History Main / WeightWoe

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Bill Dauterive is constantly ashamed of his weight ever since his life went downhill following his marriage and divorce. In one episode he's told his excess weight and body hair were the result of the government using him as a guinea pig in drug research until it turned out he was in the placebo group. He's ashamed to exercise in a gym because he thinks he's too fat to be seen working out with other people, and when he got diagnosed with diabetes he tried to blame his genes instead of his weight. In at least one episode that implies this has happened before, he goes on an eating binge when the Arlen town council bans food made with trans fats, thinking that all remaining junk food is good for him now that it's government approved. In a series of flashbacks, it shows Bill always goes overboard with what he thinks is diet food like light beer, failing to understand its diet compared to the regular product. In the trans fat episode, he becomes more bloated than he usually is and suffered from an outbreak of zits. He doesn't stop until Hank makes him look at his reflection, and Bill becomes horrified enough to stop.

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* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': In Mercy's first Friendship Event, she asks you to make a Weight Enhancer for Lucke because she believes he's too skinny to get a date.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Discussed when Ursula says that one example of her alleged altruism is making a woman thinner who wants to be.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Multiple:

* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Subverted; Hanako claims to be dieting (which means she only eats one bucket of curry), and uses it as a justification for [[FatBastard not sharing some of her food]] ([[BigEater despite having more than enough to share]]) [[FatBastard with the starving protagonists]].

** One episode dealt with this as seriously as the show could. Sabrina tried to lose weight in order to fit into a dress for an upcoming dance but then started using shoddy diet drinks from the Other Realm. To make matters worse, the salesman put a spell on her bedroom mirror to make her reflection look morbidly obese. Zelda found out what happened when she saw her butt reflected much bigger than it was and took the spell off. Unfortunately, by that point, Sabrina legitimately believed she was huge and kept taking the diet shakes until she became invisible. She [[IncrediblyLamePun wasted away into nothing]].

* As an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Shaft of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' apparently had an eating disorder during the team's first volume, and was very self-conscious about his weight. The seventh issue included a NightmareSequence where he gorges himself and becomes obese. Strangely, this is one of the most original storylines created by Creator/RobLiefeld, as it's virtually impossible to find comic books about male characters with eating disorders. This plot wasn't seen again in Shaft's later appearances.

* ''Film/CenterStage2000'' has Maureen trying to hide her bulemia by [[VomitDiscretionShot throwing up her food behind bathroom doors]] and playing it off. When she starts dating Jim, a pre-med student, and he becomes concerened with her eating disorder, she tries to play it off. [[spoiler:She finallly admits it to her mother when she gives up ballet completely, saying she throws up half of what she eats. Nancy--a StageMom who has been [[VicariouslyAmbitious living her failed ballet dreams through her daughter]]--plays it off as Maureen "watching what she eats," and eventually Maureen walks away.]]

Compare HugeSchoolGirl, a girl who is much taller and more developed than her peers and is insecure about it, HeightAngst, where a character is self-conscious about their height instead of their width, and RealWomenHaveCurves, where higher body fat is portrayed as the ideal. Contrast FatAndProud and {{Big Beautiful Wom|an}}en/{{Big Beautiful M|an}}en--the former of whom are comfortable with their size and the latter are portrayed as sexy despite or ''because'' they are overweight. Both compare and contrast ObsessedWithFood, as a person who is self-conscious about their weight will very often be obsessed with food itself as well, though it will not seem like it on the surface.

* In Creator/CathyCassidy's ''Summer's Dream,'' the aspiring dancer protagonist becomes convinced that she's too fat to be a ballerina, although it's actually the mental effects of anorexia making Summer think that way, and she's really far too thin.
* In Creator/CatherineAnderson's ''Sweet Nothings'', heroine Molly hates her full-figured build, mainly due to her ex-husband constantly telling her how fat and ugly she was. She diets religiously, checking food labels, counting calories, her habits spilling over into the way she cooks for the men on Jake's ranch. The problem isn't solved by Molly losing weight but learning to accept her body for what it is.

