"The Diet Syndrome" (ダイエット・シンドローム, Daietto Shindorōmu) is the seventh episode of season 1 and the seventh overall episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It first aired on October 22, 2010.
Synopsis[]
Stocking finds herself gaining weight and goes on an intense diet.
Plot[]
The episode starts with a narrator, who explains how girls in Daten City often go on extreme diets in order to maintain overly slim figures, sometimes even leading to their own deaths. The setting changes to the church's living room, where Stocking is seen eating a white cake-like roll. She assures the cake is delicious and completely worth the 2-hour waiting line.
Stocking realizing that she is getting fatter.
Panty arrives from her daily exercise routine, and tells Stocking that if she keeps eating all those sweets she is going to get as fat as a whale. Stocking reassures her that she never gains weight and even makes fun of Panty for having to exercise in order to maintain her figure. While taking a bath, Stocking comments on how she should try a Belgian chocolate featured on her magazine, but upon looking at herself in the mirror, she notices her waist was getting fatter. The next morning, Stocking wakes up early in order to jog in secret and returns to check on her weight again. She finds out that she didn't lose any weight at all, but in fact she had gained a few pounds.
Panty came to the living room carrying a bunch of sweets someone gifted her and tells Stocking she could have them. To Panty's surprise, Stocking denies them, so Panty decides to give them to Chuck instead. Stocking tries to stop her, but is too late as Chuck eats them all. Panty gets suspicious and asks Stocking if she is on a diet. Stocking denies it, to where Panty lifts her blouse and finds a vibrating belt for weight loss. Stocking goes mad and escapes to the elevators with Chuck, where she starts punching him for eating her cake.
The following few days, Stocking heavily exercises and goes on a diet, which consists of only eating food with few calories. Meanwhile, Panty goes to Whity-White and buys a bunch of cake-rolls in order to give them to Stocking, but is shocked to find Stocking strange and zombie-looking when she comes back, where she turns down the cakes. Stocking checks her weight once again, and discovers, to her horror, despite her efforts and sunken in cheeks she has grown even fatter and has a sizable stomach. Pissed off and seeing all her efforts are worthless anyway, Stocking devours all the cakes, with Panty standing back in disgust and worry.
Stocking swallowing a creamy substance from Hell Pound.
That morning, Stocking balloons into a spherical giant and destroys part of the church. Panty, upon seeing Stocking, laughs at her while Stocking says that she's given up losing weight because it's too much effort, and Chuck is suddenly stricken by lightning. Garterbelt tells both Anarchy sisters that most of the women in Daten City are getting obese, and that the cause is Whity-White's cake-roll, stating that it was a ghost's doing. Stocking, completely enraged, tells Panty it is payback time, and both angels go to Whity-White's factory, with Stocking rolling the way there with Panty on top (crushing a number of cars along the way). It turns out the ghost behind it is trying to make everyone in Daten City fat because she didn't want to go on a diet herself. The ghost shoots at Panty a white creamy substance that would cause her to become fatter, but is saved by Stocking, who starts eating it. Stocking tries transforming her stocking into Stripe I, but it failed since her stockings were too stretched out. The ghost attempts to escape, until Panty kills it, as it leaves 4 Heaven Coins behind. Stocking returns back to her normal figure and ends up eating sweets again like nothing ever happened.
Characters[]
- Panty
- Stocking
- Garterbelt
- Chuck
- Hell Pound (debut)
Production images[]
Trivia[]
General trivia[]
Panty breaking the fourth wall.
- During the scene where Panty is laughing at Stocking while her massive frame is stuck in the tower, in the Japanese dub, Stocking says it is to much effort to stay thin. In the English dub, she threatens to eat her sister in a breakfast taco.
- In the English sub, when Panty walks in with boxes of cakes, she stated that she got them from a young boy who was a fan of her. In the English dub, she states that she got them from a man whom she had sex with, in hopes that there were "sweet meats" in them.
- During Stocking's dieting montage, Panty breaks the fourth wall as she smiles at the camera while at Whity-White.
Cultural references[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1979 American film, The China Syndrome.
- In the scene where Panty finds out that Stocking is on a diet, Panty's white belly shirt has a "Katz" stamp, which is a reference to Courage The Cowardly Dog.
- When Stocking starts gaining a few pounds, she desperately tries to lose weight in methods similar to that of Rocky and Ashita no Joe. During one scene, Stocking shuts herself in a dark room and deprives herself of food and water which leads to her becoming severely dehydrated to the point of looking sickly. As well, when she runs very quickly, her legs form into a circular shape, of that being similar of how Sonic the Hedgehog runs. This weight loss regimen was inspired by Ashita no Joe's Tōru Rikiishi. The music that plays during this scene is a reference to Ashita no Joe's first opening theme.
- Upon her death, Hell Pound shouts "HIDEBU!" in the English sub. This is a reference to Mr. Heart, the resident Fat Bastard from the Japanese manga/anime Fist Of The North Star.
- It is also a pun on the word "debu", which means "obese" in Japanese.
- When Panty called the ghost Pippi Longtitties, she references a children story book character, Pippi Longstocking.
- When Stocking becomes fully bloated, she resembles Helga Phugly from the adult-animated sitcom, The Oblongs....
- In the English dub, Panty compares Stocking to King Kong and herself to "the hot chick", likely referring to Ann Darrow.
- After Panty finds out that she is on a diet in the English dub, Stocking laughs very similarly to Renge from the anime, Ouran High School Host Club.
- Both Stocking and Renge are voiced by Monica Rial in their respective series' English dubs.
Music[]
- "Sub Title" - Episode sub title
- "Immoral Church" - Opening narration
- "Burrrrrp" - Stocking eating
- "Beverly Hills Cock Part 2" - Panty dislikes sweets
- "Burrrrrp" - Reprised as Stocking baths and checks her weight, and again as Panty arrives with sweets
- "Stocking's Diet" - exercise montage
- "Pantscada" - Stocking snaps
- "Beverly Hills Cock Part 2" - Reprised during Garter's briefing
- "Ghost Town" - The ghosts is revealed
- "Dancefloor Orgy" - The angels arrive on the scene
- "Fly Away" - Transformation
- "Ghost Town" - Reprised as the ghosts attempts to escape
- "Beverly Hills Cock" - Reprised as Panty takes the ghost out
- "EPTM (Booty Bronx Remix)" - Conclusion and fade out
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