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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:250:Apparently scales now come with self-preservation routines as DLC... who knew?]] |
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| 10 | ->''"Did you know humans frown on weight variances? If you want to upset a human, just say their weight variance is above or below the norm."'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''VideoGame/Portal2'' |
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| 13 | Sometimes, insults are very [[FloweryInsults clever]], [[StealthInsult devious]] and witty. |
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| 15 | Other times, it's easier (no matter how {{lame|Comeback}} it is) to attack a person's insecurities. And it would be quite tough to find someone without a level of physical bodily issues or any insecurities thereof. So simply calling someone "fat" is usually enough to reduce them to tears, or at least get their attention, to perhaps make them double-check the mirror. Sometimes this can backfire, causing the recipient of the insult [[BerserkButton to get angry]] and even to carry out [[DisproportionateRetribution physical violence]] against the insulter. |
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| 17 | This often reveals more about the insulter than the one they insult, and characterizes them as petty or insecure. If the person they criticize is merely HollywoodPudgy or rather thin, it comes off as desperate, and if they ''are'' a bit overweight, it just seems cruel. The person's reaction to the insult can say something too. Ignoring it or replying with something much wittier just shows how unimpressed they are, while taking it to heart can show the insultee's vanity or lack of confidence. |
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| 19 | Compare IAmBigBoned, the response that negates the insult without denying the observation. And if the character is FatAndProud, this becomes an InsultBackfire. {{Acrofatic}} characters are rarely on the receiving end of this (though they can use SelfDeprecation to invoke FatAndProud or LargeAndInCharge). |
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| 21 | For other similar insults, compare HeightInsult, StinkSnub, BaldnessMockery, and (in especially childish cases) BigStupidDoodooHead. |
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| 23 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 27 | * ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Vados, attendant of Champa, keeps telling her boss that he's overweight, drinks too many sugary beverages, needs to exercise, etc. The reason she can get away with insulting the God of Destruction is because, just like her twin brother Whis and ''his'' boss Beerus, she's stronger than Champa. |
| 28 | * This is a RunningGag (though in a less direct way than most examples) with Lucy in ''Manga/FairyTail'' even though [[HollywoodPudgy she is not fat at all]] and is in fact quite physically attractive. Every time someone carries her, they feel a need to complain that she's heavy. The first example is when Natsu and Happy is at a restaurant. They discuss how they should save the greasy food for her, since she looks like she has eaten a lot of fatty and greasy food through her life ([[ImStandingRightHere in her earshot]]). |
| 29 | * The cast of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' (but mostly England) will occasionally aim this insult at America. Although America takes BigEater to comical extremes, he has actually been shown several times to be abnormally fit due to how much he exercises. Unfortunately, this causes him to gain ''muscle'' mass, which he is convinced is actually fat. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/{{Plunderer}}'': Everybody who meets the rather cute and [[HollywoodPudgy not fat at all]] Lyne May tends to call her fat, including one time when the super strong Licht Bach gave her a BridalCarry and started complaining that she is heavy and needs to lose weight. |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/InitialD'', Mako takes a jab at Sayuki while they're racing against Takumi, blaming her for being a dead weight in her car and giving her a handicap. Sayuki takes offense: |
| 32 | -->'''Sayuki:''' How can you call me an extra weight on the car?! I have a nice body, I'm not fat!\ |
| 33 | '''Mako:''' You're giving me a 49 Kg handicap!\ |
| 34 | '''Sayuki:''' 47 Kg! |
| 35 | * ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Itsuki is often on the receiving end of this, owing to her BigEater tendencies. An omake reveals that, indeed, she's a fair bit heavier than her sisters, much to her chagrin. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma often insults Akane by calling her "thick-waisted," "overweight," or some other variation of the word "fat." Considering that she's insecure, it's a pretty bad insult, along with "uncute." Played for laughs when Ranma's mirror clone tells Akane that Ranma likes her. |
| 37 | -->'''Akane:''' Wha- No way! Ranma and I are [[JustFriends just friends]].\ |
| 38 | '''Ranma's mirror clone:''' ''No!'' I know that he... he... really likes fat people! [[ScrewYourself If only I was fat too!]] |
| 39 | * ''Manga/SailorMoon'': Usagi is often insulted as such, given her BigEater tendencies. (This is [[DubText played up far more in the dub]]). Also ''very'' much an InformedFlaw; many in RealLife only ''wish'' [[HollywoodHomely they were as fat as she is]]. |
| 40 | * Utako in ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'' [[FormerlyFat used to be]] on the receiving end of this, until Baka changed her life so profoundly that she lost most of that weight through vigorous exercising and [[{{Determinator}} sheer might of will]]. |
| 41 | * In ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', Yurio tends to resort to this kind of insult when confronting main character Yuri, often calling him fat, a pig, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or a fat pig]]. Though Yuri [[WeightWoe does gain weight easily]], he manages to get back in shape by Episode 2, so the insults don't really affect him and he just shrugs them off. It shows how petty and immature Yurio is being, especially when he continues with the insults long afterwards. |
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| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 45 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 7 episode 15, Fat Tiger looks for new Cat Planet recruits and rejects a cat suspiciously resembling ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[TakeThat simply because he's too fat]]. |
| 46 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 1, the goats laugh at the Queen Bee when they see her for the first time, and Sparky can't help but point out how fat she is. One of the Queen Bee's guards immediately stops him, saying he can't insult the queen. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 50 | * Much of Creator/GabrielIglesias' material includes stories of how people will mention he's fat, [[InsistentTerminology despite insisting that he's actually "fluffy."]] (He breaks down that there are five levels of fatness: Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, and DAMN!! Later, he would add a sixth level: OH HELL NO!!!) One story he told about how he went to pick up a friend who lives in [[WrongSideOfTheTracks the 'hood]] in his new [=VW=] Beetle, and noticed some [[GangBangers "smack talking" gangsters]] nearby: |
| 51 | -->'''Gansgter:''' How'd you get in there ''esé? [...]'' Check it out, it's [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious "the fat and the furious!"]] |
| 52 | ** He also mentions how a trip to Australia got a similar reaction when he went to the beach. |
| 53 | --->'''Aussie:''' Hey, somebody 'elp me get 'im back in the wata'! AW, look he's ''cryin'!'' I bet it tastes like gravy! |
| 54 | * A lot of Creator/JohnPinette's comedy is making fat jokes at his ''[[SelfDeprecation own]]'' expense. |
| 55 | * Creator/LarryTheCableGuy says that his sister once got on a talking scale, and its (strained) response was "What the fuck?" |
| 56 | * Tim Hawkins lists this by implication as one of the "Things You Don't Say to Your Wife," given that one of the "things" is "Happy anniversary; I bought you a treadmill." |
| 57 | * A stand-up routine during a concert by Creator/ViceGanda did not end well for the Filipino comedian, where he received intense criticism for ridiculing news anchor Jessica Soho by depicting her as a star of a (hypothetical) pornographic film. Vice [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiSB_cJcy3g described Soho]] as being morbidly obese[[note]]Being that Soho is of a stout build and has a knack for frequently showing cuisine features in her magazine show, it isn't surprising.[[/note]] to the point that the weighing scale could not take it anymore, blurting out an audio warning "One at a time! Don't play with the machine!" It took that and a [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] for Soho's colleague and fellow Creator/GMANetwork anchor Arnold Clavio to [[DudeNotFunny take umbrage]] and condemn Vice; the comedian later issued a tearful apology in ''Series/ItsShowtime'' and talked to Soho herself apologising for the offensive remarks. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
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| 60 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 61 | * In numerous ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' stories, Obelix is accused of this. His reaction varies from [[BreakTheCutie bitter sadness]], [[BerserkButton launching into a frightening rage]], or even [[ImplausibleDeniability outright denying the fact]]. |
| 62 | * Being a victim of bullies who made jokes like this (among other insults) when he was a kid was the biggest cause of ComicBook/{{the Penguin}}'s StartOfDarkness in Franchise/{{Batman}} continuity. Of course, when he became a dangerous criminal with influence and wealth, people who insulted him tended to be killed or worse. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] was a frequent target of this; thanks to a RunningGag, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments even Dr. Doom took turns at calling her fat]], even though she... [[InformedFlaw isn't fat. Like, not at all.]] It seemed to be based on the fact that at the time, she tended to be drawn on the more muscularly curvy side (particularly by Frank Cho), with more junk in her trunk than most heroines (ironically making her physique a bit more realistic than most). |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'': During the TrainingFromHell from Nick Fury, Yo-Yo Rodriguez is abducted and tortured by Viper, who demand she tell HYDRA where Nick is. Yo-Yo's response? "You are fat." (Viper is your typical comic book bombshell, by the way.) Then when Viper tells her goons to kill Yo-Yo, she amends her statement to "you're ''really'' fat." Fortunately, it's not actually Viper. It's a SecretTestOfCharacter, because Nick Fury's kind of a bastard. |
