Crazy Morbidly Obese Guy came about unexpectedly from a doodle on a legal pad. Once I'd drawn him, the idea for the script followed and I scribbled it out on the same piece of paper. Here's the doodle:
People definitely think along these lines. I've heard of folks who purposely gained weight so that they'd be considered fat enough for weight-loss surgery. On a smaller scale (so to speak), someone I knew in high school purposely gained around 10 pounds so her doctor would give her a diet plan to follow. She wasn't even overweight to start with, but she wanted to get skinny.
I have seen people debase themselves in all kinds of ways to be on these reality TV shows. For a fat guy to eat even more seems mild in comparison to other things people have done.
When my wife was into watching Survivor, they would occasionally do shows where they would show the audition tapes of the persons who were contestants on the current series. If the constestant was a young, pretty woman; you could almost be guaranteed there was going to be a lot of skin showing.
The funny thing is that a lot of people do think along these lines; it's also a sad thing, come to think of it.
ReplyDeletePeople definitely think along these lines. I've heard of folks who purposely gained weight so that they'd be considered fat enough for weight-loss surgery. On a smaller scale (so to speak), someone I knew in high school purposely gained around 10 pounds so her doctor would give her a diet plan to follow. She wasn't even overweight to start with, but she wanted to get skinny.
ReplyDeleteI have seen people debase themselves in all kinds of ways to be on these reality TV shows. For a fat guy to eat even more seems mild in comparison to other things people have done.
ReplyDeleteWhen my wife was into watching Survivor, they would occasionally do shows where they would show the audition tapes of the persons who were contestants on the current series. If the constestant was a young, pretty woman; you could almost be guaranteed there was going to be a lot of skin showing.
I hate to think what some of the audition tapes for Fear Factor must have contained.
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