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Idiocracy

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165 feature instances
150 referencing feature instances

Idiocracy	type	TVTItem
Idiocracy	label	Idiocracy
Idiocracy	page	Idiocracy
Idiocracy	comment	Idiocracy is a 2006 science fiction comedy directed by Mike Judge (best known for Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill) from a screenplay by him and Etan Cohen. It stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, with Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman and Justin Long among the supporting roles.Joe Bauers (Wilson), a totally average soldier, is volunteered for a suspended animation experiment, along with a hooker named Rita (Rudolph), who refers to herself as a painter and refers to her pimp, Upgrayedd, as her "boyfriend/manager". The experiment is supposed to run for only a year, but they wind up forgotten for 500 years. 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. Joe and Rita are now by far the smartest people around, and the world's looking at them to solve some serious problems.The film wasn't granted a wide theatrical release, and as such gave poor box-office returns. Since its DVD release, however, the film has become a Cult Classic.
Idiocracy	fetched	2024-04-03T10:51:29Z
Idiocracy	parsed	2024-04-03T10:51:29Z
Idiocracy	processingComment	Dropped link to BeavisAndButthead: Not a Feature - ITEM
Idiocracy	processingComment	Dropped link to CuteyHoney: Not a Feature - ITEM
Idiocracy	processingComment	Dropped link to DemolitionMan: Not a Feature - ITEM
Idiocracy	processingComment	Dropped link to LineOfSightName: Not a Feature - ITEM
Idiocracy	processingComment	Dropped link to SarahZ: Not a Feature - ITEM
Idiocracy	isPartOf	DBTropes
Idiocracy / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Idiocracy / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: Rita's response when Joe takes her professional euphemism at face value.
Idiocracy / int_1086f287	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_1086f287	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_1086f287
Idiocracy / int_119498ff	type	Monumental Damage Resistance
Idiocracy / int_119498ff	comment	Monumental Damage Resistance: Despite being implied that the rest of the world in 2505 is just as dumbed down and environmentally wrecked as United States, the Eiffel Tower (intact and in relatively perfect condition) is briefly shown in Ow! My Balls!, though that could have been stock footage, as the next shot showed him at the Pyramids at Giza.
Idiocracy / int_119498ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_119498ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_119498ff
Idiocracy / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Idiocracy / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Mike Judge voices two announcers, the one for the Masturbating Channel and the stadium one for Rehabilitation.
Idiocracy / int_127fc252	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_127fc252	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_127fc252
Idiocracy / int_140883ec	type	I Will Show You X!
Idiocracy / int_140883ec	comment	I Will Show You X!:
Idiocracy / int_140883ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_140883ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_140883ec
Idiocracy / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Idiocracy / int_18aff462	comment	Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator! "It's like a MONSTER TRUCK you can POUR into your FACE!" "It's got electrolytes! It's what plants crave!"
Idiocracy / int_18aff462	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_18aff462	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_18aff462
Idiocracy / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Idiocracy / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Sara Rue appears as the Attorney General of the United States.
Idiocracy / int_1b65dfad	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_1b65dfad	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_1b65dfad
Idiocracy / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Idiocracy / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The title refers to the future full of idiots.
Idiocracy / int_1c21e3fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_1c21e3fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_1c21e3fb
Idiocracy / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Idiocracy / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn superstar and five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion. 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. In fact, it was hinted that Camacho was the smartest guy the country ever had until Joe's arrival. Aside from his accomplishments in wrestling and porn, this is presumably the reason why he was chosen as president.
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Idiocracy / int_1cc527d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_1cc527d7
Idiocracy / int_1d9ec554	type	Scannable Man
Idiocracy / int_1d9ec554	comment	Scannable Man: Joe is involuntarily tattooed with a bar code on his wrist.
Idiocracy / int_1d9ec554	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_1d9ec554	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_1d9ec554
Idiocracy / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Idiocracy / int_21d70919	comment	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 brand, killing them off and salting the earth), and the economy is in a terrible state, with Ridiculous Future Inflation being displayed in full effect.
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_21d70919
Idiocracy / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
Idiocracy / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: Played for laughs. Then again, the rest of the world is implied to be just as bad.
Idiocracy / int_2206fd8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2206fd8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2206fd8c
Idiocracy / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Idiocracy / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Officer Collins becoming a little too friendly with Upgrayedd leads to the cancellation of the hibernation project, and Joe and Rita's incarceration for half a millennium, when he's arrested for running his own prostitution ring.
Idiocracy / int_22cf50f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_22cf50f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_22cf50f9
Idiocracy / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Idiocracy / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Joe, and by extension Rita and Upgrayedd.
Idiocracy / int_24321e44	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_24321e44	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_24321e44
Idiocracy / int_24c6f22e	type	Trash of the Titans
Idiocracy / int_24c6f22e	comment	Trash of the Titans: The Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505.
Idiocracy / int_24c6f22e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_24c6f22e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_24c6f22e
Idiocracy / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Idiocracy / int_251bce7c	comment	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, and they chain him to a big rock so he can't possibly escape.
Idiocracy / int_251bce7c	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_251bce7c
Idiocracy / int_25fd37c3	type	Cleavage Window
Idiocracy / int_25fd37c3	comment	Cleavage Window: The Attorney General (played by an uncredited Sara Rue), who is referred to as "Funbags," to boot. Later, Rita too.
Idiocracy / int_25fd37c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_25fd37c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_25fd37c3
Idiocracy / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Idiocracy / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The â€˜ARTIST DUPICSHUNâ€™ depicting Joeâ€™s trial is drawn in the style of Mike Judgeâ€™s various animated projects.
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_26ac510e
Idiocracy / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Idiocracy / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Specifically the pictures of President Camacho in the White House. But throughout the movie you can see people doing stupid things in the background.
Idiocracy / int_26eb6287	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_26eb6287	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_26eb6287
Idiocracy / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Idiocracy / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: "Rehabilitation", in which the one being rehabilitated will actually be killed by two monster trucks.
Idiocracy / int_2767953f	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2767953f	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2767953f
Idiocracy / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Idiocracy / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Magistrate Judge Hector "The Hangman" have his moniker despite not having the authority to hand out death sentences.
