Rodney's father was fat and ugly, and Rodney's mother was even fat-and-uglier. And his father used to tell him that one day Rodney would meet a fat and ugly girl, just like Rodney's mother, and they would get married. Rodney's mother told him that there were a lot of fat and ugly girls looking for fat and ugly men, just as she had done before she'd married Rodney's father, who was a roadsweeper and cleaned lavatories to earn more money.