9 Chickweed Rage - Episodes Tagged with “Turtlenecks”

035: 45 Tablespoons Northeast of Surly

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:00:00 -0700

As it turns out, Juliette is a professor. But she's more than that, she's also a total asshole. She treats the new Visiting Assistant Professor -- or Vizassprof -- horribly, all for our entertainment! Because what's more fun than evergreen jokes about the upper echelons of academia? Nothing, if you ask ol' Brooke Mac-El-Dee. Here we get a solid ten-strip run of nothing but professorial hilarity, as a Vizassprof named Britneigh (spelled that way for literally no reason), comes to Juliette for advice? We can only guess that's what originally compelled her. Of course, Juliette is immediately a cunt to her, but then also has no physical boundaries with her and definitely crosses some professional lines. She touches her chin lightly, she grabs her by the shoulder and pulls her super close, she hugs her unexpectedly, and then brings up ear nibbling out of nowhere. Were this a male-female dynamic, no one would doubt that the professor was trying to viz this prof's ass. Zing! Good one, Jeff & Brooke! Mr. Mac-El-Dee has a lot, we mean A LOT, of thoughts about the underwear worn by female professors. But of course it's hard to tell whether his understanding of women's underthings is any more advanced than the understanding of a nine-year-old boy. After all, he uses the phrase "two-piece tiger thong," which is, in itself, nonsensical. But that's just par for the course here, guys. Just more of his typical bullshit.

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here, or on Instagram by clicking here.

This two-piece thonged episode includes:

High school reunion
Glass straws
Diet Coke
Sneezing
Chicken N Pickle
Running in hot weather
"Pegging the red"
"Rocket Man" by Elton John
France / Speaking French
Turtlenecks!
The end of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Septic tanks
Underwire bras
Crab-claw hands
Red Lobster
Smocks
Automats
McEldowney ellipsis
Jungle Animal Underwear
Turtlenecks
Kung Fu starring David Carradine

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033: I'm Surveying You For Alternative Kiss Sites

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 04:00:00 -0800

What better way to start the new year than to take a look at the first Chickweed Lanes of 2024? Well, I guess it might be better to NOT look at them at all. But that's really not on the table for us, now, is it? Please excuse Jeff sounding like he's broadcasting from inside a tin can. He was literally inside a tin can. Once again, get ready to enjoy some smooth jazz segues, because the technical problems again befall us. But we soldier on and find ourselves back in the world of ear-kissing and the familiar restaurant booths with seat-backs of varying heights (and nothing on the tables of course). Xiulan insists that her husband Hugh kiss Edda's ear, which he does without hesitation. Polly and Lolly practice piano, which for some fucking reason bothers Edda. There's more about kissing ears, then Amos decides to kiss Edda's neck, which is so very difficult what with all of the fucking turtlenecks everywhere. Then we end our episode with more Polly and Lolly. It's shocking (or is it?) that a random sampling of the first 8 strips from 2024 give us all of the things that are so tiresome and annoying about the strip. That, we suppose, is the genius of Brooke Mac-El-Dee.

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here, or on Instagram by clicking here.

This fully turtlenecked episode includes:

Jazz!
Lalo Schifrin
Champagne
Turtlenecks!
Greedo from Star Wars
Rectum? Hell, it killed 'em both!
McEldowney Ellipsis
Ear kissing
Even more turtlenecks!
Piano practice
So many turtlenecks!
Kissing your Ben Franklin
The jazz flute from Anchorman
Full William Frawley
Connect Four
Winnie the Pooh
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman

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029: Dr. Greene Inhaled His Cough Drop

