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->''"Hello, pig. Hello, twig. It's like the number 10 just walked in."''
-->-- '''Mimi''' (to Drew and Lewis), ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''

This is where a fat and a skinny character make up a two-character ensemble. This is usually a comedy trope, usually with the skinny character being the StraightMan, although inversions of this are seen as well. Sometimes both characters are silly and this is often seen in the TerribleTrio type of villains, although there are also examples of heroic, or at least not villainous, pairs who fit this description. They often fit into the tropes of ThoseTwoGuys or BumblingHenchmenDuo.

These two guys usually (but not always) have [[{{Foil}} some specific characteristics]] that [[PerfectlyCromulentWord tropify]] their relationship: The fat one is usually a dopey optimist, while the skinny one is cynical and refined ([[ShorterMeansSmarter unless the fat character is also shorter, in which case the reverse is common]]). This pair, even in villain form, are devoted to each other. [[BrainsAndBrawn The skinny one has all of the ideas, and the fat one is also the strong man.]] On the rare occasion the fat guy has a brilliant idea, either the skinny guy will express extreme surprise at the fat guy's ability to rub two brain cells together, or the idea will be waved away as unworkable and then [[GladIThoughtOfIt re-appropriated two seconds later as the skinny guy's idea]].

If these characteristics are not followed, then it's usually because the fat one is [[BullyAndWimpPairing a brute who beats up the whiny skinny dude a lot]].

Compare BigGuyLittleGuy, which is this trope with height as opposed to size. Often overlaps with SmartJerkAndNiceMoron. Add a third guy that's shorter than both the fat and skinny guys in the mix and you get BigThinShortTrio (this trope's Sister Trope).
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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* British tea brand Tetley has its mascots Gaffer (fat) and Sydney (skinny).
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Horizontal Guy and Vertical Guy, who appear in ''Comic Party''.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** Leeva and Gula in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure''. They even have HoYay moments.
** Odoren (thin) and Utaen (fat) from the ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' Spring Carnival movie.
* ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' has Hiruma (Skinny) and Kurita (Fat), two of the founding members of the Deimon Devil Bats and [[ClubStub the only ones left]] when Sena ends up joining the team.
* Jet and Droy in ''Manga/FairyTail'' after the 7-year TimeSkip. Incidentally, Droy was the lankier of the two at the start of the series, but he started eating too much due to Levy's disappearance.
* The Aldini twins from ''Manga/FoodWars''. It's the fat one (Isami) who's the calm, stabilizing factor to his HotBlooded brother Takumi, but otherwise they follow the trope pretty spot on.
* ''Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama'' featured a pair of con men known as the Black Brothers as recurring characters. One was skinny and the other was overweight.
%%* Tom and Tab from ''Anime/KimbaTheWhiteLion''.
* ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'' has Tadayasu's upperclassmen friends Misato (skinny) and Kawahama (fat).
* Sanson and Hanson, Grandis' cronies in ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', invert the mold. The tall, skinny Sanson is incredibly strong (because he's named after the biblical Samson), while the short, rotund Hanson is a peerless genius.
* Dia and Pearl from the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga. Pearl is the scrawny fast-talking idea man, and Dia is the chubby good-natured dimwit buffoon. Slight subversion in that Dia is revealed to be only ObfuscatingStupidity and sometimes makes borderline snark comments that Pearl chooses to ignore. (In one scene, Platinum observes the boys practicing and asks if the DopeSlap hurt Dia. Pearl insists that he has to brutally slap Dia so the audience will hear the smack-like sound effect, and this is necessary to convey emotion. Dia then mutters that Pearl could hit him a little softer, and still get the message across.) May also be somewhat inverted in that Pearl is physically the stronger of the two boys (even capable of having the heavier Dia stand on his shoulders throughout an entire gym match when they covertly help Platinum. Pearl does finally pass out from exhaustion a short while later.) Played straight in their manzai comedy routines, all of which are written by Pearl.
* Popuko (fat) and Pipimi (thin) from ''Manga/PopTeamEpic''.
%%* Decoe and Bocoe in ''Anime/SonicX''.
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'''s final unique installment, ''GO-GO Tamagotchi!'' (the tenth and eleventh overall seasons of the show), introduces the skinny Orenetchi and his plump sister Neenetchi to the cast. Both are huge fans of Kuromametchi, with Orenetchi seeing him as his sempai and Neenetchi having a crush on him.
* Billy (thin) and Fred (fat) from ''Anime/TransformersArmada''.
* Tonzler and Boyacky, Doronjo's henchmen from ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}''. Well, strictly speaking, Tonzler is a muscular TopHeavyGuy, but the effect is the same. Ditto their many {{Expy}} counterparts from the other ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series.
%%* Nuk and Mok in ''Anime/TheBeastPlayerErin''.
* Lumis and Umbra from the Battle City arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh''; Umbra is tall and thin, Lumis is short, squat, and chubby (but actually [[{{Acrofatic}} a rather good runner and jumper]]).
* The yonkama manga ''Pocha Pocha Swimming Club'' has a RareFemaleExample in the short plump Katsuyo and the tall skinny Ayumi. Or as the other girls like to call them, Piglet-chan and Toothpick-chan.
* The ''Anime/PaRappaTheRapper'' anime features a pair of incompetent crooks named Gaster and Groober as recurring characters. Gaster is a svelte rabbit, while Groober is a chubby cat.
* In ''Anime/SwanLake1981'', this applies to the main villain duo. Rothbart is quite plump, and his daughter Odile is very thin.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': The two bad guys who always try to catch Lamput are a fat doctor and a skinny doctor who are named Specs Doc and Skinny Doc respectively. They are renamed Fat Doc and Slim Doc respectively on at least one Cartoon Network Asia [=YouTube=] upload of the series, better reflecting the trope.
* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': The two title characters are this. Motu is the fat one, and Patlu is the skinny one. In fact, their names are the Hindi words for "fat" and "skinny" respectively.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' and Obelix, though Obelix insists his chest has just slipped a bit.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': The gangster brothers "Thick" and "Thin" Lyman in "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder".
* The one-shot comic ''ComicBook/BillyMajesticsHumptyDumpty'' has the redneck brothers Petus Brakk (fat) and Pervis Brakk (skinny).
* ''ComicBook/KaykoAndKokosh'', a pair of classic Polish comic characters. Kajko is the short, brainy one, and Kokosz is the giant, brawny foil. Because of this, they occasionally get criticized for being too similar to Asterix and Obelix.
* Kel-Matu and Ko-Chonu in ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires''. A rare example to not be played for comedy.
* In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', the actors playing TheDividual Bartémulius and Nostariat in the webseries are a man of normal size and a woman that is little on the heavy side. When the webseries got its ComicBookAdaptation, the characters got turned into this trope. Note that the comic's illustrator and colorist are the actors in question.
* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'' (skinny) and Woozy Winks (fat).
* Zelda and Hilda from ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' are traditionally this. Since the [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch 1990s show]], Creator/ArchieComics has been making Zelda skinnier.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', with Cain and Abel possessing a contract from Dream to serve as "the thin one and the fat one". They're also the InUniverse TropeCodifier for murderer and victim, among others.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Styx and Stone have it all but stated in their names -- Styx is horribly lanky and tall, while Stone isn't necessarily fat, but monstrous and burly.
* Douglas Klump and Burt Shlubb, "Fat Man and Little Boy" from ''ComicBook/SinCity''
* ''ComicBook/WeKillMonsters'': Andrew is the skinny one, Jake is the fat one. Jake even comments on it when he sees himself [[spoiler:through the eye of his newly-transformed tentacle arm]].
-->'''Jake:''' Hey, whoa, I'm kind of fat.
