# Richard Simmons in a John Waters movie?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 15, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499 "2000-02-15T20:59:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499/21 "2000-02-19T06:28:00Z")

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Test.

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**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499/22 "2000-02-19T06:30:00Z")

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Wow, a four-repeat post over more than an hour. I bet your wife is proud of you!

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…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499/23 "2000-02-18T19:22:00Z")

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The original question apparently has been answered, so I’m going to close the thread at the OP’s request. I did that “email me when there’s a post” thing once. Exactly once. Never again. Oy.

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**Author:** ![Heliogabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Heliogabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heliogabby)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499/24 "2015-03-26T18:34:02Z")

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> [@lissener](#):
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> Someone I work with tells me that pre-diet Richard Simmons was once in a John Waters movie. He played, apparently, a fat guy. She thinks it was Pink Flamingos, but IMDB has no such reference.
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> Any clues?
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> If I were to say that today’s tomatoes are an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought a crank but nations do not, I think, ascend on such tomatoes.  
> –Russell Hoban in _Turtle\_Diary_

I think you’re probably referring to the frizzy haired guy in Female Trouble, Ernie, who wants a date with Gator. He looks and talks a bit like Richard Simmons, at least in the movie. He’s not Richard Simmons, though. His name is Bob Adams.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-simmons-in-a-john-waters-movie/7499/25 "2015-03-26T19:29:09Z")

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