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* [[I Carly]] Sam Puckett from iCarly eats many different forms and amounts of food including chugging of pickle juice.
* ''[[MASH]]'': In one episode, Klinger's [[Failure Is the Only Option|attempt of the week]] to get a Section 8 discharge is to declare that he's going to eat a jeep. He is seen on screen consuming the windshield wipers and swallowing a bolt dipped in motor oil.
* More than one death in [[One Thousand Ways to Die]] involves someone eating something they shouldn't and dying as a result. I.e, there's the French nobleman in ''Bank Ruptured'' who has ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_<!-- 28disorder29%28disorder%29 pica]]'' and eats metal regularly, which cuts the veins and arteries in his stomach and ends up killing him. -->
 
 
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* Some kids will pull and eat their hair. Ditto with younger infants, who are major Extreme Omnivores (or at least like to put everything in their mouths to determine what it is) -- is why they should never be left with things that could potentially fit into their mouths.
* Coprophagia: Desire to eat feces. Seriously some wackos, like child serial killer Albert Fish, have this as a sexual fetish.
* And then there's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_<!-- 28disorder29%28disorder%29 pica]], a serious eating disorder in which sufferers habitually eat non-nutritive things like clay, paper, chalk, glass, wood, metal, et al. Eating metal can lead to perforation of the GI tract and usually death, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBnZ9rwZTI as was demonstrated with this poor fellow]] -->
* One man lost at sea developed cravings for normally-discarded parts of fish, such as eyeballs (for their water content) and internal organs (for vitamins).
* Criminally-neglected dogs will swallow rocks, sticks, and dirt in an attempt to ease hunger pains.
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