Idiocracy

Mike Judge\'s 2006 satire was so badly buried by its studio that Judge spent a decade describing the experience as worse than Office Space. Then the 2010s happened, and the film\'s prediction of advertising-saturated, science-illiterate populism became a meme — and then a way of describing the news.

• Fox dumped the film into 130 theaters without a single review screening.
• Mike Judge spent years describing the studio reaction as worse than Office Space.
• The film's "President Camacho" is now a frequent meme reference.
• The Brawndo plot was inspired by real corporate sponsorship of public schools.
• Critics retroactively rehabilitated it after the 2016 US election.

• "Brawndo's got what plants crave!"
• "I like money."
• "It's got electrolytes."
• "Welcome to Costco. I love you."
• "Go away, batin'!"