What the hell is "soylent green"?!?

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I've heard of that both in "30% Iron Chef" and "A Roswell that ends well", but in my english dictionary I didn't found the word "soylent". Does it means somewhat as "synthetic" or "recycled"? What is it and why it's is supposed to be fun? 

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It's food made out of people, I know it sounds really yukky, but that's what it is I think it was mentioned in "Fry & The Slurm Factory" as well

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The term Soylent Green comes from a SciFi film of the same title (I think) made in the 70's.
It featured Charlton Heston playing a cop who discovers that goverment, in order to feed a starving population,is producing a food stuff called "Soylent Green"

The main ingrediant of which is recycled human bodies.

Hence the Futurama references to it  .

I don't know what soylent means however  .

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Damn you Otis!

Steal my thunder will you   

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Originally posted by AstroZombie:
Damn you Otis!

Steal my thunder will you   

Hehe, sorry

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thank you all

the film Astrozombie is talking about was inspired by a book perhaps?
I'm not sure if the movie was aired here in Italy. I guess no, because I like sci-fi movies and never heard of this one. Too bad, otherwise I could have appreciated the joke in Futurama 

bye

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It's people!  Soylent Green is people!

Sorry, couldn't resist.   

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It might well have been a book, but it is an old movie.

out of interest it isnt the only Charlton Heston Movie to be mentioned in a Matt Groening Cartoon,

The Simpsons, Tree house of Horror Story "The Homega Man was a homage to Hestons Movie "The Omega Man" where hes the only human to survive a terrible plague, Survive unmutated that is, mwahahahahaha 

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And The Omega Man was directed by the late Boris Sagal, Katey Sagal's father.   

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The movie, "Soylent Green", is based on the book "Make room! Make room!" by Harry Harrison.

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Another Heston reference: Calculons unfunny and completely unrelvant line "Get your stinking trike off me, you damn dirty ape!" in "Futurestock".

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I loved that scene for its completely pointlessness.

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Planet of the Apes has been referenced multiple times in the Simpsons.

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Harry Harrison! his books are avaiable in Italy, I checked-

ohh fine, I decided which book I'll read next week 

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The Professor's soylent line in 'Roswell' was hilarious.