| 65 | * In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' Knives Chau is known to call Ramona Flowers fat after she discovers Scott has left her for Ramona. Ramona is curvier than Knives but it's more that Knives is quite thin than Ramona being particularly fat. |
| 66 | * When Polaris declines his offer of partnership in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s response is to call her "an overweight harlot." She's not known to be his daughter or relative in this universe. |
| 67 | ** Subverted in that Polaris goes through an anorexic phase in ''ComicBook/XFactor''. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/SinCity'': During his torture of Nancy, one of Junior's many psychotic insults is to call her a "fat, ugly cow". To be clear, Nancy is the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman with a body that most men would die for, while Junior is a sadistic pedophile. Rather than a true insult, it just highlights Junior's [[YoureNotMyType bizarre preferences]]. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Although she's about the same size physically as her fellow Smurfs, Smurfette (prior to her extreme makeover) was the target of some fat jokes, including having a fun-house mirror installed that made her think that she turned fat. This eventually led to her DrivenToSuicide moment and the makeover that Papa Smurf gave her in the story. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderManBlackCatTheEvilThatMenDo'' has Peter makes a few jokes about Felicia having put on some weight which she shows some annoyance at, even going as far as asking him if he's trying to make her bulimic. A flashback to Felicia's college years has her expressing worry about gaining weight from the beers she is drinking suggesting that she might have some body image issues. |
| 71 | * In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', this was Peter Parker's entire repertoire against [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], which works perfectly in punching through the Kingpin's usually suave, controlled manner. |
| 72 | -->'''Spider-Man:''' I really wanted to remember to tell you these things because they are really important to me. ''[pulls out big stack of palm-cards]''. You are so fat, that when you cut yourself shaving, marshmallow fluff comes out. You are so fat... |
| 73 | ** In reality (as Spidey knows all too well), Fisk is a mass of ''muscle'', and can put up a decent hand-to-hand fight against him. He's been known to injure the hero just by being too tough to hit (in Ultimate Marvel. In 616, ''Back in Black'' brutally demonstrated that, no, Fisk wasn't even close to Spidey's class the moment he got serious). Fisk's rage at the insult is caused more by Spidey's persistence and disrespect than by any (nonexistent) body-image issues. |
| 74 | ** In an issue of ''Captain America'' where he's at [[EvilVersusEvil odds with]] the ComicBook/RedSkull, Fisk addresses him [[EvenEvilHasStandards with obvious contempt]] as "Nazi", and Skull's answering nickname is "fat man". |
| 75 | * Volcana, aka Marsha Rosenberg, girlfriend of Molecule Man, has been drawn slightly overweight. The Enchantress often refers to her as bloated. |
| 76 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', Rorschach tells his prison psychiatrist flat-out that he doesn't like him. When asked why, he says, "Fat. Wealthy. Think you understand pain." |
| 77 | * ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Despite ComicBook/{{Etta|Candy}} being overweight and acting as comic relief her creators thankfully did not make jokes about her weight. The one-shot Amazon Fatsis however was not only saddled with a joke of a name, but her weight is made fun of when she nearly defeats Mala in wrestling just by sitting on her. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 81 | * ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'': Bunny is an [[ParodySue obnoxiously-perfect]] and slightly [[TheDitz ditzy]] neighbor who seems to breeze through life unfazed by any difficulty, so when she announces she is pregnant with twins, Wanda bursts into an EvilLaugh. Soon, Bunny is enduring increased difficulty in pregnancy. She struggles to move, sinks heavily into Wanda's couch, looks buried and pinned under her mountainous belly, and peers uneasily over its curve. She's clearly dreading the next uncomfortable months of pregnancy as the babies (and her already-giant belly) grow even bigger, so Bunny could use some sympathy. Instead, Wanda and Yolanda show backhanded kindness and laugh at their FormerlyFit friend [[BreakTheHaughty learning some humility]]. They offer help, yet continue to tease Bunny for being so huge. |
| 82 | -->'''Bunny:''' I know. ''[pats her belly while Wanda gawks at its size]'' The twins seem to have kicked into high gear, growth-wise... My due date isn't until August, but I already look like I'm carrying a Volkswagen! \ |
| 83 | '''Wanda:''' Don't be silly... You look like you're carrying ''two'' Volkswagens. \ |
| 84 | '''Bunny:''' If I didn't know you better, I'd think you were enjoying this. |
| 85 | ** Later, discouraged that her due date is still weeks away, Bunny complains how frustrated and immobile she has grown. |
| 86 | --->'''Bunny:''' I've always been the kind of person who's in control of her life. Now I can't do anything but sit here and be pregnant!...\ |
| 87 | '''Wanda:''' Oh Bunny, you're still a Martha Stewart. ''[stretches a tape measure around Bunny's huge middle]'' In fact, I'd say you're about three-and-a-half Martha Stewarts.\ |
| 88 | '''Bunny:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks.]] Now I feel much better. |
| 89 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': The eponymous fat cat is a frequent target. He usually doesn't care, and sometimes declares himself FatAndProud. |
| 90 | ** He sometimes retaliates when the teasing comes from Nermal, who Garfield dislikes anyway. |
| 91 | ** Even [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Garfield_scale_3_8471.png a talking set of scales]] agrees. |
| 92 | ** Ironically, Jim Davis got a lot of angry mail after a two-week series of strips featuring [[BigFun Bertha]], one of Jon's weird dates who was overweight. (Even though the negativity directed towards her was rather sparse, and limited to Garfield.) [[WordOfGod As he said later in a retrospective]], it's clearly more acceptable to make fun of a fat cat than a fat human. |
| 93 | * One of the later ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips had Snoopy in the hospital and his three brothers Spike, Andy, and Olaf visit him. While in the waiting room, Andy asked why they don't look alike, seeing as "I'm so furry, Spike is so thin, and Olaf is so fat?" Olaf denied being fat, saying "I'm rolly-polly!" |
| 94 | ** Several early strips had Lucy resort to this kind of comeback after being bested by Charlie Brown. |
| 95 | --->'''Charlie Brown:''' Ha! You were wrong! This book proves you were wrong! [[InUniverseFactoidFailure You said a cantaloupe was an animal! Well, it's not! It's a melon!]] You were wrong!\ |
| 96 | ''[beat]''\ |
| 97 | '''Lucy:''' You're getting fat, Charlie Brown! |
| 98 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Shoe}}'' (a strip in which all the characters are birds), the Perfessor is called fat and retorts, "I'm not fat. I'm ''[[IAmBigBoned fluffy]].''" |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 102 | %%* This is the ''entire shtick'' of [[http://troll-raipony.tumblr.com/ Troll-Rai's]] Blog/AskAPony blog. |
| 103 | * In ''Fanfic/BetterLivingThroughScienceAndPonies'', after [=GLaDOS=] tries this on Celestia, she gets it turned back on her. Apparently, [=GLaDOS=] can dish it out, but she can't take it. Amusingly, it seems to stick because [[spoiler:when she pulls out her new WingedUnicorn battle body, Chell thinks it looks almost anorexic for a pony]]. |
| 104 | * In ''Fanfic/BirthdayBreakfast'', a fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lana tells Lola not to eat her breakfast as she's getting fat and turning into a "piglet", then Lola calls Lana fat back. |
| 105 | * Speaking of Ask a Pony, in ''Blog/AskKingSombra'', Drizzle gets a ton of comments about how she used to be fat. [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/1811e634d1007ceb015dbcb18d88cd25/tumblr_n32qpsg32R1rj4ht7o9_1280.png No really, like a lot.]] |
| 106 | * ''Fanfic/TheJudgementOfTheWorld5Ds'': Black Rose Dragon ''thinks'' Stardust is suggesting this when he warns her that she might make the floor collapse beneath her. He was really just concerned about Aki's safety. |
| 107 | * A ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic has James making fun of Jessie's hair, saying it goes into her head like a Barbie doll's. When she asks if he's calling her a Barbie doll, he replies "No, Barbie dolls are skinny", and Jessie runs off in tears, saying that he doubts her perfection. |
| 108 | * ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' makes BigEater Serena/Sailor Moon a frequent target of this. |
| 109 | * In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AStudyInSituations'', Mycroft Holmes and his younger brother are discussing a case. The discussion devolves into a verbal sparring match, and Sherlock's weapon of choice appears to be insulting his brother's weight. |
| 110 | * In ''Fanfic/TheresNoOneLikeYou'', [[AbusiveParents Odalia Blight]] constantly belittles her daughter Amity's weight, claiming she's "getting big at the waist". The story makes no indication that Amity is overweight, and it is simply more of Odalia's cruelty. |
| 111 | * ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': |
| 112 | ** [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 The sheriff]], leader of the DirtyCop gang, lets [[WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh Cleofatra]] know he doesn't want to molest her because she's too fat, even though he's fat too, which, in a PlayedForDrama variation of ArentYouGoingToRavishMe, ruins her self-esteem as much as the rape would. |
| 113 | ** WesternAnimation/PeppaPig and her family have total strangers comment on their weight and sneak sugar out of their shopping cart in a misguided attempt to "help", especially when Peppa develops precocious puberty and PCOS which makes her gain even more weight. |
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| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 117 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ElArca'', the lioness Bruma decides to go on a tirade against the heroine lioness Kairel, saying that since Kairel is about to die a horrible death by drowning, there's a few things she wants to let her know first-she goes off saying many extremely rude things, and ends with the line- "And, in case you don't know what a mirror is... [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Are. Fat.]]" |
| 118 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', bags of chips represent fat people. |
| 119 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Donkey and Puss-n-Boots swap bodies. Puss's first crack when he's in Donkey's body is to call Donkey a "bloated roadside piñata" before telling him to go on a diet. |
