Fun Fact: Everyone in the future in this film are wearing Crocs because at the time they were incredibly cheap, and the costume designer thought they were so ugly they would never become popular. When Idiocracy was filmed in 2004, Crocs, Inc. was still a start-up company about two years away from when Crocs started to become popular.
Fun fact, In every reaction video for this movie. There's someone in the comments section saying this exact thing... Which makes it no longer a fun fact, but actually a creepy Harbinger of doom
Crocs were created for boating, not fashion. I just tried crocs this year, the work approved ones that don't have any holes are excellent for all weather yard/garden slippers and easy to wash out. Its also one of the few shoe companies that doesn't make absurdly narrow-toe footwear like some medieval elf fashion. Would I go all day at work with them or on a hike? Hell no, but that isn't really their purpose.
It isn't about stopping a type of person from breeding. It is about rewarding the people who make society better. Valuing intelligence over physical beauty.
@@jasonknotts5001 attractive people literally are more intelligent than ugly people. We find people attractive because they are good for our species. Someone who is too dumb to understand calories or value exercise, will almost certainly be ugly. Even smart obese people understand how far dressing well and some moderate effort into personal grooming can greatly increase your attractiveness.
@@singerkgreen are you joking? einstein was actually very attractive in his youth. look up pictures. steven hawkins as well. he looked like a young micheal caine.
Mike Judge made this. I believe he wrote and directed it. Now you have to watch Office Space, even if it’s just a movie night for you, but it would be a great one to react too. Thanks for doing idiocracy.
Yes, they are great, it’s been too long since I’ve watched King of the Hill. I’m 43 so I was the target audience when Beavis and Butthead came out. So I definitely lost track on how many times I’d it before I’d even graduated high school.
Don't forget Daria. It may have been a spin-off but was an early sign of his evolution. The accuracy with which he showed the dynamic between my sister and myself was great to see.
A lot of people don't know that electrolytes are literally just salt. So using BRONDO/Gatorade to water their fields was literally salting their own farms.
It's not about eugenics, it's about education and culture - this horrible future is full of people intelligent enough to continue technological advancement, but who glorify stupidity and banality. While it's identified as "stupidity" it's nothing to do with genetics or intellect.
It's not about exterminating stupidity, it's about encouraging intelligence rather than base thinking. Everything in our society is designed to accommodate the lowest common denominator. People used to be uneducated but smart, because life was hard. Now, people are more educated but don't think as much, because they don't have to, everything has already been figured out for them.
0:47 Totally black pilled on this at this point in my life. The number of people I've encountered like this far outweighs the number of intelligent people I've met. Hell a lot of my own relatives fall into that category, in really extreme ways.
Watching this movie within the last year for the first time has to hit vastly different than it did whenever I was a kid and it was brand new or just a few years old to make it on to normal TV.
This movie was based on a short story called "The Marching Morons", and unfortunately, some recent studies have shown that homo-sapiens-sapiens has LOST intelligence over the last thousand years, but the message to me from both stories, to me, is the same, "beware of stupid people in large numbers".
One of the first things I learned in psychology is that the brain is always looking for the easiest possible way to do things, even to it's own detriment, because it's all about saving energy, thinking uses up a lot of energy, so if the brain can "offload" that, it will.
The studio heads didn't get Judge's movie and decided not to support it with promotion funds.(I mean zero dollars. Judge was pissed) So it didn't do well in theaters because no one knew about it. Then it hit the blockbusters and hollywood video and killed it. It is one of the best commentaries on humanity and funny to boot. Also, if no one said, it was the first time anyone saw crocs too. They hadn't been released yet and Judge thought they'd fit well in the futuristic dystopia.😀😀
Corporate sponsors like Starbucks, Carl's Jr, and Costco were... less than happy with the way they were portrayed in the movie. Apparently that was another factor in the lack of support from Fox. Pretty messed up because Mike Judge has made tons of money for Fox with King of the Hill. They did him wrong. Thankfully the movie stands on its own merits, with or without big studio promotion.
