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| 8 | ->''"You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping."'' |
| 9 | -->-- '''Creator/CindyCrawford''' |
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| 11 | In a world where being very skinny (or buff if you're a guy or girl wanting to be athletic) is the ideal and being [[FatBastard over]][[FatIdiot weight]] is dreaded, [[TruthInTelevision many people are self-conscious about their weight]]. Media, Internet and social media depictions of impossibly perfect celebrities only makes it worse. |
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| 13 | These ([[AlwaysFemale usually female]]) characters are obsessed with dieting (or occasionally, working out) in order to reach the ideal; commenting on their figure is often [[BerserkButton a sensitive point]] for them. However, not all characters with Weight Woe are overweight; many are just HollywoodPudgy, and some are even told in-verse that they don't need to lose weight at all. |
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| 15 | Sometimes this is [[DietEpisode a one-episode affair]], usually because someone [[YouAreFat brings their weight up]] or they want to impress their LoveInterest, but just as often it is a character quirk. In the latter case, the character is usually a yo-yo dieter or has too little willpower to keep it up so [[StatusQuoIsGod nothing about their figure changes]]. |
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| 17 | When PlayedForLaughs, the dieter is a BigEater or has a huge SweetTooth that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption constantly foils their dieting plans]]; when PlayedForDrama, the dieter is suffering from an eating disorder. The latter in particular may be used for a VerySpecialEpisode. |
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| 19 | In real life, eating disorders of any kind are '''never''' funny, and sufferers should seek immediate help. Media often dictates that one must be thin in order to be attractive, sometimes unrealistically so. However, eating disorders are more complicated than that, involving many factors ranging from feelings of lack of control to loneliness to inadequacy in other ways. Eating disorders can contribute to fatality if they go untreated. |
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| 21 | In fiction, however, Weight Woe is usually PlayedForLaughs, most likely because of its sensitive nature and prevalence in real life. Even in a VerySpecialEpisode they are portrayed as easily treatable, with the sufferer getting over them by the end of the episode when in truth recovery can take months or years. Additionally, the cause is almost always solely to do with a character's physical appearance, whether the issue is genuine or perceived. |
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| 23 | Subtrope of AppearanceAngst. A SisterTrope of MuscleAngst. Often tied into AWeightyAesop or a MissedMealAesop. |
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| 25 | Compare HugeSchoolGirl, a girl who is much taller and more developed than her peers and is insecure about it, HeightAngst, where a character is self-conscious about their height instead of their width, and RealWomenHaveCurves, where higher body fat is portrayed as the ideal. Contrast FatAndProud and {{Big Beautiful Wom|an}}en/{{Big Beautiful M|an}}en--the former of whom are comfortable with their size and the latter are portrayed as sexy despite or ''because'' they are overweight. Both compare and contrast ObsessedWithFood, as a person who is self-conscious about their weight will very often be obsessed with food itself as well, though it will not seem like it on the surface. Overlaps with IntentionalWeightGain if the character wants to gain weight. |
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| 28 | !!Examples |
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| 31 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 32 | * There was an ad for Weight Watchers (or some other diet system) that invoked/exploited this trope. A black & white shot of a pudgy woman staring at the camera, with moist eyes, as her InnerMonologue says "do you think I don't hear what you're saying behind my back?" etc. |
| 33 | * Cosmopolitan magazine [[http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/robyn-lawley-swimwear ran an ad]] featuring a "plus-sized" model, who was a normal body-sized woman, and smugly claimed that they were setting new standards. This -- quite rightly -- [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-posnanski/a-plea-to-cosmopolitan-ma_b_4502288.html angered many people]], as they pointed out that calling perfectly normal women -- and in some cases, women who were ''still'' below average -- a "plus" was hardly progressive. |
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| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * In ''Literature/AccelWorld'', Haruyuki Arita is an overweight boy who has severe self-esteem problems that, among other things, are related to his weight. In the second OVA, Haru's weight means that he's in danger of possibly being forced to attend a special health session, which would prevent him from participating in the territory battles. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'': |
| 39 | ** Pamie nearly develops an eating disorder after Walter and his brothers compare her to a balloon. Her friends are only able to convince her that her refusal to eat isn't healthy when she faints after going out on a jog. |
| 40 | ** The Koala family decides to have Papa needs to exercise more after he accidentally busts his belt during dinner. Miss Lewis meanwhile decides to write a story about it in the paper, showing before and after results. He's absolutely miserable during all of it, and in the end, [[AllForNothing and it ultimately does nothing. He ends up breaking another belt the next time he sits down to eat.]] |
| 41 | * Not as important as in the previous examples but still featured in the UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts manga ''Manga/AllRounderMeguru'': while Meguru doesn't have much trouble with his diet, at least one fighter was disqualified from the Kanto Amateur Shooto Championship for failing at the weigh-in (allowing Meguru to enter in his place, as he had been admitted as a reserve only), and Maki is quite creepy as she savors the incoming release day, the one day of the week she doesn't have to be on a diet. |
| 42 | %%* Rihoko in ''VideoGame/{{Amagami}}''. |
| 43 | * Mari "Monroe" Morino in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' is the only cast member who is anxious about her weight; this is apparent in [[HotSpringsEpisode Chapter 6]], she forgoes dinner since she noticed she has put up a few pounds. Sakura thinks it's her breasts more than anything else. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': |
| 45 | ** Yomi. She even writes on a radio show about it under the pen name "Crying Diet Girl". |
| 46 | ** Tomo has also had at least one instance of this, lamenting that her calories go straight to her tummy whilst [[HugeSchoolGirl Sakaki's]] go to her [[StatuesqueStunner height and chest]]. Perhaps her tendency to pick on Yomi about her weight [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex is out of insecurity for her own]]. |
| 47 | * A one-shot horror manga story ''Fasting'' featured a chubby girl named Tomoko brutally mocked by the boy she likes. Tomoko is so hurt by this she starves herself out of desperation to become beautiful. One night her mother finds her sitting in front of the open fridge, content to just look at the food but never eating it. Sometime later, Tomoko discovers that she's become slender and attractive and decides to speak to her old crush. The jackass doesn't even recognize her as the girl he called a whale and they start to make out. [[spoiler: At that point, Tomoko is so overcome with hunger, she ''bites off the guy's face'' and starts eating him. She doesn't even realize what she's doing until her hunger is sated.]] |
| 48 | * A RunningGag with Akko from ''Manga/GirlFriends2006'', who is easily distracted by food and will often attempt various methods to lose weight as quickly as possible whenever she noticed that she gained some pounds. |
| 49 | * PlayedForDrama and not in the eating disorder kind in ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo''. TheBigGuy Mamoru Takamura is normally a heavyweight, but he enforces a life of self starvation in order to compete in the Middleweight Divisions (from Junior Middleweight to Super Middleweight) because there's no heavyweight contenders in the Asian-Pacific area. The result of this is [[BodyHorror Takamura being horrifically skinny for someone who's naturally a heavyweight]]. |
| 50 | * PlayedForLaughs with [[ChronicHeroSyndrome America]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. He's often seen [[BigEater eating copious amounts]] [[FastFoodNation of junk food]], but is shown several times to be self-conscious about his unhealthy eating habits; in one strip he's seen anxiously weighing himself, and seeing that he's gained weight, trying out several diets according to the advice he receives from other countries. But according to WordOfGod, he's gaining ''muscle'' rather than fat. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/HidamariSketch'': |
| 52 | ** Hiro. The fact that she's a SupremeChef and Miyako's a BigEater who likes to poke fun at this aspect of her character doesn't help. |
| 53 | ** After Hiro GraduateFromTheStory, a girl called Matsuri moves into Hiro's apartment, and turns out she, like Hiro, is also this. Co-tenents Yuno and Nazuna joke that it's the curse of Room 101. |
| 54 | * The central conflict of ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' is BigEater Sakura Hibiki trying to lose weight by exercising properly after getting teased about her weight one day (despite the fact that she's [[HollywoodPudgy only slightly soft rather than outright fat]]). The manga has proper (albeit FanService laden) exercise techniques [[OnceAnEpisode once per chapter.]] |
| 55 | * ''IC In A Doll'': |
| 56 | ** One chapter focuses on Hanako, an award-winning author suffering from extreme bulimia. In her adolescence, Hanako was repeatedly molested by her stepfather and makes herself vomit to stay thin in order to wear clothes for younger women to give herself a second childhood. Her maid doll, Cherry, silently stood by and only laid out towels whenever Hanako prepared to purge, but Cherry goes against her orders and tries to stop Hanako when she has a nervous breakdown. The final chapter of the series shows a much healthier and happier Hanako preparing to get married. |
| 57 | ** The first chapter in the series focused on the relationship being a nameless boy doll and a rich woman named Kaya. When Kaya was younger, she was also bulimic like Hanako. Unlike Hanako, Kaya ended up [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome severely damaging herself]] and [[TruthInTelevision lost the ability to have children]]. |
| 58 | %% * Mio and Mugi in ''Manga/KOn''. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': |
| 60 | ** Fujiwara starts trying to lose weight over winter break. The fact that she applies very loose logic to her eating habits like "cold foods don't have calories because calories are a measurement of heat" and "eating lots of spicy food is the same thing as exercise because both make you sweat" doesn't really help. |
| 61 | ** One chapter featured a ramen chef who became obsessed with fattening women up with his food because his little sister once had to be hospitalized after dieting to make herself skinnier for her boyfriend. |
| 62 | * Happens in the ''Literature/KaiketsuZorori'' episode "The Out of Control Robot Maid." While waiting for a bridge to be repaired, Zorori and the boar twins take up residence in an old castle. The castle comes with a robotic cat maid capable of cooking large and exquisite meals. When Zorori tries to tell her she doesn't need to cook so much the maid bursts into hysterical tears, so not wanting to upset her, Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi eat everything she makes. A few days pass, and all three have become very large and very fat, so much so that they aren't allowed to cross the repaired bridge because they might break it. Zorori finally takes matters into his own hands and has to reprogram the maid so she won't have any more crying fits... of course, Zorori and the twins are still fat and have to work off the excess weight the slow way. |
| 63 | * Akane in ''Manga/KitchenPrincess'', though this is more of the Very Special Chapter variety and is resolved pretty easily. However, apart from that, the chapter does a surprisingly good job of portraying an eating disorder. |
| 64 | * ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'' has Millefeuille of supernova. She's a BigEater and the TeamChef but is so terrified by the prospect of gaining weight that she refuses to step on the scale to know. One has to imagine that her frequently having to perform in public in revealing outfits doesn't help. |
| 65 | * Kagami in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' frequently diets. She, however, has a SweetTooth. |
| 66 | * ''Happy [=StrikerS=]'', the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' YonKoma one-shot that was published together with EpisodeZeroTheBeginning of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', uses this as a RunningGag for Teana, who's worried that she's getting fat since she hasn't had the time to exercise due to getting swamped by desk work. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': |
| 68 | ** ''Elma's OL Diary'' has a chapter where two of Elma's coworkers get jealous of her ability to eat inhuman amounts of food without putting on any weight, though they quickly forgive her due to the sight of her stuffing her face reminding them of cute animals like chipmunks. |
| 69 | ** Tohru cooking foods that are high in fat for the cold weather in chapter 51 of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' causes Kobayashi to put on a bit of weight and leave her unable to fit into her pants. Fortunately, a single day of playing with Kanna in the park proves to be a strenuous enough workout to help her lose all the weight. |
| 70 | * Mitsuba from ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'', although she [[BigEater doesn't put much effort into dieting]]. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'': At one point, Marin's modelling agent tells her she should watch out her eating habits, lest that she could put on some weight, but she doesn't pay attention. Then, when she tries the cosplay costumes Gojo made for her (all of which were made to fit her exactly), she realizes to her horror that they no longer fit her as before, and only then does she decide to take her diet seriously. |
| 72 | * This downplayed (and discussed) in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' with Sakura (and Ino) mentioning that she was on a diet to make herself pretty enough to win Sasuke. |
| 73 | * Despite being fairly thin, Yun from ''Manga/NewGame'' worries about her weight constantly. Though this probably comes from her absolute hatred of any form of exercise. |
| 74 | * In ''Anime/NoRin'', episode 7, it starts with Kosaku and Kei noticing that they both have big bellies. At first, they thought it was muscle, but after seeing Yuka and Minori very chubby, they concluded they the 4 of them are getting fat, thanks to Yuka's cooking. |
| 75 | * This is one of the main driving points of ''Manga/OnePoundGospel''. Kosaku Takahara is an incredibly talented boxer... who is also an incredibly {{big eater}}. He has very little control over his appetite and as such he keeps switching weight classes. He goes through multiple crash diets as a result of this since his coach is trying to keep him in one weight class, and he's been disqualified a couple of times due to vomiting in the middle of his matches. |
| 76 | ** Amusingly enough, a rival boxer named Matsuzaka has the opposite problem: after Kosaku passed his license exam by knocking him out with one punch, Matsuzaka trained to have his revenge, but every time he was about to issue his challenge he'd find out Kosaku had got in a higher weight class. When he ''finally'' got around to challenge him he instinctively threatened Kosaku when he heard him considering switching weight class again, as he couldn't get any heavier... And on the ring, differently from Kosaku, he's visibly pudgy (for non-heavyweights, a whale). |
| 77 | * In one episode of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' Stocking's insatiable SweetTooth finally catches up with her. At first, she only gains a slight amount of weight, but after some intensive dieting and exercise she significantly bloats up, driving her insane. Eventually, she literally grows bigger than their house. It's at this point that the cause of this is revealed to be a ghost. Stocking goes back to normal after she and Panty kill it. |
| 78 | * ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' had a story called ''Diet'' which dealt with three people and their personal struggles concerning their weight; a chubby young girl who wanted to slim down to get her boyfriend back before a school dance, a boxer who is trying to keep his weight down before his next match, and a model whose colleague visited Count D's shop for a miracle diet pill. |
| 79 | ** The girl receives a personal trainer who helps her lose the weight for the dance, but in doing so, the girl has come to take pride in herself with a new sense of self-confidence, and realizes that her ex-boyfriend is a total ass. When she asks Count D what happened to the trainer, he tells her he doesn't know but suggests that she look after the trainer's cat. [[spoiler: Which just happens to have the exact same eyes as the trainer.]] |
| 80 | ** The boxer receives a parakeet that constantly tries to get him to eat or drink something while training, which the boxer considers as a form of motivation. He loses his next match but is grateful that he gave it his all and decides to retire. |