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Idiocracy / int_28a5213a	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_28a5213a
Idiocracy / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Idiocracy / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Frito Pendejo. In Spanish, Frito means fried, and 'Pendejo' is roughly the equivalent to 'dumbass' in English. The main character's name is Joe Bauers, who is made the Secretary of the Interior, charged with trying to solve the issue of crops not growing in the future. "Bauer" is the German word for "farmer".
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Idiocracy / int_294ed981	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_294ed981
Idiocracy / int_2ae247a4	type	Auto-Doc
Idiocracy / int_2ae247a4	comment	Auto-Doc: There are semiautomatic medical stations; the probes have to be inserted by person. Brain Bleach happens when that person gets confused on which probes should be used on which hole, leading to enormous risks of misdiagnosing each new patient, what with all the bacteria and germs from different patients mixing on the same probes. Like sharing needles, only grosser. Especially disgusting since the patient before Joe was diagnosed with Hepatitis and the probes didn't seem to get disinfected between uses...
Idiocracy / int_2ae247a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2ae247a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2ae247a4
Idiocracy / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Idiocracy / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Upgrayedd is clearly this to Rita, who spends most of the movie 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.
Idiocracy / int_2ae29c0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2ae29c0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2ae29c0d
Idiocracy / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Idiocracy / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Then 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.
Idiocracy / int_2b5ea43c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2b5ea43c
Idiocracy / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Idiocracy / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Beef Supreme's Ass-Dozer is a Monday Night Rehabilitation crowd pleaser, being several stories tall and capable of breaking concrete, but it's too big to fit into the building and gets buried by rubble before it can actually participate.
Idiocracy / int_2bdae2ae	featureApplicability	1.0
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2bdae2ae
Idiocracy / int_2d043142	type	Entendre Failure
Idiocracy / int_2d043142	comment	Entendre Failure: Whenever Rita uses a Sexual Euphemism, Joe never understands what she intends.
Idiocracy / int_2d043142	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2d043142	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2d043142
Idiocracy / int_2e03fb64	type	Embarrassing Slide
Idiocracy / int_2e03fb64	comment	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 back to the original presentation. It becomes a Chekhov's Gag.
Idiocracy / int_2e03fb64	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2e03fb64	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2e03fb64
Idiocracy / int_2f6f1a06	type	"Shut Up!" Gunshot
Idiocracy / int_2f6f1a06	comment	"Shut Up!" Gunshot: President Camacho fires an M249 SAW machine gun in the air during the middle of an Emergency Presidential Address to shut up his critics.
Idiocracy / int_2f6f1a06	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_2f6f1a06	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_2f6f1a06
Idiocracy / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Idiocracy / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Joe, until Rita and Frito prove that his idea of putting water on crops does in fact work.
Idiocracy / int_313e9485	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_313e9485	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_313e9485
Idiocracy / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
Idiocracy / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: People in the future use advanced technology that hasn't progressed in ages because everyone is now an infantile lackwit.
Idiocracy / int_3270a3d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_3270a3d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_3270a3d7
Idiocracy / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
Idiocracy / int_32956961	comment	Or maybe because humans are such explosive breeders that the birth rate surpasses the 'death-by-stupidity' rate.
Idiocracy / int_32956961	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_32956961	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_32956961
Idiocracy / int_3338a4c2	type	Hair-Trigger Avalanche
Idiocracy / int_3338a4c2	comment	Hair-Trigger Avalanche: A truck adds to a massive pile of garbage. It gets compressed, but stays intact; then a single can falls out of the truck, triggering an avalanche dozens of meters high.
Idiocracy / int_3338a4c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_3338a4c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_3338a4c2
Idiocracy / int_350df8dc	type	Anti-Intellectualism
Idiocracy / int_350df8dc	comment	Anti-Intellectualism: This idea permeates the culture of the 26th century. Anyone who shows any kind of intelligence gets subjected to ridicule from the masses.
Idiocracy / int_350df8dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_350df8dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_350df8dc
Idiocracy / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Idiocracy / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: An apparent byproduct of the society's intellectual devolution is that "vulgarity filters" have largely been done away with. In other words, people curse and use vulgar words all the time, including advertisers, doctors and politicians.
Idiocracy / int_35a858b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_35a858b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_35a858b3
Idiocracy / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
Idiocracy / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: In the future, 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 only remnant of what they once were being food-related sexual innuendo.
Idiocracy / int_36215b80	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_36215b80	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_36215b80
Idiocracy / int_36a8331c	type	Parody of Evolution
Idiocracy / int_36a8331c	comment	Parody of Evolution: The poster shows one - as you probably expect, it's the "evolves down" variant.
Idiocracy / int_36a8331c	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_36a8331c	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_36a8331c
Idiocracy / int_371b253a	type	Testosterone Poisoning
Idiocracy / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator! "It's like a MONSTER TRUCK you can POUR into your FACE!" "It's got electrolytes! It's what plants crave!" Also, would you like some EXTRA BIG-ASS FRIES along with an EXTRA BIG-ASS TACO? Now with more MOLECULES!
Idiocracy / int_371b253a	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_371b253a	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_371b253a
Idiocracy / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Idiocracy / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: The DVD menu gives the audience the same point of view as Frito, with the screen replaying Ow, My Balls! surrounded by tacky advertisements and options.
Idiocracy / int_3ea462d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_3ea462d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_3ea462d7
Idiocracy / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Idiocracy / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: The entire world population. Their vocabulary has devolved into profanities and crude humor, and have no reasonable system of government.
Idiocracy / int_3f064a0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_3f064a0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_3f064a0d
Idiocracy / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Idiocracy / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: It turns out the time machine Frito told Joe about is merely 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 world's three smartest children. In his election speech, Joe makes a passionate plea for people to stop viewing being stupid as the norm and as cool, and it appears that society is on its way to betterment, even though stupid people are still having too many children.
Idiocracy / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_40cc0c7e
Idiocracy / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Idiocracy / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted in that the machines are not exactly AI, but were meant to assist humanity to the point 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 money, does not dispense the product, then gasses her with a soporific when she bangs on the screen demanding the food. The diagnosis machine at "St. God's Memorial Hospital"
Idiocracy / int_420c50b7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Idiocracy / int_420c50b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_420c50b7
Idiocracy / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Idiocracy / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: There are only two (intelligently) normal people here. Care to find them? Make that three with Upgrayedd.
