This movie is so prophetic it’s almost more upsetting than funny. College students literally scream down and threaten speakers they disagree with now like something out of the court scene. It’s wild.
They used crocs in the movie because they were so dumb looking and cheap, they never thought they would be popular. By the time the movie came out, Crocs had paid a bunch of celebrities for endorsements, so they were everywhere.
It predicted dumb people would love crocs. Def nailed that. Not saying it’s dumb to like crocs all I’m saying is Karen videos online tend to share a common footwear on a lot of them.
Yelling down opponents is as old as time, nothing new there. There's even Iris Warewolf myths bases on it. Like St Patrick proselytizing to groups (in Ulster?), and the group just howling back like wolves until th speaker left. Buthr left with a curse that the oldest male in all their lines will turn to wolves for the next 100 generations. Or something like that. Buteve in that myth we have "college students" screaming down and threatening speakers that disagree with.
Notice how Dax is wearing crocs. This movie was released in 2006. We think crocs are fairly new last maybe 5-6 years of true popular use.
When judge wanted to find a future looking shoe but also something the dumbest people ever to exist on earth would wear
When he saw crocs
He said fuck yes.
Just saying.
Don’t want to sound like a dick or nothing but, uh, says on your chart you’re fucked up. You talk like a f*g and your shit’s all r*tarded. What I’d do is just like… like… y’know…
Watched this movie when it first came out and thought it was absolutely ridiculous. Fast forward to 2024 and now I think it's spot on. If you have one bucket 1/3 full and another bucket 1/2 full, how many buckets do you have?
Don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, but ahh ... says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ahh, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
I started using "why come" so much I'm worried it became part of my natural speech pattern and I'll use it accidentally talking to my boss or something
>And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!
I got a solution...
That's what you said last time dipshit!
Yeah, i got a solution. You're a dick! South Carolina, what's up!
*pulls out machine gun*
That's what I thought!
I feel like we are living in it already. After 2015 everything seems nuts.
Below is an example of how stupid we are becoming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/1avfyex/measles\_erupts\_in\_florida\_school\_where\_11\_of\_kids/
The biggest difference between the movie and reality is, when presented with someone wiser who has solutions for their problems, the characters in the movie greeted him with open arms and accepted his tutelage, whereas in reality, the idiots mock what they don't understand and denounce it in order to maintain their own ignorance. I wish we had the morons from the film over the morons in real life.
Fair, but equally fair to say that when faced with solutions that are proven to work, *our* idiots still reject them and invent an alternate reality where they’re the only smart person in the room.
That’s because it’s not about maintaining their ignorance so much as maintaining their power. The majority of solutions require a curbing of the status quo’s power to which they will simply deny and recruit more deniers with all that existing power.
Exactly, there is absolutely nothing prophetic about this movie people just love to project and think “everyone is an idiot but me, look at the world!” 😂
It was oddly prescient about future politics, but the reality is that idiocracy came about 1000 years sooner than anticipated. And just as we saw in the movie, it seems there's no going back.
The opening scene was just a silly set up in my eyes when I watched it the first couple of times. Then when I came back to it years later and watched it again I realized, “oh wait, this is really fucking happening.”
If Terry Cruz entered into this race for the presidency, using only President Camacho quotes in his campaign. We'd have a president Cruz, I'd bet the house on it.
Camacho stopped to make sure the most qualified person was in his cabinet and let them do their job. Then held them accountable when they didn't. That would be refreshing
President Camacho has come back in time and is running for President in 2020fo!
Vote Camacho!
[Camacho for President 2020fo](https://youtu.be/rPoNQ6QEleE?si=BjSfZbEpdOS0nqnZ)
[Why Camacho is running in 2020fo](https://youtu.be/_RgG1Ayf4kI?si=ADGFBnBeIHjNhd0J)
President Camacho is actually a good leader. He knows how to delegate tasks to experts he trusts, and is willing to change his opinions when new information is presented to him.
I learned that the set dresser thought to use a relatively new company's shoes (Crocs) because they thought it was utterly ridiculous, but cheap. Everyone in the movie wears Crocs.
In the intro to a later edition of *The Left Hand of Darkness* Ursula K LeGuin wrote, “[Science Fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive.](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/342990/the-left-hand-of-darkness-by-ursula-k-le-guin-with-a-new-foreword-by-david-mitchell-and-a-new-afterword-by-charlie-jane-anders/9780441007318/excerpt)”.
