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• In the Small Wonder episode "Fat's Where It's At", Ted enabled Vicki to extract energy from food the way humans do. He also unwittingly gave her a superhuman appetite, which exceeded her digestive ability.
• In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina grows to ginormous size when she eats too many pancakes.
  • This happens to Harvey in another episode, when he is captured by the witch from "Hansel and Gretel".
• How I Met Your Mother did a sly reference to Allison Hannigan's pregnancy by having her enter and win a hot-dog-eating contest -- with this result.
• A similar device was used in Titus to use Cynthia Watros' pregnancy for a laugh. In this case, it was a pie-eating contest.
• In the commentary for an episode of Firefly, during a Shirtless Scene, Alan Tudyk wishes they hadn't shot right after he had a big lunch.
• In The Goodies episode "Holidays", Bill drinks so much tea he ends up with a huge balloon belly, which stays with him until the commercial break.
• Over the course of the three-week Labor Day break, Jon Stewart has become so obese that special effects are required to make him look normal. John Oliver points out Stewart's obesity, but later "reveals" that he is a hallucination caused by Stewart's onset of diabetes.

"Why did I rent that ice cream truck...?"

• Monty Python's Flying Circus has Barry Zeppelin, the least talented brother of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After Barry fails to inflate a large balloon, the balloon inflates him.
• Bottom has a subtle (by their standards) use of this in the episode Gas when Eddie stands up after eating almost the entire contents of the flat-next-door's fridge. It's gone again a couple of shots later.
  • Adrian Edmondson's ability to inflate his stomach at will was also used for a laugh on The Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents. Unfortunately for Ade, it’s now more or less permanent.
• At the beginning of the Honey I Shrunk the Kids episode "Honey, It's Gloom and Doom", Wayne gets one after tasting the fizzy breakfast drink he invented. This happened because he put too much sugar in it.
• In F Troop, Agarn acquires one at the end of "Survival of the Fittest".