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Contrast BalloonBelly and FatComicRelief (which are about fat people PlayedForLaughs) and {{Acrofatic}} (which is about fat people that can achieve impressive physical feats despite their weight). Also contrast BeYourself if a character slimming down has a negative effect on their character or they're not doing so except to please someone who otherwise would value them less. See also DietEpisode.

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Contrast BalloonBelly and FatComicRelief (which are about fat people PlayedForLaughs) and {{Acrofatic}} (which is about fat people that can achieve impressive physical feats despite their weight). Also contrast BeYourself if a character slimming down has a negative effect on their character or they're not doing so except to please someone who otherwise would value them less. See also DietEpisode. Compare DiseasePreventionAesop and SleepAesop for more health-related Aesops.
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* "Grande Size Me" from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is a pretty blatant case of this, in which Ron goes on a diet comprised exclusively of food from the Bueno Nacho to prove they are not unhealthy even as Kim tries to talk sense into him. After being exposed to a sinister weight gain formula, Ron mutates into an obese Hulk-esque monster who Kim can only defeat by feeding healthy foods.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E10TheItis The Itis]]" is about [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ed Wuncler I]] helping Robert Freeman with starting a new restaurant called The Itis. The Itis, which serves extremely unhealthy soul food, causes the surrounding neighborhood to turn into a slum plagued by obesity, poverty, and crime.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E10TheItis The Itis]]" is about [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ed Wuncler I]] helping Robert Freeman with starting a new restaurant called The Itis. The Itis, which serves extremely unhealthy and [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin addictive]] soul food, causes the surrounding neighborhood to turn into a slum plagued by obesity, poverty, and crime.crime. Besides eating habits themselves, it's a more general satire of following your heritage [[CultureJustifiesAnything even at the expense of your health]].
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* ''Leopold the Lion'' has the eponymous lion turn from a lively, joyous circus performer to a [[FatCat chubby]], sedentary, and depressed feline when Jack and Ella, who find him, keep him in a small bedroom and feed him loads of junk food. He turns back to his former self when they feed him a healthy lion diet and bring him to the backyard to exercise. Fortunately, unlike other examples, the Aesop is delivered subtly and requires some interpretation to fish it out.
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* Augustus Gloop, of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', may count, thanks to his unfavorable portrayal.

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* Augustus Gloop, of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', may count, thanks cares about nothing but eating junk food and is morbidly obese. While loving candy is portrayed as a normal and good thing through most of the book, Augustus takes it to a bad extreme, and his unfavorable portrayal. greed in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Room leads to LaserGuidedKarma for him.
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Contrast BalloonBelly and FatComicRelief (which are about fat people PlayedForLaughs) and {{Acrofatic}} (which is about fat people that can achieve impressive physical feats despite their weight). See also DietEpisode.

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Contrast BalloonBelly and FatComicRelief (which are about fat people PlayedForLaughs) and {{Acrofatic}} (which is about fat people that can achieve impressive physical feats despite their weight). Also contrast BeYourself if a character slimming down has a negative effect on their character or they're not doing so except to please someone who otherwise would value them less. See also DietEpisode.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had the episode "Just Desserts!" in which Timmy wishes that it was dessert all the time. By day 28 of the wish everyone is severely obese and gets to the point of rolling around. The extra weight causes the Earth to tilt on its axis and spin towards the sun.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had the episode "Just Desserts!" in which Timmy wishes that it was dessert all the time. By day 28 of the wish everyone is severely obese and gets to the point of rolling around. The extra weight causes the Earth to tilt on its axis and spin towards the sun. [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Somehow]].
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* In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', Frank is shown as having a very unhealthy lifestyle despite the constant urging of his daughter to shape up. He finally begins to take his health seriously after a brush with death.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has "The Diet Syndrome", where after eating endless sweets to her heart's content without fear of gaining weight, Stocking goes on a diet and exercise frenzy when she finds she's gotten heavier. After becoming inhumanly obese, Stocking discovers that her desserts have been tainted by the powers of a ghost, and only returns to her normal self after the ghost is destroyed. Stocking then returns to her sweets, choosing not to sweat over a little extra weight.


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* "Grande Size Me" from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is a pretty blatant case of this, in which Ron goes on a diet comprised exclusively of food from the Bueno Nacho to prove they are not unhealthy even as Kim tries to talk sense into him. After being exposed to a sinister weight gain formula, Ron mutates into an obese Hulk-esque monster who Kim can only defeat by feeding healthy foods.
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* Some younger teenage tropers may remember watching Lazytown as a kid, a show BASED on this trope.

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* Some younger teenage tropers may remember watching Lazytown Series/LazyTown as a kid, a show BASED on this trope.
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These morals tend to get heavy-handed which, combined with their increasing frequency since the TurnOfTheMillennium, can quickly make them the bane of GenreSavvy viewers. In all fairness, though, many children in developed countries ''have'' been getting heavier to the point of obesity in recent years (as have many adults, for that matter), so obviously the higher-ups want to tell people about it.

