The Fat Episode

On this day, the Flash became the Flab.

There are some aspects about being fat that can seem humorous to certain folks—the awkwardness, the lack of stamina, or the sheer weight and/or mass. Some also view it as simply looking funny. But when your main characters are fit, how can you utilize this form of comedy?

Simple: blimp 'em up for an episode and get all your fat jokes out there.

The Fat Episode is when part of or an entire episode's plot leans heavily on sudden weight gain. This is most often done in cartoons, but it's sometimes been done in live action using a Fat Suit that makes the actor appear much larger than they really are. It's even done in video games with entire levels revolving around being fattened. Even if there is some dramatic consequence, such as a hero becoming unable to do their hero thing due to weight, it's almost always something Played for Laughs. Sometimes involves sumo. They usually Snap Back by the end or the next episode. Could lead to an Hourglass Plot if another character who's helping out gains the weight that was lost by the end.

It can also be argued that certain significant portions of a longer work, such as a video game or movie series, can have a Fat Episode—if you can chop up the plot into chapters and one revolves around fat, that qualifies.

Usually overlaps with Temporary Bulk Change. If they try to lose the weight, it could lead to A Weighty Aesop, possibly Diet Episode if they way they lose weight is by changing their diet. Compare Fat Comic Relief for a character who's always fat and it's played for laughs.

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Examples

Animation

• BoBoiBoy: In "BoBoiBoy Water's Surprise", BoBoiBoy unlocks his water elemental which he needs to defeat BoBoiBot by relaxing himself, only for his new form to be too relaxed, lazy and quite chubby. Papa Zola even calls him Bo-boyot ^note (In Malay, "boyot" means "pot-bellied"), but he does help him get his normal shape back by having him undergo a Training Montage.
• Harry and Bunnie: In one episode, Bunnie ended up turning into a giant tub of lard, causing his girlfriend to put him on a diet and excercise to get him back to normal. He spends much of the episode in that physique being made to work out while his girlfriend eats all of his snacks. He eventually gains his old slim size back at the end of the episode, and we see his girlfriend gained all the weight that he lost.
• Pucca: In "Sooga Size Me", Tex Lugie and Sloppy Sue start a fast food restaurant that causes almost everyone in town to become bloated and unable to move. Garu and Abyo can't even spar with each other due to how heavy they are. Pucca has to find a way to put a stop to this, especially when the fast food place causes the Goh-Rong to shut down.

Anime & Manga

• The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
  • Chiyo becomes obese one episode due to eating so much sweets. She manages to lose the weight she gained all in one day after Saiki tells her that her crush Kaidou may lose interest in her.
  • Chisato gains sudden weight once after taking a suspicious pill given to her by some doctors then going overboard on dinner.
• Ganbare Goemon: Episode 10 of the anime has Seppukumaru developing a powder that turns the target skinny and then very fat when exposed to it. As a result, the entire city turns fat from having ingested it via spiked cakes, with even the heroes having been affected by it (minus Sasuke and Impact due to them being robots until a version of the powder capable of affecting them is made). Fortunately, defeating the villains' latest monster turns everyone back to normal.
• High School Girls: Eriko and Yuma participate in a ramen noodle eating contest, resulting in the latter getting a Balloon Belly when she wins. It comes at a cost as when Yuma reports for her weigh-in.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: "The Diet Syndrome" has Stocking mysteriously gaining weight until she's twenty feet in diameter. Heretofore, Stocking could gorge herself on sugary confections with impunity. The culprit is a demon Lethal Chef that makes macaroons laced with evil microbes that multiply fatty tissue.
• Pokémon the Series: XY: In "An Appetite for Battle", Chespin gets a Balloon Belly from eating a lot of macarons and he becomes slower from the excess weight, so Clemont tries (and fails) to build an exercise machine. Chespin wanders away in the middle of the night when he smells something good in an elderly couple's house, causing Clemont to think Chespin is angry with him.
• Read or Die: In Chapter 18, a combination of overeating while reading results in Michelle becoming fat and her sisters putting her on an exercise program.
• Sabagebu!: Momoka gets really fat after eating lots of buns in one week and gets called "fatty" by the members of her school club.

