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11	When a major actor receives a role that requires obesity, there are two options: [[DyeingForYourArt go on a high-calorie diet]] as Creator/RobertDeNiro did for ''Film/RagingBull'' and ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' or Creator/VincentDOnofrio did for ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', and go through the effort of ''losing'' that weight afterward -- or just wear a Fat Suit. Sometimes a role requires the character be overweight for just a brief period in a film, and to gain and lose weight in such a rapid time is impossible.
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13	Fat Suits are sophisticated three-dimensional prosthetic makeup that go far beyond just putting a pillow under one's shirt. It requires painstaking facial makeup to provide realistic jowls and multiple chins, in addition to the suit, which covers the arms, legs, breasts and belly.
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15	Sometimes, a ''character'', who is otherwise supposed to be skinny, athletic, or at least normal-sized, will don a Fat Suit as a plot point, a disguise or just cheap comedy.
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18	!!Examples:
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22	* The [[spoiler: Millennium earl]] in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' wears a fat suit. This is because he absolutely wants to hide his face for unknown reasons. Why the suit is so fat though is still unclear.
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26	* A recurring feature in ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'', as the title character and his lover Eva Kant are [[MasterOfDisguise Masters of Disguise]] with extremely fit and athletic bodies, and will need fat suits to play the part of someone fatter.
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30	* Creator/EddieMurphy:
31	** ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'' and its sequel have Murphy playing the various adult members of the obese Klump family, meaning he had to wear several different fat suits. The former won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for the inestimable Creator/RickBaker.
32	** As Norbit's wife in ''Film/{{Norbit}}''.
33	* Mike Myers wore this as FatBastard in the ''Film/AustinPowers'' films.
34	* Terry Jones as Mr. Creosote in ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''.
35	* Goldie Hawn dons one for a segment of ''Film/DeathBecomesHer''.
36	* Gwyneth Paltrow in ''Film/ShallowHal'', though for most of the movie she appears skinny, and is played by a larger actress in below-the-face shots.
37	** Paltrow's character's mother also wears one at the end of the film.
38	* Abigail Breslin in ''Film/LittleMissSunshine''.
39	* Rachel [=McAdams=] in ''Film/MeanGirls''.
40	* Jim Broadbent playing Harold Zidler in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' (2001) wore a fat suit.
41	** Broadbent might have worn one for ''Film/BulletsOverBroadway'', too.
42	* John Travolta in [[RecursiveAdaptation the movie of the musical of]] ''Film/{{Hairspray\|2007}}''.
43	* ''Film/{{Thinner}}'': Creator/RobertJohnBurke wore one for when his character was initially fat.
44	* Alyson Hannigan wore one in ''Film/DateMovie''.
45	* Creator/PaulineQuirke wore a fat suit for the title role as a convicted murderer in ''The Sculptress''. Unusual in that the actress was already overweight at the time.
46	* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire''. Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) wears one while in disguise as the title character, though the fact that Euphegenia Doubtfire is overweight is almost incidental to the rest of her character.
47	* Malcolm Turner (played by Martin Lawrence) in the ''Film/BigMommasHouse'' films, puts on a fat suit to go undercover as the titular Big Momma.
48	* Pistachio Disguisey wears an inflatable one in ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'' for a comedic scene where the suit inflates too much. Dana Carvey later wears a more normal one as Mayor Maynot.
49	* In ''To Be Fat Like Me'', the main character dresses up in a fatsuit to see what it's like living "on the other side" as a fat person. Since she's just a teenager, one wonders where she gets the money for such an expensive disguise. Justified in universe--her upstairs neighbour is a budding makeup effects artist.
50	* Ostensibly, Emma Thompson wore one for ''Film/LoveActually'', although if she did, it was done in a very understated and tasteful way.
51	* Creator/TomCruise as Les Grossman in ''Film/TropicThunder''.