| 81 | ** The model is able to eat and drink anything she wants without gaining a pound, just like her colleague. [[spoiler: But soon she is unable to sate her appetite no matter how much she eats or drinks. Her hair begins to fall out and her nails begin to chip off with ease. Pretty soon, her skin starts to crack, and... ''something'' emerges out of her, looking exactly like the model. It's implied the diet pill was, in fact, some sort of parasite which uses humans as a cocoon before hatching, looking exactly like the host, and the same thing had happened to the model's colleague before the story began.]] |
| 82 | * Koboshi gets this in an episode of ''Manga/PitaTen'' in an attempt to be more feminine. |
| 83 | * ''Manga/PlusSizedElf'': Most of the heroines are fantasy creatures from another world struggling with their weight for one reason or another. Elfuda's trying to balance her need to stay relatively slim so she can go back to her world with her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood fondness for french fries]], Kuroeda wants to stay skinny enough to fit into her magic-enhancing outfit, Oku was always bullied for being chubby even for an orc, and so on. |
| 84 | * ''Manga/{{Pochamani}}'': |
| 85 | ** Being about a chubby heroine finding love, it's no surprise that this trope would be played with. It's largely averted with the main character of Tsumugi. Despite growing up teased about her weight and coming to think no one would ever love her, Mugi decided she had love herself first and foremost. It was this FatAndProud attitude that attracted her first boyfriend Tagami, a ChubbyChaser who is attracted to her confidence as much as her appearance. Since then the only time we have seen her worry about weight is an early chapter where she had overeaten to the point she was literally bursting out of her clothes. Even then she only focused on dieting enough to drop the unwanted excess. |
| 86 | ** Akane Itou, a character introduced later, is a much straighter case. She has many of the same woes as Mugi used to but has not yet had the same "love yourself" epiphany as Mugi did. Mugi takes Akane under her wing with the promise of helping her find that self-love for herself. Since Akane ''doesn't'' want to feel fat, this takes the form of helping her with diet and exercise, hoping that the two of them together could do what one alone could not. |
| 87 | * Team Rocket from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' in the episode "A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine" has gained weight and had their own weight woe moment; Meowth's moment is when his charm on his head sinks into his head due to the extra fat, Jessie's moment is her laughing so hard, [[PoppingButtons her button pops right off]] followed by claiming that [[IAmBigBoned she needed a new uniform]], and finally, James' moment is when he recalls his stomach hanging over his belt when he was getting dressed. |
| 88 | * Itsuki Nakano of ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' is often either poked fun of, or being self-conscious about her BigEater tendencies. True to form, one of the manga's omakes implies she's a fair bit heavier than her sisters, something she's not happy about. |
| 89 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'': |
| 90 | ** Usagi at times, particularly in episode four of the first anime. WordOfGod is that Usagi is meant to be slightly bigger than the other Senshi, however, this isn't apparent by her actual design: |
| 91 | ---> "Time to weigh in. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! '''''I'M A TOTAL FATSO!!!!!'''''"[[note]]Please note that this line was in Creator/DiC's English dub. Furthermore, she wasn't really that fat.[[/note]] |
| 92 | *** At another point in the same episode, Luna simply advises that Usagi should avoid overeating or eating junk food and that she'll get plenty of exercises just by being Sailor Moon. However, Usagi notices Luna is drawing something on a sheet of paper. Luna reveals a drawing of an extremely overweight Sailor Moon, saying it's future Usagi. |
| 93 | ** This is occasionally PlayedForLaughs in Chibi-Usa's side stories, usually in regards to her SweetTooth. One such story told of two celestial lovers who were pretty much barred from being together because they didn't focus on their heavenly duties. The wife ended up alleviating her boredom by snacking and watching TV, resulting in her gaining weight. This coupled with her rather plain face caused her to worry that her husband was cheating on her. [[spoiler:He wasn't and shows up to conclude that skinny girls are best for dating, but strong women are the ones for marrying.]] |
| 94 | ** In another side story, it's mentioned that Ikuko is putting Kenji on a diet because he put on a little weight. |
| 95 | ** In an episode of [=SuperS=], the MonsterOfTheWeek traps Sailor Moon in a tutu that forces her to dance endlessly. However, Sailor Moon's gut causes the tutu to break, allowing her to finish the monster off. Tuxedo Mask says he feels like advising Sailor Moon to drop some weight, but it ended up helping her this time. |
| 96 | ** Happened on large scale in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', as [[MonsterOfTheWeek Debrine]]'s plan involved getting as many people as possible fat and then lure them in her fake health center to drain their energy. The only people known to have completely escaped it are Artemis (a rather hyperactive ''alien cat''), Wakagi (a cop that hates sweets, and Debrine's plan was based on chocolate), and Hikaru (who ''didn't even notice'', as she always eats healthy foods), while Minako, upon being informed she was getting fat, trained so much she not only missed Valentine but lost the weight in a few days and then regained it in ''muscles''. |
| 97 | * Natsumi from ''Manga/SgtFrog'' sometimes fusses over her weight. This even drove the plot of one chapter in the manga. |
| 98 | %% * Chizuru from ''Manga/SquidGirl'' |
| 99 | * ''Take Responsibility For My Stomach!'' stars a young woman who gets fat, partly due to her best friend's cooking and partly due to her own bad habit. The plot of the series involves the best friend helping the protagonist lose weight in an efficient and healthy manner. |
| 100 | * Often PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'' due to various boxers finding serious trouble at staying in their preferred weight class: |
| 101 | ** Nishi is a natural heavyweight (weighing over 200 lbs at his license exam), but the scarce number of heavyweight boxers in Japan pushes Danpei to put him on a diet for a middleweight-meaning he has to slim down to 160 lbs ''at most''. Needless to say, he has ''immense'' trouble, and for a while, he would sneak out of the gym to eat more. |
| 102 | ** Joe and Rikiishi had all but promised themselves to have a professional bout... But the former was a natural flyweight (up to 112 lbs) fighting as a bantam (between 115 and 118 lbs) specifically to work his way up to Rikiishi's class, and the latter a welter (between 140 and 147 lbs) that, to work his way ''down'' to Joe's class, was fighting as a featherweight (at the time between 118 and 126 lbs)-prompting Rikiishi to take a nightmarish diet to get in the bantamweight limits before Joe can get too fat. [[spoiler:It plays a part in [[CasualtyInTheRing Rikiishi getting killed by Joe]], as the toll taken by the diet means his body cannot survive long enough for him to be brought to the hospital and possibly healed after one of Joe's punches caused him a brain hemorrage]]. |
| 103 | ** Later in his career, Joe gets a late growth spurt that makes it hard for him to stay in the ''featherweight'' class, when, out of respect for Rikiishi and Carlos Rivera, he's planning to take on Jose Mendoza, the bantamweight world champion. With great hardship, Joe manages to stabilize himself at exactly 118 lbs, but [[spoiler:it may have played a part in [[HeroicRROD his death by exhaustion]] against Mendoza]]. |
| 104 | ** Averted with Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Kim Yongbi, who not only has no problem staying at exactly 117 lbs and half, he just ''cannot put more weight'' due [[spoiler:the shock from when, during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, he discovered that the soldier he had killed to steal his food and survive a few days more was his father, who had deserted to bring him that food]] |
| 105 | * In ''Anime/UmaMusume'', Special Week frets about her weight after [[BigEater stress-eating]] and resolves to go on a diet. Her team helps her out once she confesses her worries to them, though she's reminded to focus on building muscle instead of just getting smaller. As the series progresses, it focuses more on her getting physically stronger and doing strength training to prepare for her high-level races. |
| 106 | * Owing to her FormerlyFat past, Hime from ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'' is extremely sensitive about high-calorie foodstuff and exercises religiously to, as she puts it, "stay thin despite pigging out". |
| 107 | * In ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', in the first 2 episodes, Yuri has put on some weight, due to his lack of training, and has been insecure about it, [[TemporaryBulkChange but loses the weight in episode 3 and for the rest of the series.]] |
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| 110 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 111 | * Fred Andrews, the father of the title character in ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie]]'', is perpetually dieting and cheating on his diet. |
| 112 | * In ''ComicBook/BatmanFamily'', the villain Joker's Daughter was anorexic in the past. |
| 113 | * In the ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' revamp ''Dial H'', the main character, Nelson Jentm is a FormerlyFit example whose life started going down the drain after he lost his job and his girlfriend. His friend Darren is concerned over the fact that Nelson had a heart attack and he's not even past 30. |
| 114 | * ''ComicBook/CommonGrounds'' #4 had a short story about a support group for superheroes struggling with their weight, with a Batman expy named Red Fox insisting they be called "density challenged" and suggesting they embrace their overweight status. It's pretty clear the guy is only suggesting this because of deep self-loathing with his body image, and the other members leave because they just want to lose weight. |
| 115 | * Agent X, an associate of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', was at one point kidnapped and infused with what was referred to as "the American gene," which gave him arthritis and made him morbidly obese. |
| 116 | * This is just one of the many insecurities that plague the titular heroine of ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}.'' She's not really overweight (apart from a naturally big butt, although she's the only one who considers this a problem) but because her super suit is skin tight to the point that she can't even wear underwear, she's very insecure about her looks. She admits to starving herself and exercising constantly. |
| 117 | * Two examples from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': |
| 118 | ** Mrs. Sprat, the wife of Jack Sprat, has a complex over being one of the few physically ugly women in a community of fairy tale princesses and queens because she's fat. And her sour personality makes her look even uglier because no one can stand to be around her. [[spoiler: As of the hundredth issue, Mrs. Sprat joins the side of Mr. Dark, and gradually becomes thin, beautiful, and completely evil.]] |
| 119 | ** Jack Horner, in his spin-off comic, claims to have never been fat a day in his life, which is why he's horrified when, in an issue appropriately titled "Fat Jack," he's suddenly sporting a large beer gut. Not only that, but he's also getting progressively uglier and losing his hair. [[spoiler: It turns out Jack's obesity and ugliness are part of his transformation into a dragon, due to his years of hoarding an obscenely large treasure inside his magic briefcase.]] |
| 120 | * ''Franchise/TheFlash'': |
| 121 | ** Barry Allen and Wally West have dealt with this a couple of times. |
| 122 | ** Gorilla Grodd once turned Barry into a thousand-pound amnesiac by making his body absorb moisture in the air. |
| 123 | ** Wally's suffered under this in two alternate reality stores. In a BadFuture seen in ''JLA'', Wally had lost his connection to the Speed Force in an out-of-shape, sickly body. In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}: ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', a power-mad Joker warped Wally into "The Flab: The Fastest Fat Man Alive," a compulsive eater who had gained super-speed after he was struck by lightning while trying to steal candy from a vending machine. |
| 124 | * Played with during Adam Warren's run on ''ComicBook/Gen13'' with a BadFuture issue showing the fates of most of the team. Roxy struggled with her weight and binge eating frequently before finally dying as the rest of the team did (except Grunge). The issue turned out to just be a bad dream Grunge was having. Though in a follow-up issue, Roxy decides to gorge herself on a big fast-food dinner after getting mad at Grunge, and for the rest of the issue was starving herself. |
| 125 | * Retired Irish heroine Shamrock lamented in ''Girl Comics'' that she can barely fit into her costume. This is, however, a case of HollywoodPudgy as she does not appear overweight, only the costume just appears to have gotten smaller, and other than that she's fine with being retired as a hairdresser. |
| 126 | * Longtime member of the ''ComicBook/GlobalGuardians'' Rising Sun has not aged well by the time he appeared making things difficult for the ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam after ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''. Originally a well-revered hero of Japan, he started excessively drinking and grew a BeardOfSorrow and a beer gut, ranting about Japan's shallow superhuman community. |
| 127 | * Former C-List bad guy Catman had let himself go when he reappeared in ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''. Then Creator/GailSimone got her hands on him, and by the time he reappeared in ''Villains United'' as a member of the ComicBook/SecretSix, he was the complete personification of the WalkingShirtlessScene. |
| 128 | * Swordsman was one of the few characters from ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'' who was left behind on the Counter-Earth. When he was seen again in the ''Heroes Reborn: Remnants'' story, he essentially became his world's version of Deadpool but got really fat in the process of binge-eating on junk food. |
| 129 | * Inverted with the Blob following ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. Upon waking up to discover his mutant power is gone, he immediately tries to commit suicide. The problem is he has so much excess skin from his weight that he can't find a nerve to cut. |
| 130 | * In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' Blue Beetle grappled with weight gain and a heart condition for a while. His diet was going very poorly until his doctor got the idea to use Ted's {{Manchild}} tendencies to their advantage, by pitting him against someone ''else'' who was also on a diet and making him see it as a competition. That person happened to be ComicBook/PowerGirl (during her "diet root beer" phase) and Ted managed to develop the willpower to slim back down for good for the sake of rubbing it in Karen's face. |
| 131 | * ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': |
| 132 | ** During the Silver Age, Matter-Eater Lad once got hit by a ray gun which altered his alien metabolism. As a Bismollian he can consume any form of matter and his metabolism processes it rather quickly. However, the ray had slowed it down to that of a normal human, which caused his body to swell up after he devoured a ton of dirt to form an escape tunnel. He was stuck like this for a while until a doctor managed to undo the ray's effect. |
| 133 | ** Conversely, Bouncing Boy once lost his power to inflate into a ball-like form and became so slim his teammates didn't recognize him. Rather than worrying about his looks, Bouncing Boy was sad that he couldn't be in the Legion anymore without a power. His powers were eventually restored. He'd lose them again a few times afterwards, but during those times his weight wasn't affected at all. |
| 134 | ** Lightning Lad in the comic tie-in to the Legion cartoon once had his powers swapped with Bouncing Boy due to an alien virus, causing himself to get fat in the process. The end of the issue implied Garth was going to be stuck like that longer than his teammates because the virus lasts longer on people with greater mass. |
| 135 | ** During the Five Years Later era, Cera Kesh tried to join the young Legionnaires only to be mocked for her bad skin and weight by Live Wire, who called her a cow, and Inferno. HollywoodPudgy comes into play because Cera wasn't even that chubby. When Cera became the new Emerald Empress, she briefly used the Emerald Eye to exact some revenge on Inferno by giving him zits and making him fat, so he would know what it's like to be "a cow." It should be noted that the two aforementioned Legionnaires were the only ones who had a problem with Cera's looks, and the rest of the team were very disappointed by their bullying. |
| 136 | ** Averted with Five Years Later Dream Girl, who indeed put on some weight since she left the Legion and became High Seer of Naltor, but became a BigBeautifulWoman instead of lamenting her size. |
