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I'm down with this too, OP!

American Housewife?

Lol not even close, but thanks for playing

Yes please, I can only think of Bridget Jones as a somewhat similar example of this dinamic.

Renee Zellwegger is not fat.

DA agrees with you!

Miranda BBC is this.

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(Anonymous) - 2020-04-05 12:04 (UTC) - Expand

I agree that would be a good thing.

But I also think that the extent to which this trope is actually a thing gets massively, massively overstated. All 3 of the shows you mention here started in the 90s. According To Jim started in 2001. And these are the examples that always, always, always get brought up. I don't know if this is even really a thing anymore - it's very rare for people to bring up examples from the last, like, decade. It honestly feels like people are so fucking annoyed at Kevin James and King of Queens that they massively overstate the prevalence of this trope (which I understand, Kevin James sucks, but it's still annoying).

I think you'd have a stronger argument if OP's examples weren't long-running, popular shows, some of which are still culturally very big today.

It just misses the decade mark, but Modern Family has Ed O'Neill married to Sofía Vergara, FFS.

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I dunno.

I mean I get you, I don't buy that many women are willing to look past a mans looks and date, let alone marry, a less attractive man either, but the idea of the inverse being any more likely seems... unrealistic.

Oh noes! Unrealism in my sitcoms and tv dramas! Say it ain't so!

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thewakokid - 2020-04-05 00:01 (UTC) - Expand

Surely there has to be a couple out there in the real world that is like that. If not, well, it's not about realism but variety anyway.

Maybe it's your shitty personality keeping you from getting dates. We're subjected to it here, after all.

In most sitcoms the main couple has been together for a few years, so I think you're supposed to believe he was more attractive when they first met.

get on tinder, mark yourself as a women and looking to date women and viola. Watch the scummy unicorn seeking couples come through where the man is hideous and dating a woman who is physically out of his league.

I mean, I have no hard numbers or anything, but I see it all the time IRL. May be just my personal experience

what about Hairspray? the fat girl got the conventionally handsome guy in that movie!

And what about the Ricki Lake movie Baby Cakes?

I'm pretty sure that this has been done since this was such a criticized trope in the 2000's. Personally I don't mind it as much when they're animated (though I never actually watch these kinds of comedy anymore) since they can do spoof episodes/change the way they animate the characters in order to vary up the comedy... at least theoretically. (also they tend not to have laugh tracks, which is besides the point, but still makes the show more palatable imo)

Romances between overweight, doofy (to varying degrees) women and attractive men:
Isn't It Romantic
The Vicar of Dibley
Miranda
The Mindy Project

Watching Richard Armitage romancing Dawn French in her sensible dog collar has given me life for the last 15 years.

Sign me up!!!

The fat men in these things are usually complete or partial idiots and I just can't see this whole "Oh look, the wife is a fat dumbass" going over too well. There would be such an outrage.

There's The Vicar of Dibley, where the almost spherical Dawn French marries Richard Armitage

I like it because A. Geraldine is *very* proud of her bosom and B. she's a genuinely kind and caring person who makes mistakes and learns from them, and that's actually what gets the guy to fall in love with her

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