History Main / JokersLoveJunkFood

* Jughead of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' is a BigEater that borders on being an ExtremeOmnivore as there is very little he ''won't'' eat, but his absolute favorites are fast food and carnival eats with hamburgers being his TrademarkFavoriteFood.

[[caption-width-right:350:Now that's not entirely accurate, Jug... you're forgetting spongies, crumblies, and creamies!]]

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* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Kagami is the source of her own WeightWoe, and suffers frequent jabs for it, as while she frequently chides Konata for her childish behavior involving games, anime, or her lackadaisical study habits, Kagami is almost always seen snacking. Pocky. Mochi for New Years. And on one occasion, Konata offered her a bunch of chocolate wafer snacks she had, because she'd bought them to get the toy prize inside while caring nothing for the snack. Kagami chides her on that, "Leave it to you to pass up a perfectly good snack for a cheap toy."

* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'': Exaggerated with Ron, who even in a parody show where everyone is comedic is still considered the comic relief of the trio, and who is seen snacking every time he is onstage (and all of them Muggle snacks, too). Snacks include a giant Hersheys bar and Double Stuff Oreos. At one point, he arrives at Dumbledore's office in a huff because he was rushed, doesn't have a snack, and was missing ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', so the pianist behind him breaks the fourth wall and hands him a package of Twizzlers, which Ron attributes to the magic of Hogwarts.

* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': Miles reveals that he has pockets in his costume in which he stores snacks, justifying it by pointing out he's a growing teen boy, when he offers a burger to a starving Molecule Man. Peter asks when and how Miles got the burger. Miles says it was from before his Earth was destroyed. Peter says that makes it an eight-year and eight-week-old burger. Miles says the eight years in stasis probably don't count. Peter counters by pointing out that it's still an eight-week-old burger and Molecule Man probably would be better off not eating it. But it's too late. Molecule Man scarfs it down. This leads to a moment that is both Heartwarming and Funny, as when Molecule Man helps restore the universe, Miles's mother is alive again, implying that his habit of stowing junk food on his person and Owen Reese's gratitude saved his Mom's life.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': In addition to large amounts of the Turtles' TrademarkFavoriteFood, pizza, the only other food mentioned in the film is a bag of pork rinds being shared by Michaelangelo and Donatello. In fact, the scene where they consume them is when they're watching the fighting between Casey Jones and April O'Neil and comparing it jokingly to ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' as if they were watching a TV program.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie]], the Element of Laughter and known to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break a fourth wall or two]], has a SweetTooth and is often seen eating large amounts of candy and dessert.

* ''VideoGames/LivingBooks'': In the adaptation of ''Dr. Seuss's ABC'', Sammy Slick, the boy who made himself sick drinking six sodas, is portrayed as a bit of a goofball. If you click on him, he will make silly faces, stand on one hand, etc.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Fry, who lacks a lot in the way of common sense but is friendly and sociable, mostly eats junk food such as sweets and potato chips. In fact, he has a huge addiction to Slurm Cola, even after he learns that it's made from the behind of a large wormlike creature.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Kim and Ron, globetrotting teen crimefighters, both enjoy eating at Bueno Nacho, a fast-food Mexican restaurant. Ron, the lovable sidekick turned LoveInterest, has also been known to pig out on school cafeteria pizza because, as he notes, "Cheese on cardboard is still cheese." Kim will at least make it a point to order a salad. This even leads to a VerySpecialEpisode, where exposure to toxic chemicals causes Ron's bad eating tendencies to turn him into a large orange hulk-like monster.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie, the Element of Laughter and known to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break a fourth wall or two]], has a SweetTooth and is often seen eating large amounts of candy and dessert.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Steven eats ice cream for breakfast and is big on "chaps" (which are the show's equivalent to potato chips). His unhealthy diet gets averted later on as he eventually tries to eat more healthily.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is a BumblingDad and a ButtMonkey who's also quite rotund. In "Krusty Gets Busted", he's shown at the Kwik-E-Mart getting excited over the newly stocked "Triple Chocolate" ice cream. In "Bart's Friend Falls In Love", he drools over a commercial for a cheeseburger with a bun slathered in "rich creamery butter.". In the "Treehouse Of Horror IV" segment "The Devil And Homer Simpson", [[SoldHisSoulForADonut he sells his soul for a donut]], and his IronicHell has him being force-fed all the donuts in the world... [[{{Unishment}} only for him to demand more when he'd eaten all of them]]! And in the "Treehouse Of Horror V" segment "Time And Punishment", he flees from an otherwise utopic world where he's wealthy, his hated sisters-in-law are dead, and his children are polite and well-behaved because he was told there was no such thing as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] in that world... [[GaveUpTooSoon and if he'd just waited a few seconds, that problem would have been resolved as well]].