Comic Books

• The Flash: In The Flash (1959) #115, Gorilla Grodd, while possessing a random person, invents a device that increases the Flash's weight to 1000 pounds. This also renders the Flash amnesiac, which he uses to put him on display as a sideshow exhibit. The Flash eventually regains his memories while walking through a mirror maze and quickly loses all the excess weight.
• Legion of Super-Heroes: Legion of Super-Heroes In The 31st Century #3 features a Powers as Programs plot where Infectious Lass spreads a virus that causes the Legionnaires to swap abilities. Lightning Lad ends up switching with Bouncing Boy, becoming fat as the latter becomes skinny. The end of the issue has Lightning Lad unhappy to learn the virus lasts longer on people with greater weight and mass.
• My Little Pony: Legends of Magic: In the second issue, Rockhoof foregoes his normal routine to take on numerous eating challenges. When the volcano starts showing signs of life again, Rockhoof has fattened up to the point where he has trouble climbing the mountain. When he makes it there, his bulk impedes him from fighting a cherufe which results in a stern talking to from Captain Steela. To prove himself that he's still worthy of being in the Mighty Helm, Rockhoof exercises the weight off much faster than he put it on.
• The Simpsons:
  • From Dullards To Donuts focuses on Mr. Burns getting the Power Plant employees addicted to genetically modified donuts, which he then offers in abundance if the workers give up half their pay and benefits. Throughout the story, Homer and his buddies are shown sporting a Balloon Belly as a result of stuffing their faces all the time. The end then reveals they've all become morbidly obese, with productivity drastically down because everyone's either too fat to properly work or they're more focused on eating donuts. Coupled with how much Burns is spending on donuts, he scraps the plan and orders the donuts get their addictiveness and fat content lowered.
  • Lisa in the Middle has Nelson Muntz moving in with the Simpsons. As a result of spending all his time repairing things around the house, Nelson's too exhausted to bully the kids at school. Since they can now use their lunch money to buy lunch, most of the students at Springfield Elementary have become overweight thanks to the cafeteria's grossly unhealthy food. Principal Skinner begs Nelson to become a full time bully again simply because there's no money to afford bigger desks to accommodate all the fat kids.
  • Fly Away Homer has an Hourglass Plot that shows Homer losing weight throughout the story while Marge and the kids fatten up from lounging around on a cruise ship without his antics keeping them busy.
• Superman:
  • Adventure Comics #298 involved the Kent Family returning from vacation to discover most of Smallville's become morbidly obese. The cause of the obesity epidemic is revealed to be irradiated milk just as Clark Kent's seen drinking the stuff. Since Clark's immune to radiation as Superboy, he deliberately exposes himself to red kryptonite to make himself fat. It's only after the transformation kicks in that Clark realizes he now has to hide that Superboy is fat too, performing heroics while using a variety of weird disguises to hide his obesity until a cure's found.
  • "The Unknown Supergirl": After being exposed to a Red Kryptonite meteorite, Supergirl becomes suddenly morbidly obese, and must keep herself hidden from her friends until the effect wears off.
  • In Superman (1939) #221, Superman ingests an alien nectar which has an adverse reaction to his Kryptonian physiology and makes him morbidly obese. He spends the rest of the story performing all sorts of incredible feats to burn off the extra weight within a day.

Comic Strips

• Garfield:
  • May 14-May 19, 1979: After finishing off a meal, Garfield spends a week fattened to the point where his paws can't reach the floor. He becomes mobile in the Friday strip by using his tail as a spring. Then on Saturday, he can finally crawl across the floor again.
  • February 16-February 20, 1982: Garfield puts on weight after gorging on an entire bag of cat food. This time, when his feet touch the floor, he pigs out the first chance he gets and ends up even fatter.
  • August 8-August 13, 1983: Another arc starts this way with Garfield overeating from his food dish. Garfield's misfortunes include rocking while forgetting he's not on a rocking chair, getting stuck in his water dish and becoming a sitting duck for the dog next door.
• Peanuts:
  • In one arc, Snoopy stress eats after getting his heart broken. This leads to him becoming overweight for a few days while trying to forget about her.
  • In one strip, Snoopy pigs out on hot dogs before a game. The following day, his attempt to bend over renders him stuck on his belly.
  • A 1982 story arc had Sally going to Bean Bag Camp, where all kids do is sit in their bean bags watching TV and eating junk food, and came back fat. After 4 strips with fat Sally, she was suddenly back to her normal self.

