Chubby Chaser/Playing With
Basic Trope: Someone is attracted to people who are overweight or obese.
- Played Straight: Bob lusts after Alice, a BBW.
- Exaggerated: Bob thinks that Alice is still far too thin to be attractive, despite her being twice his size.
- Justified: People can be attracted to all different body types, and Bob likes 'em full-figured. Furthermore, he is not only attracted to Alice physically, but likes her personality too.
- Inverted:
- Bob only likes women who are thin.
- Bob is a chubby man who lusts after the rail-thin Alice.
- Subverted: Bob likes Alice who is, at worst, Hollywood Pudgy.
- Double Subverted:
- But he likes her figure, compared to that of her size-2 best friend.
- Bob finds Alice attractive. But he reveals that he finds her attractive despite her skinny physique, not because of it.
- Deconstructed: Bob is attracted to Alice, but doesn't want to be seen with her in public.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob gradually comes to terms with his attraction to Alice.
- Bob might not want to be seen with Alice, but Charlotte is happy to date her in public.
- Parodied: Bob goes to Weight Watchers' meetings to pick up women.
- Lampshaded: Alice, a slim woman, wants to ask Bob out. But her friend Charlotte points out that "Every woman Bob ever dated got fat within the month."
- Averted:
- Bob does not have any Love Interests in-story.
- There are no women in the story who are fat or even a little chubby.
- Bob has no weight preference whatsoever.
- Enforced: There are no skinny women in the series, or skinny women are portrayed as unappealing.
- Invoked: Bob puts an ad in the personals or uses a dating website specifically to find a Big Beautiful Woman.
- Defied: Bob thinks an obese woman is unhealthy and unattractive, and only dates unhealthily skinny women.
- Discussed: Danny is talking to Bob about "That episode of Family Guy, where Lois gets fat for Peter." Bob, who claims not to understand the appeal of full-figured women, later falls in love at first sight with the new girl, Alice, and acts like Peter, asking her to gain more weight.
- Conversed: Two characters talk about how annoying it is that their neighbourhood seems to have absolutely no full-figured women.
- Played For Laughs: There are constant corny sight gags about Bob trying to pick up Alice and failing, and buying her enormous slices of cake and so on...
- Played For Drama: Alice has always felt bad about her size, and has tried every diet and trick out there. Bob finds her attractive, and helps her become more confident in herself.
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