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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E22SiblingRivalry Sibling Rivalry]]", Peter loses his sex drive after a vasectomy and Lois turns to overeating because he can't satisfy her. Peter then discovers he has an obesity kink and encourages Lois to gorge herself in order to revive their sex life. At the end of the episode, she has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital for emergency liposuction, restoring her to her original size.

** In the Life arc, Diamond and Il the Imp have been turned into cats. This time, the smell of Fishface the [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Torpedo]] does both of them in. Unlike in the Adventure arc, they can't shake off the excess weight by playing through so one world doubles as a gym which they use to exercise until they become normal again.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarryAndBunnie'': In one episode, Bunnie ended up turning into a giant tub of lard, causing his girlfriend to put him on a diet and excersize to get him back to normal. He spends much of the episode in that physique being made to work out while his girlfriend eats all of his snacks. He eventually gains his old slim size back at the end of the episode, and we see his girlfriend gained all the wait that he lost.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'': In "An Appetite for Battle", Chespin gets a BalloonBelly from eating a lot of macarons and he becomes slower from the excess weight, so Clemont tries (and fails) to build an exercise machine. Chespin wanders away in the middle of the night when he smells something good in an elderly couple's house, causing Clemont to think Chespin is angry with him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': As a series infamous for [[BestKnownForTheFanservice appealing to a ridiculous variety of...particular interests]], this was bound to happen. "Passion Patties" revolves around the eponymous [[ScoutOut Happy Girl Scout cookies]], which are delicious, addicting, and hugely fattening. In fact, it's part of a plot by the cookie's creator to take over the world, and every employee but her is overweight. Clover becomes addicted to the stuff and grows fatter throughout the episode. It's reversed by the end, but not after growing to resemble a thick barrel.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Weighing Harold", Harold, whose already rather tubby, becomes determined to lose weight after some strangers make fun of him. He end up going on a months-long cruise meant to help kids slim down, but he returns even fatter than he was before. With Arnold's help, Harold returns to his original weight.

* ''WesternAnimation/Sixteen'': In "[[Recap/SixteenS2E26GirlieBoys Girlie Boys]]"' B-plot, Caitlin works at a chocolate store to earn extra money towards a new pair of jeans. She eats upwards of six pounds of chocolate a day, and by the time she's ready to buy the jeans, ends up looking heavily pregnant, completely oblivious to her weight gain until she's unable to fasten the jeans around her belly. She's horrified at the result and by the end of the episode, loses the weight at a fitness center.

* The ''{{WesternAnimation/Doug}}'' short "Doug Tips the Scales," after a weekend trip to his grandmother's house, Doug realizes he put on a few pounds and has been invited to Beebe's pool party. Doug is too embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit, so he decides to work the extra weight off before the party using [[TheAhnold Ronald "Prepare to Suffer" Weisenheimer's]] videos. However, it turns out he's not the only one who's insecure about his body.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[=CatDog=] before and after racking up a $34,000 bill at a restaurant [[BigEater in one day]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': As a series infamous for [[BestKnownForTheFanservice appealing to a ridiculous variety of...particular interests]], so this was bound to happen. "Passion Patties" revolves around the eponymous [[ScoutOut Happy Girl Scout cookies]], which are delicious, addicting, and hugely fattening. In fact, it's part of a plot by the cookie's creator to take over the world, and every employee but her is overweight. Clover becomes addicted to the stuff and grows fatter throughout the episode. It's reversed by the end, but not after growing to resemble a thick barrel.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'': A given with how zany the series gets.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': In ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'': Greg attempts to bring the cursed carnera to his teacher Mr. Sour to prove that it's real. Only for him get a picture of himself getting fat. Greg gets fatter every day. He has to find a way to reverse the effect before he explodes.

* ''[[VideoGame/WheresMyWater Where's My Water? Presents: Swampy's Underground Adventures]]: The mobile game's web series has the episode "Sink or Swim", which details Swampy, Cranky, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Karl]] devouring a pile of doughnuts, growing fat, and then being forced to exercise and burn it all off by Allie.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': The episode Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS2E19TheDevouring, pushes the already gluttonous Scooby & Shaggy to their limits. When a big Gluten Demon terrorizes the town, the duo have to eat as much gluten-retaining food as they can in order to lure the demon out of hiding. As a result the two are turned giant and morbidly obsess, which helps them defeat the monster. While we never see them lose the weight, it's all gone by the next episode.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': A given with how zany the series gets.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Sibling Rivalry", Peter loses his sex drive after a vasectomy and Lois turns to overeating because he can't satisfy her. Peter then discovers he has an obesity kink and encourages Lois to gorge herself in order to revive their sex life. At the end of the episode, she has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital for emergency liposuction, restoring her to her original size.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Jane Leeves's pregnancy]], Daphne gained a large amount of weight, eventually forcing her to go to a weight loss clinic. The weight gain was made plot-relevant when it was explained as the result of finally getting together with Niles. She was stress-eating because she was nervous about living up to his expectations.

** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E17TheHeartbrokeKid The Heartbroke Kid]]", after a snack-vending machine is installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart develops an addiction for the snacks, causing him to quickly gain weight in a three-week period. After he gets a heart attack, the rest of the family [[StagingAnIntervention stages an intervention]] in order to get Bart sent to a FatCamp.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS33E5LisasBelly Lisa's Belly]] is a downplayed example. Lisa and Bart both gain weight due to the use of steroids that gives them a big belly, leaving Lisa (in Marge's words) "chunky". Bart loses the weight after getting in with the bullies and exercising, but the storyline is dropped in the next episode featuring Lisa.

