I know a High School health teacher who still shows SSM to this day and preaches it as completely factual.  I’ve tried to discuss how its absolutely incorrect along with the other things that Spurlock wasn’t disclosing but he’ll have none of it.  

“so-called obesity epidemic” Oh for fucks sake, seriously? Like this is up for debate?

I watched the commentary for Super-Size Me (at some point, for some reason), where he corrected himself on emphasizing a McDonald’s being in a hospital. “That’s right. Hospitals.” Someone had come up to him at some point in post-production and explained that some of the kids have terminal cancer, and seeing a McDonalds…

Confession is suggested as a cornerstone of 12-step practice, just throwing that out there. Not PUBLIC confession though, necessarily, but that might have been at least partially informing his decision to “metoo himself”.

I think that’s why older gym teachers tend to be fat. They are typically former athletes who got into it because they thought that would be a career that used their enthusiasm for physical activity, but as they aged and became less physical themselves their diets didn’t reflect their new sedentary state.

Iconic officially has no meaning or value

I have! And Oliver’s been on my mind because of a Maintenance Phase episode...I have no idea if he’s done some recently to garner attention. But also I remember the American edition airing and the whole nugget scene and being put off. Judging food by visual aesthetics seemed so unrelated to health—like even if you…

there’s a doc called “THAT Sugar Film” from an Aussie. It’s still a bit preachy, but it’s less sensational overall. It’s not perfect.

It seems he is finally gone. His Trump documentary was the last one and I haven’t heard a peep about him in years.

They were a lot like the ones Micheal Moore made.

Yup. I get to read medical studies of all stripes almost once a week for work, and nothing bugs me more than people who magically expect that same amount of rigor from a pop culture moment.

Whaaaaaaaat! Supersize Me was SO iconic when I was in higschool nooooo Morgan Spurlock...

Oh. Well, good for him.

Always thought it was weird people criticized SSM as like an actual scientific experiment when it’s pretty clear it was gonzo journalism. I’m not the biggest fan or detractor, but I think it’s disingenuous to act like he was doing a controlled experiment, and it actually did have an impact on the food industry, I…

i think he actually did go out of his way to call himself out. it was very strange.

He pointedly refused to release the logs of his food intake, so no one could attempt to replicate what he ate for those thirty days.  

It’s a shame that his legacy will always be Supersize Me, a flawed documentary that I never cared for. His real strength was his TV series, 30 Days and Inside Man, which really explored compelling corners of life with an empathetic eye.

Super fitting that his death is overshadowed by the Dogecoin dog dying on the same day.

Olympic athletes fucking love McNuggets.

Way too young. Fuck cancer.