* From her earliest days thin and tall Franchise/WonderWoman's best friend whom she often fights alongside has been the short and plump BoisterousBruiser Etta Candy.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Aunts Jane and Abigale of ''ComicStrip/TheAdventuresOfPrudencePrim''. Aunt Jane is tall and thin, with a stretched oval of a face and dark, straight hair pulled up in a severe bun. Aunt Abigale is much rounder -- she has a wide, fleshy face accessorized with round glasses and curly white hair that she wears in a puffy, beehive-like hairdo.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and Odie. Also Garfield and Jon to a degree, as well as Garfield and Arlene.
* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' and Lucky Eddie.
* ''ComicStrip/MuttAndJeff'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_and_Jeff in syndication from 1907 until 1982]].
* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/PostcardToCanadaForInvestmentInCanada1907.jpg Uncle Sam]] [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/576249714792780645/?from_navigate=true and John Bull,]] the personifications of North America and England, respectively, when they are portrayed together in political cartoons.
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[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
* The stepsisters in ''Animation/Cinderella1979'' consist of a redhead plump sister, and a brunette matchstick sister.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In Blog/AskHoopsAndDumbbell, the titual characters fit the bill - though Dumbbell, the 'fat' of th two, is less fat and more just stocky. they also invert the typical dynamic with Dumbbell(usually) playing the Straight Man.
* ''A Good Day'' downplays this, as, while she is chubby and therefore heavier, Ryuuko isn't fat but plays this role, while Satsuki, who is slimmer, plays the skinny role.
* According to the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series, Moukou and Kaguya is this, as, chapter 27 of ''20XXIV'' has Miko noting that the latter has gone up about 3-8 dress sizes, while the former remained as slender as always, implying that Kaguya had put on weight since the last time she had seen her (assuming she wasn't always stout).
* ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted:'' * FatAndSkinny: Marya Seaworth and Gwendolyn Chelsted become fast friends and Cersei thinks of them as a "dumpling" and a "beanpole," respectively.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Horace and Jasper.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Aladdin (skinny) and the Genie (fat), at least when the Genie is himself and not one of his transformations.
* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': The Walrus (fat) and the Carpenter (skinny). The usual roles are inverted: the Walrus is the smart and double-crossing one while the Carpenter is more dim-witted and honest.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': Has the Robot Revolutionary Front, who are a BigThinShortTrio. However, the short one gets very little focus, leaving the other two as primarily this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Downplayed with Lefou and Gaston. The former is noticeably short and squat, and while the latter is certainly broad-shouldered and muscley, his trimness is undeniable. The human forms of two of the Beast’s main servants, Cogsworth and Lumiere, can also apply.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles.
* ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': Tuke and Rutt.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Gus and Jaq; King and Grand Duke.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': Downplayed with Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible. Although both were slender in their youths and gained weight with age, Spink’s shortness makes her look the “fat” part, while Forcible’s tall, busty frame qualifies as “skinny”.
* ''Creator/DreamWorksAnimation'': ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/JosephKingOfDreams'' have Pharaoh's priests Hotep (fat) and Huy (skinny) in the former and the baker (fat) and the butler (skinny) in the latter.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Pacha and Kuzco.
* ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'': Mub (the laid-back pudgy slug) and Grub (the uptight snail with the impossibly long neck).
* ''Creator/GoodTimesEntertainment'': Used this trope twice in two of their fairy tale adaptations. First with Pauline and Alicia in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastGolden1992'' and later the two wicked stepsisters in ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaJetlagProductions''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Pain and Panic.
* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'': Tony and Joe (Italian chefs).
* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'': Jumba and Pleakley. With Stitch, they comprise a BigThinShortTrio.
* ''Franchise/TheLionKing'': Timon and Pumbaa. Pumbaa is a warthog so his size comes with the package. They're best friends who [[PlatonicCoParenting raise Simba together]] after he runs away from home.
* ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'': Sisters Ursula and Morgana from and WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989, and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea its sequel]], respectively.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'':
** The title character and the Once-ler. The ''height'' difference is noticeable too.
** The two O'Hare marketing executives. With [[TheNapoleon O'Hare]] himself, they form a BigThinShortTrio.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' / ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': Maurice (fat) and King Julien (skinny). Maurice is of the "fat StraightMan" variety. With Mort, they comprise a BigThinShortTrio.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': She is the female lead in a Disney Movie, while Maui is a Polynesian demigod. Which one do you think is which?
* ''Animation/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseKing'': The mice Fat and Tall.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'': The main characters are the chubby Barley and skinny Ian.
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrolTheMovie'': Mayor Humdinger's lackeys are the large Butch and thin Ruben.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'': Marvin [=McNasty=]'s aptly named goons Bones and Lumpy.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': Hoteph and Houy, high priests of the Egyptian royal household.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Dr. Facilier (skinny) and Lawrence (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'': The double-headed dragon Devon (skinny) and Cornwall (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Émile and Rémy.
* ''Animation/RoadsideRomeo'': Charlie and Chhainu.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'':
** Little John and Robin Hood.
** Also, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John.
* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Kings Hubert (Prince Phillip's father) and Stefan (Princess Aurora's father).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Two of Queen Uberta’s main servants, Sir Chamberlain and Lord Rogers
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'': Grundel (fat) and Beetle (skinny).
* ''Franchise/ToyStory'': Woody (skinny) and Buzz Lightyear (fat). Woody is a tall, skinny cowboy doll while Buzz, is a [[TopHeavyGuy short, stocky]], spaceman action figure.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': The two orderlies who come to take Carl to the nursing home.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Creator/LaurelAndHardy, the TropeMaker, sometimes known by fans as "the Fiddle and the Bow". In many countries, including Spain and the Netherlands, they are actually known as "Fat and Skinny", while in Germany they are known as "Fat and Stupid", reportedly the most pejorative name for the duo. They also defy the usual stereotypes in that Hardy is the smart one and Laurel the fool. Of course, interpretations of this can vary.
* Creator/AbbottAndCostello.
* Creator/BudSpencer and Creator/TerenceHill.
* [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]], with the fat SilentBob as the StraightMan.
* [[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe and/or Larry and Curley or Joe or Curly Joe.]]
* The Mexican comedy duo Viruto (skinny) y Capulina (fat).
* The two mythical beasts, Bicorn and Chichivache. Justified in that one eats devoted husbands, which are plentiful, and the other obedient wives, of which there is a shortage. At least at the time the legend was written.
* ''Film/AboutTheLittleRedRidingHood'' has the villainous duo of wolves appropriately called Thin and Fat. Thin is smarter and crueler, while Fat is easily manipulated and has little real interest in chasing Little Red Riding Hood or doing anything villainous at all.
* John Bunny and Flora Finch played a husband-and-wife variant on this trope in ''Film/ACureForPokeritis'' and at least a hundred more short comedy films, made over a decade before Laurel and Hardy. As usual, it's the skinny one (here Finch, who played the shrewish wife) who dominates the fat one {her fat HenpeckedHusband, played by Bunny).
* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the Penguin's circus-themed gang includes the Fat Clown and the Thin Clown. As usual, the Thin Clown is a genius (Penguin has him install a jamming device inside the Batmobile) while the Fat Clown is pretty dense.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. Perhaps explained by their {{Trademark Favorite Food}}s; Jake's "four fried chickens" ([[BigEater yes, whole ones]]) and Elwood's "dry white toast".
* ''Film/TheBodyguardFromBeijing'' has the two bumbling assistant bodyguards, Charlie and Ken.
* ''Film/CherryFalls'': Dino (fat) and Wally (played by the very skinny Creator/DJQualls) sit together in class and the cafeteria and approach girls together at the pre-orgy dance.
** Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi again, in ''Neighbors''.
* Komatsu and Oyama from the 1950s Japanese family film, ''Film/ChibidekaMonogatari'', known better by it's English title ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407643/ Skinny and Fatty]]'', which apparently cemented itself permanently in the minds of those who grew up in Japan in the late '50s.
* ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' has Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker (who already appear on this page).
* ''Film/TheCityOfEmber'': Scrawny CorruptQuartermaster Looper is accompanied by a plump crony in a few scenes.
* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', skekAyuk the Gourmand (fat) and skekEkt the Ornamentalist (thin) are often seen together, and seem to share a common love of food.
* ''Film/TheDelinquent'' has the CoDragons, Fat Sean and Little Skinny. Guess which is which.
* The two male leads of ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' are the slender Newt Scamander and the chubby Jacob Kowalski.
* Max and Thor in the film version of ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''.
* Jolly U and Rat in ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture''.
* A gender inversion is Tracy Turnblad and Penny Pingleton from ''Film/Hairspray1988''.
* Shannon Mullins and Sarah Ashburn from ''Film/TheHeat''.
* Harry and Marv in ''Film/HomeAlone'' (although in this case, "fat" and "skinny" are inverted from their normal personalities). Somewhat {{downplayed}} in Harry's case as he's not especially fat, but he's definitely more heavyset than the bearded beanpole he's paired with.
* ''Film/KillerParty'' has a fat and skinny pair of Beta Tau frat boys (known as 'Fat Bee-Boy' and 'Skinny Bee-Boy') who lack any of the redeeming characteristics (such as they are) of the other frat boys and generally exist only to act inappropriately towards the sorority girls.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Gimli and Legolas arguably fit this trope- though dwarves in general tend to be more short and stocky than actually “fat” (Bombur from ''[[Film/TheHobbit The Hobbit]]'' is an exception).
* ''Film/OnTheBuses'' has fat Ruby and skinny Vera, the first two female bus drivers to turn up at the depot.
* Creator/PeterLorre and Sydney Greenstreet in a number of 1940s films, starting with ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}''. They were often, though not always, a villainous pair. This was lampshaded during their cameo in ''Hollywood Canteen'', when a soldier thinks they're threatening him. [[spoiler:They were actually offering him a cigarette.]]
** Lorre also sometimes appeared in films with Creator/VincentPrice, again often playing characters who were in some way foils to each other and fit this trope.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' has two sets, two Royal Marines Murtogg and Mullroy based on ''Abbott & Costello'' and two pirates Pintel and Ragetti based on ''Laurel & Hardy''. The pairs meet a few times.
* Maynard and Zed of ''Film/PulpFiction'' are a villainous version. Pudgy Maynard is the nervous one, while Zed is more coolly evil [[spoiler: and gets a more protracted and painful death.]]
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheScarecrow'': Virgil (fat) and Wyatt (skinny), who decide to dress up as [[ScaryScarecrow the titular scarecrow]] and scare some campers.
* Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', ''Film/HotFuzz'', ''Series/{{Spaced}}''...
* ''Film/PromWars'' : Thompson and Dubinsky, the two main two Selby students besides the prefects, are a pair of nerds who hang out a lot, with one of them being thin and the other being fat.
* The Creator/ShawBrothers martial arts movie, ''Film/{{Pursuit}}'' has protagonist Lin-chung as the skinny, a fair, patient noble warrior and his best bud, Flower Monk Lu, a hotheaded BoisterousBruiser. Even their [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] reflects their appearances, with Lin using a thin spear with a fine silver tip, while Lu uses a giant polearm resembling a killer shovel.
* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Speed, the fat guy, actually has SuperSpeed, but Lash, the skinny guy, has stretching powers.
* ''Film/{{Solarbabies}}:'' The two bounty hunters. Malice is chunky and Dogger is thin.
* [=C-3PO and R2-D2=] from ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* ''Film/SuperXuxaContraBaixoAstral'': Titica and Morcegão, the main villain's henchmen.
* Evan and Seth from ''Film/{{Superbad}}''
* Police, Hal and Ed from ''Film/TheTerminator''.
* David Spade and Chris Farley in ''Film/TommyBoy'' and ''Film/BlackSheep1996''.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Diana is tall and thin while Etta Candy is short and fat.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'': Bragg and Larkin certainly count. Although that's more Freakishly Huge and Skinny than Fat and Skinny. (Bragg is at least 8 feet 8 inches and probably bigger.)
* Depending on the [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X-3nEgIgYD4/TlkmJibcCwI/AAAAAAAADhw/OhtfoSI2N_k/s1600/Paget_holmes.png artist]] or [[http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/lioness901/Sherlock%20Holmes%20901/01-08-Hound-S-HW.jpg screen portrayal]], Franchise/SherlockHolmes and John Watson sometimes get this treatment. It's canonically true of Sherlock and Mycroft. Both fit either side of the GeekPhysiques, but Sherlock is a lithe yet physically strong man while Mycroft is a corpulent NonActionGuy.
* ''Literature/FattypuffsAndThinifers'' begins with Edmund's skinny brother Terry calling him a Fattypuff. They then [[DownTheRabbitHole ride down a long escalator]] to a fantasy world which is entirely divided between a fat half and a thin half.
* The main characters of the Italian novel for children ''Sussi e Biribissi'' by Paolo Lorenzini (aka Collodi Nipote). Sussi is rosy and short, with blond curly hair, and looks like a lump of butter, Biribissi is tall, skinny, dark haired and quite dirty. [[spoiler:Later in the novel, they swap roles.]]
* [[AscendedFanboy Lyle and Lloyd]] from Geoph Essex's ''Literature/LovelyAssistant'' are practically an off-model Creator/LaurelAndHardy mixed with [[Franchise/StarWars Threepio and Artoo]].
* ''Literature/TheMagicMap'' has [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Longitude and Latitude]], with Longitude being the fat one and Latitude being the thin one.
* Anne Shirley (Skinny) and her best friend Diana Barry (Fat) from the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' gives us LeanAndMean AntiHero Greg and his FatBestFriend Rowley.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Sergeant Fred Colon and Corporal Nobby Nobbs. Fred is the sort of big, red-faced man who is destined to be either a sergeant or a pork butcher, and the AmbigiouslyHuman Nobby is so scrawny that the LemonyNarrator comments "Technically he had arms, because his hands were attached to his shoulders, but that was about all you could say."
** Granny Weatherwax (tall and thin) and Nanny Ogg (in her own words "comfortably built") offer a female version, when they aren't being TheThreeFacesOfEve with Magrat.
** They're not really a double act, but Spelter and Carding from ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' at one point stand next to each other and are described as "looking exactly like the number 10".
* ''Literature/DonQuixote'' (skinny) and Sancho Panza (fat)
* ''Literature/FatKidRulesTheWorld'' has best friends and bandmates Troy and Curt. Troy is a depressed, nearly 300 pound teenager while Curt is very scrawny guy who gets mistaken for a drug user due to his looks. They form a punk band together (with Troy on drums).
* Locke Lamora (Skinny) and Jean Tannen (Fat) from Scott Lynch's ''Literature/GentlemanBastard''s series. While Lamora embodies the classic 'brains and sarcasm' role of the skinny one (and main protagonist), Tannen is, somewhat unusually for the fat one, the voice of reason, the conscience, and the badass, instead of merely the foil.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Literature/ThePositronicMan'': When Sir invites US Robots executive Elliott Smythe and Chief Robopsychologist Merwin Mansky, it is apparent that Smythe is tall and skinny, while Mansky is short and fat.
-->They were a curiously mismatched pair, for Elliott Smythe was a slender, towering, athletic-looking man with long limbs and a great mane of dense white hair, who seemed as though he would be more at home on a tennis court or in a polo match than in a corporate office, while Merwin Mansky was short and stocky and had no hair at all, and gave the appearance of someone who would leave his desk only under great duress.