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:00:00 -0700

Well, we've been gone for two months but we're back! And if you thought that this stupid comic strip wasn't still stupid, boy, are you in for a rude awakening! All the same old shit is still there: turtlenecks, Dutch angles, references to starlets of the '30s and '40s, no backgrounds, the McEldowney ellipsis! Oh, how did we survive all these weeks without these? Anyway, this stupid storyline is about Juliette and her boyfriend Elliott, whom everyone hates. (Including us!) One version of this story would be to say that he shows up to propose to her and ends up in the hospital. But it's all so fucking convoluted and the story changes with each new development. At first, Juliette is pretty confident that Elliott might pop the question, but she's not certain, so she wears a sexy dress to help him "pop." But later we discover that he proposes to her on a weekly basis. Then, we find out that the minute Elliott walked through the door, he inhaled a cough drop and needed medical attention. But later, we're told that he didn't inhale the cough drop until after she said yes. But even later, we're told that her dress caused him to have "an episode." And a doctor tells us that he inhaled a cough drop but then had an arrhythmia. Anyway, none of it makes any sense, especially the part where Elliott ends up in the ICU for more than a day. To confuse things even more, Brooke and Jeff talk about the ICU like it's the Emergency Room. But then again, that seems to be interchangeable with Brooke Mac-El-Dee as well. Later, a cat motorboats Juliette's boobs. And in the end, no one really gives a shit about what happened to Elliott because they're too busy talking about Juliette's dress. Spoiler alert: She's the sexiest person in the ICU and she loves it!

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Edda and Juliette mention Jean Harlow, Juliette promises to make Elliott "pop," Elliott chokes on his cough drop, and a doctor stares at Juliette's boobs are here.
The "lethal, shrink-wrap, halter-top gown," Edda getting mad because her gay roommate thinks her mom is sexier, and Juliette looking hot (and enjoying it) in the ICU are here.
A cat motorboats Juliette's boobs, Amos talks about his fetid corpse, and Elliott somehow on his deathbed are here.

This lethal, shrink-wrapped episode includes:

Dive, Dove, Doven?
Phones, both corded and cordless
Auntie Mame
Turtlenecks!
Jean Harlow
Fisher-Price Little People
Dutch Angles!
The character design from Shark Tale.
No backgrounds!
Cough drops
Jolly Ranchers
Arrhythmia
Chekhov's Gun
Les Nessman's bandages
The McEldowney ellipsis!
Crystal Gayle
Being motorboated by a cat
The ICU

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027: My Speculations on Her Mother's Species

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:00:00 -0700

We could not resist the gravitational pull of the international cello competition that Amos won. You remember it, right? He and Edda got caught on camera (by a news balloon of course) having sex and then people complained that the sex tape (which everyone in the world saw) gave Amos an unfair advantage. So now we dive into the aftermath. It's 20 strips this episode, sorry guys! It's a re-match between Amos and Xiulan Yuan, and the competition will happen behind a screen and the contestants will have to switch cellos. Because of course both of those things make sense. For no good reason at all, other than Brooke McEldowney's hatred of women maybe, Edda hates Xiulan and decides to be a racist right to her face. It's fine (and funny?) I guess because Xiulan doesn't speak English. The competition happens, behind the screen, in front of an audience who paid good money to look at a screen on a stage. Instead of feeling ripped off, the audience hears Amos's cello playing and starts fucking basically. Just like always. Even people listening on a streaming broadcast end up fucking. Amos wins, of course, although he appears bored to be there for the entirety of the run. To cap it off, two nuns scissor from the joy of it. Pretty fucking typical for this comic strip.

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Headlines explain the outrage, Juliette phones Edda in Brussels, and Amos switches cellos ARE HERE.
Seth wants Amos to "moitelize" Xiulan, Isabel Florin says an indecipherable four word phrase, and Edda quotes Rocky ARE HERE.
Amos wishes Xiulan luck, Edda is a racist, and Juliette wishes Seth wasn't gay ARE HERE.
Amos and Xiulan draw straws, Edda fogs up Amos's glasses, and we see a screen on a stage ARE HERE.
Edda plays the one-key piano filled with milk, Edda and Amos are overcome with the passion of playing, and we see their weird sex arms, too many of which are left arms ARE HERE.
Everyone listening starts fucking, second prize is awarded, and Edda flings her body toward a bored Amos ARE HERE.
Amos changes into a blue suit for the on-stage celebration and two nuns do it ARE HERE.

