# If Jared's lookin' so buff ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 8, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507 "2000-08-08T01:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/1 "2000-08-08T01:37:39Z")
… then why is he wearing a shirt at the beach? He may have lost some weight, but I bet he’s still pretty flabby under that t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/2 "2000-08-08T01:41:25Z")
Oh well, so he’s a bit flabby still. He used to be really fat, and they’re trying to sell the idea that eating subway will help maintain a healthy diet. [hijack]So, Manduck, are you related to Toilet Duck?[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/3 "2000-08-08T02:44:14Z")
I don’t understand the point of this “update” commercial. They say “it has been a year”, but I don’t know if they mean it has been a year since he lost weight or a year since they filmed him first. I don’t recall seeing these ads before April or thereabouts so I don’t know why the need to update them so quickly. Though I applauds his effort, I think he looks better in the first ads when he is wearing a shirt and slacks and he looks a bit pudgier in the lastest series of ads which seems counter productive as an endorsement. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/4 "2000-08-08T02:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > [hijack]So, Manduck, are you related to Toilet Duck?[/hijack] No, merely a fervent admirer 😃 I am just aghast at the notion that this poor bastard has apparently eaten nothing but Subway sandwiches for a whole year. I would have cut my throat somewhere around day 3. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/5 "2000-08-08T06:36:25Z")
It sure looks like he’s put on 40lbs or so since the last commercial. Still… I was in a subway the other day, and they had a sign up with the ‘facts’ about Jared’s diet. I was quite surprised to see that a whole list of pretty good Subway subs only have like 340 calories and 6 grams of fat. That’s down in the range of those tiny little diet dinners. If that’s the case, then chowing down on a couple of those a day and nothing else would cause you to drop weight like crazy. Hell, you could eat three of them and still be at about half the normal daily caloric intake. I had one of those subs, and it was very filling. I don’t think you’d be all that hungry on the ‘all Subway’ diet. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/6 "2000-08-08T06:53:48Z")
Unless he’s had surgery, he’s gotta have a few acres of extra skin hanging around. I know people who have had to have lots of skin removed to avoid having awnings. Not Baywatch material, even if he’s totally down to ideal weight. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/7 "2000-08-08T08:20:43Z")
Ahh, I remember the glorious days of childhood, when we used to play hide and go seek in great aunt Bernice’s skin flaps. Who says you can’t have fun with a person who used to weight 750 lbs? –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/8 "2000-08-08T20:02:25Z")
Homer - YECCH!! Y’know, I could see it if the babe said “Lookin’ comparitively slim, Jared!” or “Lookin’ less obese, Jared!”. But Jared ain’t “buff” and it bugs me that she says he is. I don’t know why, but it bothers me out of all proportion with the actual error. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/9 "2000-08-08T20:13:14Z")
Anybody else notice that Jared looks like he is wearing bright red lipstick? ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-jareds-lookin-so-buff/28507/10 "2000-08-08T21:12:03Z")
Jeez, **Green Bean** , that was the first thing I noticed about that commercial! What the heck is up with that? It looks like he just polished off a quart of cherry Kool Aid. And **Manduck** , I agree – the word “buff” is completely wrong. Kudos to the guy for losing all that weight, but buff he ain’t.