* A recurring problem in so many degrees in the Carolyn Mackler novel "Literature/TheEarthMyButtAndOtherBigRoundThings": [[BigBeautifulWoman Virginia Shreves]] feels inadequate about her body's attractiveness and refuses to pursue a relationship with a boy who mutually likes her, due to a fear of rejection and humiliation from him or as she calls it [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon "The Fat Girl Code"]]; her StepfordSmiler psychoanalyst mother is skinny and constantly watches her weight to prevent a return to her [[FormerlyFat past]] and since her husband finds thin women attractive; the AlphaBitch Brie is bulimic.

* The 2 part episode "Our Lips Are Sealed" from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has Emma developing anorexia as a way of dealing with the stress in her life.

In a world where being very skinny (or buff if you're a guy) is the ideal and being [[FatBastard over]][[FatIdiot weight]] is dreaded, [[TruthInTelevision many people are self-conscious about their weight]]. Media, Internet and social media depictions of impossibly perfect celebrities only makes it worse.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Harold becomes insecure about his size and strives to lose weight when he overhears Sid and Stinky mocking him. He goes on a cruise with the purpose of helping kids lose weight, but is even ''bigger'' when he returns. He manages to [[StatusQuoIsGod lose the extra weight]] with some help from Arnold, though.
* There was a ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' episode which revolved around Brendon and Jason enabling each other's poor eating habits, before the ending showed the now obese kids making fat-themed parodies of famous movies.
* Played with in two senses in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''. In the earlier "Jumbo Johnny" episode, Johnny worries that he's not as buff as he could be and seeks to gain weight in terms of musculature. He's sold an experimental protein shake, but he doesn't follow the instructions correctly and drinks every can in a single night. By morning, Johnny is extremely fat and deludes himself into thinking he's ripped until he takes more of the protein shake and essentially becomes a fat giant. Johnny accidentally destroys most of the city looking for the protein shake salesman, who finally gives him the antidote to slim down. But Johnny ''still'' doesn't follow the instructions, drinks every can he's given, and while he does slim down [[spoiler: he's basically a two-inch stick person with a normal-sized head.]]

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' opened up with Gonard significantly tubbier than usual, and Ozu orders him to get back in shape because he's an action star. Gonard's forced to use Ozu's workout equipment, and while he becomes much more chiseled than he was before, he's now obsessed with exercising.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' when the writers did an intentionally {{Anvilicious}} episode about eating right after being told by the company that they had to make at least one Aesop episode. In "Grande Size Me" Ron tries to rally against Mr. Barkin's lectures on a balanced diet by eating Bueno Nacho every day to prove it's not dangerous. Sure enough, Ron starts to get tubby and pretty much everyone, including the villains, shows concern over what Ron is doing to his body. However, after being submerged in a mutagenic growth formula, Ron's appetite increases, and he gradually becomes much fatter, taller, and more aggressive, until he finally mutates into an orange parody of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]. The only solution to reversing the mutation is to get him to eat healthy food. During the end credits, however, Ron delivers a lecture about not falling into strange chemicals [[NoFourthWall to the audience]] even though everyone else has no idea who he's talking to.
* Bill Dauterive on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is constantly ashamed of his weight ever since his life went downhill following his marriage and divorce. In one episode he's told his excess weight and body hair were the result of the government using him as a guinea pig in drug research until it turned out he was in the placebo group. He's ashamed to exercise in a gym because he thinks he's too fat to be seen working out with other people, and when he got diagnosed with diabetes he tried to blame his genes instead of his weight. In at least one episode that implies this has happened before, he goes on an eating binge when the Arlen town council bans food made with trans fats, thinking that all remaining junk food is good for him now that it's government approved. In a series of flashbacks, it shows Bill always goes overboard with what he thinks is diet food like light beer, failing to understand its diet compared to the regular product. In the trans fat episode, he becomes more bloated than he usually is and suffered from an outbreak of zits. He doesn't stop until Hank makes him look at his reflection, and Bill becomes horrified enough to stop.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Bugs suggested to Porky during his brief stint as a caterer that he try some of his grandmother's old recipes since Porky's own dishes weren't that good. The recipes all call for an unhealthy amount of butter but are rather delicious, so much so that Bugs gets hooked on them and is finding excuses to throw parties just so Porky can cater to them. Sure enough, Bugs starts off with a noticeable belly, then gets ''huge'', to the point that he causes a tidal wave when jumping into a pool to save Daffy from drowning. That serves as Bugs' wake-up call and he manages to cut back on the junk.
* Explored in a very unusual sense on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', in which the "woe" aspect comes not from fat or musculature, but ''gravity''. Phoebe is concerned that she is unable to perform a special basketball feat for an upcoming game, and Ms. Frizzle uses this as an opportunity to teach the class about the concept of gravity. The bus transforms into an artificial planet, and the gravity is altered depending on how small or big the bus is. Unfortunately, someone knocks the gravity controls into high gear, enlarging the bus and increasing the gravity to such a degree that the kids are barely able to move and in danger of being crushed. Thankfully they manage to reach the controls in time before something bad happens.
* Inverted in the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' where FatAndProud Coop is disgusted and enraged to discover his evil, alternate universe self is a power-hungry, ''skinny'' conqueror.