* Ever-shallow ComicStrip/{{Curtis}} briefly lost his crush on Michelle when she returned from France big enough to [[IncrediblyLamePun crush]] him. The next time we saw her, she was as svelte as before the trip.

[[folder:Fanfics]]
* In ''Fanfic/DisneyVillainIsland'', whilst the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Villains]] are staying at [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Camp Wawanakwa]], one of their daily tasks is for each of them to spend a day with a ParodySue. [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Hades]] gets to interact with a Sue who is a SupremeChef, and she ends up giving him enough food that he ends up comically overweight and has to be wheeled into the forum. For the next chapter, Hades is the subject of constant fat jokes from both [[{{Jerkass}} Chris McClean]] and his friend [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective Professor Ratigan]], though not from [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid 1989 Ursula]], who is FatAndProud. It all comes to a head when he ends up getting himself stuck in a doorway and provokes Ratigan into a YourMom-style exchange of VolleyingInsults, before they remember that they're friends and should not be insulting one another... and then Hades sucks in his stomach and frees himself only to end up running into the bathroom and chipping a tooth on the sink. By the next chapter, Hades finally sheds all his excess weight, though [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he's not as quick as he used to be earlier]].

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BoneChillers'': In ''Romeo and Ghouliette'', Fritz becomes smitten by a girl named Julie. She gives him lots of food and he becomes fat each day. Unaware to Fritz, Julie and her parents are immortal ghouls who are planning to eat him up.
* ''Literature/DirtyBertie'': In "Dog Food", Whiffer the dog becomes fat and lethargic, so the vet tells his owners to stop feeding him from the table.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': In ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'': Greg attempts to bring the cursed carnera to his teacher Mr. Sour to prove that it's real. Only for him get a picture of himself getting fat. Greg gets fatter every day. He has to find a way to reverse the effect before he explodes.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "The Oolong Slayer", Terry Jeffords (already established to be FormerlyFat), gets addicted to cacao nibs while under stress from his job and an upcoming new baby, and briefly reverts to his former weight. But between Boyle asking the squad to help out and the BadBoss getting fired by the end of the episode, the sources of Terry's stress are decreased and he is back to normal by the next episode.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Jane Leeves's pregnancy]], Daphne gained a large amount of weight, eventually forcing her to go to a weight loss clinic. The weight gain was made plot-relevant when it was explained as the result of finally getting together with Niles. She was stress-eating because she was nervous about living up to his expectations.
* ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'': Ernie gained a lot of weight, to the point where he caused an accident at work because his fat got in the way of the steering wheel of the fork lift. He had to lose the weight or lose his job.
* ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'': In the aptly named episode "Fat", Gaz is revealed to have become obese in the months after his break-up with Donna. He manages to lose the excess weight by the end of the episode (through an [[ADateWithRosiePalms unusual]] workout regimen).

[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'': There is an ''entire level'' requiring obesity. Bowser ends up being [[FatteningTheVictim tricked]] into eating [[NutritionalNightmare exceedingly fattening food]] by a bunch of Boos, so much so that he falls through the floor...and gets stuck. The Mario Bros. then go through the Flab Zone, an area inside Bowser only traversable whilst he is in this state. At the end, Bowser works the weight off, but if the player so desires, they can take Bowser back to the buffet and fatten him again, opening Flab Zone back up. (Bowser admits that [[SupremeChef the jerk who did that to him can]] ''[[SupremeChef really]]'' [[SupremeChef cook]].)

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'': One story arc involves Thaddeus gaining a potbelly after spending his whole winter loafing around. He tries to slim back down by exercising more often and hiring a woman named Jamie-Lynn who forbids him from eating any sugar.

[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
** In "Fat Jeffy!", Jeffy refuses to eat green beans since he hates them so much, and only eats junk food for 2 months, and becomes too fat to even move properly, relying on the arms of his puppeteer. Mario calls Brooklyn T. Guy and they try to get him to exercise, but they eventually settle on giving Jeffy a liposuction.
** In "Fat Junior!", Junior becomes [[UmpteenthCustomer the 1 trillionth customer]] at UsefulNotes/McDonalds, and wins a year's worth of free food from the restaurant. He eats it constantly for a month, becoming very fat as a result. When Jackie Chu finds out about how fat Junior has become, he enters him in a sumo wrestling match against Whoa He Big, promising him no homework for the entire school year if he wins. Junior ends up losing the match, and at the end of the video, he finds out from Brooklyn T. Guy that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he has contracted Type 2 Diabetes as a result of his overeating]], and gets the rest of his [=McDonald's=] food taken away.
* ''[[VideoGame/WheresMyWater Where's My Water? Presents: Swampy's Underground Adventures]]: The mobile game's web series has the episode "Sink or Swim", which details Swampy, Cranky, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Karl]] devouring a pile of doughnuts, growing fat, and then being forced to exercise and burn it all off by Allie.

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[WesternAnimation/CatDog CatDog]] before and after racking up a $34,000 bill at a restaurant [[BigEater in one day]].]]

The Fat Episode is when part of or an entire episode's plot leans heavily on sudden weight gain. This is most often done in cartoons, but it's sometimes been done in live action using a [[FatSuit]] that makes the actor appear much larger than they really are. It's even done in video games with entire levels revolving around being fattened. Even if there is some dramatic consequence, such as a hero becoming unable to do their hero thing due to weight, it's almost always something PlayedForLaughs. Sometimes involves [[SumoWrestling sumo]]. They usually SnapBack by the end or the next episode.