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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': A variation. Grim isn't thin. He's "delicately boned".

* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' (1988): Mr. Pinky, owner of the plus-size boutique, uses all sorts of euphemisms. He also inverts the trope, using "Fatty fatty, two by four, can't fit through the dressing room door?" in his advertising.

Overweight people can be very self-conscious. It's understandable, because we tend to associate [[FatBastard many negative traits and behaviors with obesity]]. Thus, overweight people tend to come up with any excuse they can to avoid the stigma of [[YouAreFat being labeled as such]]. It isn't that they are fat, they are just big-boned. Or maybe it's just baby fat. Maybe they have a gland disorder, a slow metabolism, or they're retaining water, or they're bloated from an allergic reaction. It has nothing to do with lack of exercise, or the [[NutritionalNightmare triple cheeseburger, bacon chili fries, and chocolate-covered strawberries]] that they [[BigEater just ate]].

* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' ''5: Xtreme Legends'': Meng Huo meeting Xu Zhu on the battlefield of the Legend Mode stage, Struggle for Nan Zhong:

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': In the DistantPrologue, Michael, who happens to be somewhat on the chubby side, starts moping after getting fired and his complaints about everything currently wrong in his life include being fat. Signe, who's trying to cheer him up, invokes this trope by telling Michael that he looks "genuinely big boned" to her.

-->'''Snake:''' Give me my car, fatty!
-->'''Homer:''' What? This is my car! And I'm not fat, it's glandular!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'': When the [=McDonaldland=] gang find their way into the middle ages in "Have Time, Will Travel", the royal chef wants to bake Birdie into a pie after King Murray's knights bring her to the kitchen and points out how good and plump Birdie is. Birdie objects that he's only pointing at her problem area.

-->'''Manny:''' I'm not fat, it's all that fur. It makes me look poofy!

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Al Bundy's mother-in-law isn't fat. She's "retaining water". Al replied the Hoover Dam was retaining water.

* Manny the Mammoth from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' regulary insists that he's not fat and that he just looks overweight thanks to his fur.

-->''Yeah, your arse bone is a helluva size and your belly bone - bloody hell!''

* The ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "24 Hours To Live", Helga calls Harold "Blimpo", only for Harold to answer; "Hey, don't call me "Blimpo"! I have a gland problem."

* Pumbaa from ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'', in the episode "Gabon With The Wind", takes offence to Timon calling him plump to the Cheetah Brothers; "Plump?! I'm just big-boned."

* Creator/GabrielIglesias' RunningGag is that he isn't ''fat'', he's ''fluffy''. Since then, he's been known as "Fluffy" or "Fluffy Guy", and the gag even lent the title to his second DVD special, ''I'm Not Fat... I'm Fluffy''. He's even devised his own scale of "fatness", which currently is divided into six levels (five before the aforementioned special): Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, DAMN!, and "'''[[SerialEscalation OH,]] ''[[SerialEscalation HELL]]'' [[SerialEscalation NO!]]'''"

* Creator/GabrielIglesias' RunningGag is that he isn't ''fat'', he's ''fluffy''. Since then, he's been known as "Fluffy" or "Fluffy Guy", and the gag even lent the title to his second DVD special, ''I'm Not Fat... I'm Fluffy''. He's even devised his own scale of "fatness", which currently is divided into six levels (five before the aforementioned special): Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, DAMN!, and "'''[[SerialEscalation OH, HELL NO!]]'''"

* ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'': Grossout's [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] kept insisting that he was just "big for his age".

* Manny the Mammoth from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' insists that he's not fat and it's thanks to his fur.

* Manny the Mammoth from ''WestwrnAnimation/IceAge'' insists that he's not fat and it's thanks to his fur.