| 120 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' has Stitch using this insult on Gantu. |
| 121 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', "Gettin' kinda chubby" is one of Mother Gothel's "teasing" insults directed at undermining Rapunzel's self-confidence. (Made more ridiculous because Rapunzel is skinnier than Gothel, and they're ''both'' ridiculously thin, although they're both rather [[HartmanHips well-endowed below the waist]].) Could be a case of FridgeBrilliance, a nod to the original fairy tale where Rapunzel starts to put on weight because she's pregnant from the Prince that's been visiting her. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 125 | * In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:Frigga]] tells [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] to "Eat a salad." Rocket also tells him that he looks like melted ice cream. |
| 126 | * ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[BrutalHonesty Drax]] and [[TheGadfly Rocket]] chide Star-Lord for being fat while [[OvershadowedByAwesome comparing him to Thor]]. |
| 127 | -->'''Rocket:''' (''to Quill'') You're one sandwich away from fat! |
| 128 | * In ''Film/BigFatLiar,'' Marty Wolf refers to thickset Jocelyn Davis (aka Senior VP of Publicity) as the "senior VP of Twinkies." (It becomes an InsultBackfire and even a BrickJoke when he sees her in the crowd that witnessed his EngineeredPublicConfession.) |
| 129 | * In ''Film/GetSmart'' Steve Carrell makes several references to his recent and substantial weight loss. During a nightmare where he's binge eating cake he wakes up suddenly and simply screams out "I'm fat!" |
| 130 | * In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Tuco taunts Corporal Wallace, an overweight - and rather sadistic - TortureTechnician, by saying he likes fat people, because when he knocks them down it's funny seeing them try to get up. |
| 131 | * ''Film/GrandmothersFarm2'': Ramsi gets subjected to a number of fat jokes over the course of the movie, like being referred to as Amoori [=XXL=] when he dresses up like him. |
| 132 | * ''Film/{{Hairspray|1988}}'': When Tracy is being interviewed for a spot on the Corny Collins dance show, Amber tries to derail her by calling her fat. It backfires by getting her suspended from the show - Tracy is too comfortable with herself to be fazed and handles the interview with charm and grace. |
| 133 | * In ''Film/TheInterview'', Americans as a whole are the butt of fat jokes from North Korea. [[HypocriticalHumor In vice-versa, Kim Jong-un himself is mocked by Skylark for eating a luxurious way to obesity]]. |
| 134 | * ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'': Mark gets this, by everyone, pretty much the whole film. |
| 135 | * In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', people frequently insult Tom by calling him fat, even though he's actually skinny. This confuses him to no end. (The jokes are actually an artifact from when a different person was cast in the role, who really was a big guy. Creator/GuyRitchie thought it would be funnier to leave the jokes as written.) |
| 136 | -->'''Narrator:''' For a skinny man, Tom is quite fat. |
| 137 | * Almost everyone in ''Film/LoveActually'' comments on poor [[HollywoodPudgy Natalie's]] weight. Much to the confusion of the Prime Minister who, presumably like the audience, can see that [[HollywoodPudgy she's not fat at all]]. |
| 138 | * In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' Gollum, who's freaking out over Sam cooking the rabbit he caught for their dinner, calls Sam a "stupid, fat Hobbit." Tellingly, Sam seems to ignore the stupid part, but when Gollum calls him fat, Sam shoots him and angry/hurt look. |
| 139 | * In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' Horace, a.k.a. "Fat Kid", is introduced getting bullied by some asshole kids who trot out standard bully lines like "blocking traffic" before knocking his candy bar to the pavement and beating him up. He's saved by Rudy, the resident cool kid, in ''his'' introduction, where he makes Horace's tormentor E.J. eat the candy bar on the pavement. |
| 140 | * ''Film/NachoLibre'': |
| 141 | ** When Icnagio and Esqueleto are sneaking into Ramses' party, Esqueleto claims he can't lift Ignacio over the wall because he's too fat. |
| 142 | ** This gem: |
| 143 | --->'''Ignacio:''' You only believe in science! That's probably why we never win!\ |
| 144 | '''Esqueleto:''' We never win because you are fat! |
| 145 | * In ''Film/PetersFriends'' when everyone is reunited after years apart, Andrew, who's been living in America, points to Peter's stomach and asks what that is. |
| 146 | -->'''Peter:''' It's called a potbelly, and we have those in England along with ''culture''. |
| 147 | * ''Film/PitchPerfect'': Fat Amy. The name says it all. The film's producers even contractually required the character's [[Creator/RebelWilson actress]] to remain the same size throughout filming. |
| 148 | * In ''Film/TheProducers'' during their climactic argument, Leo becomes so flustered and angry at Max that all he can think is to scream '''"FAAAAAAT! FAAAAAAAAT!"''' |
| 149 | -->"[[LameComeback I'm not that fat...]]" |
| 150 | * Knives calls Ramona a "fatass" in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', most likely out of jealousy and anger, as Ramona is incredibly thin in the film. ([[AdaptationalCurves She is, however, slightly curvy in the comics the film is based on.]]) |
| 151 | * ''Film/StewardessSchool'': Jolean is the butt of plenty of fat jokes. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 155 | * A man bought his wife a talking scale. She set it up and stepped onto it - it said "One at a time, please." |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 159 | * In ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'', Zaphod being reminded that Wowbagger called him a fat-ass is a RunningGag. |
| 160 | * Mary Anne from ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'', showing off her BitchInSheepsClothing tendencies, drops this on ''Dawn'' of all people, during the period of adjustment after the two became stepsisters. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'': Gwen is considered too overweight to start ''en pointe'' dancing. The Bunheads take this opportunity to give her the very nasty nickname "Blubberina." |
| 162 | * ''Literature/{{Brotherband}}'': In ''Scorpion Mountain'', the group discover an amphitheatre, and Lydia goes to the top to help Gilan demonstrate the way it conducts sound. Before the ranger can come up with something suitably interesting to say, [[VoiceChangeling Stefan]] says in Thorn's voice that Lydia's been putting on weight thanks to the local honey cakes she likes. Lydia yells back at Thorn furiously, to the old warrior's confusion before he sees Stefan trying to contain his laughter. Thorn rounds on him and kicks his rear. Literally. |
| 163 | * In ''Literature/DontCallMeIshmael'', [[TheBully Barry Bagsley]] bullies Bill Kingsley, who really is fat, like this. As a result, Bill's self-confidence is incredibly low. He loses some weight in later books, and even though he is still big he becomes much more confident once he makes some friends. |
| 164 | * In ''[[Literature/TheColSecTrilogy Exiles of ColSec]]'', Cord (who's stocky and baby-faced but trim) is on the receiving end of quite a few of these, most of them from the book's main antagonist. This is lampshaded at the beginning of sequel ''The Caves of Klydor''. And there's an inverted example in threequel ''[=ColSec=] Rebellion''; [[TheGadfly Jeko]] states that [[{{Tsundere}} Heleth]] (also solidly built but trim) "doesn't look [[FormerlyFat as fat as she used to]]." [[IfWeSurviveThis Heleth is displeased]]. |
| 165 | * In one of the ''[[Literature/TheIncredibleWorldsOfWallyMcDoogle Wally McDoogle]]'' books by Bill Myers, when Wally and Wall Street swap places for a week, he discovers that the slim-to-average Wall Street is constantly dieting because the boys tease her about her weight. When he protests that Wall Street isn't fat and that the boys tease all the girls that way, the other girls inform him that they're ''all'' constantly dieting. |
| 166 | * In ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'', the Skull in the Jar is the first known example in recent times of a Type III ghost, one that can communicate with the living. However, it speaks only with Lucy Carlyle of Lockwood and Co., leaving her to share its insights with her co-workers, which at least at first, turn out to be searing, but not exactly insightful when it comes to the mysteries of the dead. As Lucy explains to her co-worker, George Cubbins... |
| 167 | -->'''Lucy''': It said you were fat. |
| 168 | -->'''George''': What? |
| 169 | -->'''Lucy''': It talked about us, basically. It watches us and knows our names. It said-- |
| 170 | -->'''George''': It said I was fat. |
| 171 | -->'''Lucy''': Yeah, but-- |
| 172 | -->'''George''': Fat? Fat? What kind of otherworldly communication is that? |
| 173 | * Since Literature/NeroWolfe weighs 'a seventh of a ton', a go-to insult for people who are annoyed with him is to attack his weight. Wolfe is usually one of the '[[InsultBackfire unimpressed]]' versions however, since he's a brilliant detective, he's well aware he's fat, he's quite content being fat and the person shouting at him is usually doing so in a panic because Wolfe has discovered that they're either a murderer or because he's exposed one of their shameful secrets over the course of his investigation. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Mommy is Pregnant, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers call Mrs. Bedoys fat when they notice her baby bump. |
| 175 | * The title, several chapters, and the ENTIRE INDEX of Creator/AlFranken's book ''Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot'' consist of fat jokes. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/TheTroublemaker'': Sneat relishes picking on his crewmate Feralli's weight, gets everyone else on the ship doing it, then starts lecturing them over it to make Feralli feel mentally isolated and have him owe Sneat a favor. |
| 177 | * In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Archchancellor Ridcully thinks of "Two-Chairs" as one of the things he could (but isn't going to) call the former Dean, now himself Archchancellor of a different WizardingSchool. His train of thought then lampshades how much of a LameComeback "You Are Fat" is. ("'Archchancellor' was out of the question, 'Dean' too obvious an insult, 'Two-Chairs' ditto with knobs on.") |
| 178 | * This trope sometimes turns up in adaptations of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' with regards to the first Golden Ticket finder, the repulsive glutton / FatIdiot Augustus Gloop. In the novel and [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory 1971 film version]] no one insults him to his face, though they do negatively comment upon his appearance to each other, most famously in the Oompa-Loompa song that follows his being sucked up a pipe to a fudge-preparation room after he falls into the chocolate river he was drinking out of. Other adaptations are more direct. |
