Idiocracy Brawndo's Got Electrolytes

[grnloveunme]

Sometimes when I really need to laugh, I watch this clip.

[seide23]

@grnloveunme Or when I really need to cry.

[alphacause]

This clip from Idiocracy is both hilarious and insightful. Brawndo is merely a piece of satire used to highlight how, when you give corporate America unfettered power, it will attempt to do whatever possible to increase profits - even if that means subverting people's basic knowledge of science. You don't have to be all that perceptive to see the parallels this movie was drawing between Brawndo's distortion of science and what oil companies do to mislead the public about the environment.

[TwistedOwl]

Go away, I'm batin'!

[TheSamsammysam]

i love how she says electrolytes

[SuperFunkDoctor]

boobs

[BigDTexas]

Another analogy:

Joe: "Look, that fossil is 100 million years old"

Moe: "How do you know that?"

Joe: "Because we found it in a Cretaceous layer"

Moe: "And how do you know how old the Cretaceous layer is?"

Joe: "Because we find hexapods fossils there, and they are 100 million years old"

Moe: "How do you know they are 100 million years old?"

Joe: "Because they are in the Cretaceous layer"

[ilfac]

@BigDTexas fail

[bjggjb]

@BigDTexas Actually, those dates are confirmed by measuring known rates of radioactive decay against the ratio of various isotopes found in those layers. But never mind that, it's just a bunch of SCIENCE cooked up by pointy-headed intellectual geeks who've probably never even been in a bar fight (unlike a big, tough, common-sense, beer-swillin', pickup-drivin', God-fearin' Texas cowboy like you, who wants to be Jesus's punkboy someday.)

[AceTracer]

@BigDTexas I would suggest you look up "radiometric dating" which is how we actually date fossils.

[BigDTexas]

Another analogy:

Joe: "Look, there's a hexapod. That fossil is 100 million years old"

Moe: "How do you know that?"

Joe: "Because we found it in a Cretaceous layer"

Moe: "And how do you know how old the Cretaceous layer is?"

Joe: "Because we find hexapods there, and they are 100 million years old"

[Idude893]

@BigDTexas Actually, scientists use carbon dating as a method to find the age of fossils. Additionally, older fossils are usually deeper underground than the newer ones.

[wimahlers]

@Idude893,

.

"Actually, scientists use carbon dating as a method to find the age of fossils. Additionally, older fossils are usually deeper underground than the newer ones."

.

Actually no!

But good for you proving the Brawndo point of demonstrating for believing at face value what crap creationists website try to sell you.

By the way, besides you not understanding radiometric dating, fossils are NEVER dated using carbon dating. NEVER!

[AceTracer]

@Idude893 Actually, that's not correct either. Carbon dating only works for carbon-bearing materials up to roughly 60,000 years old. So it can't be used to date dinosaur fossils. They do however use radiometric dating, which is what carbon dating is, but they look at other isotopes.

[aocidicoa]

IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!! 

[wnnw98]

Brawndo's got what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!

[DeadSleepers]

Brawndo also contains SUPER EXTRA CAFFEINE and FIVE kinds of sugar, which makes it DELICIOUS and much better than other energy drinks that are NOT DELICIOUS!

[wfmkk]

Wow ... this group sounds just like climate deniers, with same jaw-dropping inability to reason.

[miketag85209]

What in the hell is a "climate denier"? I don't deny there is a climate. I am extremely skeptical of the concept of anthropomorphic global warming. Notice how that was exposed as a money making scam perpetrated by the likes of Albert Gore Jr. so they had to change the meme to climate change. What's jaw-dropping is how many leftists are ready and willing to swallow the alarmist pap in order to be able to insist that people behave according to a manufactured crisis.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

Since you asked, I'll explain. The term "climate denier" is a spin-off of the term "Holocaust denier." In both cases, people deny something that is factually true beyond all doubt, and in both cases the phenomenon involves the death of millions of people -- although the number involved with climate change could reach the billions, depending on how quickly humans stop pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

[miketag85209]

The term "climate denier" was invented in order to diabolically conflate people who are skeptical of human-caused climate change with the worst kind of people - Holocaust deniers. Hence, if one is skeptical, they are as bad as those very very bad guys - Holocaust deniers. Bully tactics at best. Factually true beyond all doubt? I think not. There's plenty of doubt. Don't be such an alarmist. The sky isn't falling.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

The only doubts about climate change involve the exact kind of changes and how fast they will be.

