I'm smart, you dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong...We are talking about Matilda (both film and musicals).

I was joined by Alice Mary Dunbar ( IG & TikTok) and we get into this childhood classic and of course how fat bodies are represented and treated. We talk fat villains with Trunchbull and Harry Wormwood and fat heroes like Bruce Bogtrotter and how these characters continue to enforce stereotypes or challenge them!

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Lets take a beloved 2004 film, make it into a broadway musical and then make that a film again 20 years later! It's Mean Girls!

And joining me is returning guest, from Mean Girls (2004), its actress and host of the Better Than Bad Podcast, Jessica Rolland.

Full disclosure, i truly thought this will be a little bonus episode, as me and Jessica have already spoken at length about Mean Girls (2004), but we get into the truly lacking of fat representation in the 2024 rendition, taking a step back from what we had 20 years ago and the mid-sizification of what it is to be plus size and how just in general the media and society are obsessed with policing women's bodies.

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You'll float too! You'll float too! Is that a promise?

Film Journalist Becci Sayce joins me to discuss the fat representation in IT Chapter 1 & 2 - mainly the characters of Ben and Eddie's mum. We talk about how resourceful and intelligent young Ben is while being overlook and patronised by his peers and how the larger body of Eddie's mum is to convey images of monstrosity and an overbearing presence onto the audience.

We make reference to an article by Virgie Tovar in Ravishly which you can find here - well worth the read!

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According to classic children's film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, the perfect child is not greedy, has manners, isn't spoilt and likes to read...and if you don't fit into this very tight parameter then you deserve a terrible punishment.

I was joined by Matthew Tilt to deep dive into the Wonka-mania and we discussed the characterisation of Augustus Gloop and his "greediness", the fat cat portrayal of Mr Salt and we discussed whether these kids deserve their fate...and whether Grandpa Joe would have been a more deserving candidate of the torture.

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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, and a small bit of world building - Film Stories

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Do you like watching the most powerful man in the country lust after his subordinate while her colleagues body shame her?

What about Alan Rickman lusting after a woman half his age while we watch Emma Thompson cry her eyes out while Curtis has put her in the fat suit to really drive home the idea that of course Rickman would stray because she has a mum-bod and the secretary has washboard abs.

Are we in the Christmas spirit yet?

I was joined by the wonderful Faye from The I Spit on Your Grades Podcast (returning from the Bridget Jones' Diary episode) to discuss the British holiday classic Love Actually (2003).

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We have all been there right, our ex-boyf who we are still hung up on after 3 years is getting married or our partner has cheated on us with their secretary, so we decide to swap homes, cars, pets, identities with a stranger across the world in a hope to be as far away from men as possible...and wouldnt you know it, there is still men in LA and 40 mins outside London!

Caitlin Magnall-Kearns returns to the podcast to talk about 2006's The Holiday written and directed by the one Nancy Meyers. This is a fantastic conversation regarding the casting of Jack Black against Kate Winslet as a genuine romantic option for her which we just don't get to see very often.

We also speak about our love for Cameron Diaz, who we would recast as Iris (soz Kate) and our ask for Mr Napkin Head to be cut from the culture.

You can find Caitlin's new audio drama Heartburn here.

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Stranger Things is a cultural phenomenan, one of Netflix's most successful orgiinal IPs and making stars of its ensemble cast. However there is an issue we need to discuss, the lack of fat characters and their treatment.

From #Justiceforbarb to Bob Newby: Superhero and now to Jim 'Dad-Bod' Hopper's extreme weightloss conversation in season 4, we have a lot to discuss.

Joining me is Writer and Director of film and tv, and author of the non-fiction book 'Fat Girl Best Friend' Sarah Grant.

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Put on your magic pair of jeans, jet set to Greece, Mexico or South Carolina, have a major coming of age experience and write all about it to your friends; its The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants!

I was joined by Anti-Diet Coach and Content Creator Rebecca Edmonds to deep dive into this glorious mid-00s film where we explore the characters, with major focus on Carmen (America Ferrera) and how her body size is treated by the film.

We laugh, we cry, we get the ick.

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Criminal Minds is a police procedrual crime drama starting in 2005 and still airing today over 300 episodes later.

Returning guest and friend of the pod, Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana joined me to hold my hand through this beloved show (I had never seen an epsiode) where we discuss the shows depiction of fat femme killers and how they project the well known and established negative stereotypes and tropes of fat women for the story's progression.

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Big girls are having a moment.

Survival of the Thickest dropped on Netflix in July 2023 starring and produced by Michelle Buteau and it follows Mavis Beaumont as her star rises across New York City being the hottest stylist in the game and how she brings her friends and community with her on her ascension to greatness.

I was joined by lecturer and podcaster Mary Wild to deep dive into this show and we shared our love for this show, the representation and the fashion. We mused over what we would do in the situations Mavis finds herself in and how we hope for a season 2!

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