# Nero Wolfe weighs HOW MUCH? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045 "2017-12-22T15:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/101 "2018-11-16T15:14:54Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > I know what you mean. Archie Goodwin’s descriptions of his boss makes it sound like Nero Wolfe at ~300 lbs is sideshow-freak huge, unable to use regular-sized chairs, and not merely a somewhat overweight guy. Different times, different standards? Back then 270-280 pounds _was_ sideshow freak big. It wasn’t long after the Great Depression, after all. Now, we are so used to seeing obese people everywhere in the US, it doesn’t seem as shockingly huge. But when people come to the US from other countries, they are surprised by the number of fat, fat people out and about. Chairs were smaller and flimsier then, seats on buses and movie theaters, everything, were narrower and smaller overall. Certainly Wolfe, who was wealthy, would have a strong and comfortable custom chair built for him. I’ve got the complete Wolfe collection languishing in storage while I care for my elderly parent in Florida. I’m planning to do a binge read of all of them on a snowbound week once I am able to move back north again. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/102 "2018-11-16T17:46:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [An article](http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/william-shatner-archie-goodwin/) about the 1959 pilot starring William Shatner as Archie and Kurt Kasznar as Nero, and [a rare clip from that pilot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMxV9S7dz1k) Nice - hadn’t seen that before. Any particular reason Archie would be drinking milk while Nero enjoys a beer? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/103 "2018-11-16T18:06:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nice - hadn’t seen that before. Any particular reason Archie would be drinking milk while Nero enjoys a beer? Milk is Archie’s favorite drink, as beer is Wolfe’s. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/104 "2018-11-16T18:49:24Z")
I did not know that. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/105 "2018-11-16T18:56:27Z")
Archie also enjoys his rye highballs, and on one particularly bad late evening declares his intention to polish off an entire fifth. “Not here, Archie,” say Fritz. “In your room is the place for that.” But yeah, usually milk. Even with meals. Whole, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045/106 "2018-11-16T19:37:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I did not know that. Thanks! You are very welcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nero-wolfe-weighs-how-much/805045.md?page=5)