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Fitness vs. Fatness (Part 1) It’s amazing how diametrically opposite two words can get with just one change of a vowel. Each of these words is something to think about, as we begin to emerge from over a year of COVID-induced hibernation or hermitage. A lucky few of us have maintained and monitored their weight. A good deal more are probably noting bulges and flaps where flat and tight skin once reigned. Oh, how those gym memberships will likely become hot commodities again, as new or returning clients labor in feeble hope of reviving their sagging metabolisms. Under these circumstances,...

Fitness vs. Fatness (Part 2) Last week, we commenced a survey of the early years of animation’s love affair with the budding fad of exercise and fitness programs, mostly promoting the healthy values of such endeavors, despite several of its participating characters coming out of such experiences as a total wreck. By the mid 1930’s, a counter-side began to rise in several animation quarters, resulting in a short flurry of several cartoons finding their humor in onscreen exhibitions of the results of massive calorie ingestion and voracious appetites. This week’s fare will thus present the flip-side of the immortal question,...