52	** The nature of comedies that feature their stars in fat suits is also parodied in the InUniverse trailer for ''The Fatties, Fart 2''.
53	* ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther''. Inspector Clouseau impersonates a Mafia don with a fat suit and [[MumblingBrando cotton in his cheeks]], which he nearly chokes on at one point.
54	* Averted in ''Film/{{Click}}''. Creator/AdamSandler took the route of having his face [[DigitalHeadSwap digitally inserted]] onto an actual fat guy.
55	* Tim Allen as Scott Calvin in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' once he's unwittingly assumed the Santa identity.
56	** Inverted with the "desantification" process in the sequel, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot added at Allen's request]] because he had ''horrific'' skin problems from the fat suit in the original movie.
57	* Former [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Manchester United]] striker Eric Cantona (voted "The Player of the Century" by the club's fans after the turn of the Millennium) wore one in the French film ''L'Outremangeur'' (Translation: ''The Overeater'') in which he has the starring role, a fat cop.
58	* Harry Melling wore this in the later ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies as he slowly lost weight over the years while Dudley Dursley remained fat.
59	** [[AvertedTrope Oddly enough]], Jim Broadbent didn't wear ANY appliances, even though Slughorn is described in the books as monstrously fat, bald and walrus-like.
60	* Creator/OrsonWelles in ''Film/CitizenKane'', then later ''Film/TouchOfEvil'', which [[{{Irony}} soon became reality]].
61	* The girls of K3 for a time in ''K3 Bengeltjes''.
62	* Christopher Lloyd wore one as Uncle Fester in ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' as well as its sequel.
63	* Brian Lloyd donned a fat suit and prosthetic makeup in ''Film/EvilBong2''.
64	* At the end of ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'', Creator/BenStiller wears one while dancing the Milkshake Dance and jiggling his prosthetic man boobs.
65	* Most of the female cast of ''Film/FatSlags'' wears this; the protagonists' actresses already have them on due to starting the film obese, but as the rest of the women of the world try to follow their lead, this leads to the rest donning fat suits to reflect their weight gain.
66	* A 2001 Hong Kong dramedy, ''Love on A Diet'', sees Creator/AndyLau and Sammi Cheng in fatsuits portraying an overweight couple in a relationship. [[spoiler:Their ordinary, regular counterparts sans Fatsuit appears in the end]].
67	* Sebastian Ströbel wore a fat suit and fat hands during most of the German movie ''Plötzlich Fett'' about a cocky fitness trainer who one day wakes up obese.
68	* Creator/RyanReynolds in ''Film/JustFriends''.
69	* Used InUniverse in ''Film/TheCrimeDoctorsStrangestCase''. Evelyn Cartwright wears a very convincing one when she is undercover as the cook Mrs. Keppler.
70	* Creator/ChrisHemsworth as Thor after the five year time-skip in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', not only wearing a fake belly and bulk, but holding cheek implants inside his mouth to make his face puffier, and having 70 lbs of weights on his legs to help him move like a heavier person.
71	* Teddie Moore wore some padding as Miss Shields in ''Film/AChristmasStory''. In this case, however, it wasn’t so much that her character was supposed to be overweight, and instead, just to [[HideYourPregnancy mask the fact that she was eight months pregnant during shooting.]]
72	* Philip Wiegratz in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. He was already a chubby kid himself, but wore a fat suit to increase his size as Augustus Gloop.
73	* By ''Film/TheHangoverPartIII'', Creator/ZachGalifianakis [[FormerlyFat had lost a bunch of weight]] and had to wear belly padding for the film.
74	* Kenan Thompson wore one as the titular character in ''Film/FatAlbert''.
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78	* ''[[Literature/PaladinOfShadows Unto the Breach]]'' has superspy Jay donning a fat suit as part of a disguise during a mission.
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82	* After ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'''s TimeSkip, Jamie Bamber briefly wears padding and some makeup effects to make it look like Lee Adama has let go of his previously trim physique.