| 179 | ** In the [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 film]], Augustus has to put up with the Oompa-Loompas' song about him while he's temporarily stuck in the pipe; he's shot off to the fudge room as it ends. |
| 180 | ** In the 2010 opera ''Theatre/TheGoldenTicket'', gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde is obsessed with being thin (she ''chews'' to substitute for ''eating'') and constantly teases FatAndProud Augustus: "Dear boy, you're just fat! It's disgusting!/You're SOOOOO fat!" She even comments, with regards to his fate, "He deserves it. He was fat!" (This makes her own comeuppance -- a transformation into a giant blueberry -- a touch more poetic than in other versions.) |
| 181 | ** In [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 stage musical]], Willy Wonka manages to make a LastSecondWordSwap ("Goodness, you look so faaaa...ntastically healthy.") upon formally greeting Augustus, but lets slip a StealthInsult afterward: "To lead our group, Augustus Gloop!/For who could lose sight of him?" Later, as in the 2005 film, Augustus is forced to listen to the Oompa-Loompa song sending him off as he struggles in the pipe. |
| 182 | * In ''Literature/TheWorstThingAboutMySister'', Marty calls Melissa fat because of sibling rivalry and the fact that Melissa is insecure about her weight. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 186 | * An episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' begins with Hitchcock standing on a scale. He puts a coin in, and instead of his weight, he receives a note that reads "Will one of you please get off?" |
| 187 | * The pilot episode of ''Series/{{Amen}}'' starts with Deacon Ernest Frye bluntly telling the church's minister "You're fat. And you were no small thing when you got here", then throwing in a few more barbs such as "People are complaining that you're blocking their view of the choir!". He bluntly orders the man to go on a diet, but the infuriated and insulted man quits instead. |
| 188 | * On ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Lucille constantly makes comments implying that Lindsay needs to watch her weight, and flashbacks show that she's been doing this since Lindsay was a kid. Lindsay Bluth is played by Creator/PortiaDeRossi, who, after the first cancellation, revealed her struggle with anorexia. Ouch, talk about HarsherInHindsight. |
| 189 | * One sketch on ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' has a couple [[AwfulWeddedLife clearly well past the honeymoon stage]] in couple's therapy. One of the wife's many criticisms of her husband involves his stomach. |
| 190 | -->'''Wife:''' If that were on a girl, she'd be pregnant!\ |
| 191 | '''Husband:''' (quietly to the audience) It was, and she is! |
| 192 | * A historical in-joke RunningGag in ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'' has people commenting on the Prince Regent's weight. The historical Prinny was notoriously obese, but in the show he was played by the tall and thin Creator/HughLaurie (without any padding), which added to the humour. |
| 193 | * In Creator/TheChaser's 2010 election special ''[[Series/TheElectionChaser Yes We Canberra]]'', the team made a few gratuitous fat jokes about David Barker, a Liberal candidate who had been dropped by the party for making Islamophobic comments on Facebook, before deciding to continue running as an Independent. Julian was quick to emphasise that their point was not that Barker was fat and ugly, but that he was a fat and ugly ''bigot''. |
| 194 | * ''Series/CobraKai:'' Throughout the first season, this is Yasmine's signature tactic in tormenting Aisha. Johnny gets in one of his own toward Aisha along the way... |
| 195 | * Deconstructed in episode "[[Recap/CSINYS04E19 Personal Foul]]" of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' when one obese woman's entire life is destroyed by a heckler leading a chant of "eat a sa-lad!" in the middle of Madison Square Garden on national television when she was chosen for a half-time contest. Further deconstructed when this humiliation makes her decide [[DisproportionateRetribution to murder the heckler]] and all Detective Taylor [[SchiffOneLiner can do after she delivers]] her MotiveRant is ask her [[WasItReallyWorthIt if that insult was truly worth going to jail for life]]. Her reaction makes clear that she doesn't think so. |
| 196 | * On ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', Susie's standard insult to her husband is "you fat fuck," just as Larry is a "bald four-eyed fuck." |
| 197 | * On ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Drew and his SitcomArchnemesis Mimi trade insults on a daily basis; Drew frequently mocks Mimi's clothing and makeup, while Mimi's go-to gags are about Drew's size. In an interesting [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the trope, Kathy Kinney, who played Mimi, once pointed out that it was the creativity of her barbs that made them funny; one episode had her tell Drew "Aw, you're just fat," which was considered genuinely mean-spirited since there was nothing clever behind the jab. |
| 198 | * Early in the ''Series/FamilyMatters'' episode "Life in the Fast Lane", the cheerleaders' captain cites weight gain as the reason she doesn't think Laura should be on top in the pyramid cheerleader routine. [[LetMeAtHim Laura reacts by lunging at her the moment her back is turned, only for the other cheerleaders to hold Laura back before she manages to land an attack on the captain.]] |
| 199 | ** Carl regularly receives jabs about his weight. |
| 200 | * One of the many running gags in ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' was cracks about Uncle Phil, played by (ex-Navy, poet, badass) James Avery. These would usually come from Will, Geoffrey or Jazz, who really make a KarmaHoudini out of themselves, as they're often in no position to snark at them, thanks to his HaHaHaNo response. Fortunately, he's humble enough to take it in stride. Others, such as close friends (including Geoffrey) or coworkers also get passes. |
| 201 | -->'''Philip Banks:''' It's so good to see you, Judge!\ |
| 202 | '''[[BrokenPedestal Judge Robertson]]:''' It's so ''easy'' to see you, Philip! |
| 203 | ** And Carlton constantly referring to him as "Big Guy" in a chummy manner might be taken to be an affectionate dig at his weight also. |
| 204 | ** This is actually called out in a Thanksgiving episode. Uncle Phil expresses excitement at the prospect of having "a big ol' butterball," and Geoffrey can't resist dropping a "You are what you eat" jab. Phil proceeds to [[DoWrongRight instruct Geoffrey on some better ideas]], saying that if he's going to make fat jokes, he should be creative with them--''or else.'' |
| 205 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 206 | ** The pilot episode: after nine years of not seeing his lifelong friend, the first thing Robert says to Ned is... "You got fat." Ned doesn't say a word, but nods his head in such a way that implies "you got fatter" -- then they laugh. |
| 207 | ** Later on, Ned and Catelyn discuss Robert's girth in private. |
| 208 | --->'''Ned:''' How did he get so ''fat''?\ |
| 209 | '''Catelyn:''' He only stops eating when it's time for a drink. |
| 210 | * ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'': |
| 211 | ** Ernie is George’s FatBestFriend who usually is the butt of many jokes about his weight. His morbidly obese mother, who’s so large she can’t even turn over in bed by herself, also is basically nothing but a source of fat jokes [[note]]Funnily enough, in her first appearance, Ernie’s mother was depicted as an average size woman before later appearances turned her into a morbidly obese, mostly unseen couch[[/note]]. Things kick into overdrive during an arc where Ernie moves out into his own place, and subconsciously puts on a lot of weight so that he wouldn’t have to face his fear of rejection from women since they’d already find him unattractive. Ernie’s weight becomes such a problem that he’s nearly fired when his stomach is too big for him to operate a forklift and causes an accident at work. Even after he loses the weight, he’s still the source of fat jokes for the remainder of the series. |
| 212 | ** In one of the show’s final episodes, Ernie tries to go on a blind date with a woman who is far fatter than he is, and naturally, George and Bennie crack a ton of jokes at her size. |
| 213 | * The ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' example overlaps this trope with TakeOurWordForIt. What the numbers read on the scale when the girls weigh themselves are never revealed (the exception being Sophia, who states her result as "98 pounds"). Their reactions upon weighing themselves, however, make it clear that they've already gained more weight than they realized or wanted to have. |
| 214 | ** For Blanche: |
| 215 | --->'''Blanche:''' {{GASP}}\ |
| 216 | '''Sophia:''' (looking at the scale right as Blanche steps off it) Whoa!\ |
| 217 | '''Blanche:''' Sophia, were you looking?\ |
| 218 | '''Sophia:''' Uh, no, not until you stepped off, but I know it's not a good sign when the first rebound goes into low 120's. |
| 219 | ** For Dorothy: |
| 220 | --->'''Rose:''' (looking at the scale as Dorothy weighs herself) I always thought you had to pass 0 to hit that number. |
| 221 | ** For Rose: |
| 222 | --->'''Dorothy, Blanche, and Sophia:''' (looking at the scale as Rose weighs herself) ''Moo!'' |
| 223 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': A FauxAffablyEvil version. A demon asks an angel if she's pregnant; she points out he knows that's not possible, so he's obviously just implying she's fat. |
| 224 | * This trope's use in ''Series/GrowingPains'' became infamous when the jokes were directed at Carol Seaver, played by real-life former anorexic Creator/TraceyGold, which contributed to the actress' nearly fatal relapse. |
| 225 | * ''Series/HappyEndings'': This is the go-to insult used against Max, [[HollywoodPudgy whose body is basically just average.]] Examples include 'like if Paul Rudd gave up', a woman he was pretending to be straight for telling him 'you have my mother's body', 'pear-shaped', and having a 'soft interior with a soft exterior.' |
| 226 | * In ''Series/HellsKitchen'', ''all'' the aspirant chefs get a hard time and nobody is spared the wrath and invective of Creator/GordonRamsay. this is only to be expected. It is Hell's Kitchen with its own Satan in charge. But it cannot be denied that any competing cook who is visibly overweight gets extra invective and a far harder time from Ramsay, a man who believes a fat chef has no place in any kitchen anywhere, and has said so frequently. The abuse thrown at fat contestants is unremitting and consistent and Ramsay appears to go out of his way to heap it on relentlessly, in a way that outstrips the routine beasting everyone else gets: it goes past even-handed contempt for all and becomes outright bullying. |
| 227 | * On ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim tended to make jokes about how fat Al's mother was on his show. Ironically, when she died, Tim made a touching eulogy at her funeral, where he claimed that she was actually a big fan of the show and thought the fat jokes were ActuallyPrettyFunny. (Likely why Al wasn't more offended than he usually was by Tim's jokes.) |
