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[cryptoadam]

I caught an old episode of Roseanne the other day on TV, the one where they find her old pot. And I noticed she wasn't really that fat. I always thought she was a big fatty, but by today's standards she was pretty svelt actually. She was no twiggy, but my brain always pictured her a lot bigger in my memories.

Maybe she was fatter before or after I don't remember. Were all the fat jokes about her overblown?

 

[Nikana]

She wasnt small but she definitely wasn't my 1000 pound life or whatever that show is called.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Back then that WAS fat.

 

[AJUMP23]

More about how the character sees herself. I have never watched Rosanne, this is a guess.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

She went up and down in weight.

 

[Guileless]

Greatest OT thread title ever possibly.

But it depends on what season you were watching OP - she got pretty extensive plastic surgery and liposuction after the show became a hit. John Goodman regularly got liposuction too.

Edit: is liposuction still done or was that a 90s fad? You don't hear about it much.

 

[INC]

I caught an old episode of Roseanne the other day on TV, the one where they find her old pot. And I noticed she wasn't really that fat. I always thought she was a big fatty, but by today's standards she was pretty svelt actually. She was no twiggy, but my brain always pictured her a lot bigger in my memories.

Maybe she was fatter before or after I don't remember. Were all the fat jokes about her overblown?

 

[Nikana]

Greatest OT thread title ever possibly.

But it depends on what season you were watching OP - she got pretty extensive plastic surgery and liposuction after the show became a hit. John Goodman regularly got liposuction too.

Edit: is liposuction still done or was that a 90s fad? You don't hear about it much.

Didnt know this. Interesting.
Goodman looks crazy skinny now compared to where he was.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Greatest OT thread title ever possibly.

But it depends on what season you were watching OP - she got pretty extensive plastic surgery and liposuction after the show became a hit. John Goodman regularly got liposuction too.

Edit: is liposuction still done or was that a 90s fad? You don't hear about it much.

Kayne just had some not long ago.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

She was always fat.

 

[Richard Packer]

Standards decreased as much as chin sizes.

 

[Guileless]

Standards decreased as much as chin sizes.

That's true. When the show premiered in 1989, Roseanne was much fatter than the average 35 year old American woman. Not sure when obesity rates really skyrocketed, but it was probably not long after that. Look at a group photo from anytime between 1950 and 1985 and overweight people are generally few and far between.

American women are much fatter 30 years later. I would link to the discussion of the latest cover of Cosmo lionizing an obese woman as healthy, but that thread got got.

 

[Virt McPolygon]

John Goodman definitely was. I watched Arachnophobia the other night and he looked super unhealthy. Like maybe he wouldn't live another 15 years.

Of course, if you look at him now it's obvious he decided to change his habits and turn his life around.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

You mean, there are even fatter people than this in the US these days?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

How old was John Goodman then? He always looked much older than he must have been.
EDIT: late 30's when the show started. On the plus side up until he lost all the weight he never aged.

 

[IntentionalPun]

She was never as fat as Dan.

But remotely fat women being successful was particularly rare back then, so maybe that's why you thought she was a huge porker and not just normal fat?

 

[GloveSlap]

Yeah it was different back then. Look at Chunk in The Goonies...barely husky by todays standards.

 

[haxan7]

Her face looked really fat at the start of the show but then I guess she lost some weight and looked more normal. She looked like an eskimo during season 1.

 

[King of Foxes]

You mean, there are even fatter people than this in the US these days?

I honestly do not know anyone in Latvia who is that big

 

[tkscz]

Eh not really. She was chubby and top heavy so she always look much huger than she actually was because she had the legs of a chicken. She wasn't even as big as Ricki Lake around the same time.

Spoiler

Ricki Lake in Cry Baby could get the D

 

[ManofOne]

She was fat but not massively obese.

 

[TheMan]

She went up and down in weight.

this is my recollection. I think she was fattest early on but maybe I'm wrong, it's been a while

 

[Stitch]

No fetish threads!