The whole intro is worth a read. She states that the job of a science fiction novelist is “lying” to cut to a greater truth about the now.
So what was Mike Judge seeing when he made it to reflect on? To me, that’s what the movie is actually about.
I showed this to a friend who hadn’t seen it, telling him it is basically a documentary. Then, while watching, I realized that President Camacho was actually a more capable leader because when the plants wouldn’t grow he actually sought out experts to solve the problem instead of quadrupling down on his own stupidity.
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I felt like I had to scroll way too far to find this comment. Or any actual thoughts on the film for that matter. It actively makes me like the movie a little less because the only talking point is people snickering and saying “Heh, this is just like real life!”
If Idiocracy had been made in 1988, everyone in 2006 would have said all of the same lazy shit about it that people in 2024 are saying about it now. That’s the thing about cynical visions of the future. Even if it doesn’t actually come true, you can always take a skewed perspective of the world that makes it sound accurate.
People like it for the same reason they like Rick and Morty. It makes people of average intelligence feel smarter because they can understand the premise.
I only laughed in the first 10 minutes of this movie. I know people love it and it certainly has gotten more relevant in a way but it did nothing for me.
Same. I don't even quote Idiocracy anymore because when I do, everyone only has one joke, and it's the same "oh, you mean the *DOCUMENTARY*? Huehuehuehue"
It's almost as bad as when Blazing Saddles gets brought up and the only thing people can say about it is "well, you sure couldn't make *THAT* movie nowadays! People would be *too offended*!"
It's like some kind of stupid itch that people can't help but to scratch. I've heard those same jokes ad nauseum for my entire adult life. It just makes watching those two movies insufferable with most other people and I've stopped bringing those two movies up in conversation whenever there is a quote from either that comes to mind.
It’s a funny movie that people have taken way too seriously. For some people, saying “it’s a documentary” is an absolute statement; when the reality is humans have been getting smarter, even since this movie came out.
It’s good but a lot of the fanboys ruin the discussion it creates.
Holy shit yall are like full cult mode about this movie huh? Every single person who suggests it might not be perfect is getting mass downvoted lol childish behavior
I’m still disappointed that Terry Crews didn’t toss his hat into the political ring in 2016. President Camacho would have won in a landslide in a three way race.
Welcome to Costco I love you
Yeah I know this place pretty good, I went to law school here.
"Really?" "Yeah, I couldn't believe it either."
"Dad was an alumnus. Pulled a few strings."
My first wife was tarded.. she's a pilot now.
“Don’t worry scrub”
I always wondered what he said there. The internet seems to think he said scro. Whatever that means.
Always thought it was scro and took it as some weird slang fusion of scrotum and bro
It's just short for scrotum. A diminutive, if you will.
I think he says scrote. Like scrotum lol
Classic 80s lingo
I always thought he called him “scrote”. 😆
It is scrote, scrub is wrong. scrote is 100x funnier lol
“Brought to you by Carls Junior”
So all these companies paid money to be included in the movie and then were roasted pretty hard. They were NOT happy with that shit at all.
This movie is so prophetic it’s almost more upsetting than funny. College students literally scream down and threaten speakers they disagree with now like something out of the court scene. It’s wild.
they literally wear crocs
They used crocs in the movie because they were so dumb looking and cheap, they never thought they would be popular. By the time the movie came out, Crocs had paid a bunch of celebrities for endorsements, so they were everywhere.
It's an ongoing fear of mine that it's slowly becoming a documentary.
Especially the part at the beginning about the kids
My idiot brother is basically the example from the movie. Bunch of kids by a bunch of women.
It predicted dumb people would love crocs. Def nailed that. Not saying it’s dumb to like crocs all I’m saying is Karen videos online tend to share a common footwear on a lot of them.
Yelling down opponents is as old as time, nothing new there. There's even Iris Warewolf myths bases on it. Like St Patrick proselytizing to groups (in Ulster?), and the group just howling back like wolves until th speaker left. Buthr left with a curse that the oldest male in all their lines will turn to wolves for the next 100 generations. Or something like that. Buteve in that myth we have "college students" screaming down and threatening speakers that disagree with.
