![]() ![]() ![]() He is clearly much more intelligent and competent than the average citizen, to the extent he probably only qualifies as an idiot by our own world's standards - which is quite a feat in the film's setting, where the average intelligence of humanity has become insanely low. Asskicking Leads to Leadership: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn superstar and five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion.As You Know: Collins has to remind the group he is talking to that the hibernation pods are classified.In court, Frito objects that Joe's pod broke 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!.And the number-one movie in the country was called Ass." A great dust bowl had ravaged food supplies. "The economy was in a state of deep neglect.Arc Words: "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." Joe prefers to get out of the way and his Character Development involves him learning that sometimes being neutral isn't an option.Anyone who shows any kind of intelligence gets subjected to ridicule from the masses. Anti-Intellectualism: This idea permeates the culture of the 26th century.Everyone calls him "Not Sure" for the rest of the movie.Ĭhipper machine voice: You have Hepatitis! Aw, is someone not feeling well? Your illness is very important to us! It asks for confirmation, but promptly misreads Joe's tone when he says "my name is not Not Sure!", takes it literally again and tattoos this name on his arm. ![]() Accidental Misnaming: Joe says "I'm not sure if." to a machine, which proceeds to assume his name is literally "Not Sure".Idiocracy provides examples of the following EXTRA BIG-ASS TROPES: Since its DVD release, however, the film has become a Cult Classic. The film wasn't granted a wide theatrical release, and as such gave poor box-office returns. Joe and Rita are now by far the smartest people around, and the world's looking at them to solve some serious problems. When they finally emerge, they discover that due to 500 years of the dumb outbreeding the intelligent and world culture gradually dumbing down to the Lowest Common Denominator, society has become ridiculously crude and dim-witted. The experiment is supposed to run for only a year, but they wind up forgotten for five hundred years. Idiocracy is a 2006 science fiction comedy by Mike Judge (best known for Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill) starring Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers, a totally average soldier who is volunteered for a suspended animation experiment, along with a hooker named Rita (played by Maya Rudolph), who refers to herself as a painter and refers to her pimp, Upgrayedd, as her "boyfriend/manager". ![]()
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