* "Chew On This" from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' had Adam complain about the fact that there wasn't any human food in the cafeteria. Fearing he might sue, Principal Pixie Frog changes the lunch menu to feature nothing but stuff humans eat. Jake and just about everyone else in the school (except Adam) get addicted because they're not used to eating pizza, french fries, and tater tots, and become very obese. When Adam is almost mobbed for his lunch, he threatens Pixie Frog that if he gets hurt he'd have grounds to sue the school, and offers not to in exchange for the menu being set back to the way it was. It then ends with everyone, the students and the staff, trying to lose weight.
* Hector in ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' almost had a heart attack after gaining a couple of pounds before he decided to go jogging.

** Homer bounces around this. Sometimes he wants to be thinner, but in "King-Size Homer" he had woe because he wanted to ''gain'' weight in order to qualify for a disability that would allow him to work from home.

** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled," Bart and Lisa were shocked when they discover a morbidly obese Krusty in his apartment just as they were to announce that they got all of the celebrities (sans Elizabeth Taylor) needed for his comeback special. Krusty declared that he was on a steady diet of milkshakes. [[OhCrap Lisa asked if they were diet milkshakes]]. Luckily, the Simpson family [[TrainingMontage got him back in shape just in time]].
** In "Bart's Friend Falls In Love," Lisa is concerned about Homer's weight and worries that he might die as a morbidly obese blob. Marge tries to send away for a tape set to help Homer lose weight via suggestions in his sleep, but the company had run out of weight loss cassettes and sent in a set to improve a person's vocabulary. They don't realize Homer received the wrong tape, and while Homer becomes much more articulate he gains weight and destroys the tapes out of anger.

** In "Kamp Krusty" Martin Prince isn't happy that his parents are sending him to a FatCamp, which is revealed to be run like a concentration camp by the sadistic camp counselor Mr. Black.

** In "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?" Homer's rave reviews as a food critic cause many Springfielders to gain weight. Among them is Mr. Burns, whose shins break due to his new girth. He's seen at the end, still fat, among the crowd ready to beat the crap out of Homer for all the shit he pulled in this episode.

* When WesternAnimation/{{Static|Shock}} had traveled into the future, he was a little shocked to discover Richie had noticeably gained a few pounds as an adult. Upon arriving back to the present, he snarked that Richie should watch the fast food from that point.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode had a villain creating girl scout cookies that were highly addictive and fattening as revenge for a childhood trauma of being booted out of the organization. Both Clover and Jerry became hooked on the cookies and became obese by the episode's end, as did the villain herself when the spies made her sample the "highly addictive sugar extract" she invented which made the cookies so addictive. An antidote was made and Clover and all the other victims of the scheme were turned back to normal.
** While Clover learned to appreciate her regular size by episode's end (she was obsessed with buying a large hat), she hardly complained about her sudden weight gain during the mission.
* Nitz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'' was horrified to discover he put on the Freshman Fifteen just before the Exposed Expo, an annual streaking event, and tried to slim down in time.