This movie is terrifying. Side note, they wanted a shoe that was so futuristically stupid nobody would ever wear it... that shoe was a new, unknown startup called "Crocks".
Check out Mike Judge’s story about making “@ss”. He says the test audience laughed so hard at the clip they showed them that he considered tossing out “Idiocracy” and just releasing “@ss” instead.
Fun fact: The costume picked the most outlandish weird looking footwear for the future world they could while making the movie. Crocs, which were just coming into existence.
No they didn’t. This film had $0 in marketing and did $495,000 in ticket sales (total). It made some waves on video and even more with streaming. This was & is a mostly ignored cult film that never broke into the mainstream….especially when Crocs grew in popularity.
@jimhsfbay if you will read whatever interview the quote is in, it has the details. Never claimed it was hit, though...not sure where that came from 🤷♂️ Edit- and what kind of narcissistic wet blanket do you have to be to complain about a comment from months ago? Grow up.
@@danielhenry177 I am very very aware that I am a garbage human being fact checking robot. I am also very very aware that you were wrong. One does not preclude the other.
Based on a true story,they became president and first lady,later the grandchildren made a time machine came back to warn us,but we misunderstood and thought it was just a cool script for a comedy.
A real knee slapper is the number of people that don't realize this movie is about them, and the number of people that positively respond to my comment that it applies to.
Heh, I've come to understand that our dude is an intelligent, perceptive and analytical guy. Part of why I like this channel. Watching him discect and make sense of these crazy scenes is hilarious.
good sir this is not an entertainment movie rather its a prophecy turned documentary lol this iss hands down my fav movie of all time, i always say "i like money tho" when people present money to me haha i knew you was gonna like this one, my deviceds dont let me comment (cell and tablet) and i just got this steam deck working so this is my 1st chance to comment hahaha, the last video you said you was gonna upload a reaction to thiss and i had jjust been waiting for it lol the prison sonng is so good, i like the short versuon in this movie more then the full version oddly enough
Mike Judge wanted the footwear to be something idiotic and nonsensical and told the costume coordinator as such, so they picked the ugliest, most impractical looking shoe that they could find at the time....... That shoe was the Croc....... pretty much THE most popular footwear now....... coincidence? I think not! Lol
13:02 alot of revolutionary scientists where laughted at, dismissed, sometimes even "punished" or executed for their thoughts, only for others to go "oh ya he was right" years later. My favorite was a military doctor who performed an operation on himself, because he was denied to help others with a similar cause. The deniers switch that up real fast " oh shoot, it actually worked. Well maybe." (Cant remember exactly who but i love drunk history episodes so its in there somewhere)
Actually, I remember reading a study where they correlated family size with intelligence/level of education. The higher intelligence/level of education of the couple, the smaller the families tended to be, so there is some scientific basis. Which makes sense when you think about it - more intelligent/educated people are more likely to wait to have children until they can support them, maybe after a few years of their first "real" job, while poorly educated/unintelligent people are far more likely to have children younger, and have larger families without considering the logistics of housing/supporting their families.
This movie actually serves as a pretty decent prequel to "WALL-E." All the poor and stupid people are left behind to further ruin Earth, and in another 300 years become extinct with only the robots to clean up. Meanwhile, all the "smart" and wealthy people left Earth to live in slothful paradise.
Mike Judge is the most underappreciated satirical genius of the modern age. I quote Office Space to this day and Idiocracy is just brilliant. Its funny because Fox tried SO hard to shelve the movie that they were willing to give up millions of dollars in profit to just sit on it. They were forced to release it after 3 years and spent $0 on promotion, only screened it in 4 theaters and pulled it after less than a month. Oh, and Beavis & Butthead wasn't too bad either (sarcasm)
Funny note: When directing the movie, Mike Judd said he wants the future people to wear shoes created around that time(2005) that he thought were the most idiotic shoes he's ever seen.... Years later, Crocs is one of the most popular shoes out there
As I imagine you're aware, the youngest generation isn't gen z, it's gen alpha, and the hysteria surrounding millennials, gen z, and gen alpha is almost entirely absurd. I teach college students, and what you're describing is present in every generation. Are the younger generations more coddled? Absolutely. Have our now all pervasive screens and social media had negative repercussions? No doubt. But less willing to learn? That has not been my experience in the least.
