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Soylent Green skit on SNL

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Daniel Maloney

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96
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Does anybody remember this skit? I finally saw the whole movie
today, and I'm trying to remember the skit that SNL did a couple
years ago that parodied it. I think Phil Hartman played
the Heston role.

dan


John Stasick

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Jun 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/3/96
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yeah, I remember it. It was pretty funny. A down and out Heston (played
by Hartman) appeared as the guest on a cinematic retrospective talk show
where the topic of discussion was Soylent Green and its sequels. They
played the climatic scene to the movie and each of its sequels (with
Hartman standing in for Heston of course)...
"Soylent green is PEOPLE!!"
"Soylent white is PEOPLE!!"
"Soylent blue is PEOPLE!!"
No matter how they changed Soylent green in the Soylent sequels,
reflected Heston/Hartman, they could never match the initial shock and
success of the original.

TrancerMor

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96
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John Stasick <john_s...@nortel.com> wrote:

where the topic of discussion was Soylent Green and its sequels.

Sequels? I did not know there were any sequels. Please, someone enlighten
me!

Thanks;
Trancer

John Stasick

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Jun 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/4/96
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>Sequels? I did not know there were any sequels. Please, someone >enlighten
>me!
>
>Thanks;
>Trancer

Go back and reread the thread, Trancer. We are talking about a SNL skit with Phil Hartman playing the part of Chuck Heston.


Peter Meilinger

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Jun 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/5/96
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Daniel Maloney (chna...@Capital.Net) wrote:
: Does anybody remember this skit? I finally saw the whole movie

: today, and I'm trying to remember the skit that SNL did a couple
: years ago that parodied it. I think Phil Hartman played
: the Heston role.

I remember it, I think. They talked about all these sequels. Like they'd
have two office workers mentioning that the new "Soylent White" paper was
great, and Phil would come in screaming "Soylent White is people! It's
people!!" You probably had to be there. The skit was set up like an
interview with Heston/Hartman about all the sequels and he said none
of them really worked until they went back to Soylent Green instead of
using other colors. "They lied to us! They said they stopped using people,
but they lied. Soylent Green is still people! It's people!!"

Pete

Matt Martinez

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Jun 7, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/7/96
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Peter Meilinger wrote:
> I remember it, I think. They talked about all these sequels. Like they'd
> have two office workers mentioning that the new "Soylent White" paper was
> great, and Phil would come in screaming "Soylent White is people! It's
> people!!" You probably had to be there. The skit was set up like an
> interview with Heston/Hartman about all the sequels and he said none
> of them really worked until they went back to Soylent Green instead of
> using other colors. "They lied to us! They said they stopped using people,
> but they lied. Soylent Green is still people! It's people!!"
>

And don't forget "Soylent Cow Pies"!

--

Matt

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Josh Allen

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Jun 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/8/96
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John Stasick wrote:
>
> >Does anybody remember this skit? I finally saw the whole movie
> >today, and I'm trying to remember the skit that SNL did a couple
> >years ago that parodied it. I think Phil Hartman played
> >the Heston role.
> >
> >dan
>
> yeah, I remember it. It was pretty funny. A down and out Heston (played
> by Hartman) appeared as the guest on a cinematic retrospective talk show
> where the topic of discussion was Soylent Green and its sequels. They
> played the climatic scene to the movie and each of its sequels (with
> Hartman standing in for Heston of course)...
> "Soylent green is PEOPLE!!"
> "Soylent white is PEOPLE!!"
> "Soylent blue is PEOPLE!!"
> No matter how they changed Soylent green in the Soylent sequels,
> reflected Heston/Hartman, they could never match the initial shock and
> success of the original.

That was a great sketch...only I think it was John Goodman playing the
director of Soylent Green that was the guest on the talk show. My
favorite line of his: "And then there was Soylent Stooges. And I don't
even want to talk about that."

josh

V-X

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Jun 24, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/24/96
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On Sat, 08 Jun 1996 18:56:02 -0400, Josh Allen wrote:


>> "Soylent green is PEOPLE!!"
>> "Soylent white is PEOPLE!!"
>> "Soylent blue is PEOPLE!!"

Best one: "Soylent Cow Pies are PEEEEEOOPLE!"


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