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Author: oneuglybunny

Jun 20th 2013 at 6:30:22 PM

Picky, picky, picky.  Fine, I'll expound upon my examples.

[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* ''ComicStrip/SnuffySmith'' is a lean and mean li'l runt, while his wife Loweezy has let her girlish figure go south.  Loweezy does almost all the work around the homestead, thus she has the build of a bull ox.  Snuffy spends most of his waking hours brewing moonshine, stealing chickens, and cheating at cards.  His lean figure is partly due to meager jailhouse grub.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Old Man Nebbercracker, who lives in the ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'', is lean and wrinkly, befitting a man his age.  His wife, Constance, however, is so corpulent that she used to be kept in a cage on display as a circus freak.  The ongoing torment and ridicule by the circus patrons has made Constance viciously antisocial.  Nebbercracker's cantankerousness is his way of shielding the neighborhood children from his wife's murderous malevolence.

And, adding another one:

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* The 1936 Van Beuren Studios cartoon "Toonerville Trolley" has the lean and wily old goat The Skipper operate the trolley, while his hefty emigre wife keeps house.  However, whenever some hazard impedes the trolley's progress, either The Skipper's ingenuity or his wife's magnificent muscles remedies the situation.  This cartoon typifies an AcceptableEthnicTarget of the time that women from East Europe / White Russia were fat, ugly and manly strong.