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The dance move pictured here occurred mere moments before Jenna collapsed to the floor in front of a live studio audience shouting, “Me want food!” (And the viewers… ate it up.)
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Worst TV Fat Suits of All Time
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Fat suits are never a great idea, but sometimes they’re especially not-great. That’s where this list comes in.
Join us in looking back at 16 of the small screen’s most ridiculous-looking fat suits from shows like 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, Friends, Pretty Little Liars and Smallville.
Which faux figure elicits the biggest eye roll from you? Drop it in a comment below.
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Image Credit: Hulu screenshot DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
The ABC drama gave us a “what if” episode in Season 6, which included this ludicrous fat suit for Teri Hatcher’s Susan.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution FRIENDS
Considering how many times this show revisited Monica’s former frame, you’d think it would have at least tried to humanize her, rather than limit the character to a non-stop fat joke factory.
Then again, this was Friends.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution FRIENDS
Friends actually has the honor of being the only show to appear twice in this gallery, thanks to this fantasy sequence imagining how fat Joey would have gotten if he’d married Monica — and her cooking skills.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution FULL HOUSE
If anyone in the Tanner household is looking for an extra pillow, they might want to check under Joey’s costume in this flashforward sequence. (Yes, we realize how difficult that would be, but since when has Full House ever conformed to the rules of time and space?)
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Image Credit: Courtesy of 20th Television HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
The look on Barney’s face here pretty much sums up our thoughts on the fat suit HIMYM stuffed Neil Patrick Harris into for this Season 5 episode.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix INSATIABLE
You can defend Insatiable against allegations of fat shaming all you want — but don’t even bother trying to defend Debby Ryan’s fat suit.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate Television MAD MEN
Assembling Betty’s larger look required January Jones to sit through more than three hours of prosthetic applications per shoot. Something tells us Jones was downplaying the inconvenience when she simply said, “It was very challenging.”
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Disney–ABC Domestic Television NEW GIRL
Ironically, you might find this picture in the dictionary under the word “true American.”
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Image Credit: Courtesy of NBCUniversal Television Distribution THE OFFICE
Are we crazy, or is Michael one tiny hat away from becoming Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons? Thankfully, this one wasn’t supposed to look real.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Disney–ABC Domestic Television ONCE UPON A TIME
There’s no need to wonder what booty this pirate is smuggling under his shirt.
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Image Credit: Hulu screenshot ONE TREE HILL
This CW drama went to some bizarre places in its final season, but the storyline surrounding Mouth’s weight gain felt especially unnecessary. And mean!
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution PRETTY LITTLE LIARS
The only thing worse than the name kids used to call Ashley Benson’s character (“Hefty Hanna”!) was the padding she had to wear during flashback scenes.
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Image Credit: Hulu screenshot SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH
The sitcom’s third season included a bonkers episode about its titular witch developing a crippling addiction to… pancakes. It was a ridiculous premise with an equally ridiculous fat suit to match.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution SMALLVILLE
Amy Adams — yes, that Amy Adams — guest-starred in a 2001 episode of the pre-Superman drama as Jodi Melville, a meta human with the ability to absorb fat.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Lifetime TO BE FAT LIKE ME
The special effects on Kaley Cuoco’s season of Charmed were more realistic than this disguise her character wore for a social experiment in the 2007 Lifetime movie To Be Fat Like Me.
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Has there been a “good” fat suit?