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With what they're spending on steaks and sausage and fancy food, not to mention all those medical supplies, I'll be they could have the $15k in three months. Or less. I don't blame people for not donating money to them. There's no indication that it would go to transporting him, but only to maintain their current lifestyle.

They need a stock trailer. Seriously. Maybe that's what they'll end up doing.

good god, that infection in his legs is going to kill him. I would not be surprised if that's how this ends. I don't think they've ever shown an episode where the patient died from the obesity, but this may be a first.

oh, dear god, I'm so going to hell, too - when the poor daughter said, "Don't eat too much and get sick," I instantly thought of Mr. Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. If you've never seen this, Google it. They knew. They knew. And I swear, this guy is bigger.

Yeah, much as I hate to admit it, I thought the BGDC was actually more entertaining to watch. Better music, too. Trophy Wives? What kind of trophy? Participation, where everybody gets one? (sorry, I'll find the door on my own, lol)

And a real live tiger that does whatever he says.

hahaha, thanks for taking one for the team! That was priceless!

Anybody catch the reference to this show - at least, I think it was - on the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live? Kate McKinnon was talking to Scarlet Johannsen about how Kate wasn't invited to the good parties and had to sit with Z-listers like "that house-flipping guy who held a gun to his wife's head." Was she trying to reference Tarek??

That was Lucille, and I have to say that Stuart and Lucille were one of the funniest things I've seen on this show in a while. Well, yes, exactly. That's kinda the whole point of her character. The only one who doesn't know that is Leonard. And maybe Sheldon, but for a different kind of reason. Her quackness seriously damaged Leonard's life but he still can't tell her she's full of it. Everyone else knows it - Penny does, and Mary Cooper - but not Leonard. It's been a running joke the whole time.

Snow White's prince: The Prince Cinderella's prince: Prince Charming Sleeping Beauty's prince: Prince Philip

And I have to wonder how fast Mama realized there was money to be made from Billy's horrible condition, and that it paid off in more ways than one to keep him that way.

wow, I will definitely watch that - sure hope things turned around, but I don't think they ever will as long as Billy's mother is anywhere in the picture. I remember them very well from the earlier shows - "Half-Ton Teen," I think it was.

wow, I will definitely watch that - sure hope things turned around, but I don't think they ever will as long as Billy's mother is anywhere in the picture. I remember them very well from the earlier shows - "Half-Ton Teen," I think it was.

And the ones who know she's got two teenage daughters in the house, which is what a lot of us here are worried about.

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I always take Dr. Now's lectures as saying, "I can't help you by myself. You have to do your part, too." Willpower alone won't cure these people. But surgery alone won't cure them, either. It's the combination that does the trick. We already know that Dr. Now can do his part, with the surgery. He is willing and able to do that. But it would be a huge waste of time and resources to do surgery before the patient has proved that they're willing to do THEIR part as well and at least meet the doctor halfway. That's why they've got to show they care enough to get some kind of control over their food addiction *first.*

I really like this therapist. I think she's got some good info that would benefit many, many people. Seems genuine.

I know what you're saying and you're right, but I'd actually rather see this mess stay on the air for two reasons: 1) Censorship is bad, but mostly: 2) Without realizing it, Whit IS demonstrating every single week how awful her life really is and how damaging and unhealthy it really is to be so overweight. The program does what fiction writers call "Show, Don't Tell," which means you don't explain in so many words what's going on. You just demonstrate it through a character's actions and leave it at that. TLC does this with a lot of its shows. The Duggars turned out to be a prime example. So did Sister Wives. Instead of those programs sending the message that huge families and/or multiple wives were wonderful things - as they *seemed* to be doing - TLC sat back and let the Duggars and the Browns clearly demonstrate that the downsides of their lifestyles far outweigh any benefits. If you look at it that way, you could not have a better and more powerful role *anti-obesity* symbol than Whitney Thore.

Kelsey said she only married James because her family really wanted her to. But families tend to ignore chemistry. Just like the experts over at MAFS, lol, and then they wonder why it works on paper but fails spectacularly in real life.

I'm surprised that Whit, fab dancer that she is, doesn't try Middle Eastern Dance - "belly dancing." Seriously, it's low-impact and is one form of dance where it's actually desirable to carry a lot of curves. And you get to shake your boobs & swing your butt. Sounds perfect for Whit!

I don't know anything, of course, but my first thought was that some of these folks may insist on getting their own accommodations so they don't have to change their lifestyles. As in, Nicole's family. IYKWIM.

I think Cullinan is remaining silent for several reasons. He's been removed from his plum post as Oscar Envelope Guy for PWC after massively, massively embarrassing them in the most public of ways. PWC has been in charge of this for over 80 years and never messed up until now. Until Cullinan. It's true that no money is *directly* at stake - there's no money that goes along with the statue - but an Academy Award is worth huge bucks to anyone who can put "Oscar Winner" on their resume. So in that sense, yes, a whole lot of money is at stake. Kind of like the Olympic Games, where you don't win money directly but winning a medal literally pays off in other ways. And Cullinan did this for the dumbest of reasons: He was busted Tweeting photos of hot actresses instead of paying attention to his One Job. And I still think he had Emma's envelope in his hand because he intended to keep it as a souvenir, and unfortunately tried to hold both that one and the Best Picture env in the same hand and gave the wrong env to Beatty. And then wouldn't step up and do anything about his mistake until far too late. Yeah, I'd hide, too. For a long, long time.

Oh, dear gods - a match made in K-Mart if ever there was one -

Make room in that handbasket: I was just thinking that she looked like a gigantic Thanksgiving turkey on that operating table.

And if Nicole does manage to lose the weight, you can bet Charlie is out of there in a cold minute. I'll bet she's never thought of that, either.