Demolition Man's Writer Explains How the 3 Seashells Came To Be

Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man.

Over the decades, few film debates have endured as much as Demolition Man’s three seashells. The weird, seemingly throwaway detail in the 1993 film starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, and Wesley Snipes has long been a point of contention among fans and now we can at least put one aspect of that debate to bed: where, exactly, that detail came from.

To briefly recap, Demolition Man (which was released 30 years ago this week, actually) is about a 1996 cop (Stallone) who is frozen and reanimated in 2032 to help stop a criminal from his time (Snipes). The future is filled with all sorts of excellent, hilarious details (Taco Bell!) and one is that humans no longer use toilet paper in the bathroom. They use three seashells.

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How exactly does one... use the seashells? Well, that’s a whole other debate that doesn’t have a definitive answer. But now two things are definitive about the three seashells. Where they came from and that they remain one of the most talked-about aspects of the 30-year-old film.

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