* The lazy and horrid Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge of ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' who both have {{Meaningful Name}}s.
* In Susanna Clarke's ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'', Christopher Drawlight and Henry Lascelles seem to fit this trope, with Drawlight being plump and rather dim-witted, while Lascelles (the taller of the two) is brutally sarcastic and, in a darker take on the trope [[spoiler:manages to effectively scheme against Norrell and Strange, and ''[[MoralEventHorizon murders Drawlight]]'']]. Based on body type alone, Norrell and Strange themselves fit this trope, but do not qualify in other ways.
* ''Literature/TheLandOfGreenGinger'': The Wicked Princes Rubdub Ben Thud of Arabia (fat) and Tintac Ping Foo of Persia (thin), who spend most of the book ganging up on the hero Abu Ali, despite the fact that they hate each other, play hard into this trope visually, especially in the illustrations. However, they're both idiots; most of the bright ideas come from Rubdub's [[TheJeeves Small Slave]].
* In ''Literature/{{Momo|1973}}'', Momo's friends include a couple who run an inn. Nino is skinny, and tends to be bad-tempered or impulsive; Liliana is plump, and tends to be more easy-going and wiser.
* Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''.
* Lenny and George from ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''
* Finney and Mudd from Tad Williams' ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' sci-fi series. Servants to the main villain, the skinny one, Finney, is brilliant and manipulative, and Mudd, the fat one, is described as "Almost subhuman". Copies of them exist within a massive VR simulation network where these characteristics are played up even more by the intelligence controlling the system, which essentially constructs its understanding of the universe from stories, almost making these copies a reference to the trope itself..
* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' book "[[Recap/TheRailwaySeriesB22SmallRailwayEngines Small Railway Engines]]" introduces two clergymen who are railway enthusiasts: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Thin Clergyman and the Fat Clergyman]]. The Thin Clergyman is [[CreatorCameo an analogue]] to the series' creator the Rev. W. Awdry and the Fat Clergyman to Awdry's friend the Rev. Teddy Boston. They also appear three books later in "[[Recap/TheRailwaySeriesB25DukeTheLostEngine Duke the Lost Engine]]" where they lead an expedition to find Duke; the Fat Clergyman is the one who finally finds Duke when he falls through the ceiling of Duke's shed.
* Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan, the Monster Hunters, in ''[[Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant The Maleficent Seven]]''. Donegan is described as a "tall, skinny Englishman" while Gracious is "the short, powerfully built Irishman".
* The doctors Boril (Fat) and Robil (Skinny) in ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand''. In an interesting subversion, it's Boril who's the brainier one.
* ''Literature/TheTribe'': Officers Sellars and Cassidy from "Camp Cannibal", the two policemen assigned to watch over Spencer during his house arrest period, are these respectively.
* Miles and his clone-twin Mark in the later entries of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''; Miles' near-constant hyperactivity and odd metabolism has kept him rake-thin, while Mark gained a great deal of weight while being force-fed by a captor, and decided to keep the weight after escaping - at least partly so that he and Miles could never be mistaken for one another. Although they usually operate independently, they are together often enough that they have acquired the in-universe nickname of "The Chance Brothers" - Slim and Fat - but ''nobody'' calls them that to their faces. [[TooDumbToLive Nobody's that stupid.]]
* ''Literature/WelcomeToWonderland'':
** The first book has Sydney and Stanley Sneemer, the thieves who pulled off a jewel heist in 1973. Sydney is skinny, and Stanley is fat.
** The third book introduces Darryl and Travis, professional sand sculptors Edward Conch hired as the Wonderland Hotel's sand sculpting team. Darryl is fat, Travis is skinny.
* Lord Tywin and his younger brother Ser Kevan Lannister from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are a physically fit example of this trope. Tywin is described as having broad shoulders and a slender build, but with thin and muscly arms, Kevan is mentioned to have [[FormerlyFit 'gone stout]] in recent years', but still has [[StoutStrength broad shoulders]] and is a capable warrior.
* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'' has Mr. John's guinea pigs: fat, black-and-white Caruso and skinny, red-and-white Enrico.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/ACaseForTwo'', PrivateDetective Josef Matula (Creator/ClausTheoGartner) always kept himself in good shape (he had to since he was the ActionHero of the show as well). Among the various attorneys he partnered with, the first one, Renz (Creator/GunterStrack), was the most heavyset by far.
* Manolo and Benito from ''Manos a la Obra''. Benito may not be that skinny, but he's obviously not as fat as Manolo.
* The Mexican entertainers Viruta and Capulina.
* ''El Gordo y la Flaca'' (lit. "The Fatman and the Skinny Woman") is a popular gossip show from Univision for Spanish-speaking audiences hosted by paparazzis Raul de Molina and Lil Estefan who are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}} and Creator/RobertWebb - one bit, for instance, has Rob mocking David for asking whether a shirt made him look fat. Referenced in ''Series/PeepShow'' when Jeremy steals one of Mark's sausages (''I'm the skinny one. I need food more than him.'')
* Creator/DavidWalliams and Matt Lucas.
* Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter, although Andy Richter is the straight man.
** [[Series/TheTonightShow Johnny Carson and Ed [=McMahon=]]] were the prototype they were following.
* UK 1980s comedy duo Syd Little and Eddie Large (not their real names).
* Pedrão and Jorginho from Brazilian comedy show ''Os Caras de Pau''.
* ''Series/AceOfCakes'' has Duff Goldman and Geof Manthorne, two HeterosexualLifePartners who make cakes and take names. Inverted, however, in that Duff is the brazen one of the two, while Geof tends to sit back and spout wisdom/[[DeadpanSnarker ineffably dry humor]] for the most part.
* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': Jimmy is a tall drink of water while his brother Chuck is corpulent, helping emphasize their different personalities. Also Jimmy and his FatBestFriend Marco.
* ''Series/{{Burnistoun}}'' has a series of sketches centered on two friends, Scott and Peter. Scott, who plays the StraightMan to Peter's wackier personality, is skinny while Peter is fat. They comment on this contrast in one sketch, where Peter posits that he's the dominant one in the relationship and predicts that Scott will soon become fat as a result.
* El Chompiras and El Botija from ''Series/{{Chespirito}}''.
** In the same show, Chespirito also did some sketches titled ''El Gordo y el Flaco'' (the Spanish name for Creator/LaurelAndHardy), inspired by the classic films.
** ''[[Series/ElChavoDelOcho El Chavo]]'' and Señor Barriga, as well as Señor Barriga and Don Ramón.
* Yick and Arthur from ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' and ''Series/DegrassiHigh''
* Earl and Roy in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''.
* Bert and Al from ''Series/DocMartin''. Bert being the short FatIdiot and his son Al is the sensible StraightMan.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Mr Oak and Mr Quill in "Fury From the Deep".
** The episode "A Good Man Goes to War" brought us the thin and fat (and tall and short) gay married Anglican Marines. The characters themselves claimed that with a description like that, they don't even need names.
** The Twelfth Doctor and Nardole.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', until Josh lost his puppy fat.
** Their characters, [[TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily Tony Pajamas]] and his sidekick Paulie, from SpiritualPredecessor ''Series/TheAmandaShow''.
* Barney and Junior from ''Series/FarOutSpaceNuts''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' (the original live-action series) featured two gangsters called Fat Man and The Rabbit in the episode, "The Maltese Monkey." This example goes one further in that The Rabbit is played by dwarf actor Creator/BillyBarty.