You at the start of the video: "Oh no! This is like a horror film, is it?" Well, not entirely wrong I guess. One of the funniest horror flicks I've seen. :D
Go back and look at the shoes for the people from the future and look up when the movie was made and then remember that Crocs were not popular for several years possibly even a decade after the movie came out. This movie was when the first big sales of Crocs ever.
Fun Fact: Everyone in the future in this film are wearing Crocs because at the time they were incredibly cheap, and the costume designer thought they were so ugly they would never become popular. When Idiocracy was filmed in 2004, Crocs, Inc. was still a start-up company about two years away from when Crocs started to become popular.
Fun fact, In every reaction video for this movie. There's someone in the comments section saying this exact thing... Which makes it no longer a fun fact, but actually a creepy Harbinger of doom
@@theduckfromthejoke152not so fun fact, in jail you wear crocs.
@@theduckfromthejoke152Fun Fact: what’s known to you is new to others.
Crocs were created for boating, not fashion.
I just tried crocs this year, the work approved ones that don't have any holes are excellent for all weather yard/garden slippers and easy to wash out.
Its also one of the few shoe companies that doesn't make absurdly narrow-toe footwear like some medieval elf fashion.
Would I go all day at work with them or on a hike? Hell no, but that isn't really their purpose.
Dystopia isn't a warning of the future, it is a critique of today.
... and Idiocracy is the critique that continues to be applicable to today.
It isn't about stopping a type of person from breeding. It is about rewarding the people who make society better. Valuing intelligence over physical beauty.
That will not happen. Physical attraction will always be the driver of reproduction, as it has been since the beginning of humanity.
@@jasonknotts5001 attractive people literally are more intelligent than ugly people. We find people attractive because they are good for our species. Someone who is too dumb to understand calories or value exercise, will almost certainly be ugly. Even smart obese people understand how far dressing well and some moderate effort into personal grooming can greatly increase your attractiveness.
@nullakjg767 thats why Einstein and Steven Hawking were runways models, right?
@@singerkgreen are you joking? einstein was actually very attractive in his youth. look up pictures. steven hawkins as well. he looked like a young micheal caine.
@@nullakjg767 like I said. Runways models, right?
Mike Judge made this. I believe he wrote and directed it. Now you have to watch Office Space, even if it’s just a movie night for you, but it would be a great one to react too. Thanks for doing idiocracy.
Not to mention King of the Hill, Bevis and Butthead, and many others. His social commentary on all political views are great.
Yes, they are great, it’s been too long since I’ve watched King of the Hill. I’m 43 so I was the target audience when Beavis and Butthead came out. So I definitely lost track on how many times I’d it before I’d even graduated high school.
He got blacklisted for being critical of the tribe running hollywood
Silicon Valley was awesome
Mike Judge has always had an incredible insight in to society. From Beavis & Butthead to King of the Hill to this to Office Space & so much more.
Don't forget Daria. It may have been a spin-off but was an early sign of his evolution. The accuracy with which he showed the dynamic between my sister and myself was great to see.
Also Silicon Valley.
@@kellymccombs3496even though Daria was created by him he had nothing to do with the actual show Daria. He’s not credited at all from what I can see.
Mike Judge once said the only thing he missed was people being attached to their smart phones in this day and age.
I think it fits for them not to have smart phones. By that time, one way or another, they probably would’ve all been broken.
@@0okamino they should have smart phones but theyre just watching "ow my balls on it" and they are all iphones and they are all cracked.
I think the chairs kinda took the phones place
A lot of people don't know that electrolytes are literally just salt. So using BRONDO/Gatorade to water their fields was literally salting their own farms.
That awkward moment when you realize "Idiocracy" is a foretelling documentary!
It's not about eugenics, it's about education and culture - this horrible future is full of people intelligent enough to continue technological advancement, but who glorify stupidity and banality. While it's identified as "stupidity" it's nothing to do with genetics or intellect.