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': In addition to large amounts of the Turtles' TrademarkFavoriteFood, pizza, the only other food mentioned in the film is a bag of pork rinds being shared by Michaelangelo and Donatello. In fact, the scene where they consume them is when they're watching the fighting between Casey Jones and April O'Neil and comparing it jokingly to ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' as if they were watching a TV program.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is a BumblingDad and a ButtMonkey who's also quite rotund. In one early episode, he's shown at the Quick-E-Mart getting excited over the newly stocked "Triple chocolate" ice cream. He drools over a commercial for a cheeseburger with a bun slathered in "rich creamery butter." And in one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, he flees from an otherwise utopic world where he's wealthy, his hated sisters-in-law are dead, and his children are polite and well-behaved because he was told there was no such thing as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] in that world...and [[ShootTheShaggyDog if he'd just waited a few seconds, that problem would have been resolved as well.]] And in another Halloween Episode, he sells his soul for a donut, and his IronicHell has him being force-fed all the donuts in the world...only for him to demand more when he'd eaten all of them!

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie, the Element of Laughter, and known to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break a fourth wall or two]], has a SweetTooth and is often seen eating large amounts of candy and dessert.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Slimer, will eat almost anything, but he seems to have a preference for things like soda, cakes, pizza, and potato chips, and is introduced having eaten ''four'' large boxes of custom chocolates that the guys had brought to the firehouse as a gift for Janine.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Egon may have been TheComicallySerious, but he was a skilled member of the team who built most of their gadgets. He also had a thing for junk food, such as the Twinkie he used to explain the building problem in the containment grid. This carries over to ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where his granddaughter, Phoebe, finds a candy bar wrapper in his old jumpsuit. And her brother Trevor finds a Twinkie in the glove compartment of Ecto-1.

* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'': Wagnaria's manager, Kyoko, is a lazy bum and former delinquent who ran a gang. Customer service isn't her forte or any task one expects of a manager. When she isn't scarfing down parfaits made for her by Yachiyo, she's often seen leaning back against one of the counters munching on potato chips, usually leaving crumbs behind, to the consternation of Souta Takanashi, who once had to be restrained to keep from going after her with a broom.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Peter B. Parker, Spider-Man for Earth 616, is shown eating leftover pizza in his apartment when he gets snatched by the dimensional rift and has a "hearty burger breakfast" while discussing their plan with Miles. He's also overweight, though still capable in his own right. His ButtMonkey status on the team is firmly established when Miles causes him to be knocked unconscious on his counterpart's gravestone, webbed to a moving train, and then banged, bruised, and beaten by various obstacles through the city.

* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'': Exaggerated with Ron, who even in a parody show where everyone is comedic is still considered the comic relief of the trio, and who is seen snacking every time he is onstage (and all of them Muggle snacks, too). Snacks include a giant Hersheys barAt one point, he arrives at Dumbledore's office in a huff because he was rushed, doesn't have a snack, and was missing ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', so the pianist behind him breaks the fourth wall and hands him a package of Twizzlers, which Ron attributes to the magic of Hogwarts.

