danwin.com » idiocracy https://danwin.com Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 Fox Takes Us Right Into to the Future of Idiocracy: “World Record Kick to the Groin” https://danwin.com/2010/02/fox-takes-us-into-to-the-future-of-idiocracy/ https://danwin.com/2010/02/fox-takes-us-into-to-the-future-of-idiocracy/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:37:35 +0000 https://danwin.com/thoughts/fox-takes-us-into-to-the-future-of-idiocracy/ Even though Mike Judge wasn’t happy with the end result, I always thought we owed Fox a little credit for allowing “Idiocracy” his biting, dystopian satire into the theaters. It can’t be easy to market a movie that insults the most valued demographic (young males) and potential advertisers (Starbucks, Carl Jr’s, Costco, Gatorade, etc). But […]

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]]> Even though Mike Judge wasn’t happy with the end result, I always thought we owed Fox a little credit for allowing “Idiocracy” his biting, dystopian satire into the theaters. It can’t be easy to market a movie that insults the most valued demographic (young males) and potential advertisers (Starbucks, Carl Jr’s, Costco, Gatorade, etc).

But I guess Idiocracy was just a test-run of future FOX programming. Behold: “World Record Kick to the Groin:”

I didn’t like Idiocracy that much on the first viewing, but it’s a movie better appreciated on repeat viewings. Probably because by the time you’ve watched it again, society seems to have slowly edged a little bit closer to Mike Judge’s vision. Well, Fox Sports pretty much said, screw it, let’s just go all in.

More analysis from Gawker’s Maureen O’ Connor.

(I’m definitely not too cultured for this kind of explanatory TV. MythBusters needs to do their own version)

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