You also seem to be confused about the terminology. BOTH terms -- "climate change" and "global warming" -- are still used. "They" did not "change the meme," as you assert.

Global warming refers to the overall temperature of the planet. Climate change refers to the various kinds of climate changes that will be caused by this warming.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

If you want to learn about climate science, this video is a good introduction:

watch?v=yLYqzIhhT6o

[miketag85209]

@wfmkk

I will concede that both terms are still, unfortunately, in use. How much has the overall temperature of the planet changed in the past 100, 50, 25 and 10 years? And, last time I checked, the climate has never stopped changing - even before mankind existed or had any discernable impact on the planet. Ice ages, warm periods, ice ages, etc. It's cyclical. Always has been. Back in the 70's, the alarmists were pushing the coming tragedy of an ice age.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

Yes, climate always fluctuates, but that statement obscures the fact that the current temperature increase is VERY rapid, and the planet is already warmer than it has been for thousands of years.

tiny .cc/IPCC4-faq31

The dinosaurs were wiped out in a major extinction episode that was caused by climate change about 55 million years ago.

And your statement about a "coming ice age" is simply not true:

watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M

[miketag85209]

@wfmkk

O.K. I'll bite. How rapid is the current temperature increase? What is the source of your assertion that the planet is already warmer than it has been for thousands of years? Regarding the extinction of the dinosaurs, there is also a popular scientific theory that it was a large asteroid impact that caused their extinction. My statement about alarmists in the 70's pushing the coming ice age is absolutely true, e.g., Time Magazine, June 1974, also Newsweek - both still liberal rags.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

You need to read and watch the information that I already gave you.

[miketag85209]

@wfmkk

Couldn't get the IPCC4-faq31 "link" to work. Watched the video though. That was a waste of 9:41. Full of words like "could", "may", "might", "possibly", etc. The graph shown indicates a roughly 0.6 degree celcius increase over a relatively long period of time. You should be more skeptical and not swallow such transparent propaganda. I know convincing some people to be more literal is difficult in this seemingly uneducated world. Good luck being a true believer.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

The URL is fine; I just checked it. Try removing the space after "tiny".

"Its got electrolytes!"

Perhaps you can take off your ideological blinders long enough to understand that relatively small changes in the AVERAGE global temperature have huge consequences -- even though the DAILY temperature typically fluctuates by some 20 degrees C.

And a century is a miniscule amount of time for the Earth and its climate.

[miketag85209]

@wfmkk

I suggest the ideological blinders are on your head. Specifically, what huge consequences have occurred as a result of the relatively small change that has been observed? Specifically, what huge consequences? When and if you point out some extreme weather phenomenon, please demonstrate conclusive proof of the cause and effect.

[wfmkk]

@miketag85209

Your argument is similar to that of a boy who runs, full speed, toward a cliff. When he's ten feet from the edge, he asks, "What huge consequences?"

Notice the accelerating rate of temperature change in the graph I already showed you:

tiny .cc/IPCC4-faq31

"conclusive proof"

See yourself answered in this video that I already posted yesterday:

watch?v=yLYqzIhhT6o

[miketag85209]

@wfmkk

O.K. I'll try this one more time. Specifically, what huge consequences have occurred as a result of the relatively small change that has been observed? In your earlier post, you mentioned the deaths of billions. Perhaps I'm stupid, but I can't get the tiny .cc/IPCC4-faq31 "link" to work.

[sonnyred5050]

But Brawndo gots what plants crave....its got electrolytes?

[NUFIGHTER777]

The results of uncontrolled breeding of Conservatives and those damn Tea Party groups! Take that!

[miketag85209]

@NUFIGHTER777

Don't be stupid. Shit-headed libtards are the ones screwing things up.

[SirPwn4lot]

@miketag85209 Give it a few years, the Republicans will be back in power screwing things up again. This stuff works in cycles.

[marine8916]

guys, brawndo has electrolytes. its what plants crave. its not sprocket science.

[daven58100]

The results of uncontrolled breeding of liberals.