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These morals tend to get heavy-handed which, combined with their increasing frequency since the TurnOfTheMillennium, can quickly make them the bane of GenreSavvy viewers. In all fairness, though, many children in developed countries ''have'' been getting heavier to the point of obesity in recent years (as have many adults, for that matter), so obviously the higher-ups want to tell people about it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': In "Girlie Boys", Caitlin learns the hard way to never eat too much chocolate before trying on jeans.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One episode has the town declared as the fattest town in America. This greatly concerns Marge and she manages to convince other people to enforce a ban on sugar so that everyone can start eating healthier. Naturally, people resist to the point of smuggling sugar prohibition style. StatusQuoIsGod kicks in at the end where Marge eventually gives up and lets people indulge in their sugar cravings.
** Zig-zagged in one episode where Homer purposely gains weight to the point of weighing over 300 pounds because it would make him legally disabled, thus he can work from home and never have to physically go to work. A moment later, he gets a warning from the power plant that there will be a meltdown if the problem is not taken care of right now. Homer races to the source and winds up plugging up the hole with his enlarged rear, which somehow stops the threat. Homer realizes that if he had not gained weight, he would have fallen to his death. Homer then decides he has to lose weight so Marge would not be turned off by his body anymore. Mr. Burns tries to get Homer to exercise, but gives up after seeing Homer is too fat to do a proper sit up and decides to just get him liposuction.
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These morals tend to get heavy-handed which, combined with their increasing frequency since the TurnOfTheMillennium, can quickly make them the bane of GenreSavvy viewers. In all fairness, though, many children in developed countries ''have'' been getting heavier to the point of obesity in recent years (as have many adults, for that matter), so obviously the higher-ups want to tell people about it.
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* ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' has an episode entitled "Fitness Fiend", which has Dedede obtaining potato chips designed to be ''very''' addictive and to cause the consumer to increase in size by a great deal. Unfortunately, ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard he]]'' ends up falling victim to their effect, along with Kirby, forcing him and Kirby to lose the weight with the monster Max Flexer (granted, that was their original goal, minus Dedede also being forced to).

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* ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' has an episode entitled "Fitness Fiend", which has Dedede obtaining potato chips designed to be ''very''' ''very'' addictive and to cause the consumer to increase in size by a great deal. Unfortunately, ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard he]]'' ends up falling victim to their effect, along with Kirby, forcing him and Kirby to lose the weight with the monster Max Flexer (granted, that was their original goal, minus Dedede also being forced to).
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These morals tend to get heavy-handed which, combined with their increasing frequency since the TurnOfTheMillennium, can quickly make them the bane of GenreSavvy viewers. In all fairness, though, many children in developed countries ''have'' been getting heavier to the point of obesity in recent years (as have many adults, for that matter), so obviously the higher-ups want to tell people about it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E10TheItis The Itis]]" is about [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ed Wuncler I]] helping Robert Freeman with starting a new restaurant called The Itis. The Itis, which serves extremely unhealthy soul food, causes the surrounding neighborhood to turn into a slum plagued by obesity, poverty, and crime.
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* {{Defied}} in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''. King Koopa opens a fast food restaurant and the cave people become hooked on their food. Only Mario, Luigi and Yoshi are shown to have gained weight, then the episode turns into a SpaceWhaleAesop where the victims of Koopa's food turn into Chickadactyls.

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What do you think will come of that?"''

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What do you think will come of that?"''that?\\
I don't like the look of it"''
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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.

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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'', [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.
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->''What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?\\

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* ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' has an episode entitled "Fitness Fiend", which involves Dedede trying to make super-fattening, addictive potato chips. Unfortunately, ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard he]]'' ends up falling victim to their effect, along with Kirby!

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* ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' has an episode entitled "Fitness Fiend", which involves has Dedede trying obtaining potato chips designed to make super-fattening, be ''very''' addictive potato chips. and to cause the consumer to increase in size by a great deal. Unfortunately, ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard he]]'' ends up falling victim to their effect, along with Kirby! Kirby, forcing him and Kirby to lose the weight with the monster Max Flexer (granted, that was their original goal, minus Dedede also being forced to).
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** Some younger teenage tropers may remember watching Lazytown as a kid, a show BASED on this trope.

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** * Some younger teenage tropers may remember watching Lazytown as a kid, a show BASED on this trope.
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* {{Subverted}} in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' in which Brandon and Jason become overweight from overindulgence in junk food and decide they've become "fat enablers"; when they're apart they [[FormerlyFat drop the weight just fine]], but when they spend time together they revert to their old overindulging ways. {{Subverted}} because at the end of the episode they decide that their friendship is more important to them than their weight, they rope Melissa into joining them to become morbidly obese, and they make a series of movie parodies like "Fat Club." [[SnapBack Then they're back to normal in the next episode.]]

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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.


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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.
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** Some younger teenage tropers may remember watching Lazytown as a kid, a show BASED on this trope.
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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.



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* In ''[[DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (Kpts4tv)]]'' [[MemeticMutation Light takes the potato chips...]] and throws them out because that fat will go straight to his thighs.
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