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07.20.09 ENOUGH WITH THE GD FAT PEOPLE ALREADY

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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.fatdog

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.

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There are 20 comments about:
ENOUGH WITH THE GD FAT PEOPLE ALREADY

July 20th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Tim Was Tim says:

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

July 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

The most disturbing thing about this show is the fact that a 400 lb woman and a 350 lb man mated and passed the fat gene onto their offspring.

Seriously, this show better include a trip to the all you can eat buffet.

/nice fat dog picture Matt

July 20th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Slothrop says:

I was in the Florida panhandle frying my back this weekend, and I can confirm that goddamn fatties are indeed breeding like rabbits and infesting the world with their obscenely obese kids. I saw a kid who didn’t so much waddle when he walked as damn near roll along like Violet Beauregarde.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Matt says:

That picture was just for you, UU.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

Thanks Matt.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Leapin_Lizards says:

new weight loss technique – stop eating so goddamn much! Revolutionary!

July 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Kid Presentable says:

I’m curious if this family uses one or four different rags on a stick.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
WhyDoYouAsk says:

“…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.”

Is it weird that I got an erection reading that sentence? It’s a little weird, isn’t it…damn.

/punches own ballsack

//erection only getting bigger

July 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Offseason Champs says:

Can someone explain to me why fat people always blow out the sides of their shoes? It looks like they have been living with mountain goats in the Rockies.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

explain to me why fat people always blow out the sides of their shoes?

They do it because they’re fat.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Enrico Pallazzo says:

These lardos need to do about 50,000 Iroquois Twists.

/excellent call, KP

July 20th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

@Enrico, “One Hi Ya Ya!”

July 20th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Otto Man says:

I hope they use a lot of tuba and sad trombone on the soundtrack to that show.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
StuScottBooyahs says:

@Otto: Only when they use the restroom.

July 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Fattikins says:

The politically correct term is Aerodynamically Challenged..

July 20th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Otto Man says:

So, every three minutes, Stu?

July 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
n.o. says:

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.

I expected that sentence to be followed by “starring Jeff Portnoy, Jeff Portnoy, Jeff Portnoy and Jeff Portnoy.”

July 20th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
CrabApple says:

Being from the midwest I dont see enough fat families, so it is nice to see them on tv.

Best fat family story ever by Karl Pilkington on the Ricky Gervais podcast. Paraphrased

“I saw this fat family at the beach and I saw the kid had a frisbee and I thought it was good that they were going to do something active. As I got closer I saw that the kid was just using the frisbee as a plate to eat cheetos out of. The one active thing they got and they turned it into something they can eat out of.”

July 20th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Duke of Madness says:

BTW, for those of you who haven’t yet checked out the fat people falling down video: Don’t. There are things in there that can’t be unseen.

That fat guy on the slip ‘n’ slide is going to be haunting my nightmares for weeks to come.

July 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Derek Lutz says:

I enjoy the composition of the picture with giant person up front with the low res fatty in the background – and the fat dog rocks.

Old school internet making fun of fatties:
http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/

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