| 137 | ** A more subdued version of this trope occurred during the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" arc. The majority of the Legion who were still present in the 31st Century after the Justice League of Earth drove them underground were featured with redesigns by artist Gary Frank. In Frank's notes, it's mentioned the Legionnaires were purposefully drawn with a certain amount of gauntness, even in the ones who still looked muscular, in their builds (most noticeable in their faces), a likely indicator that many of them lost weight from lack of sleep and being unable to eat properly while on the run. |
| 138 | * As a result of the Shadow King possessing her body, Karma of the ComicBook/NewMutants had become disgustingly obese because of his tendencies as a VillainousGlutton. For a small period of time, Karma was understandably ashamed of what her body had become like until she'd been stranded in a desert dimension and worked off the extra weight in order to survive. |
| 139 | * In ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger one-shot released under ''Vertigo Visions'', one of the condemned souls seen was a morbidly obese woman named Elba Benchley. It's implied that, before she died, Elba had been found chained in a basement when she was a little girl, alongside the partially eaten remains of her brother and sister. |
| 140 | * Christian Walker began sporting blonde hair and a beer belly after he left the force for a time in ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', as he was kind of depressed and felt he had nothing better to do than sit around and eat. |
| 141 | * Just as its cartoon namesake has done a few stories about this trope, so has ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' tackled it a few times. |
| 142 | ** In one issue, the heftier townspeople of Springfield are ordered to lose a set number of pounds by Rainer Wolfcastle and the President of the United States. If they can, everyone gets treated to an all-expenses-paid vacation at a water park. Everyone is able to lose the amount of weight required, except for Homer who gains three pounds and has to work even harder after the town labels him a pariah. |
| 143 | ** In another, Mr. Burns tries to cut costs by giving his workers highly addictive and delicious donuts instead of pay. The plan works, although Homer and the other employees are starting to put on a couple of pounds. It's not until a month goes by that Burns has to stop making the donuts, as it's costing him millions and productivity has dropped significantly because his workers are too obese to get anything done. |
| 144 | ** In another story, Nelson Muntz starts living with the Simpsons and spends a lot of his time making repairs around the house due to Homer's stupidity. As a result, he spends most of his time in school asleep. Without Nelson's bullying, the kids are able to use their lunch money to actually ''buy'' lunch, but because the cafeteria food is grossly unhealthy (they serve Cream of Lard), most of the student body becomes very overweight, to the point where they're unable to fit in their desks and are destroying the playground equipment. Lisa's an exception because she brings a vegetarian lunch to school. |
| 145 | ** In a summer special, Homer can't accompany the family on their vacation trip because he's too fat to be allowed on an airplane. He's given an alternative route on a flight company owned by Mr. Burns specifically for heavyset people, but the plane is in such a need of repairs Homer has to fix it himself. In his [[TheDeterminator determination]] to be with Marge and the kids, Homer ends up losing a lot of weight by accident through all the physical labor he employs. However, when he finally gets on the cruise the rest of the family is on, he's shocked to discover Marge and the kids have all gained weight. Without Homer's hijinks to keep them occupied, they had nothing to do but sit around and eat. Marge and the kids are then told that ''they'' are the ones too fat to fly home. |
| 146 | * ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': This was what led to the Smurfette's [[MagicPlasticSurgery magic makeover]] in her debut. Jokey led the others in a series of pranks tricking her into believing she was overweight. After Papa finds out, he gives her the makeover to help restore her confidence. |
| 147 | * The Machinist in ''ComicBook/StormwatchPHD'' has let himself go since he first battled Jackson King and is ordered to go on a diet as a requirement for being on the squad. |
| 148 | * In the eight-issue to the comic tie-in of Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow'', most of the Squaddies had tried to retrieve an Infinity Fractal before the Blob could get it for Doctor Doom. But the Fractal activated and somehow made the Blob slender while making the Squaddies fat. The effect only lasted as long as Blob held onto the Fractal, which he did on Doctor Doom's orders to incapacitate the Squad. The story ended with the Squaddies attempting to utilize their new girth to stop crime before they turn back to normal. On the other end, the Blob was depressed that he'd gotten so small and finally dropped the Fractal because he wasn't comfortable with his thin body. |
| 149 | * A certain running gag pertaining to the Franchise/{{Superman}} Family during the Silver Age had most of the characters getting fat one way or another. This includes Superman, his younger self Superboy on ''four'' separate occasions (including most of Smallville save for Jonathan and Martha Kent on two of those occasions), Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Supergirl in her secret identity as Linda Lee. |
| 150 | * In an issue of the second volume of ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]]'', Raven discovered she had six evil brothers with powers corresponding to the SevenDeadlySins, and her evil side manifested as {{Pride}}. After taking down her brothers, she planned to transfer their powers to her teammates using Beast Boy as the transference catalyst (which would've killed him). Roy Harper was briefly turned into the conduit for Gluttony and became fat, though this was immediately reversed when a BatmanGambit Raven implemented stopped her evil side. This appeared to have been a StealthPun reference to Roy's thrill-seeking womanizing tendencies, and his history as a recovered drug addict rather than any BigEater tendencies. So this worked to tie in the stereotypical association of fat people with gluttony and the sin's actual nature as excessive over-consumption. |
| 151 | * Luther Hargreeves of ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' had gotten out of shape between the first and second volumes of the series from doing nothing but eating cookies and watching infomercials all day out of depression. |
| 152 | * The lighthearted ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #34 showed an Earth where [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] had an eating problem instead of a drinking problem. He once ordered an ''entire cow'' for dinner along with [[AndADietCoke a diet soda]]. He eventually couldn't use the rockets in his suit and had to get his armor on using a crowbar. |
| 153 | * [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and Jean Grey all let themselves go in the BadFuture world of ''ComicBook/EarthX''. Peter as a result of retiring from superheroics and the police force, and Logan and Jean (in that world married) as a result of retirement and AwfulWeddedLife. Logan even smugly stated he couldn't get fat because of his healing factor. Peter went back to being Spider-Man and started to lose weight near the end of the first Earth-X book though, though a few people snarked about him being bitten by a "radioactive spare tire" due to his badly fitting costume. |
| 154 | * During the GoldenAge, Franchise/WonderWoman had Etta Candy, a FatAndProud PluckyGirl for a best friend. When Diana had mentioned to Etta the benefits of losing weight, Etta had made a compromise with Diana. If she lost ten pounds and felt better about herself, she'd lose fifty more. By the story's end, Etta had lost her ten pounds but was unhappy, so she simply asked Diana for her candy back. [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]], however, Etta had suffered from anorexia for a while. |
| 155 | * Autumn Rolfson, who would become Famine of Apocalypse's Horsemen in ''ComicBook/XFactor'', suffered from anorexia as a result of her ability to disintegrate living matter. By the time she appeared in ''Uncanny ComicBook/XForce'' she resembled a corpse. |
| 156 | * As an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Shaft of ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' apparently had an eating disorder during the team's first volume, and was very self-conscious about his weight. The seventh issue included a NightmareSequence where he gorges himself and becomes obese. Strangely, this is one of the most original storylines created by Creator/RobLiefeld, as it's virtually impossible to find comic books about male characters with eating disorders. This plot wasn't seen again in Shaft's later appearances. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 160 | %%* ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' ''defines'' this trope. (Ack!) |
| 161 | * A RunningGag with Wanda in ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues''. One story arc was solely about her trying to lose weight. |
| 162 | * ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} oscillates between being FatAndProud and being sensitive about his weight, with a dread of measuring himself (especially since he has a talking scale that keeps insulting him). |
| 163 | -->'''Jon''': Sensitive about our weight, are we?\ |
| 164 | '''Garfield''': My weight, my business. |
| 165 | * The rarely seen "can't gain weight" variation shows up now and then in ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}''. Despite being a BigEater, Peter never gains any weight. Occasionally this becomes a source of annoyance for him because he's perpetually scrawny and unable to gain any muscle. Compare his father Roger who eats as much as he does, but actually shows it. Roger has no real problem with his weight, but his wife Andy will sometimes force him to go on a diet for his own good. |
| 166 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Marvin}}'': Both of Marvin's parents, Jeff and Jenny, had this during the 1980s and 1990s. Jenny often insulted Jeff over his weight concerns but Jeff doing the same to Jenny [[DoubleStandard resulted in him]] being ExiledToTheCouch. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 170 | * Harmony, from the Buffyverse, is a pathetic mess at the beginning of ''Fanfic/AnAverageEverydaySupergoddess'', not least because of her [[HollywoodPudgy serious body issues]]. When, after the events of Halloween, she gains the physical form of a stunningly beautiful Asgardian woman, all of that changes. Her new body comes complete with a supercharged metabolism that burns through calories rapidly, and she wonders if she can finally stop her endless dieting. When she discovers that the oh-so-very-vain Amora had actually researched and created spells specifically designed to rid her body of unwanted fat (allowing her to [[TheHedonist indulge herself]] freely), Harm is ecstatic, and for the first time in years is able to eat full meals without guilt. |
| 171 | * In the ''Buffy/Stargate'' crossover story ''Fanfic/AllYourBaseAreBelongToHer'', Dawn is shown in flashback to have gained a [[HollywoodPudgy moderate]] amount of weight after Buffy's death. When [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Faith]] expressed (admittedly mild) disapproval of this development, [[EveryoneIsBi Dawn]] was so stricken that she became mildly anorexic and driven to lose weight so as to [[DatingCatwoman please Faith]]. Flash forward a year, and Dawn has achieved her target [[HollywoodThin weight and figure]], and is fine with being constantly hungry if it means she can [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy love who she sees in the mirror]] and [[DistractedByTheSexy turn heads]] wherever she goes. |
| 172 | * Sayaka has this as a Cibus in ''Fanfic/CibusEsculentusMadokaMagica''. Kyubey explains while she tries working out that [[spoiler: her fat is there to stay no matter what she does]]. The next thing she finds out is that [[spoiler: fighting isn't her only purpose (or even her main purpose) as a Cibus]], and she pretty much figured out the rest without his confirmation. |
| 173 | * {{Implied|Trope}} and PlayedForDrama in the ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' GameMod ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinSoft''. According to WordOfGod, Grace Dearest (the mod's version of GF) has trouble loving her body, and Benjamin Fairest (the mod's version of BF) has noticed this at family dinners. In addition, she wears an oversized sweater dress in Week 3, presumably to hide her body shape.[[invoked]] |
| 174 | * In the ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35889067 Embarrassemnt]]'', both Egon and his OriginalCharacter girlfriend have gained weight due to stress and genetics respectively and are highly embarrassed about it. |
| 175 | * This is downplayed in ''A Good Day'', where Ryuuko (who is chubby but not fat) is upset with her weight and considers herself to be not as pretty as Satsuki (who is slimmer) because of it and that she gets bullied for it. Satsuki helps breaks her out of this. |
| 176 | * In ''Fanfic/MorticiaIsPregnant'', Morticia is shocked at the idea that she's gaining weight, at least until she learns that it's a baby bump. |
| 177 | * An M-rated ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' fic, in one chapter, has a pregnant-with-twins Rarity lamenting her weight (which has increased all around since her pregnancy began) and wailing about how she's become a big fat cow. She calms down somewhat after the father points out that in their eyes, Rarity's weight gain has made her even more attractive. |
| 178 | * In ''Fanfic/ThePandaChronicles'' chapter "Just The Way You Are", [[WesternAnimation/TurningRed Tae-young]] has a body issues crisis over having gained weight. The guys worry about him because his appetite is so low, and once the answers are coaxed out of him, Jesse reassures him that he'd rather have him the way he is than how he was a year prior, when he was malnourished due to being homeless. |
| 179 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17488496/chapters/41189594 Perfect The Way You Are]]'' is a ''Love Live!'' fanfic where Nozomi develops an eating disorder. |
| 180 | * In a side story of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Wicke sees a vision of her younger self [[spoiler: after being splashed by Nihilego toxins]], and laments that she's gained some weight on her hips since her college days. |
| 181 | * [[http://hiyokomesi0712.tumblr.com/post/153769616752/a-story-of-childrens-diet This fan-comic]] has [[AbusiveParents Lusamine]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' forcing her children to eat very little food because she doesn't want them to get fat. When Gladion [[spoiler:sneaks into the kitchen at night]] because he's hungry, Lusamine catches him and [[spoiler:makes him vomit the food]]. |
| 182 | * The ''Style Savvy'' one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8215755/1/Help-Me Help Me]]'' is about the protagonist suffering from an eating disorder and ultimately being DrivenToSuicide. |
| 183 | * ''Fanfic/SurvivalATLA'' is an ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' oneshot where Katara had an eating disorder prior to the show. It all starts out related to Katara's selfless desire to help her family. She begins skipping meals so her brother can eat, which turns into her skipping meals so that other children in her tribe can eat more. It soon warped into an unhealthy body image and Katara only eating once a day (if she had the time, at that). |
| 184 | * Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''[[https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MrTyeDye/Fanfiction:_Waxing_Moon Waxing Moon]]''. When Luna first discovers that she's gotten chunky, she immediately wants to go back to normal, but when Sam, her girlfriend, reveals herself to be a ChubbyChaser, Luna wants to get even ''bigger''. |
| 185 | * Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42966075/chapters/109134253 Storytime]]''; Bruno believes [[FanCreatedOffspring his daughter Stefanie]] doesn't want to be spending her day watching over her ''viejo gordo'' ("[[BilingualBonus fat old man]]"). |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 189 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': |
| 190 | ** Elastigirl expresses quite a bit of depression after getting a glance at her butt on a mirror in Syndrome's Base. |
| 191 | ** Mr. Incredible himself has gone through this. He may have still retained his super strength but in his later years, he has to deal with the fact that his costume barely fits anymore. The first teaser trailer focused on him trying (and failing) to get his belt on. He then starts intensely working out (using ''trains'' as weights) to give himself a physique to match his powers again. He doesn't fully get back into his original HeroicBuild but is noticeably slimmer at the end of the film than in the beginning. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Discussed when Ursula says that one example of her alleged altruism is making a woman thinner who wants to be. She herself is an inversion; she laments at one point about having ''lost'' weight over the years, despite still being rather large in the current day. |
| 193 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei is greatly distressed by the enormous amount of weight her giant red panda form adds to her, at one point shaking her huge belly in despair. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 197 | * Eating disorders are the subject of many a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek. |
| 198 | * ''Film/CenterStage2000'' has Maureen trying to hide her bulimia by [[VomitDiscretionShot throwing up her food behind bathroom doors]] and playing it off. When she starts dating Jim, a pre-med student, and he becomes concerned with her eating disorder, she tries to play it off. [[spoiler:She finally admits it to her mother when she gives up ballet completely, saying she throws up half of what she eats. Nancy--a StageMom who has been [[VicariouslyAmbitious living her failed ballet dreams through her daughter]]--plays it off as Maureen "watching what she eats," and eventually Maureen walks away.]] |
