"with Frank Nugent, Bob Cherry, Hurree Jamset Ram Singh and Johnny Bull are the other ringleaders of the Secret Seven. Other members include languid schoolboy earl Lord Mauleverer who features regularly, as does lawyer's son Peter Todd and Vernon-Smith's close friend Tom Redwing. Probably the most famous character in the Greyfriars stories is the fat Owl of the Remove - greedy schoolboy Billy Bunter, who eventually (albeit reluctantly) also becomes a member of the Secret Seven. George Wingate is the regular Head Prefect and School Captain. Highly popular and respected, he appears briefly on the opening episode of the series"
"the 'Fat Owl of the Remove', Billy Bunter, in the long-running television series ""Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School"". He recorded six episodes in 1952, after which fellow actors Raf De La Torre, John Woodnutt and Jack Melford began sharing the portrayal of this supporting character. Making just a single episode in 1954 (""Bunter Won't Go""), Reeves then returned to reprise the performance for two more episodes in 1956, and a further four in 1957, following which he gave up the role. This did not end his involvement with BBC productions however, and in 1958 he appeared in the six-part project"
"Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat was an unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics created by Sydney cartoonist Paul Newell with Roy and HG from the Australian Channel Seven sports/comedy television program ""The Dream with Roy and HG"", which covered the event. He took the form of a life-size stuffed toy wombat with a lazy, cheerful expression and comically pronounced rump, and usually appeared on ""The Dream"" broadcasts on Roy and HG's desk. Fatso was a spoof of the official Olympic mascots Olly, Millie, and Syd; whom Roy & HG disparaged as ""Olly, Millie and Dickhead""."
"postal order which never turns up, have made him famous wherever the Union Jack waves."" In addition to stories set at Greyfriars School, his adventures also included many travel series, with trips to China, India, Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Hollywood and the South Seas. In his first appearance, Billy Bunter was introduced thus: Bunter's big round spectacles and rolling gait earned him the nickname the """"Owl of the Remove"""". In the early stories, both Bunter and classmate Johnny Bull were described as ""stout"" in appearance; and it was Magnet illustrator C. H. Chapman who first put Bunter into checked-pattern trousers"
"are very fat, usually children. Augustus Gloop, Bruce Bogtrotter and Bruno Jenkins are a few of these characters, although an enormous woman named Aunt Sponge is featured in ""James and the Giant Peach"" and the nasty farmer Boggis in ""Fantastic Mr Fox"" is an enormously fat character. All of these characters (with the possible exception of Bruce Bogtrotter) are either villains or simply unpleasant gluttons. They are usually punished for this: Augustus Gloop drinks from Willy Wonka's chocolate river, disregarding the adults who tell him not to, and falls in, getting sucked up a pipe and nearly being turned into"
"power has been placed in his fat hands. Matters soon become intolerable for members of the Secret Seven, as Bunter uses his newfound knowledge to prise loans and foodstuffs from members. At one point, he blurts out that he “knows all about the Secret Seven” in front of Mr. Woose – but Woose ignores him. Eventually Mauleverer suggests a solution – Bunter must be made to join the secret society and take a leading hand in handling Loder. In the chapter titled ""“Brother Bunter!”"", the fat Owl of the Remove is apprehended by the Secret Seven and, under threat of"
"on the show. She also stated that her character always seems to be there for everyone, somewhat of an agony aunt. The character had plenty of self-image issues. Dodd also states numerous times that she is known as ""the fat girl from Hollyoaks"". Her character has also been described as 'breaking the mould' as the first plus-size character to feature in the series. In 2009, five years after the character had left the series, a BBC health organisation slammed Dodd for using her character as a role model in making overweight viewers think it's okay to be overweight. In the"
"including Arnold Palmer, Mary Kay Place, Gene Autry, Slim Pickens, Don F Brooks, Harry Belafonte, Ernest Tubb, Peter Fonda, and Carole King. Don Counts, who owned several pairs of Charlie's boots and lured him out of a premature retirement, described Charlie as ""a real character, an elflike creature who captivated everybody."" Known for his colorful language and broad sense of humor, Charlie in his customary black beret and cobbler's apron measured out at 5'4"" and 135 pounds of pure imp. One friend noted that even though he was ""quiet-spoken,"" he could ""tell stories all day and all night."" When Charlie"