| 228 | ** Tim's own mother-in-law used to be a big gal herself, and was the butt of some fat jokes before she slimmed down. |
| 229 | * ''Series/TheHoneymooners''. It'd probably be quicker to list the times [[UglyGuyHotWife Alice]] ''didn't'' call [[BigFun Ralph]] fat while they were arguing. |
| 230 | * This became a a big point in the seventh season of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' when Rob [=McElhenney=], who plays Mac, [[DyeingForYourArt gained fifty pounds]] and spent the whole season as "Fat Mac", to counter the ProgressivelyPrettier trope that many sitcoms inadvertently employ as their shows become successful, allowing the stars to dress and groom themselves in a fancier way. Though Mac repeatedly insisted he was "bulking up" to gain mass, the rest of the Gang recognized that he was just plain fat, and made countless jokes about it. |
| 231 | ** Sweet Dee also pulled this on Dennis in a Season 2 episode after he insulted her one too many times, resulting in him fasting for so long he actually passed out from hunger. |
| 232 | * In an episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' when another driver explains to Doug he used to be fat as well he claims in school the other kids used to call him [[Music/CultureClub "Boy Gorge"]] Doug said he would have killed for a nickname like that as they used to call him "The Fat Kid" he replied that it must not have been a very creative class. |
| 233 | * In the first season or two of ''Less Than Kind'', every time Josh and Sheldon have an argument, Josh's last word is, "You're ''so fat''!" In one episode, he goes back to an agent he left when he moved to L.A. and is told, among other things, that he needs to lose five pounds, which causes him to panic, obviously due to a secret fear of ending up as fat as his brother. At the end of the episode the agent reveals he has no intention of taking him back and has just been jerking him around as punishment for the way he left in the first place, and when [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Josh offers to lose ten pounds instead]], the agent incredulously tells him, "You're not fat, you idiot!" Left alone to chew over this information, Josh reacts by jumping around ecstatically, yelling, "I'm not fat!" |
| 234 | * Sawyer on ''Series/{{LOST}}'' has insulting nicknames for everybody, and pretty much all of the ones he has for Hurley poke fun at his weight. Jabba, Pork Pie, Stay-Puft, International House of Pancakes, Snuffy, Jumbotron... In "Dave", Hurley finally snaps after Sawyer makes a crack about his sanity and starts [[BewareTheNiceOnes beating Sawyer up]] while shouting every weight-related nickname Sawyer has used against him up to that point in the series. |
| 235 | * Al Bundy tends to insult fat people a lot (women especially) on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', especially his ''incredibly'' obese mother in law who [[TheGhost is never seen]]. Of course, not all of the women he insults are completely innocent;[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVg5QqJoxuU they]] tend to insult ''him'' a lot too and give him a ''huge'' headache whenever he deals with them.]] |
| 236 | * On ''Series/ModernFamily'', Mitchell's husband Cam gets this treatment from [[ObnoxiousInLaws Mitchell's mother]], largely because she [[MyBelovedSmother doesn't think he's good enough for her son.]] On Christmas, she sends him a lettuce crisper and exercise machine. Cam puts it this way: "So, to recap, I gave her a beautiful pair of diamond earrings, and she gave me a ''hint.''" |
| 237 | ** It's played more seriously in a later episode when Cam goes on a diet and exercise kick. After losing a few pounds, he happily buys new jeans and asks Mitchell to get rid of his old ones--but Mitch doesn't, because Cam has a history of yo-yo dieting and inevitably gaining back the weight he loses. When Cam finds out, he accuses Mitchell of not believing in him, with Mitch protesting that while he does, he's seen this happen before. The two realize that [[BothSidesHaveAPoint they both have a point]], and Cam admits that he [[WeightWoe struggles with insecurity about his size]], prompting an apology from Mitch. |
| 238 | * ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': After Boo delivers a TheReasonYouSuck speech to Tricia, all Tricia can counter with is "Yeah, well you're fat!" Boo turns around, says "Oo, you got me!", rolls her eyes, and walks away. |
| 239 | * In one episode of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', Kat won the lead role in the school play, prompting a snobbish girl who had wanted the part to subtly suggest she was gaining weight (an obvious exaggeration), leaving Kat rather doubtful about her appearance. Naturally, this led [[BigBad Divatox]], with her [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor sick sense of humor]], to lay an ambush for her using a MonsterOfTheWeek who could make her ''lighter than air''. |
| 240 | * The titular character of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' threw plenty of these at both her husband Dan and at herself. Dan weighs 400 pounds, while Roseanne weighed 350 pounds. The fat jokes were mostly put aside from the reboot season (Season 10) because both actors playing the characters lost a lot of that weight. |
| 241 | * Elliot's mother tended to do this to her daughter a lot in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', despite jokes from Dr. Cox and Jordan about Elliot actually being underweight. |
| 242 | * In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E17SinsOfTheFather Sins of the Father]]," from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Picard asks Kahlest if anyone on the Klingon High Council would remember her. She tells him that K'mpec would, that she caught his eye, but he was too fat. Later, when Picard brings her before the Council, K'mpec tells her that it is good to see her again. She replies "You are still fat, K'mpec." |
| 243 | * A RunningGag in ''Series/TheStrangeCalls'' is Gregor causally describing or referring to Banks as fat, even though he's pretty average in build, which makes him insecure. |
| 244 | * ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': In one episode, London opens her own boutique. Two ladies walk in and she protests when one of them looks at a skinny dress, telling her, "Those dresses are meant for women with an hourglass figure. You're shaped like a pumpkin." She then turns to the other woman and says, "And you're more like a butternut squash." before they both storm out. |
| 245 | * This gem from ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': "Scenes from a Hat:" Baby Drew's first word. Ryan Stiles responds: "Pizza!" |
| 246 | * ''Series/WillAndGrace'': Jack frequently mocks Will for being fat despite the latter being in excellent shape. In one episode Jack say that "hetero skinny" and "gay skinny" are different. A later episode suggests Jack only makes these comments to cover for his own insecurities. |
| 247 | * It was a RunningGag on ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' that Christine and Lisa were called fat (despite the obvious fact that neither of them really was. This is arguably ''why'' the joke was funny, since it would have just felt mean after a while if either of them actually had a significant weight problem). |
| 248 | * ''Series/YoungSheldon'': From "An Ugly Car, an Affair and Some Kickass Football": |
| 249 | -->'''Sheldon:''' I've heard that pregnant women eat for two. |
| 250 | -->'''Missy:''' I guess Dad's pregnant then. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 254 | * Mari Appache was subject of these insults during her 2011 Wrestling/{{AAA}} dates when Sexy Star's [[LegionOfDoom La Sociedad]] ties allowed her to recruit Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople and Wrestling/MickieJames against her and sister Fabi, until they got Star without her foreign help. |
| 255 | * When "Immortal" took control of Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Wrestling/EricBischoff went on twitter to announced that anyone who didn't like it was fat. |
| 256 | * At ''Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}OH Fifth Year Festival Finale'', Wrestling/ColtCabana blinded [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and directed him against senior referee Todd Sinclair. Delirious figured out the switch when he felt how fat Sinclair was. |
| 257 | * An insult Trent Barretta threw at Wrestling/ChrisHero in Wrestling/DragonGate, or more accurately, he told Hero to "Eat a salad." |
| 258 | * Evil manager "Hollywood" Jimmy Baylock tends to be greeted by fans of Memphis Wrestling with {{c|rowdchant}}hants of "dough boy!" He had a distaff counterpart of sorts in Memphis Ladies Wrestling in Little Jeanne, which was kind of cruel given Jeanne had just had a baby, but unlike Baylock she continued to act as if she was still skinny in response to the fat jokes. |
| 259 | * While Brazo De Plata has been stocky for most of his career, fans started calling him Super Porky when his waistline really started to expand while working for Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. Rather than be insulted, he thought it was funny and officially adopted it as a ring name. In turn the fans came to love him for being [[BigFun such a good sport]]. |
| 260 | * Wrestling/CMPunk doesn't understand why so many pregnant women attend IWA Mid-South shows. What's that, you're not pregnant? [[CheapHeat He's so sorry!]] |
| 261 | * At All Pro Wrestling's 2011 Pensacola Florida Benefit Show, DJ Pringle called The Panther disgustingly obese even though [[HypocriticalHumor he was equally as rotund]]. |
| 262 | * Wrestling/MattHardy got ridiculed about his weight by the Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}oH[=bots=], especially after Hardy became the center piece of S.C.U.M. whose previously leader was the much fatter Wrestling/KevinSteen. |
| 263 | * WWE's 2002 HollywoodPudgy storyline, involving just about everyone in the company (especially Wrestling/TrishStratus and Wrestling/JerryLawler) ridiculing Wrestling/MollyHolly for being a "fat-ass". Molly has repeatedly said she got very upset and depressed during the angle, and has said its creator, WWE's then-new head of creative, Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, refused to stop the angle when Molly complained about how hurtful it was. |
| 264 | * Smith "Big Game" James got chants of "You Are Fat" at in Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA New York and New Jersey, even against opponents the same size as him. |
| 265 | * Wrestling/AllysinKay's response when asked to choose between Valkyrie and Team Be Jealous was to tell her Be Jealous partner, Jessicka Havok, that she was a fat f***. |
| 266 | * Wrestling/LayCool and their bullying of "[[Wrestling/MickieJames Piggie James]]". Inverted with "[[Wrestling/MariaKanellis Maria The Underfed Redhead]]". |
