History Main / AWeightyAesop

* ''Leopold the Lion'' has the eponymous lion turn from a lively, joyous circus performer to a [[CatsAreLazy 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.

* {{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.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' did this with the episode "Fast Foodie". A new Burger Clown opens where Big Coffee stood and Cricket makes a wager with Bill he and Tilly can eat there all the time for every meal with no side effects. He ends up becoming a massive roly-poly while Tilly becomes violently ill; despite this, he won't stop eating the burgers until he gets stuck in the play place slide and Bill reminds him if he should be there the rest of his life. It is that point he learns his lesson and vows never to eat Burger Clown food all the time again, but Bill gets stuck as well, causing the restaurant to be closed down. Cricket is not sad however, as not having his favorite restaurant next door is for the best.

* {{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.]]

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has a DietEpisode in which a trainer's Chespin [[BigEater spends almost all its screen-time eating]], mostly behind his back. Consequently, the Chespin gains so much weight that it can't put up a fight.

* "WesternAnimation/AmericanDad" subverts this trope in "The American Dad After School Special". After it's pointed out that he's put on some weight, Stan takes it to extremes and tries to get as skinny as possible. At first it looks like Haley and Francine are trying to sabotage him by putting fat in his diet food as payback for banning Steve from seeing his fat girlfriend Debbie, but in a twist, it's revealed they're trying to get him to put on weight because he's suffering from anorexia and is actually so thin, you can see his skeleton.
* "WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Gets Fit" is about Arthur freaking out over becoming "husky" ([[InformedDeformity despite not looking any fatter than usual]]).

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a DietEpisode in which a trainer's Chespin [[BigEater spends almost all its screen-time eating]], mostly behind his back. Consequently, the Chespin gains so much weight that it can't put up a fight.

** In "The Heartbroke Kid", after Principal Skinner signs a contract with a vending machine company sponsored by hip-hop artists to allow them to sell their products at the school, Bart becomes greatly hooked on the excessively unhealthy snacks and consumes them frequently, which results in him growing considerably obese and developing a serious addiction toward junk food. One day, he suffers a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where an X-ray scan reveals there are ''[[UpToEleven three malted milk balls clogging his arteries and a wad of Laffy Taffy stuck on his liver]]''. Bart is put on a diet, but, his addiction is too severe, the entire family and a few Springfieldians stage an intervention and send the boy to Serenity Ranch, a rather expensive weight-loss camp led by Tab Spangler, a fitness guru voiced by Creator/AlbertBrooks. Bart ultimately overcomes his addiction after Tab shows him the sacrifices his family is making to afford the camp's bills (namely turning the house into a youth hostel for a bunch of rude German students), whereupon he goes back to the school, smashes the vending machines apart and recovers the money he spent on them to bring it back to his family.

* "WesternAnimation/American Dad" subverts this trope in "The American Dad After School Special". After it's pointed out that he's put on some weight, Stan takes it to extremes and tries to get as skinny as possible. At first it looks like Haley and Francine are trying to sabotage him by putting fat in his diet food as payback for banning Steve from seeing his fat girlfriend Debbie, but in a twist, it's revealed they're trying to get him to put on weight because he's suffering from anorexia and is actually so thin, you can see his skeleton.

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, MissedMealAesop, and SleepAesop for more health-related Aesops.

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.

** In "The Heartbroke Kid", after Principal Skinner signs a contract with a vending machine company sponsored by hip-hop artists to allow them to sell their products at the school, Bart becomes greatly hooked on the excessively unhealthy snacks and consumes them frequently, which results in him growing considerably obese and developing a serious addiction toward junk food. One day, he suffers a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where an X-ray scan reveals there are ''[[UpToEleven three malted milk balls clogging his arteries and a wad of Laffy Taffy stuck on his liver]]''. Bart is put on a diet, but, his addiction is too severe, the entire family and a few Springfieldians stage an intervention and send the boy to Serenity Ranch, a rather expensive weight-loss camp led by Tab Spangler, a fitness guru voiced by Creator/AlbertBrooks. Bart ultimately overcomes his addiction after Tab shows him the sacrifices his family is doing to afford the camp's bills, whereupon he goes back to the school, smashes the vending machines apart and recovers the money he spent on them to bring it back to his family.

** In "The Heartbroke Kid", after Principal Skinner signs a contract with a vending machine company sponsored by hip-hop artists to allow them to sell their products at the school, Bart becomes greatly hooked on the excessively unhealthy snacks and consumes them frequently, which results in him growing considerably obese and developing a serious addiction toward junk food. One day, he suffers a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where an X-ray scan reveals there are ''[[UpToEleven three malted milk balls clogging his arteries and a wad of Laffy Taffy stuck on his liver]]''. Bart is put on a diet, but, his addiction is too severe, the entire family and a few Springfieldians stage an intervention and send the boy to Serenity Ranch, a rather expensive weight-loss camp led by Tab Spangler. a fitness guru voiced by Creator/AlbertBrooks. Bart ultimately overcomes his addiction after Tab shows him the sacrifices his family is doing to afford the camp's bills, whereupon he goes back to the school, smashes the vending machines apart and recovers the money he spent on them to bring it back to his family.

** In "The Heartbroke Kid", after Principal Skinner signs a contract with a vending machine company sponsored by hip-hop artists to allow them to sell their products at the school, Bart becomes greatly hooked on the excessively unhealthy snacks and consumes them frequently, which results in him growing considerably obese and developing a serious addiction toward junk food. One day, he suffers a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where an X-ray scan reveals there are ''[[UpToEleven three malted milk balls clogging his arteries and a wad of Laffy Taffy stuck on his liver]]''. Bart is put on a diet, but, his addiction is too severe, the entire family and a few Springfieldians stage an intervention and send the boy to Serenity Ranch, a rather expensive weight-loss camp led by Tab Spangler. a fitness guru voiced by [[Creator/AlbertBrooks]]. Bart ultimately overcomes his addiction after Tab shows him the sacrifices his family is doing to afford the camp's bills, whereupon he goes back to the school, smashes the vending machines apart and recovers the money he spent on them to bring it back to his family.

** 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.

In comes this {{Stock Aesop|s}}, which does its damnedest to demonize [[NutritionalNightmare too much junk food]] and glorifies exercise. Generally, it involves one or more characters getting hooked on some sort of junk food, making their health deteriorate badly and expanding their waistline. Usually, the rest of the group (if it's one person addicted) or the sole outlier (if the whole group's addicted) will have to get things back to normal.

* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has an episode called "Food for Thought", in which Raven's school becomes a food court full of junk food (which is at least partly TruthInTelevision, sadly) and Raven and Chelsea try to stop it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': In "Girlie Boys", Caitlin learns the hard way to never eat too much chocolate before trying on jeans.

* ''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.

* ''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).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Gets Fit'' is about Arthur freaking out over becoming "husky" ([[InformedDeformity despite not looking any fatter than usual]]).

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* ''[[VideoGame/PajamaSam Pajama Sam: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet]]''
* ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin'', though in the larger context of learning how to manage diabetes.
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* ''[[VideoGame/CaptainNovolin]], though in the larger context of learning how to manage diabetes.