 Marcus is slightly overweight and spends a fair amount of screen time obsessing about his physical health, finally resorting to wearing a corset and using questionable weight-loss products such as Reduce-O-Creme, which promises to "melt, melt, melt your fat away" upon application.After several disastrous attempts at dating women, Marcus resorts to seeing prostitutes.He begins to secretly record his encounters with the call girls, first with a small tape recorder and then with a hidden video camera.