Idiocracy / int_43a46119	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_43a46119	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_43a46119
Idiocracy / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Idiocracy / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: The American flag has only twenty-five stars on it, so it's possible half the states have seceded. On the other hand, there are also only eleven stripes, so it's possible everyone has simply forgotten what the stars and stripes are supposed to represent, or that nobody can count that high anymore.
Idiocracy / int_4482e1ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4482e1ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4482e1ef
Idiocracy / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Idiocracy / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Joe gets sent to prison, but immediately talks his way out by convincing them he should be in the line to be released. Justified because, well, they're all idiots. (They manage to do a little more thinking the second time he's incarcerated, and chain him to a boulder.)
Idiocracy / int_4508b16b	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4508b16b	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4508b16b
Idiocracy / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Idiocracy / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Joe and Rita (and Upgrayedd) are put into stasis for 500 years (though they were only intended to be in stasis for one year).
Idiocracy / int_457655dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_457655dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_457655dd
Idiocracy / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Idiocracy / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Joe ends up taking a lot of abuse for everyone's amusement; also, to a (slightly) lesser degree, the guy on Ow! My Balls!
Idiocracy / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_47fea76b
Idiocracy / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Idiocracy / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the credits there is a scene in which Upgrayedd arrives into the future to look for Rita.
Idiocracy / int_48081842	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_48081842	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_48081842
Idiocracy / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Idiocracy / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Played for laughs here; the future people haven't exactly been doing a very good job at maintenance.
Idiocracy / int_49d18492	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_49d18492	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_49d18492
Idiocracy / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Idiocracy / int_4a59e6f7	comment	One Nation Under Copyright: It's mentioned Brawndo purchased the FDA and the FCC, and used their position to replace water with their product. If you look closely at the American flag, each of the stars is actually the logo of Carl's Jr. Also, the red stripes are actually red 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."◊ Possibly, these companies own parts of the U.S. government in the same way that Brawndo owns the FDA and FCC.
Idiocracy / int_4a59e6f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4a59e6f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4a59e6f7
Idiocracy / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Idiocracy / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, he might be a moron but he's genuinely invested in solving the many crises afflicting his country, actively seeks good advisors and does his best to keep the country together.
Idiocracy / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4a852458
Idiocracy / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Idiocracy / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Joe and Rita are from 2005 and see how drastically the future has changed 500 years from then.
Idiocracy / int_4acee1ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4acee1ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4acee1ed
Idiocracy / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Idiocracy / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: The Cabinet is not-at-all subtle about how they will treat Rita if Joe stops vouching for her. It makes one wonder how the Attorney General has managed to function all this time.
Idiocracy / int_4c851777	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4c851777	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4c851777
Idiocracy / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
Idiocracy / int_4e6e9b64	comment	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's not saying much.
Idiocracy / int_4e6e9b64	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4e6e9b64	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4e6e9b64
Idiocracy / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Idiocracy / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Regarding the true nature of the "Time Masheen": "That ride sucks anyway!"
Idiocracy / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4e7c4536
Idiocracy / int_4e9224c9	type	Wallbonking
Idiocracy / int_4e9224c9	comment	Wallbonking: The Roomba cleaning the hospital floor is stuck in a loop running itself into a wall and repeating "your floor is now clean!" over and over â€¦Â but it's only cleaned a small path behind it, and the rest of the hospital floor is still far dirtier than any hospital floor should be.
Idiocracy / int_4e9224c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4e9224c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4e9224c9
Idiocracy / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Idiocracy / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Clevon and his son in the prologue: two fat and ugly rednecks who nonetheless manage to father plenty of illegitimate children, contributing to humanity's devolution.
Idiocracy / int_4f62bde6	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_4f62bde6	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_4f62bde6
Idiocracy / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
Idiocracy / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Everyone except Joe and Rita. Especially the policeâ€”the only long words they don't mangle is "particular individual," and only then because they use that phrase every time they refer to any person.
Idiocracy / int_517f8d71	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_517f8d71	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_517f8d71
Idiocracy / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Idiocracy / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: If you've ever seen a Coors Light beer commercial or NFL Films vignette in your life, the narrator might sound a little familiarâ€¦
Idiocracy / int_52989fee	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_52989fee	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_52989fee
Idiocracy / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Idiocracy / int_5d3e7c6	comment	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's guilt.
Idiocracy / int_5d3e7c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_5d3e7c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_5d3e7c6
Idiocracy / int_60c96f24	type	Portmantitle
Idiocracy / int_60c96f24	comment	Portmantitle: From "Idiot" meaning, well, idiot, and "-cracy" meaning rule. Which makes it also a neologism.
Idiocracy / int_60c96f24	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_60c96f24	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_60c96f24
Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: The House of Particular Individuals. Though we don't get to see much of it, it appears to be a disgusting and overcrowded facility where the average inmates are starving, fed from buckets like zoo animals, and are abused by the fatter inmates, who sit on them.
Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_6116ca8d
Idiocracy / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Idiocracy / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The very small Surgeon General's warning seen on the Tarrylton's Cigarettes billboard reads: "Warning: The Surgeon General has one lung and a voicebox but he could still kick your sorry ass", Comically Missing the Point on what constitutes a warning in that context. When Joe is being apprehended by the police in Costco, the background screens display why he is wanted: "For being a dick," "For excaping from jail" and "For fucking up lots of shit."
Idiocracy / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_62f9d08e
Idiocracy / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Idiocracy / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The resoliution of a major Running Gag is that Rita's fears that her pimp Upgrayedd would hunt her down even when she's been a Human Popsicle for 500 years turn out be well-founded when it's revealed in The Stinger that Upgrayedd also put himself in cryogenic suspension for this exact reason and just thawed out.
Idiocracy / int_659ef759	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_659ef759	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_659ef759
Idiocracy / int_69204ab8	type	Hired for Their Looks
Idiocracy / int_69204ab8	comment	Hired for Their Looks: A bit of Truth in Television 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's Naked News. If you're not at work, do a search for it. Also, the news anchors demonstrate a considerably better command of the English language than most of the population, even if it still contains numerous light profanities. Though not the field reporter, interestingly, who is fully clothed and uses terms such as "more better". However, they also add sound effects such as heavy reverb to the male anchor's voice to make his words have more impact. Also worth mentioning is when the female anchor turns to Formica (the street reporter), the anchor turns all the way around as if the inset screen will appear behind her or she is physically looking for Formica.