* ''[[Series/FrenchandSaunders French and Saunders]]''
* The Clegane brothers, Gregor "The Mountain" (Fat) and Sandor "The Hound" (Skinny) in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. {{Downplayed|trope}} in that both men are muscular giants, with Gregor as the bulkier, slightly taller one and Sandor as the leaner, more traditionally-built one.
** Also in the same series, the duo of Hope Pie (fat) and Lommy Greenhands (skinny).
* James Corden and Mathew Horne, in ''Series/GavinAndStacey'' and "Horne and Corden".
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' is another case where the usual roles are reversed, with Skipper (the fat guy) usually being the StraightMan and Gilligan (the skinny one) the dimwit.
* R.J. and Miles in ''Series/TheHardTimesOfRJBerger''.
* From ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro is short, goofy, optimistically idealistic, and a little on the chubby side, while his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] Ando is more serious, worldly, and taller and thinner; they're only rarely seen apart from each other. They seem to be on equal footing as far as intelligence goes, though, and take turns being the one who actually comes up with an idea.
* Shultz and Klink from ''Series/HogansHeroes''
* In the first 3 seasons of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', the scrawny hippie relic Munch was paired with the heftier and older Bolander.
* Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton on ''Series/TheHoneymooners''.
* ''Series/JakeAndTheFatman'' has the title characters, police detective Jake Styles and prosecutor J.L. "Fatman" [=McCabe=].
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'' has Harlan County gangsters Dickie and Coover Bennett. Dickie's an all but emaciated marijuana dealer with a [[DeadpanSnarker caustic sense of humour]], an [[MoodSwinger unpredictable temper]], and a penchant for underhanded, half-thought out scheming. His younger brother, Coover, is a colossal, overweight, [[TheBrute thug]] who acts as Dickie's [[DumbMuscle muscle]], [[TheBerserker loses his mind in fights]], and lets Dickie do most of the thinking. They live in the same house, operate an ATV front-business together, and despite the fact that neither one is especially bright, are two of Harlan County's most dangerous criminals.
* ''Series/KenanAndKel'', with fat Kenan as the StraightMan to skinny Kel.
* Hurley and various skinny partners (most commonly Charlie, now Miles, occasionally Sawyer) from ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
** Even more so with Hurley's old buddy on the mainland, Johnny, aka [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702809/ DJ Quallis]].
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier and Eugene ''Skull'' Skullovitch from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' through ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. As their name suggests, Bulk is the fat one, while Skull is the lean one. In this case, however, the fat one is The {{Schemer}}.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' Bulk forms a similar duo with Professor Phenomenus and Skull's son Spike respectively.
** Squatt and Baboo from ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' are a similar duo on the villain's side. However, like his name suggests, Squatt is more squat than really fat.
** Betty and Ben are another comic relief duo appearing in ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers''.
* Statler and Waldorf from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', and maybe Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as well.
** [[BerserkButton Don't tell this to Miss Piggy]], but both she and Kermit the Frog are also an example.
-->"'''An example?!''' [[IWillShowYouX I'll show YOU an example!]] [[{{Yandere}} Hi-YAH!!]]"
** Also, Kermit and Fozzie Bear.
* Earl and Randy from ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' - Crow is all articulated lamp arms, and Tom Servo is barrel-shaped, literally.
** Also Dr. Forrester (skinny) and TV's Frank (fat).
** Later in the series we have Observer/Brain Guy (skinny) and Prof. Bobo (fat).
* ''Series/NoahsArc'': Alex and Noah when they're seen one on one; their personalities also fit the silly vs. StraightMan (no pun intended) qualities of the trope.
* ''Creator/PennAndTeller''
* Creator/RogerEbert and Creator/GeneSiskel (and later, Richard Roeper) from ''Series/SiskelAndEbert''.
* Kramer and Newman in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' every time they're on one of their GetRichQuickScheme.
* Bert and Ernie from ''Series/SesameStreet''.
* Jamie and Vicki from ''Series/SmallWonder''.
* Nico and Grady from ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''
** Tottpat and Bookback from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' are an EvilDuo in service of [[BigBad Witch Bandora]], with Tottpat being a lean vampiric being, while Bookback is a squat goblin like creature. They are the source material for Baboo and Squatt in ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers''.
** [[BigBad Captain Zahab]] and [[TheDragon Steerwoman Shelinda]] resemble this trope in ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', with Shelinda being a skinny woman, while Zahab is a heavyset monstrous pirate. Contrary to most depictions, they are not comical at all.
* Penhall and Hanson toward the end of their partnership in ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet''.
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[http://www.williamsandree.com/ Williams and Ree.]]
* The faces of Music/BarenakedLadies, Steven Page and Ed Robertson.
* Music/InsaneClownPosse, Violent J (fat) and Shaggy 2 Dope (skinny).
* [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants Johns Linnell and Flansburgh]], pretty consistently throughout their career. Linnell has always been terribly scrawny, whereas Flansburgh has evolved from being ridiculously buff to rather pudgy, and of course several inches taller. Inverted, however, in that Flansburgh is the idea man, while Linnell broods in the background and plays music, sometimes on stage when you poke him into it.
* Music/TupacShakur and Music/TheNotoriousBIG, when they were friends.
* Music/TroutFishingInAmerica has 7-foot, moderately built Keith Grimwood and 5-foot-5, thicker-built Ezra Idlet.
* Music/{{Twiztid}} from 1997 until 2012 was identifiable thusly: Jamie Madrox was the fat one, and Monoxide was the skinny one. However, Jamie lost a lot of weight and is skinny now.
* Flo and Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan) of The Turtles and Mothers of Invention fame.
* Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips of Music/TheMamasAndThePapas. (a rare female example)
* Ann and Nancy Wilson from Music/{{Heart|Band}}. (another rare female example)
* In videos, live performances and some lyrics, D12 liked to play up the contrast of the LeanAndMean [[Music/{{Eminem}} Slim Shady]] with the FatBastard Bizarre.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/{{Kane}} and pretty much every wrestler he's teamed with, especially when he lets his gut go, except when he pairs with other big men (Wrestling/TheUndertaker, [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]], and Wrestling/TheBigShow).
* [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Bubba Ray]] and Wrestling/SpikeDudley during their time teaming without D'Von in 2002.
* Hell, D'Von has always had more of a cut and muscular build than Bubba (who was downright obese for much of his career) so they too can count as this.
* Too Cool's 2003/04 incarnation of Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} and Scotty 2 Hotty.
* V-Squared - Val Venis and Viscera.
* Wrestling/OwenHart and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}.
* Team IWS, Wrestling/KevinSteen and Wrestling/ElGenerico. Equally, Willie Mack and El Generico.
* Wrestling/{{TNA}} Frontline leaders Wrestling/AJStyles and Wrestling/SamoaJoe.
* Wrestling/MarkHenry and Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter, Mark Henry and Wrestling/EvanBourne, Mark Henry and Wrestling/YoshiTatsu.
* Jeri-Show (Wrestling/ChrisJericho and The Big Show) and [=ShowMiz=] (The Big Show and Wrestling/TheMiz).
** Jeri-KO (Jericho and [[Wrestling/KevinSteen Kevin Owens]]).
* [[Wrestling/TheNexus Husky Harris and Michael [=McGillicutty=]]].
* OVW tag team "The Fat And The Furious", Mr. Black being the fat and Trailer Park Trash being the skinny, though they're both heavyweights, fat Black weighs over twice as much as Trash.
* The Beer City Bruiser and The Last Real Man Silas Young. Silas wanted them to be known as "[[ATankardOfMooseUrine Milwaukee's Worst]]" but it didn't catch on. He's also somewhat of a fitness freak, while Bruiser...well beer can give you "Milwaukee's Worst" can give you a belly.
* Big Moe and Brandon Xavier, who reigned as tag team champions in Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Midwest for over a year. They're officially known as Meat N Taters and unofficially known as "Bad For Your Health".
