What the Government Doesn't Want you to Know
There is a conspiracy of fat men on television. Why did Kevin James, Jim Belushi, and Mark Addy have TV shows? Talent? Hardly. Most would attribute the phenomenon by the simple equation fat equals funny and, of course, the fatter the funnier, but this does not work in pairs. The classic fat duos are traditionally the fat and the fat inverse ie someone skinny, creating fat & skinny comedy teams like Laurel & Hardy, Farley & Spade, Jay & Silent Bob. You can't have two fats because instead of wacky hijinks they would just eat a series of progressively larger sandwiches throughout the movie. On a marriage related sitcom the fat man stands in the for the husband and a hot chick stands in for the skinny sidekick. One would think it's just the regular comedic fat formula, but one would be wrong. The fat guy/hot wife scenario was created for one purpose: the subjugation of woman.
There's nothing funny about the abuse of women through some of the world's fattest men. Great examples of fattitude include: Just the 10 of Us, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, According to Jim, King of Queens, Grounded for Life, Still Standing, and even animated shows like Simpsons and Family Guy are designed to keep women down through male obesity. These television shows all have fat men, all with women who would never date fat men let alone commit their lives to vacuuming under their stomachs. Coach from Just the 10 of Us needed an entire hot family to support is fat ass. Is this just male fantasy run amuck, or is there something deeper? Here's how the media fat cats are manipulating women: A single woman watches one of these shows and thinks, “Hmmm, if Stacey Carosi could only get Kevin James, and surely I'm not as good looking as Stacey Carosi, could I possibly do better than Kevin James?” Of course not, better settle for that mutant over there. Likewise if Courtney Thorne-Smith could only pull down John Belushi's less talented brother, could you ever hope to be with a more talent brother? Not at all, fat dude sitcoms tell us better to be with a loser than no one at all.
The consolation prize for that slob on the couch is, at least, he's funny. As if that's something women want. Women then don't actually like funny men, but are conditioned to settle for personality by the media. Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has the added bonus of also being wealthy. Sufficient money and humor will get you a Leah Remini or a Jami Gertz, or whatever B List actress you want. And who's to benefit? Fat comedians, fat politicians, and your fat boyfriend, of course. Our entire entertainment industry is based on the concept of helping less attractive men get laid. That's why underdog's always get the girl in the end, to increase the potential of this actually happening in real life.
The conspiracy goes back to the early 1950's in a possible underground meeting between Colonel Sanders, Winston Churchill, Fats Domino, the ghost of Fatty Arbuckle, and a 3-year-old Jerry Mathers (as the Beaver). Remember women's suffrage was still fresh on the minds and the Women's revolution was well on the horizon, the government had no choice but to come up with a plan. The question was put forth: How can we both stunt women empowerment and get hot women to date us? The answer was The Honeymooners. Jackie Gleason is the alpha fat man to Audrey Meadows's omega hot chick. The Honeymooners was devised to keep women at bay through fear and intimidation, but in the funniest ways possible. Gleason was essentially asked to promote domestic abuse, but in a hee-hee sort of way. The lesson of every episode of the the Honeymooners: no matter how fat, dumb, and belligerent your man is, you better stick with him because there's absolutely no alternative.
And if she doesn't like your beer gut then it's bang, zoom, to the moon.
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Flintstones is a great one! I definitely should have mentioned it, I even wrote it down but it must have slipped my mind. However, The Flintstones are essentially a rehash of The Honeymooners, but with more dinosaurs and less wife beating related humor. The ultimate fat guy nod definitely goes to Jackie Gleason.
The Coxinator:
Rosanne is much like a fat guy herself. Except , she's designed not to put down male viewers, but to make them feel better about their respective wives. As in, "I hate my wife, but at least she's not Rosanne."
And I gotta say, King of Queens? The wife in that show is SMOKIN'!
And ditto to Kev.
I don't think there is a massive, sinister conspiracy going on. There is a trend that that guy's are unattractive, while their women are hot.
But if a person is making personal decisions based on what they are seeing on TV, then that's foolish, and its their own fault. Such people who have self-esteem issues need family and friends around them to help get through difficult phases.
I'm sure most tv audiences are mature and intelligent enough, like yourself, to know that this TV is not completely accurate when it comes to real life.
This doesn't even make any sense. It's not keeping women down, it's just TV jackass.
I disagree, I think there are two messages here.
A) Girl, you should marry a man who treats you well, even if he is not as attractive as you
B) Dude, if you're smart, caring and funny you can get a girl, even if you're not hot.
both of these seem like good messages to me, perhaps the only problematic bit is the underlying "this is my sitcom, and I'll cast whatever hottie I want to play my wife."
If anything these shows are subjugating men. Telling us we don't know how to be adults, take care of ourselves, or our families. That without a woman in our lives we would be lost. Funny how these were the same socially acceptable propagandas that the feminist movement were championing against not too long ago.
Why the plump hubbies? Because their funny!!! These are guys who were comedians and could act, so they got the parts. Just like the husbands in "Everyone Loves Raymond", 'Yes Dear!", "Mad About You", "Up All Night", "Growing Pains", etc. etc. Those guys aren't fat but all were subjected to the same kinds of submissive male roles as the fat guys.
Why the hot wives? Because if you want the audience for your Rom-Com relationship/parenting sitcom to include men, then you need to give them some eye candy. It's a business decision plain and simple.
How about woman walk away from these shows trying to be a little less shallow? You may still be fighting for equal pay for equal work (which has improved drastically over the years) but for the most part you've won the gender wars. Now that you're in a position of more leverage-able power, show us how wrong we were for objectifying women as mere arm candy or trophies. Acknowledge you can find a good partner in life in someone that maybe doesn't have rock hard abs but can make you laugh, that can be romantic from time to time, that can be a good father, and that isn't intimidated by your success being greater than that of his own.