Idiocracy / int_69204ab8	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_69204ab8	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_69204ab8
Idiocracy / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Idiocracy / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: The first thing the President says to the 'smartest man in the world' is "I thought your head would be bigger."
Idiocracy / int_69391768	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_69391768	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_69391768
Idiocracy / int_6962ac13	type	Gigantic Gulp
Idiocracy / int_6962ac13	comment	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 TV...
Idiocracy / int_6962ac13	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_6962ac13	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_6962ac13
Idiocracy / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Idiocracy / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The average protagonist is named Joe. Also, Joe's new name that he's given in 2505, "Not Sure". He is the smartest man in the world by default because everyone else is so stupid, and humanity rests their hopes on him, even though he himself is 'not sure' of what exactly to do (although it was a Line-of-Sight Name that was given to him).
Idiocracy / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_6bda9a30
Idiocracy / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Idiocracy / int_6d9bc945	comment	The movie opens with the concept of stupid people having exponentially more children than smart people. Come the Babies Ever After ending, Joe and Rita marry and have three children. Cue the reveal of Frito getting married as well. With eight wives, and having produced multiple children with each one.
Idiocracy / int_6d9bc945	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_6d9bc945	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_6d9bc945
Idiocracy / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Idiocracy / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Invoked; Joe and Rita are specifically chosen for the experiment because they're completely average in every regard... but are nonetheless considered geniuses by the standards of the future.
Idiocracy / int_6de438eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_6de438eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_6de438eb
Idiocracy / int_70d53103	type	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
Idiocracy / int_70d53103	comment	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: Joe is sentenced to one night of rehabilitation when his decision to irrigate crops with water caused population riots after the price of the Brawndo Corporation's stock plummeted. It turns out that 'rehabilitation' is a type of public execution modeled as a Squash Match with Homicide Machines.
Idiocracy / int_70d53103	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_70d53103	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_70d53103
Idiocracy / int_715b42f7	type	Rigged Spectacle Fight
Idiocracy / int_715b42f7	comment	Rigged Spectacle Fight: Monday Night Rehabilitation may seem innocuous, but 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 live on TV and in the middle of a crowded stadium.
Idiocracy / int_715b42f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_715b42f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_715b42f7
Idiocracy / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Idiocracy / int_7464705c	comment	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.
Idiocracy / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_7464705c
Idiocracy / int_7491142c	type	Thermometer Gag
Idiocracy / int_7491142c	comment	Thermometer Gag: There's a joke early on in which the main character is given a brief examination. He has three identical probes inserted into his mouth, ear, and backside, but the nurse on duty has no idea which one's which. Cut to him rinsing his mouth out with Brawndo.
Idiocracy / int_7491142c	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_7491142c	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_7491142c
Idiocracy / int_74e24e75	type	Cold Sleep, Cold Future
Idiocracy / int_74e24e75	comment	Cold Sleep, Cold Future: This film is Mike Judge's homage (and update) of Woody Allen's similar but far less pessimistic Sleeper. The hero actually spends most of the movie having to make everyone in the future realize they're living in a Crapsack World.
Idiocracy / int_74e24e75	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_74e24e75	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_74e24e75
Idiocracy / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Idiocracy / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is a strange mix of Buffoon and Personable types. A five-time Ultimate Smackdown Wrestling champion and porn superstar, Camacho is still an idiot by modern standards, but clearly more intelligent and well-spoken than the rest of the idiots. He is also likable and charismatic, in a Boisterous Bruiser-type of way, willing to listen to his advisors and not afraid to own up to his mistakes.
Idiocracy / int_75c952bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_75c952bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_75c952bf
Idiocracy / int_768fb522	type	Side Effects Include...
Idiocracy / int_768fb522	comment	Side Effects Include...: Everyone claims "plants crave" the electrolytes in Brawndo, but they don't know what electrolytes actually are. It's salt, which, as it turns out, is definitely not what plants crave.
Idiocracy / int_768fb522	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_768fb522	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_768fb522
Idiocracy / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Idiocracy / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Rita, though a prostitute, is shown to be a rather lovely person, and ends up helping to save the world.
Idiocracy / int_77063cd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_77063cd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_77063cd7
Idiocracy / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
Idiocracy / int_77315f4f	comment	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, but they just mock him.
Idiocracy / int_77315f4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_77315f4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_77315f4f
Idiocracy / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Idiocracy / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The film was made in the immediate wake of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt from the stress of being a professional actor. His brother Andrew (Beef Supreme), who had helped talk him out of it, was angry at the Screen Actor's Guild for being directly responsible for his brother's depression, not to mention helping as little as possible in the aftermath. He only appeared in the movie because his other brother Luke twisted his arm about it, and refused to have any speaking lines, as doing so would have required him to get an SAG license.
Idiocracy / int_786bf97f	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_786bf97f	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_786bf97f
Idiocracy / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
Idiocracy / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: Convicts are given an IQ test and put to work, which is how Joe, with his whopping 100 IQ points, becomes Secretary of the Interior.
Idiocracy / int_794095d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_794095d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_794095d7
Idiocracy / int_7c0056d4	type	Fanservice with a Smile
Idiocracy / int_7c0056d4	comment	Fanservice with a Smile: Everywhere in the future, even the news anchors are barely dressed and highly attractive.
Idiocracy / int_7c0056d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_7c0056d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_7c0056d4
Idiocracy / int_7d30a8fa	type	But We Used a Condom!
Idiocracy / int_7d30a8fa	comment	First there's the case of Trevor and Clara, a college educated yuppie couple that spent decades debating when was the right time to have child, only for Trevor to die before impregnating his wife. Then there's Clevon, a dimwitted redneck who fathered a bunch of kids with his wife, and with a bunch of other women at the trailer park where they live. Later, his son wins a football game and tells a bunch of cheerleaders "I'm gonna fuck all y'all!" Then, when Clevon suffers a groin injury, his surgeon says that with the modern technology they can repair the damage, allowing him to make even more kids.
Idiocracy / int_7d30a8fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_7d30a8fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_7d30a8fa
Idiocracy / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
Idiocracy / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: Beef Supreme, one 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 want to get a Screen Actor's Guild license, having just had to talk his other brother Owen out of suicide due to the stress of being an actor and holding a grudge against SAG for Owen's depression which led him to attempt it.