* The Deleters Of World Wrestling/BrayWyatt and Wrestling/MattHardy.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Brothers [[https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/nhpr/files/styles/x_large/public/201708/tm_2046x3050_clr.jpg Tom and Ray Magliozzi]] from NPR's ''Radio/CarTalk.''
* ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' has skinny and vulture-like C.P.O. Pertwee and Able Seaman "[[FatIdiot Fatso]]" Johnson who often pair up on [[ZanyScheme nefarious schemes]] with poor Johnson usually the butt of the joke or Pertwee's fall guy.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Productions of ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' typically cast the main antagonist Dr. Bartolo as fat, while his accomplice Don Basilio is usually skinnier. It's also common for [[BigGuyLittleGuy Bartolo to be shorter and Basilio taller.]] Since both characters have bass voices, this physical contrast is useful to help the audience tell them apart.
* ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' has Shears and Robust. The former is tall and lean, the latter short and squat.
* Pantomimes in the UK often use this when casting the Ugly Sisters in ''Cinderella'', usually having a tall, thin one and a short, fat one.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
%%* The two brothers Edgar and Wally from ''VideoGame/TheAct''.
* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Jos van Corn and his brother, Famas Corn. Jos is the skinny salesman that sells [[HyperactiveMetabolism corn juice]] to promote his business. Famas is a fat manufacturer that sells weapons and takes in material to trade for [[ItemCrafting crafting pieces]].
* ''Franchise/AnimalCrossing'': Tom Nook (tanuki/raccoon, fat) and Redd (fox, skinny) the merchants, Mr. Resetti (mole, fat) and Don Resetti (mole, skinny) the Reset Center brothers, Chip (beaver, fat) and Nat (chameleon, skinny) who run the Fishing Tourney and Bug-Off respectively, and their counterparts from ''New Horizons'' CJ (beaver, fat) and Flick (chameleon, skinny).
* Idd and Odd, [[MadBomber known in-game as Gremolitions, inc.]], from ''VideoGame/AtlasReactor''. Both are just about as crazy, but Idd is slightly more high-strung.
* Both Banjo and Kazooie from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' qualify, as one is a rotund bear and the other is a svelte bird.
* The protagonists of ''VideoGame/BonanzaBros'' are a pair of robbers who happen to be a fat guy and a skinny guy.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has Solt and Peppor, and Fat and Slim, the latter two who live up to their names.
* The Komodo Brothers from the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series (Joe being the skinny one while Moe is the fat one).
* Executioner Smough and Dragon Slayer Ornstein from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' are a decidedly non-comedic example - unless you consider [[ThatOneBoss dying over and over again]] to be [[DeathAsComedy funny]].
** Actually a subversion, since [[AllThereInTheManual according to the game's official concept art]], Smough's armor makes him look fat, but [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maod84viKp1rs4wdho1_1280.jpg underneath it]] he's positively ''ripped''.
* The dog and duck from ''VideoGame/DuckHunt'' form this kind of duo in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', with the dog as the fat member and the duck as the skinny member.
%%* Logos and Ormi from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has Tenpenny and Pulaski, as well as CJ's [[spoiler: former]] friends Big Smoke and Ryder.
* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Marz's dads, Al and Bernie, are skinny and fat, respectively.
* Kraid and Ridley from the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series are a villainous example, both of them being fierce adversaries of protagonist BountyHunter Samus Aran.
%%* Jill and The Queen from ''VideoGame/MightyJillOff''.
%%* Skinhead and Neckbeard, the security guards of Club Titiboo in ''VideoGame/Mother3''.
%%** The game also has [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello Bud and Lou]], the two would-be comedians and [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai duo]].
%%* [[MadBomber Junkrat]] and [[FatBastard Roadhog]] from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' are partners in crime.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', the final evolutions of the two [[ComMons early-route]] [[NonElemental Normal-type Pokémon]] are [[BigFriendlyDog Stoutland, a fat (hence the name) Scottish Terrier-like Pokémon]] and Watchog, a thin meerkat-like Pokémon.
** In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'', the [[HostileTerraforming Team]] [[PlayingWithFire Magma]] [[DishingOutDirt Admins]] [[GenderBlenderName Tabitha]] and Courtney got redesigned. Tabitha's the fat dude and Courtney's the skinny girl.
%%* ''VideoGame/Portal2'''s co-op robots Atlas and P-body.
* Twins Dean and Derrek of ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'' are two police officers with contrasting body types [[PolarOppositeTwins as well as personalities]]. Dean is fat, carefree, and prefers taking snacks over performing his duties, while Derrek is lean, competitive, and does exercise during his breaks.
* {{Clueless Deput|y}}ies Eli and Jonah from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''. Here, the fatter Eli is the (marginally) more intelligent and competent one.
%%* The title characters Moigle (fat) and Hoigle (skinny) from the late-era Platform/SegaDreamcast game ''VideoGame/FloiganBros''.
* ''[[VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Rhythm Tengoku]]'' has the Rapmen consisting of Red (skinny) and Yellow (fat), they are rivals with the [[SpearCounterpart Rapwomen]] who also employ this trope.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Mario and Luigi are a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example. Mario's definitely pudgier than his brother, but the differences in their physiques aren't as extreme as usually seen in this trope.
** Wario and Waluigi as well, but on a much grander scale, to the point that they come off as [[TheRival evil caricatures]] of Mario and Luigi.
* In ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'', the main villain Tlaloc has a BumblingHenchmenDuo in a pair of sentient voodoo dolls named Pins and Needles. Pins is obese while Needles is thin.
%%* Killik Hardtack and Murkel Tranchfoot from ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland''.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s Heavy and Spy, whenever together, tend to make this kind of pairing. Ditto for Scout and Heavy, who is beanpole-thin and quite mouthy, especially compared to the mountainous and relatively taciturn Heavy.
%%* ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl''.
* Bob and Buck from ''VideoGame/TheTwins2020'' share this dynamic along with BrainsAndBrawn. Bob is the fat brawn while Buck is the skinny brains. Ironically, Bob is the faster of the two.
* Sans and Papyrus from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', though only in figure, as skeletons, they have no actual fat to speak of. To some degree they fit the stereotype, with tall, skinny Papyrus being [[SmallNameBigEgo extremely self-important]] and [[ShamelessSelfPromoter quick to announce his genius]], whereas short, wide Sans is laid back, [[ThePrankster very]] [[PungeonMaster jokey]], lazy, and [[BrilliantButLazy secretly incredibly competent]].
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Consuls [[TheDividual O & P]] are two closely-allied members of Moebius who fit this. O's a FatBastard of a man while P is a LeanAndMean woman.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The two mysterious guys who seem to be stalking Emily in ''WebAnimation/{{Damaged}}''. One is tall, thin, and blue. The other is short, fat, and orange.
* Lyle and Loopty from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' are this after their RapidAging.
* Arin and Dan from ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' are often depicted as this.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Rich and Larry are fat and skinny characters usually seen together serving as ThoseTwoGuys.
* One of the main characters in ''Webcomic/FurthiaHigh'' is Bruce, a fat red fox, whose best friend is a skinny rabbit named Campy. Both are friends with the last human in the world.
* Falstaff and Truck, the resident ThoseTwoGuys of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', which comes with several weight and eating jokes at the latter's expense.
* Jack Delitt and Mortimer Jones from ''Webcomic/{{Newheimburg}}''
* ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'': Two recurring cowboys, Wilbur (skinny) and Nimrod (fat), fit this trope.
* Schlock from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' and whoever is pairing off with him at the time. The only thing concrete about this is Schlock being the fat one (unless he's with Brad, Elizabeth or Chisulo), since with Schlock's partner almost always being an officer there's the almost inevitable clash of Schlock's street-smart quick-wittedness vs the partner's genuine (although not always particularly great) intelligence.