Fan Works

• In Disney Villain Island, whilst the Disney Villains are staying at Camp Wawanakwa, one of their daily tasks is for each of them to spend a day with a Parody Sue. Hades gets to interact with a Sue who is a Supreme Chef, and she ends up giving him enough food that he ends up comically overweight and has to be wheeled into the forum. For the next chapter, Hades is the subject of constant fat jokes from both Chris McClean and his friend Professor Ratigan, though not from 1989 Ursula, who is Fat and Proud. It all comes to a head when he ends up getting himself stuck in a doorway and provokes Ratigan into a Your Mom-style exchange of Volleying Insults, before they remember that they're friends and should not be insulting one another... and then Hades sucks in his stomach and frees himself only to end up running into the bathroom and chipping a tooth on the sink. By the next chapter, Hades finally sheds all his excess weight, though he's not as quick as he used to be earlier.
• Family Guy Fanon:
  • In "A Star is Born... Kind Of", the B-Plot involves Peter's father Francis accidently falling into a vat of lard during a factory tour at the Quahog Lard Factory, resulting in him becoming as obese as Peter. Which gets him subject to mockery by the Griffins (though its mostly as they find it funny he became what he called his son. A Fat Stinkin' Drunk). Peter later however, takes pity on his father and shows him all the joys of being fat, which sells Francis accepting his new body more as they bond over their shared love of food. This ends up backfiring as it takes a toll on Francis' health. As Thelma points out Francis has recently been having shortness of breath, fatigue and high blood pressure because of his increased weight. And around the end of the episode, the two both get stuck in a booth at one of the restaurants they stop at due to their huge weight they gained, and need to be hoisted out by a cranes. This, alongside the cranes breaking from their weight and getting injured, gets them to call it off and get some liposuction, restoring both to their original size.
  • "Breadlosers" has Francis return to his fat appearance when he follows the surge in obesity of town residents due to Peter becomes a fat encourager activist. Alongside Mayor Adam West, the Swansons, the Fargus', Bruce and Jeffrey.
  • "Fattest in the West" has Mayor Wild West undergo a bulk up to upon discovering through a town survey that his reception in Quahog is mixed and the most disliked side is the obese side of Quahog when he tries to get into the most disliked side's lifestyle to make them like him more. Compared to the other examples, the episode ends with Wild still stuck in his fat bulk and spends the good majority of the first half of Season 22 slowly burning weight to get back to his original weight.

Film

• Avengers: Endgame ultimately ends up as this for Thor. Falling into despair after inadvertently giving Thanos the chance to perform the Snap in Avengers: Infinity War, Thor resorts to binging on alcohol and junk food and becomes very fat after five years. He recovers mentally a bit by the end of the movie, but the next film he appears in, Thor: Love and Thunder, sees him lose the weight he gained in a brief training montage.

Literature

• Bone Chillers: In Romeo and Ghouliette, Fritz becomes smitten by a girl named Julie. She gives him lots of food and he becomes fat each day. Unaware to Fritz, Julie and her parents are immortal ghouls who are planning to eat him up.
• Dirty Bertie: In "Dog Food", Whiffer the dog becomes fat and lethargic, so the vet tells his owners to stop feeding him from the table.
• Goosebumps: In Say Cheese and Die — Again!: Greg attempts to bring the cursed carnera to his teacher Mr. Sour to prove that it's real, only for him to get a picture of himself getting fat. Cue Greg getting fatter every day, forcing him to find a way to reverse the effect before he explodes.

