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[[File:andadietcoke.jpg|frame|"[[Comically Missing the Point|I'm sure to lose weight now!]]"]]

 

 

A standard comedic effect used in various media to emphasize the overindulgence that came before. In various talk shows that featured exceptionally obese people, they would often show a fast food customer ordering an exceptionally large meal including multiple sandwiches, fries and desserts, and concluding with, "and a Diet Coke."

 

Related to [[Hypocritical Humor]], and also overlaps with [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]. A specific example of the [[Perfect Solution Fallacy]].

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== Advertising ==

* A [[Channel 4]] "''[[Friends]]'' is sponsored by Nescafe" clip had two women drinking coffee. The one with the huge cream cake in front of her was offered the sugar and reacted with horror, taking sweeteners out of her handbag.

== Comic Books ==

* [[Marvel Comics]] once did a gag issue of its ''What If?'' title, featuring short gags of a single page or less. One gag was "What If [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] had an eating problem instead of a drinking problem?" The first panel shows an overweight Stark telling his date he can stop eating anytime he wants to, then he gives the waiter his order: "I'll have a ''cow'', medium rare. And a Tab."

 

 

* In ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]] II'', Lois is using a citrus juicer to squeeze a fresh glass of orange juice "because it's good for you"... while she's smoking.

** Not to mention the "You shouldn't smoke" "Cancer, right?" "Not yet, thank goodness." scene in the ''first'' film.

* Done in ''[[A Cinderella Story]]''.

* In ''[[The Nutty Professor]] 2'', Sherman's mother mentions her latest diet: You can eat as much as you want, as long as you also drink lots of grapefruit juice to help digest it. Presumably she thought the citric acid would destroy the food completely.

** This diet exists outside the movie. [[wikipedia:Grapefruit diet|No shit.]]

 

 

* On an episode of ''[[The Odd Couple]]'', Oscar asks a visiting monk to make him a hamburger. On the burger, he asks for mustard, relish, pickles, hot sauce, peppers and chili. The monk says, "No onions?" Oscar replies, "No, I've got an ulcer."

* One episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has the team's metabolism massively accelerated dues to the week's phlebotninum. [[I'll Take Two Beers, Too!|Each one of them orders three steaks]]. And Sam orders a diet soda. When Jack and Daniel look at her all funny, she says, "What? I like the taste better!"

* In the ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode "Wingless, Part 2", the Hacketts are flying a country music duo on a concert tour. When the overweight member of the pair asks for a Diet Coke, her oversexed partner sarcastically compares it to rearranging deck chairs on the ''Titanic''.

* Also occurs in the British TV series ''[[Porridge]]'', where Fletcher is offered cocoa, which he accepts, and then sugar. He refuses the biscuits, citing watching his weight, as he dumps at least four heaping spoonfuls of sugar in his already-sweet cocoa.

* A sketch on ''[[The Ossie Ostrich Video Show]]'' had Ossie asking for 25 sugars in his cup of tea before adding "...but don't stir it. I hate anything sweet."

* ''[[Frasier]]''. When taking part in a weight-loss challenge yet finding that he's still gaining weight, the titular doctor exclaims, "But I added a salad to every meal!"

* Nickelodeon's ''[[My Brother and Me]]'' had a variant. Roger once made a comically large submarine sandwich for lunch that he prepared to eat all by himself and wash down with root beer. Then, after judging the sandwich's weight, Roger decides to settle on ''diet'' root beer, instead.

{{quote|'''Mike:''' I don't get that. You get a skimmed milk latte, and then you put whipped cream and sugar in it.

'''Donna:''' ''Because'' I get skimmed milk, I ''can'' put milk and sugar in it. }}

'''Roscoe''': Yeah, and get something for yourself Enos.

'''Enos''': You want that pie a la mode?

 

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== Newspaper Comics ==

* A similar situaton was depicted in a ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' strip in which the already-corpulent Sergeant Snorkel piled one sinfully indulgent treat after another from the Camp Swampy cafeteria onto his tray, and when called out for it defended himself by saying that everything in the cafeteria was low-fat. This prompted Beetle to point out that the only ''high''-fat thing in the cafeteria was Sarge himself!

 

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

 

 

== Stand-Up Comedy ==

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Another time, Homer, at an ice cream parlor, is on his health-kick, so he orders a low-fat vanilla with a bunch of [[Bland-Name Product|bland named junk food and candy products]].

* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Cyborg does this at an entirely meat based restaurant. He orders multiple ''combo meals'' in rapid succession, then stops and asks for a diet soda. But when told they do not have soda (only meat), he simply asks for a cup of meat juice.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': While driving Lois' pregnant sister to the hospital, Peter stops off at a drive-thru to order several cheeseburgers, but vacillates on the fries: "If I have fries, is anyone else gonna have any? I don't wanna be the only one eating 'em. I'll feel like a fatty."

** They later did a straight depiction of the "heavy woman drinking diet soda" gag, and they were even nice enough to [[Don't Explain the Joke|explain the joke]].

(Buster and Babs give mean looks at Hamton)

'''Hamton:''' ...and a diet cola. }}

 

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