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In the deadpan vocal style of overheated 60s girlgroups (eg the Shangri-Las), the heroine of 'Everybody's Pregnant' sings the story of her married life, the pressure in conformist suburbia to get pregnant, the biological inability to do so, and the various methods employed (IVF etc.) to correct this deficiency.

This is a quite stunning example of faux-naif animation - the childlike drawing and bright, flickering colours concealing a ghastly catalogue of horrors, in the same way a tuneful song like 'Leader of the Pack' expressed such despair. It is the most striking treatment of suburbia since 'Edward Scissorhands' - the probings of the doctor; the unfortunate women swinging on a rack like meat; the nervous breakdown car-crashing through the neighbouring garages; the transformation of wife into hairy beast and husband into virile robot thanks to medication; all so they can be just like everybody else. As usual, sparky suburbia is a graveyard of repression, strangling peer pressure and misogyny all leading to explosive violence.