83	* Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, which was later turned into a movie.
84	* Will had to wear one in an episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
85	* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' has the character Dale the Whale (played by amongst others Creator/TimCurry). Also an in-universe example: in his debut episode Dale the Whale was accused of murdering a judge but he had a rather good alibi - he's literally too obese to even get out of bed [[spoiler:he blackmailed his dietician into committing the murder while wearing a fat suit]].
86	* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''. Creator/KateWalsh, playing Drew's brief love interest Nicki.
87	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', when Creator/JaneLeeves (who plays Daphne) was pregnant. As part of the HideYourPregnancy, the script-writers gave Daphne a storyline where she started over-eating out of insecurity over Niles' highly idealised view of her. As a result Jane Leeves had to wear a fat suit over her pregnant belly until she could be PutOnABus for maternity leave.
88	** In the later episode ''Freudian Sleep'', Leeves wore a ridiculous ballooning, ever-growing fat suit as Daphne dreamt she was getting terminally fat.
89	** Also happens when Frasier gains weight after getting fired, and Creator/KelseyGrammer wears a padded stomach.
90	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Creator/CourteneyCox as Monica frequently wore a fat suit for flashback episodes that showed Monica in her FormerlyFat years.
91	** In an [[AlternateRealityEpisode alternate reality episode]], Joey is married to Monica and morbidly obese, so [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_LeBlanc Matt LeBlanc]] had to wear a fat suit.
92	* On the TV show Series/{{Wings}}, an episode featuring fantasy sequences in which the cast would enact "When I Grow Up" letters that their characters wrote when they were children had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Bernard Crystal Bernard]] wearing a fat suit during most of these sequences. Her character, Helen, was somewhat obese when she was a child.
93	* Not as extreme as most examples, Amy Linker wore padding to play pudgy Lauren in ''Series/SquarePegs''.
94	* ''Series/LittleBritain''. The two performers each wore a fat suit to play the enormously obese Bubbles and Desiree De Vere.
95	* ''Series/NewGirl'': Creator/MaxGreenfield wears a fat suit in flashbacks to Schmidt's younger years, specifically in his late teens and early 20's.
96	* Creator/DavidSuchet dons one of these when playing the [=titular=] character in ''Series/{{Poirot}}.''
97	* According to the commentary, Camille Coduri uses one to play Jackie Tyler on ''Series/DoctorWho''.
98	* Oscar Madison on ''Series/{{The Odd Couple\|1970}}'' did this, because he had lost a lot of weight on "Fat-Away Diet Pills" and needed to take pictures for the "Before" portion of the ads.
99	* In an episode of the 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' The Joker wore a fatsuit to pretend to be the Maharajah of Nimpah. Franchise/{{Batman}} punctured the disguise by poking him in the rear with a Bat-[=JokerInAFatSuitPoker=]. (Well, it was really just a letter opener, but [[CrazyPrepared you know he has one]].)
100	* Dennis from ''Series/HeadOfTheClass'', over the summer had '''lost''' a lot of weight but wore padding to pretend he had actually gained weight, until he tore it off for TheReveal.
101	-->'''Darlene:''' Seriously Dennis, you ''need'' to lose the weight.\
102	'''Dennis:''' OK, OK, I will... '''[[TheReveal right now!]]'''
103	* In ''Series/SpinCity'', Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (Michael J. Fox) wears a fat suit to a charity bachelor auction. He gets no takers.
104	* In an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Tracy tries becoming a white girl, which makes him look homely and fat.
105	* Tyra Banks [[BlackLikeMe wore a fat suit]] on her talk show to examine the idea that (surprise!) fat people are treated worse than supermodels. This shows up on one or more PrimeTimeNews Magazine programs, with correspondents being "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} shocked, SHOCKED]]" that fat people get less respect than non-fat people.
