obesity theme
Someone struggles with being grossly over-weight.
8 total · 2 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Nutty Professor (1996) | major | The obese Sherman Klump developed a weight-loss pharmaceutical that he took to transform himself into a fit man. |
| talesoftheunexpected2x06 | major | Mary was a compulsive eater with a sweet tooth. |
| ahp4x07 | minor | In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock jested about running a get-slim program for obese people. |
| ahp6x20 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock joked about having been lifted out of a predicament by crane. |
| ahp6x21 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock jested about being too portly to fit in a regular voting booth. |
| movie: Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) | minor | Sherman Klump made various references that conveyed a sense he was concerned about his weight, such as he was on a diet. |
| movie: The Strongest Man in the World (1975) | minor | Dean Higgins reprimanded the obese student Elmer for sloppily eating jelly beans in class. |
| movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | minor | Fred Dukes was training as a boxer in an effort to lose weight as he had become morbidly obese. |