THIS IS AMERICA!! IDIOCRACY (2006) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction and Commentary!

[@AndrewJamesGordon]

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.

[@theduckfromthejoke152]

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

[@ju4408]

​@@theduckfromthejoke152not so fun fact, in jail you wear crocs.

[@jimhsfbay]

@@theduckfromthejoke152Fun Fact: what’s known to you is new to others.

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

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.

[@JoeLancaster]

​@@TheDuckofDoom. Fun fact: boating was invented so people had somewhere to wear their Crocs.

[@questionablehumor2800]

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.

[@greenpeasuit]

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]

That will not happen. Physical attraction will always be the driver of reproduction, as it has been since the beginning of humanity.

[@nullakjg767]

@@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]

​@nullakjg767 thats why Einstein and Steven Hawking were runways models, right?

[@nullakjg767]

@@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.

[@singerkgreen]

@@nullakjg767 like I said. Runways models, right?

[@greenpeasuit]

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.

[@kellymccombs3496]

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.

[@red-stapler574]

Also Silicon Valley.

[@daddynanners3944]

@@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.

[@justinpitcock5312]

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.

[@TheChunkyD5]

Not to mention King of the Hill, Bevis and Butthead, and many others. His social commentary on all political views are great.

[@justinpitcock5312]

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.

[@woahblackbettybamalam]

He got blacklisted for being critical of the tribe running hollywood

[@yellow01umrella]

Silicon Valley was awesome

[@robling1937]

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.

[@GTHattmann]

Mike Judge once said the only thing he missed was people being attached to their smart phones in this day and age.

[@0okamino]

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.

[@nullakjg767]

@@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.

[@KyouOneZilla]

I think the chairs kinda took the phones place

[@hmpphoto]

That awkward moment when you realize "Idiocracy" is a foretelling documentary!

[@jkt9977]

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.

[@himarei]

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.

[@anniesmolkin7685]

A lot of this was taking place during covid . The people with the masks irrationally afraid of nothing

[@malice926]

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.

[@christopherplummer1299]

Yeah, even the college educated experts are falling into the low intellect category. 😢

[@pvanukoff]

By definition, half the people in a given population are below average intelligence.

[@pickthestickup]

"blackpilled" yeah you're definitely not one of the smart ones.

[@tillmen4444]

​@@pickthestickupif thats you just say so😂

[@pickthestickup]

@@tillmen4444 aaand we've found another, folks.

[@enokii]

Damn, two uploads in one day? Let's get it! "Welcome to Costco, I love you!!" 😂

[@kiekokat3678]

I approve of this quote 😂😂😂. "I like money"

[@jjayp1]

3:04 Fun fact. Mike Judge also created the Office Space soundtrack comprised entirely of Geto Boys tracks

[@dalton6173]

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.

[@hulkamaanio]

"Social media is dumbing down the masses, soon we have no doctors" cant remember who said it :D

[@Fish-nt5wb]

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."

[@AccaliaShakariaN7]

Mike Judge predicted the future with this one. Excellent movie!

[@MrAbdoman]

It’s called predictive programming. And they show us their plans for the future through movies.

[@norwegianblue2017]

In 2006 this movie was a comedy. In 2023 it is a documentary.

[@CraigKostelecky]

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.

[@rawtrout007]

Just wait till 500 years from now😂😂😂

[@CraigKostelecky]

@@rawtrout007 You're right... this can get FAR worse. :(

[@LmnryDan]

Literally how

[@LeahIsHereNow]

I always love seeing the reaction from an Idiocracy virgin. Mike Judge might just be the most prophetic person who ever lived! Damn. 😕

[@williamhauber8622]

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.

[@TiZGaming]

Yes! I've been hoping for months you'd react to this documentary!

[@rsrt6910]

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".

[@joejackson4627]

This is like George Carlin. When you get past the humor, he's right.

[@Abbath77]

Idiocracy was a movie, now it became a documentary.

[@theoneandonlykyle9800]

I agree 💯💯

[@johndeaux3703]

"Go away! Baitin!" is now my standard response to people at my door.

[@plankan33]

Oooh! we are doing documentary's now :DD

[@TenTonNuke]

30:00 A few days ago I had someone ask me if Detroit was in Chicago.

[@acrefray]

People in general love to feel smart, rather than put in the work to actually be smart.

[@RCon25]

Mike Judge the creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and Office Space also made this movie.

[@212x3]

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".

[@theoneandonlykyle9800]

Omg God that is terrifying I never did like those crock shoes they're ugly.

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

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.

[@Rocco1332]

This movie was made as a warning...and we didn't heed it 😢

[@jeremyzier8706]

Maybe if more people saw it, but Carl's Jr, Costco, and Starbucks kept that from happening.🙄🤦🤷

[@christopherplummer1299]

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.

[@scottcarr8738]

The movie remains painfully my favorite awesome documentary.

[@winterhell2002]

In some rare instances we've actually exceeded what was depicted in the movie. Thats unsettling.

[@SigRho1429]

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.

[@winterhell2002]

Nice

[@Machete__Squad]

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.

[@danielhenry177]

Fun Fact- Crocs became popular largely due to this movie!

[@jimhsfbay]

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.

[@danielhenry177]

@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.

[@jimhsfbay]

@@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.

[@danielhenry177]

@@jimhsfbay once again, if you just look up whatever interview, it's talked about

[@danielhenry177]

@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

[@jasonligon5937]

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.😀😀

[@philiproach2537]

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.

