Rick's (Owen Wilson) young kids ask him if their mom doesn't wear a bikini anymore because "of her fat ass." He sighs heavily and says "yea, I guess," before realizing that he's talking to his kids and tries to walk it back.
Fred says "that woman needs something in her mouth!" about a woman in a nightclub who has recently quit smoking as if putting his penis in her mouth would instantly alleviate her anxiousness due to nicotine addiction.
Tank (Dane Cook) fat shames a woman at the bar by cruelly comparing her to NFL linebackers and wondering if her new infant was "delicious" because it looks like she "downed the whole thing."
Katherine's (Alison Scott) boss suggests she use the gym membership the company is providing her to "tighten" up some (as he takes both hands that are apart and moves them closer together) because she'll be in front of the camera a lot. He goes on to say he doesn't want her to "make everything smaller," inferring that he doesn't want her breasts to get smaller. While they say they can't "legally" tell her to lose weight, she's told to weigh herself at home, "subtract it by twenty," and then to "weight that much."
Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) says "tattoo on the lower back. Might as well be a bullseye" as the camera zooms in on an attractive woman's lower back tattoo.
Bridget's (Renée Zellweger) manager tells the control room to "give me a close up of the porker" and the camera zooms in on her excrement laden backside after she crash lands in a pig pen at the end of her skydiving bit.
Hugh Grant, playing the Prime Minister of the UK, shows interest in his secretary Natalie, and there are many interactions with his staff about whether she is overweight that were played for laughs such as her being "the chubby girl". In a later scene, a frustrated Hugh Grant asks aloud to himself, “Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?” His secretary Natalie happens to walk in at just that moment with tea and biscuits, and it's funny because they have been hinting at a romance between the two. He eventually decides to fire her because she was too much of a distraction to him, and -- later realizing that was a mistake -- seeks her out at her home. In their final scene together he quips, "God you weigh a lot!", and she responds coyly "Oh, shut your face" and kisses him.
Lara (Lisa Barbuscia) tells Daniel (Hugh Grant) "I thought you said she was thin" right in front of Bridget's (Renée Zellweger) face.
Pamela (Gemma Jones) tells Bridget (Renée Zellweger) "you'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you've wandered out of Auschwitz" and insists she go upstairs to change into something else.
Bridget's (Renée Zellweger) female friend expressed shock that Mark (Colin Firth) doesn't want her to be "thinner," "cleverer," or have "slightly bigger breasts and a slightly smaller nose" after Bridget tells her friends that Mark privately confided to her that she was perfect just the way she was.
Sonny (Adam Sandler) and his young son are shopping in a grocery store when they run into Connie (Leslie Mann), who is wearing a white shirt that doesn't cover her entire stomach. Sonny takes a look at her and casually says "you guys wear the same size t-shirt. That's cool" as he points at both his young son and Connie.
Popular jock and class president Zack (Freddie Prinze Jr.) recruits his sister to give Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) a makeover before they go to a party. His sister tells Laney she has an idea how to make her look gorgeous, but cautions "you'll really have to trust me." After working her magic behind the scenes his sister comes downstairs to present Laney, who looks utterly transformed after letting her hair down, taking off her glasses, putting on a form-fitting red dress, and donning red heels. Zack is momentarily speechless before having to spring into action to save Laney from falling after she slips on the final stair.
Tai (Brittany Murphy) doesn't feel that she needs a makeover, but Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash) keep pushing her to get one because they insist it'll help her stand out more to her crush.
Lisa (Lark Voorhies) asks a teenage girl who called a teen crisis hotline how much she weighs and proceeds to gratuitously shame her for being fat, going so far as telling the teen that "maybe it's not in your mind." She continues to pile it on, telling her to "never wear white. You'd look like Shamu at a wedding" before encouraging her to join "overeaters anonymous."
Lisa (Lark Voorhies) asks a teenage girl who called a teen crisis hotline how much she weighs and proceeds to gratuitously shame her for being fat, going so far as telling the teen that "maybe it's not in your mind." She continues to pile it on, telling her to "never wear white. You'd look like Shamu at a wedding" before encouraging her to join "overeaters anonymous."
Claire (Molly Ringwald), dressed in her pink top and makeup, tells Alison, dressed in all black, to come to the back of the library with her. As she's putting new makeup on Allison's face she tells her "you know you do really look a lot better without all that black s*it on your eye." Later on Allison, dressed in a new pink top, makeup, and a different hairdo appears and—wouldn't you know?—Andrew (Emilio Estevez) is suddenly quite smitten with her.
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