106	** A newsmagazine gossip show put Vanessa Manillo [[FollowTheLeader in a fat suit for an experiment after Tyra did it]]. The suit was a sort of special effect failure, making her look like the Michelin Man, instead of an actual overweight person.
107	* Jon Stewart once wore one on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' after coming back from vacation, making it look like he's gained weight over the holidays. He appeared without it for the rest of the episode, claiming a filter had been applied to the camera to make him look normal.
108	** Creator/DavidLetterman wore a fat suit for a few filmed bits they made to show him letting himself go in between his gigs on ''Late Night'' and ''Late Show''.
109	* Creator/PruittTaylorVince wore one to play a 600-pound patient of the week on ''Series/{{House}}''.
110	* A fat suit or padding was used on ''Series/MadMen'' a few times: when Peggy had that pregnancy, when Joan started showing early in her pregnancy and for a few episodes after her baby was born, and when Betty gained a lot of weight.
111	* Johnny Galeki (Leonard), Kunar Nayyar (Rajesh) and Kevin Sussman (Stuart) wore them for an ImagineSpot on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.
112	* Creator/AmySedaris wore padding around her middle for ''Series/StrangersWithCandy''. She calls it her "little fatty suit" on the DVD commentary.
113	* In ''Series/MyFamily'' Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) wears one after gaining a lot of weight in the flash forward Christmas special.
114	* In ''Series/That70sShow'' Jackie (Creator/MilaKunis) wears one in a ImagineSpot of her Future.
115	** In the fourth-season "It's a Wonderful Life" episode, we see that Kelso got fat as a TV anchorman, and Creator/AshtonKutcher wears a padded gut.
116	* In a episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' the boys babysitter Patty (Creator/MelodyPerkins) wears one in a flashback of her high school days.
117	** In another episode Lois wears one when Reese has an ImagineSpot of having to take care of her in the future.
118	** A third episode featured Hal (Creator/BryanCranston) wearing one in an ImagineSpot of Lois' where the family had girls instead of boys. In this life, he's put on weight because all of his daughters love baking and will bribe him with sweets to get him to let them get away with stuff.
119	* In ''Series/NipTuck'' Kimberly (Kelly Carlson) wears one in a fantasy sequence.
120	* In a episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' Amy (Creator/LeighAllynBaker) wears one after swelling up due to suffering an allergic reaction.
121	* In a episode of ''Series/TheNanny'' similar to the above, Fran wears one after swelling up due to suffering an allergic reaction to an injection.
122	* In a episode of ''Series/AttackOfTheShow!'' both hosts Creator/KevinPereira and Creator/OliviaMunn wear fatsuits as a part of episode challenge.
123	* In ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' an adaptation of the short story "Consider Her Ways" sees both the lead actress and two other actresses wear fat suits in a case of BigFatFuture.
124	* An episode of ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' revolves around a girl who is the fattest in school using the book to make her thin, it works but causes her fat to come to life. The fat monster then makes Jenny and several other girls in the school become obese.
125	* In an episode of ''Series/{{Mom}}'' set in the future Christy (Creator/AnnaFaris) wears one in the case of BigFatFuture.
126	* In ''Series/RaisingHope'' set during an alternate timeline shows Virginia (MarthaPlimpton) wearing one showing her as being mordibly obese.
127	* In an episode of ''Series/SilverSpoons'' Rickys blind date wears one in a ImagineSpot where she's so fat that she is unable to get out of a restaurant booth.
128	* Dom Joly used them as a recurring gag on ''Series/TriggerHappyTV'', where he and usually another actor would don very obvious fat suits (as in, it's obvious that they aren't actually obese) and do things like cram themselves into packed elevators, block off full descending staircases, and force theater patrons to awkwardly move out of the way so they could cross the entire row... [[{{Troll}} and sit on the opposite end of the aisle.]]
129	* Munro Chambers wore a fat suit and makeup effects in the show ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'', showing what his character would look like in the BigFatFuture.
