Enormous young man in a muu-muu wheezing with the effort of trying to force his wedged frame through the door

DOCUMENTARY VOICE-OVER: At 18 years old and weighing 400 kilograms, Arthur is the world’s heaviest teenager.

ARTY: It’s not like something I tried for, y’know, but… it’s kinda nice being in the books for something. Otherwise I’m no special piggy.

He tries to laugh, as though this was a joke.

But I hear there’s a kid coming along in Houston who’s only 15 and already like 350 kilos, so, y’know, the competition’s out there.

Beat.

Not that I’m competing but… y’know.

DOCUMENTARY VOICE-OVER: His weight has reached critical proportions but for now, everyday life goes on as normal.

ARTY: I wake up, have breakfast, and then I might watch some telly or read, and y’know, have lunch and more telly—

JOJO: Or Scrabble.

ARTY: Or Scrabble, and… I don’t really do much.

JOJO: I never beat him at Scrabble, do I, Moon? He’s got a real good vocabulary, like knows all these words, don’t you, love?

ARTY: This is what I call icing ’cause she’s laying it on real thick now.

JOJO: I know every mum thinks her baby is the best but you look at some kids and think, I don’t care if your mum does reckon you’re the bee’s knees, I know a gimped-up little monkey when I see one. But seriously, my Art-Art’s got a gift with words. Like what was that one you come up with the other day?

ARTY is embarrassed but proud.

ARTY: ‘Epitome’—that was the word.

JOJO: See what I mean?

JOJO and ARTY beam.

But I’m better than him at Jessica Fletcher, aren’t I?

ARTY: We love Jessica Fletcher.

JOJO: Even the episodes that aren’t any good when it’s just Jessica’s acquaintances doing mystery-solving somewhere that’s not even Cabot Cove. But I always guess right the killer, don’t I, Moon?

ARTY: She just looks at someone start of the episode and says, ‘It’s him—he done it’ and I say, ‘What d’you mean? How you know it’s him when there hasn’t even been a murder yet?’

JOJO: I got an instinct for people.

Beat.

And I seen most of the episodes already so that helps too.

DOCUMENTARY VOICE-OVER: Almost immobile, Arthur lives with his mother Joanne, who takes care of him full-time.

ARTY: I’m really lucky to have Mum. If it weren’t for her I…

PRODUCER: Cut to

JoJo tucking Arty into nest with a hot water bottle

Folding the doona under his body so he doesn’t catch draft

And planting a volley of kisses on his forehead

JOJO: Night-night, Moon.

ARTY: Night-night, Mum.

Back to camera.