Live-Action TV

• In the Adventures in Wonderland episode "He's Not Heavy, He's My Hatter", the Mad Hatter gorges on his Granny Hatter's delicious cookies and develops an enormous belly. After various attempts at going on a diet, he tasks the March Hare with hiding the offending sweets and making him swear not to reveal their hiding place. Ironically, when the Hatter decides that he needs to find the cookies, he burns off all the extra calories as he runs around Wonderland looking for them.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In "The Oolong Slayer", Terry Jeffords (already established to be Formerly Fat), gets addicted to cacao nibs while under stress from his job and an upcoming new baby, and briefly reverts to his former weight. But between Boyle asking the squad to help out and the Bad Boss getting fired by the end of the episode, the sources of Terry's stress are decreased and he is back to normal by the next episode.
• Frasier: Due to Jane Leeves' pregnancy, Daphne gained a large amount of weight, eventually forcing her to go to a weight loss clinic. The weight gain was made plot-relevant when it was explained as the result of finally getting together with Niles. She was stress-eating because she was nervous about living up to his expectations.
• The George Lopez Show: As the culmination of a story arc about moving away from home, Ernie gained a lot of weight, to the point where he caused an accident at work because his fat got in the way of the steering wheel of the fork lift. He had to lose the weight or lose his job.
• In The New Adventures of Old Christine episode, "He Ain't Heavy", Matthew ends up putting on a few pounds and Christine volunteers to help train him so he can lose it. Unfortunately the "protein shakes" she used were actually just high calorie milkshakes and they both end up gaining weight. However, Matthew ends up quickly losing the weight and then some, while Christine quickly begins getting fat. After putting on a sizable amount of weight, she finally finds the motivation to get back in shape by taking out her frustration using boxing to exercise.
• Pee-wee's Playhouse: One Penny cartoon was about Penny's family vacation to Hawaii. Penny's father "got chubby" from gorging on coconuts and had to go on a diet after it was over. Penny and her mother teased him by feasting on shrimp and steamed clams.
• Reba: The episode "Hide Your Cake" focuses on Barbra Jean's weight gain (like the Frasier example above, this was done to hide Melissa Peterman's pregnancy.) and has her attempt to lose the weight. After her diet and exercise attempts fail, a pep talk from Reba would convince Barbra Jean to accept her new weight, though she would slim down considerably in the following season.
• The Sabrina the Teenage Witch episode "Sabrina and the Beanstalk" has Harvey get swept up a magical beanstalk where he meets the beautiful but deadly Wicked Witch. She proceeds to fatten him up with magic food so she can cook him for dinner.
• Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps: In the aptly named episode "Fat", Gaz is revealed to have become obese in the months after his break-up with Donna. He manages to lose the excess weight by the end of the episode (through an unusual workout regimen).

Video Games

• Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: There is an entire level requiring obesity. Bowser ends up being tricked into eating exceedingly fattening food by a bunch of Boos, so much so that he falls through the floor...and gets stuck. The Mario Bros. then go through the Flab Zone, an area inside Bowser only traversable whilst he is in this state. At the end, Bowser works the weight off, but if the player so desires, they can take Bowser back to the buffet and fatten him again, opening Flab Zone back up. (Bowser admits that the jerk who did that to him can really cook.)

Web Animation

• I'm Anton!: This episode has Terada convince Anton to gain 220 pounds in a week for $1,000,000 dollars. Anton did as nothing as possible and ate a lot of junk food. Unfortunately at the end of the week, he was 9 pounds short of the goal, but Terada gave him $1,000 dollars for his trouble.
• Karekore the Half Blood: Kage and Hisame are trying to lose their weight after eating a lot of Cidy's cooking. Hisame eventually manages to lose her weight normally, however for Kage's case, he becomes extremely skinny after he overworked himself to buy diet pills, not realizing that he already lost most of his weight.

Webcomics

• Diamond and Dazzle:
  • Happens to Diamond Tiara in World 3 of the Adventure arc. Having swapped bodies with Dazzle, she catches a whiff of Gyorg and finishes him off with a 97-chomp combo. She spends the entirety of World 4 overweight, unable to keep up with Dazzle until she burns it off.
  • In the Life arc, Diamond and Il the Imp have been turned into cats. This time, the smell of Fishface the Torpedo does both of them in. Unlike in the Adventure arc, neither of them can shake off the excess weight by playing through. One world doubles as a gym where they exercise until they become normal again.
• The Petri Dish: One story arc involves Thaddeus gaining a potbelly after spending his whole winter loafing around. He tries to slim back down by exercising more often and hiring a woman named Jamie-Lynn who forbids him from eating any sugar.

Web Videos

• SuperMarioLogan:
  • In "Fat Jeffy!", Jeffy refuses to eat green beans since he hates them so much, and only eats junk food for 2 months, and becomes too fat to even move properly, relying on the arms of his puppeteer. Mario calls Brooklyn T. Guy and they try to get him to exercise, but they eventually settle on giving Jeffy a liposuction.
  • In "Fat Junior!", Junior becomes the 1 trillionth customer at McDonald's, and wins a year's worth of free food from the restaurant. He eats it constantly for a month, becoming very fat as a result. When Jackie Chu finds out about how fat Junior has become, he enters him in a sumo wrestling match against Whoa He Big, promising him no homework for the entire school year if he wins. Junior ends up losing the match, and at the end of the video, he finds out from Brooklyn T. Guy that he has contracted Type 2 Diabetes as a result of his overeating, and gets the rest of his McDonald's food taken away.
• Where's My Water? Presents: Swampy's Underground Adventures: The mobile game's web series has the episode "Sink or Swim", which details Swampy, Cranky, and Karl devouring a pile of doughnuts, growing fat, and then being forced to exercise and burn it all off by Allie.

