"Oh, good lord, we thank thee for what thou hast spread before us, no matter how little these poor morsels be."
— The Forester's Wife, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
A character who is possibly a Big Eater will most often come across a large amount of food at a buffet or maybe even a restaurant. What does he do? He will immediately dig into the food that lies in front of him. What follows after that is a montage showing the character stuffing himself with food.
This is a type of montage where a gluttonous character will engorge on a mass variety of food through a series of stills and vignettes.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- There was an extended scene in the Bleach anime where Yoruichi was eating to recover from Ulqiorra and Yammy's attacks.
- Exaggerated in the first episode of Re: Cutie Honey; Honey eats literally hundreds of dishes from a donburi place, a steakhouse, a sushi restaurant, and a Chinese restaurant all in rapid succession!
Comic Books
- In Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, Chief Vitalstatistix has liver problems, so Getafix sends him to a health spa to lose weight. Since the trip takes several days, we get a montage of him stuffing himself at every inn on the way, while making justifying comments like, "Everyone knows cheese is an aid to digestion." By the time they arrive, he's in such pain Obelix has to carry him.
- The Mighty Thor: Volstagg of the Warriors Three got this the first time he encountered a wonder of wonders in the mortal world: an all-you-can-eat buffet. It ended with an empty buffet table and Volstagg praising it as an excellent snack for between meals.
- In My Little Pony: Legends of Magic, Rockhoof stuffs himself silly on an entire page. He literally eats his way out of a pit of corn in one panel. Even some of the other villagers get in on the act.
Fan Works
- One occurs in the second story of the Facing the Future Series in which Danny goes on a two hour eating binge (for the second time) due to Desiree casting a spell on the food. Unfortunately, he has such a stomachache that he can't fight.
Films — Live-Action
- Templeton did this in both film versions of Charlotte's Web. Both times, he becomes morbidly obese.
- This also shows up in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
- Groundhog Day: Upon realizing there are no consequences for his actions while trapped in the time-loop, Phil goes through a period of this, stuffing his face in the town diner.
Web Animation
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starts out as one of these, then becomes something... else.
- A November 2015 Nintendo Direct has a skit for Yo Kai Watch with this. In it, a Hungramps possesses Bill and makes him devour the donuts meant for a meeting. Reggie, who arrives later to run the meeting, is not amused.
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Web Videos
- Strongman Brian Shaw has, in addition to his superheavy lift videos (and lighthearted bits), several videos of him binge-eating large amounts of fast food. One of these has him order every item from the Taco Bell menu and try to devour it all in one long montage.
Western Animation
- A stop-motion animation adaptation of the Russian folktale "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship" provides the quote above, just before the Forester's Wife eats everything at the table.
- Squidward became involved in one of these with Krabby Patties in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Just One Bite".
- Garfield also had one of these in a Dream Sequence in the Garfield and Friends episode "Nighty Nightmare", as well as in other episodes including "Fit For A King" and "Forget Me Not".
- Likewise, this also happened to Numbuh Two in Codename: Kids Next Door in two episodes, "Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H." and "Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E."
- In Disney's first Winnie the Pooh short, the book turns page after page of Pooh stuffing himself.
- Shaggy and Scooby-Doo also had these in numerous episodes in most incarnations, due to their Big Eater status.
- Subverted in Tex Avery's 1936 Merrie Melodies short "Page Miss Glory." During Abner the Bellhop's Imagine Spot at a ritzy hotel, an obese man demands food, so four waiters hurriedly pile his table with comestibles. He takes a bit out of half an olive and leaves.
- Looney Tunes:
- Friz Freleng's "Pigs Is Pigs" has a little boy piglet glomping everyone else's food in the family so he is sent to bed as punishment. He has a nightmare of being force fed food by machinery until he is so obese he can barely walk. He explodes after taking one last bite out of a morsel, and then he wakes up from his dream.
- In "Holiday for Drumsticks", a hillbilly buys a turkey and gives him a banquet of food to fatten him up for Thanksgiving — fellow barnyard fowl Daffy warns him off it and puts him on a vigorous exercise regimen while he stuffs himself. By Thanksgiving the turkey is slim while Daffy has become obese and is picked by the farmer for Thanksgiving dinner.
- The second act of the Mr. Bogus episode "Class Clown Bogus" showed Bogus taking the opportunity to help himself to the food that is being served in the cafeteria.
- The Amazing World of Gumball had one that between the first-person perspective and techno music, is a clear homage to The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up".
- The Little Audrey short, "Butterscotch and Soda" has the title character in a land made of candy and starts collecting and eating as much of it as she can, before getting a stomach-ache and being chased by the inhabitants.