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** While working as a newscaster in "Anchorfran", Francine's celebrity status gets her free meals whenever she wants at a Mexican restaurant. Stan starts exploiting this and puts on a lot of weight from constantly gorging himself on free food, even admitting he's been treating himself to 16 burritos a day. Stan remains fat for the rest of the episode, and while no one has any visible problem with this, Stan mentions all that spicy food [[spoiler: made his colon fall out, which he is apparently holding in place with ''duct tape'']]. He's later seen shoving a sheet cake into his face and eating it like a dog.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' at one point, where Dag is concerned that he's unable to gain weight for winter and worries about freezing to death, while Norb has got no problem at all. The episode ends with Dag deciding to spend the rest of winter living in morbidly obese Norb's fat folds.

* Played for BlackComedy in one Dr. Weird sketch from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. In it, Dr. Weird shows off to Steve that he's lost weight. Manually. [[MeatgrinderSurgery With a chainsaw]]. Everything below his knees has been reduced to literal bare bones.

* Pam from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' gets mocked a lot for her weight, and was especially stressed out by it in the first season. By the second season, Pam evolved into a BigBeautifulWoman MemeticBadass who shot back by mocking Cheryl's skinnier frame. However, during the fifth season when ISIS starts smuggling cocaine, Pam gets addicted and ends up losing a lot of weight. For a number of reasons, including that Pam TookALevelInDumbass, everyone says they liked her better before, not after, she got addicted. The sixth season reveals she gained back the weight she lost after beating her cocaine habit.
* "Arthur Weighs In," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', had the titular aardvark discovering that he needed to wear a "husky" suit for a play (despite not looking any different) after [[CompressedVice abruptly developing lazy habits that had never shown up before]]). He struggles to lose weight by going on a diet; Brain then tells him that restrictive diets don't work -- a surprising case of TruthInTelevision for a kid's show -- and are ''especially'' dangerous for children, instead suggesting that he eat a variety of foods and make healthier choices instead. Mr. Ratburn (who turns out to be FormerlyFat himself) then helps Arthur out by encouraging him to exercise by providing the whole class with pedometers. The combination of better eating and more physical activity helps Arthur shed the excess pounds, and he wears a smaller suit for the play.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeingIan'' episode "What's Combover You?", Ken found out that he's put on 20 pounds, due to middle age, and his new pot belly is making him feel old and fat.
* AVerySpecialEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'' had Tara go on a crash diet in order to drop five pounds so she would qualify to enter a particular beauty contest.
* Lucky Piquel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is often the butt of some fat jokes since he's a very big guy. In one episode he's stressing out about having to lose some weight for an upcoming physical, which is made extremely difficult when the case of that episode involved the mascot of a snack cake company. However, thanks to sheer willpower, Lucky manages to reach the required weight level for the physical (even though he doesn't look any slimmer). Bonkers, on the other hand, had spent most of the episode gorging on junk food and had gotten pretty fat.

* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' have this theme:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' Timmy once wished that every meal was dessert. At first, everyone is utterly hyperactive from the extra sugar rush, until a month passes by and everyone is so bloated they can only get around by rolling until the extra weight causes the Earth to fall out of orbit and spiral into the sun.
** During ''Timmy's Secret Wish'', after Timmy's retroactively stripped of his godparents for [[spoiler: freezing time]], Jorgen Von Strangle starts binge eating frosting out of depression since he doesn't have Timmy's antics keeping him busy. He remains fat for the rest of the episode.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Harold becomes insecure about his size and strives to lose weight when he overhears Sid and Stinky mocking him. He goes on a cruise with the purpose of helping kids lose weight, but is even ''bigger'' when he returns. He manages to [[StatusQuoIsGod lose the extra weight]] with some help from Arnold, though.
* There was a ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' episode which revolved around Brendon and Jason enabling each other's poor eating habits, before the ending showed the now obese kids making fat-themed parodies of famous movies.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have dealt with this trope in numerous ways due to the fact that a lot of the main characters are on the chunky side.
** Lisa Simpson had an episode of this when some kids at school made fun of her weight.
** Homer bounces around this. Sometimes he wants to be thinner, but in "King-Size Homer" he had woe because he wanted to ''gain'' weight in order to qualify for a disability that would allow him to work from home.
*** "Brush With Greatness" and "King of the Hill" play Homer's attempts to lose weight straight. The former attempt is inspired by his getting stuck in a water slide and becoming a laughing-stock; the latter episode deals with him joining a gym and climbing a mountain to win Bart's respect after he embarrasses him at a church picnic field day.
** Bart became overweight in "The Heartbroke Kid" after becoming addicted to the junk food in the new vending machines put into Springfield Elementary. To drive the point home they redid the opening with a now heavyset Bart, who ends up having a heart attack via malted milk ball-clogged arteries. Homer and Marge resort to having him sent to a fat camp against his will, though he finally sticks to losing the weight by himself after realizing his parents have had to turn the house into a youth hostel and degrade themselves for a bunch of annoying college students in order to pay for the camp.
** Rainer Wolfcastle has struggled with his weight on two occasions. The first time he claimed he was preparing for a fat secret agent role, but the second time he was at the same fat camp Bart was sent to.
** In a later season episode, Bart conspired to have Nelson Muntz addicted to Krusty Burger fast food in order to make him obese and lose the energy to bully Bart and the other kids. Lisa forced Bart to help Nelson lose the weight after seeing what Nelson turned into. The subplot started after Bart watched a ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' parody, ''Do You Want Lies With That?''
** "Sweets and Sour Marge" played with this trope by having Springfield named "America's Fattest Town" and the citizens are overjoyed by being famous for something. All except for Marge, who is slightly disturbed by how everyone seems to be celebrating their obesity. She strives to sue a sugar-manufacturing company out of protest for destroying the town's health, only to have ''all'' sugar banned from Springfield. Homer and Bart work to undo this because life without sugar is too much of a hell to comprehend, and although Homer pulls back for Marge's sake, the judge overturns his decision and [[StatusQuoIsGod things go back to normal]].
** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled," Bart and Lisa were shocked when they discover a morbidly obese Krusty in his apartment just as they were to announce that they got all of the celebrities (sans Elizabeth Taylor) needed for his comeback special. Krusty declared that he was on a steady diet of milkshakes. [[OhCrap Lisa asked if they were diet milkshakes]]. Luckily, the Simpson family [[TrainingMontage got him back in shape just in time]].
** In "Bart's Friend Falls In Love," Lisa is concerned about Homer's weight and worries that he might die as a morbidly obese blob. Marge tries to send away for a tape set to help Homer lose weight via suggestions in his sleep, but the company had run out of weight loss cassettes and sent in a set to improve a person's vocabulary. They don't realize Homer received the wrong tape, and while Homer becomes much more articulate he gains weight and destroys the tapes out of anger.
** Both sides of this are played within "Hungry, Hungry Homer". Homer goes on a hunger strike to prove that the Springfield Isotopes are really being moved to Albuquerque and begins to waste away into a delirious state of mind. Meanwhile, the kids start to get fat from eating Homer's shares at dinner simply because Marge won't cook less, though this is more a case of BalloonBelly than permanent weight.
** In "Kamp Krusty" Martin Prince isn't happy that his parents are sending him to a FatCamp, which is revealed to be run like a concentration camp by the sadistic camp counselor Mr. Black.
** "Bart Star" shows that Bart and a lot of Springfield's kids are out of shape, so their parents have them join the peewee football league to get more exercise. Bart doesn't really have a problem with being tubby, but Homer, of all people, has the nerve to call him "a disgrace to the family" for being fat.
** In "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?" Homer's rave reviews as a food critic cause many Springfielders to gain weight. Among them is Mr. Burns, whose shins break due to his new girth. He's seen at the end, still fat, among the crowd ready to beat the crap out of Homer for all the shit he pulled in this episode.
** "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" had Homer leading an all-male entourage to the Super Bowl. With no women around, the guys can relax and let their bellies hang out. The moment they learn the bus driver's female, they're quick to pull themselves back together despite their annoyance.
* [[BigEater Theodore and Eleanor]] from ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' sometimes become self-conscious about their weight.