Western Animation

• 6teen: In "Girlie Boys"' B-plot, Caitlin works at a chocolate store to earn extra money towards a new pair of jeans. She eats upwards of six pounds of chocolate a day, and by the time she's ready to buy the jeans, ends up looking heavily pregnant, completely oblivious to her weight gain until she's unable to fasten the jeans around her belly. She's horrified at the result and by the end of the episode, loses the weight at a fitness center.
• Angry Beavers: More than once!
  • In "Sang 'em High", the entire house suffers from Daggett suddenly becoming a gigantic blob of a beaver with a glorious singing voice whenever he argues with Norbert. This is thanks to Laverta Lutz teaching him how to win, because "the argument's over when the fat beaver sings". While the plot focuses on the singing itself, the fat part is pretty essential, given it's a play on the expression "it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings".
  • In "Chocolate Up to Experience", Norbert catches Daggett sampling the chocolate they're supposed to be selling. Norb then proceeds to gorge on their inventory, leaving Dag with one bar to sell at a $200 price tag. Norb remains fat for the duration of the episode.
  • In "Fat Chance", both brothers have to put on weight for hibernation, but Daggett's Hyperactive Metabolism foils him. He tries many ways to grow large, but all fail. Ultimately, he survives by hanging out in one of Norbert's fat folds at the end. Ironically, while the episode itself is most definitely focused on fatness, it's about failing to become fat.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Super Bowl", Master Shake gorges on Enchiladitos in search for Super Bowl tickets. He becomes so obese over a short period of time that he gets diabetes and cancer. He's back to normal in the next episode.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: In "Supersize Me", both Beavis and Butt-Head binge on Burger World food for 30 straight days, becoming morbidly obese in the process. They did this so they could get famous like Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me, albeit without knowing the actual message of the documentary.
  Butt-Head: We ate a lot of Burger World food, and now we're fat.
• Big City Greens: In "Fast Foodie", a Burger Clown opens next door to the Greens' house and Cricket wants to eat there every day for every meal; after making a wager with Bill that he and Tilly will do so without any problems, constant fast food causes Cricket to become extremely gluttonous and weighty, but this does not stop him from eating the food despite Bill's objections. After getting stuck in a slide and asked by Bill if he really wants to spend his whole life there, Cricket realizes his mistake and apologizes, learning his lesson that too much fast food isn't good for him.
• CatDog: Given Dog is a Big Eater, it was bound to happen. Not even Cat's spared from gluttony!
  • "Dog Ate It" starts off with Dog overweight, with Cat making him work out for a big dance. However, at the end, Dog loses control and eats all the food around, yo-yoing hard.
  • In "Sumo Enchanted Evening", CatDog eat at Rancid Rabbit's restaurant and gorge themselves so much, they become massively fat—enough that it's easier to go vertical than horizontal—and must work to pay off their bill. They decide to instead do a sumo match with Rancid Rabbit, who reveals himself to be hiding a body that would make a yokozuna blush. They win only after some last-minute weight gain. The episode ends with them still fat, but of course, they Snap Back the next episode.
• The Doug short "Doug Tips the Scales", after a weekend trip to his grandmother's house, Doug realizes he put on a few pounds and has been invited to Beebe's pool party. Doug is too embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit, so he decides to work the extra weight off before the party using Ronald "Prepare to Suffer" Weisenheimer's videos. However, it turns out he's not the only one who's insecure about his body.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: A given with how zany the series gets.
  • "A Glass of Warm Ed" features Ed sleepwalking about the cul-de-sac and munching on everyone's food, getting more and more bloated as he does. He eventually ends up stuck in a basement window.
  • In "One Size Fits Ed", Jimmy wants to become a superstar. The Eds help by turning him into a sumo wrestler and try to get him to Japan. (They fail.)
• The Fairly Oddparents: In "Just Desserts," Timmy's wish for a world where every meal is dessert results in everyone becoming morbidly obese after a month of eating junk food and baked goods. Timmy's initially fine with this, as aside from mobility issues they now live in a world where no one gets picked on for being fat. It's only when the combined weight sends Earth hurtling out of orbit into the sun that Timmy hurries to undo the wish.