"was at a house show in Montreal, Quebec on October 21 when he managed Pierre Oullette in a match against Jacques Rougeau. After leaving the WWF, Levy began developing a new character, ""Raven"". Inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe and by Patrick Swayze's manipulative Zen master of crime in the film ""Point Break"", the Raven character was a depressed, sociopathic, stoical, nihilistic misanthrope who would deliver eloquent, philosophical promos peppered with literary allusions and ending with the catchphrase, ""Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'"". Levy dramatically altered his appearance, bulking-up to approximately 235 lbs (107 kg), adding nose and eyebrow"
"bizarre humour, but it provided entertainment for older viewers. In the second series it was decided to use a regular Old Man, Fat Man, Bat Fan who was played by Nigel Rouine every week, he had such tasks as ""Eating the pasta fasta than the rasta"" and to ""Sticker the vicar quicker than the penalty kicker"". In the final episode the character was played by Jade Goody. Many of the episodes of series 2 had a theme which ran throughout the show. Guest-starring Wayne Sleep and Arlene Phillips. The Packers, thanks to Reggie's suggestion, decide to enter in their own"
"when Pierce Brosnan briefly took over the mantle, and also when individual voice artists were brought in to voice the characters, The Fat Controller being voiced by Keith Wickham in both the UK and US versions as of 2015 onwards. Kerry Shale initially voiced him in the US prior to 2015. In the American version, he has always been referred to by his actual name, Sir Topham Hatt, possibly because ""fat"" is a much more pejorative term in the US than in the UK. The Fat Controller's name was revealed to be Bertram by Alicia Botti, the famous opera singer,"
"include ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Minnie the Minx"", ""The Bash Street Kids"", ""The Numskulls"", ""Roger the Dodger"", ""Billy Whizz"" and ""Tricky Dicky."" Earlier characters who have been phased out include ""Ball Boy,"" ""Ivy the Terrible"", ""The Three Bears"" and ""Pansy Potter"". Some old characters, like ""Biffo the Bear"", ""Lord Snooty"", ""Baby Face Finlayson"" and ""Little Plum"", have more recently made a return as ""funsize"" quarter-page strips. The style of ""Beano"" humour has shifted noticeably over the years, though the longstanding tradition of anarchic humour has remained. For decades strips have appeared to glorify immoral behaviour, e.g. pranking/bullying (""Dennis the Menace""), dishonesty"
"Fatty Fudge Fatty Fudge is a British comics character who is most associated with the British comics magazine ""The Beano"". He was originally a supporting character in ""Minnie the Minx"" by Leo Baxendale, but eventually received his own spin-off comic. As his name suggests, Fatty Fudge is an obese boy with an addiction to unhealthy food, particularly confectionery. He is very greedy and would do anything for food, which Minnie often uses to her advantage. He is largely confined to supporting roles in the Minnie the Minx cartoon strip in which, alongside Minnie's other rival Soppy Susan, he is usually"
"weighs (), making him medically morbidly obese. Jeff Rudom weighed in at (), making him the heaviest celebrity ever to appear on the show. Anne Diamond, who was team captain, walked off during a training session in week 4. The UK soldiers who replaced Harvey failed to gel with Anne Diamond, who said “I'm not going to have a stupid, spotty, pubescent little youth yelling at me!” As a result of her outburst in training, Anne was relieved of her captaincy by Harvey. The following week she was angry that Jeff was made team captain instead of Mikyla. The following"
"Ogden Whitney Ogden Whitney (born 1918; died early 1970s) was an American comic-book artist and sometime writer active from the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of comics through the 1960s Silver Age. He is best known as co-creator of the aviator hero the Skyman and of the superpowered novelty character Herbie Popnecker and his alter ego, the satiric superhero the Fat Fury. Whitney as well had long runs on characters as diverse as the Western masked crime-fighter the Two-Gun Kid, and the career-girl character Millie the Model. In 2007, Whitney was one of two comics creators inducted into the comic-book industry's Will"
"that the strip's artist, Graham Dury, was so demoralised by the treatment of his creations that he announced that he was dropping them from the comic altogether. This was actually a misquote by an over-enthusiastic press officer and there was no intention of dropping the characters. Dury did not watch the film. The Fat Slags The Fat Slags is a British comic strip appearing in the alternative British comic ""Viz"". The characters made their debut in 1989. The eponymous slags are Sandra Burke and Tracey Tunstall, known to other characters as San and Tray. They are depicted as overweight, eating"
"issue despite the precedent of Humphrey B. Bear. During the 1990s, Fat Cat often appeared on celebrity versions of the then Adelaide produced ""Wheel of Fortune"". As Fat Cat did not speak he was usually paired up with Channel 7's resident puppet Agro who was the mouthpiece for the duo. Despite cancellation, Fat Cat still appears on Perth television screens as the mascot of Seven Perth's highly successful Telethon fundraising organisation. Fat Cat was originally played by Reg Whiteman for more than a decade. Fat Cat was then played by Ralf Hadzic for five years. Fat Cat was then played"