Idiocracy / int_7f760614	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_7f760614	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_7f760614
Idiocracy / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Idiocracy / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Clevon who has a ridiculous number of descendants. Collins, whose scandal with Upgrayedd gets the whole base shut down.
Idiocracy / int_805deb6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_805deb6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_805deb6e
Idiocracy / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Idiocracy / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "The economy was in a state of deep neglect. A great dust bowl had ravaged food supplies. And the number-one movie in the country was called Ass." 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!
Idiocracy / int_808cbaeb	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_808cbaeb	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_808cbaeb
Idiocracy / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Idiocracy / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: President Camacho begins his speeches by showboating like a pro athlete and sounds like a televangelist when he starts half-singing them.
Idiocracy / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_823c6e3e
Idiocracy / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
Idiocracy / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: The monster trucks in Monday Night Rehabilitationâ€”the Dildozer and the Ass-Blaster. And the last one which is several times larger than the other two combined: the Ass-Dozer.
Idiocracy / int_8319aaea	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_8319aaea	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_8319aaea
Idiocracy / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Idiocracy / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A hilarious Show Within a Show example. The narrator mentions that the year's biggest blockbuster movie was Ass. "...and that's all it was, for ninety minutes." Yeah, what he said. "It won eight Oscars that year, including one for 'Best Screenplay'." The most popular show on TV is Ow! My Balls!
Idiocracy / int_8409a385	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_8409a385	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_8409a385
Idiocracy / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Idiocracy / int_863fa679	comment	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 find Rita.
Idiocracy / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_863fa679
Idiocracy / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Idiocracy / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Monday Night Rehabilitation is both this and a form of public execution, where convicts are forced to participate in humiliating and unfairly matched gladiator sports.
Idiocracy / int_890d4ef2	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_890d4ef2	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_890d4ef2
Idiocracy / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Idiocracy / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Beef Supreme comes out of retirement in the biggest, baddest wrecking vehicle he can find... only to make it too big to fit in the building, and bury it under tons of rubble when he tries to ram his way through the arch anyway. Frito knew the Time Masheen was just a ride the whole movie, but chose not to tell Joe, because he wanted the billions promised to him in the deal they made. Except that the only way Frito was even getting the money was through Joe's plan to open a bank account 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 back to him, but gives up because the idiot is unable to understand even such a simple thing.
Idiocracy / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_8d0785d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_8d0785d5
Idiocracy / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Idiocracy / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Idiocracy / int_8f900ccd	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_8f900ccd	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_8f900ccd
Idiocracy / int_92159f81	type	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas
Idiocracy / int_92159f81	comment	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas: A floor cleaning robot is shown repeatedly banging into a wall announcing "Your floor is now clean!" over and over. Given the putrid condition of the floor everywhere but where the robot is, it had been at this for a long time.
Idiocracy / int_92159f81	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_92159f81	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_92159f81
Idiocracy / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Idiocracy / int_94680696	comment	Also, would you like some EXTRA BIG-ASS FRIES along with an EXTRA BIG-ASS TACO? Now with more MOLECULES!
Idiocracy / int_94680696	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_94680696	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_94680696
Idiocracy / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
Idiocracy / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: A running gag is that Joe never catches on to Rita's insinuation when she uses "this and that".
Idiocracy / int_9597a894	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_9597a894	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_9597a894
Idiocracy / int_96c812a4	type	Pair the Smart Ones
Idiocracy / int_96c812a4	comment	Pair the Smart Ones: At the beginning of the movie, 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's devolution. First there's the case of Trevor and Clara, a college educated yuppie couple that spent decades debating when was the right time to have child, only for Trevor to die before impregnating his wife. Then there's Clevon, a dimwitted redneck who fathered a bunch of kids with his wife, and with a bunch of other women at the trailer park where they live. Later, his son wins a football game and tells a bunch of cheerleaders "I'm gonna fuck all y'all!" Then, when Clevon suffers a groin injury, his surgeon says that with the modern technology they can repair the damage, allowing him to make even more kids. Joe and Rita were chosen for the cryogenics experiment because of how average they are, but after waking up 500 years later, their average intelligence makes them the smartest people in the 26th century, and at the end they end up together and have the three smartest children in the world.
Idiocracy / int_96c812a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_96c812a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_96c812a4
Idiocracy / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Idiocracy / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The unnamed CEO of Brawndo, whose corporate corruption is why there's a dust bowl and the economy is on life support.
Idiocracy / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_970c790a
Idiocracy / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
Idiocracy / int_970ca74e	comment	Big "OMG!": Joe's reaction when he finally realizes how long he has been hibernated.
Idiocracy / int_970ca74e	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_970ca74e	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_970ca74e
Idiocracy / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Idiocracy / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Collins has to remind the group he is talking to that the hibernation pods are classified.
Idiocracy / int_9843be73	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_9843be73	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_9843be73
Idiocracy / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Idiocracy / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Upgrayedd. Spelled with an extra D for a "double dose of his pimping."
Idiocracy / int_9d3f4777	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_9d3f4777	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_9d3f4777
Idiocracy / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Idiocracy / int_9dfb8296	comment	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.
Idiocracy / int_9dfb8296	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_9dfb8296	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_9dfb8296
Idiocracy / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Idiocracy / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: After the credits, a scene is shown of a third cryogenic pod opening and releasing Upgrayedd, who is intent on tracking down Rita.
Idiocracy / int_9e86e227	featureApplicability	1.0
Idiocracy / int_9e86e227	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_9e86e227
Idiocracy / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Idiocracy / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Collins and his slide show about the life of a pimp.
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Idiocracy / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
Idiocracy / int_a1b74f5d	comment	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!
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Idiocracy / int_a56c59ac	type	Historical Character Confusion
Idiocracy / int_a56c59ac	comment	Historical Character Confusion: At some point, Adolf Hitler was confused with Charlie Chaplin.
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Idiocracy / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Idiocracy / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: It is just not scientifically accurate (and if it were, it would be advocating eugenics). It does not have to be. It's just a comedy, and it's supposed to be funny.
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Idiocracy / int_a63b885f	type	Newspaper Dating
Idiocracy / int_a63b885f	comment	Newspaper Dating: Joe finds out what year he's in this way, though he doesn't believe it at first, though this in itself is somewhat of a dated piece, newspapers going obsolete even now in the 21st century.
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Idiocracy / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Idiocracy / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Time Masheen provides Joe's main motivation, though it isn't seen until the very end of the film. It's... not what he thinks.
