effect of poor economic management, but equally an intentional choice so that everybody tin be amazed at how they have millions of dollars. Plus the inflation is really kind of reasonable. If the 10 million dollar bills we see are the equivalent of single dollar bills at the time the movie came out, it comes downward to almost iii% inflation per twelvemonth. Not bad for the world depicted in the movie. In the real earth, somebody would probably at some point have introduced a new basic unit of currency worth x times the sometime one, just people as lazy and stupid as the ones in this story plainly never think to practise that.
• Ridiculously Average Guy: Joe is chosen for the Human Hibernation Project specifically because he is exactly this. Heavily lampshaded, as Collins describes this as "remarkable," and gain to show a serial of graphs with Joe exactly at the midpoint in every one.
• Rigged Spectacle Fight: Monday Night Rehabilitation may seem innocuous, only in reality it is a Public Execution where the "rehabilitated" are forced to compete unarmed against a heavily armed, and more mobile, executioner while being watched alive on Television set and in the eye of a crowded stadium.
• Rule of Funny: It is just not scientifically accurate (and if it were, it would be advocating eugenics). Information technology does non accept to be. It'south but a one-act, and it's supposed to exist funny.
• Running Gag:
  • "It'southward what plants crave!"
  • Joe beingness completely oblivious to Rita'due south truthful profession and her real relationship with Upgrayedd.
  • Joe being known as "Not Sure" for the rest of the moving picture subsequently a mishap with the identity tattoo machine.
• Common salt the Earth: Not the result of malice, but stupidity. A Gatorade Captain Ersatz got a police force passed at some indicate to brand the farmers spray their crops with their sports potable, considering it has "electrolytes," which is "what plants crave." For those not quite scientifically savvy enough to see the mistake, the electrolytes in sports drinks are salts dissolved in water. No-one in the movie, including Joe, knows what electrolytes are.
• Scannable Human being: Joe is involuntarily tattooed with a bar code on his wrist.
• Scenery Gorn: Played for laughs here; the time to come people oasis't exactly been doing a very good chore at maintenance.
• Sentry Gun: The prison has automated lookout man guns mounted outside the edifice to terminate escapees. Fortunately, they're so badly maintained that they merely swivel in one direction and shoot each other.
• Sex Sells: In the hereafter, everything, even the newspaper has gratuitous images of scantily-clad babes and many food franchises have outright abandoned whatever product they used to sell in exchange for becoming brothels or strip clubs, with the simply remnant of what they once were existence food-related sexual allusion.
• Sexual Euphemism: A running gag is that Joe never catches on to Rita'southward insinuation when she uses "this and that".
• Shaped Similar Itself: This brilliant substitution:

  Joe: Frito, do you know where the time machine is?
  Frito Pendejo: Aye, it'southward... past the museum, y'all know... wait... it'southward... wait... it's downwards past the... you lot take a left... it's... wait... it'due south down by the, uh.... y'all know where the time machine is?

• Share the Male Pain: A rare aversion, as the most popular TV show in the future involves a homo existence slammed in the crotch over and over.
• Bear witness Inside a Testify: The same Ow, My Balls and Monday Nighttime Rehabilitation, and the multiple-Academy Honor-winning film (including Best Screenplay) past the name of Donkey .
• Shout-Out:
  • The Chaser General'due south outfit looks suspiciously like Cutey Honey'due south.
  • The billboard advertising Tarrlytons cigarettes is "© 2505 Cornholio Enterprises".
• Shown Their Work: Surprisingly for a film like this one, the Presidential RV has the number "28000", which is the existent-life tail registration number of Air Forcefulness 1.
• Side-Furnishings Include...: Everyone claims "plants crave" the electrolytes in Brawndo, but they don't know what electrolytes actually are. It'south salt, which, equally it turns out, is definitely not what plants require.
• The Silent Bob: Beef Supreme, 1 of the "corrections personnel" on Monday Night Rehabilitation. Incidentally, he's played by the brother of the actor that plays Joe. ^note As mentioned on the trivia page, this was because Andrew Wilson didn't desire to get a Screen Thespian's Society license, having but had to talk his other blood brother Owen out of suicide due to the stress of being an actor and holding a grudge against SAG for Owen's low which led him to attempt it.
• The Stinger: Later on the credits there is a scene in which Upgrayedd arrives into the future to look for Rita.
• Stupid Future People: The whole premise - evolutionary and corporatism diversity, the less intelligent have outcompeted and outbred the more intelligent and every bit a upshot, we take devolved into a pop-civilization obsessed Large, Fat Future where no one has a desire to learn.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: Rita'south response when Joe takes her professional euphemism at face up value.
• Surrounded by Idiots: In that location are only two (intelligently) normal people here. Care to find them? Brand that three with Upgrayedd.
• Survival Mantra: "Brought to y'all by Carl's Jr., brought to you lot by Carl's Jr..." - the Secretary of State, desperately trying to earn money after the economy tanks because they offset using water on crops instead of Brawndo.
• Take That, Audience!: The DVD card gives the audience the same signal of view every bit Frito, with the screen replaying Ow, My Balls! surrounded past tacky advertisements and options.
• Testosterone Poisoning:
  • Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator! "It'southward like a MONSTER TRUCK you can Pour into your'' FACE!" "Information technology's got electrolytes! Information technology'due south what plants crave!"
  • Also, would you similar some "EXTRA Large-Donkey Fries" along with an "EXTRA BIG-ASS TACO"?
• There Is Only One Bed: Joe plans to sleep on the ground, until Rita offers to share the bed.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When Joe is awaiting his "rehabilitation", he mutters to himself that he never guessed this was how he was going to die.
• Toilet Humor: In-universe, about the only acceptable (and comprehensible) grade of humour left in 2500s America.
• Likewise Dumb to Live:
  • Pretty much everyone. Several scenes imply that the culture has been coasting on everyone'southward lifestyle being heavily automated.
  • At the aforementioned fourth dimension, several scenes besides imply that they were about to starve to expiry (and perhaps be cached in their ain garbage) earlier Joe rescued them.
  • Or perchance because humans are such explosive breeders that the nascency charge per unit surpasses the 'death-by-stupidity' rate.
• Trash of the Titans: The Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505.
• Used Futurity: Since people are too stupid to maintain the buildings, they are all dirty and disheveled, and many are nearing collapse.
• Unusual Euphemism:
  • About every business concern will somehow go a brothel and utilise whatever product it was once known for as euphemisms. For example, Starbucks has 'lattes,' which are at present handjobs.
  • "Hey! Wanna go 'Family-Manner'?"
• Wallbonking: The Roomba cleaning the infirmary floor is stuck in a loop running itself into a wall and repeating "your flooring is at present clean!" over and over … but it's only cleaned a small path behind it, and the residuum of the hospital floor is still far dirtier than whatever hospital floor should be.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Rita's pimp, Upgrayedd. A post-credits stinger shows that Upgrayedd was put in stasis as well, and awakes to go and detect Rita.
• What Yr Is This?: One of the kickoff things Joe does discovering it'southward 2505 on a magazine encompass (thinking information technology'south a misprint at first).
• You Have to Believe Me!: The newscast describes Joe as saying this, presumably trying to tell the court that he's woken up from a centuries-long cryogenic sleep, just they just mock him.

  Violence Channel correspondent Formica Davis: Well it started off boring and slow, with Not Sure trying to bullshit everyone with a bunch of smart-talk! "Blah blah blah, yous gotta belieeeve me!" That part of the trial sucked!

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