It's not about exterminating stupidity, it's about encouraging intelligence rather than base thinking. Everything in our society is designed to accommodate the lowest common denominator. People used to be uneducated but smart, because life was hard. Now, people are more educated but don't think as much, because they don't have to, everything has already been figured out for them.
A lot of this was taking place during covid . The people with the masks irrationally afraid of nothing
Damn, two uploads in one day? Let's get it! "Welcome to Costco, I love you!!" 😂
I approve of this quote 😂😂😂. "I like money"
"Social media is dumbing down the masses, soon we have no doctors" cant remember who said it :D
0:47 Totally black pilled on this at this point in my life. The number of people I've encountered like this far outweighs the number of intelligent people I've met. Hell a lot of my own relatives fall into that category, in really extreme ways.
Yeah, even the college educated experts are falling into the low intellect category. 😢
By definition, half the people in a given population are below average intelligence.
"blackpilled" yeah you're definitely not one of the smart ones.
@@pickthestickupif thats you just say so😂
@@tillmen4444 aaand we've found another, folks.
Mike Judge predicted the future with this one. Excellent movie!
It’s called predictive programming. And they show us their plans for the future through movies.
Watching this movie within the last year for the first time has to hit vastly different than it did whenever I was a kid and it was brand new or just a few years old to make it on to normal TV.
I always love seeing the reaction from an Idiocracy virgin. Mike Judge might just be the most prophetic person who ever lived!
Damn. 😕
In 2006 this movie was a comedy. In 2023 it is a documentary.
This movie was based on a short story called "The Marching Morons",
and unfortunately, some recent studies have shown that homo-sapiens-sapiens has LOST intelligence over the last thousand years,
but the message to me from both stories, to me, is the same, "beware of stupid people in large numbers".
One of the first things I learned in psychology is that the brain is always looking for the easiest possible way to do things, even to it's own detriment, because it's all about saving energy, thinking uses up a lot of energy, so if the brain can "offload" that, it will.
The saddest thing about this movie is it predicted it would take 500 years to get there. We seem far too close after just 2 decades.
Just wait till 500 years from now😂😂😂
@@rawtrout007 You're right... this can get FAR worse. :(
Literally how
This is like George Carlin. When you get past the humor, he's right.
This movie was made as a warning...and we didn't heed it 😢
Maybe if more people saw it, but Carl's Jr, Costco, and Starbucks kept that from happening.🙄🤦🤷
Oooh! we are doing documentary's now :DD
"Go away! Baitin!" is now my standard response to people at my door.
Idiocracy was a movie, now it became a documentary.
I agree 💯💯
3:04 Fun fact. Mike Judge also created the Office Space soundtrack comprised entirely of Geto Boys tracks
I couldn’t click on this fast enough lol, I think he’s gonna love this social commentary. Two minutes into movie and he’s like “oh no” lol.
The studio heads didn't get Judge's movie and decided not to support it with promotion funds.(I mean zero dollars. Judge was pissed) So it didn't do well in theaters because no one knew about it. Then it hit the blockbusters and hollywood video and killed it. It is one of the best commentaries on humanity and funny to boot. Also, if no one said, it was the first time anyone saw crocs too. They hadn't been released yet and Judge thought they'd fit well in the futuristic dystopia.😀😀
Corporate sponsors like Starbucks, Carl's Jr, and Costco were... less than happy with the way they were portrayed in the movie. Apparently that was another factor in the lack of support from Fox. Pretty messed up because Mike Judge has made tons of money for Fox with King of the Hill. They did him wrong. Thankfully the movie stands on its own merits, with or without big studio promotion.
People in general love to feel smart, rather than put in the work to actually be smart.
This movie is terrifying. Side note, they wanted a shoe that was so futuristically stupid nobody would ever wear it... that shoe was a new, unknown startup called "Crocks".
Omg God that is terrifying I never did like those crock shoes they're ugly.
Mike Judge the creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and Office Space also made this movie.
In some rare instances we've actually exceeded what was depicted in the movie. Thats unsettling.
