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Mike Judge’s Idioc­ra­cy seemed rea­son­ably fun­ny to me, though this may have been influ­enced by the herb par­tak­en while see­ing it. It’s more or less a sci­ence fic­tion satire in the man­ner of an old L. Sprague deCamp sto­ry. A man awak­ens from cryo­genic stor­age to find that the U.S. has bred itself into idio­cy. Though him­self select­ed for the cryo­genic exper­i­ment because of his aston­ish­ing aver­a­ge­ness, in this brave new world he is the smartest man in the coun­try. He saves the nation from famine by deter­min­ing that crops should not be irri­gat­ed with Gatorade. Most of the com­e­dy is in sight gags embed­ded in the set design. Any­way, rent this for some ston­er par­ty and stock up on taco chips to go with it.