History Film / Idiocracy

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

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''Idiocracy'' is a 2006 science fiction comedy by Creator/MikeJudge (best known for ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' and ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'') starring Creator/LukeWilson as Joe Bauers, a [[TheEveryman totally average]] soldier who is volunteered for a suspended animation experiment, along with a hooker named Rita (played by Creator/MayaRudolph), 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 five hundred 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 LowestCommonDenominator, 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.

* StupidFuturePeople: 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 BigFatFuture where no one has a desire to learn.

** Creator/FoxNewsChannel is still a news network, but has devolved into pure entertainment, with its newscasters dressed like porn stars.

* BrickJoke: After Joe spends the whole movie [[spoiler:calming Rita down and finally convinces her that she is safe from Upgrayedd]], TheStinger shows [[spoiler:Upgrayedd appearing from a third cryostasis pod]].

* {{Narrator}}: If you've ever seen a Coors Light beer commercial or NFL Films vignette in your life, the narrator might sound a ''little familiar''…

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Relative to the typical citizen of 2505, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is intelligent, eloquent, and unselfish, starting with him realizing that he has a crisis on his hands and no idea of how to fix it, so 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.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Magistrate Judge "The Hangman" have his moniker despite not having the authority to hand out death sentences.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: 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 idiocy has become insanely dysfunctional. 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.

* ExtremelyEasyExam: Joe takes an IQ test which, while normal for everyone else, is laughably easy for him and eventually reveals him to be the smartest man in the world.