| 199 | * In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', writer Helen Sharp develops an eating disorder to cope with losing her fiance to her bitter rival Madeline Ashton, and spends a few years being belittled in a mental hospital because of her psychotic obsession with Madeline. Some years later, Madeline has begun to notice she's getting older and not as svelte as she used to be but took some comfort in knowing Helen was a blob... until she sees Helen for the first time in ages and discovers she's gorgeous. [[spoiler:Because of an immortality serum.]] |
| 200 | * ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': When Pip, a chipmunk, weighs down the troll, he wonders if he's getting too heavy and needs to eat fewer nuts. |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{Fatso}}'' is about a man (played by Creator/DomDeLuise) struggling with being obese, his food addiction, and his enabler mother. |
| 202 | * In ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'' the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler: Crispina]] died of anorexia. |
| 203 | * In the plot to take down Regina George in ''Film/MeanGirls'', her "killer bod" is one of the items that comes under attack. The means? Protein-heavy granola bars that are supposed to help athletes gain weight, passed to Regina as if they're diet bars. Despite Regina's weight gain being a significant plot point, [[HollywoodPudgy the actress' size doesn't change in the slightest]]. |
| 204 | * One of the side characters in ''Film/MenWomenAndChildren'' is a teenaged devotee of a "thinspiration" website, with a wall covered in ultra-thin models for extra body image issues. The fact that the character is played by waifish Elena Kampouris lends extra oomph to the plotline. |
| 205 | * In ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'', Sherman Klump begins to feel insecure about his weight when he snags a date with a fellow teacher and begins exercising. Through a TrainingMontage we do see him getting into better shape, but at the same time, his actual appearance doesn't really change. He ends up being heckled by an obnoxious stand-up comedian during the date, which drives him to create the formula that will slim him down and gives birth to his alter ego Buddy Love. At the end of the film after everything's resolved, Sherman says that he will lose weight, but due to genetics, he's always going to be big no matter what. |
| 206 | * In ''Film/Piggy2022'', Sara is mocked mercilessly by the cool girls in her town for being fat. She even waits for the town pool to be deserted to go swim, but even then, they bully her, nearly drown her, and run off with her clothes, leaving her to walk home in nothing but her swim suit. Her own mother chooses a terrible moment to put her on a diet. |
| 207 | * Played with both ways in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' and its sequel. As a result of Scott Calvin becoming the new Santa Claus, Scott wakes up one morning and is startled to discover he's put on a great deal of weight. And as his bathroom scale indicated, he was getting heavier by the second. At first, his transformation is solely due to magic, but later it becomes due to his newly increased appetite for sweets. In the second movie, Scott gradually begins to lose weight and revert back to the way he was before he became Santa. [[spoiler: His body promptly swells back up the moment his marriage is made official.]] |
| 208 | * In the WayanBros film ''Film/WhiteChicks'' one of the female characters who were in the original AlphaBitch siblings' GirlPosse who the heroes of the film make friends with whilst DisguisedInDrag as said {{Alpha Bitch}}es is revealed to have ''severe'' body image problems around her weight. This despite being as thin as any Hollywood actress or supermodel, and it is made clear that all the fat she sees on herself in the mirror at the mall is in her head. She has somewhat of a psychotic episode about it. |
| 209 | * In the movie ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', Matilda confesses that she suffered from bulimia when she was a teenager. The other two characters, who are both male models, respond by saying that they do it all the time (once they figure out what she's talking about). |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 213 | * ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': In “Healthy Holiday!”, Mrs. Nicely tries to lose weight after Angela wonders if she got bigger when Mrs. Nicely’s dress no longer fits. |
| 214 | * ''Literature/AnitaDeMonteLaughsLast'': Raquel, a Latina attending Brown University, starts controlling her food intake during the year she struggles as a psychology student. After switching her major, she enjoys food again as her confidence increases. Then she meets rich white senior Nick, who starts influencing what she wears and eats under the facade of "helping her". |
| 215 | * ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'': |
| 216 | ** Subverted with Stacie. Her "dieting" is an excuse to hide her diabetes. |
| 217 | ** In the book ''Jessi and the Awful Secret'', Jessi meets a child ballerina who she believes has an eating disorder. This character never appears again. |
| 218 | * ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'' has Gwen who constantly worries over her weight and being described as fat or pudgy. The fifth book, ''Blubberina'', centers on her being too overweight to start wearing toe shoes. |
| 219 | * In ''[[Literature/DreamPark The Barsoom Project]]'', the Fimbulwinter Game is a "Fat Ripper", intended to teach the participants better eating habits over the course of the adventure. All but one of the Gamers are overweight and hoping to lose the excess, save for dangerously-skinny Kevin who needs help overcoming his bulimia. |
| 220 | * ''Literature/BoneChillers'' had two cases of FatteningTheVictim present in ''Frankenturkey II'' and ''Romeo And Ghouliette''. The former is the result of a JackassGenie wish, with the victim actually looking forward to getting fattened up and eaten for Thanksgiving, while the latter is played straight and involves ghouls wanting to eat the protagonist's best friend. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/BoyfriendMaterial'': Oliver is a very fit man and goes above and beyond to keep himself like that, which Luc notices because he always wants desert but never orders it. [[spoiler:Takes a darker turn when his weight turns out to be one of the many things his parents constantly needle him about, with an uncle even joking about how it is his weight that makes him lose so many boyfriends. In the end, Luc even says he should look for a professional, suspecting Oliver might have some sort of eating disorder.]] |
| 222 | * Literature/BridgetJones, who obsesses in her diary about her weight. Her weakness is her love of alcohol. |
| 223 | * ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': In book #4 (''The Cat Who Saw Red''), Qwilleran has to go on a diet for the duration of the novel and is angered to discover in the first fifty pages that he's actually gained three pounds since his doctor's appointment. He never realizes it's because Koko was also standing on the scale at the same time. |
| 224 | * Maureen "Puddin'" in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story ''Cliff and the Calories''. She thinks her boyfriend would like her better if she were thinner, so she tries desperately to lose weight. |
| 225 | * A recurring problem in so many degrees in the Carolyn Mackler novel ''Literature/TheEarthMyButtAndOtherBigRoundThings'': [[BigBeautifulWoman Virginia Shreves]] feels inadequate about her body's attractiveness and refuses to pursue a relationship with a boy who mutually likes her, due to a fear of rejection and humiliation from him or as she calls it [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon "The Fat Girl Code"]]; her StepfordSmiler psychoanalyst mother is skinny and constantly watches her weight to prevent a return to her [[FormerlyFat past]] and since her husband finds thin women attractive; the AlphaBitch Brie is bulimic. |
| 226 | * Not played for laughs at all in the ''Literature/FearStreet'' special ''Literature/FearHall'', where Hope Mathis' abusive mother treated her like garbage because Hope was a little chubby when she was a kid. By the time Hope was in college, her weight was still something of a sore subject, and while she herself doesn't consider herself ugly, she hates being called fat as an insult and is extremely bitter about her mother's neurosis. |
| 227 | * It's mentioned in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' that Zak Arranda was enjoyed pulling pranks back on Alderaan. One is described. |
| 228 | --> Zak and some of his friends had snuck into the teachers' washroom at their school and replaced the mirror with a hologram screen programmed to reflect anyone's image exactly -- only twenty kilos heavier. Snack sales at the instructors' cantina had plummeted until the prank was discovered. |
| 229 | * ''Literature/TheGirlsSeries'' has Ellie begin to develop an eating disorder in ''Girls Under Pressure''. She gains a healthier self-image after seeing the effects of a friend being hospitalized with anorexia. |
| 230 | * Mary from the first three ''Literature/{{GONE}}'' books is bulimic and addicted to diet pills, laxatives and exercise. This is definitely '''NOT''' played for laughs, and her story goes from being uncomfortable to tragic to cautionary. |
| 231 | * ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': |
| 232 | ** In "Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain", the cursed camera caused protagonist Greg to become morbidly obese while his friend Shari slowly became emaciated. At first, his classmates found it amusing, but much later everyone felt bad and stopped considering the situation to be funny, except for Greg's {{Jerkass}} teacher Mr. Saur. |
| 233 | ** "Literature/DontGoToSleep" had protagonist Matt wake up in an alternate universe where he's morbidly obese. He's apparently so fat his mother doesn't recognize him and refuses to let him in the house. |
| 234 | * ''Literature/GossipGirl'', the book series, had Blair as bulimic. They touched on this during the first season Thanksgiving episode of the TV show, but it was never shown to be as much of a problem as the book series, where Blair binged and purged at least once a book if not more. |
| 235 | * ''Literature/HannahSwensen'': |
| 236 | ** There are times where Hannah has to struggle with her weight problems, as in ''Lemon Meringue Pie Murder'' and ''Cream Puff Murder''. Not that Norman and Mike mind her size at all. ''Lemon Meringue Pie Murder'' in particular focuses on Hannah trying to fit into a pair of jeans by dieting. [[spoiler:She eventually discovers the truth: she and her sister Andrea had gone out shopping together the year before and bought the same brand and style of pants, but in different sizes, and one of them accidentally took the other's bag when they got home. End result: Hannah was trying to fit into the pants sized for ''Andrea'', who is naturally thinner than Hannah. On realizing the mixup, Hannah promptly ends her diet.]] |
| 237 | ** Andrea gets concerned about putting on so much as a single pound, fearing her husband will leave her if she looks anything less than perfect. |
| 238 | ** ''Mike'' of all people works out constantly so as to avoid gaining weight and dropping any excess he gets. |
| 239 | * In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' Harry's {{Jerkass}} cousin Dudley is forced to go on a diet after his school nurse compared his weight to that of a baby whale. It appears to help as he eventually joins a boxing team and by the seventh book, by which point he has [[TookALevelInKindness stopped being a bully]], he is implied to be in better shape. It should be noted that the angst in ''Goblet'' came more from Harry than Dudley since Harry was forced to eat that same diet food Dudley was and his aunt and uncle were already barely feeding him as is. As a matter of fact, [[KickTheDog Petunia would purposefully give Dudley more to eat than Harry, even if it was food Dudley didn't want]]. Had it not been for the food Harry was [[GoodSamaritan getting from his friends and Mrs. Weasley]], [[FridgeHorror he'd have most likely starved to death that summer]]. In that manner, Harry's abusive relatives are almost as bad as ''Voldemort''. |
| 240 | * A weird variation in ''Literature/HowToBeComfortableInYourOwnFeathers'' where the bird wants to lose weight... in order to be able to flutter like a hummingbird. |
| 241 | * In Literature/JackieBoy, Morgan quietly suffers from an eating disorder, their mental health worsening as their boyfriend Jackie's mental health improves. All of the members in Morgan's polyamorous group focus on Jackie's mental health as they consider it a top priority after him attempting suicide. Morgan only comes clean about how ill they are when another one of their lovers hears them throwing up in the bathroom. |
| 242 | * ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': While Aunt Sponge averts this, the song the bugs sing about her has her wanting to be slender and skipping meals. |
| 243 | * Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's short story "The Monkey Treatment" centers on a young man who tries a desperate and [[GoneHorriblyRight effective]] method of [[WeightLossHorror losing weight]]. |
| 244 | * ''Literature/NancyDrew'''s friend Bess is eternally obsessed with losing five pounds. |
| 245 | * In ''Literature/OnlyEverYours'' girls are artificially engineered and raised in "the School", which trains them as future wives or prostitutes to serve men. They are strictly monitored on a target weight and actively encouraged to develop eating disorders. After [[spoiler:being chosen as the Father's companion, isabel]] compulsively eats and balloons massively, then [[spoiler: has her stomach forcibly pumped and shrunk]] and stops eating completely, becoming emaciated. Christy, who is frequently berated for being "fat", struggles with binge eating and abuses the "kcal blockers" the girls are given to control their weight. |
| 246 | * In ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'', prince Nahrmahn is short and plump and has some complexes about it. At one point he muses that if he knew how well-built and handsome Cayleb is and how bad he himself looks in comparison, he'd never be able to discard his dignity and offer to pledge his loyalty to him. |
| 247 | * ''Literature/ShesComeUndone'': The entire book deals with Dolores's struggles with her weight and how she is defined by her body. Even when she loses weight, she refers to the angry, irrational, greedy side of her personality as "the fat girl" to distinguish it from the person she's trying to become. In truth, it's all just her. |
| 248 | * ''Literature/SkippyDies'': Lori, Janine, and their other friends are all obsessed with being thin, and buy diet pills on the black market from Carl to maintain their weight. Eventually, Lori becomes addicted to the pills and is hospitalized for anorexia, although that is triggered more by a pregnancy scare and a need for control in her life than self-image per se. |
| 249 | * In ''Literature/SmallPersonsWithWings'', being overweight is one of the things Mellie is bullied for at her old school. Her classmates call her [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Fairy]] Fat. Gigi Kramer, an evil Parvus Pennatus disguised as a human, almost gets Mellie to hand over the [[PowerCrystal moonstone]] by promising to enchant her to look thin. |
| 250 | * In Creator/CathyCassidy's ''Literature/SummersDream,'' the aspiring dancer protagonist becomes convinced that she's too fat to be a ballerina, although it's actually the mental effects of anorexia making Summer think that way, and she's really far too thin. |
| 251 | * In Creator/CatherineAnderson's ''Literature/SweetNothings'', heroine Molly hates her full-figured build, mainly due to her ex-husband constantly telling her how fat and ugly she was. She diets religiously, checking food labels, counting calories, her habits spilling over into the way she cooks for the men on Jake's ranch. The problem isn't solved by Molly losing weight but learning to accept her body for what it is. |
| 252 | * In the first ''Literature/TruemanBradley'' novel, Trueman's neighbor Mrs. Levi gives him a cake she was going to eat because it's too fattening for her and she's trying to lose weight. |
| 253 | * ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': Captain Bob, being more than a little chubby, takes extreme offense when it's pointed out. He ends up arguing with Joe about it in book 4 while they're under attack by someone in an executioner's costume. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/WhenZacharyBeaverCameToTown'': Zachary is less at peace with his obesity than he lets on and dislikes being made a spectacle over in public, which is part of his reluctance to leave his trailer. |
| 255 | * ''Literature/{{Wintergirls}}'' by Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of Lia and Cassie, two best friends who were literally in competition to see which of them could become the thinnest. Cassie became bulimic as well as anorexic, which led to her death when her esophagus ruptured while she was throwing up. Lia continues her quest to stay as tiny as possible while being haunted by Cassie's spirit. |
| 256 | * In ''Literature/TheWorstThingAboutMySister'', Melissa is very worried about her weight. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 260 | * In ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Dick begins stress eating as a result of his break-up with Mary in ''Moby Dick''. He tries dieting and tries using a girdle, but upon learning Mary has also been stress eating, Dick decides to just buy bigger pants. |