This episode, which was performed behind a screen, includes:

Winnebago Man
VHS
Cut my gums off
Silly Putty
New Math
"Love is in the Air" by John Paul Young
The World Wide Web
Once Upon a One More Time on Broadway
Ripped from the headlines
The Speed Cubers on Netflix
Turtlenecks
Edda's tragic baldness
Benjamin Franklin
Enslaved by the exclamation point
Macaroni microphone
Jeff Beck
Bugs Bunny
The Bowery Boys
Rocky
Sea cucumbers
The Bluey episode called "Pavlova"
The Price is Right and Truth or Consequences
Dutch angles
Two left arms
Full corn niblet mouth
Scissoring nuns

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026: The Wattles and the Flapping Flesh

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Tue, 09 May 2023 04:00:00 -0700

Here we are introduced to 60-year-old Arthur Peel and his assistant Nan-Lin Peel (no relation), who is thirty years younger than him. Arthur excuses himself for being a disgusting old man, with a balding head, hair coming out of his ears and nose and eyebrows, wattles, and flapping flesh. These are his descriptions of himself, although Brooke Mac-El-Dee doesn't take the time to actually draw him that way. He is balding, but he has thin, very well groomed eyebrows, no visible wattles and few wrinkles to speak of. He repeats this stuff over and over to Nan-Lin, who seems bored and beaten down by his monologue. (You and us both, sister!) Of course, when Arthur adds that he is in love with her, this changes everything for Nan-Lin, who then literally crawls across a table to kiss him. Arthur, in typical Chickweed style, doesn't understand what's happening or that Nan-Lin wants his wrinkly and flapping Johnson. He looks terrified and concerned for all fourteen (yeah, sorry) of these strips. She even gets up on the table and presents her beave to him. Still, he doesn't fucking understand what's going on. Because...it's funny, I guess? Anyway, she eventually slides into his lap and then they disappear under the table. At this point, we discover that they are in a restaurant. The waiter arrives and is unfazed by their near-fucking in the booth. So much so, he takes their order, and then seats two other guests across from them. These guests, Seth and his boyfriend, don't notice that there's a couple moments away from intercourse across the booth from them. And they begin to make out too. At this point, both couples notice each other. Embarrassed (?) Arthur and Nan-Lin bolt from the restaurant, but not before Arthur gives the waiter a huge tip. The waiter then claims he's in love. Which must be a joke, but isn't funny really. And also makes no sense in any context provided. But what the fuck were we expecting anyway, right?

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Arthur talks about his wattles and flapping flesh, Arthur talks about his wattles and flapping flesh AGAIN, and Arthur talks about his wattles but NOT his flapping flesh ARE HERE.
Nan-Lin presents her beave, Nan-Lin ends up in Arthur's lap, and Arthur and Nan-Lin end up lying down in a booth in a restaurant ARE HERE.
The waiter arrives to take their order, Nan-Lin and Arthur hear the waiter but just keep dry humping, and the waiter seats another couple opposite them ARE HERE.
Seth and Mark immediately begin to make out, Seth and Mark notice Arthur and Nan-Lin, and the waiter insists on a big tip ARE HERE.
The phrase "get a room" is uttered and the waiter falls in love with giant money ARE HERE.

This key party-adjacent episode includes:

What is the name of our favorite celebratory march?
Cell phones in cars
2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid
Classic moment from The Man With Two Brains.
Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5.
Brooke's Broadway musical
Defibrillator
Paper pants
MRIs
Metal underwear/chastity belts/codpieces
Where "Bust a moo" originally came from.
Adam Godley
"Hot in Herre" by Nelly
McEldowney ellipsis
Ball wattles
Gilbert & Sullivan
Classical symphony orgasm
Pro-butt/Am-butt
21 Beave Salute
Motorboating
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Turtlenecks
Shrek
Bluey's "cone of shame!" episode
Throuples
The Case of the Disappearing Mustache!
Scooby Doo

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023: A Very, Very Good Glass of Water

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:00:00 -0800

After Edda "cures" Amos's hiccups, he takes the stage, first without his cello (hilarious!) and then with it. His performance, which is of course watched via satellite by all of his family and friends, inspires so much passion, that Juliette fucks Elliott on the couch right next to Nan. It also inspires Isabel to have sex with her boyfriend and Seth to make up with Mark, who appears here as a doll or small child. Amos finishes his performance and everyone there loses their minds, throwing their programs in the air and then roses at Amos and Edda. Naturally, the judges unanimously award the grand prize to Amos, who honestly looks like he doesn't give a shit and would rather be anywhere else but there. The victory is short-lived because of the sex tape that everyone saw. You know, because that caused an unfair advantage. Amos asks for another juried performance and then fucks Edda at the press conference. And that's where we leave Brussels, because this just goes on and on and we've truly had enough. (Part 3 of 3)

