I just hope this isn't a memory from real life...

August 25, 2008 2:35 PM

I have a vague memory of a dialogue between two people about bulimia. Is it from a movie, a tv show, or a strange dream?

This is a short memory I have that's been kind of haunting me for the past few days. It must've seen it recently. Two people are sitting and talking really casually, at a party, almost like they're bored. They're both talking about having to vomit to stay thin, maybe comparing strategies, almost like it's a given that this is the only established way of becoming thin. But it seems like the dialogue is NOT played for drama, or for laughs. It's just really tossed off, and lasts only a few seconds, before the movie (or dream?) shifts to something else completely. I can't remember whether the people talking are male or female.

The only movie I've seen recently that I can think of it being would be Pineapple Express but this seems very wrong for a stoner comedy. Now that I think of it, I also saw part of the movie Thirteen on Lifetime a couple weeks ago. Could that be it? Any other ideas?

posted by naju to society & culture (5 comments total)

There was a short-lived TV show called Starved which was a deadpan comedic series about eating disorders. The star is in a TV show on Showtime now, so maybe you saw a bit of that and it sparked a memory?
posted by macadamiaranch at 4:05 PM on August 25, 2008

This sounds like the kind of aside that would happen in the background of a party in a Woody Allen film. I don't have any more specific ideas, sadly...
posted by pluckemin at 5:06 PM on August 25, 2008

There was an independent film about 15 years ago called Eating that I remember being vaguely like this. Maybe?
posted by catesbie at 6:21 PM on August 25, 2008

I could be mis-remembering, but isn't this a scene in the movie "Heathers"?
posted by Asparagirl at 10:17 PM on August 25, 2008

There was a bit about it in Zoolander. The 'serious journalist' discloses that she used to be bulimic, and the two idiot male models talk about how it's the best way to lose some weight and they do it all the time like it's no big deal.
posted by leapfrog at 7:03 AM on August 26, 2008