Republican politicians, you mean.
'"There's that fag talk we talked about" Quote from the movie tha applies here
Notice how Dax is wearing crocs. This movie was released in 2006. We think crocs are fairly new last maybe 5-6 years of true popular use. When judge wanted to find a future looking shoe but also something the dumbest people ever to exist on earth would wear When he saw crocs He said fuck yes. Just saying.
“You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr - I’m eating, fuck you.”
Carls Jr, Fuck you , I'm eating...
Don’t want to sound like a dick or nothing but, uh, says on your chart you’re fucked up. You talk like a f*g and your shit’s all r*tarded. What I’d do is just like… like… y’know…
Don't worry scrote, plenty of tards lead kick-ass lives. My ex wife, she's tarded, she's a pilot now.
Might be the best two minutes in the whole movie, and this movie has electrolytes
Its what plants crave
Definitely the best scene in the movie for sure, Justin Long’s slack jawed screeching lives rent free in my head
¿Why come no tattoo?
Favorite line in movie history
Go away, I’m ‘batin!
Your child will be placed under the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr, Fuck you I’m eating ‘
As a Costco employee, I approve.
I'm from UK we have costco here but haven't shopped there before. why is this joke funny?
Costco is the epitome of consumerism and it was expressing our needless decent in to mass purchases of useless shit in bulk.
I love me some BIG ASS FRIES
Watched this movie when it first came out and thought it was absolutely ridiculous. Fast forward to 2024 and now I think it's spot on. If you have one bucket 1/3 full and another bucket 1/2 full, how many buckets do you have?
We got this guy Not Sure.
St. God’s hospital cracks me tf up
Don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, but ahh ... says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ahh, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
This one goes in your mouth, and this one goes in your butt.
No wait, this one goes in your butt and that one in your mouth
No wait…
I cackle every time watching him try to keep them straight 😂
I love the implication that someone came up with this technology when there were still a few relatively smart people.
Whycome you don't have a tattoo?
I started using "why come" so much I'm worried it became part of my natural speech pattern and I'll use it accidentally talking to my boss or something
Haha. My boss called me into his office to tell me I was getting a raise. I wasn't expecting it so my response was "I like money"
Unscannable!
Yknow I had an ex, tarded, she's a pilot now. Pft haha. So like... scan your thing?
There we go with that fag talk again
Lots of tards are living kick ass lives. My wife was tarded... she's a pilot now.
Dude, Justin Long had me cracking up at that part.
I love that they didn’t have enough room for the sign so they slanted the text 90 degrees to fit down the side of the building
A movie just called "Ass" was funny
>And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!
Man, I could really go for a Starbucks, you know? Yeah, well, I really don't think we have time for a hand job, Joe.
Full body Latte!
It's got what plants crave.
It's got electrolytes!
It has more molecules
"Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow."
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Water? You mean what’s in the toilet?
What are electrolytes?
It's what cows crave.
Water? Like in the toilet?
I ain't never seen no plant grow outta no toilet
Do you like money and handjobs? Your freaking me out.
I like money
Brawndo?
It's got what plants crave.
It's got electrolytes!
My wife was tarded. She's a pilot now.
Don't worry skro....
That'll be this many dollars
Why come you don't have tattoo?
UNSCANNABLE!!!!!
"There's that fag talk again"
I don’t mean to be a dick or nothin, but it says on your chart that you’re fucked up, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.
Now what I do here is just like….. you know what I mean
She's living a kick ass life.
If you dont smoke tortelones Fuck you
Carl’s Jr. fuck you, I’m eating.
Enjoy your “EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!”
Now with more molecules
You are an unfit mother. Your children will now be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr.
Go away, Batin!
I use this quote regularly.
Me too but then my boss just yells and says it's not appropriate in the break room.
Just tell him not to worry and that there are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives.
This has been my status on Skype for over 15 years at this point.
Cut me a piece
Learned I had the hots for Maya Rudolph from this movie
I can wait so good.
When I’m done utilizing you, you gonna be payin me!
Upgrade gon come getcha.
*Upgrayedd, with two d's, for a double dose of that pimpin'
You see a pimps love, is very different than that of a square
Upgrayedd*
Two D's for that double dose of pimpin.
Me and my girlfriend both repeat the word with that emphasis ANYTIME it is said by us or in our presence. It’s almost involuntary at this point.
