“Super Size Me,” Twenty Years Later

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years ago, Morgan Spurlock released his low-budget documentary Super Size Me, and achieved success that most documentary filmmakers can only dream about. The film made millions at the box office, it was nominated for an Academy Award, and it turned Morgan into a star. To this day, the film is still shown in middle school and high school health classes across the country.

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0:00.0	Please note this episode contains references to sexual abuse and
0:05.2	disordered eating.
0:08.0	All right, let's make some authentic sound effects here.
0:09.7	Mine's gonna become a man. Right now it's a little baby, a little baby become a man.
0:13.0	Right now it's a little baby in a can and then.
0:16.0	Oh man,
0:20.0	Foley sound effects, eat your heart out.
0:22.0	We got a second career coming.
0:23.0	Ten years ago, I interviewed the documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.
0:26.6	At the time, in his Twitter bio, he called himself a Guinness drinking West Virginia hillbilly.
0:31.0	So I thought, let's chat over some Guinness.
0:33.0	Imagine if your whole job was just to open and drink beer to make sound effects?
0:38.0	How do I get that job?
0:41.0	But Morgan wasn't there just to talk about Guinness. He was
0:43.8	promoting his new Showtime series Seven Deadly Sins. Each episode was a story
0:48.1	about a person who embodies one of those sins. The show leaned heavily on
0:51.8	extremes, like extreme eating, and the extreme ways people treat their bodies.
0:56.0	Her goal was to become the fattest person in the world, like she wanted to break the Guinness Book of World Record,
1:00.0	and then once she hit 600 and some pounds somewhere in there she had this like
1:04.4	elevated sexuality within her body that she just wanted to explore and enjoy.
1:09.6	I couldn't help but see the link between this project and Morgan's most famous film,
1:13.4	Super Size Me.
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