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Two Belgian perverts listen to Amos & Edda have sex, Amos & Edda finish having sex, Amos forgets his cello, then Amos forgets he's at a competition are here.
Amos & Edda begin their performance, the audience falls in love, Juliette & Elliott have sex next to Gran, and Isabel accosts her boyfriend are here.
Seth reunites with Mark, the audience throws their programs, the audience throws roses, and Amos gives Edda a rose are here.
Brooke Mac-El-Dee makes an ellipsis joke, Edda floats up to heaven, Amos and Edda get a phone call, and Edda finally has to tell Amos about the sex tape are here.
Amos doesn't care about the sex tape and Amos & Edda have sex at a press conference are here.

This award-winning, then award-losing episode includes:

Drug commercials
Resting heart rates
The Actor's Nightmare
Broadway
Stupid computers
Lurking outside doors
Claude the Cat
Showgirls
Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major.
"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis
Poltergeist
The clown scene is here and starts at 2:22.
The vulva
Sex in front of your mom
Turtlenecks!
Console TVs, much like this one.
Raggedy Andy Doll
Bats!
Caligula
Roses
Melissa Manchester sings "Please Don't Let This Feeling End."
Ellipses!
E.T.
More turtlenecks!
Sweet Greens
Souplantation

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022: Rampant on a Bösendorfer

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:00:00 -0800

The world watched Amos and Edda have sex, thanks to a Belgian breaking news balloon, the kind of balloon that floats through the city of Brussels, filled with at least 10 reporters looking for news stories. And part of how they look for news, we guess, is to peep through windows of buildings and film people without their permission. Seems totally cool. But maybe that's just how "European" they are, and we're all a bunch of American yahoos. Whatever the case, the video (or film as Brooke Mac-El-D prefers to call it) becomes a sensation on the internet. But before that, Juliette, Seth, and some lady named Isabel all see the video/film of Amos and Edda fucking on a piano in a rehearsal space, thanks to the peeping reporters on the news balloon that somehow hovered outside their window for the entirety of their tryst. Edda sees the video/film on her laptop, but keeps Amos from viewing it or even knowing about it. So he is pretty confused when they're on the streets of Brussels and everyone they pass, literally everyone, is craning their necks to look at them. And by craning their necks we mean turning their heads literally completely around. The venue is packed, not "standing room only" as one would normally say, but "crammed to the exit signs." Sure. Amos gets nervous, gets the hiccups, and Edda gives him a look that says, "let's fuck," even though he is five minutes from taking the stage. And that's where we end this episode. (Part 2 of 3)

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Juliette picks up the satellite broadcast from Brussels, tells Edda about it, and Edda is pleased Isabel has seen it are here.
Edda talks to Seth and then hides the video from Amos are here.
All of Brussels stares at Edda and Amos gets the hiccups again are here.

This episode that we picked up on a satellite broadcast from Brussels includes:

The classic Yahtzee commercial.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wild West
Ethel Merman
La La Land
The Oscar mixup explained.
We're twins!
Wood Burning Kit
Easy-Bake Ovens and the dangers thereof.
The Magic of Making Movies!
Singin' in the Rain
AMC's Nicole Kidman commercial
Breaking News Balloon
Turtlenecks!
Remote controls
The Bechdel Test
Picking up satellite broadcasts
Satellite Balloon / Balloon Satellite
And then this related thing that happened the same day we recorded.
Cirque du Soliel
Woody Allen
Let us never speak of Manhattan
Long-distance and international calls
Fabio killing a goose with his face.
Mike Teevee's mom says Rachmoninoff.
Harold & Maude
Columbo falls down a hill
Broken necks
Johnny Cash

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021: The Hiccups and the Special Way You Made Them Go Away

