Loop-y

Happened to catch the Fox sitcom The Loop almost by accident last night (caught a quick description of it on the cable service menu). In it, series hero Sully (Eric Christian Olsen), a young guy working for a major airline, is forced to wear a fat suit on a cross-country flight to appease the members of a size acceptance group who’ve been threatening legal action over about the unfriendly accommodations on the company’s planes. The episode, written by Pam Grady & Will Gluck, makes the usual unfunny fat/gluttony jokes (often coming from the series’ un-PC mouthpiece, played with curmudgeonly gusto by Philip Baker Hall). But it also contains an intriguing scene centered on a hottie female fat admirer.

Seated next to our fat-suited hero on the plane, the clearly attracted blond unsubtly flirts with Sully and then leads him into the plane’s restroom, where she initiates him into the Mile High Club. How this is accomplished without revealing that he’s encased in a big prosthetic is never explained, but we get several shots of her giddily caressing his artificial forefront and marveling over its magnificent size. As a plot complication, said FFA turns out to be the girlfriend of Hall’s character Russ, of course – perhaps we’ll get some scenes in future outings of her feeding him to a suitable size? That'd show the ol' s.o.b.