* The first two trolls in ''Webcomic/TailsGetsTrolled'' are a particularly hilarious example
* Jon and Seth, the two main characters of ''Webcomic/WasteOfTime'' are this.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''Website/ChannelAwesome'':
%% ** Sean Fausz and Paw.
** Rob Walker is much chubbier than his skinny brother Creator/DougWalker. Lampshaded in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' review, where he plays the "token fat kid" and says he's of "considerable girth".
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and her BFF, Nella. Take note that [[http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQDJVaMBwL1OZh8R&url=http%3A%2F%2Fa.images.blip.tv%2FTgwtgnchick-VlogReviewTheHungerGames603-83.jpg The Nostalgia Chick is not thin as a rake, nor is Nella terribly overweight]].
* LetsPlay/SimonLane and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley.
* Even though they don't normally work together, and the latter isn't skinny as a rail, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9j_Joe2998 This video]] shows that [[WebVideo/OMFGcata Jesse Cox]] is visibly rounder than [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]], enough to imply this trope when they ''do'' work together.
* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], critics, collaborators, and good friends. Though not quite as extreme as other examples, Linkara is notably heavier-set than when he started [=AT4W=], and Spoony has lost weight in the past due to a number of factors; side by side, their size difference is easily visible.
* The WebVideo/{{Vlogbrothers}}: despite Music/{{Hank|Green}}'s self-deprecation, he really is quite skinny, compared to his [[Creator/JohnGreen brother]], fat enough at his worst that there was at one point [[https://www.facebook.com/pages/JOHN-GREEN-IS-FAT/122266467800471 a Facebook group was made dedicated to it]].
* WebVideo/JonTron and Creator/{{Egoraptor}} of the WebVideo/GameGrumps. And since [[Music/NinjaSexParty Danny Sexbang]] took over for Jon, Arin seems to have assumed the role of the fat guy, personality and all.
* LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} and Diabetus of WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}.
* ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia'':
** Mike (chubby) and Jay (skinny) from ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag''. Jay plays the StraightMan. This is lampshaded in their review of ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'', Lucas' hitmen call them "[[Film/TheBurbs Hans Klopek]]" and "Fat Guy".
** Rich and Jack, respectively, from ''WebVideo/PreviouslyRecorded'', another RLM show.
* WebAnimation/DrCrafty (skinny) and Nurse Worse (fat). Crafty is a GeniusDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, while Nurse is his HyperCompetentSidekick and a CloudcuckoolandersMinder.
* WebVideo/TheSlowMoGuys. Creator/GavinFree is the skinny brains of the channel, coming up with the ideas for their videos, while Dan Gruchy puts those ideas into action and usually bears the brunt of their experiments. In an episode of ''The Super Slow Show'', Dan referred to himself as the Fat to Gavin's Skinny.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' gives us [=EpicLLOYD=] (fat) and Nice Peter (skinny).
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Scratch and Grounder.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Gumball, Darwin and Anais' parents Richard (fat) and Nicole (skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Played with in the first two seasons with Zuko and Iroh. While Zuko is a dark, angsty teen with obsessive tendencies and is surprisingly well-muscled, Iroh is the laid-back veteran/mentor with a big belly and committed to taking it easy.
** In season 3 their roles reverse somewhat; Iroh loses a lot of weight and becomes more focused and determined, while Zuko does a Heel-Face Turn and becomes more emotionally open and vulnerable.
* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': The 2006 revival featured two pairs consisting of a skinny guy and a fat guy.
** Incompetent Catatonian goons Puss (fat) and Boots (skinny).
** Sir Richard Brand-Something's robot butler henchmen Bangers (skinny) and Mash (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'': Had this trope with the aliens Sleemoth and Gloog, a pair of minor recurring antagonists. Sleemoth is skinny, while Gloog is fat.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats'': Crumden and Bumbler from the ''Around the World in 79 Days'' segment.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'':
** The titular cops in "The Label Police" consist of a fat guy and a skinny guy, the pair looking somewhat like a cartoonish Laurel and Hardy.
** In "Vampire Cannibals of New York", the overweight Gummy and the svelte Chomp are the only vampire cannibals besides Gore the Vampire Cannibal King who are given names.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': ''[[XtremeKoolLetterz The Karnival Kid]]'' (1929) has the two cats that sing the (even by then) classic song Sweet Adeline (to help Mickey woo Minnie).
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Mr. Mogul (fat) and his assistant Simon (skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': Has best friends (Later girlfriends) Courtney (fat) and Tabitha (Skinny), known as the Witches of the Creek.
* ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'': Bobble and Clank from the Tinker Bell movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Scrooge (skinny and good) and his arch-nemesis Flintheart Glomgold (fat and evil).
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has main characters Peter (fat) and Lois (skinny), as well as the two vaudeville performers Vern (skinny) and Johnny (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Jake (skinny) and Eddie (fat). Then again, [[{{Shipping}} Eddie and Futura]] may also count, if one is so inclined.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Fred and Wilma tend to fall into this at times.
** Same can be said about Fred and Barney, although Barney's thinness is hard to notice due to Creator/HannaBarbera's animation style is clear in-universe that Fred is overweight and Barney isn't. This is much clearer in the ''Film/TheFlintstones'' film adaptation as Creator/JohnGoodman plays Fred and Creator/RickMoranis plays Barney making it much more obvious.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoodVibes'': Mondo and Woody.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'':
** The fathers, Pete and Goofy. Pete (who is fat) is the idea man and the cynic, while Goofy (who is skinny) is the [[MeaningfulName goofy optimist who is just along for the ride]], and neither one qualifies as an actual StraightMan (though Pete is closer).
** The sons, Max and PJ. Max (who is skinny) is the idea man ''and'' the optimist, while PJ (who is fat) is a pessimistic critic of Max's plans and TheDragAlong, and they have a mutual StraightManAndWiseGuy partnership where PJ is, as a pattern, more likely to be the straight man than Max is.
** Spud and Wally. Though they are minor enough that their roles are unclear, it seems to follow the show's "fat guy is straight(er) man" pattern.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Kon and his gender opposite Konnie (fat) and Kin and his gender opposite Kim (skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'': Botch and Mr. Peevly.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'': Gives us the latter characters, one fat one (Mungo) and two skinny ones (Hector and Wordsworth). It's unclear where Riff-Raff fits in, since he's just short.
* WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget and Chief Quimby.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Uncle and Tohru.
* WesternAnimation/{{Jeannie}} and Babu.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kablam}}'': ''Prometheus and Bob''; Bob is the former, Prometheus is the latter.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Gives us [[PolarOppositeTwins the twins]] [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Eugly]], the former of whom is slim (and implied to have an eating disorder) and the latter of whom is obese.
* ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'': In the party scene from Creator/WaltDisney's cartoon, Brom Bones wants to invoke this trope when he repeatedly attempts to get tall, skinny Ichabod Crane to dance with a short, fat girl instead of with Katrina.
* ''Literature/TheLittles'': Has Grandpa Little [[note]]Based on Uncle Pete from the books.[[/note]], and Cousin Dinky, who also act as ThoseTwoGuys.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' had plenty of pairings like these.
** Both the cat and mouse incarnations of "Babbitt and Catsello", which were animated analogues to the previously mentioned Abbott and Costello.
** Jose (fat) and Manuel (skinny), the crows from ''Two Crows From Tacos'' (although they're depicted as cats in ''WesternAnimation/MexicaliShmoes''). Neither of them are very bright, though unusually for the trope, the fat one is the smarter of the two.