[@douglasmurphy3266]

We've been speedrunning this movie since it came out

[@barratad323]

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.

[@tomre2769]

America is on its way here, if street interviews are something to go by :-)

[@DScott-nk1lo]

Great movie, Terry Crews is phenomenal

[@anthonycurby4606]

The summer before i left for basic training, this was playing on comedy central everyday, and i watched it everyday lol.

[@IggyStardust1967]

I still can't believe this movie went from being a comedy, to being a documentary.

[@Cantmakeupmymindonaname]

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)

[@akheron7671]

You start watch this as a comedy and end watch as a dystopic tragedy

[@StarsDie88]

WELCOME TO COSTCO, I LOVE YOU.

[@milkcasanova1662]

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

[@CrashCraftLabs]

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

[@AceCorban]

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.

[@skio147]

mid 90s indeed 1995 had more bangers than the last 2 decades alone

[@liquidpza]

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.

[@StrosB4Hos]

There aren’t many reactions to this movie, but this is the first time anyone has acknowledged that Upgreyyed was played by Scarface. If anyone is paying attention, Mike Judge featured the Geto Boys a ton in Office Space. I’m guessing he’s a fan.

[@KaylixYT]

The censorship required to put this on youtube doesn't allow the movie to get its point across.

[@nunyabusiness9013]

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.

[@aaronb7990]

Been waiting for this one since you said you recorded it the other day! 🤘😎👍

[@kristal9355]

have you looked into Prezident Comachos recent announcement for the 2024 election. he travelled through time to save the country again.....

[@mobilemechanics6565]

Kit Kat is very popular in Japan, this is because the phrase kitsu katsu which means you will surely win. There is also 1 vending machine per person on the moon.

[@TheChunkyD5]

Sick shirt man, I remember stealing my brothers tribe cd's and just vibing to them on my discman while crusin' on my bike.

[@Cantmakeupmymindonaname]

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.

[@Ichthyodactyl]

Mike Judge made this movie, same guy who made Beavis & Butthead and King of the Hill. I love it, one of my favorites.

[@BlueeyedRabbit]

Mike Judge made 3 movies, it is one of them. I like them all.

[@jonreeder798]

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

[@forkittens]

now consider this; friedo may have been a great lawyer.... he immediately interjected with his own reasons as to why joe was guilty, trying to get the crowd on his side, but for smashing up his house, (which he could personally forgive) to distract from the charge of not paying the hospital bill...his strategy was getting the court to blame joe for a lesser charge over the charge joe was sent in for. in that culture, fiedo was a very smart person... he just seems dumb to us.

[@electrickid101]

A person is smart , people are stupid

[@aaronb7990]

Hmm, have you done -Team America

[@SigRho1429]

The first ten minutes are a life changing thought exercise.

[@LightWarriorK]

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.

[@halosandheroes]

This is such a great movie,paired with dont look up,where you have a socio-political dynamic duo.

[@yellowblanka6058]

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.

[@pabloscobar958]

one of the best movies of all time, prophetic

[@nutsarefancy]

I love how it seems like you're watching a documentary .

[@TheGoauldApophis]

I'm glad we still.have you here.😊

[@cmoney-3845]

Your statement on newer movies relying too heavily on looking good as opposed to having good writing and or dialog is very true

[@donkfail1]

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

[@donkfail1]

Trying to avoid the USA-bashing here, (The dumbing down seems global anyways IRL.) but at least the president is smarter than the average population. He even manages to read the teleprompter fast and easy compared to some recent leaders. So this seems to be an improvement... ;)

[@CrispyChips007]

this film will stay in my top 5 forever

[@kray421]

MISINFORMATION!!! This ain't no movie it's a live stream :P

[@jjayp1]

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)

[@brianboye8025]

I love the look on your with the two bucket IQ question. I laugh every time I remember that bit.

[@errabbitc]

In the real future the main character doesn't exist.

[@errabbitc]

They most likely have it otherwise right

[@bakariwlkr]

This was one of my favorite movies until it started turning into a documentary lol

[@realisticthought1781]

Facts

[@D2SProductions]

Your expression when the guy said, "Georgia is in Florida." :D

[@Rattled76]

Who knew this would be a documentary of today

[@jamesellis701]

This is America right now

[@BaconWhisky]

4:52 I didn't even hear it and I know exactly what it is lol, that was so random and unexpected it gets me every time lol

[@jasonlengyel1104]

This is the future. The end is near.

[@jjaredzappa3928]

Narcissism is an epidemic

[@MrMountainchris]

This movie was made as a warning. And now with the way things are about to be, we are well on our way.

[@evilfantasy69]

Upgrayedd gonna get his money.

[@THG-3141]

I don't think i agree with the youth not being willing to be intelligent. In my experience the older a person is the less likely they are to accept new information. Older individuals are anathema too learning

[@bakihanma5849]

ive watched a lot of movies in my life but this must be the best parody ive ever seen

[@ysmith494]

This movie is really a documentary. 😂

[@dalton6173]

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.

[@vespacheck]

This is the future democrat policies will lead to.

[@januzi2]

"Full body latte" sounds encouraging.

[@WirrWicht]

MRLBOYD should take a hard look into the mirror. I've constantly meaningful conversations with my kids. And both despise most parts of social media and have nothing to do with tiktok and the like. Oh, and both are on public schools. If you can't do that for your own kids, you are part of the problem.

[@bradparks3704]

It's getting closer to reality by the day... A lot of it is happening now

[@bullpup33]

It's not a movie. It's a documentary from the future.