| 267 | * While wrestling for REINA, Luscious Latasha climbed the turnbuckle only for Sakura Hirota to roll to the other side of the ring. When Latasha hopped off, it being too far, Hirota started teetering as if she had been in an earthquake. It took Latasha a second before it sank in. |
| 268 | * Wrestling/{{Raven}} hates [[Wrestling/TommyDreamer Fatty Dreamer]]. |
| 269 | * Wrestling/ScottSteiner: |
| 270 | ** He made numerous references to Wrestling/SamoaJoe being fat during their tenure in TNA. |
| 271 | ** When Steiner was TNA's ring announcer for one night, he billed [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Team 3D]] from Dunkin' Donuts, in the great state of Obesity. |
| 272 | * Micah Taylor, [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 Zero 1 United States Champion]] and representative of Underground U, had this much to say about the Great Championship Wrestling roster after he won GCW's Heavyweight title belt too, saying The Equalizer was especially fat. |
| 273 | * After Wrestling/TorrieWilson’s ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' spread, ''Wrestling/{{Sable}}'' mocked her (non-existent) fat as a way of daring her to come to her Invitational Bikini Contest. (Naturally, [[LuredIntoATrap it was a trap]], and Torrie fell for it, showing up only to be beaten up [[Wrestling/DawnMarie by]] the [[Wrestling/{{Nidia}} other]] two contestants.) |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 277 | * Earl Sinclair from ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' is often called "Fat Boy" by Ethyl, his mother-in-law, due to his weight. In "[[Recap/DinosaursS02E12RefrigeratorDay Refrigerator Day]]", when he is forced to fast to honor a family tradition, his breakfast tells him "Hey, a couple of days without food wouldn't exactly kill you, Slim." |
| 278 | * Miss Piggy on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' will receive potshots about her weight from time to time, usually either from Floyd, and occasionally Kermit when he's feeling a bit bold. [[BerserkButton It's a very risky move, however.]] In one episode, she decides [[DietEpisode to go on a diet]] after overhearing that Kermit was cancelling her ballet number the following week, claiming she was getting too fat for the costume. |
| 279 | * In the ''Series/TipiTales'' episode "Pudgy Bear", when Elizabeth gets fed up with Russell goofing off during her yoga lesson, she calls him the titular insult. Russell goes to the Bear for advice, and the Bear gives him the courage to get strong. The Bear then goes to Elizabeth and explains to her that it's not good to name-call, so in the end, she and Russell make up. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 283 | * [[TrashTalk Sledging]] exchange from an Australia vs South Africa UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} match: |
| 284 | -->'''Shane Warne:''' I've been waiting two years to bowl at you again.\ |
| 285 | '''Daryl Cullinan:''' Looks like you spent most of it eating. |
| 286 | * Another one, from Australia vs Sri Lanka. Shane Warne asks Ian Healy for advice on how to lure Arjuna Ranatunga out of his crease: |
| 287 | -->'''Healy:''' Put a Mars Bar on a good length, that oughta do it.\ |
| 288 | '''Ranatunga:''' It's no good. Boonie (David Boon) will be onto it before I can move. |
| 289 | * And the Greatest Comeback of All Time: |
| 290 | -->'''Glenn [=McGrath=]:''' Why are you so fucking fat?\ |
| 291 | '''Eddo Brandes:''' Because every time I fuck your wife she gives me a biscuit. |
| 292 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZpup-GtLw infamous exchange]] between Jim Schoenfeld and Don Koharski after game 4 of the 1988 NHL Eastern Conference finals after Koharski falsely accused Schoenfeld of pushing him that gave the sports world one of the best insults of all time. |
| 293 | ->'''Koharski:''' I hope it's on tape! |
| 294 | ->'''Schoenfeld:''' Good! I hope so too, because you fell, you fat pig! Go have another doughnut! Go have another doughnut! |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 298 | * In Theatre/{{Hamilton}}, during "The Adams Administration," Alexander Hamilton insults John Adams with "[[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix Sit down, John]], you fat mother[bleep]." |
| 299 | * In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', the fairytale creatures describe the cruelty of Lord Farquaad's regime in "Story of My Life": |
| 300 | -->'''Mad Hatter:''' They ridiculed my hat!\ |
| 301 | '''Three Little Pigs:''' They said that we were fat! |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 305 | * In the original VideoGame/{{Changed}} near the end, when Puro flings you past a bunch of white latex beasts, he admits you're very heavy. He then has to ''carry you'' past some FrictionlessIce, as he's doing this he comments that you're so heavy. Mind you he's not saying this to be mean, he's a wolf made out of latex so flesh and bone is bound to be denser than that. |
| 306 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if a female Warden chooses to leave Bann Vaughn Kendalls in Howe's dungeon, he calls her a fat whore. Since all the female body models are quite slender and everyone else in-game thinks the Warden's a total babe, it's safe to assume this is just his go-to insult for a woman and that he's just a misogynistic asshole -- and given what he gets up to in the City Elf Origin, this is a quite accurate assessment of his character. |
| 307 | * The third of the five cops who fight you before Captain Strong in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. |
| 308 | -->'''Cop:''' Don't let the Mayor's compliments give you a big head... Bring it on, fat boy! |
| 309 | * In VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Director Goredolf is always the target of a fat joke, whether it's from his subordinates, to children, to literal gods. |
| 310 | -->'''Scáthach-Skadi:''' I will love you as well. I do not, however, love your waistline. You should lose some weight. |
| 311 | * In ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', a [[Series/DoctorWho Cyberman]] offers to turn absolutely anything and everything into a Cyberman/Cybervehicle/Cyberwhatever. Except [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]], for exactly this reason. He [[JustifiedTrope somehow gives a justification]] for this, since the Cybermen don't stock Cyber-Armour in his size. |
| 312 | ** [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} [=GLaDOS=],]] as ever, gets a couple of shots in at Chell. |
| 313 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' This is one of my most recent chambers, and you'll be glad to know I completely reinforced the Aerial Faith Plates, to account for your bubbly personality. |
| 314 | * As expected, a few of the insults in ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator'' are about mocking somebody's weight. Nigel H., who was FormerlyFit, has this kind of insult as his weakness. |
| 315 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Haru's {{Jerkass}} fiancé says she could stand to lose a few pounds at one point in her Confidant. This is meant to make him even ''more'' of a HateSink. |
| 316 | * In ''VideoGame/Portal2'', [=GLaDOS=] spends a lot of time mocking Chell's (nonexistent) excess weight. This is in keeping with [=GLaDOS=]'s generally [[PsychopathicManchild petulant and bratty]] personality. |
| 317 | ** She also does this to the ''robots'' in VideoGame/Portal2 who serve as player characters in the co-op mode, ATLAS and P-body.[[note]]Who are just this side of genderless. ATLAS is vaguely masculine and has a masculine voice, and P-body is vaguely feminine and has a feminine voice.[[/note]] This was something the developers came up with when they were planning to have the co-op characters be Chell and another woman, but they left it in for humorous effect after they changed the characters to robots to explain how the player characters could [[TheManyDeathsOfYou die so much]]. |
| 318 | ** According to a [[http://www.giantbomb.com/news/so-heres-something-pretentious-anecdotes-and-thoughts-from-erik-wolpaws-portal-2-discussion-at-the-nyu-game-center/3148/ discussion]], this is based off of writer Erik Wolpaw's experience as a fat kid with a passive-aggressive grandmother. |
| 319 | ** Wheatley picks up the fat jokes after [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] and Chell return to the facility after he takes over]], but he is ''terrible'' at it. However, he manages to do it right later. |
| 320 | --->"Fatty. ''[[AdoptionDiss Adopted]]'' fatty. Fatty-fatty no-parents."\ |
| 321 | (''referring to how Chall can't use the [[TeleportGun Portal Gun]] to escape from his trap'') "... Just ten pounds of dead weight. About to be two hundred and ten. Fatty." |
| 322 | *** Amusingly, the bad fat jokes end up annoying [=GLaDOS=] enough for her to outright admit that Chell isn't fat for the sake of trying to make [[spoiler:Wheatley]] feel stupid. |
| 323 | ** In one of [=GLaDOS=]'s test chambers, a very early one in ''Portal 2'', she commends Chell. Not on solving the test, but on somehow beating the odds and gaining a few pounds after being in stasis for centuries. |
| 324 | *** Another one has [=GLaDOS=] test the Aerial Faith Plate with Chell in chamber 9. When Chell tries stepping on the Faith Plate, [=GLaDOS=] returns and claims it is sending a distress signal because Chell "broke" it. When the player tries a second time: "Hmm. This Plate must not be calibrated to someone of your... generous... ness. I'll add a few zeros to the maximum weight." And a third time: "You seem to have defeated its load-bearing capacity. Well done. I'll just lower the ceiling." The interesting thing is, that the Faith Plate shoots Chell the same height no matter what. |
| 325 | ** Even her ''offshoot personality cores'' do this. One of the Fact Sphere's "facts" is "You could stand to lose a few pounds." |
| 326 | * In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games from Telltale Games, Sam is a frequent target of fat jokes. This also extends to the clones of him in episode 4 of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'', "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls", who are frequently referred to as some variant of "fat". |
| 327 | -->'''Moleman:''' Holy schklamoley! Do you know how to fill out a suit!\ |
| 328 | '''Sam:''' (''annoyed'') ...Well, I never! |
| 329 | ** He can't even escape this as one of the participants in ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''. |
| 330 | --->'''Sam:''' Uh, just so you know, I was bluffing my butt off in that hand.\ |
| 331 | '''[[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]]:''' Looks like you still got an extra butt or two to spare, chief.\ |
| 332 | '''Max:''' Oooh! |
| 333 | * In the ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' games, Roger tends to make fat jokes at the expense of his nemesis Sludge Vohaul a lot, calling him names like "Mr. Slime", "Slop", "Porky", and "Old Fatback". The Narrator did it once too in the second game, calling him "His Lardness". |
| 334 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': In the main storyline of the ''Rise of the Hutt Cartel'' expansion, when a Republic-aligned PlayerCharacter personally meets ArcVillain Toborro the Hutt, they have the option of asking him if he plans on killing them with his breath or rolling over on them. |