• Family Guy:
  • "He's Too Sexy for His Fat":
    • Played straight with Stewie who takes advantage of Chris when he's put on a diet. Stewie gains a ton of weight by gorging on the foods Chris has to avoid. In the final stages, he has to be carried on a wagon, and his arms can't even reach his face.
    • Inverted with Peter. In this episode, he gets liposuction and has muscular implants. He then has an accident near a conveniently placed lard factory, gorging on the lard until he becomes fat again.
  • In "Sibling Rivalry", Peter loses his sex drive after a vasectomy and Lois turns to overeating because he can't satisfy her. Peter then discovers he has an obesity kink and encourages Lois to gorge herself in order to revive their sex life. At the end of the episode, she has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital for emergency liposuction, restoring her to her original size.
• Fred the Caveman: One episode had Fred eat so much food he gained a paunch that gave him a head and tummy ache. The episode was devoted to Fred's friends trying to get him to slim down, which they succeed in... Only for Fred to gain all that weight back at the end of the episode.
• Garfield and Friends: In the episode "Taste Makes Waist", Jon ends up putting on some extra pounds and decides to go on a diet. As luck would have it, he finds out about a diet program that provides ready made meals that seem to be rather appetizing, only to find it to be a massive ripoff as the food comes in ridiculously small portions and is practically inedible.
• In the Hey Arnold! episode "Weighing Harold", Harold, who's already rather tubby, becomes determined to lose weight after his friends and some strangers make fun of him. He goes on a months-long cruise meant to help overweight kids slim down, but he comes back even fatter than he was before. With Arnold's help, Harold returns to his original weight by the end of the episode.
• In the Home Movies episode "Bad Influences", both Brendan and Jason end gaining weight and are both placed on diets (well, as Jason put it, he was already fat to begin with, and just got bigger). Paula gained some weight as well, so she signs herself and Brendan up for gym memberships. Brendan and Jason end up cheating on their diets only to realize they only eat junk food around each other. So they decide to end their friendship. In the end, despite being the one who said they should lose weight in the first place, Melissa gets them back together because she missed making movies with the two of them. All three of them end up really fat by the episode's end.
• Johnny Test: In "Phat Johnny", Johnny agrees to try Bling-Bling Boy's new energy bar. Since it was made with Bling-Bling Boy's DNA, Johnny becomes fat like him after the effects wear off. Johnny uses his new poundage to become a rapper. He gets back to his normal weight after he accidentally swallows an antidote in Bling-Bling Boy's lab.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: In "Magic Takes a Holiday", Juniper's pug Monroe takes a liking to the cook at her drama camp. Monroe gains weight after being served so much food, to the point where he tries burning it off on a treadmill during the credits.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Experiment 062, named Frenchfry by Lilo, was designs to cook irressistable meals, but his programming has him remove the nutrition and cause those to eat his food to bloat up. Lilo, Stitch, Pleakly, and Gantu all find themselves subject to this, and Lilo later finds out from Jumba that Frenchfry is fattening them up to eat them.
• KaBlam!:
  • The wraparounds of "Sasquatch-ercise" involve Henry and June, who have become fat and lazy, getting a letter from the staff that they have to pass their physical fitness test or risk being relieved of their hosting duties. Henry hires Richard Simmons to help him and June get back into shape. In the end, it is revealed that the physical fitness test merely involved surviving having safes fall on them.
  • The Action League NOW! episode, "Fatter" (part of "Just Chillin'") involves the Chief being cursed by Madame Shyster to gain an uncontrollable appetite until he basically becomes a bowling ball with a head and limbs. Eventually, he explodes and turns back to normal.
• Krypto the Superdog: In "Up, up, and Away", Ignatius puts on weight and has to go on a diet. He tries getting around it by baking muffins which make him lighter than air. This seems to work until Kevin and his classmates discover the muffins.
• The 1937 Looney Tunes cartoon "Porky's Romance" has Porky Pig attempt to woo Petunia Pig, but she rejects him. Despondent, Porky attempts suicide by hanging, but bungles the attempt. In his delirium, he envisions being married to a bloated, indolent sow, while tending to all the housework, plus parenting a dozen piglets. When Petunia shows up to accept his courtship, Porky flees from her.