Check out Mike Judge’s story about making “@ss”. He says the test audience laughed so hard at the clip they showed them that he considered tossing out “Idiocracy” and just releasing “@ss” instead.
Nice
Fun fact: The costume picked the most outlandish weird looking footwear for the future world they could while making the movie. Crocs, which were just coming into existence.
Yes! I've been hoping for months you'd react to this documentary!
15:55-Aw, man. You paused in the middle of a word, and I don't know if you caught it. He says, "I supersize (sympathize) with you."
The movie remains painfully my favorite awesome documentary.
Fun Fact- Crocs became popular largely due to this movie!
No they didn’t. This film had $0 in marketing and did $495,000 in ticket sales (total). It made some waves on video and even more with streaming. This was & is a mostly ignored cult film that never broke into the mainstream….especially when Crocs grew in popularity.
@jimhsfbay if you will read whatever interview the quote is in, it has the details. Never claimed it was hit, though...not sure where that came from 🤷♂️
Edit- and what kind of narcissistic wet blanket do you have to be to complain about a comment from months ago? Grow up.
@@danielhenry177 I am very very aware that I am a garbage human being fact checking robot. I am also very very aware that you were wrong. One does not preclude the other.
@@jimhsfbay once again, if you just look up whatever interview, it's talked about
@jimhsfbay I'm sorry for calling you a narcissistic wet blanket, my mistake, it's obvious that you're a robot 😁 won't happen again
The censorship required to put this on youtube doesn't allow the movie to get its point across.
Great movie, Terry Crews is phenomenal
America is on its way here, if street interviews are something to go by :-)
Based on a true story,they became president and first lady,later the grandchildren made a time machine came back to warn us,but we misunderstood and thought it was just a cool script for a comedy.
A real knee slapper is the number of people that don't realize this movie is about them, and the number of people that positively respond to my comment that it applies to.
We've been speedrunning this movie since it came out
You start watch this as a comedy and end watch as a dystopic tragedy
I still can't believe this movie went from being a comedy, to being a documentary.
30:00 A few days ago I had someone ask me if Detroit was in Chicago.
The summer before i left for basic training, this was playing on comedy central everyday, and i watched it everyday lol.
Heh, I've come to understand that our dude is an intelligent, perceptive and analytical guy. Part of why I like this channel. Watching him discect and make sense of these crazy scenes is hilarious.
To answer your question, this movie was made by Mike Judge. (The creator of Beavis and Butthead) It was made in 2005 and he's a prophet.
WELCOME TO COSTCO, I LOVE YOU.
mid 90s indeed 1995 had more bangers than the last 2 decades alone
one of the best movies of all time, prophetic
Mike Judge made this movie, same guy who made Beavis & Butthead and King of the Hill. I love it, one of my favorites.
Mike Judge made 3 movies, it is one of them. I like them all.
Upgrayedd gonna get his money.
good sir this is not an entertainment movie rather its a prophecy turned documentary lol this iss hands down my fav movie of all time, i always say "i like money tho" when people present money to me haha i knew you was gonna like this one, my deviceds dont let me comment (cell and tablet) and i just got this steam deck working so this is my 1st chance to comment hahaha, the last video you said you was gonna upload a reaction to thiss and i had jjust been waiting for it lol
the prison sonng is so good, i like the short versuon in this movie more then the full version oddly enough
Mike Judge wanted the footwear to be something idiotic and nonsensical and told the costume coordinator as such, so they picked the ugliest, most impractical looking shoe that they could find at the time....... That shoe was the Croc....... pretty much THE most popular footwear now....... coincidence? I think not! Lol
Hmm, have you done
-Team America
This is the future. The end is near.
This was one of my favorite movies until it started turning into a documentary lol
Facts
13:02 alot of revolutionary scientists where laughted at, dismissed, sometimes even "punished" or executed for their thoughts, only for others to go "oh ya he was right" years later.
