As funny as Idiocracy can be, you just can't ignore the implied (and straightforward) horrors of a future populated by the dumbest people imaginable.
- Though the premise is ridiculous, there remains the simple fact that human stupidity destroying society is a believable, scary thought. Making things worse, many people, including the director, believe that this kind of future is slowly becoming more and more real.
- The guy at the hospital with a bloody gash around his left eye.
- The fact that there are slot machines with a prize being healthcare. Even by the year 2505, U.S. citizens still don't have socialized healthcare.
- Joe looks out the hospital window and sees buildings falling apart and leaning on each other while other ones are being held by rope. What's gonna happen once they break?
- The prison scene, as funny as it is, has some brutal implications. Prisoners are treated like animals, crowded into small cells and fed through holes. Prisoners are allowed to hurt each other with no consequences. We see this with a fat prisoner sitting on the face (ass-naked too) of some poor bastard while the fat man's buddies step on one of his wrists. The prisoner hopelessly flails around audibly suffocating and whimpering while the fat prisoner laughs about it like it's nothing. The guy on the bottom is completely helpless until the fat man decides to get off, being humiliated and suffocated in the meantime. To make it worse, the fat man sees our protagonist, then points at him, then points at the ground, showing that this is routine in this prison.
- The commercial airliner nose-diving and crashing.
- "Monday Night Rehabilitation" - in a flashback, we see a prisoner dressed as an Easter bunny frantically hopping away from a giant lawnmower, which quickly turns him into orange shreds.
- The Carl's Junior scene where a single mom tries to get food out of a vending machine but only gets an empty box and still gets charged full price for it taking the last of her money on her account. When she slams the machine a few times in anger, it sprays some kind of sedative aerosol onto her face causing her to become catatonic. Then the vending machine starts lecturing her, calling her an unfit mother for letting her children starve and how Carl's Junior will now automatically take legal custody of her children.
