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8The 2004 LiveActionAdaptation of the ComicBook/{{Viz}} comic strip ''Fat Slags''. The story follows two immense women from an over-the-top stereotype of the [[OopNorth North-West of England]] going to the slightly less over-the-top stereotype of London, to sit in the StudioAudience of a current affairs show.
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10While there, they accidentally charm their way into the heart of a multi-multi-multi-billionaire, Sean Cooley (Creator/JerryOConnell), who has just suffered a severe blow to the head. The blow makes him forget to hide his ChubbyChaser fetish and, when he sees the girls on TV, he gets obsessed with them. He decides to make Fat Admirers the driving force behind all fashion and pop culture, while showering the ladies in gifts and unwittingly causing his besotten Personal Assistant, Paige (Geri Halliwell), to gorge herself into a BigBeautifulWoman. First Britain and then, offscreen, the rest of the world become enthusiastic Fat Admirers and either Big Beautiful Women or those who want to be [[BigBeautifulWoman BBWs]].
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15* AffectionateParody: Multiple instances, including a surprisingly in-depth one of ''Film/MissionImpossible1996''.
16%%* AwfulBritishSexComedy
17* BalloonBelly: After the weight gaining trend takes off, Paige is seen unbuttoning her suit jacket to reveal her stomach is already bloated enough from eating to tightly strain the buttons of her shirt - and she obviously wants it to get even bigger.
18* BigBeautifulWoman: The Fat Slags spearhead the countrywide invocation of this trope, as it becomes a trend for all women to emulate them.
19* BigEater:
20** Obviously the Fat Slags are the fat variety. Shortly after they start dating a multi-trillionaire, we have a scene showing one of the Fat Slags, then panning down her chest to follow a table piled three feet high with ''ridiculously'' fattening food for about a full minute before panning up the other Fat Slag. The pile of food is so long, they need a phone at each end to talk.
21** Paige becomes one out of desperation to please and attract Cooley, but soon she begins gorging herself for pure pleasure and gluttony all the same. Best seen when even the failed logic of her plan to fatten up for Cooley is pointed out, she still gluttonously shoves a slab of cake into her mouth moaning with pleasure the whole time.
22%%* BottomOfTheBarrelJoke
23%%* CaptionHumor
24* ChubbyChaser: Cooley. Openly, after he gets a blow to the head.
25* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first we see of the Slags is them grabbing their mailman, dragging him into the house, and then throwing him back out half-dressed and dazed, heavily implying they raped him. This, incidentally, is as close as the film's versions of San and Tray get to the comics version.
26%%* FanDisservice: The Slags themselves.
27* EvilBrit: Inverted; Sean Cooly, played by Jerry O’Connell, is the only character to have an American accent and is a RichBastard as well as the main antagonist.
28* {{Fartillery}}: Played straight. Somehow a release of gas causes their gardener to explode and their morning release causes multiple animals to run away.
29* {{Fetish}}: Mr. Cooley suffers a blow to the head and suffers a change of personality, including suddenly being a FatAdmirer.
30* FormerlyFit: Paige, desperate to win over Cooley, fattens herself up to try to become attractive to him. She gets very fat in a short amount of time, losing her slender figure to the immense amount of food she stuffs herself with.
31* HollywoodPudgy:[[invoked]] Subverted when Creator/NaomiCampbell does a cameo role in which her gain consists of about fifteen to twenty pounds and it is intentionally treated as ''not enough'' gain.
32* InNameOnly: By the 20-minute mark, the Slags are no longer in-character, are no longer factory workers, and are no longer in Northern England. The existence of Baz and Dave was shoehorned into the film last-minute and is irrelevant to the plot.
33* LoveMakesYouDumb: Paige has it pointed out to her that just because she’s getting fat doesn’t mean it’ll actually succeed in attracting Sean. But by this point, not only is Paige still too obsessed with winning over Sean to care, she’s too gluttonous to care and is now addicted to fattening foods.
34* MadeOfExplodium: The Slags' gardener explodes for no clearly defined reason, after having a fatally squished pet dog thrown into him and then falling into a wheelbarrow. Later on a laptop goes up in a similarly violent explosion, although it's implied at an earlier point that the laptop has a self-destruct mechanism which the Slags inadvertently trigger by whacking it around.
35%%* MotorMouth: Baz and Dave.
36* MusicalisInterruptus: When one of the Slags gets out of a bathtub, the opera singer who was part of the background music screams in terror, causing the band to halt.
37* OopNorth: The Fat Slags, being from the Nottingham area, speak with the appropriate accent.
38* PlotHole: [[spoiler:Cooley was being wheeled in for penis reattachment surgery ''after'' Tracy accidentally fell onto the secretary general and the slags were thrown in jail. Yet he's released from the hospital as the secretary general arrives in an ambulance. As WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown pointed out, either the poor secretary general had the longest ride to the ER the world has ever seen, or Cooley's delicate and complicated surgical procedure happened at warp speed.]]
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40* ShaggyDogStory: Subverted. Paige loses her figure fattening up to try to please and attract Cooley. By the time she’s grown fat, he’s already snapped out of his public fat fetish and surely wouldn’t love her even now. But now she’s seen how shallow and pathetic he is, and is embracing her new size as a BigBeautifulWoman and moving on from him, even if it cost her her thin body.
41* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler:Subverted - by the film's end they have lost not only everything they've gained over the course of their adventure, but even ''their house'' which was gutted to be put on display as a work of art. Their boyfriends manage to return from [[PutOnABus their little trip to Afghanistan]], though [[UnexplainedRecovery how they did so is never explained]]. The national fad sparked from their shortlived television career also dies off about as abruptly as it began once Cooley stops promoting them.]]
42* StockFootage: Of animals (many of them African) running away from the Slags' {{Fartillery}}.
43%%* ToiletHumour
44* TheUnintelligible: The slags' boyfriends, Baz and Dave. Their thick northern accents and [[MotorMouth rapid speech]] are so incomprehensible they're mistaken for illegal immigrants and deported to Afghanistan - the interrogators think Dave, telling them that San gives Baz a "hard-on," actually said "Osama Bin Laden."
45* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: San and Tray themselves are very much this.
46* VulgarHumor: A movie called "Fat Slags" featuring two overweight women who shag and curse their way to the top would necessarily feature at least some of this.

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