We open in a dystopian near future hellscape run by fearsome
robots known as the Fiberdyne “Nutritionators”, and they keep all humans in
prison camps where they are force-fed fiber by the Nutritionators. The Nutritionators
are manufactured by Fiberdyne, the company designated by the government to
enforce nutritional guidelines for fiber intake set forth by the Department of Health
and Human Services. (The Nutritionators were originally programmed to educate
and encourage people to eat healthily, making sure to put enough fiber in their
diets, but the robots became self-aware, and based upon their programming they
decided it was their duty to rigidly enforce the fiber guidelines by force upon
the human population, you know, for their own good.) Then we see individuals
terrorized and force-fed massive amounts of fiber in some dehumanizing gray
concrete feeding room, where people are locked into an assembly line for
force-feeding by robots.
Then we cut to a middle class suburban kitchen at breakfast
time, and the mother tells their children that this is what will happen soon if
they do not eat enough fiber, and that the best way to get enough fiber, and to
defuse the threat of the Nutritionators, is to eat Fiber One cereal. Plus, it’s
delicious! And so the kids start eating their bowls of Fiber One cereal with
gusto, joined by their father, who says he’s glad there’s an easy and pleasant
escape from that fate worse than death awaiting those who do not eat enough
fiber.
(This is obviously a joke on the Terminator movies.)