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Idiocracy / int_a8a0603e	type	Juggling Loaded Guns
Idiocracy / int_a8a0603e	comment	Juggling Loaded Guns: A bunch of cops are firing on the car Joe had just exited. One of them has a rocket launcherâ€”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 House of Representin' by firing a light support weapon into the air. Also, our introduction to the Secretary of Education has him absentmindedly resting a shotgun against his face and occasionally staring down the barrel of it.
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Idiocracy / int_a8d644f6	type	Bizarre Beverage Use
Idiocracy / int_a8d644f6	comment	Bizarre Beverage Use: The Stupid Future People of Year 2505 America water their crops with Brawndo sports drink, never mind that's killing their crops, literally salting the earth, and driving the country into a dust bowl.
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Idiocracy / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Idiocracy / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Collins the military scientist and Upgrayedd the pimp.
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Idiocracy / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Idiocracy / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: The Time Masheen ride is clueless about WW2 as it shows the Nazis had dinosaurs and were led by Charlie Chaplin.
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Idiocracy / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Idiocracy / int_add931af	comment	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.
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Idiocracy / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Idiocracy / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Joe says "I'm 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 Sure!", takes it literally again and tattoos this name on his arm. Everyone calls him "Not Sure" for the rest of the movie.
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Idiocracy / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Idiocracy / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "I like money" — Frito Pendejo. The police always start with "okay sir" when explaining anything, and call any suspect, detainee or escapee "particular individual", even in sentences such as "being a particular individual in jail" or the jail being named "house of particular individuals".
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Idiocracy / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
Idiocracy / int_b26477dc	comment	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.
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Idiocracy / int_b26a0772	type	One-Joke Fake Show
Idiocracy / int_b26a0772	comment	One-Joke Fake Show: The film has an in-universe show Ow! My Balls! which features a character repeatedly getting hit in the balls.
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Idiocracy / int_b2f78aac	type	Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee
Idiocracy / int_b2f78aac	comment	Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee: The "Time Masheen," actually a museum exhibit, says that the U.N. was called the "Un" because it defeated Charlie Chaplin's Nazis and "un-Nazied the world forever."
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Idiocracy / int_b48eb5fe	type	Parody Product Placement
Idiocracy / int_b48eb5fe	comment	Parody Product Placement: The film has product placement everywhere, and it is parodied to show just how shallow and dumb the future is: In Carl's Jr., the most common or popular portion size is "EXTRA BIG-ASS", such as their fries, and their motto has devolved into "Fuck you! I'm eating.". Fuddruckers is shown devolving into "Buttfuckers", but is actually one of the few businesses to keep their function as a burger place. Costco has grown to the size of a small city, with its own subway system and a law school. The guy welcoming people repeatedly says "Welcome to Costco. I love you." in an almost mindless manner. Crocs shoes are made for prisoners. Fox News is still a news network, but has devolved into pure entertainment, with its newscasters dressed like porn stars. Starbucks, H&R Block, and several other places have become brothels. It seems that in the future, parents will name their kids after various companies, mostly food products: Joe's 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 there's even a reporter named Velveeta and one named Formica (Davis). Essentially, every named character from the future has some kind of product placement in their name. One Cabinet 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 up a pay phone, an electronic message says "Welcome to AOL-Time Warner-Taco Bell-U.S. Government Long Distance". Then 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.
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Idiocracy / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Idiocracy / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: In the opening scene, Carol tells us that her husband Trevor passed away from a heart attack while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination.
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Idiocracy / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Idiocracy / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: The film's premise - a guy with completely average intelligence in a society of complete morons.
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Idiocracy / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Idiocracy / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Pretty much everyone. Several scenes imply that the culture has been coasting on everyone's lifestyle being heavily automated. At the same time, several scenes also imply that they were about to starve to death (and maybe be buried in their own garbage) before Joe rescued them. Or maybe because humans are such explosive breeders that the birth rate surpasses the 'death-by-stupidity' rate.
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Idiocracy / int_b618409c	type	Sentry Gun
Idiocracy / int_b618409c	comment	Sentry Gun: The prison has automated sentry guns mounted outside the building to stop escapees. Fortunately, they're so badly maintained that they just swivel in one direction and shoot each other.
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Idiocracy / int_b70b1e3b	type	Institutional Apparel
Idiocracy / int_b70b1e3b	comment	Institutional Apparel: Joe spends a good chunk of the movie in an orange prison jumpsuit.
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Idiocracy / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Idiocracy / int_bc00493f	comment	In Carl's Jr., the most common or popular portion size is "EXTRA BIG-ASS", such as their fries, and their motto has devolved into "Fuck you! I'm eating.".
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Idiocracy / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Idiocracy / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do NOT interrupt Frito while he's watching Ow! My Balls! That is NOT OK!
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Idiocracy / int_bd0bc351	type	Cyberpunk for Flavor
Idiocracy / int_bd0bc351	comment	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 hands of Stupid Future People is mostly directed towards enabling human laziness and creating an Advert-Overloaded Future, and most of it is falling apart because they've forgotten how to maintain it.
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Idiocracy / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
Idiocracy / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: The narrator gives one about the change in human evolution.
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Idiocracy / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Idiocracy / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The aforementioned Ow! My Balls! and Monday Night Rehabilitation, and the multiple-Academy Award-winning film (including Best Screenplay) by the name of Ass.
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Idiocracy / int_c2c1f8d2	type	Exactly Exty Years Ago
Idiocracy / int_c2c1f8d2	comment	Exactly Exty Years Ago: Joe and Rita are frozen in 2005 and thawed in 2505.
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Idiocracy / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
Idiocracy / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Joe plans to sleep on the ground, until Rita offers to share the bed.
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Idiocracy / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
Idiocracy / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: A rare aversion, as the most popular TV show in the future involves a man being slammed in the crotch over and over.
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Idiocracy / int_c5237cf	type	Ridiculously Average Guy
Idiocracy / int_c5237cf	comment	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 proceeds to show a series of graphs with Joe exactly at the midpoint in every one.
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Idiocracy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Idiocracy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Attorney General's outfit looks suspiciously like Cutey Honey's. The billboard advertising Tarrlytons cigarettes is "Â© 2505 Cornholio Enterprises".
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Idiocracy / int_cd3ebc8e	type	What Year Is This?