My favorite was a military doctor who performed an operation on himself, because he was denied to help others with a similar cause. The deniers switch that up real fast " oh shoot, it actually worked. Well maybe." (Cant remember exactly who but i love drunk history episodes so its in there somewhere)
Actually, I remember reading a study where they correlated family size with intelligence/level of education. The higher intelligence/level of education of the couple, the smaller the families tended to be, so there is some scientific basis. Which makes sense when you think about it - more intelligent/educated people are more likely to wait to have children until they can support them, maybe after a few years of their first "real" job, while poorly educated/unintelligent people are far more likely to have children younger, and have larger families without considering the logistics of housing/supporting their families.
This is such a great movie,paired with dont look up,where you have a socio-political dynamic duo.
This movie actually serves as a pretty decent prequel to "WALL-E." All the poor and stupid people are left behind to further ruin Earth, and in another 300 years become extinct with only the robots to clean up. Meanwhile, all the "smart" and wealthy people left Earth to live in slothful paradise.
This is America right now
I love how it seems like you're watching a documentary .
This movie is really a documentary. 😂
Mike Judge is the most underappreciated satirical genius of the modern age.
I quote Office Space to this day and Idiocracy is just brilliant. Its funny because Fox tried SO hard to shelve the movie that they were willing to give up millions of dollars in profit to just sit on it. They were forced to release it after 3 years and spent $0 on promotion, only screened it in 4 theaters and pulled it after less than a month.
Oh, and Beavis & Butthead wasn't too bad either (sarcasm)
MISINFORMATION!!! This ain't no movie it's a live stream :P
I'm glad we still.have you here.😊
this film will stay in my top 5 forever
Who knew this would be a documentary of today
Love this film ❤ its genius, it appeals to all iq levels for diffrent reasons.
Such a quotable movie: "But it's got electrolytes."💕😂🤣
Your statement on newer movies relying too heavily on looking good as opposed to having good writing and or dialog is very true
Funny note: When directing the movie, Mike Judd said he wants the future people to wear shoes created around that time(2005) that he thought were the most idiotic shoes he's ever seen.... Years later, Crocs is one of the most popular shoes out there
I think even Mike Judge now was like, "I really didn't think society would become this stupid"
have you looked into Prezident Comachos recent announcement for the 2024 election. he travelled through time to save the country again.....
As I imagine you're aware, the youngest generation isn't gen z, it's gen alpha, and the hysteria surrounding millennials, gen z, and gen alpha is almost entirely absurd. I teach college students, and what you're describing is present in every generation. Are the younger generations more coddled? Absolutely. Have our now all pervasive screens and social media had negative repercussions? No doubt. But less willing to learn? That has not been my experience in the least.
Been waiting for this one since you said you recorded it the other day!
🤘😎👍
A person is smart , people are stupid
Sick shirt man, I remember stealing my brothers tribe cd's and just vibing to them on my discman while crusin' on my bike.
The first ten minutes are a life changing thought exercise.
Your expression when the guy said, "Georgia is in Florida." :D
ive watched a lot of movies in my life but this must be the best parody ive ever seen
It was made by the creator of Beavis and Butthead. The genius in stupidity.
"Full body latte" sounds encouraging.
You at the start of the video: "Oh no! This is like a horror film, is it?"
Well, not entirely wrong I guess. One of the funniest horror flicks I've seen. :D
It's getting closer to reality by the day... A lot of it is happening now
Narcissism is an epidemic
Mike Judge has a real knack for writing really stupid characters. He's also the guy behind Beavis and Butthead.
Go back and look at the shoes for the people from the future and look up when the movie was made and then remember that Crocs were not popular for several years possibly even a decade after the movie came out. This movie was when the first big sales of Crocs ever.
I love the look on your with the two bucket IQ question. I laugh every time I remember that bit.
1:44 "this is like a horror film" 😢 its a vision of the worst future that we did not heed, i feel we are half way there.
the pimp could've lowkey become a super villain 'genius' in the sequel
In the real future the main character doesn't exist.
They most likely have it otherwise right
´99 was one of the best years for movies ever!
This movie was and is extremely prophetic!!
Yea this one will make you cry.
This movie introduces crocs to show how people can't tie shoes. Now look what everyone wears.🤔