"sawed-off shotgun toting terror, a vulnerable jailbird whose life lies in the balance, and a double crossing mastermind who outsmarts Baltimore's biggest drug dealers time and time again."" Omar was named as one of the first season's richest characters, not unlike the Robin Hood of Baltimore's west side projects, although his contradictory nature was questioned as a little too strange. The Baltimore City Paper named the character one of their top ten reasons not to cancel the show and called him ""arguably the show's single greatest achievement."" Little appeared in Comcast's list of TV's Most Intriguing Characters, with the website"
"Goldmember"", Mr. Bigglesworth is only seen once in the entire length of the film, in the school flashback to when he still had hair as a kitten, where he was played by a 12-week-old kitten named Chloe. He was in a deleted scene in which Dr. Evil describes what it is like to hold a hairless cat - ""like holding somebody's ass."" He was also featured in promotional shots. Fat Bastard is a morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland, said to weigh a metric ton. His extreme size endows Fat Bastard with super-human strength as exhibited by his prowess in"
"get in trouble, go missing, or fall victim to a villains' latest scheme, Melon and Bitterbug (Lefuneste) take their places temporarily. In the show, Walter and Bitterbug replaced spoofs of character from pop culture such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Hulk, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Kirk and Spock, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, Tarzan, Mad Max, two of the Power Rangers, Jason Lee Scott and Billy Cranston, the Terminator, Fox Mulder, John Rambo, Little Red Riding Hood and Casper the Friendly Ghost. Unlike most heroes, Walter is a dim-witted, overweight jolly French American time traveller with a large melon-shaped nose and"
"Old Major Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his name used when showing) is the first major character described by George Orwell in ""Animal Farm"". This ""purebred"" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change. Old Major proposes a solution to the animals' desperate plight on Manor Farm under the Jones administration and inspires thoughts of a rebellion. The actual time of the revolt is unsaid; it could be tomorrow or several generations down the road. Old Major dies three days after delivering his speech and the animals, stirred up by this speech, set to work immediately on the"
"on that street: parties, fights, and even a pool party. The restaurant would also draw some bullies that would try to pick fights with Chevy. The leader of this gang was ""Cholón"" (slang for a big head), performed by Wilfred Morales, and ""Bejuco"" (slang for skinny), performed by Miguel Morales. Most of the time, Chevy would beat them up and kick them out of the restaurant. All of these characters would also create sub-stories with their relatives, friends, or love interests. After some time, Fernández left the show and Georgina Borri replaced him as ""Margot"", Chevy's mother who had bought"
"specified. He sometimes mentioned his childhood friends Skinny Mulligan, Fatso Flanagan, and Billy Maguire, possibly implying that he came from a predominantly Irish-American neighborhood and that his last name was Gilligan. Among his possessions are comic books, a boy scout book, a diary, a ""Manny Moose"" watch, and his high school ring. The character of Gilligan is noted for physical comedy, often with his friend the Skipper in the role of a straight man. Continuing gags of the show include Gilligan's seduction by Ginger, eating Mary Ann's coconut cream pies, joking about the Skipper's weight, and inadvertently undermining any attempts"
"to distinguish the two characters. With the passage of time, the illustrations would show Bunter's circumference as ever more pronounced, while Johnny Bull would become indistinguishable from the other schoolboys. A list of the members of the Remove (Lower Fourth) form was published in Magnet #1659 ""Billy Bunter's Bargain"" (1939), and provided the boys' ages, heights, and weights. Billy Bunter's age is given as 15 years 1 month; his height as 4 ft 9ins; and his weight as 14 stone 12 1/2 lb. On many levels, Bunter's character is deeply unattractive. He is the living embodiment of several of the"
"from time to time to join the pop-culture games which are a staple of the strip. Bart Savagewood was Lola Granola's ex-boyfriend. He is a tall, ruggedly-handsome mustachio'd test pilot for the U.S. Navy. His hobbies include catching sharks, and weight-lifting (it is mentioned that he bench presses 290 lbs.) He made Opus – who nicknamed him ""The Human Chin"" – feel inadequate. Opus' television usually appeared in segments used to satirize consumerism. It would often get on its (until then, unseen) hind legs during infomercials and either browbeat or hypnotize Opus into buying copious quantities of whatever product it"
