#SOYLENT GREEN MOVIE#
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In the future, Soylent Brown is sold at the Kwik-E-Mart and Soylent Green is also advertised.ĭracula warns everyone that Duff Beer is made out of people. The euthanasia clinic is based on the one from Soylent Green, including the viewing of a film with music playing in the background. In the 'Wiz Kids' segment, during the Springwart's School of Magicry magic recital, Principal Skinner jokingly introduces Lisa as 'A second-grade sorceress so powerful, she made tonight's refreshments out of dead people!', which elicits groans of disgust from the audience. In the future, Homer offers Bart Soylent Green, but Ralph comments that it's made of people. This same sequence also references Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Burns is using recycling to create Slurry from animals, she attempts to warn the townspeople in a scene based on the finale to Soylent Green when Frank Thorn tries to warn everyone that Soylent Green is made of people. Similar to the plot of Soylent Green, in the 'Nightmare Cafeteria' segment, the staff at Springfield Elementary School turn to cannibalism to solve the problem of overpopulation in the detention room. In a flashforward sequence, a man buys Soylent Green to eat at the Aztec Theater. References to Soylent Green in The Simpsons Episodes Picture

1 References to Soylent Green in The Simpsons.

I encourage comments and fellow bloggers to tell me their thoughts on Soylent Green. I am genuinely interested in people's responses. No one would have to know, you could have just one. There is a big ol' plate of Soylent Green cubes right in front of you right now. The Soylent Green is your only option other than starvation. You haven't eaten in four days and it's a fifty-mile trek to the Twinkie factory on your map. You find a bag of Soylent Green (it keeps forever) in an abandoned supply depot. The overcrowded, polluted, impoverished world from before was a joy compared with the daily nightmare you now endure.

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Long Pig sends you a free bag of jerky to try. Scientists think vat-meat might be necessary to feed everybody in a couple decades, and if it's vat-grown, who is to say some of what's in the vats isn't people meat? Let's say you live in the world of Transmet, where everyone eats Long Pig, including your favorite journalist. Transmet 's lunatic anti-hero gonzo journalist, Spider Jerusalem, loves eating Long Pig, which is brand name, vat-grown human meat. Perhaps my favorite comic, Transmetropolitan has its own version of the other, other white meat: Long Pig. You haven't eaten in a day and, after waiting in line for 4 hours, you get handed your bag of Soylent Green (because Tuesday is Soylent Green day!). The world is overcrowded, hot, there is no food and you are starving.

In what situations would a reasonable person eat food made of people? Let me set up some scenarios for you, and you tell me how much you'd love to eat Soylent Green (which is people) in that scenario. We're all rational, scientifically minded individuals.

So, in the spirit of ethical inquiry, I'd like to do some thought experiments. So what to do with the bodies of humans in a world where there is no room to put them and everyone is starving? What to do indeed. There is no space for anything in the movie's version of the future (people are everywhere) and cremation involves burning, which isn't exactly great for global warming. Marauding hoards of hillbilly cannibals aren't threatening to strip the meat from your bones. Ok! That last part is traumatic, I admit. Then your body is shipped off and turned into Soylent Green which everyone loves to eat. You die quickly and painlessly from a colorless, odorless gas.

#SOYLENT GREEN MOVIE#

When you die, you go to a death-a-torium of sorts where you pay a small fee, then watch a really pretty movie filled with scenes from nature and peaceful music. The government hands out rations of Soylent products, which are awful, flavorless cubes and loafs of 'soy' (actually plankton but really it's irrelevant cause it's people ) foodstuff that look like red, blue, or green Play-Doh.

#SOYLENT GREEN FULL#

Global warming is in full swing and even rich people have to eat crummy food. įirst, a quick recap: In the movie, the earth is overpopulated and over-polluted. But for what it was, there were some cool ideas in Soylent Green.

But no one ever talks about the rest of that movie, mostly because it's kind of terrible. Remember (* spoiler alert!* sheesh!) Soylent Green is people, as Charlton Heston discovered. I really want to know: Would you eat Soylent Green ?

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