* ''WebComic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': America is a {{Manchild}] who represents both flavors of {{Eagleland}} at varying times who loves junk food, especially cheeseburgers. He does [[WeightWoe worry about his weight from time to time]], and will diet from time to time, but his physique never changes, and some of the others believe he's gaining muscle, somehow.

While this can overlap with TrademarkFavoriteFood, it doesn't necessarily have to. A character might prefer one type of food, but is just as open to any others that are offered up.

Male characters are more likely to enjoy wholesale junk food, as WomenAreWiser, so female characters are just as likely to at least make a token effort to have a salad now and then, or enjoy fruit or wholesome fare. That said, a female character might allow herself something sweet and decadent once in awhile, showing that she's health conscious, but not snooty. Also, comedic characters, be they male or female, tend not to plan ahead, so grabbing a quick snack or a pre-made meal or fast food seems to be an easy way of dealing with an immediate need for someone who isn't likely to prepare whole meals. That being said, there are female characters who will give in to their love of junk without hesitation or concern for appearing "feminine".

Males are more likely to be {{Big Eater}}s as well, meaning they're far less likely to be picky about ''what'' they eat, as well. Though one not need be a BigEater to prefer junk food.

In some situations the character themselves may not be the source of comedy, but their love of sweets and junk food May well be. This is particularly true for comedic situations like self-inflicted WeightWoe.

* ''Manga/DagashiKashi'' is ''built'' on Japanese junk food and candy, with Hotaru Shidare as our guide. She's a CloudCuckoolander who [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl thinks nothing of being seen naked by the male characters of the cast]] and with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the "dagashi" aka snack foods that Kokunatsu's family sells. She once causes herself a mouth ulcer by drinking copious amounts of a sweet drink made from a powder mix, and succeeds in making it worse by continuing to do so when stopping would have helped.
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Kagami is the source of her own WeightWoe, and suffers frequent jabs for it, as while she frequently chides Konata for her childish behavior involving games, anime, or her lackadaisical study habits, Kagami is almost always seen snacking. Pocky. Mochi for New Years. And on one occasion, Konata offers her a bunch of chocolate wafer snacks she had, because she'd bought them to get the toy prize inside while caring nothing for the snack. Kagami chides her on that, "Leave it to you to pass up a perfectly good snack for a cheap toy."

* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'': Wagnaria's manager, Kyoko, is a lazy bum and former delinquent who ran a gang. Customer service isn't her forte, or any task one expects of a manager. When she isn't scarfing down parfaits made for her by Yachiyo, she's often seen leaning back against one of the counters munching on potato chips, usually leaving crumbs behind, to the consternation of Souta Takanashi, who once had to be restrained to keep from going after her with a broom.

* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': Miles reveals that he has pockets in his costume in which he stores snacks, justifying it by pointing out he's a growing teen boy, when he offers a burger to a starving Molecule Man. Peter asks when and how Miles got the burger. Miles says it was from before his Earth was destroyed. Peter says that makes it an eight year and eight week old burger. Miles says the eight years in stasis probably don't count. Peter counters by pointing out that it's still an eight week old burger and Molecule Man probably would be better off not eating it. But it's too late. Molecule Man scarfs it down. This leads to a moment that is both Heartwarming and Funny, as when Molecule Man helps restore the universe, Miles's mother is alive again, implying that his habit of stowing junk food on his person and Owen Reese's gratitude saved his Mom's life.
* ''ComicBook/WebWarriors'': Gwen's preference for taco stands and corn dogs gets a lecture from Maddie for saying she can't keep eating like that and still keep up her career as a crime fighter. Gwen, however, pays her no mind and only raves about the fact that the dimension they've found themselves in serves qamar al deen at their taco stands. Gwen tends to be the more comical member of the team, being a relative newbie to the crimefighting gig as well as having frequent hallucinations of Spider-Ham in her own home dimension.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Peter B. Parker, Spider-Man for Earth 616, is shown eating leftover pizza in his apartment when he gets snatched by the dimensional rift, and has a "hearty burger breakfast" while discussing their plan with Miles. He's also overweight, though still capable in his own right. His ButtMonkey status on the team is firmly established when Miles causes him to be knocked unconscious on his counterpart's gravestone, webbed to a moving train, and then banged, bruised, and beaten by various obstacles through the city.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': In addition to large amounts of the Turtles' TrademarkFavoriteFood, pizza, the only other food given mention in the film is a bag of pork rinds being shared by Michaelangelo and Donatello. In fact, the scene where they consume them is when they're watching the fighting between Casey Jones and April O'Neil and comparing it jokingly to ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' as if they were watching a t.v. program.

* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': Catarina Claes, who has the fan nickname of "Bakarina" [[note]]"Baka" being the Japanese word for "idiot"[[/note]], LOVES sweets. To the point where she is noted to have picked up a cookie off the floor declaring "Three second rule", and often tries to scheme to take sweets home from fancy parties she's invited to. It also gives [[FeminineWomenCanCook Maria]] a slight advantage over the others interested in Catarina, as she can make the sorts of sweets Catarina loves, and [[ThroughHisStomach asks her to try out new creations for her]]. Not that her other would-be suitors are blind to the possibilities. Prince Geordo one invited her to come back to his room by telling her [[SweetsOfTemptation "I have some unusual treats for you."]] Thankfully for her virtue and reputation, her brother Keith invites himself to come along to chaperone.

** The 4th Doctor loved Jelly Babies, and sometimes used them as a SecretTestOfCharacter (as villains almost always turned them down).

** Alfie, the house's resident ClassClown, is also known as a BigEater obsessed with sugary, fatty foods. Everyone is well aware over his love of chocolate cake, even to the point of the villains trying to exploit that craving to further their plans. He once chose Trudy's cookies over a Sibuna meeting, to the amusement and irritation of his friends. He's even known for attempting to smuggle sweets when people aren't looking.
** Eddie in season 2 is introduced as a rebellious bad boy and jokester who provides much of the season's comic relief. He's also a messy chef and eater who creates massive stacks of pancakes, creates a sandwich stuffed with spaghetti Bolognese, and downs whipped cream directly from the cannister.

** In "The Tap Out Job", Sophie, the Grifter of the Team, initially protests the rustic fare they're being offered at their hotel, like chicken-fried steak ("Meat should never bea an adjective."), and balks at Parker's offer of a pork rind "How do you peel a pig?" But by the end of the episode, she finds she actually likes them.
** Hardison, the team's hacker, and frequent ButtMonkey, loves his orange soda and gummy frogs, which he's often seen consuming from his place hacking in his van, to the point that when he buys a microbrewery, he tries to create a beer that mimics the flavor of the orange soda. He loves it. The others? Not so much. He also used a gummy frog once to trick a fingerprint pad, and had to sacrifice some of his orange soda to provide a bottle for Nate to power a vintage car with cooking oil.
** "The Gold Job" has Parker, the theif of the team, introduced to Voodoo Donuts, and she takes a bite of every one to determine which one she likes most.
** Hurley, a recurring character, was somewhere between BigFun and FatBastard. He saw a charity doing good work and determined to help them...by stealing their money, investing it, growing it, and returning it to them ten fold. But his initial act, stealing it, got him targeted by the Leverage team. They learned that among his many, many addictions, he was obsessed with tacos, an addiction Nate literally feeds to get info out of the guy.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': As Hawkeye notes, every last one of them would love to be out of the Army, but Corporal Klinger will stop at nothing to get out. From crossdressing on a regular basis, sending photos of himself in drag to superior officers at HQ, attempting to eat a Jeep, and dressing himself in heavy furs in triple digit weather, Klinger is determined to get home to Toledo. When he meets a patient who is also from Toledo, the two of them bond over memories of the place, one of which is time spent at Tony Packo's Hungarian Hot Dogs.[[note]]An actual real eatery in Toledo, OH, and still in operation as of this writing in 2024[[/note]] When the patient gets sent home for his injuries, he sends Klinger a care package from home; a crate of Tony Packo's hot dogs on dry ice, with all the fixings available.