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 04:00:00 -0800

Buckle up for another epic run of this guy's fucking garbage. We start looking at the story of Amos and Edda finally doing it in Brussels during a cello competition. It begins with Edda making a move on Amos which causes him to have the hiccups, which results in Amos wanting to go home. But Edda claims she has a cure, which is (of course) fucking. As soon as they've done the deed, Edda gets on the phone back home to tell her mom that, yes, she used the same "hiccup cure" that Juliette did when Juliette first humped Elliott. Because of COURSE the women had to be the instigators and the men had to be uncertain, terrified idiots about sex. Amos and Edda can't keep their hands off each other, which means that Amos pins Edda (very uncomfortably) against a piano. This embrace is viewed by a hot air balloon filled with tourists? Prisoners of war? News reporters? It is so very unclear who the people are and why they're in a hot air balloon floating through downtown Brussels. But why should anything ever make sense in this fucking strip? Why? (Part 1 of 3)

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

The ones where Edda comes on so strongly, Amos has hiccups, but she has a cure are here.
The ones where Edda tells Juliette about fucking Amos, then Edda and Amos make out while rehearsing are here.
The ones with the inexplicable spy balloon are here.

This no longer virginal episode includes:

Hangers
Broadway
Britney Spears
Laundry vs. clothes
Catholicism
Madonna vs. whore
Martin Scorsese
High five / down low too slow
The D.A. hairstyle
Lenny Briscoe
Jerry Orbach, Broadway star
The definition of infatuation
Hiccups
Jascha Heifetz
Tuba farts
Amos's Patented Panty-Dropper
Helium balloons in Burbank
Balloon day in church
Cleveland Balloonfest 1986
Liquid mercury
Pirate ship ride
Pro-Butt vs. Am-Butt
All of the hiccup cures
Pausing the recording
Turtlenecks
Syrup bottles
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The End Pin
International Cello Competition
Chicken wire cages
Hot air balloons
The Montgolfier Brothers
The Hindenburg
The Last of Us
News balloons

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019: I Think This Whole Santa Tradition is Overrated

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 04:00:00 -0800

It's our last podcast of 2022! So to celebrate the holidays, we focus on Christmas this episode. Despite striking out at Halloween and Thanksgiving, we give the holidays another shot and take a look to see if Brooke McEldowney has anything joyful or celebratory to say about Christmas. The answer is, of course, mostly no. We're exposed to a very weird "pickle leg," an inappropriately sexy ballet Santa, Edda's sexy knees, and there's even a fun Hitchcockian cameo from McEldowney himself. By "fun," we mean very, very confusing. Ultimately, Amos and Edda show us they have some serious Santa cosplay kink that they can't resist the gravitational pull of, even when their bedraggled-looking twins are nearby. Our exploration ends with McEldowney saying (through Edda) "God bless cartoonists." Because of course he does. It's just like the end of_** A Christmas Carol**_, only if Dickens was a pompous asshole. Which is our way of saying, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We'll see you in 2023!

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Edda dances, Seth becomes Sexy Santa, and Edda has sexy knees are here.
Seth's roommate hits on Edda and barfs and Brooke McEldowney makes an appearance are here.
Amos fucks pregnant Santa and Polly & Lolly hate Christmas are here.
And the world's most dismal White Christmas is here.

This episode's jolly journey includes:

Cottonelle toilet paper
Pandemic preparation
Peanut butter
Can peanut butter go bad?
Whimsical hydration bottles
Kelsey Grammer falling off a stage.
The classic Grape Stomping Lady fall.
The news tease jet pack fail.
"Effing Under the Christmas Tree!"
Sudden Onset Baby Leg
Pickle leg
"Buon Natale" by Brave Combo.
Conversion therapy
Cindy Lou Who
Cock rings
Shame
Underprivileged kids
Uncle Fester fakes a neck injury on The Brady Bunch, but Mike outwits him.
Knee fetish
Mistletoe
Warner Brothers cartoons
Daffy Duck in "Duck Amuck"
Pregnant Santa
Turtlenecks
White Christmas

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017: You Have Utterly Stunning Toe Cleavage

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:00:00 -0800

If there was even a moment that you thought Brooke McEldowney wasn't a weirdo, we offer up this six-pack of excursions into the world of Edda's "toe cleavage." It starts off super-weird, with Edda sitting on the sidewalk so Amos can gawk at her feet. After thirty years of knowing each other, this toe cleavage thing comes as a surprise to Edda, because that totally makes as much sense as anything else in this strip. A cop threatens to take them in, and eventually someone files a court order against Amos to keep him from publicly lavishing affection on Edda's toes. It does NOT stop him from gawking at them in front of his children, however. So that's cool. Finally, when the kids are asleep, Amos asks permission, but somehow the thrill is gone for Edda. In other words, just a normal week in this godforsaken comic.

