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Fat (or should I say large? chubby? fluffy?) people tend to come up with any excuse they can to avoid the stigma of being labeled as what they are: Fat. The most common excuses heard are that they are just big-boned, it's just baby fat, they have a slow metabolism or that it's a glandular disorder.

This would be Truth In Television, defintely.

A form of Insistent Terminology. See also Does This Make Me Look Fat and Hollywood Pudgy.

• Choji from Naruto.
• Eric Cartman.
• Homer Simpson:

• In the Scare Tactics comic, Grossout's mother kept insisting that he was just "big for his age".
• Dudley Dursley's parents insisted he was big-boned and still had baby fat. Of course, the school nurse didn't believe them, so Harry had to spend the summer eating fruit and leftover cakes from his birthday.
• Manfred in Ice Age. "I'm not fat. It's all this hair. It makes me look poofy."
• Obelix from the Asterix comics. Calling him fat is almost a Berserk Button with him.reply:
• In Harry Potter, Hagrid (half-giant) asks Olympe Maxime (also half-giant, but reluctant to admit it), which of her parents was a giant. She replies "I am merely big-boned!"
• Gilligans Island.

• For Doug he had a crisis when he had gained weight and worked out hard to get back to his normal weight, only to realize he was always a little chubby. Talking with some chunky friends they each gave some alternate terminology like "big boned" and "stout" and when Doug asked what he was they said "husky?"
• Homer Simpson also averted this one time when he told Marge (paraphrase from memory) "Nobody puts on 20 pounds of bone!"
• Horace, known as "Fat Kid," of The Monster Squad, to two bullies:

• Garfield
• In Digimon Adventure, Whalemon said this. In the dub.reply:
• Comedian Mikey Robins once explained that his size was indeed a result of a gland problem: he'd eaten too many glands.
• Barbershop

• The Wrath of God

• Moesha

• Boy Meets World

• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner