Fridge / Shallow Hal

Fridge Horror

• The "ugly" girls that Hal interacted with after Robbins' "mental whammy" but before meeting Rosemary (Christina, the three dancers at the club), will likely never meet another man who will be able to look past their physical appearances and show them as good a time (however briefly, and despite the circumstances) as Hal.
• A large portion of Hal's infatuation with Rosemary was that he thought that she was model thin and while learned to be less judgmental over a person's appearance, that doesn't mean that he is now physically attracted to fat people. How long will it be before Hal and Rosemary's marriage becomes strained to issues of low sexual chemistry?
  • Hal showed himself to still find Rosemary beautiful, even though she was much heavier. He chose to marry her after seeing her, showing he was still attracted to her.
• Rosemary never finds out that Hal only started dating her because he was hypnotized into seeing her as a thin woman. It's highly unlikely that Hal will ever have the courage to confess this, which means Rosemary will never find out that their relationship started with a lie.
• Even though the whole moral is to accept people as they are, Rosemary would likely die relatively soon after the ending of this film.
  • Not necessarily. In her case, her diet is established to be unhealthy and a factor in her obesity, but some people can have unhealthy diets, be obese, and still manage to be relatively healthy due to genetics. There's also the fact she's often shown walking, she routinely holds small children with ease, and she shows good hygiene. Plus, if she decided to adopt a healthier diet, her weight might not change much, but it would lessen the chance of future health issues manifesting.
  • It's entirely likely that spending 18 months in a foreign country with a much more limited food supply will help her rapidly drop the weight, now whether she keeps it off after coming back to the states is another matter.