** In "Girl, Internetted," Meg becomes an internet sensation when she starts posting videos (at Peter's behest) of her eating anything and everything she finds in the fridge. Alongside becoming obese, Meg becomes diabetic and has her feet removed. This isn't enough to make her stop what she's doing until she finds out everyone at her school has become morbidly obese in order to follow her example. The combined weight of all her newly fat classmates causes the school bleachers to collapse, killing one of the janitors whose feet are then transplanted to Meg's body.
* Coco from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' in the episode "The Big Picture" suffers this trope when Duchess says Coco has a [[TemporaryBulkChange huge belly]]. It even gets worse because it's the annual picture day at Fosters.
* Amy Wong of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' used to be fat when she was little, and although she slimmed down and became much more attractive as she got older, she still has a ravenous appetite which she keeps on lockdown. In one post-cancellation episode, Amy and Professor Farnsworth switched bodies, which Amy used as an excuse to go on an eating binge since it wasn't her body. However, the Professor's decrepit digestion system proved to be too much of a burden, and Amy switched with Leela. Amy's ravenous hunger caused Leela's body to become fat, and in order to stop herself from doing any more damage, Hermes volunteered to switch, claiming she couldn't possibly do any more damage to his flabby build. Both of them lost weight by the end of the episode, but in Amy's case, she'd lost her appetite completely after seeing Leela in the Professor's body graphically make out with Fry in Zoidberg's body.

* Inverted in the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' where FatAndProud Coop is disgusted and enraged to discover his evil, alternate universe self is a power-hungry, ''skinny'' conqueror.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' "Furious Jealousy", Jake's BigEater tendencies started to go into overdrive when he began slacking off due to a lack of magical incidents occurring in the vicinity and he started to get tubby. The only one who was originally concerned was Trixie until Jake's lack of exercise made him easy prey for the Gorgon sisters.
* Betty Hart from ''WesternAnimation/BlessTheHarts'', in the episode "Pound Pinchers". She thinks that because of her extra wisdom pounds, construction workers don't find her attractive anymore. Her woe even gets worse when she steps on the scale at the pound pinchers meetings.
* An ongoing plot point in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' was Cleveland Jr.'s sudden obesity, apparently brought on by the depression caused around the dissolution of his family when Cleveland and Loretta divorced. Though [[spoiler: a later episode (possibly) revealed the obese Jr. is a secret agent who murdered the original and took his place to enact a complex sting operation on Cleveland's neighbor, Tim the Bear, supposedly a ruthless terrorist leader]]. In one particular episode, Cleveland starts wearing a man girdle to trick Donna into thinking he's lost weight, using it as an excuse to gorge himself. By the end of the episode, he's gained so much weight he finally bursts out of the girdle looking fatter than usual.
* A one-time segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' featured "Fatman and Boy Blubber," two morbidly obese superheroes who protect the overweight people of the world. After saving the chubby Louis from bullies, they deliver (supposedly) inspirational lectures about their own struggles with obesity, including their attempts to stay healthy and tendency to eat fast food and snacks while traveling. It all turns out to be a sham, as the segment ends with Fatman and Boy Blubber trying to steal Louis' sweet buns for themselves.

** Played straight by [[FatAndProud Rufus]] and [[RatedMForManly Zangeif]] in their ending for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'', when the two are suddenly transformed into svelter, bishounen like fighters. They're utterly horrified at having lost their "Perfect bodies."

* A RunningGag with Akko from ''Manga/GirlFriends'', who is easily distracted by food and will often attempt various methods to lose weight as quickly as possible whenever she noticed that she gained some pounds.