Idiocracy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[liam]

The riff played by the guitar army during the rehabilitation scene is a rendition of "The Changeling" by The Doors.

[ray]

The premise of this movie, someone waking up several hundred years in the future and finding that people have gotten much more stupid due to an expanding population and a lack of evolutionary pressure, was previously used in "The Marching Morons", a short story written in 1951 by Cyril M. Kornbluth.

[kenzi]

The voice of the announcer at the demolition derby belongs to Mike Judge, the writer and director of this movie. He also voices the announcer of The Masturbation Network.

[carla]

The script title was originally "The United States of Uhh-merica", and the working title was "3001".

[jim]

Rapper Scarface played the pimp "Upgrayedd". Along with his group, Geto Boys, Scarface has written and performed many of the rap songs in Mike Judge's comedy Office Space (1999).

[ivan]

In the Clevon family tree, Hank and Bobby Hill are visible. As is a dog, a monkey, a goat, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Condolezza Rice.

[richard]

The film takes place in 2005 and 2505.

[gerald]

When Joe (Luke Wilson) is being apprehended by the police in Costco, the background screens display why he is wanted: "For being a dick" "For excaping from jail" "For fucking up lots of shit".

[caroline]

In Clevon's family tree there is a chimpanzee, a goat, a dog and Hank Hill.

[steve]

Sara Rue appears uncredited as the Attorney General.

[scarlett]

Although the marketing campaign for this film went unnoticed, 20th Century Fox licensed the "Brawndo" drink for sale. The drink itself has gained a cult following, though it is no longer available for purchase at www.brawndo.com.

[nicholas]

Writer and Director Mike Judge came up with the idea for the film while he was visiting Disneyland with his family and saw two mothers, with kids in strollers, fighting and cursing at each other. He thought it would be horrible if humanity was like this in the future.