One of my husband’s favorite movies is Idiocracy (2006). I’ve
never seen it. I probably don’t have to, as he’s so fond of quoting it. From
what I can tell, it’s a dystopian sci-fi comedy about a librarian who’s put
into suspended animation for 500 years. He wakes up in a world where for
generations, only stupid people procreated. I read somewhere that the producers
asked the movie’s costume designers to find “futuristic, but goofy-looking”
footwear for the cast to wear during filming. They found a small, obscure company in Colorado that made soft clogs out of polyethylene vinyl
acetate foam. The costume designers decided “nobody in their right mind” would ever
wear these ugly shoes, so they’d be perfect for the movie. At some point, they
were asked what would happen if these odd shoes ever took off, and they doubled down, saying there’s no way anyone would seriously buy these. The shoes in
question were Crocs.
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