History Main / FatSuit

* In the episode of ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Planet]]'' called "Turnabout is Fair Play", the Professor pads Gilligan to look obese in order to rescue the Skipper from an alien who collects fat specimens. Gilligan's "fat" body is drawn as an almost exact clone of Fat Albert, as both series were produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'' episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City", Robin wears a pillow stuffed under his shirt in an attempt to go undercover to infiltrate the obese villain Sweet Tooth's gang of fat teenagers in order to foil their nefarious plot to turn Gotham City's water supply to chocolate.

In the episode of ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Planet]]'' called "Turnabout is Fair Play", the Professor pads Gilligan to look obese in order to rescue the Skipper from an alien who collects fat specimens. Gilligan's "fat" body is drawn as an almost exact clone of Fat Albert, as both series were produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}.

** A third episode featured Hal (Creator/BrianCranston) wearing one in an ImagineSpot of Lois' where the family had girls instead of boys. In this life, he's put on weight because all of his daughters love baking and will bribe him with sweets to get him to let them get away with stuff.

* In a episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' Amy (LeighAllynBaker) wears one after swelling up due to suffering an allergic reaction .
* In a episode of ''Series/{{The Nanny}}'' similar to the above, Fran wears one after swelling up due to suffering an allergic reaction to an injection.

* In ''Series/{{Alfred HitchcockPresents}}'' an adaptation of the short story "Consider Her Ways" see's both the lead actress and two other actresses wear fat suits in a case of BigFatFuture.

* Patrick Thomas (as Greg) wore one plus a fat face prosthetic in an episode of Series/Goosebumps called "Say Cheese and Die...Again" about a skinny boy who turns obese by an evil camera

* On the TV show Series/{{Friends}}, Creator/CourteneyCox as Monica frequently wore a fat suit for flashback episodes.

* SebastianStröbel wore a fat suit and fat hands during most of the German movie ''Plötzlich Fett'' about a cocky fitness trainer who one day wakes up obese.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' has the character Dale the Whale (played by amongst others Creator/TimCurry). Also an in-universe example: in his debut episode Dale the Whale was accused of murdering a judge but he had a rather good alibi - he's literally too obese to even get out of bed[[spoiler: he blackmailed his dietician into committing the murder while wearing a fat suit]].

** In the fourth-season "It's a Wonderful Life" episode, we see that Kelso got fat as a TV anchorman, and Creator/AshonKutcher wears a padded gut.
* In a episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' the boys babysitter Patty (MelodyPerkins) wears one in a flashback of her high school days.

* In an episode of the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' The Joker wore a fatsuit to pretend to be the Maharajah of Nimpah. Franchise/{{Batman}} punctured the disguise by poking him in the rear with a Bat-[=JokerInAFatSuitPoker=]. (Well, it was really just a letter opener, but [[CrazyPrepared you know he has one]].)

* Subverted on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', when Jane Leeves (who plays Daphne) was pregnant. Rather than do a HideYourPregnancy, the script-writers gave Daphne an eating-disorder instead, since this worked better as Daphne's lower-class reaction to Niles' over-idealistic beliefs about her. However, in the later episode ''Freudian Sleep'', Leeves wore a ridiculous ballooning, ever-growing fat suit as Daphne dreamt she was getting terminally fat.
** A more straight example happens when Frasier gains weight after getting fired, and Creator/KelseyGrammer wears a padded stomach.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' - at Teddy's Halloween party, Bob unwillingly puts on a sumo wrestler padded fat suit costume, accidentally crushing Teddy's pet guinea pig in the process.

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* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] wore won while going as a sumo wrestler for Halloween. When she tried to actually wrestle a match in the suit, it didn't got too well.[[/folder]]

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Fat". Al had heavy doses of makeup and a fat suit to make him appear morbidly obese in the video. [[CrazyAwesome It worked.]] He dons a similar fat suit when performing the song live (but no makeup; he wears a latex mask).
** Interestingly, there's an urban legend surrounding this one. According to the legend, Weird Al thought it would be funny to film himself eating a sloppy joe while wearing the getup. He watched the video and was so disgusted he was put off meat for good. (In reality, he became a vegetarian after reading a diet book. Though the "sloppy joe" incident actually happened, it did little more than convince himself he never, ever actually wanted to ''be'' fat.)

* Pistachio Disguisey (FacePalm) in ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise''.

* At the end of ''Film/Dodgeball'', Creator/BenStiller wears one while dancing the Milkshake Dance and jiggling his prosthetic man boobs

* David Suchet dons one of these when playing the [=titular=] character in ''Series/{{Poirot}}.''

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** ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' (1996) and its sequel have Murphy playing the various adult members of the obese Klump family, meaning he had to wear several different fat suits. The former won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for the inestimable Creator/RickBaker.

* Ostensibly, Emma Thompson wore one for ''LoveActually'', although if she did, it was done in a very understated and tasteful way.

* The [[spoiler: Millennium earl]] in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' wears a fat suit. This is because he absolutely wants to hide his face for unknown reasons. Why ths suit is fat though is still unclear.

** ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' (1996) and its sequel have Murphy playing the various adult members of the obese Klump family, meaning he had to wear several different fat suits. The former won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for the inestimable Rick Baker.

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Sometimes, a ''character'', who is otherwise supposed to be skinny, athletic, or at least normal-sized, will don a FatSuit as a plot point, a disguise or just [[{{Burlesque}} low comedy]].

* At the end of ''Film/Dodgeball'', BenStiller wears one while dancing the Milkshake Dance and jiggling his prosthetic man boobs

* Former [[BritishFootyTeams Manchester United]] striker Eric Cantona (voted "The Player of the Century" by the club's fans after the turn of the Millennium) wore one in the French film ''L'Outremangeur'' (Translation: ''The Overeater'') in which he has the starring role, a fat cop.

* In a episode of ''Series/AttackOfTheShow!'' both hosts Kevin Pereira and (Creator/OliviaMunn) wear fatsuits as a part of episode challenge.