| 335 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': |
| 336 | ** Many of the other classes will take shots at the Heavy's [[HuskyRusskie husky]] figure upon Dominating him. |
| 337 | --->'''The Scout:''' I am ''owning'' you, you fat, bald, fatty fat... Fat fat!\ |
| 338 | '''The Demoman:''' Little too-much caber tossing pie down your own throat, eh chubby?\ |
| 339 | '''The Engineer:''' Gotcha, fatboy!\ |
| 340 | '''The Sniper:''' I just bagged the world's fattest man!\ |
| 341 | '''The Spy:''' What's the matter? ''[[{{Pun}} Fat]]'' got your tongue? |
| 342 | ** Heavy ''himself'' does this to someone else in one of the Halloween comics. He asks a trick-or-treater why, when he risks his life for his family on a daily basis for his paycheck, he expects him to spend it on candy. Heavy then proceeds to call the kid presumptuous and fat, causing him to start crying. Heavy [[PetTheDog immediately apologizes]], realizing people call ''him'' fat and he hates it, and gives the kid $7,000 for the trouble. |
| 343 | * Invoked in ''VideoGame/TraumaTeam'' by Dr. Gabriel Cunningham, who's trying to rile up his uncooperative patient into breaking his EyesAlwaysShut tendency so he can determine if his eyes are jaundiced. He also makes a few jokes to himself about the patient beforehand when the patient mentions feeling bloated. |
| 344 | -->'''Gabe:''' [[RobotBuddy RONI]], order up a CT scan. Oh, and warn the lab guys they may need a forklift to get him onto the table. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Unintentional variant. Rex uses his grappling hook to climb up a ledge, them lowers it for Pyra. It quickly becomes apparent that she's too heavy for Rex to pull up; she's very embarrassed, and everyone else facepalms over Rex's lack of tact. Of course Pyra isn't actually fat, but she does have a few inches on Rex and he's a skinny kid, so she definitely weighs quite a bit more than him. |
| 346 | * In the intro for ''VideoGame/YumePenguinMonogatari'', Penko insults the main playable penguin Penta for being obese, dumps him for Ginji, and even goes as far as stating that he doesn't really love her if he doesn't go see her while slimmed up. If Penta rescues Penko while too fat at the end of the game, she still dumps him for Ginji while saying that Penta's still too fat. |
| 347 | -->'''Penko:''' I can't stand fat guys like you, Penta, so I've decided to go on a date with the smart, stylish Ginji instead.\ |
| 348 | '''Penta:''' Whaaat? |
| 349 | * In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' C-team tries to use vent hole to reach other teams and Akane (who is the smallest person on team) claims she won't fit leading to this exchange: |
| 350 | -->'''Junpei:''' ''Someone'' likes cake too much.\ |
| 351 | '''Akane:''' Oh, I know! Let's cut off Junpei's arm, then he'll definitely fit. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 355 | * ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': A drunk [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cTbCXxSAyA Akamatsu]] asks Karin for her weight. When she tells him she is 120 pounds, he calls her fatty because he believes anyone over 100 pounds is fat. She retorts that she is not fat in any way, but he refuses to listen. |
| 356 | * ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': Loona calls Moxxie fat in a backhanded way (by anonymously faxing him a weight-loss ad). Note that Moxxie is quite small and skinny, but he does have a predilection towards cooking/baking rich foods (as featured on his [[CharacterBlog Instagram page]]). |
| 357 | * ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': the normally calm and friendly Baseball goes crazy if he gets called fat. He knocked Knife off the ice platform the two were on, for one (to be fair, Knife was trying to knock ''him'' off first, which made Knife call Baseball fat in the first place). |
| 358 | -->'''Knife:''' (''trying to push Baseball'') No fair! Your fatness is too much to handle!\ |
| 359 | '''Baseball:''' (''deep breath'') '''''I'm not fat!''''' (''kicks Knife'') |
| 360 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Yang and Weiss' clash against Team FNKI, Neon's character establishes herself by childishly insulting the [[MsFanservice very curvy]] Yang's figure. |
| 361 | -->'''Neon:''' I wasn't trying to say you ''should'' go on a diet, [[ByNoIMeanYes I was saying you really]] ''need'' to go on a diet!\ |
| 362 | '''Yang:''' THAT'S IT!\ |
| 363 | '''Neon:''' You're fat! |
| 364 | * Mixed with LameComeback in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "Labour Day". Strong Bad, having decided to spend labour day snarking at the other residents of Free Country USA, meets [[ExtremeOmnivore the King of Town]]: |
| 365 | -->'''Strong Bad:''' Ah, the self-proclaimed King of Town. Like ''you'' aren't an easy target for my witty jabs and clever put-downs. Whatever will I say?\ |
| 366 | '''King of Town:''' Do you have anything relatively edible in that cooler?\ |
| 367 | '''Strong Bad:''' No... You're ''fat''. |
| 368 | * ''WebAnimation/TanabataManga'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfuBUYN45Q Tanao]] looks down on his wife Nanako by calling her fat because she gained weight during her pregnancy and this is also one of his excuses to cheat on her with another woman. |
| 369 | [[/folder]] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 372 | * Even though Rowan from ''Webcomic/BoyAndDog'' is actually average-sized, Murphy does say, "No wonder you're so fat" when he reveals that he has eight meals a day, ''[[BigEater plus snacks]]''. |
| 373 | * ''Webcomic/BugPudding'' [[http://www.bugpudding.com/?p=3742 may have a point]] with this one: |
| 374 | -->'''Archibald:''' Rabbits only know how to dig LITTLE tunnels... |
| 375 | * ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'': This is one of Ruth's go-to insults whenever she's picking on Billie. |
| 376 | * ''Webcomic/{{Gosu}}'': Despite [[OneManArmy Gang Ryong's]] [[TheGreatestStyle extreme martial arts proficiency]], people still call him out for his 'extra weight'. |
| 377 | ** [[MasterSwordsman Soh Jinhong]] exclusively refers to Gang as "fatty". |
| 378 | * ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'': A passing woman [[https://www.poisonivygulch.com/comic/poison-ivy-gulch-5-19-2021/ gets this from a talking scale]], resulting in her smashing it in anger. |
| 379 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Penelope and Faye toss this insult back and forth in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1049 a couple of]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1050 strips]]. Faye is HollywoodPudgy[[labelnote:*]]Jeph himself has said that if Faye's overweight at all it's not by much, but she has body issues and she ''is'' less skinny than most of the other female characters[[/labelnote]] and Penelope is downright skinny, but they both take it poorly. |
| 380 | * ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'': The BrattyHalfPint Västerström children direct this to Tuuri. They regret it, as Tuuri is a case of BewareTheNiceOnes. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 384 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCriticalDrinker The Critical Drinker]] is very fond of mocking overweight individuals. |
| 385 | ** A regular, general insult he uses is "blue-haired land whale." |
| 386 | ** He suggests that the reason Claire remains fully clothed throughout ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' is because Creator/BryceDallasHoward gained weight since the previous movie, and positions her remaining fully clothed as a negative. |
| 387 | ** He opens his review of ''Film/BoilingPoint2021'' with this. |
| 388 | --->Now it's a well known fact that us humans tend to consume food on occasion, some more than others (shows a picture of Music/{{Lizzo}}). |
| 389 | ** In his video about ''Queen Cleopatra'', he states that the show is "about as popular as the salad bar at Music/{{Lizzo}}'s birthday party." |
| 390 | * In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Freeza's response to seeing Guru is "Good Lord, I was led to believe your species survived entirely on water! ''How is he so fat!?''" [[spoiler:This, ironically enough, foreshadows that the drought that got the albino Namekians killed was Guru's doing.]] |
| 391 | * Alucard has a good laugh at the Major when he finally sees him again in ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged''. His reason? "He's still so fucking fat!" |
| 392 | * ''WebVideo/Jerma985'': In '[[https://youtu.be/fAQbb7aHYvE Fat Guy Engie]],' Jerma equips [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 the Engineer]] with the "Level 3 Chin" item, which makes the Engineer look fat and has him recline in a chair. At one point, a player on the enemy team finds Jerma's Engineer, but instead of killing him, the player just types "fatty" in the chat before leaving. Jerma laughs, although it's hard to tell if he noticed the insult or if he was just laughing at the other player walking away. |
| 393 | * From the website ''Not Always Friendly'', a sister site of Website/NotAlwaysRight, [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-dressing-up-her-honesty/28562/ No, YOU make dress look fat!]]. |
| 394 | * Podcast/RiffTrax: Michael J. Nelson says in one short, "Ah, fat jokes. Everybody loves fat jokes -- except fat people." |
| 395 | * In ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'''s dub of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Dr. Eggman awakens Shadow the Hedgehog early in the "Dark Story" and makes a WeCanRuleTogether speech to him. Shadow's answer is sadly, by far, only the beginning of the the further indignities he will be subjected to over the course of the video. |
| 396 | -->'''Eggman:''' please join me by my side and [[WeCanRuleTogether we shall, uh, rule the Earth together]], hohaha! You can stand by me, Dr. Eggman, even though my BODY used to be a regular shape! \ |
| 397 | '''Shadow:''' Yeah? Well, no. You're fat. [pause] Lol. |
| 398 | * The ''WebVideo/SmoshGames'' crew often poke fun at Wes being fat (#[=FatWes=]) due to his [[TheBigGuy size]] and [[SweetTooth love for sweets]]. However, it's pretty clear that Wes is actually buff rather than fat, and Joven had acknowledged that Wes is muscular. |
| 399 | * After admitting to being the one to have killed the Heavy in ''WebAnimation/HeavyIsDead'', the Engineer [[DisproportionateRetribution cites this as part of his motivation for the deed]]: |
| 400 | -->'''Engineer:''' That's right, it was me!\ |
| 401 | '''Spy:''' You monster!\ |
| 402 | '''[[NotQuiteDead Heavy]]:''' But [[BigWhy whyyyyyyyyy?!]]\ |
| 403 | '''Engineer:''' 'Cause you're fat, boy, and another thing? You're ugly. |
| 404 | * In ''Website/WrestleCrap''[='s=] recap of ''[=HardCORE Impact=]'' (Wrestling/{{TNA}}), there were no shortage of jokes aimed at the Wrestling/{{ECW}} wrestlers' fuller figures. When Wrestling/{{Francine}} taped a message to the fans apologizing for staying home with her infant son, Art [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/hardcore-justice-the-one-night-stand-wed-all-regret-the-next-morning/ quipped]], "Total cop-out -- a visibly pregnant Simon Diamond wrestled in the opener." |
