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Gulliver63 — Soylent Cola
Published: 2010-10-28 15:23:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 9196; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 64
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This is an idea that was kicking around in my brain the whole time I was down in Orlando; I found myself trying to scribble the ideas down on the back of receipts and such. Futurama has made several references to Soylent Green, and one such reference was in the Slurm Factory where Leela told Fry that the taste of Soylent Cola varied "from person to person". Anyone my age grew up with the movie, and immediately got the joke. I could understand if someone younger didn't, as they don't show it often anymore [link] . For this project I was shooting for a look from those old coke ads from the 40's and 50's...doesn't Leela look neat like that? And Moe makes the perfect soda jerk. Kinda quaint, like a Rockwell painting. And the taste is just swell!Related content
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Hey, power to the people...
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Thanks for the love...I really tried for a 1940's Norman Rockwell on that one...Moe fit right in!
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I could visualize Moe running a diner...
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did you hear... they're gonna do a soylent green in 2012. for my generation, lol.
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didn't hear that...how can you top Charleton Heston and Edward G. Robinson? I do hope that Futurama uses the joke again.
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::mustering a Charlton Heston moment:: "Soylent Cola is made of people!" Honestly, I keep in mind that they barely show the movie anymore, where is was fairly common on tv when I was a kid.
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i know what it's made of. I was making a joke
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I know...but I'm 47 and all the time throwing names and movies around that younger folks don't know what I mean. In ways, I think that a lot of the humor on Futurama is directed to old fogies like us ::chuckles:: That was a long time ago...something like 1970. It was huge on tv. Now with dvd movies and such, I don't think it's such a big deal when a movie comes to tv.
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For instance, we grew up with a show called U.F.O. Gerry Anderson produced it, and then went on to do "Space: 1999". I had just turned 14 when Star Wars hit the theaters.
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well, i don't know how old I was when Star Wars was back in theaters, as in the original trilogy
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I had just turned 14 two months before. I remember it as being one of the few movies that had radio ads promoting it - I used to hear these ads when I was getting my braces worked on. I saw Star Wars in a new theater on the east side of Cincinnati - the theater is now a church, and they kept the building just as it was.
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I also saw "Rocky" in that theater, as well as "Dirty Harry: The Enforcer" and "It's Alive" there. We moved to Indianapolis about two months after that, in July of 1977...been here ever since.
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Later that summer my sister got married back in Cincinnat. For that next year you could have sent my mail to Tatooine, and I would have gotten it. I lived, thought, dreamed, breathed Star Wars. I still have some of the original bubble gum cards. Later in 1977 came "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
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I think of Star Wars as being something really important for our generation, as Woodstock was for some of our older brothers and sisters. The seventies was an interesting time to grow up...we sure had good music. I still think it's funny as all hell that Dick Nixon is one of the main Futurama characters.
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It doesn't seem that long ago that we saw "Impeach Nixon" shirts, and bumper stickers that read "Dick Nixon before he dicks you". I remember his resignation like it was yesterday - I was a 6th grader.
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He resigned after the Watergate scandal ruined his image if i remember correctly. I did a term paper on that incident.
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The movie "All The President's Men" was about the whole thing...the Watergate incident nearly disappeared on the back pages of the newspapers, if not for the courageous efforts of two reporters and their lady editor at the Washington Post. Nixon and his thugs literally tried to ruin them.
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BTW, "Soylent Green" is based on [link] !_Make_Room!
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When I was at the Harry Potter part of Universal Studios last week, it felt a little like Soylent Green...I got a little claustrophobic in one of the shops - too many people.
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Ha ha I know that feeling.
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The candy shop there reminded me of the old Star Trek episode where Kirk was on the planet Gideon...all those people jammed together until you could barely walk.
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I didn't think I'd find the picture, but I did. They tried to use a disease that Kirk had to solve their overpopulation problem. When Kirk finally saw what the planet looked like, it looked like this [link] . That's also what the candy shop at Universal's World of Harry Potter looks like on an average day.
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I don't know, but they had achieved some sort of immortality...the cost of this was extreme overpopulation. Stylish, though...
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They didn't try to colonize other planets?
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Not a high enough tech level, I guess.
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Ach, link got broken.
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Thanks! I still love that Parabox quote.
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my favorite line in the episode, because it's so true
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I guess mine would have to be "I'm still technically alive". Did you notice that I have the tag "Parabox Traveller" under my name on the main page?
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Cool! I remember that jokle from "Fry and the Slurm Factory"! I think that's my favorite episode of Futurama in fact!
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It is an awfully good episode. That joke cracked me up.
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