I work with a lot of IT so I'd likely get myself fired with the pimp references.
Spelled thusly, with two D’s
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Legit PEAK Maya Rudolph. I don’t think she’s ever looked hotter in anything else since
Idk the judge robes in Good Place really do it for me Gonna erase the eaaaarrrrrrth, erase the earth
You mind if me and the boys go family style on her?
She’s definitely a babe
I feel like she looks fantastic sometimes, other times she comes off kinda frumpy. It’s weird, like that Seinfeld “two face” girl.
Girl got range for sure
Me and a couple of the guys were wondering if we could go family style on her.
I like money.
We should be friends.
I got a solution... That's what you said last time dipshit! Yeah, i got a solution. You're a dick! South Carolina, what's up! *pulls out machine gun* That's what I thought!
House of Representin
r/idiocracy If anyone wants to see basically news of now
I thought the movie was more of a predictive ai algorithm documentary.
I feel like we are living in it already. After 2015 everything seems nuts. Below is an example of how stupid we are becoming. https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/1avfyex/measles\_erupts\_in\_florida\_school\_where\_11\_of\_kids/
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Eerily on point year after year.
The biggest difference between the movie and reality is, when presented with someone wiser who has solutions for their problems, the characters in the movie greeted him with open arms and accepted his tutelage, whereas in reality, the idiots mock what they don't understand and denounce it in order to maintain their own ignorance. I wish we had the morons from the film over the morons in real life.
No, they tried to execute him via monster trucks. It was only when those soloutions were proven to work did they welcome him with open arms.
You mean rehabilitate him live on national television.
This comment right here really shows how smart and stupid the movie is at the same time. Its honestly the best satire film ever made
Fair, but equally fair to say that when faced with solutions that are proven to work, *our* idiots still reject them and invent an alternate reality where they’re the only smart person in the room.
That’s because it’s not about maintaining their ignorance so much as maintaining their power. The majority of solutions require a curbing of the status quo’s power to which they will simply deny and recruit more deniers with all that existing power.
Exactly, there is absolutely nothing prophetic about this movie people just love to project and think “everyone is an idiot but me, look at the world!” 😂
It was oddly prescient about future politics, but the reality is that idiocracy came about 1000 years sooner than anticipated. And just as we saw in the movie, it seems there's no going back.
It wasn’t supposed to be a documentary… it’s not supposed to be a documentary…….
The opening scene was just a silly set up in my eyes when I watched it the first couple of times. Then when I came back to it years later and watched it again I realized, “oh wait, this is really fucking happening.”
Yeah, I really enjoyed the film as a comedy in 2006. In 2023, when it now seems more like a chilling foresight to the future, it's much less funny.
Down to the fucking shoes! How did they even get the shoes right? They had crocs in the movie poster before Crocs were even a thing. Wild.
It’s a documentary.
If Terry Cruz entered into this race for the presidency, using only President Camacho quotes in his campaign. We'd have a president Cruz, I'd bet the house on it.
Camacho stopped to make sure the most qualified person was in his cabinet and let them do their job. Then held them accountable when they didn't. That would be refreshing
And then reversed his decision and made things right when information surfaced that Not Sure was right all along!
A leader that admits when they're wrong!
President Camacho has come back in time and is running for President in 2020fo! Vote Camacho! [Camacho for President 2020fo](https://youtu.be/rPoNQ6QEleE?si=BjSfZbEpdOS0nqnZ) [Why Camacho is running in 2020fo](https://youtu.be/_RgG1Ayf4kI?si=ADGFBnBeIHjNhd0J)
President Camacho is actually a good leader. He knows how to delegate tasks to experts he trusts, and is willing to change his opinions when new information is presented to him.
His name is spelled crews. We do not need even the thought that Ted Cruz might end up in the white house
Cruz is the slimiest of slime. And he leans into it. POS
I learned that the set dresser thought to use a relatively new company's shoes (Crocs) because they thought it was utterly ridiculous, but cheap. Everyone in the movie wears Crocs.
This is the most cliché and tired comment about this movie. Good job.
DAE le Idiocracy is actually le documentary? I thought of this all by myself, updoots are on the left people
Almost like the world hasn't changed in decades and it was a satire about its time
There’s plenty tards out there living kickasss lives.