"the ""Grumblegirls"" (models Sally Wilde, Tracey Dixon and Mandy Montgomery) who usually played overtly sexy female roles, while, as with Monty Python, the roles of older women would usually be played by the men (in drag). Popular cabaret artists such as Madeline Bell made occasional guest appearances on the show, attempting to perform while being distracted by a cast of oddball characters who appeared on stage one by one. These included a myopic park-keeper (played by Robin) dribbling Pot Noodle down his chin, the Milky Bar Kid (Albert, who removed his dentures to play the character) and an outsized Demis"
"making Cartman and Scott Tenorman half-brothers and putting Liane's intersexual identity in question. Among the show's main child characters, Cartman is distinguished as ""the fat kid"", and his obesity is a continuing subject of insults and ridicule from other characters throughout the show's run. Cartman is frequently portrayed as an antagonist or villain whose actions set in motion the events serving as the main plot of an episode. Other children and classmates are alienated by Cartman's insensitive, racist, xenophobic, anti-semitic, lazy, self-righteous behavior, but are occasionally influenced by his obtrusive, manipulative, and propagandist antics. Kyle, who is Jewish, is often"
"even say his name!"""", while others called him """"Obese Illegitimate Child"""". The mass retail action figures sold of the character had the name ""Fat Man"" on the box, even though the patch on his blazer clearly displayed ""FB"". Specialty stores such as comic book shops had figures in packaging which referred to him as ""Fat Bastard"", however. Fat Bastard Fat Bastard is a fictional character in the second and third films of the ""Austin Powers"" series. A morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland, Fat Bastard serves Dr. Evil in his quest to destroy Austin Powers. The character is portrayed by"
"present from Santa Claus in the form of a midget in the Doink costume, which he named Dink. Shortly afterward, however, Osborne was fired for re-occurring drug abuses. His final TV appearance in the WWF for that era was on the December 27th 1993 episode of Raw. Osborne cited in a shoot interview that Bam Bam Bigelow did not like putting over Osborne. Osborne said this subsequently led to Bigelow snitching on him for smoking weed in the hallway of his hotel and getting him fired from the WWF. Following his departure, Doink was played by Ray Licameli (also known"
"it was, the writers incorporated references to the film into the episode. The character Fat Tony makes his first appearance on the show in this episode. He was modeled after the physical appearance of Paul Sorvino's character Paul Cicero in ""GoodFellas"". The writers originally wanted American actor Sheldon Leonard to voice Fat Tony, but they were unable to get him, so they went with Joe Mantegna instead. Mantegna was offered the role during the show's second season, and since he had seen the show before and thought it was ""funny"", he decided to give it a shot. He felt honored"
"in the comic. Other suggestions that were considered good by Petrie included: ""Iron (stomach) Man"" (""Iron Man""), ""A-lard-in"" (""Aladdin""), ""Harry Scoffer and the order on Phoenix Street"" (""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix""), all from Harry Rickard, ""Currynation Street"" (""Coronation Street"") and ""The Fat in the Hat"" (""The Cat in the Hat""), both by Oliver Forde. Fatty Fudge Fatty Fudge is a British comics character who is most associated with the British comics magazine ""The Beano"". He was originally a supporting character in ""Minnie the Minx"" by Leo Baxendale, but eventually received his own spin-off comic. As his"
"of a right square frustum, and had its mass ""16 TONS"" painted on the side in large white letters. Monty Python's sixteen-ton weight was hollow lightweight board and approximately 1.5m high, allowing it to readily conceal the character upon whom it was dropped. The sixteen-ton weight was used periodically thereafter to bring an abrupt ending to sketches (in much the same way as the knight with a rubber chicken would do during the first series). A later episode would end with the weight being dropped on a TV announcer (played by Palin) and in the instant before cutting to a"
"from the other members, did most of the production of their music, DVDs, and live shows. Their act was later augmented with supporting characters: the ""friendly pirate"" Captain Feathersword and the animal characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog. These characters were initially performed by the band members themselves: Field played Captain Feathersword and Wags; Cook played Dorothy; and Fatt played Henry. In 1993, actor Paul Paddick, who became known as ""the fifth Wiggle"" and was as popular as the bandmembers, permanently joined the group to play Captain Feathersword. At first, the group travelled with a"