[garydean722]

That is a hilarious laugh at 00:42

[mooman98]

water?!? like out of the toilet

[xFalloutVids]

DO NOT WATER YOUR PLANTS WITH GATORADE!!!

[1990sherskin1]

Petitio Principii, plain and simple.

[AceHeikanen]

Why are they having a meeting in that hole of the wall...

[MrMEXMAN7]

"brawndo gots wat plants crave- it gots electrolytes" hahaaha

[madmiracle]

There have always been, and there will always be dumb people. Ever since humans were able to tell the difference between 'smart' and 'dumb', there's been dumbness.

[miketag85209]

I'm no doctor. I just know what I know.

[CartmanAsHartman]

I felt very similar to this guy during my first 10 years in the usa :))))) such a RELIEF to know that I'm not the only one LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[97Wc]

after seeing this movie im terrified of the future and there is a chance that the future generations will be dumb as hell

[SexyIslanders]

uh.. water like .. outta the toliet... ha, ha!! love this movie!!

[hobbspv2424]

its got electrolites

[bjggjb]

Idiocracy - fiction or documentary? YOU decide!

Me: "How do you know the Bible true?"

Campus Crusade for Christ dude (who cornered me in the campus dining hall): "Because it's the word of God."

Me: "But how do you know it's the word of God?

CCfC dude: "Because it says so in the Bible."

[BrokHomz]

@bjggjb

that's circular reasoning....evolution uses that too, don't fool yourself.

[kzam717]

@bjggjb yup,and for some reason,they make people swear on the damn book in court,which I find both obscene(some of the most horrendous crimes having been committed through "christianity") and an insult to intelligence...message:"good"p­eople don't ask questions.

[ja0401]

@bjggjb Very well put, good sir!

[sadisticlolita]

Clearly the comments section of a video featuring a clip from a comdey film is the best place to complain about the state of the world without any intention of taking personal responsibily to go beyond complaining.

You guys discuss the state of America all you like, I'ma get me some electrolytes- it's what plants crave.

[hunkatiel]

We seem to be experimenting some technomological differences...

[tickyul]

A fine shockumentary about the United States Of Ameritard and its citizens. They should have included lots more 6 year olds that weigh 200 lbs. Or families that are so dumb, they want Big Brother to hand everything to them.

[so0fly1]

i swear this movie is a spoof on society today! this worlds fool of idiots

[LogicLyfe]

It's got Electrolytes........

[ecthelion2005]

This is one of the best scenes

[cybersuh1]

Religion, affirmative action in colleges and the workplace, welfare = idiocracy.

[sklewafe]

@cybersuh1

Of course, people in the US can't actually acknowledge the existence of God, because if they do, they know - KNOW - what they are in for

Who would one assume is His LEAST favorite, lol

[kamikaze790]

but...it's got what plants crave

[JayceMearesShit]

I love the fat dude in blue lol ... The blank look on his face is great at the end as he says "Because Brawndo's got electrolytes." I always lol when I see that.

[theSTAR70]

the Kansas Board of Ejumacashun

[fishingfrenzy123]

the girl is hot shes got what i crave, red hair

[with2ays]

This looks like a meeting of the Texas Board of Education.

[clustro]

@with2ays the bible has electroytes

[InfiniteMushroom]

@with2ays Florida has Texas beat! Only Georgia and Mississippi public schools are worse than us. Florida public schools overall ranked 48th. YEAH! 48! 48! 48! 48! 48! 48!....

[PrometheusWithLight]

Especially funny since I already knew what electrolytes were.

[LafYAssTV]

I Love this movie... uhmazing wit! =D Brawndo has what plants crave, lol.. duhaha

[tsetse1234]

"....you want us to put w-a-t-e-r  on the crops?!" - 0:12 BEST PART OF THE MOVIE :D

[PsycReaper]

i'm american and I agree with you ... I think it might just be the start of what might happen to the world ... us debt I couldn't give you a specific off the top of my head ... I could probably find out by looking it up specifically but I have seen it before and it is quite a bit. with it being quite a bit I actually wonder how it is alot of us live like we do ...

[tickyul]

@psycreaper: I just don't know how this country is going to be competitive in the future. So many young people do not value learning, truly dumb. I did not mean to imply knowing US debt was THAT important, it is just general knowledge that seems to be lacking by so many people. PS: At the end of the year the national debt will be over 14 TRILLION dollars......ouch.

