07.20.09 ENOUGH WITH THE GD FAT PEOPLE ALREADY
The hot new trend in television programming is fat people. Fat people losing weight! Fat people dancing! Fat people falling down! (Well, maybe not that last one, but I’ve got the trailer for it.) So it was only a matter of time until we got a docu-series on TLC about a fat family. TLC: the #1 destination for visually repulsive television.
TLC has ordered a six-episode series that chronicles the lives of a morbidly obese family facing everyday realities. The half-hour docu series [is] tentatively titled “One Big Happy Family.” [...]
The family to be chronicled on the show consists of a 40-year-old man weighing 340 pounds; his 35-year-old wife, who is close to 400 pounds; and their 330- and 340-pound teenage kids. The documentary will tell each of their stories in first-person, with a special attention on the children, a boy and a girl.
Yeah, that’s what we need. We need to understand the morbidly obese and feel sympathy for their plight. You poor things, targeted by evil corporations like McDonald’s and its delicious fatty foods, teased by your peers just because you live a dolorous life devoid of exercise. “Wah wah wah, it’s so hard to find clothes that fit. Boo hoo hoo, I don’t fit in this airline seat.”
But there I go again. Look at me, being cruel and insensitive to the poor overweight people. What gives me the right to do that? Is it the thirty years of having a healthy diet and regular exercise? It is? Okay then. Get bent, TLC.


And the camera adds 10 pounds, so the joke’s on you fatty!