| 261 | * ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': In "Fester Goes on a Diet", the reason Uncle Fester is dieting is because he feels he's too fat (and also [[HeightAngst too short]]) for his crush to like him. |
| 262 | * ''Series/AnotherWorld'''s Paulina Cory struggled to lose her post-partum weight, a case of RealitySubtext as her actress Judi Evans was doing the same thing, with her outright admitting that many of the things that Paulina said to her husband Joe were things that she herself had said to her own husband, such as being reluctant to be intimate because she felt unattractive due to her weight gain. |
| 263 | * Sam in ''Series/BetterThings'' in the episode "Chicago". Sam is a victim of this trope at the beginning of the episode when she was trying on most of her old clothes and discovered that she has put on a few pounds when they don't fit. |
| 264 | * ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'': |
| 265 | ** Tommy starts getting tubby due to his wolf-like appetite getting the best of him. Eventually, his cravings--and his going to public fast food joints to stop them -- drum up angry publicity and lead to everyone in town trying to capture the werewolf for a cash reward. |
| 266 | ** In another episode, Merton falls in with a group of black-clad teenagers who start giving him a nectar-like substance that makes him fat. Merton is at first horrified until his new "friends" say they like him bigger, so he starts drinking more of the stuff. It turns out the kids are actually spiders in human form, and they've been fattening Merton up so they can eat him. |
| 267 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': |
| 268 | ** A season 7 episode addresses this when Topanga realizes she's bigger than her friends (where "bigger" means "has sexy, sexy curves") and starts dieting. It finally comes out that everyone is self-conscious because of society's unrealistic portrayals and no one thinks Topanga is anywhere near fat. |
| 269 | ** That same episode Eric was also dealing with body issues of his own, although his weren't as serious as Topanga's. In fact, he even admitted that he called her fat just so he could get her pizza. |
| 270 | * The 2 part episode "Our Lips Are Sealed" from ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has Emma developing anorexia as a way of dealing with the stress in her life. |
| 271 | * ''Series/FantasyIsland2021'': Christine suffered from anxiety for years about even gaining a little weight, and consequently didn't eat most of the food she craves. On the island, her wish is to eat whatever she wants with no weight gain. |
| 272 | * ''Series/FatActress'' has Creator/KirstieAlley (a fictional version of herself) trying to deal with being an [[WhiteDwarfStarlet aging]] and [[HollywoodPudgy somewhat overweight]] actress in Hollywood. The way people treat her veers between CringeComedy and DudeNotFunny. |
| 273 | * During Season 8 of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', as a way to mask Creator/JaneLeeves' pregnancy, Daphne gained considerable weight. While Niles pretended not to notice, she was the target of many fat jokes. She was sent to a weight loss clinic, and the psychology behind her weight issue was explored, in a sensitive and realistic way, in the episode "Daphne Returns." |
| 274 | * An episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' had D.J. crash-dieting so she'd look good in a bathing suit for a pool party. As per usual, she was talked down by a heart-to-heart with her dad and a big hug. This episode gets a little slack in that D.J. ''isn't'' said to have an eating disorder--rather, the adults warn that crash dieting and overexercising could ''lead'' to one. It's still a VerySpecialEpisode, but it didn't go so far as to outright say she developed and got over an eating disorder in a matter of days. |
| 275 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had this come up quite a few times in the show's run--which was somewhat realistic, considering that the main characters were middle-aged to elderly women, a group that (stereotypically) often tries to lose weight and diet: |
| 276 | ** A ClipShow episode (made of original clips) focused on the previous attempts at self-improvement the girls have gone through, including dieting. Sophia was actually trying to gain weight after learning she lost a pound, and one episode implies she was at least '' heavier'' when she was much younger. In the dieting episode, the girls all weighed themselves and poked fun at each other, which of course involved HollywoodPudgy since none of them look heavyset. In Blanche's case, it would've helped if she had taken her high heels off ''before'' she got on the scale. |
| 277 | ** A later episode dealt with Blanche dieting to fit into her wedding dress for her anniversary. She almost goes insane with hunger and practically assaults Rose when Rose accidentally eats Blanche's diet food. She does manage to fit into the dress... [[spoiler: except the zipper on the back didn't fit. Rose takes a picture without Blanche knowing.]] |
| 278 | ** Blanche's estranged daughter Rebecca had put on a great deal of weight since the last time the two saw each other. Though Rebecca [[FatAndProud admitted she was overweight]] and didn't seem to care, she had also started dating a JerkAss named Jeremy who did nothing but insult her -- even ''as he was proposing marriage.'' Dorothy was ready to beat the stuffing out of him, but Blanche kept holding back because she was afraid of Becky leaving her again. In the end, though, Blanche told Rebecca how she really felt, and Rebecca admitted that she was only planning to marry Jeremy because she feared that no one else would be interested. The intervention worked, and Blanche and Becky's relationship was gradually healed. In her next appearances, she was ''much'' slimmer, but she was also being played by [[TheOtherDarrin a different actress]] in those appearances. |
| 279 | * Penny from ''Series/HappyEndings'' went on a diet for an episode but couldn't keep it up. In general, neither she nor the other characters comment negatively on her curviness. And even in that episode, it was less of a diet to lose weight and more of a cleanse for better general health. |
| 280 | * ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'': |
| 281 | ** Hannah Ashworth, a character in the British soap ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'', was portrayed as suffering from anorexia and bulimia, which she later recovered from. Melissa Hurst, Hannah's friend, also suffered from anorexia which she died from. |
| 282 | ** Jason Roscoe has image issues that WordOfGod identifies as body dysmorphia. He later develops a full-blown eating disorder when he works out obsessively and stops taking insulin (he's Type 1 diabetic) to lose weight. |
| 283 | * The incredibly vain Dennis Reynolds on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has a very unhealthy relationship with food and his body, often starving himself to boost his attractiveness [[EveryoneHasStandards Even his incredibly selfish friends get concerned when that happens]]. It becomes especially telling in a seventh-season episode when the doctor is more concerned over Dennis' health than Mac's despite the fact that Mac, in this season, had put on 50 lbs. of fat and was now diabetic. |
| 284 | -->'''Dennis''': I am going to be 20 forever, Mac, because the older I become, the more vigilant I am. I don't eat lunch anymore, for instance. And on odd days, I don't eat breakfast. |
| 285 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': In the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E9Pixies Pixies]]", a young gymnast is found murdered. One of the other gymnasts Benson speaks to is upset at having gotten her period (although at her age, she's likely been menstruating for several years) because she thinks it means that she has too much body fat. Sadly TruthInTelevision in the gymnastics world.[[note]]As recently as 2020, Olympic coach Maggie Haney was suspended for emotional abuse that included telling girls that getting their period meant they were fat and not working hard enough[[/note]]. |
| 286 | * Hurley on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' deals with stress by overeating. In the episode where it's discovered that the Hatch has a huge supply of food, he's put in charge of rationing it, only to start devouring the less-healthy items because of the responsibility. He eventually devises a solution by simply handing out ''all'' of the food to everyone at once, and letting them choose their favorites because he realizes that the idea of rationing will just cause tension and fighting. [[spoiler: The episode's TearJerker flashback structure reveals that he suffered a similar problem after winning the lottery -- people buttering him up and becoming dishonest with him, for example--and it's implied that he wishes he could do the same with his newfound riches.]] |
| 287 | * Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' was purposefully making Lois gain weight without her knowledge while she was pregnant with their fifth child because he thought she looked sexy. |
| 288 | * ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'': Rae's issues with her weight form one of the bases of the plot. She says she used to binge regularly, but not anymore, and is shown binging once. She describes herself as 'a body dismorphic without the dismorphic, a bulimic without the sick'. Her friend Tix also has issues with eating food: she has anorexia and is afraid of losing control. She rarely eats and overexercises. She's told she needs to drink high-calorie shakes so she won't get a feeding tube. [[spoiler: She pours them down the drain. In the end, she gets a heart attack due to exercise, goes into a coma, and dies as a result.]] |
| 289 | * ''Series/{{Physical}}'': Sheila suffers from binge-eating disorder and obsessed with staying trim. She meticulously watches what she eats, calls herself fat and ugly in her interal monologue, and often puts other people down mentally for eating high-calorie foods or offering her food. During moments of stress, however, she'll gorge and then tell herself it'll be the last time. |
| 290 | * Sylvia Fine is constantly dealing with this in ''Series/TheNanny'' though she has yet to curb her BigEater tendencies. |
| 291 | * {{Deconstructed}} in ''Renegadepress.com'''s "A Very Thin Edge"; Zoey is startled to learn her friend Melanie belongs to a local pro-anorexia website and because of stress at home the site almost seduces Zoey. When she learns that the webmaster is actually bedridden and under constant nursing care because of her disease, Zoey realizes how dangerous the sickness can be. |
| 292 | * Two episodes of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' dealt with this. In one episode Roseanne and Dan both try to go on a diet. In another, Roseanne puts Dan on a diet after his heart attack, but his refusal to stick to eating healthier food leads to one of the worst fights the two have ever had, [[spoiler: only it turns out Dan had already died from his heart attack in the series finale.]] It's also been implied that Roseanne's weight, as well as her anger issues and her controlling nature with Dan, stems from her father's abusive nature and her mother's tendency to make everything better with food when she and Jackie were little girls. |
| 293 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': |
| 294 | ** In "Sabrina and the Beanstalk," Harvey finds himself in the clutches of the [[ImAHumanitarian Wicked Witch]] atop the beanstalk Sabrina accidentally created. Said Witch serves him up food laced with an ingredient called "Fatten Up." By the time Sabrina gets to Harvey he's gotten pretty big, to the point that she uses him as a battering ram to get the Wicked Witch away from them. He manages to sweat the weight off as he climbs down the beanstalk... [[spoiler: and then Salem suffers from this after eating the entire "Fatten Up" container when it fell from the beanstalk.]] |
| 295 | ** One episode dealt with this as seriously as the show could. Sabrina tried to lose weight in order to fit into a dress for an upcoming dance but then started using shoddy diet drinks from the Other Realm. To make matters worse, the salesman put a spell on her bedroom mirror to make her reflection look morbidly obese. Zelda found out what happened when she saw her butt reflected much bigger than it was and took the spell off. Unfortunately, by that point, Sabrina legitimately believed she was huge and kept taking the diet shakes until she became invisible. She [[{{Pun}} wasted away into nothing]]. |
| 296 | ** In a later season episode, Hilda decides to screw with Morgan's fashion models by giving them free beverages and snacks at the coffee house and claiming they're fat-free. While they don't look any bigger, Morgan has to scramble to find new models for her show because the clothes don't fit them anymore. |
| 297 | * The TV Biopic of Gilda Radner (from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'') portrayed her as bulimic. |
| 298 | * Elliot during season 7 of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' treats a woman with anorexia. Dr. Cox points out that Elliot weighs even less. By the end of the episode, she realizes that she is there to help her patients whether she is healthy or not. A year later, the same patient comes back, even more underweight, and Elliot is convinced that it is still anorexia, when in reality it was HIV. However, Elliot puts the patient through a lot before eventually figuring this out. |
| 299 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has dealt with this a couple of times. In "The Non-Fat Yogurt" Jerry, Elaine, and George discover that the supposed non-fat yogurt they've been enjoying every day actually contains fat and they've gained weight. Though this actually involves HollywoodPudgy since none of them look any bigger. Even so, Kramer starts calling Jerry names like "chubs" and "tons-o-fun". |
| 300 | * Cassie on ''Series/{{Skins}}'' is shown to have anorexia, in addition to problems with drug abuse, low self-esteem, and some personality issues...In one episode she demonstrates to Sid how she fakes people out by pretending to eat. |
| 301 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In one episode, Deanna Troi says that she doesn't want any ice cream because she's "watching [her] figure", despite usually having a massive SweetTooth and being none the worse for wear for it. |
| 302 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'': In "Cramming", it is revealed that Wendy Armstrong has struggled with bulimia for years. In the following episode "Rough Cut", she tells Helen Rosenthal that it is because she always felt pressure to be the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and more recently the perfect doctor. [[spoiler: The resulting depression leads Wendy to commit suicide in the latter episode.]] |
| 303 | * An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had London and Maddie wanting to go on a fashion show hosted by one of London's [[RichBitch snobby friends,]] who tells them they can't be on it because London is too fat and Maddie too Skinny. After they respectively starve and gorge themselves to attain the "ideal weight", they mess up their chance on the runway, and after they find out that [[ACupAngst London's friend stuffs her bra,]] they decide to accept themselves for who they are. |
| 304 | * An episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' deals with this in a surprisingly effective manner (namely because it deals with the conditions that create Weight Woe in the first place). After having a vision of herself modeling clothes on a runway, Raven enters a fashion magazine's design contest by submitting a photo of herself in a dress she created. Though she wins the contest, the editor of the magazine severely edits the picture to make Raven look much thinner. When Raven takes her to task for this, the editor explains that Raven simply "doesn't have 'the look,'" and Raven responds that "This is the only look I have." In the end, Raven teams up with another model (who, though thin, points out that even ''she'' doesn't look like her photo-edited image in the magazine), each wearing a copy of the dress in the appropriate sizes. The audience loves it, and the editor ends up humiliated in front of everyone. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 308 | * "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" by Music/{{Silverchair}}. |
| 309 | --> ''"And you're my obsession\ |
| 310 | I love you to the bones\ |
| 311 | And Ana wrecks your life\ |
| 312 | Like an anorexia life."'' |
| 313 | * "4st 7lb" by Music/ManicStreetPreachers is sung from the perspective of a girl who is enthusiastic about losing unhealthy amounts of weight. The lyrics were probably written by Richey Edwards, who was suffering from anorexia at the time. |
| 314 | -->''"Stomach collapsed at five\ |
| 315 | Lift up my skirt my sex is gone\ |
| 316 | Naked and lovely and 5st 2\ |
| 317 | May I bud and never flower?"'' |
| 318 | * "Sophie" by Elanor [=McEvoy=] tells the story of a girl with anorexia. |
| 319 | * Canadian band Furnaceface's song "She Thinks She's Fat" includes the lyrics: "She calls herself a cow / I say how 'bout a little bestiality." While it's PlayedForLaughs, the subject is also bulimic: "She eats ten buttered popcorns / And then she throws up..." |
| 320 | * "Tied Together With A Smile" by Music/TaylorSwift was written about her anorexic best friend back in High school. |
| 321 | ** Ever since she came out from suffering from bulimia in her 2019 documentary "Miss Americana", Taylor has been openly discussing her eating disorder in her music. "All Too Well (10 Minutes Version)(Taylor's Version)(From The vault)" eludes that her anorexia worsen in the wake of a break up. "Anti-Hero" Music Video has her weight being one of the reason she is being insecure. "You're On Your Own Kid" directly states that her anorexia was the result of her wanting to fit in. |
