# Eating while excreting suit. \[Identify this short film\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880 "2018-04-05T17:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/1 "2018-04-05T17:32:24Z")
Does this line ring a bell??? The corporation has granted Mr. “Blank” a " day off" in this dystopian future. This short film is pretty old if I remember correctly. If any person could remind me of the correct title so I can look for it. My Google guessing brings me nothing. My memory tells me this is from the era of Aeon Flux. Back in time when we had sci fi. Not S\*\*t fy. Aeon was probably MTV. Thank you for your greatly appreciated assistance. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/2 "2018-04-05T17:59:57Z")
**Moderator Action** Moved from GQ to Cafe Society. Also, title edited to more clearly indicate the topic. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/3 "2018-04-05T18:23:20Z")
Could you be a little more clear about what you’re asking about? The man with a day off is eating, and simultaneously he’s producing a suit by pooping it out? Are we talking about a sports-jacket-and-tie sort of suit, or a spacesuit, or something else? Is this something seen on screen, or talked about? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/4 "2018-04-05T18:30:54Z")
I, too, am confused. This is almost certainly **not** what you’re looking for, but the thread title reminded me of Mr. Show’s [Burgundy Loaf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSEwcksglTw) sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/5 "2018-04-05T18:34:06Z")
It is a suit designed for eating while simultaneously excreting. Spoiler, it fails miserably. Corporations run this dystopian future making shoddy products. The short movie revolves mostly around a single worker and his " day off". ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/6 "2018-04-05T18:41:07Z")
The device sounds a bit like the [stillsuit from the Dune universe,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_in_the_Dune_universe#Stillsuit) although the plot you’re describing does not. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/7 "2018-04-05T19:03:02Z")
Couldn’t you eat and excrete while wearing _any_ suit? ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/8 "2018-04-05T20:29:31Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Couldn’t you eat and excrete while wearing _any_ suit? Build on this, O.P., what is the suit supposed to do, and what, instead does it do? What else does this guy do on his day off while enjoying the time savings this suit gives him, and why? This sounds Terry Gilliam’s _Brazil_-esque, but given its a short film, could be anyone’s work. “eat while you excrete” _sounds_ like a tagline I’ve heard, but that just works no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/9 "2018-04-05T20:38:20Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Couldn’t you eat and excrete while wearing _any_ suit? Of course not. Some suits can only be worn in the evenings, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/10 "2018-04-06T01:06:03Z")
1. It isn’t a suit in the sense of a 3 piece suit. more industrial. Face mask that covers the head I believe along with almost diaper like bottom. everything is attached with hoses. You eat at one end and excrete into the other. He is warned not to mix the two up. A notice is delivered, on paper, giving notice that to improve his living conditions they will be adjusting his living quarters. He barely has the time to read it when the walls start closing in almost crushing his legs before he jumps onto his bed. There may be a few other antics, but they finally give him his day off, a Hatch opens leading up and out. He stands shivering nervously as he looks at the trees, and perfectly manicured grass. His eyes light up and he runs to a single standing wall with bars across the opening. Grasping the bars and staring out he finally relaxes and smiles. looking at the trees etc. through the bars. If I remember properly, it ran on MTV or Sci-Fi Channel. Definitely before Sy-Fy Channel. I am thinking early 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/11 "2018-04-07T23:36:05Z")
So … they call it an eat and excrete, but in reality, its an excrete and eat, kinda like the Star Trek replicator takes everyone’s food waste and re-replicates into the next meal order. Except built into the suit (yeah, I got that it was probably a scuba type suit) and a low tech version at that. And failure prone. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/12 "2018-04-07T23:38:58Z")
Ok, if its from the Aeon Flux time of MTV, remember that first appeared in Liquid Television. IIRC, many years ago, Viacom put all those online. You could spend a weekend watching everything. I’d do that just for the fun of it if I had the bandwidth. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/13 "2018-04-08T03:56:31Z")
Not exactly what you were looking for, but this is close. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFzTm6fy_zs) ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/14 "2018-04-09T15:18:03Z")
Is it animated, or live action? ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/15 "2018-04-09T16:36:12Z")
This sounds vaguely familiar, but I wonder if it was on USA Network’s Night Flight? ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/16 "2018-04-10T05:45:48Z")
Soylent Green is poop! Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/17 "2018-04-10T06:08:52Z")
caligulathegod,Sorry, not close. Machine Elf, Live action. The one Actor has no dialog. Iggins, Have no idea, but I don’t remember subbing to USA Network’s Night Flight. mixdenny, Wrong movie. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-while-excreting-suit-identify-this-short-film/811880/18 "2018-04-11T00:50:49Z")
USA Network’s Night Flight was free. Yeah, that confused Duckman’s sister-in-law Berniece too. Here’s the movie list: [Night Flight (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight_(TV_series)#Films_shown_on_Night_Flight) You should check if its there.