• The Looney Tunes Show: In the B-plot of "Bobcats on Three!", Bugs helps Porky get his catering business back on track by encouraging him to use his grandmother's recipes, which are all full of butter. Soon, Porky's business is back on track, particularly because Bugs becomes addicted to his food and has him cater parties he throws. Porky warns Bugs that his grandmother's recipes are unhealthy, but Bugs pays no attention, and as a result, he becomes morbidly obese.
• Martha Speaks: In "Too Much Martha", Martha the dog becomes pudgy and keeps getting stuck in her dog door. To remedy this, the vet has the Lorraines feed her less food until she goes back to normal.
• Mickey Mouse (2013): In the episode "Doggone Biscuits", Minnie feeds Pluto too many dog biscuits resulting in him becoming incredibly fat. Horrified at what she did, Minnie desperately tries to reduce Pluto's weight before Mickey gets home.
• The Proud Family: Inverted in the episode "Wedding Bell Blues". Suga Mama goes through a crash diet and a rigorous exercise program to get in shape for a wedding. She's able to fit into her wedding dress within a week. After the ceremony gets called off, she has a bite of the cake and immediately plumps back to her former frame.
• Rocko's Modern Life: In "The Fatlands", Spunky has put on a lot of weight from overeating, to the point where his feet don't even touch the ground, so Rocko takes him to Dr. Hutchison to give him a liposuction. Meanwhile, Bloaty the Tick and Squirmy the Ringworm have a wild west adventure in Spunky's new-found "Fatlands".
• The Simpsons:
  • Although Homer is already pretty fat to begin with, a key plot point of "King Size Homer" has Homer deliberately gain weight to be considered obese, so his job would consider him disabled and allow him to work from home.
  • In "The Heartbroke Kid", after a snack-vending machine is installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart develops an addiction for the snacks, causing him to quickly gain weight in a three-week period. After he gets a heart attack, the rest of the family stages an intervention in order to get Bart sent to a Fat Camp.
  • "Lisa's Belly" is a downplayed example. Lisa and Bart both gain weight due to the use of steroids that gives them a big belly, leaving Lisa (in Marge's words) "chunky". Bart loses the weight after getting in with the bullies and exercising, but the storyline is dropped in the next episode featuring Lisa.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The episode "The Devouring" pushes the already gluttonous Scooby and Shaggy to their limits. When a big Gluten Demon terrorizes the town, the duo have to eat as much gluten-retaining food as they can in order to lure the demon out of hiding. As a result, the two are turned giant and morbidly obese, which helps them defeat the monster. While we never see them lose the weight, it's all gone by the next episode.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: "Survival of the Idiots" involves Sandy going through hibernation. Her video warning others not to disturb her has her gorging on acorns. SpongeBob and Patrick sneak into her Treedome anyway and discover a fattened version of her sleeping. Their antics wake her up, and she uses her Stout Strength against them each time. Once spring arrives, Sandy's back to her normal weight.
• Totally Spies!: As a series infamous for appealing to a ridiculous variety of... particular interests, this was bound to happen. "Passion Patties" revolves around the eponymous Happy Girl Scout cookies, which are delicious, addicting, and hugely fattening. In fact, it's part of a plot by the cookie's creator to take over the world, and every employee but her is overweight. Clover and Jerry become addicted to the stuff and grow fatter throughout the episode. It's reversed by the end, but not after they both grow to resemble a thick barrel.
• The second episode of Undergrads features Nitz realizing he's put on the Freshmen Fifteen right before the annual "eXposed eXpo," an event part of Traditions Week where freshmen streak during the first snowfall of winter. It starts off by showing Nitz gleefully taking advantage of his student meal card in a Gluttony Montage. By the end of the episode he hasn't really lost the extra weight, but isn't worried about it when he streaks (especially because it's too dark and foggy out for anyone to notice his gut).
• The Xiaolin Showdown episode "Dreamscape" features a four-on-four sumo wrestling showdown where the Xiaolin Dragons face off against the manifestations of their worst nightmares. All eight combatants are magically fattened up for the duration of the showdown, with the extra weight vanishing when it ends.

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