I Married a Strange Person was the second feature film from Bill Plympton. Plympton has been a cartoonist since the 1970s, his work appearing in a number of high-profile magazines. In the 1980s, he turned to making short animated films and has made some 40 of these, with two of them being nominated for Academy Awards. Plympton made his first feature film with The Tune (1992), which had the distinction of being the first full-length animated film where the creator drew every single frame by hand. Subsequent to I Married a Strange Person, Plympton has made other animated features such as Mutant Aliens (2004), Hair High (2004), Idiots and Angels (2008), Cheatin’ (2013), Hitler’s Folly (2016), Revengeance (2016) and the H is for Head Games segment of ABCs of Death 2 (2014) and the On Eating and Drinking segment of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2014).

Bill Plympton announces his vulgar intentions from the opening title cards with sarcastic comments from Picasso and Goering slamming the notion of good taste. From there the film launches into a series of mind-boggling images such as grass clippings turning on a man mowing the lawn and pursuing him around the property; a woman pursued by fat and wrinkles wanting to attach themselves to her body; the image of tanks fucking. The film is filled with visual puns – when the hero shows his wife his bedroom eyes, someone pops out of his eyeball in a bed and asks for quiet because he is trying to sleep; a woman literally wears fishnet stockings replete with fish woven into the lace. The film is filled with casually OTT surreal violence – at one point, the wife tries to lasso someone using a set of intestines.

Nothing however is as funny as the film’s surreal sexual images – it opens on two birds fucking and proceeds to an hilarious seduction scene by the wife as the husband is trying to work. During intercourse, the hero variously causes his wife to manifest breasts that take over the entire house as she transforms into the Statue of Liberty riding atop him; while elsewhere swirling tassels attached to nipples become airplane propellers or impale the hero’s eyeballs. Indescribably bizarre.
 

Clip from the film here:-