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Amos gawks, then a cop shows up, then a cop admires Edda's toes too right here.
Strangers witness Amos's fetish, his children witness his fetish, and Edda is no longer interested in his fetish are right here.

This episode's fetishized journey includes:

ER
Advent Calendars
Nativity Scenes
Studio Ghibli
Amazon
Pokemon
Minecraft
Roblox
Texting
Edema
Turtlenecks!
Sudden onset foot fetish
Bradley Whitford
"Queen of Hearts" by Juice Newton
The Glenn Close / Glenn Far meme.
George Michael
Purity pledges
The Good Place
Shaq
Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments

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016: Say Hello to Sphinxter, the Mobile Comments Wart

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:00:00 -0800

Neither of us was ready for Brooke McEldowney to introduce us to a filthy sock puppet named Sphinxter. But he did it anyway. Here, Sphinxter takes on internet trolls, or as McEldowney calls them, "anonymous onliners." If you're wondering if Sphinxter has a literal butthole for a mouth, he does. And we see it A LOT. In the end, McEldowney claims victory over the trolls and throws Sphinxter away. It's super fun!

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

Sphinxter gets introduced, states his thesis, and accosts Juliette & Elliott on the street right here.
Sphinxter uses a typewriter to address internet trolls, Juliette attacks Sphinxter, and then throws him away right here.

This episode's butthole-filled journey includes:

Taking Brooke McEldowney to court
Dolly the dog
Class-Action Lawsuit
Thorax
Sock puppet
Muppets
Washing machines
Oxy-Clean
Dishwashing pods
Sphinxter
Popsicle sticks
Lomi
Mark Cuban
Elon Musk
Emeralds into diamonds
Twitter
"Onliners"
Typewriters
Cloaca
Munchausen Syndrome
Judy Garland
Stockholm Syndrome
So many turtlenecks!

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012: Day and Night Area Bombing Raids

Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:00:00 -0700

Brooke McEldowney tells us everything he knows about conception and pregnancy. It's not clear that he understands how any of the experience, especially for the woman, really works. We begin with Juliette showing Edda a useless pamphlet that attempts to explain sex. The very same pamphlet her mother showed her and was not useful to her. Amos & Edda talk about their two possible strategies for conception, both of which sound terrible. Edda claims to wear a string bikini for the first time as a "last hurrah" (?) before her body gets super gross because of pregnancy. Amos has sex with Edda while she's pregnant and they both need reassurance that it was okay. Amos speculates about that inevitable time when their kids will imagine him and Edda fucking. Oh yeah, he also then thinks about Juliette having sex to get pregnant with Edda. And apparently it's something he does A LOT. In a Sunday comic, Edda says "whoops" for reasons we're still not certain about. Then there's a whole nursing thing that's also super gross.

The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:

The useless sex pamphlet, the bombing raids, and the string bikini are here.
The "coal to Newcastle" sex, Amos imagining Juliette having sex, and the gross nursing are here.
The big Sunday comic with the unexplainable "whoops" is here.

This episode's upsetting journey includes:

Norm's $7.99 steak breakfast
9/11
Tattoos
Door-to-door meat salesman
Juliette & Edda
Sex Education
What is an Eb Alto Horn?
Turtlenecks
Amos
Ovulation
Beaver shots
Stretch Armstrong
String bikinis
By the way, the phrase isn't "coal to Newcastle," it's "COALS to Newcastle" and it means doing something unnecessary or pointless.
Bringing babies home from the hospital
Singin' in the Rain
Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly.
The bombing of Dresden.
Gaslighting
Jessica Rabbit
Breastfeeding