** In WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's earliest cartoons, he was paired up with a character named Beans the Cat. In this case, Porky is the fat and Beans is the skinny. Later on, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome after Beans disappeared]], WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck replaces him as the skinny (though this case is more {{downplayed|Trope}}, as Porky had [[ArtEvolution slimmed down by a decent amount]] by the late-30s, looking more chubby than outright obese).
** ''Cat-Tails for Two'' gives us George (skinny) and Benny (fat), combining this trope with BigGuyLittleGuy. In ''Hoppy-Go-Lucky'' a year earlier, Benny is instead paired with Sylvester, who fills George's role.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Coop and Jamie.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': Florence and Dottie, two unlikely roommates.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'': Jake and Butch, the two burglars.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'': Mr. Nosy and Mr. Small.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse]]''[[note]]Not to be confused with ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures''[[/note]]: The Creator/{{Filmation}} series paired Mighty Mouse's skinny-as-a-rail nemesis Oil Can Harry with a dim-witted and tubby thug named Swifty.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Snips and Snails, as well as [[ChubbyMamaSkinnyPapa Mrs. [Cup] Cake and Mr. [Carrot] Cake]].
* Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} has many examples, usually of the "both are silly" variety. In chronological order:
** ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''.
** Grandpas Lou (Stu's father) and Boris (Didi's father) in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', who are VitriolicBestBuds.
** Rocko and his gluttonous best friend Heffer in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
** Guapo and Fraz, the title characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheBrothersFlub''. A bit unusually for this trope, neither could really be considered a StraightMan.
** ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
** Sheen and Carl from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''.
** Spectra and Bertrand from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''.
** Bessie and Penny from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB''
** ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum''.
** [=SwaySway=] and Buhdeuce, the ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}''.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has Clyde's fathers, Harold and Howard [=McBride=].
** ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'':
** Bunsen (fat) and Mikey (skinny).
** The main villain Amanda Killman is slender, while her assistant Beverly is chunky.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'': Penny Pillar and Wiggy Rockstone.
* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': Dee Dee (fat) and Marky (skinny). Sometimes, their roles can be switched, in episodes like "Ugly, Dirty And Good", "Wake Up, My Lovely!" and "The Big Bad Wolf", the former is the StraightMan who comes up with a plan and Marky is the clumsy goofball or the follower. However, in others like "Fly For Fun" and "Mission [=ApollOggy=]", it's the polar opposite.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': [[BullyAndWimpPairing Buford and Baljeet]].
* WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}: Popeye and Bluto (especially in the 1960s TV shorts, where he was called "Brutus").
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': Oscar and Felix.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'': The pilot episode featured a pair of thugs known as Flack (thin) and Tubbs (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Pretty much every one binome and zero binome pairing, the most notable example being Captain Gavin "The Crimson Binome" Capacitor (a skinny one binome) and his first mate Mr. Christopher (a rotund zero binome).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Gives you any combination of Mikey and T.J. with Vince and Gus.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'': The main characters Thrasher (skinny) and Blastus (fat).
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooAndScrappyDooShow'' episode "Scooby and the Bandit" had Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy get into a conflict with a pair consisting of a fat man named Bandit and his dim-witted and skinny sidekick Wilbur.
** Bogel (fat) and Weerd (skinny) from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.
** Yet another fat guy and skinny guy pairing in the franchise can be found in ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' with Dr. Phibes' henchmen Agent 1 (skinny) and Agent 2 (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' has a "fat guy and skinny guy" pairing in the antagonists, General Specific (short and fat) and Private Public (tall and skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Chubby dope Homer and slender peacekeeper Marge.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Jimbo and Ned.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'': Entrée (fat) and Peri (skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Squidward and Mr. Krabs, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (at least in their advanced age).
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Marco's friends Ferguson (fat) and Alfonzo (skinny).
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Has the villainous duo Aresko (skinny) and Grint (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Steven is short and fat while his MuggleBestFriend Connie is skinny and slightly taller.
** Amethyst has a similar build to Steven, while Pearl is much taller and ''extremely'' skinny. Adding Garnet makes them a BigThinShortTrio.
*** Pearl was also the slender one to the much more generously built Rose Quartz
** The Big Donut is run by the short and heavyset Sadie and the tall and lanky Lars.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheStrangeChores'': The tall, lanky wannabe popular kid Charlie is best friends with the short, tubby social media geek Pierce.
* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': Has four such pairs: T-Bone and Razor, Mac and Molly Mange, Burke and Murray, and Mayor Manx and Callie Briggs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Thunder and Lightning from the episode "Forces of Nature". This is a rare case where the Fat one, Thunder, is smarter and more sensible than the his foolish and Thin brother Lightning.
* ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'': Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'': The eponymous stars (Timon the meerkat is the skinny one, and Pumbaa the warthog is the fat one).
* ''WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol'': Has this in a pair of villainous weasels, Ollie and Snout.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': [[SingleMindedTwins Katie and Sadie]].
** Antagonistic example seen in perennial rivals Heather and Leshawana. While both are fiercely competitive and determined, Heather is tall, skinny, and a stereotypical mean girl, while Leshawna is shorter, curvy, and much warmer emotionally.
** ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' has returning players Owen and Noah, and cop duo [=MacArthur=] and Sanders.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'': Had this trope with Dr. Killemoff's goons Bonehead (skinny) and Psycho (fat).
* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'': Both of the title characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': {{Mauve Shirt}}s 21 and 24.
* ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo'': The titular characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'': The titular half-brothers. Valentino (the one wearing reddish-orange clothes) is fat while Victor (the one wearing blue clothes) is skinny.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'': Had a part where Pooh dreamed about being haunted by heffalumps (fat, elephant-like creatures) and woozles (skinny, weasel-like creatures).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'': Hoppopotamus and Butterbear, the two main girls.
** Butterbear isn't really skinny (she is a bear, after all), just short.
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* Creator/GKChesterton saw St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi this way, since, though they never met, they would have been perfect foils for one another--the one big, slow, methodical and focused on his books, the other skinny, active, fiery and not prone to reading. He compared them to both [[Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor Falstaff and Slender]] and [[Literature/DonQuixote Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.]]
** G. K. Chesterton was himself an example, with friend and fellow writer Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw as the Skinny. However, they were both known for their wit, making it an atypical example. Worth mentioning just for this conversation:
-->'''Chesterton''': To look at you, one would think there was a famine in the land!
-->'''Shaw''': To look at you, one would think you caused it!
* Peggy Platt and Lisa Koch of Dos Fallopia, a Seattle-based comedic duo.
* Also from Seattle is Duo Finelli, a Vaudevillian entertainment act consisting of Luz Gaxiola (fat) and Molly Shannon (skinny).
* Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant, longtime friends and business partners, have this dynamic in most of their collaborations. Even after Ricky lost a bit of weight in the 2010s, he still looks stout next to the beanpole Steve.
* Creator/StephenFry and Creator/HughLaurie are best friends and frequent collaborators, most notably in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'', and ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''. The size difference between them isn't significant in their earlier works, but over time Stephen Fry has put on weight, while Hugh Laurie hasn't.
* Real Life bank robbers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout Larry Phillips Jr and Emil Matasareanu]] fit this trope. Phillips was a calculating planner type, fitting the skinny description. While Matasareanu was a [[AffablyEvil jovial]], BigFun type, fitting the fat description.
* UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and Steve Wozniak, famously. One was an expert designer and businessman known for his acerbic personality, the other is an expert engineer and programmer known for his warm and friendly public persona. Between the two of them, they made the personal computer revolution a reality.
* In 224 AD, at a banquet for general Cao Zhen (who was known to be fat), Wu Zhi arranged a skit making fun of him and Zhu Shuo (who was skinny). Therefore, this is OlderThanFeudalism.
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