| 322 | * "Anorexia Dear Friend" by Stacie Orrico. |
| 323 | * The video for Music/DaftPunk's "The Prime Time of Your Life" seems to be about a young girl who sees herself as very fat while seeing everyone else as skeletons. Eventually [[spoiler: she [[FlayingAlive tears her skin off]] and kills herself in an attempt to be like everyone else.]] |
| 324 | * "Skin & Bones" by Music/MarianasTrench is about the lead singer's personal struggle with eating disorders. |
| 325 | * Music/MariaMena has "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy", which is about her struggles with eating disorders and her relationship with others: |
| 326 | -->''"This hunger grows inside me like a tumor\ |
| 327 | The dizziness just compliments this failure of a girl\ |
| 328 | I'm settled now; the show of mine consumes me\ |
| 329 | But every pound I shed speaks volumes for my lack of self-control."'' |
| 330 | * Most of Music/{{Halsey}}'s songs from her albums, ''BADLANDS'' and ''Hopeless Fountain Kingdom'' tackle on everyday subjects that the artist grew up struggling with herself such as bipolar disorder, eating disorders and anxieties. |
| 331 | ** In "Control" from the album BADLANDS. |
| 332 | --->''"I'm bigger than my body\ |
| 333 | I'm colder than this home\ |
| 334 | I'm meaner than my demons \ |
| 335 | I'm bigger than these bones!"'' |
| 336 | ** Also in "Devil In Me" sung by Halsey and written by Music/{{Sia}} which also deals with bullying and eating disorders. |
| 337 | --->''"You said I wouldn't hit the ceiling\ |
| 338 | You said I...\ |
| 339 | You said I should eat my feelings\ |
| 340 | Head held high...\ |
| 341 | I'm won't take anyone down if I crawl tonight\ |
| 342 | But I still let everyone down when I change in size\ |
| 343 | And I went tumbling down trying to reach your high\ |
| 344 | But I scream too loud if I speak my mind..."'' |
| 345 | * The main interpretation is that "Oh Ana" by Music/MotherMother is about anorexia: |
| 346 | -->''"Oh, Ana, I'll be with you still\ |
| 347 | You are the angel that I couldn't kill."'' |
| 348 | * Music/MelanieMartinez: The second verse in "Sippy Cup" is themed around excessive dieting and eating disorders. Cry Baby mentions eating dieting pills, putting weights in your pocket when you go to the doctor, and swallowing cotton balls. |
| 349 | * "Bleed Like Me" by Music/{{Garbage}}: |
| 350 | -->''"Avalanche is sullen and too thin\ |
| 351 | She starves herself to rid herself of sin\ |
| 352 | And the kick is so divine when she sees bones beneath her skin."'' |
| 353 | * "Sex and the City" by Music/HoboJohnson has a line about how having trouble with your weight gives you more character: |
| 354 | --> ''"But if you're beautiful from birth, do you really have the courage of a woman picked on for her girth?"'' |
| 355 | * "EAT" by Music/{{Poppy}} is a metal song about anorexia and the struggle to break free from it. |
| 356 | --> ''"My brain is poisonous\ |
| 357 | My body is a mess\ |
| 358 | My heart is hazardous\ |
| 359 | Who could I be instead?\ |
| 360 | I tell everyone that I’m okay\ |
| 361 | But I’m ashamed\ |
| 362 | I’m afraid\ |
| 363 | And it all eats at me"'' |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 367 | * Wrestling/MickieJames did a storyline where Wrestling/LayCool made fun of her for being overweight. |
| 368 | * Wrestling/TorrieWilson confesses to having experienced an eating disorder (in her case bulimia) prior to becoming a fitness model. |
| 369 | * Wrestling/AlexaBliss likewise with anorexia, and she admits that she was dangerously underweight when she was first signed to WWE. She had to gain ten pounds before she could train at NXT. |
| 370 | * Wrestling/MollyHolly later admitted to having struggled with an eating disorder around the same time her [[LifeImitatesArt weight was a target of mockery in-storyline]]. She had an addiction to processed sugar, and it took her a whole year to fully kick it. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 374 | * This happens to Stella Stone in ''Theatre/GreatBritain'' when she keeps losing weight for Page 7 of the Free Press and becomes anorexic. Unlike most examples of this trope, this was taken ''very'' seriously, turning first act comic relief and BrainlessBeauty into a KnightOfCerebus and [[CerebusSyndrome causing the play to take a fairly dark turn]]. [[spoiler: She ends up being hospitalised early in the second act, and despite being force-fed she eventually reaches the point where her body is just starting to die, in no small part due to Paige's manipulation. By the end of the play, she is dead.]] |
| 375 | * ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}'': When Mrs. Wormwood is in labour without knowing that she's even pregnant, the doctor points at her bump and asks what she thinks could be causing it. She thinks that he's calling her fat, and seems very shocked at the idea. |
| 376 | * As she was in real life, Empress Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} of Austria was extremely conscious about her figure and her long hair. In addition to weighing herself up to three times a day and following the strict eating and beauty regime detailed in "Our Empress Must Weigh Herself" and [[OfCorsetHurts over-tightening her corset for a tiny waist]], she also overexercises and fasts/starves herself to the point of fainting and falling off her beam in her workout room in "The Malady/The Final Chance". She often ate only oranges, and/or drank milk, alongside periods of consuming only meat juices or a mix of egg whites with salt. Her milk bath (for skincare) is stated by Lucheni in "Milk" to have caused a nationwide shortage while people are starving and dying. This is because she realized her beauty could be used as a weapon to get what she wants, having to fight back in the Viennese court which was actively hostile to her. The corset actually led to her death in real life, as she was stabbed with a thin blade and didn't feel the effects until she fainted from blood loss and her attendant loosened the laces (that had been holding her body together) in order for her to breathe. Historians have diagnosed her with ''anorexia nervosa'' after the fact, along with a host of other disorders. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 380 | * ''VideoGame/EternalSeniaHydrangeaAfterTheRain'': Briella: One of her system quotes has her bemoan that she's putting on weight... and then another quote has her immediately blame Seti for giving her so many treats. |
| 381 | * Subverted with Sully in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. Her supports with the Avatar have her upset that she gained weight, but only because in doing so she decreased her muscle mass, which could badly affect her performance on the battlefield. |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': |
| 383 | ** Noelle is extremely conscientious of her weight and figure. As such, she dislikes banquets as she is obliged as a maid to taste test all of the dishes to ensure their quality. Characters note that in the days following a banquet, Noelle readily volunteers to take part in night patrols. Her comment in the Brightcrown Canyon Floral Freefall scoreboard has her lament that her heavy stomach may impede her gliding skill. |
| 384 | ---> '''Noelle:''' My stomach's a little... heavy, but I'll try to make up for it. Gliding is a necessary skill for a knight, after all. |
| 385 | ** Ganyu is overly concerned about her physique. Even though she is a vegetarian, she is also a BigEater and she struggles to maintain her appetite in a city known for its various delicacies. She was also FormerlyFat: back in the Archon War, she was once SwallowedWhole by a giant monster, only for the monster choke to death as her waistline was wide enough to make her get stuck in its throat. [[{{Irony}} Even though her fatness saved her]], the whole experience was so embarrassing to her that she swears to not let something similar happen in the future. |
| 386 | * ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlCritical'': When Nyaggard describes Momoka's weight for a GoombaStomp being 50 kilograms, she says she isn't ''that'' heavy[[note]]50 kilograms is actually average for a Japanese teenage girl[[/note]]. |
| 387 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'': High Rank Hunter Ayame claims to be gaining weight thanks to eating tons of dango and being unable to burn it off thanks to an injury preventing her from working as a Hunter. While she isn't happy about it, she manages to be a good sport and quips "My zenny pouch keeps getting lighter and my pants keep getting tighter!" |
| 388 | * ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': Cecily is implied to be like this. Using Inquire/Scrutinize on the various fighters around Victors Hollow gives you various combat information on them, including their height and weight. What does Cecily's profile say for weight? |
| 389 | -->"Piss off." |
| 390 | * ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Ai, the Moon Arcana Social Link was bullied in her childhood for "looking like a pig" and went on a diet because of that. Subverted for a Non-Social Link [=NPC=]; [[TheBully Hanako]] claims to be dieting (which means she only eats ''one bucket of curry''), and uses it as a justification for [[FatBastard not sharing some of her food]] ([[BigEater despite having more than enough to share]]) [[FatBastard with the starving protagonists]]. |
| 391 | * ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': In his journal entry on the Pastry Wheel, Olimar bemoans that he finds it very difficult to eat sweets without gaining weight, and that his wife and daughter have him on a strict diet as a result. |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'': A woman named Julia hands out ribbons to the player if they choose words to fill in certain sentences based on feelings. Wednesday's theme is sadness, and she's upset because she gained some weight and a favorite dress of hers no longer fits right. |
| 393 | * ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': |
| 394 | ** In Mercy's first Friendship Event, she asks you to make a Weight Enhancer for Lucke because she believes he's too skinny to get a date. |
| 395 | ** Dean has binge eating disorder and is struggling to lose weight for his job as a police officer, so he asks the Chemist to make a weight loss potion for him. The Chemist also advises him to watch his diet and exercise regularly, and while there doesn't seem to be much progress, he slowly feels motivated to attain a healthy weight. |
| 396 | * ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'': Some of the women make a big fuss over their fear of gaining weight from the Eating Contest event, even though all of them are fairly slender and are never ''shown'' to gain weight. If you play as a male protagonist, Nancy has to remind you that women are always going to obsess over their weight so it's best not to ask questions. |
| 397 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'': The backstory of the boss Justine had her suffering this. She was a famous and highly regarded opera singer in life and had more than her fair share of admirers. Sadly, she suffered such severe body image issues due to her weight (she was a BigBeautifulWoman) that she failed to notice this admiration. At one point she tore up a love letter because she wrongly interpreted it as making fun of her weight. She then made a DealWithTheDevil to sacrifice her beautiful voice in exchange for the body she always wanted. The end result was that she was DrivenToSuicide via ''tearing out her own vocal cords'', which somehow gave her a thin body. |
| 398 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Multiple: |
| 399 | ** ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'': Amy Rose is obsessed with boxercising and is coached by [[RobotBuddy Emerl]], who instructed her to do 100 push-ups and eat nothing but salads with no dressing. This is taken to creepy levels as, rather than merely lamenting about her weight and failing to maintain a diet like most examples, Amy really appears to be suffering from an eating disorder. |
| 400 | ** Almost every female in the series keeps their weight a secret. |
| 401 | * Nearly every character in the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series has their height, weight, and other stats about them listed openly. The exception is Chun-Li's weight, which has been consistently listed as "secret", rather than "unknown" like other characters. It's possible that her famously muscular legs might add more to her weight than she's comfortable with. |
| 402 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Multiple: |
| 403 | ** Inverted with Bob, who deliberately grew fat to be a combination of striking power, muscle mass, and speed. In one ending, he goes completely berserk after losing all his weight. |
| 404 | ** Played straight by [[FatAndProud Rufus]] and [[ManlyMan Zangeif]] in their ending for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', when the two are suddenly transformed into svelter, bishounen like fighters. They're utterly horrified at having lost their "Perfect bodies." |
| 405 | * Pyra from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' seems to suffer from this, as evidenced by her reaction when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s55H26qors8&t=33s Rex proves to be unable to reel her up from a lower platform]] with his arm-mounted GrapplingHookPistol. With that said, [[AllThereInTheManual her concept art]] maintains that the bulk of this weight is in [[{{Stripperiffic}} what little armour she wears]]. |
| 406 | -->'''Azurda''': Now see here, Rex. You can't just go and call a lady heavy! |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 410 | * ''VisualNovel/GalaxyAngel'': Ranpha Franboise is a downplayed example. While not as obsessed with her weight as other examples, she does get a bit sensitive when people point her eating habits and the calories she gains. Notably, one time Mint let's slip that she thinks Ranpha has a big butt, the comment seems to strike a nerve (and shortly after, her butt does get her stuck in the storage room). |
| 411 | * Natalya from ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'' is implied to suffer from an eating disorder. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment involves her trying to make the protagonist eat her lunch, only for her twin Sofiya to catch her and scold her for not eating as she promised. |
| 412 | * In ''VisualNovel/StrawberryVinegar'', Rie mentions that her father enjoys cooking for her since he is unable to cook for her (already quite slim) mother, who is always on a diet. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 416 | * The ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'' video ''I Couldn't Stop Vomiting To Keep Myself Slim'' is about a girl's struggle with anorexia-bulimia. |
| 417 | * In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "[[Recap/HTFIpsoFatso Ipso Fatso]]", Disco Bear becomes self-conscious after seeing that he's put on weight and spends the rest of the episode attempting to work it off. |
| 418 | * In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFonmp_xOsU If a Thirst Bar Was Added to Minecraft]]", the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' freaks out so much upon learning that he's gained weight that he decides to remove food from the game. |
| 419 | * In one ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' skit, Yang chances upon her reflection in a mirror and notices that she's been [[HollywoodPudgy putting on a few pounds]]. She then decides to undergo a rigorous TrainingMontage to lose weight... only to later witness Nora [[BigEater eat a whole cake in one gigantic gulp]] and promptly rid herself of the resultant BalloonBelly with just one burp. [[HardWorkHardlyWorks Yang is understandably upset]]. |
| 420 | * ''WebAnimation/StoryBooth'': Plenty of stories center on body image issues, often resulting in anorexia. The subjects within the stories do eventually learn to accept themselves for who they are, though. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 424 | * [[http://explosm.net/comics/1440/ This]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' strip features RecurringCharacter Charles and his long-suffering girlfriend, who's suffering from this trope. She worries that her legs are getting fat, and Charles reassures that that's not the case...only to remark that her "huge ass could be throwing off [his] frame of reference." |
| 425 | * ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'': Thaddeus gains weight in one story arc after spending most of the winter sitting still. He is embarrassed by this and resolves to lose the weight, eventually succeeding through much trial and error. |
| 426 | * ''Webcomic/{{Serix}}'': Rees doesn't take kindly to jokes made about her weight, and her friends awkwardly saying they didn't want her piloting their newly-renovated clone bodies because "everything [she touches] gets kind of fat" is enough to get her crying. |
| 427 | * In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', getting called "kinda fat" by a young child is enough for Tuuri to pull a ParanoiaGambit on said child and its siblings. To top it off, she is currently employed by the parents of the children in question. |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 431 | * [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] WebVideo/Boogie2988, noted for weighing in at over 550 pounds, takes this issue very seriously[[note]]since August 2017, he's taken drastic measures by getting weight loss surgery, and is (as of late September 2019) in the lower 350s[[/note]], and is particularly known for giving advice on dealing with weight problems and psychological issues. |
| 432 | * In ''WebVideo/CryptTV'' short, "Prim and Proper", Anna stresses about her waistline and believes she should have an ImpossibleHourglassFigure. Her woes attract the attention of the demonic Ms. Annity, who proceeds to garrote her with measuring tape until Anna's waist is as thin as her ideal. Then reality sets in and Anna's spine is quickly snapped in half after she has already suffered massive internal bleeding from having all of her internal organs crushed. |
