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The most common use of the term Soylent Green today is in reference to the fictional food product which at the center of the film's plot.

1 Movie

The movie, set in the year 2022, depicts a future dystopia of the Malthusian catastrophe that might be awaiting us if humanity does not pursue sustainable development. Charlton Heston plays Thorn, a New York City cop, investigating the suspicious murder of William R. Simonson ( Joseph Cotten), a former member of the board of the Soylent corporation. Thorn's roommate is Sol Roth ( Edward G. Robinson), who is also a police researcher.

In the movie, real food is too expensive, and the government dispenses rations of food substances made by the Soylent corporation: Soylent Yellow, Soylent Red, and the newest product, Soylent Green.

The latter apparently includes recycled bodies of people murdered by the government for food. It also shows bodies being delivered to the Soylent Plant from an assisted suicide facility. However, this was not in the original novel: Soylent, as the name suggests, was derived from soyaSoya (chiefly British English) or soy (chiefly American English) is the herb Glycine max which produces the soya bean or soybean (see that article for more detail). Soya, Hokkaido is a district of Soya subprefecture at the north tip of Hokkaido, Japan. and lentilLentils Lens culinaris Fabaceae) are lens-shaped pulses that grow on an annual, bushlike plant. They have a short cooking time and a distinctive earthy flavor. A variety of lentils exist with colors that range from yellow to red-orange to green, brown ors. The original book was set in the year 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep.

2 The world of Soylent Green

The world in Soylent Green is complex and detailed. It becomes clear that the culture of Earth is significantly different from the time in which it was filmed.

2.1 Slang

3 Trivia

This is the last movie filmed by Edward G. Robinson, who died in 1973.
A character is briefly seen operating a Computer Space arcade game, marking the movie as one of the first to show the emerging pop cultural phenomenon of video games.

4 Cultural references

It was referenced in the animated TV show Rocko's Modern Life. Heffer and Rocko believe that Filburt is an alien, whose species uses Chokey Chicken as the center for their evil. After Heffer confronts Filburt about it, Rocko forces him out of the restaurant Heffer screams, "It's people! Chokey Chicken is people!" A family of chickens who is walking by turn to each other and say "Well, that's a relief!"
Most recently it was quoted in the webcomic No 4th Wall To Break by a borrowed character "Quote Guy" (taken from Repository of Dangerous Things)
It has been mentioned on the animated TV series Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law, where the owner of the law firm "Phil" yells out in the cafeteria "It's people! The Mediterranean wrap is people!! No... wait... maybe it's baba ganoush."
Soylent Green has been mentioned on the animated TV series Futurama, along with the parodies Soylent Cola (the taste varies from person to person) and Glagnar's Human Rinds. Also, human meat is available at a shop in Little Neptune in NYC; and there was a somewhat direct parody of Soylent Green where the crew discovers the ingrediants of the soft drink "Slurm".
Soylent Green has been hinted at in the animated TV series Family Guy, as well. In the episode "E Peterbus Unum", a cartoon Slobodan Milosevic jokes that the party guests eat the potato salad because "It's made out of people!"
References to Soylent Green have been made in several episodes of The Simpsons, including:
- " Bart to the Future", in which a future Ralph chastizes Bart for eating Soylent Green (Now with More Girls!)
- " Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie ", in which Homer buys Soylent Green at a movie theater
- " The Old Man and the Lisa ", in which Mr. Burns catches aquatic life and " recycles" them into an all-purpose slurry. Lisa runs up and down the streets and tells people not to recycle ("It's murder! You're helping Mr. Burns!")
- " Treehouse of Horror V ", in which Bart, Lisa and Milhouse discover that their cafeteria is killing students to make the food, as a solution to overcrowding in public schools
An excerpt from Soylent Green was re-enacted in the 1999 film Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Soilent Green is the name of a grindcore/ progressive rock music band.
Soilent Grün early 1980ies German Punkrock Band with later members of Die Ärzte
Soylent Green is a song of industrial band Wumpscut. Song contains audio samples from the german dubbed version of the movie.
Saturday Night Live has parodied Soylent Green in several sketches, including:
- "Let's Talk and Talk and Talk About Movies", a review of bad movie sequels, including several horrible sequels to Soylent Green in each of which Charlton Heston (played by Phil Hartman) dramatically screams "It's people!"
- "MTV Future", in which it is the year 2054, and Jessica Simpson is still confused about the contents of Chicken of the Sea brand tuna fish . It is revealed that both chicken and tuna are extinct, and it is, in fact, people.
In the computer game Warcraft 3, clicking on a Troll Witch Doctor several times in a row makes him say : "Soylent Grey is made from trolls?!"
NationStates, an online-based political simulation computer game, has frequent references to Soylent products, mostly indicating that nations are not particularly concerned with human rights.
Space Quest VI: The Spinal Fronter, an installment from the popular adventure game series, had a food replicator (although technically a wormhole to the restaurant universe) named Mr. Soylent. Whenever one came up to it and click on the screen, a song would come up:

This world's a great big ball of dirt with fifty billion souls/ Who like to sit around and veg down in the dark like moles./ But me I'm just the kind of girl who loves the open air/ With bits of unburned hydrocarbons blowing through my hair.

New Soylent Clear, the last frontier, for clearly better taste./ Less people too, like me and you in less reprocessed ways./ More hearty crunch in snacks or lunch, it's crystal clear to see/ New Soylent Clear's the last frontier for folks like you and meeeeeee!

New Soylent Clear. Clearly less people, clearly more taste.

In 1996 TV series Millennium, main character Frank Black (played by actor Lance Henriksen) uses the term "Soylent Green is people" as the voice password to his computer.
The online store ThinkGeek recently put a shirt out for sale, which states "Soylent Green is people, too!"

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