[Koda924]

@tickyul You're retarded.

[tickyul]

@koda924: Yes, as a fellow Ameritard, I am retarded, so are you ( I am assuming you are an Ameritard ). Too bad you live in a failing, tardacious country along with millions of other ameritards.

[tacomuybueno]

sad but this is where america is headed. in a lot of ways we are already there.

[PsionNinja]

I love that hand motion they do when explaining what plants crave. :)

[clustro]

this film was a documentary sent from the future to the present :(

[RealNeurotiq]

Obama's america in action

[dandar]

This movie gutted me. I almost peed my pants at the Ow My Balls scene.

[CharacterBuilding1]

Its uncanny to realize idiocracy is your lot in life and you are Luke Wilson. As Bruce Willis said in Live Free or Die Hard thats what makes you that guy

[samonik11]

right on! "texasArcance"

[TexasArcane]

The reason this film was not distributed is because it is not set 500 years in the future. It is set right now. Anybody with an IQ over room temperature knows it.

[tickyul]

@TexasArcane You are so right sir, this is not the future, this is the USA.....in its present form.

[jlwelch]

@TexasArcane

What the Hell are you talking about? In the beginning of the show, when he was in the hospital, it was clearly stated the year was 2505. The whole point of the introduction and capsule was to let the viewer know this is the future.

[ruunstalker]

@jlwelch You missed his point. Think some more, maybe you'll get the idea.

[jlwelch]

@ruunstalker

There's nothing to think about, this was set in the year 2505 and humanity is looking like it is halfway there already. If you are trying to say we are already there, then you are exaggerating.

[tinaUNDAcova]

This movie is epic.

I remember the first time watching and almost choking to death from laughing so hard when they brought his car for "re-hab-ilitation" and it had a droopy wang stuck on the front of it.

[socomfanaddict]

3rd best scene in the movie

[Hezett]

does anyone else feel like this is like the " to vaccinate" vs "not to vaccinate" debate?

[valeagathon]

"He's got electrolytes" :D

[Xfilez]

To be honest. does this not represent the average 98 I.Q American as it stands right now.

[kaosgoblin]

@Xfilez God that makes me so sad that the average is under 110

[healeyfam]

@Xfilez The average IQ is 100. It will always be 100. Since there can be no purely objective measure of intelligence, we measure everyone against each other. Whatever the population at large averages on the test is the baseline- 100.

[jocstarbunny]

To those who were saying that people need intelligence to outsmart people, you really don't... If you were raised in this world of Idiocracy you would be raised a certain way, anything people say to you you'd probably believe because you and those around you were that stupid an believe what that person said. I love this movie... I'm just having a hard time finding it. :(

[Eveon10]

Intelligence is how the way you adapt to any situation.

[stonerj0e]

@Eveon10 how the way ? wtf

[ant1ph0n]

@jocstarbunny what's not to get man? to put it bluntly and i'm sure it was said/hinted in the film a couple times, that fictional society [or maybe not] is dumbed down and the rest is self explanatory...

[Sanguinius93446]

Cus Brawndo gots electrolytes..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH­AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHAXD

[ecthelion2005]

All people are equal

Why?

Because we all are human beings

Why?

Because we are all people

[JaeSupreme]

we are equal because we have ELECTROLYTES.......LOL

[YdOuUmRb]

1:07 best "bitch please" face i've seen in a movie so far...

[tireaxle72]

LOL, so true!

Especially coming from him it just seemed hilarious

[CartmanAsHartman]

this movie's definitely got electrolytes:-)))

[Pablofilmmaker]

@CartmanAsHartman it's why come it's good movie 'cause like it's got electrolytes.

[MaderaCopy]

This is the true difference between liberals and conservatives. Libs can be brainwashed and manipulated.

[chimphater]

That's because libs actually have minds and brains that can be "washed" -- unlike today's FOX News-watching conservatives, who tend to be dumb as stumps.

The Teabagger "movement" is idiocracy in action.

[josh420masterB]

You're right, because brainwashing actually takes skill and tactics in order to outsmart people. You just slap an American flag on something and Conservatives automatically agree with it.

