The plan: freeze them for one year and see if they can be revived. But the project is abandoned when the lead officer is arrested for selling military secrets. In the ensuing chaos, the hangar housing the hibernation pods is demolished. Joe and Rita are forgotten, buried underground.
President Camacho is facing a massive crisis. The nation’s crops are dying, leading to a looming famine. His best scientific minds (a bunch of wrestlers and strippers) have failed. In desperation, he sees Joe’s high IQ test score (which is a three-digit number, a concept they can barely understand) and declares Joe the new "Secretary of the Interior."
News spreads. President Camacho, who is not evil, just a product of his environment, sees the result and has a moment of clarity. He flies out to the farm, drops to one knee, and says to Joe: "Shit. I thought you was some kinda dickhead. But you ain't. You're a straight-up, badass motherfucker. Not like these other pussy-ass fucks." idiocracy full film
Camacho reinstates Joe. They broadcast Joe’s simple farming technique across the nation. Using human waste to fertilize and water crops becomes the new revolution. Joe becomes a folk hero.
He and Rita are arrested for "not having tattoos" (tribal tattoos are mandatory) and sent to a rehabilitation facility. There, Joe explains his situation to a gurney-obsessed doctor and eventually meets President Camacho. The plan: freeze them for one year and
The epilogue shows a revitalized (but still very stupid) America. Joe and Rita have fallen in love and have a family. Joe becomes the most revered leader in history, eventually having his face carved onto Mount Rushmore (which now includes him, Camacho, and two other bizarre figures).
After a failed attempt to reason with them, Joe suggests they use water from the toilet. This is considered disgusting. Joe is laughed out of the room and sentenced to a public "smackdown" (execution) on live TV. Joe and Rita are forgotten, buried underground
500 years later, the hibernation pods automatically thaw out. Joe and Rita crawl to the surface of a unrecognizable America. The world they find is a dystopian nightmare of rampant stupidity, consumerism, and environmental collapse.
However, the final scene delivers the film’s darkest punchline. Back in the hibernation lab in 2005, another pod is found. It opens, revealing the man who was originally supposed to be the "most average" subject: a defense attorney named Donald. He was swapped out at the last minute by Joe because "that guy was an asshole."
Joe is horrified. He is, by default, the smartest person alive. He tries to find a library or a record of his family, only to find that all books have been replaced by picture-based "books" with single words like "FART" and "POOP." The internet is a series of animated bouncing logos.