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'':Jane Rizzoli, Boston City Police Detective, by comparison to her more metropolitan friend Maura Isles, eats low brow food and prefers beer over wine. When helping Maura prepare for a fancy dinner she protests, "We didn't eat ''cock au van'', we ate ''Cocoa Puffs''!" By comparison, her former partner, Korsack, is on a health kick in one episode, and is eating "healthy" snacks, but starts experiencing pains. Maura has to inform him he can't snack on them the same way he does potato chips as he's eaten a whole day's worth of fiber in one sitting.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Daria and Jane are both {{Deadpan Snarker}}s whose wry comments provide most of the humor for the show. When they're not in school or at home, they tend to hang out at the local pizzeria. In "Arts and Crass" the excessive grease in the pizza inspired the theme of their contribution to the school's art contest. And in "The Pinch Sitter", after being subjected to the saccharine sweet Gupty childen who insist that "raisins are natures candy" and "Hitler ate sugar", Daria begs Jane over the phone, "Bring junk food!"

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Kim and Ron, globetrotting teen crimefighters, both enjoy eating at Bueno Nacho, a fast food Mexican restaurant. Ron, the lovable sidekick turned LoveInterest, has also been known to pig out on school cafeteria pizza because, as he notes, "Cheese on cardboard is still cheese." Kim will at least make it a point to order a salad. This even leads to a VerySpecialEpisode, where exposure to toxic chemicals causes Ron's bad eating tendencies to turn him into a large orange hulk-like monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': [[BigEater Coop]]'s preference for food might best be described as "Yes, please." Coop is also the BigFun of the series. He spends all of one episode desperately searching for a mega slush, even as he battles a self-repairing and replicating robot, has been known to win hot dog eating contests and still been hungry for cake afterwards, which was interrupted by a group of sentai-styled heroes who think he's the "Bad Guy" ("Coop doesn't get full he just gets less hungry") enjoys wrapping bacon around Philly cheese steaks, and eats ham wrapped in pizza. In fact, his Arch Nemesis, Gorath, consumes a Philly cheesesteak in front of him to torture him, though given Gorath's expression, it was just as torturous for him to consume it as it is for Coop to watch.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Slimer, will eat almost anything, but he seems to have a preference for things like soda, cakes, pizza, potato chips, and is introduced having eaten ''four'' large boxes of custom chocolates that the guys had brought to the firehouse as a gift for Janine.

** ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': During 2000s, Creator/CaseyKasem returned to the role of Shaggy after a falling out over the use of the character in Burger King ads, on the stipulation that Shaggy would now be a vegetarian. This meant he ate "healthier" fare, though still not adverse to junk food like ice cream.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Steven eats ice cream from breakfast and is big on "chaps" (which are the shows equivalent to potato chips). His unhealthy diet gets averted later on as he eventually tries to eat more healthy.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is a BumblingDad and a ButtMonkey who's also quite rotund. In one early episode he's shown at the Quick-E-Mart getting excited over the newly stocked "Triple chocolate" ice cream. He drools over a commercial for a cheeseburger with a bun slathered in "rich creamery butter." And in one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, he flees from an otherwise utopic world where he's wealthy, his hated sisters-in-law are dead, and his children are polite and well-behaved because he was told there were no such thing as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] in that world...and [[ShootTheShaggyDog if he'd just waited a few seconds, that problem would have been resolved as well.]] And in another Halloween Episode, he sells his soul for a donut, and his IronicHell has him being force fed all the donuts in the world...only for him to demand more when he'd eaten all of them!

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