130	* Brett Delbuono wore one to play a 500 lb teenage boy on an episode of ''Series/PrivatePractice''.
131	* Patrick Thomas (as Greg) wore one plus a fat face prosthetic in an episode of ''Series/{{Goosebumps}''} called "Say Cheese and Die...Again" about a skinny boy who turns obese by an evil camera
132	* Creator/JamesAWoods wore one in the show ''Series/TheBusiness'' in a TemporaryBulkChange.
133	* Sam (Creator/BretHarrison) is forced to wore one on a flight in ''Series/TheLoop''.
134	* Creator/JonnyFreeman (as Frank) wore a fat suit for a gag in an episode of ''Series/MIHigh'' during a TemporaryBulkChange
135	* The thirteenth season of ''Series/LaQueSeAvecina'' features a storyline in which Yoli has put on a lot of weight after quitting smoking; therefore, actress Miren Ibarguren wears a fat suit while playing her in this season (WordOfGod has it that this storyline was devised to [[HideYourPregnancy work around her pregnancy]]).
136	* ''Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe'' has an episode where a young woman is fattened up by her abusive, controlling boyfriend so that she will become dependent on him as she becomes self-conscious about her weight. She starts wearing more and more padding as the episode and time marches on.
137	* The tall and lanky Fred Gwynne wore a padded suit along with the heavy makeup and platform shoes in order to play the hulking Herman Munster in ''Series/TheMunsters''. The suit was apparently so hot and heavy, and he sweat so profusely, that he ended up losing weight during the coarse of the show.
138	* Creator/AmyAdams wore one in her intial scenes as Jodi in the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Craving", before GreenRocks turned her into a skinny fat-vampire.
139	* In French sketch-comedy show ''Series/VousLesFemmes'', Judith Siboni and Olivia Cotê are clothes-shopping together. The visibly slender Judith takes a summer sundress from a rack and asks Olivia for a honest opinion as to whether she'd look fat wearing this. Olivia suggests trying it on. Judith retreats to the changing room. When she comes out, she is visibly about four clothes sizes larger under the new dress.[[note]]she is also wearing a fat-suit that makes her look possibly eighty pounds larger with exaggerated stomach and arse[[/note]]. Olivia takes a critical look and says "Yes, it does make your bum look ''a little bit'' bigger".
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143	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Fat". Al had heavy doses of makeup and a fat suit to make him appear morbidly obese in the video. It worked. He dons a similar fat suit when performing the song live (but no makeup; he wears a latex mask).\
144	Interestingly, there's an urban legend surrounding this one. According to the legend, Weird Al thought it would be funny to film himself eating a sloppy joe while wearing the getup. He watched the video and was so disgusted he was put off meat for good. (In reality, he became a vegetarian after reading a diet book. Though the "sloppy joe" incident actually happened, it did little more than convince himself he never, ever actually wanted to ''be'' fat.)
145	* Music/TheBluetones - "Marblehead Johnson" music video - Skinny band members Mark Morriss, Scott Morriss, Adam Devlin, and Eds Chesters were made up as a band of fat rockers wearing full fat suits and fat hands
146	* Music/{{Rammstein}}, bar Flake, in the Music Video for "Keine Lust".
147	** TillLindemann of Music/{{Rammstein}} also put on a fat suit (and makeup) for the music video "Haifisch"
148	** Music/{{Rammstein}} also appeared at the 2005 Echo Awards in their fat suits and performed live. Once again Flake opted to stay skinny.
149	* Music/MichaelJackson wears one to play an evil (and ''white'') mayor in the long-form video/short film ''[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]''.
150	* Rapper Lady Sovereign wears one briefly in the music video for the song "Love Me or Hate Me".
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154	* Wrestling/RicFlair wore a fat suit in ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' in an attempt to impersonate Wrestling/DustyRhodes.