| 433 | * Donnie on ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' has the rare version of "too thin". While the male version of a HeroicSeductress, in a DeletedScene he worried about having no muscles and confided in Tacoma that he looks like a shaved cat when shirtless. We've seen him shirtless, he looks great. |
| 434 | * In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOty1tn7FM Fatty Girl,]]'' Cinderella is cursed into being overweight and her boyfriend rejects her over it. The rest of the series follows her quest to lose weight. |
| 435 | * Creator/JamieVsTheVoid: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXiTcA6bQM "What I learned from my first Relationship..."]], Jamie discusses how comparing himself to other girls at school may have led to the eating disorder he had for most of his twenties. He mentions it again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJtiqZfU5s his video on Roe v. Wade]], stating that it could have been tied to his gender dysphoria and discomfort over having a "female" body and that realising he was trans may have helped him recover from it. |
| 436 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick looks perfectly pretty and healthy, but she still freaks about her weight. Luckily, there a mail-order Nella service ('''B'''ig '''F'''at '''F'''riend) to make her look better by comparison. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 440 | * ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': [[BigEater Theodore and Eleanor]] sometimes become self-conscious about their weight. |
| 441 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': |
| 442 | ** In one episode, Stan became anorexic. While he is shown to be getting heavier during the course of the episode, this is really a delusion and he is finally shown to be NothingButSkinAndBones. It's actually taken fairly seriously. At another end of the story, Stan devises a way to not eat with one method including giving his food to Klaus. Klaus eventually gets so big he bursts out of his fishbowl. |
| 443 | ** In another episode, Roger and Klaus have spent a year driving around the country to see the car pedometer get over 100,000, and have both gotten pretty fat from doing nothing and eating nothing but fast food. When the car breaks down, Roger tries to physically push it and has a heart attack. In the far future, Roger's shown trying this again (after what's implied to be numerous times and long after Klaus has died) and he's ''much'' more obese than he was before. |
| 444 | ** One episode revealed Francine has to put a tremendous amount of effort into keeping her body tight, which includes powerlifting furniture and a diet of tea and laxatives. After realizing Stan only married her for her looks, she cuts off her exercise regime and gets a bit chunky (among other things). |
| 445 | ** When put under the test of whose parenting skills are superior, Francine is allowed to raise Steve exclusively while Stan raises a clone called Steve-arino. Francine's HandsOffParenting for the sake of giving Steve space to learn from his mistakes turns him into a slovenly fat brat with bad hygiene. Naturally, Steve's extra chub makes it harder for him to get away from Steve-arino when [[spoiler: Steve-arino turns out to be a cat-torturing sociopath planning to murder Steve for emergency body parts.]] |
| 446 | ** While working as a newscaster in "Anchorfran", Francine's celebrity status gets her free meals whenever she wants at a Mexican restaurant. Stan starts exploiting this and puts on a lot of weight from constantly gorging himself on free food, even admitting he's been treating himself to 16 burritos a day. Stan remains fat for the rest of the episode, and while no one has any visible problem with this, Stan mentions all that spicy food [[spoiler:made his colon fall out, which he is apparently holding in place with ''duct tape'']]. He's later seen shoving a sheet cake into his face and eating it like a dog. |
| 447 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In "Furious Jealousy", Jake's BigEater tendencies started to go into overdrive when he began slacking off due to a lack of magical incidents occurring in the vicinity and he started to get tubby. The only one who was originally concerned was Trixie until Jake's lack of exercise made him easy prey for the Gorgon sisters. |
| 448 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': Inverted at one point, where Dag is concerned that he's unable to gain weight for winter and worries about freezing to death, while Norb has got no problem at all. The episode ends with Dag deciding to spend the rest of winter living in morbidly obese Norb's fat folds. |
| 449 | * An ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short called ''Star Truck'' had the Warners meeting a group of expies of the cast from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Wakko introduces the Scotty stand-in to Earth doughnuts, and he progressively gets fatter as the short goes on until he's too big to reach the control panels. |
| 450 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Played for BlackComedy in one Dr. Weird sketch. In it, Dr. Weird shows off to Steve that he's lost weight. Manually. [[MeatgrinderSurgery With a chainsaw]]. Everything below his knees has been reduced to literal bare bones. |
| 451 | -->'''Dr. Weird:''' ''(revving up the chainsaw)'' I need to lose twenty more pounds, or I'll never be pretty! |
| 452 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Pam gets mocked a lot for her weight, and was especially stressed out by it in the first season. By the second season, Pam evolved into a BigBeautifulWoman MemeticBadass who shot back by mocking Cheryl's skinnier frame. However, during the fifth season when ISIS starts smuggling cocaine, Pam gets addicted and ends up losing a lot of weight. For a number of reasons, including that Pam TookALevelInDumbass, everyone says they liked her better before, not after, she got addicted. The sixth season reveals she gained back the weight she lost after beating her cocaine habit. |
| 453 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': The episode "Arthur Weighs In" has the titular aardvark discovering that he needs to wear a "husky" suit for a play (despite not looking any different) after [[CompressedVice abruptly developing lazy habits that had never shown up before]]). He struggles to lose weight by going on a diet; Brain then tells him that restrictive diets don't work -- a surprising case of TruthInTelevision for a kid's show -- and are ''especially'' dangerous for children, instead suggesting that he eat a variety of foods and make healthier choices instead. Mr. Ratburn (who turns out to be FormerlyFat himself) then helps Arthur out by encouraging him to exercise by providing the whole class with pedometers. The combination of better eating and more physical activity helps Arthur shed the excess pounds, and he wears a smaller suit for the play. |
| 454 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeingIan'': In the episode "What's Combover You?", Ken found out that he's put on 20 pounds, due to middle age, and his new pot belly is making him feel old and fat. |
| 455 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'': AVerySpecialEpisode had Tara go on a crash diet in order to drop five pounds so she would qualify to enter a particular beauty contest. |
| 456 | * ''WesternAnimation/BlessTheHarts'': In the episode "Pound Pinchers", Betty Hart thinks that because of her extra wisdom pounds, construction workers don't find her attractive anymore. Her woe even gets worse when she steps on the scale at the pound pinchers meetings. |
| 457 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'': Lucky Piquel is often the butt of some fat jokes since he's a very big guy. In one episode he's stressing out about having to lose some weight for an upcoming physical, which is made extremely difficult when the case of that episode involved the mascot of a snack cake company. However, thanks to sheer willpower, Lucky manages to reach the required weight level for the physical (even though he doesn't look any slimmer). Bonkers, on the other hand, had spent most of the episode gorging on junk food and had gotten pretty fat. |
| 458 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': An ongoing plot point was Cleveland Jr.'s sudden obesity, apparently brought on by the depression caused around the dissolution of his family when Cleveland and Loretta divorced. Though [[spoiler:a later episode (possibly) revealed the obese Jr. is a secret agent who murdered the original and took his place to enact a complex sting operation on Cleveland's neighbor, Tim the Bear, supposedly a ruthless terrorist leader]]. In one particular episode, Cleveland starts wearing a man girdle to trick Donna into thinking he's lost weight, using it as an excuse to gorge himself. By the end of the episode, he's gained so much weight he finally bursts out of the girdle looking fatter than usual. |
| 459 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': |
| 460 | ** The episode "Arts and Crass" is centered around Daria and Jane creating a piece for the art competition about a girl with bulimia. The piece was meant to be supportive of people who didn't want to be judged for their looks and to get people to question the cost of beauty by the standards of society. |
| 461 | ** Played straight with HollywoodPudgy added in "Fat Like Me" when Sandi breaks her leg and is out of school for a few days. When she comes back to school, she's put on a couple of pounds and ends up having to resign from the Fashion Club due to the strict weight requirements ''she'' implemented. Quinn helps Sandi get back to her regular size because the Club was on the verge of falling apart without a steady leader. |
| 462 | ** Reoccurring extra Mrs. Johannsen is a morbidly obese woman who suffers from hypoglycemia. In her first appearance in ''Cafe Disaffecto'', she passes out while Daria and Jane are attempting to sell her chocolate for a school fundraiser. She insists on buying all their chocolate even though she tells them her doctor wouldn't approve. When she comes to, Daria states she can't sell her the chocolate out of fear for her health. She later appears in ''Psycho Therapy'' where it seems her weight and overeating stem from a traumatic childhood and feelings of abandonment after once being told she was an accident. When Quinn barges into her therapy session to talk to the cute therapist speaking with Johannsen, Quinn suggests vertical stripes will fix her problems. |
| 463 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Two episodes have this theme: |
| 464 | ** In the Nickelodeon episode "Doug Tips The Scales", Doug gains weight while on vacation at his grandma's and tries to slim down before Beebee Bluff's pool party. |
| 465 | ** In the Disney episode "Doug's Chubby Buddy," Patti Mayonnaise becomes obsessed with weight loss after she overhears Doug commenting on her weight (he was actually referring to a homemade vehicle he was making). |
| 466 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has one episode where Toot Braunstein attempts to lose weight, both through bulimia and anorexia. |
| 467 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy once wished that every meal was dessert. At first, everyone is utterly hyperactive from the extra sugar rush, until a month passes by and everyone is so bloated they can only get around by rolling until the extra weight causes the Earth to fall out of orbit and spiral into the sun. |
| 468 | ** During ''Timmy's Secret Wish'', after Timmy's retroactively stripped of his godparents for [[spoiler:freezing time]], Jorgen Von Strangle starts binge eating frosting out of depression since he doesn't have Timmy's antics keeping him busy. He remains fat for the rest of the episode. |
| 469 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 470 | ** Meg Griffin is shown to be an overeater and makes a habit out of throwing up after meals. She has far more issues than that, however. Stewie even tells her one time that she should consider becoming anorexic and bulimic like the female ballerina dancers since it "seems to work out for them". |
| 471 | ** When the popular girls at school throw up, Meg says she loves to throw up to fit in. |
| 472 | ** Brian's dumb ex-girlfriend Jillian is bulimic. Stewie calls her fat to make her throw up, and she makes comments about how she is losing her teeth. She puts it best in her debut episode: |
| 473 | --->'''Jillian:''' I threw up a lot in high school, so now I don't get my period anymore! |
| 474 | ** When Lois becomes a Hollywood starlet, she shows off her newfound anorexia by having her friends play her ribcage like a xylophone. |
| 475 | ** In "Sibling Rivalry", Lois started to binge eat out of frustration after Peter lost his sex drive following a vasectomy. At first mocked about her weight, when the two accidentally have sex one night Peter is elated to discover "fat sex is the hottest sex" they ever had, and became determined to keep Lois heavy. By the end of the episode, Lois had a heart attack and received emergency liposuction. |
| 476 | ** In "No Country Club for Old Men", Lois bakes a batch of brownies, eats them all herself, and then makes herself throw up. According to Stewie, this happens every time she makes brownies. |
| 477 | ** Peter, Chris, and Stewie all dealt with weight issues in one single episode. Chris became self-conscious about his size, Peter got liposuction and plastic surgery to make himself a sculpted knockout, and Stewie became obese by way of mocking Chris's diet straight into an overeating disorder. Chris felt better about himself by the episode's end thanks to a few kind words from Meg, Peter gained back all his weight, and Stewie was inexplicably back to normal with no reason given. |
| 478 | ** In "Girl, Internetted", Meg becomes an internet sensation when she starts posting videos (at Peter's behest) of her eating anything and everything she finds in the fridge. Alongside becoming obese, Meg becomes diabetic and has her feet removed. This isn't enough to make her stop what she's doing until she finds out everyone at her school has become morbidly obese in order to follow her example. The combined weight of all her newly fat classmates causes the school bleachers to collapse, killing one of the janitors whose feet are then transplanted to Meg's body. |
| 479 | * ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Coco in the episode "The Big Picture" suffers this trope when Duchess says Coco has a [[TemporaryBulkChange huge belly]]. It even gets worse because it's the annual picture day at Fosters. |
| 480 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': A one-time segment featured "Fatman and Boy Blubber", two morbidly obese superheroes who protect the overweight people of the world. After saving the chubby Louis from bullies, they deliver (supposedly) inspirational lectures about their own struggles with obesity, including their attempts to stay healthy and tendency to eat fast food and snacks while traveling. It all turns out to be a sham, as the segment ends with Fatman and Boy Blubber trying to steal Louis' sweet buns for themselves. |
| 481 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Amy Wong used to be fat when she was little, and although she slimmed down and became much more attractive as she got older, she still has a ravenous appetite which she keeps on lockdown. In one post-cancellation episode, Amy and Professor Farnsworth switched bodies, which Amy used as an excuse to go on an eating binge since it wasn't her body. However, the Professor's decrepit digestion system proved to be too much of a burden, and Amy switched with Leela. Amy's ravenous hunger caused Leela's body to become fat, and in order to stop herself from doing any more damage, Hermes volunteered to switch, claiming she couldn't possibly do any more damage to his flabby build. Both of them lost weight by the end of the episode, but in Amy's case, she'd lost her appetite completely after seeing Leela in the Professor's body graphically make out with Fry in Zoidberg's body. |
| 482 | ** During the second ''Anthology Of Interest'' episode, Bender wonders what it'd be like to be human. He quickly goes on a week-long hedonistic binge of sex, partying, and eating, culminating in his transformation into a thousand-pound human blob. And about forty of those pounds was his cholesterol level. The short ends with Bender dying at the beginning of a big party and no one realized this until 12 hours later. |
| 483 | * Happens occasionally on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' |
| 484 | ** Jon puts on a noticeable amount of weight in one episode and decides to go on a diet, especially after seeing an appetizing-looking diet program on tv. [[VeryFalseAdvertising He along with Garfield are both sorely disappointed when the food turns out to be the size of a grain of rice and tastes terrible.]] |
| 485 | ** Jon's neighbors, the Burnsides, decide to move, tired of Garfield always stealing their food. They soon realize, however, that with Garfield no longer around, they both put on a lot of weight in a very short amount of time. They quickly move back before they end up "looking like elephants by Christmastime". |
| 486 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In one episode, Harold becomes insecure about his size and strives to lose weight when he overhears Sid and Stinky mocking him. He goes on a cruise with the purpose of helping kids lose weight, but is even ''bigger'' when he returns. He manages to [[StatusQuoIsGod lose the extra weight]] with some help from Arnold, though. |
| 487 | * ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'': There is an episode which revolves around Brendon and Jason enabling each other's poor eating habits, before the ending shows the now obese kids making fat-themed parodies of famous movies. |
