Its a sitcom about two fat people. The jokes are part of it! In Family Ties "Alex" made fun of his parents political views and his sister's intelligence because that was the his character was. Same thing here!!! Stop bitching about everything!!

A stupid network sitcom, with fat people. Network comedies are just so pathetic. Modern Family is only a bit better because they are not so formulaic. But this? Idiocy. And, sorry, fat people aren't role models. There IS something wrong with being unhealthily obese, I don't get why it's nonPC to say so. Fat people know it too, they just hate hearing it. There is NOTHING funny about being too lazy and unmotivated to stop eating so much and start exercising. If you can't, you lack willpower, plain and simple. Go ahead and blame something or someone else, it won't help you to live longer and be healthier, only willpower and getting it done will.

I watched the first episode of Mike and Molly and never watched another because the fat jokes were way overdone and quite lame. Most fat people learn to use self-deprecation at a young age because if you beat others to it, they don't have anything left to say. However the fat jokes on this show are tired and aren't anything that any fat person hasn't heard before or used themselves. I don't want to spend a half hour of my time hearing the same things over and over again. Get some original content, Chuck Lorre! This show just isn't funny, which is too bad, because in the hands of better writers it could be something quite original.

Yo joel why are you going after chuck lorre!?!?!

The show is written by fat ppl!?! did you not get that?

There is nothing offensive in the show, the humour might be a little dull sometimes but the overall dynamic of the show is charming.

And as for that POS @ marie claire let her rot in her selfinflicted lonliness and self hatred.

Fact is, deep down she is a chunky girl and no ammount of self harm and starvation will ever make her happy LOL

Chuck Lorre and plus size acceptance FTW

Yeah, I grow tired of this fat jokes are bad thinking. I know gland and health conditions can lead to obesity and for those individuals, I do feel a sense of shame that they are lumped in with fat jokes.

But I feel no remorse for people who eat, sloth, and lazy themselves to obesity. I'm not some skinny, anti-fat, superficial person but I certainly think that just because someone is grossly overweight (and no one's talking about slightly overweight), they either need to seek the help they need to control their eating or stop complaining that they are the butt of jokes. For many, it's lifestyle choices that lead to obesity so I feel no remorse in laughing at jokes aimed at such people. Maybe that's not PC but it's time to stop being so PC.

I myself am an overweight person and I think the jokes are hilarious! In fact, they actually make me feel better about myself in many ways.

What people seem to have missed is the fact that although Carl, Molly's family and Samuel make constant fun of their weight, the characters aren't doing it to be malicious or cruel, they are just having a laugh. And the characters of Mike and Molly don't mind because they know that whatever these people are saying they care about them and don't mean any of it in a hurtful way.

The reason it makes me feel better about myself is that although they are teased, deep down these characters are accepted by their friends for who they are and are loved despite being overweight. And everytime they say a bad joke its them expressing that they really don't care what they look like. I make fun of my weight sometimes, and my friends laugh becasue we both know it doesn't matter.

Doing a show like this and not taking every opportunity to make light of the fact these characters are overweight is literally like ignoring the elephant in the room (no pun intended).

'The Only Thing Offensive About 'Mike & Molly' Is the Fat Jokes' It's a plural, so it's ARE the fat jokes.
Illiterate writer?

Have you watched the show?
The fat jokes only serve to show the shallow, ugly nature of the other characters. The partner cop who seems to have it together, but lives at home with him grandmother. The "hot" sister, who is usually a drunken mess.

Should we be offended on behalf of single guys living with grandmothers? Middle aged women who can't keep a man?

The whole point is that Mike & Molly are the ones that have it figured out, despite the fact that their overweight and the world around them judges them for it.

The blog problem yesterday and today. I believe this is nothing more than a form of discrimination and bullying. Anyone who singles out people for the way they look is a form of discrimination. It is no different than if someone discriminated against race, religion, or color. The majority of our society is overweight. It is good to see people on television that are not a perfect model or have all of the perfect characteristics. I believe that much of television tries to paint overweight people as a problem in society. That is why they have to put them on television like circus animals and eat what someone tells them too, exercise like they are going to die if they don't complete the task, and treat them like they are these freaks because they are overweight. I have known just as many people die who are skinny as are overweight. All of us are going to die one day skinny or fat. Society tries to say if you are overwieght you are doomed. I believe this is a way for producers to say we don't want to see fat people we want gorgeous people who have no flaws and paint a very phony picture of America. Get real this is DISCRIMINATION!!!

As a fairly overweight bloke myself, I love this show. The 2 of them are so sweet.

As for the number of fat jokes : I have to disagree. There is no problem with the jokes of the show. Mike's mates take all the same cracks at him that those of us that are overwieght cop all the time.

I believe the context in which they are made makes the viewer sympathetic to the characters and my wife has been known to say "oh c'mon guys, give them a break" in response to some of Carl and Samuel's comments.

As for Maura Kelly's blog. It IS offensive. It wasn't tongue in cheek, it wasn't constructive and it wasn't decent critical comment. It was nothing but undisguised school yard level bigotry against a particular societal group.

I know exactly where my anger is directed and it isn't towards the show.

Cheers,

Mike