155	* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] wore one as part of her sumo wrestler Halloween costume. When she tried to actually wrestle a match in the suit, it didn't go too well.
156	* Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} wore fat suits during a show in Memphis, where they were "Fat Elvis" and "Really Fat Elvis".
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160	* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' (reluctantly) wears one of these in order to hide her identity as the eponymous heroine. Well, she has to hide [[MultiArmedAndDangerous her extra arms]] somehow...
161	* ''Moon over June'': Professor Hatsuki Akagawa [=PhD=] uses an understated[[note]](vaguely full-figured rather than distinctly overweight}[[/note]] version along with a black wig on campus to avoid (further) complications resulting from students and faculty recognizing the dyed pink hair and [=skinny-with-DD-implants=] body she displays in her only somewhat scaled back porn career.
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165	* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNti1nOzxM This]] ''hilarious'' live-action ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'' parody. The actor playing Simon Greedwell is wearing a rather obvious fat suit.
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169	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied some of the Film examples with the RealTrailerFakeMovie ''Giant Fat Black Lady Who's Really a Black Man in a Really Big Fat Suit''. "Now see the movie you've already seen!"
170	* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' did this trope once when she was cast as the Nurse in the school play, Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. When the girl cast as Juliet got sick, however, the part went to Pepper Ann, who unfortunately, was stuck in the fat suit, so she had to play a morbidly obese Juliet.
171	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the evil Mom has a literal Fat Suit for use in almost all public appearances - it turns her from looking like a tall, incredibly skinny old woman in thigh-high boots, to looking like a stereotypical sweet old Southern matronly grandmother type. Admittedly it isn't used on her face but she still manages the matronly expression most of the time.
172	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Roberta's teacher forces her to wear a fat suit to see that it's like to be a fat kid who is treated poorly by her peers. Unfortunately, the disguise works ''too'' well as it results in Cleveland Junior falling in love with her, not realizing or even recognizing her as his half sister.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': At Teddy's Halloween party in "Full Bars", Bob unwillingly puts on a sumo wrestler padded fat suit costume, accidentally crushing Teddy's pet guinea pig in the process.
174	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, "The Yellow Badge of Cowardage", Milhouse reveals to Bart that he's secretly been training for the annual school race, and has been wearing a "dummy tummy" so people don't notice how lean he's gotten.
175	* In the episode of ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Planet]]'' called "Turnabout is Fair Play", Gilligan is padded to look extremely fat in order to rescue the Skipper from an alien who collects fat specimens. Gilligan's "fat" body is drawn as an almost exact clone of Fat Albert, as both series were produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}.
176	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'' episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City", Robin wears a pillow stuffed under his shirt in an attempt to go undercover to infiltrate the morbidly obese villain Sweet Tooth's gang of fat teenagers in order to foil their nefarious plot to turn Gotham City's water supply to chocolate.
177	* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' called "Fatman Strikes Again", someone is stealing valuables from fat men's clubs, so Batfink dons an inflatable fat suit to find them.
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181	* Jamie Oliver, a British crusader for healthy school meals and famous chef, once wore a fat suit to prove a point.
182	* Downplayed by Creator/AndyKaufman with his AlterEgoActing persona of Tony Clifton; as the role evolved beyond the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of just sunglasses, a fake mustache, and a wig he started wearing stomach padding, and eventually prosthetic makeup was designed for his face. The result was a suit convincing enough that ''other people'' could wear it and look just like Kaufman did, which made it even easier for him to insist that Clifton was a separate person because they could appear together for stage shows and photo shoots. Eventually Kaufman stopped playing the role and handed it off to friend/colleague Bob Zmuda, whose Clifton appearances successfully fooled (among others) Creator/DavidLetterman. A year after Kaufman's death in 1984, Zmuda reprised the role for a Comedy Store benefit performance, and he and other performers have brought Clifton back from time to time in the ensuing decades.
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