| 488 | * ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': Played with in two senses. In the earlier "Jumbo Johnny" episode, Johnny worries that he's not as buff as he could be and seeks to gain weight in terms of musculature. He's sold an experimental protein shake, but he doesn't follow the instructions correctly and drinks every can in a single night. By morning, Johnny is extremely fat and deludes himself into thinking he's ripped until he takes more of the protein shake and essentially becomes a fat giant. Johnny accidentally destroys most of the city looking for the protein shake salesman, who finally gives him the antidote to slim down. But Johnny ''still'' doesn't follow the instructions, drinks every can he's given, and while he does slim down [[spoiler:he's basically a two-inch stick person with a normal-sized head.]] |
| 489 | * Done twice in ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'': |
| 490 | ** The overreaching story of one episode concerning Henry and June focused on the two being out-of-shape, to the point that they could barely get through the opening credits. They learn that a physical is coming up and try to lose weight with help from Richard Simmons, but they're not able to concentrate long enough to make any progress and sadly accept they'll be out of a job soon. Then they learn that their physical was only testing them on surviving cartoon physics via dumping anvils on them. Upon passing the said exam, they go back to eating junk food with gusto. |
| 491 | ** An WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow short was basically a reversal of ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'' with the Chief getting cursed into obesity by a scam fortune teller with actual powers. |
| 492 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the BeachEpisode, Kaeloo decides to play volleyball because she realizes that she's getting fat; however, the plot becomes so sidetracked by the end of the episode that the audience never finds out if she ever ''did'' lose the extra weight. |
| 493 | * ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'': One episode opens up with Gonard significantly tubbier than usual, and Ozu orders him to get back in shape because he's an action star. Gonard's forced to use Ozu's workout equipment, and while he becomes much more chiseled than he was before, he's now obsessed with exercising. |
| 494 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Played with when the writers did an intentionally {{Anvilicious}} episode about eating right after being told by the company that they had to make at least one Aesop episode. In "Grande Size Me", Ron tries to rally against Mr. Barkin's lectures on a balanced diet by eating Bueno Nacho every day to prove it's not dangerous. Sure enough, Ron starts to get tubby and pretty much everyone, including the villains, shows concern over what Ron is doing to his body. However, after being submerged in a mutagenic growth formula, Ron's appetite increases, and he gradually becomes much fatter, taller, and more aggressive, until he finally mutates into an orange parody of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]. The only solution to reversing the mutation is to get him to eat healthy food. During the end credits, however, Ron delivers a lecture about not falling into strange chemicals [[NoFourthWall to the audience]] even though everyone else has no idea who he's talking to. |
| 495 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Bill Dauterive is constantly ashamed of his weight ever since his life went downhill following his marriage and divorce. In one episode he's told his excess weight and body hair were the result of the government using him as a guinea pig in drug research until it turned out he was in the placebo group. He's ashamed to exercise in a gym because he thinks he's too fat to be seen working out with other people, and when he got diagnosed with diabetes he tried to blame his genes instead of his weight. In at least one episode that implies this has happened before, he goes on an eating binge when the Arlen town council bans food made with trans fats, thinking that all remaining junk food is good for him now that it's government approved. In a series of flashbacks, it shows Bill always goes overboard with what he thinks is diet food like light beer, failing to understand its diet compared to the regular product. In the trans fat episode, he becomes more bloated than he usually is and suffered from an outbreak of zits. He doesn't stop until Hank makes him look at his reflection, and Bill becomes horrified enough to stop. |
| 496 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Bugs suggests to Porky during his brief stint as a caterer that he try some of his grandmother's old recipes since Porky's own dishes weren't that good. The recipes all call for an unhealthy amount of butter but are rather delicious, so much so that Bugs gets hooked on them and is finding excuses to throw parties just so Porky can cater to them. Sure enough, Bugs starts off with a noticeable belly, then gets ''huge'', to the point that he causes a tidal wave when jumping into a pool to save Daffy from drowning. That serves as Bugs' wake-up call and he manages to cut back on the junk. |
| 497 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': Explored in a very unusual sense in one episode, in which the "woe" aspect comes not from fat or musculature, but ''gravity''. Phoebe is concerned that she is unable to perform a special basketball feat for an upcoming game, and Ms. Frizzle uses this as an opportunity to teach the class about the concept of gravity. The bus transforms into an artificial planet, and the gravity is altered depending on how small or big the bus is. Unfortunately, someone knocks the gravity controls into high gear, enlarging the bus and increasing the gravity to such a degree that the kids are barely able to move and in danger of being crushed. Thankfully they manage to reach the controls in time before something bad happens. |
| 498 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Inverted in the last episode where FatAndProud Coop is disgusted and enraged to discover his evil, alternate universe self is a power-hungry, ''skinny'' conqueror. |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': Half of Dethklok's band members have body image issues. Pickles and Skwisgaar are both rather slender and Toki's absolutely ''ripped'' under his clothes, but Nathan and Murderface are on the heavy side. Nathan is a FormerlyFit example but is seen as a BigBeautifulMan due to the fact that he's more heavy than fat, while Murderface is out of shape and unattractive. Although in a later season episode, Nathan becomes increasingly concerned with his weight after accidentally breaking the hot tub by jumping into it and being labeled unattractive on a recent news editorial. |
| 500 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': "Chew On This" has Adam complain about the fact that there aren't any human food in the cafeteria. Fearing he might sue, Principal Pixie Frog changes the lunch menu to feature nothing but stuff humans eat. Jake and just about everyone else in the school (except Adam) get addicted because they're not used to eating pizza, french fries, and tater tots, and become very obese. When Adam is almost mobbed for his lunch, he threatens Pixie Frog that if he gets hurt he'd have grounds to sue the school, and offers not to in exchange for the menu being set back to the way it was. It then ends with everyone, the students and the staff, trying to lose weight. |
| 501 | * ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'': Hector almost has a heart attack after gaining a couple of pounds before he decides to go jogging. |
| 502 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have dealt with this trope in numerous ways due to the fact that a lot of the main characters are on the chunky side. |
| 503 | ** Lisa Simpson had an episode of this when some kids at school made fun of her weight. |
| 504 | ** Homer bounces around this. Sometimes he wants to be thinner, but in "King-Size Homer", he had woe because he wanted to ''gain'' weight in order to qualify for a disability that would allow him to work from home. |
| 505 | *** "Brush With Greatness" and "King of the Hill" play Homer's attempts to lose weight straight. The former attempt is inspired by his getting stuck in a water slide and becoming a laughing-stock; the latter episode deals with him joining a gym and climbing a mountain to win Bart's respect after he embarrasses him at a church picnic field day. |
| 506 | ** Bart became overweight in "The Heartbroke Kid" after becoming addicted to the junk food in the new vending machines put into Springfield Elementary. To drive the point home they redid the opening with a now heavyset Bart, who ends up having a heart attack via malted milk ball-clogged arteries. Homer and Marge resort to having him sent to a fat camp against his will, though he finally sticks to losing the weight by himself after realizing his parents have had to turn the house into a youth hostel and degrade themselves for a bunch of annoying college students in order to pay for the camp. |
| 507 | ** Rainer Wolfcastle has struggled with his weight on two occasions. The first time he claimed he was preparing for a fat secret agent role, but the second time he was at the same fat camp Bart was sent to. |
| 508 | ** In a later season episode, Bart conspired to have Nelson Muntz addicted to Krusty Burger fast food in order to make him obese and lose the energy to bully Bart and the other kids. Lisa forced Bart to help Nelson lose the weight after seeing what Nelson turned into. The subplot started after Bart watched a ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' parody, ''Do You Want Lies With That?'' |
| 509 | ** "Sweets and Sour Marge" played with this trope by having Springfield named "America's Fattest Town" and the citizens are overjoyed by being famous for something. All except for Marge, who is slightly disturbed by how everyone seems to be celebrating their obesity. She strives to sue a sugar-manufacturing company out of protest for destroying the town's health, only to have ''all'' sugar banned from Springfield. Homer and Bart work to undo this because life without sugar is too much of a hell to comprehend, and although Homer pulls back for Marge's sake, the judge overturns his decision and [[StatusQuoIsGod things go back to normal]]. |
| 510 | ** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Bart and Lisa were shocked when they discover a morbidly obese Krusty in his apartment just as they were to announce that they got all of the celebrities (sans Elizabeth Taylor) needed for his comeback special. Krusty declared that he was on a steady diet of milkshakes. [[OhCrap Lisa asked if they were diet milkshakes]]. Luckily, the Simpson family [[TrainingMontage got him back in shape just in time]]. |
| 511 | ** In "Bart's Friend Falls In Love", Lisa is concerned about Homer's weight and worries that he might die as a morbidly obese blob. Marge tries to send away for a tape set to help Homer lose weight via suggestions in his sleep, but the company had run out of weight loss cassettes and sent in a set to improve a person's vocabulary. They don't realize Homer received the wrong tape, and while Homer becomes much more articulate he gains weight and destroys the tapes out of anger. |
| 512 | ** Both sides of this are played within "Hungry, Hungry Homer". Homer goes on a hunger strike to prove that the Springfield Isotopes are really being moved to Albuquerque and begins to waste away into a delirious state of mind. Meanwhile, the kids start to get fat from eating Homer's shares at dinner simply because Marge won't cook less, though this is more a case of BalloonBelly than permanent weight. |
| 513 | ** In "Kamp Krusty", Martin Prince isn't happy that his parents are sending him to a FatCamp, which is revealed to be run like a concentration camp by the sadistic camp counselor Mr. Black. |
| 514 | ** "Bart Star" shows that Bart and a lot of Springfield's kids are out of shape, so their parents have them join the peewee football league to get more exercise. Bart doesn't really have a problem with being tubby, but Homer, of all people, has the nerve to call him "a disgrace to the family" for being fat. |
| 515 | ** In "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?", Homer's rave reviews as a food critic cause many Springfielders to gain weight. Among them is Mr. Burns, whose shins break due to his new girth. He's seen at the end, still fat, among the crowd ready to beat the crap out of Homer for all the shit he pulled in this episode. |
| 516 | ** "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" had Homer leading an all-male entourage to the Super Bowl. With no women around, the guys can relax and let their bellies hang out. The moment they learn the bus driver's female, they're quick to pull themselves back together despite their annoyance. |
| 517 | * Done a number of times in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 518 | ** ''Weight Gain'': Cartman tries to bulk up using protein powder, but doesn't understand he needs to use the powder alongside an exercise regime. By the end of the episode, he's a morbidly obese blob and seriously believes he's a well-muscled hunk. BEEF CAKE!!! |
| 519 | ** ''Jared Has Aides'': Butters is forced to gain fifty pounds as part of a convoluted scheme by the boys to make money doing a bunch of commercials for City Wok similar to Jared from Subway. They then put Butters through a homemade liposuction treatment, which is literally just putting a tube in his side and pumping the excess fat out by punching his stomach. ''It works''. |
| 520 | ** ''Fat Camp'' featured Cartman getting sent to a fat camp against his will. He starts a lucrative business undermining the camp's efforts by smuggling junk food and selling it to the other kids. The rest of the campers, on their part, are all legitimately unhappy with how overweight they are, and their equally overweight parents don't have much hope for them as they believe their obesity is caused by genes. By the end of the episode when the camp is about to be shut down, one of the campers comes forward and admits they were cheating on their diets but wants to stay and make a more earnest attempt to slim down. When it looks like even Cartman has decided to make an effort to diet, the counselors (who were shown as upbeat and genuinely trying to help the kids) decide to have him banned because of what he did. Cartman curses them off... and then starts eating junk food and crying while he does. |
| 521 | ** ''Make Love, Not Warcraft'': The boys spend weeks doing nothing but killing boars to power up in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' so they can finally stop the one player who keeps killing everybody's characters whenever they try to go on quests. In the process, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman become overweight, greasy-haired shut-ins with horrendous acne. |
| 522 | ** ''Raising The Bar'': As obesity becomes more widespread, Cartman finally stops denying he is fat... and then intentionally gains more weight to qualify as obese and get a mobility scooter of his own. Cartman then takes advantage of his new handicapped status the way every other obese person in the episode does. |
| 523 | * ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': When Static has traveled into the future, he is a little shocked to discover Richie has noticeably gained a few pounds as an adult. Upon arriving back to the present, he snarks that Richie should watch the fast food from that point. |
| 524 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': Arthur goes on a diet in "The Tick vs. Arthur" after being called fat by a goon [[ContinuityNod in the previous episode]]. He gets a power belt off a baddy that makes him strong and muscular but turns him evil. |
| 525 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': One episode has a villain creating girl scout cookies that are highly addictive and fattening as revenge for a childhood trauma of being booted out of the organization. Both Clover and Jerry become hooked on the cookies and become obese by the episode's end, as did the villain herself when the spies make her sample the "highly addictive sugar extract" she invented which makes the cookies so addictive. An antidote is made and Clover and all the other victims of the scheme are turned back to normal. |
| 526 | ** While Clover learns to appreciate her regular size by the episode's end (she is obsessed with buying a large hat), she hardly complains about her sudden weight gain during the mission. |
| 527 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'': Nitz is horrified to discover he put on the Freshman Fifteen just before the Exposed Expo, an annual streaking event, and tries to slim down in time. |
| 528 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'': In "Weight to Go, Andy", all of the Larkins except Andy start freaking out about their weight, dieting, and weighing themselves because Al wants a promotion from a man who's a "health nut", Frida has been invited to a party where one of her former classmates and an ex-AlphaBitch is attending, and Jen's class is about to do a gym meet. This escalates when Andy pranks Jen (who's usually the only Larkin who weighs herself) by making the scale register whoever stands on it as heavier than they are. After starving themselves throughout the episode and becoming miserable, the three compare notes, realize they all supposedly gained the exact same number of pounds, and deduced Andy pranked them. |
| 529 | [[/folder]] |
| 530 | ---- |
| 531 | ->''[[Creator/AllanSherman Fare thee well\ |
| 532 | Metrecal\ |
| 533 | And to others of that ilk\ |
| 534 | Let the diet start tomorrow\ |
| 535 | For tonight I'll]] [[DrowningMySorrows drown my sorrow]]\ |
| 536 | In a double malted milk!'' |
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