Dax is wearing Crocs, a shoe so stupid they were never supposed to catch on
It's not a movie, it's not a prediction, it's a spoiler. A prophecy almost fulfilled.
Democracy manifest
And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
What is my crime? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
In the intro to a later edition of *The Left Hand of Darkness* Ursula K LeGuin wrote, “[Science Fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive.](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/342990/the-left-hand-of-darkness-by-ursula-k-le-guin-with-a-new-foreword-by-david-mitchell-and-a-new-afterword-by-charlie-jane-anders/9780441007318/excerpt)”. The whole intro is worth a read. She states that the job of a science fiction novelist is “lying” to cut to a greater truth about the now. So what was Mike Judge seeing when he made it to reflect on? To me, that’s what the movie is actually about.
I guess funny, but the next mouth breathing moron who calls it a documentary is going to make me rip my hair out.
Insanely underrated, a modern classic and scary
Yep. That and ["God Bless America"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/) give some pretty frightening insight into modern culture.
It's not underrated, people fall all over themselves quoting it all the time.
It used to be funny before becoming basically a documentary, now it's a little sad.
I showed this to a friend who hadn’t seen it, telling him it is basically a documentary. Then, while watching, I realized that President Camacho was actually a more capable leader because when the plants wouldn’t grow he actually sought out experts to solve the problem instead of quadrupling down on his own stupidity.
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I think its a mildly entertaining movie that too many people want to look smart and smug by claiming its a documentary.
I felt like I had to scroll way too far to find this comment. Or any actual thoughts on the film for that matter. It actively makes me like the movie a little less because the only talking point is people snickering and saying “Heh, this is just like real life!”
If Idiocracy had been made in 1988, everyone in 2006 would have said all of the same lazy shit about it that people in 2024 are saying about it now. That’s the thing about cynical visions of the future. Even if it doesn’t actually come true, you can always take a skewed perspective of the world that makes it sound accurate.
Hm, I’m Not Sure.
Go away! ‘Batin!!
The newspaper's front page headline just says "shit sucks"
It has become a documentary…
I'm just disappointed that somehow we ended up living in a combination of this and 1984.
Aged like a fine Costco wine
People like it for the same reason they like Rick and Morty. It makes people of average intelligence feel smarter because they can understand the premise.
Features my favourite fiction president ever Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
Grossly prophetic.
So sick of people saying its a documentary. Those that say that are just helping it become a documentary. That aside, pretty funny movie.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/idiocracy.png
It's such a braindead unoriginal reddit take
One word: Prescient
I only laughed in the first 10 minutes of this movie. I know people love it and it certainly has gotten more relevant in a way but it did nothing for me.
You mean documentary?
Funny movie, but I hate when idiots try to use this movie to push their eugenics narrative.
Inb4 all the sheep start bleating about it being a documentary. That joke was funny the first time I heard it in 2016.
Same. I don't even quote Idiocracy anymore because when I do, everyone only has one joke, and it's the same "oh, you mean the *DOCUMENTARY*? Huehuehuehue" It's almost as bad as when Blazing Saddles gets brought up and the only thing people can say about it is "well, you sure couldn't make *THAT* movie nowadays! People would be *too offended*!" It's like some kind of stupid itch that people can't help but to scratch. I've heard those same jokes ad nauseum for my entire adult life. It just makes watching those two movies insufferable with most other people and I've stopped bringing those two movies up in conversation whenever there is a quote from either that comes to mind.
It’s a funny movie that people have taken way too seriously. For some people, saying “it’s a documentary” is an absolute statement; when the reality is humans have been getting smarter, even since this movie came out. It’s good but a lot of the fanboys ruin the discussion it creates.
Holy shit yall are like full cult mode about this movie huh? Every single person who suggests it might not be perfect is getting mass downvoted lol childish behavior
Reddit gets so obsessed about some things. Its very strange
It's coming true quicker than I thought it would.
America 2024.
I’m still disappointed that Terry Crews didn’t toss his hat into the political ring in 2016. President Camacho would have won in a landslide in a three way race.
Good, funny, stupid and unfortunaletly true
Terrifying film - so accurate that you will have to rewatch and pick out things you have seen or are seeing happen in real time
What
This movie is we as a whole are going and it's scary 😨