2024年12月15日 · The Three Seashells are a mysterious set of seashells which have replaced toilet tissue in the 1993 science fiction action film Demolition Man. Online, many fan theories have arisen attempting to explain the function of the shells.

2014年10月14日 · Sometime after Demolition Man was released, Sylvester Stallone revealed that a screenwriter on the film had explained to him how to use the three seashells: Use the first and second like "chopsticks" to pull the feces out of your anus, then use the third to scrape away any remaining waste.

2024年8月15日 · Demolition Man's future revealed that Three Seashells have replaced toilet paper. Here's how they are supposed to function in the bathroom.

2021年1月15日 · Instead of using toilet paper in the future, people make use of three metallic-looking seashells that sit right beside the toilet. How they work is never answered in the movie, which has led to a wide variety of theories on the matter, put forth by everyone from the film’s stars to diagram-drawing fans online.

2023年10月10日 · Instead of toilet paper, people are expected to use three seashells when going to the bathroom. Cast member Sandra Bullock attempted to explain to MTV News: "Well, think of a bidet, right? "There are several processes. You have number one, you have number two, and then the cleanup. "You can use them as little maracas as well.

One of the gags in the film revolves around a bathroom implement, universally referred to as "The Three Seashells", that has come to replace toilet paper. While no shots of the shells (either at rest or in use) are featured in the movie itself, a prop was constructed, and it looked like this:

2016年1月14日 · In San Angeles, people no longer use toilet paper. They consider it barbaric. Instead, they rely on sets of three seashells. After using two of them to yank poop out of their bottoms ala chopsticks, they use the third to scrape away any remaining doodie. Once they’re all cleaned up, they flush the seashells down the toilet.

2023年10月13日 · Basically, Waters couldn’t think of something futuristic in the bathroom, called his friend and fellow writer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt) who happened to be in the bathroom at the moment. He looked around, saw some seashells as part of a potpourri set, and mentioned it to Waters. The rest is history."

2021年9月22日 · Here is a helpful guide on how to use the Three Seashells from Demolition Man. This will come in handy if there is a toilet paper shortage:

2012年3月15日 · By 2032, toilet paper has fallen out of use; a set of three seashells is provided in every toilet stall. Though their method of use is left unexplained in the movie, Stallone later suggested a possible method in an interview as told to him by one of the film's writers involving extraction with two and scraping with one.