Corrected entry: When Joe and the rest of the White House staff are checking out the crops, they tell him that they have found Rita. When she asks him what he's doing Joe says that they made him secretary. Rita asks him "Secretary of what?" but he never tells. A couple of seconds later, when they are walking across the field, she asks him something along the lines of "How did you get to be Secretary of Interior", but no one ever told her what he was secretary of.
Idiocracy (2006)
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Directed by: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard
Continuity mistake: When Joe meets the President he is wearing orange Crocs, but when the President grabs his head he is wearing black flip flops.
Phone Computer: Welcome to AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government Long Distance. Please say the name of the person you wish to call.
Rita: Upgrayedd.
Phone Computer: There are 9,726 listings for "Upgrayedd." Please deposit $2,000 to begin connection.
Trivia: Upgrayedd is portrayed by Scarface of the group Geto Boys. Mike Judge's previous film, Office Space, included Geto Boys songs such as Still, when the office workers smash the printer. According to the DVD commentary - The explanation given by Officer Collins in the Army staff meeting that Upgrayedd is spelled with two D's for a "double dose of this pimpin'" is a direct reference to the documentary American Pimp, in which real-life pimp Rosebudd offers that same explanation for the spelling of his name.
Question: How did they stay frozen the whole time if they demolished the building? Wouldn't something that can keep a person frozen, require a lot of power? Did they just decide to demolish the building without checking that the power was out? Didn't they put a fudruckers on top of it? How did they remain frozen so long?
Answer: The science in this movie is far-fetched at best. Assumedly the pods had some sort of battery backup for emergencies. If the battery lasted 500 years, we can just assume it was secret government technology.
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Correction: Rita could easily tell that Joe was the "Secretary of the Interior". If you look closely, people's positions are printed on their shirt sleeves - including Joe.
Shaun Ewing