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fat Housebound Guy in the trailer he hasn't left in like a thousand years.
rhe host pretends that he's really concerned and has the fire department
carne over and cut a hole in the guy's wall so that a tractor trailer can hoist
hi!Il out and get him to a hospital where he can enter a weight program
and, you know, get the help he so desperately needs. Meanwhile, the camera
g uy keeps getting these shots of the crowd and you see a couple concerned
citizens but what really resonates with you is the teenagers with their hands
over their mouths and the smiling eyes. And since fun-dis-thetic, meaning
funny pathetic and disgusting, isn't yet a word, those smiling eyes about
their hands say it all.
"I think I just might win," she yells, much louder than necessary,
Garden, be as I pass by her always open door. She's marooned on The
eiJ f1919 Island of Stinky Bed, so named because of its size and the
:;c,. 't smells that emanate from it. Stale Cheetos, sour milk,
% futility.
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