[tickyul]

@josh420masterB And you create some handout program that you know thousands will scam off of........ liberals automatically agree with it.

[edemoman]

Do you understand that the whole point of the joke with the doctor? "My ex-wife was tarded...she's a pilot now!" It was that stupid people tend to think that they're the smart ones and everyone else is stupid.

tl;dr: You're retarded.

[alvarodelamo]

Circular Logic at it's best.

[alli17able]

this movie was funny

[tuanische]

This is like talking to people who believe in global warming.

[DillaDawg147]

or god

[MeltedLegoGuy]

yeah

[SomeApplesauce]

haha I love this movie.

[lou304]

This has got to be just like sitting in on Obama's cabinet meetings

[ChicagoGirl123]

hhahaha i agree with you! that was good.

[smegweevil]

Briiliant! I can't find this video here in Japan so it must be my mission to go to America and find it.

Outstanding.

[TheKim004]

LOL a thumbs down with no reply because QA4 is dead accurate. The elite are creating policy to supress everyone equally instead of just blacks, and people think thats equality. lol

[TheKim004]

Hense the John Dewey indoctrination of stupidity and conformity. Add the Newtonian cult of scientific consensus rather than scientific truth and you have an entire population that accepts what they are told and doesnt question anything for themselves because they cant even think.

[biped19]

Perfectly stated. XD

[TheKim004]

"A conversation with leftists on new policy."

[Poxell91]

My friends quote this part all the time at work and it gets me laughing.

[OA4]

This segment is a metaphor for what is wrong with Academia. This is why humanities and social science won't get anywhere. Profs. today want their students to recite their own work and not think for themselves. They mark parrots, sorry, students accordingly and so there is no future for academia.

[miketag85209]

I agree that there is plenty wrong with Academia. Until basic education is done properly, there won't be enough students who are sufficiently strong willed and confident to demand they be allowed to think for themselves. I didn't learn how to study correctly until I was in my 20's. It's all about never passing words or symbols that are misunderstood and getting them UNDERSTOOD. Only in this way can one become literate and then be able to reason.

[biped19]

Absolutely. Well said.

Your statement is related to my experiences.

[OA4]

ISR newest Nobel Prize winner said today that everyone told her what she wanted to prove was attempted by many who failed and so there was no point. Guess she proved them wrong. Recently I had an exam and got 58. The Prof. told me my analysis was correct while the rest of the class failed on analysis (avg:66) and told me I have to recite to succeed. Did that. Got the score today, it was 92. Down with thinking!!! On with reciting!!! (down with progress for man kind...:( )

[Kenzofeis]

@miketag85209 There is a big difference between knowing and understanding ;p

[dashofchutmeg]

@OA4 What does this have to do with academia? (By the way, you don't have to capitalize it.) It's a satire of consumer culture and the psychological conditioning of relentless marketing and advertisement. When Gatorade tells an uneducated person that he or she needs its product to be a good athlete, eventually, one believes it. What makes you think this is about academia?

[AlienAirDive]

@OA4

Spoken like someone who's never been to college. If you've actually been in a college classroom you would know this isn't the case. Academia does teach people to reason effectively.

The point of the movie is that people aren't being educated, they can't think properly because they're too absorbed in popular culture, of which marketing is a part. The characters in this sketch are simply reciting the advertising slogan of Brawndo. Academia is a part of the solution, not the problem

[plushsnail]

@OA4 Like someone else mentioned - I really don't think this bit has anything to do with academia. It's about advertising, consumerism, pseudo-science, all that stuff; I don't see how academia's part of the joke.

[dolofonos]

@OA4 Had you considered that those in the profession of education are not parrots themselves? Over two-thousand years ago, Archimedes approximated pi with methods that upon examination appear blatant; and yet, both civilization and the concept of pi had been around long before him--his obvious calculation put accepted calculations to shame. This says much about how intelligent people truly are . . . even the most intelligent but imitate, I fear to guess how few per hundred-thousand _innovate_.

[Renegen1]

I think more than a metaphor for Academia it's an extremely obvious satire of the corporate world... Gatorade used to advertise its "electrolytes", hence the joke. And people believe anything the brands tell them. Smarten up, brands are just a lie to make you buy stuff.

[brianwesley28]

I love their medallions. Funny shit. Great movie with a serious undertone.