A lot of mainstream media end up including story lines that are sexually arousing to gainers and encouragers. It's not clear whether this happens on purpose. Sometimes it seems so clearly oriented towards gainer and encourager fantasies that it seems like one of the artists must have been part of this community. But perhaps it is simply the result of the fact that a lot of material is generated and we happen to focus on the small set of items that match our fantasies.
It is extremely difficult to keep track of all of the material that comes out. The table below includes some of the items that gainers and encouragers most often mention. Please contact webmaster@gainerhouse.com with suggestions for items to add so that this list can improve over time.
| Beefcake: clip, episode | Southpark episode Weight Gain 400 in which Cartman gets even fatter |
| Bulk the series | not gainer related, but explores issues of being a fat gay man |
| Chow Hound | 1951 cartoon in which a bully of a dog is force fed by a cat and mouse who finally remember the gravy |
| The Day Flash Weighed 1,000 Pounds! | Flash comic #115 |
| Donut Hell | Simpsons clip in which Homer is force-fed donuts |
| Doug Tips the Scales | Doug fattens up at his grandmother's house |
| Fat Alec Baldwin | clip from Cat in the Hat with a very fat Alec showing his gut |
| Fat Eric | Eric from That 70's Show dreams of gaining to immobility |
| Fat Joey | Friends clip ponders what would have happened if Joey and Monica hooked up |
| Grande Size Me | episode of Kim Possible in which Ron Stoppable defies the "wheel of good eating" and ends up getting fat |
| I'm Fat | Weird Al's classic video parody of Michael Jackson's "I'm Bad" |
| I'm Starving | classic Chris Farley clip |
| Jimmy Olsen: The Fat Boy of Metropolis | Jimmy Olsen comic #49 |
| Holiday for Drumsticks | 1949 cartoon in which a hillbilly couple fattens up Daffy Duck |
| Kids in the Hall | The guys do a sketch about big guts |
| King Size Homer | Simpsons episode in which Homer gains weight to get disability benefits |
| King-Size Canary | 1947 cartoon in which animals drink a bottle of Jumbo Gro and become gigantic |
| Mac Gets Fat: promo 1, promo 2, promo 3 | Mac gains 50 pounds for season 7 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| The Man with the Golden Gut | Johnny Bravo gets fat |
| Mr. Creosote | Monty Python's overeating superchub explodes |
| NAAFP | Family Guy clip in which Peter tries to organize a fat acceptance group |
| Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut | I Dream of Jennie episode in which Jeannie's mischievous sister tricks Tony into drinking a potion that makes him super fat |
| The Oinquirer cartoon archive | a detailed listing of cartoon links as of 2001 |
| Pigs is Pigs | 1937 cartoon about a mad scientist who force feeds a pig |
| part 1Pleased to Eat You | episode of Big Wolf on Campus in which spider people use poisons to make Merton superfat |
| Pop the Pig | A kid's game that is curiously gainer/encourager oriented |
| Rag on a Stick | Bart Simpson dreams about gaining to immobility |
| Sabrina and the Beanstalk | episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch in which Harvey is fattened up by a wicked witch |
| The Santa Clause | classic Tim Allen movie with the ultimate gainer fantasy |
| Santa's Village of the Damned | Two and a Half Men episode in which Charlie and Alan get fat (short dubbed clip available here—in Slovak?) |
| Say Cheese and Die Again | episode of Goosebumps in which an evil camera makes a teenage boy so fat he can't fit into his clothes |
| Scooby Doo | Scooby and Shaggy get fat |
| She's Having My Baby Back Ribs | episode of Boy Meets World in which Eric gets pants-unbuttoning fat |
| Simplifying Summer | commercial with a guy who sucks in his stomach |
| Skylight | Coors commercial with a beer belly |
| Super Duper Sumos | They have guts and big butts |
| Templeton feasting | clips from Charlotte's Web in which Templeton the rat feasts at the fair |
| Traditions: part 1, part 2 | episode of Undergrads in which Nitz puts on the freshman 15 |
| Two Ton Superman | Superman comic #221 |
| Weighing Harold | Hey Arnold! episode in which Harold gets fatter (starts at 11:50) |
| Weight for Me | episode of Schnookums and Meat in which they get super fat |
| The Wolf is Out There | episode of Big Wolf on Campus in which Tommy gets fatter |
| Yoshi's Island | an ad with an exploding man |