Similarities Between...

Idiocracy v.s. I Think We're All Bozos on a Bus

I found many similarities in I Think We’re All Bozos on a Bus and Idiocracy. Both worlds were incredibly stupid. They were both futures in which everything around the main character was not intellectual. Both societies were affected greatly in some way or another by advertising, and commercialism. In the both the main character is significantly more intelligent than the machines and the other people around them. They are both easily able to outwit anyone or thing and elude capture. Both societies have become “anti-intellectual.” 

Both societies also have caused a uniformly stupid race of people. This is displayed somewhat blatantly by I Think We’re all Bozos on a Bus, because everyone on the bus in a clown with the exception of the main character. Another similarity I found intriguing is when the computers malfunction both characters names. In ITWABOAB the computer misinterprets Clem’s name as Ahclem and a computer does the same in Idiocracy and names Joe, “Not Sure.” Also both have amusement rides that are wildly inaccurate and history themed. Both Clem and Joe in someway “crash the system” and overcome the “idiocracy” surrounding them.