Idiocracy / int_cd3ebc8e	comment	What Year Is This?: One of the first things Joe does discovering it's 2505 on a magazine cover (thinking it's a misprint at first).
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Idiocracy / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Idiocracy / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Demolition Man. Both films are about a man from the present day is cryogenically frozen and awakened in a dystopian future that he has to set right with his modern knowledge, but while Demolition Man is about a Cowboy Cop brought into a hyper-sanitized and sheltered future of Political Overcorrectness and social engineering run amok, Idiocracy is about a Ridiculously Average Guy brought into a future where Anti-Intellectualism created a world of Stupid Future People and trash culture run amok. Sarah Z has also called it this to Beavis and Butt-Head, Mike Judge's previous comedy satirizing human stupidity and the trashier sides of Americana in which two people journey through a wasteland devoid of culture. While the titular protagonists of B&B were a pair of teenage idiots journeying through a world where various ordinary people react to their antics with varying levels of disgust, in Idiocracy the dynamic is reversed: the protagonists are the smart ones, and it's the world around them filled with people with the intelligence of Beavis and Butt-Head.
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Idiocracy / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
Idiocracy / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: Since people are too stupid to maintain the buildings, they are all dirty and disheveled, and many are nearing collapse.
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Idiocracy / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Idiocracy / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Idiocracy.
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Idiocracy / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Idiocracy / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The commercials for Brawndo, being commercials, portray drinking the soda as the most badass thing that anyone can do.
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Idiocracy / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Idiocracy / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: In-universe, about the only acceptable (and comprehensible) form of humour left in 2500s America.
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Idiocracy / int_d4fc9734	type	Salt the Earth
Idiocracy / int_d4fc9734	comment	Salt the Earth: Not the result of malice, but stupidity. A Gatorade Captain Ersatz got a law passed at some point to make the farmers spray their crops with their sports drink, because 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.
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Idiocracy / int_d7a0ee55	type	Extremely Easy Exam
Idiocracy / int_d7a0ee55	comment	Extremely Easy Exam: Joe takes an IQ test which, while normal for everyone else in a dumb society, is laughably easy for him and eventually reveals him to be the smartest man in the world.
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Idiocracy / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Idiocracy / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Nearly every business will somehow become a brothel and use whatever product it was once known for as euphemisms. For example, Starbucks has 'lattes,' which are now handjobs. "Hey! Wanna go 'Family-Style'?"
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Idiocracy / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Idiocracy / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Relative to the typical citizen of 2505, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is intelligent, eloquent, and unselfish. When he realizes that he has a crisis on his hands and no idea of how to fix it, he gets the smartest person he knows of and asks for help instead of ignoring the problem. He sentences Joe to "rehabilitation" because he needs to quell the riots, but quickly pulls Joe out once it's revealed that the plan to restore the crops is succeeding. He immediately puts Joe into a political position when he is declared the most intelligent person in America and when Joe is elected president, Camacho happily steps down knowing that America is in safe hands.
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Idiocracy / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Idiocracy / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Upgrayedd.
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Idiocracy / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Idiocracy / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: And how. Everyone is a complete idiot and there are mountains of trash everywhere.
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Idiocracy / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Idiocracy / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Everyone Joe encounters in the future. They talk like middle schoolers, are obsessed with sex and profanity, and most of the buildings and machines have a plasticky Fisher-Price look.
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Idiocracy / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Idiocracy / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: A whole society comprised of these.
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Idiocracy / int_e40f6792	type	Design Student's Orgasm
Idiocracy / int_e40f6792	comment	Design Student's Orgasm: Everything in the future has a very bright and overproduced 'food court aesthetic.'
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Idiocracy / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Idiocracy / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The Show Within a Show Ow! My Balls! is one Groin Attack after another. The unfortunate star of the show suffers such 'tributes' from his fans at public appearances as well.
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Idiocracy / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Idiocracy / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Collins, the scientist who organizes the whole project, takes to Upgrayedd's slang a bit too readily, which is what gets him outed for associating with the guy.
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Idiocracy / int_ebaaf931	type	Giving Up on Logic
Idiocracy / int_ebaaf931	comment	Giving Up on Logic: After Joe discovers that crops are being irrigated with Brawndo, a sports drink, Joe tries to explain that Brawndo is killing the crops and tries to convince them that they should switch to plain water instead. However, the cabinet insists on using Brawndo because "it's what plants crave because it's got electrolytes" (The Narrator explains that the "electrolytes" in Brawndo include salt as a main ingredient, and is the reason for the ongoing dust bowl and crop failure). When he fails to reason with the cabinet, The Narrator then states that Joe decided to start lying and tell them he can talk to plants, and that the plants told him they needed water instead of Brawndo.
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Idiocracy / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
Idiocracy / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: Rather than actually repair dilapidated buildings, people simply use tons and tons of duct tape to hold them together.
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Idiocracy / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Idiocracy / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Frito and the cameraman forget to film the plants because a nearby Starbucks is having a handjob sale. Later invoked by Rita to get someone out of the control booth, and failing after using several different methods, seizes upon this method:
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Idiocracy / int_f10d3363
Idiocracy / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Idiocracy / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: "Brought to you by Carl's Jr., brought to you by Carl's Jr..." - the Secretary of State, desperately trying to earn money after the economy tanks because they start using water on crops instead of Brawndo.
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Idiocracy / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
Idiocracy / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: The smart couple who keep putting off getting pregnant (eventually thwarted by Husband Existence Failure) vs. the idiot who doesn't care and winds up with about three dozen offspring by five to eight different women (and even more after a Groin Attack) in the prologue. This continues after a fashion with Joe and Rita: they have three children of average intelligenceâ€”the three smartest kids on Earthâ€”while Frito has thirty of the dumbest kids on Earth.
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Idiocracy / int_f7e540ee	type	Ow, My Body Part!
Idiocracy / int_f7e540ee	comment	Ow, My Body Part!: Ow! My Balls!
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Idiocracy / int_f7e540ee	featureConfidence	1.0
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Idiocracy / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Idiocracy / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "It's what plants crave!" Joe being completely oblivious to Rita's true profession and her real relationship with Upgrayedd. Joe being known as "Not Sure" for the rest of the movie after a mishap with the identity tattoo machine.
Idiocracy / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Idiocracy / int_fa3a17d0	type	Improbably Low I.Q.
