Card mix-ups at Miss Universe and Academy awards, mic malfunctions at the Grammys, restarted botched performances... These are all the "beautiful people" who like to use their celebrity as a stump to proclaim their world saving ideologies and wag their fingers at everybody else that doesn't share their political views. Even with cue cards and teleprompters they still have to pause at a stumble and say, "LINE?". These are the big influences of 3 generations of "Idiocracy".