What if Ozzie and Harriet and June and Ward Cleaver decided to partner swap? What if Richie Cunningham got sweet for Ralph Malph? Or if Jan Brady was a lesbian? (We wouldn't be surprised and neither would Alice.) And those sweet kids from Eight Is Enough — where to begin? Trannies, hookers, drug addicts — we watch Jerry Springer! And what if Wally, looking for beaver, started humping The Beaver?

Shocking behavior suddenly runs amok in an upper-middle-class family in Sitcom, a French farce that mixes Pedro Almodóvar's love for the absurd with John Waters' disdain for family values. Mom is a house­ wife, Dad's an engineer, and theirtwo lovely children are students. Okay, so their Spanish maid's a little nutty, but it's not until Dad brings home a lab rat for a pet that things really get out of hand.

As each family member comes into contact with the rat, they begin to show signs of perversion. The son announces at dinner that he's gay, Sis tries to commit suicide and exhibits sado-masochistic tendencies, the maid and her husband prove to be swingers, and even mother has her weaknesses. Sounds like another Aaron Spelling production! Sitcom sends it all up and has us asking that burning question: Just what kind of relationship did Danny Partridge and Reuben Kinkaid really have?