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* Date First Aired: 22/09/1992

Jenny isn't feeling right and doesn't seem to have any desire for food. She's not the only person who's feeling under the weather, as Bill is taking a pregnancy test. Whilst waiting for the second result, she has to deal with moving lobsters at work. Soon, whilst with Ben on their way to David's parent-teacher meeting, they come up against another car. He refuses to pass and they end up in a car race. The other car flees, but Ben doesn't consider it over yet.

At the meeting, David's teacher expresses concern that he's getting too obsessed with the macabre. Meanwhile, Rona finds the truth from Jenny about her issue - she has been making herself sick after meals to match up with the other girls in her class. Bill is sympathetic and agrees to take her to the doctor.

However, although Bill's pregnancy is just a false alarm, the second stick is missing, and Jenny definitely didn't use it. Meanwhile, Ben has gotten into a fight with the rival car, which eventually evolves into a wheelchair race. He loses, especially when one considers the fact that his rival was already in a wheelchair. Afterwards, Ben tells Bill that she's going to have to care for him for now on, as he did a test and found that he's pregnant. On the bright side, Jenny is over her weight woes now.

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!!Tropes in this Episode:
* AppearanceAngst: Jenny has been angsting over her weight and it has gotten to the point where she's beginning to show signs of anorexia.
-->'''Jenny''': I've... been making myself sick after meals.
-->'''Bill''': Oh. I've been cooking those meals.
-->'''Jenny''': I know.
-->'''Bill''': Well, what's made you do that?
-->'''Jenny''': I don't know. It's just... everyone else is prettier and brighter and thinner than me.
* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: Whilst the show is, for the most part, a DomCom focusing on the strange life of a family, the scene where Jenny admits to having AppearanceAngst and puking up her meals is played dead seriously, with the only sign of a joke being Bill's annoyance that it was the meals she made that were being puked up.
* CompressedVice: Jenny's issues with anorexia occur only in this episode.
* ContinuityNod: Sven reappears, having obtained at least some understanding of English since his last reappearance.
* DeathGlare: Mrs. Grimes has not yet gotten over the death of her dog to the Porters, and gives Jenny a glare from her window.
* FirstNameBasis: The teacher at David's parent-teacher meeting wants Ben and Bill to dispense with the "surname crap" and just call her Babs. Indeed, she herself prefers it when parents use first names.
* MistakenForPregnant:
** Bill thought she was pregnant at first, but it turns out to be a false alarm.
** Ben ends up believing that [[MrSeahorse he's pregnant]] at the end of the episode when he picks up Bill's pregnancy stick.
* MisterSeahorse: Ben finds Bill's pregnancy tester and genuinely believes himself to be pregnant at the end of the episode.
* OneOfTheBoys: Ben claims that Christine wanted to be seen as one of the boys, which unfortunately extends to the sympathy she's given.
* OneWordTitle: The name of the episode is "Hormones".
* PregnancyTestPlot: The episode begins when Bill decides to take a pregnancy test. Chaos ensues when Ben finds it and believes himself to be pregnant.
* VileVulture: David's preferred pet is a vulture, called Babs, who he intends to feed dead bodies to and to swoop down and peck their entrails.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Jenny apparently puked in the sink, although the audience doesn't even find out that she did it until she admits it near the end of the episode.
* WheelchairAntics: Ben resolves his rivalry with the owner of the other car through racing wheelchairs. Ben, having much less experience using a wheelchair than his rival, isn't capable of keeping fully straight and ends up losing.

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