From the days when an 800lb person was unheard of Anyone here remember the show iCarly? I saw an old episode of it a few days ago, featuring the world record for the "World's fattest priest" - supposedly 800lbs. This is the picture they showed.  iCarly isn't that old (I think it ended 5 or so years ago), but I don't remember seeing "deathfat" level people as much back then. As a kid, I probably would've believed that was what 800lbs looked like, just because it's such an "unfathomable" weight for a human.  One of the main characters, Sam, was "obsessed" with this fat priest guy, in a freak-show sort of way. At the end of the episode, she had an opportunity to meet him, but he was heavy that he fell through the floor on the way to their apartment.  Also on the topic of iCarly, the only regularly-occurring fat character on the show is depicted as being very stupid and dorky, as were most other fat TV show characters when I was growing up.