Fat Like Me

"Fat Like Me" was the third episode of the fifth season of Daria. It first aired on MTV on March 5, 2001.

"Fat Like Me" was written by Peggy Nicoll.

Summary
During a Fashion Club meeting at the Griffin house where Sandi expresses concern for "the burgeoning obesity problem tearing apart the very fabric of our land" (by which she means to make the club's weight requirements more restrictive) her brothers Sam and Chris disturb the discussion with an argument over a remote control toy truck. On going to silence them, Sandi is knocked off balance by the truck at the top of a flight of stairs and falls down them, breaking her leg. After several days absence from school and Fashion Club meetings, Sandi reappears, and is herself overweight by Fashion Club standards. The resulting conflicts run the risk of changing the dynamics of the Fashion Club forever.....or of wasting the only opportunity they may EVER have to change.

Timeline headaches
When Daria is eating from the ice cream container, the calendar behind her says May 12. If the episodes are presented in chronological order and before Is It College Yet?, then (on the basis high schools tend to let out in June) the next ten episodes and the movie happened within one month. That, however, ignores that it would take time for Sandi to lose weight, so that leaves the rest of Daria with just two weeks or less...

Confusing the matter further, the previous episode took place in November and the one before that in January.

Sandi is also said to have been away from school for "weeks".

Trivia

 * The roles of Daria and Jane in this episode are interesting and unique. Through each actively attempting to win a series of wagers with one another regarding the fate of the Fashion Club, the duo pulls the strings on much of the action without actually being part of it.


 * The title of this episode is taken from the nonfiction book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.