The Oblongs are a family with a variety of physical and emotional abnormalities caused by the toxic conditions that abound in the industrial valley they call home. The series follows the daily lives of these outsiders as they try to fit in with the beautiful, affluent people who live in the hills above them. Headed by the loving, limbless, tirelessly upbeat patriarch Bob Oblong and his adoring, alcohol- and tobacco-addicted, bald but beautifully wigged wife Pickles, the family includes youngest son Milo, a one-haired optimist who has every childhood emotional disorder and behavioral problem ever diagnosed; conjoined twins Biff and Chip; and four-year-old daughter Beth, sporting a cucumber-like growth sprouting from her head.