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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Now, now, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about...although such a rapid weight loss in such a short space of time is most unusual."''|'''Doctor,''' ''[[
In most western animations and anime, you have a character whose size can moderately or drastically change for just a few minutes as the scene calls it, or even for the whole episode. However, when the scene or episode ends, usually the affected character will be back at their regular size as if nothing ever happened. Characters may either [[
Not to be confused with [[Incredible Shrinking Man]] or [[Attack of the 50
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The innuendo-tastic mascot of UK price comparison site Confused.com had her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjMX9esvU4 weight rise to 37%] by magic in comparison to car insurance bills, making her pull out an exercising bike from her pocket and slim down to her normal size in two seconds flat.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* When Fuu on ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' eats a great deal of food, she temporarily swells to a massive size. In at least one episode, this renders her unrecognizable to a set of police officers when she slims back down afterward. ("Have you seen a girl around here? She was really fat.")
* Master Roshi of ''[[
** Zarbon has been known to change from a skinny [[Bishounen]] to a fat, muscular, lizard monster when he fights.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy is able to temporarily increase the size of some of his body parts when he goes into Gear Third. He then shrinks when the effect subsides.
** Luffy also overeats in several episodes and inflates. Sometimes it lasts somewhat long.
* In [http://www.mangareader.net/220-15677-1/ai-kora/chapter-59.html chapter 59] of ''[[
** In [http://www.mangareader.net/220-15706-1/ai-kora/chapter-88.html chapter 88,] this happens to some of the girls in Hachibei's dorm after Gokou Ooba, a [[Chubby Chaser|chubby-chasing]] rich boy who fell for the fattened-up version of Ayame, slips a "bountiful body drug" into the dorm's water supply. The chapter ends with each member of Gokou's [[Maid Corps]] taking a dose of the drug, confessing their collective love for him, and inflicting severe bruises on their beloved master when the plumped-up maids all try to hug him at once.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bsXgSk-kQ This clip] from ''[[Assemble Insert]]'' has a woman [[Amazonian Beauty|gaining muscle mass]] when strenuously trying to bend a lead pipe. When the deed is done, she immediately returns to a more slender shape.
* At the start of episode six of ''[[Wandaba Style]]'', Susumu is in the middle of a slump, and without one of his experiments to liven things up, the girls have nothing to do and have gained a substantial amount of weight as a result. When they realize just how fat they've gotten, they're quick to lose most of the extra pounds.
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* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' had an episode about how too much junk food would make you fat. Raven's high school cafeteria is bought out by a fast food corporation who slowly introduce more and more insane amounts of unbelievably fatty foods until even the halls are full of freebie hot snack machines to keep them hooked. Obviously, almost every student is said to be getting noticeably fatter, even though no actual change is visible.
** Raven even struggles just to stand up from the sofa, despite no actual prosthetics to suggest any weight gain.
== [[Music Video]] ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] visibly ''inflates'' to become profoundly obese at the start of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE his video for "Fat"].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* One story arc in ''[[Sequential Art (
* The fox in ''Tally-Ho!'' learned too late not to eat the gravy meant for Sigfried. He became an immobile furry ball, but it lasted only two strips. Not to say he was fortunate, because [[Nausea Fuel|the end of his digestion felt horribly thorough]].
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*** In a subplot, Stewie temporarily gains weight when he attempts to mock Chris' obesity by gorging himself continuously right in front of Chris. By the end of the episode he is normal size again.
** In "A Fish Out Of Water", Peter is depressed that he lost his job and has gained so much weight that he's an immobile blob on the couch. As he's getting his bath, Peter decides to drop the weight and do something with his life. Within the next scene, he's back at his usual size without anyone ever mentioning about his former weight problem.
** Lois gets her own
** The Y2K episode where Peter eats an entire year's supply of dehydrated food, and looks no different. Then he complains that he's still hungry and drinks a glass of water, and immediately balloons out to fill half the room.
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' also has a few cases of size changes:
** Pretty much any episode where Homer or another character pigs out and gets bloated from overeating.
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** Homer once got his stomach stapled to slim himself down after Marge becomes a successful business woman and was afraid she would leave him. The rapid weight loss he underwent left him with extra skin which he had to clip up from the back.
** Another episode when Marge suffered from agoraphobia after being attacked by a mugger. Marge, living in the basement, starts working out with the equipment Homer bought and later becomes a bodybuilder and starts abusing steroids.
* On the episode "Suds", [[
* [[South Park|Eric Cartman]] once tried to bulk up with Weightgain 3000, thinking it would make him more muscular. He just ends up getting fatter still, until he is a thousand-pound blob of fat being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera.
** [[Catch Phrase|"BEEFCAKE!"]]
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* [[Chowder]] often overeats himself into a huge ball, then deflates back to normal with one burp.
** There's also occasions where he's only slightly fatter than normal and in dire need of his emergency big boy shirt for one scene.
* In the ''
** Another episode when Spunky becomes a fat pig from eating too much. At the end, he's given liposuction becoming slightly slimmer than usual. This episode focused more on Bloaty and Squirmy.
* Amy on ''[[Futurama]]'' used to be fat as a kid, so when the entire crew become younger in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", she regresses to her childhood weight as well. In "The Prisoner of Benda", the cast goes through a series of [[Body Swap
* Henry and June on ''[[
* On two separate occasions did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc6bF-oqxxk Clover] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_RXtnw9t0 Alex] of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' [[Amazonian Beauty|bulk up]] due to artificial methods ([[Nanomachines]] and [[Super Serum|a serum]], respectively). It seems that poor Sam was the only girl left out of the fun.
** In the episode "Passion Patties", both Clover and Jerry got hooked on a mad scientist's super-addictive, super-fattening cookies, and wound up pretty big before getting turned back to normal.
* In ''Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost,'' Scooby and Shaggy overeat and as usual swell up their bellies. This time, however, they happened to meet three attractive girls and manage to suck in their stomachs to transform into bodybuilder physiques. The girls turn out to be the scary Hex Girls who frighten the two back into normal form. Ectomorph, Mesomorph, and Endomorph in a matter of seconds.
* This was the plot point of the ''[[Doug]]'' episode, "Doug Tips the Scales". The episode begins with Doug pigging out on junk food at his grandma's over the weekend, only for him to return home pretty chubby. After getting invited to a pool party, he works hard to lose all his weight, which he suceeds in doing. Though after going back to his original weight, he still complains about being fat, when all he really has is a slightly pudgy belly.
* Happens in the [[Direct to Video]] finale to ''[[Recess]]'', ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade'' with Gus in the "Fifth and Sixth Graders Club" segment. Shortly after visiting the club for a week, the gang start to notice that Gus had been getting a little fat recently, as a result of eating too much. He remains this way until the next segement.
* Happens to {{spoiler|Pinkie Pie}} at the very end of the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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