| 405 | * From a GagDub of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': |
| 406 | --> '''Buzz Lightyear''': Woody, check it out. You see all them fine girls sitting up there? They're all my hos. |
| 407 | --> '''Woody''': You're fat, Buzz. |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 411 | * Rolly from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' is often prone to these, which usually sets off his BerserkButton. |
| 412 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', in the episode "The Fury", Yuki, Nicole Waterson's best friend from years ago, tempts Nicole to fight by telling her "You're not half the person I once knew! Your butt, on the other hand, is twice the size!" |
| 413 | * June of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' implied this of Iroh even while he offered her a pretty big payout for a job. |
| 414 | -->'''Iroh:''' Plus we'll pay your weight in gold.\ |
| 415 | '''June:''' Make it ''your'' weight, and you've got a deal. |
| 416 | * Brian Epstein locks WesternAnimation/TheBeatles in their Paris hotel room without their money after declaring them all fat from gorging on French cuisine (episode "Thank You Girl"). When Brian leaves, the boys sneak out to a cooking school and literally sing for their supper. |
| 417 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "Hollywaste", Dr. Blight sabotages her good sister's movie shoot and plans to steal her identity, which she refers to as "walk[ing] a mile in her sister's shoes". [[SiliconSnarker MAL]] comments that she might be able to wear her sister's shoes, but she's eaten too many donuts to fit into her jeans. He's correct about the latter; the bad doctor splits her sister's shorts when she sits down while wearing them. |
| 418 | * ''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet'': At the end of the "Bad Bug" song, Zorak mocks Space Ghost's weight; "Hey, kiddies. Space Ghost went to the zoo the other day, and he looked so fat in his costume the elephants started throwing ''him'' peanuts! Hoohahah!" Space Ghost blasts him in retaliation. |
| 419 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': In "Greener Pastures", Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried are keeping their runaway niece Caprice like a daughter and risk abandoning their obese adoptive son. Harried doesn't think she qualifies as her definite daughter because of her body (which is barely if not slightly fat). Once Caprice hears this, she begins to suspect that her uncle and aunt are backfiring on her. |
| 420 | -->'''Uncle Hurry:''' You happy now sweetie?\ |
| 421 | '''Aunt Harried:''' Yes. Actually, I have one hesitation. Isn't she a bit too plump to, you know, pass for my daughter? |
| 422 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Fred Flintstone was often the target of these, usually from Wilma. |
| 423 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "The Sting", the Planet Express crew are disguised as bees to get honey from giant Space Bees, with Bender being able to communicate with them through dancing. All goes well until... |
| 424 | -->'''Bender:''' I'm sick of shaking my booty for these fat jerks!\ |
| 425 | ''[bees advance on Bender while giving him a DeathGlare]''\ |
| 426 | '''Bender:''' ''[[[OhCrap understandably panicked]]]'' I didn't mean you're all fat, just Fatso there! ''[points to '''[[BullyingADragon the Queen]]''']''\ |
| 427 | '''Bee:''' ''[Buzzing with subtitles]'' He insulted our [[HypocriticalHumor fat]] queen!\ |
| 428 | '''Queen Bee:''' ''[Buzzing with subtitles]'' You try keeping ''your'' figure after 10,000 kids! |
| 429 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': |
| 430 | ** The AlphaBitch Pretty frequently criticizes Kaeloo and Eugly for their weight (although [[InformedAttribute Kaeloo really isn't that fat]]). |
| 431 | ** Stumpy's sister Cramoisie, a {{jerkass}} who enjoys using BrutalHonesty on her victims, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment is first introduced insulting Kaeloo for her weight.]] |
| 432 | * Hank from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' once remembered how cruel bullies can be. Cut to a flashback... of ''him'' mocking ''another'' kid. |
| 433 | -->'''Hank:''' Hey fatty! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You're fat!]] |
| 434 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', during an ImagineSpot, Piggy sits in Scooter's computerized talking chair. It instantly says in a strained voice "You have exceeded more than the chair's maximum sitting weight!" before collapsing underneath her. Piggy called it a very rude chair. |
| 435 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]", Pinkie Pie imagines Donut Joe as a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque secret agent. Twilight calls her out on this and even slips in a jab at Joe's bulkiness. |
| 436 | -->'''Twilight:''' Pinkie! There is no laser beam security system! And Joe is not sleek, stealthy Con Mane! He's big, gruff and messy!\ |
| 437 | '''Pony Joe:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne HEY!]] |
| 438 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'': "Mama" Cass Elliott's episode is essentially built around jokes about her weight. |
| 439 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Makes Zen To Me", Mojo Jojo tries to rouse Buttercup from her meditation session with a series of insults, including "You look fat in that dress!" She doesn't move an inch. |
| 440 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': |
| 441 | ** Randall is so jealous at how popular T.J. (who's pretty chubby) is, which makes him pull a IJustWantToBeYou mixed with KickTheDog rant to him, which includes this trope. |
| 442 | --->'''Randall:''' Look at you! You're fat, you're ugly, you wear that filthy jacket... but everyone wants to play with you! |
| 443 | ** Mikey can be a target of this as well. (Randall's "humor" routine in one episode uses Mikey's weight as the constant punchline.) |
| 444 | ** In "The Ratings Game", out of all characters, ''Gretchen'' becomes a target of this trope by a group of tall, skinny fifth or sixth grade girls. What makes it funny was that Gretchen was even skinnier than them! |
| 445 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In "Hard Times for Haggis", Haggis [=McHaggis=] hires a pair of thugs to interfere with a performance by Ren and Stimpy by having Ren and Stimpy tied up while the thugs perform a crude puppet show called ''The Ben and Stumpy Show''. The puppet show includes Ben resorting to insulting Stumpy's weight for getting hit with a hairball. |
| 446 | -->'''Ben:''' AARGH! You are fat! |
| 447 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the Scotsman's wife is ''so'' sensitive about her weight, that when the Master of the Hunt called her fat, she knocked him out, and then demolished his ''entire'' robot army. By herself. Unarmed. (By the way, when Jack made the mistake of saying she was "large", she got angry again, and he fled in fear, likely the ''only'' time he ''ever'' did that. How was she kidnapped in the first place? [[FridgeLogic Who knows?]]) In a later episode (when she wasn't around) the Scotsman made a joke about her weight to Jack, but then quickly added, "But don' tell 'er that, [[CallBack ya know how she is!]]" |
| 448 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' naturally has quite a few, especially when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKZzsOcup0 Patty and Selma interact with Homer]]. |
| 449 | -->'''Homer:''' (''sobs'') I'm a bad father!\ |
| 450 | '''Selma:''' You're also fat.\ |
| 451 | '''Homer:''' ''I'm also fat!'' (''sobs more'') |
| 452 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 453 | ** The other boys say it to [[FatBastard Cartman]] all the time. Sort of petty, but then, pointing out [[TokenEvilTeammate all]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain his]] [[ManipulativeBastard other]] [[TheSociopath faults]] doesn't really faze him. |
| 454 | ** In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", everybody started doing this to [[TheGenericGuy Clyde]], because [[InformedDeformity apparently]] he's the fattest kid after Cartman's taken to juvie. Eventually all the fat insults cause him to yell out in a Cartman-like voice "For the last time I'm not fat Goddamnit!" |
| 455 | --->'''Clyde:''' (''begins sobbing after Cartman shows up'') Oh thank you! Thank you thank you! (''hugs Cartman'')\ |
| 456 | '''Cartman:''' What the hell is wrong with Clyde? |
| 457 | ** "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" presents a rare case when you sort of cheer for this: [[{{Goth}} Henrietta]] is always nasty and insulting to her mother, who [[StepfordSmiler just sort of smiles and takes it]]. In this episode it finally seems like Henrietta has stopped, which makes her mom very happy. At the very end Henrietta unleashes a new torrent of insults and her mother, after a moment of confusion, snaps "Fatty!" and leaves the room. |
| 458 | ** Henrietta also gets it from her brother several times in "Coon vs. Coon and Friends." |
| 459 | --->"...returning home only momentarily to flip off my fat sister!" |
| 460 | ** Heidi gets this treatment starting in "Moss Piglets" when Cartman fattens her up with KFC. The fat shaming just makes her more angry when she's already insecure about her weight. |
| 461 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 462 | ** In "Slave Island", Gambit carries Jubilee, who had just been in a PunishmentBox and is really sweaty, to safety. He complains about the fact that she sweat a lot but hasn't lost any weight. |
| 463 | ** In "Beauty and the Beast", Wolverine carries an unconscious Beast to safety, but groans and tells him to cut down on the snacks. |
| 464 | ** In "Obsession", Rogue gets knocked through the air. Gambit catches her, then tells her to cut down on the fried chicken. |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 468 | * Shortly after the establishment of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, Vice President UsefulNotes/JohnAdams went on a push to find a suitable style for the President. Having a love of pomp and circumstance, Adams tried to get the Senate (of which he was president ''ex officio'') to agree to references like "His Democratic Majesty" or "His Elective Highness". This went on for a while until the actual President, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, quietly made it known that "[[JustTheFirstCitizen Mister President]]" would work just fine--but not before congressional wags had styled the portly Veep "His Rotundity". |
| 469 | * Scales have a certain weight limit, depending on their design. This includes ''electronic'' scales, which will display "ERROR" if a person above their limit steps on them. While this is presumably a necessary design aspect, it doesn't make it any less painful to learn your ''scale'' thinks you need to slim down. |
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