 

[NecrosaroIII]

How old was John Goodman then? He always looked much older than he must have been.
EDIT: late 30's when the show started. On the plus side up until he lost all the weight he never aged.

Can you believe that Norm and Cliff were like 34 when cheers started.

 

[Guileless]

John Goodman definitely was. I watched Arachnophobia the other night and he looked super unhealthy. Like maybe he wouldn't live another 15 years.

Of course, if you look at him now it's obvious he decided to change his habits and turn his life around.

I thought the same thing when I saw him in O Brother Where Art Thou which came out years later.

 

[J-Roderton]

I like that show

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

I honestly do not know anyone in Latvia who is that big

Come to my Walmart, you can see dozens of them. They really do move in herds!

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

I saw Goodman the other day in a movie with Marky Mark.

Goodman was half naked. Good grief...

 

[DeepBreath87]

Come to my Walmart, you can see dozens of them. They really do move in herds!

Rows of motorized scooters. Far as the eye can see.

 

[Peggies]

I like that show

Me too! Could be depressing sometimes, though.

 

[Quasicat]

Another ABC show that did this was the Drew Carey Show. They made him out to be morbidly obese and realistically, I thought he looked ok.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Another ABC show that did this was the Drew Carey Show. They made him out to be morbidly obese and realistically, I thought he looked ok.

Outside of the grey hair Drew is aging pretty well. I think he's got a wife like 20 years younger than him so that's probably helping lol.

 

[Forsythia]

Maybe to American standards she wasn't fat

 

[godhandiscen]

You mean, there are even fatter people than this in the US these days?

Roseanne back then qualifies for a body positivity model nowadays.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Roseanne back then qualifies for a body positivity model nowadays.

Sad but true. She on the slimmer end of some models these days. Lizzo is twice as big as she ever was and we have to pretend she's healthy.

 

[Stouffers]

Outside of the grey hair Drew is aging pretty well. I think he's got a wife like 20 years younger than him so that's probably helping lol.

Wasn’t she a former porno lady?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Wasn’t she a former porno lady?

Sounds correct. Not something I can look up atm since I'm at work lol but that sounds right.

 

[Stouffers]

Sounds correct. Not something I can look up atm since I'm at work lol but that sounds right.

I wonder if people who work in the porn industry are allowed to browse SFW sites/content.

 

[lethial]

She was pretty frumpy when you compared her to other tv mom's like Peg Bundy

 

[Papa]

You may be thinking of Rosie O’Donnell

 

[Kreen101]

Another one I was thinking of is Homer Simpson. Millions of jokes are made in the show about how obese he is, but not only are there regular characters that are fatter than he is, like Chief Wiggum, but there was one episode where he became even more obese, showing that his regular self is big but not that big.

 

[Mistake]

Outside of the grey hair Drew is aging pretty well. I think he's got a wife like 20 years younger than him so that's probably helping lol.

After whose line drew lost a bunch of weight. I thought he looked 20 years older

 

[MastAndo]

She was pretty big at one point...and she'd probably be considered a hero for doing this nowadays.

 

[mango drank]

EDIT: late 30's when the show started. On the plus side up until he lost all the weight he never aged.

After whose line drew lost a bunch of weight. I thought he looked 20 years older

Something that people (and plastic surgeons) starting realizing a while back was that big chipmunk cheeks tend to make you look more youthful. What happens when you gain weight? Your cheeks get bigger. What happens when you lose weight?

 

[Cutty Flam]

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I saw Goodman the other day in a movie with Marky Mark.

Goodman was half naked. Good grief...

The GOAT John Goodman film

 

[highrider]

She was fat when her career broke but over time she lost some weight

 

[Thabass]

Oh no, she was fat.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Back then that WAS fat.

Then the inflation hit.... xD

 

[It's Jeff]

In 1995, Homer Simpson gained 61 pounds and was considered *disabled.* I've met and worked with a lot of people above 315 lbs, that's for sure.

 

[Fox Mulder]

She was fat for tv back then. Married with Children joked about Peggys mom being some fat beast but referenced her as 200 pounds.