Idiocracy / int_fa3a17d0	comment	Improbably Low I.Q.: Averted at the start, where the "smart" people are shown with not-improbable IQs in the 130s and the "stupid" people are shown in the 80s. Played straight later on, when the average IQ is stated to be 5 - not only is that impossible, because the average IQ is always 100, but even if it means a 5 on a modern scale, these people shouldn't even be able to walk and talk unassisted.
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Idiocracy / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Idiocracy / int_fbd285b7	comment	The very small Surgeon General's warning seen on the Tarrylton's Cigarettes billboard reads: "Warning: The Surgeon General has one lung and a voicebox but he could still kick your sorry ass", Comically Missing the Point on what constitutes a warning in that context.
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Idiocracy / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Idiocracy / int_fdbb6993	type	Ridiculous Future Inflation
Idiocracy / int_fdbb6993	comment	Ridiculous Future Inflation: This occurs, not as a side effect of poor economic management, but as an intentional choice so that everybody can be amazed at how they have millions of dollars. Plus the inflation is actually kind of reasonable. If the ten million dollar bills we see are the equivalent of single dollar bills at the time the movie came out, it comes down to about 3% inflation per year. Not bad for the world depicted in the movie. In the real world, somebody would probably at some point have introduced a new basic unit of currency worth x times the old one, but people as lazy and stupid as the ones in this story evidently never think to do that.
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Idiocracy / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Idiocracy / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Joe first met Rita, the latter lied that she's an artist. In the ending, Rita was seen painting (And doing a pretty bad job at it too). After Joe spends the whole movie calming Rita down and finally convinces her that she is safe from Upgrayedd, The Stinger shows Upgrayedd appearing from a third cryostasis pod. The movie opens with the concept of stupid people having exponentially more children than smart people. Come the Babies Ever After ending, Joe and Rita marry and have three children. Cue the reveal of Frito getting married as well. With eight wives, and having produced multiple children with each one.
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Idiocracy / int_fe98b14e	type	Stupid Future People
Idiocracy / int_fe98b14e	comment	Stupid Future People: The whole premise - evolutionary and corporatism variety, the less intelligent have outcompeted and outbred the more intelligent and as a result, we have devolved into a pop-culture obsessed Big, Fat Future, one so braindead that Joe, who was an average man in his native time, is now the smartest person on the planet.
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Idiocracy / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Idiocracy / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Surprisingly for a film like this one, the Presidential RV has the number "28000", which is the real-life tail registration number of Air Force One.
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Accidental Misnaming / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Actor/Role Confusion / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Advert-Overloaded Future / int_3ae518ad
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Appropriated Appellation / int_3ae518ad
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Auto-Doc / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Babies Ever After / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Big Shadow, Little Creature / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Bizarre Beverage Use / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Black Comedy Rape / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Blood Sport / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Boxed Crook / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cardboard Prison / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Chekhov's Gag / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Circular Reasoning / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cleavage Window / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cold Sleep, Cold Future / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Condemned Contestant / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Conveniently an Orphan / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cool and Unusual Punishment / int_3ae518ad
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cue Card / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Cyberpunk for Flavor / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Deadly Euphemism / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Divided States of America / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Don't Come A-Knockin' / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Drill Tank / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Dystopia / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Edible Theme Naming / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Embarrassing Slide / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Entendre Failure / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Exactly Exty Years Ago / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Exactly What It Says on the Tin / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Excited Show Title! / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Expecting Someone Taller / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Extremely Easy Exam / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Fanservice with a Smile / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Fictional Counterpart / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Firing in the Air a Lot / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Flip-Flop of God / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Future Imperfect / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Future Primitive / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Future Slang / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Ghetto Name / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Gigantic Gulp / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Giving Up on Logic / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Global Ignorance / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Hair-Trigger Avalanche / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Hellhole Prison / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Hello, [Insert Name Here] / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Historical Character Confusion / int_3ae518ad
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Humans Are Morons / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	I Am Not Spock / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	I Choose to Stay / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	I Will Show You X! / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Improbably High I.Q. / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Improbably Low I.Q. / int_3ae518ad
In-Universe Marketing	seeAlso	Idiocracy
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Idiocracy	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Jack of All Stats / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Joke of the Butt / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Juggling Loaded Guns / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Kitschy Themed Restaurant / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Klatchian Coffee / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Language Drift / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Large and in Charge / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Last-Minute Reprieve / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Lost Common Knowledge / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Low Culture, High Tech / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Lower-Class Lout / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Make My Monster Grow / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	May Contain Evil / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Meaningless Meaningful Words / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	MegaCorp / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Modern Stasis / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Monumental Damage Resistance / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Newspaper Dating / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Noisy Shut-Up / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Nu Speling / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	One-Joke Fake Show / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	One Nation Under Copyright / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Our Slogan Is Terrible / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Ow, My Body Part! / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Parody Product Placement / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Phallic Weapon / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Pimp Duds / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Planet of Dunce Caps / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Pretty Fly for a White Guy / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Reactive Continuous Scream / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Ridiculous Future Inflation / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Ridiculously Average Guy / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Rigged Spectacle Fight / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Rip Van Winkle / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Salt the Earth / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Satire / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Scannable Man / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Share the Male Pain / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	"Shut Up!" Gunshot / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Slept Through the Apocalypse / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Squash Match / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Strawman News Media / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Streetwalker / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Stupid Future People / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Sustained Misunderstanding / int_3ae518ad
T.G.I.O'ChiliBee's	seeAlso	Idiocracy
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Talking Your Way Out / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Techno Babble / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Testosterone Poisoning / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	That Was Objectionable / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Constant / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Ditz / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Everyman / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Future / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	The Place / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	There Is Only One Bed / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Thermometer Gag / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	They Just Don't Get It / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	This Is a Drill / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	This Loser Is You / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Time Travel Tales / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Trash of the Titans / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Tyop on the Cover / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	United Nations Is a Superpower / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Unlikely Hero / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Vehicular Combat / int_3ae518ad
Viperhor	seeAlso	Idiocracy
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Wallbonking / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	We Have Become Complacent / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	We Sell Everything / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Working Title / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Writing Around Trademarks / int_3ae518ad
Viperhor	seeAlso	Idiocracy
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Fallen States of America / int_3ae518ad
Idiocracy	hasFeature	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas / int_3ae518ad

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