043: I Hear You'll Do Anything for a Box of Mild Duds

043: I Hear You'll Do Anything for a Box of Mild Duds

From 9 Chickweed Rage by Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman

July 28, 2025 · 1h 33m

About this episode

The episode humorously explores the absurdity of a romance involving Milk Duds and features various comedic strips.

So sorry we've been away for so long. If it's any consolation, these strips punish us quite handily for our laziness. Boy do they ever! The white hot romance of Juliette and Elliott is explored a little this time around. Seems that Juliette loses her shit for Milk Duds. She makes it sound like it's a sexual thing, because isn't everything sexual in this godforsaken strip? But by the time we actually witness it, it's just Elliott with a cereal box-sized container of Milk Duds on his lap and Juliette sitting next to him with what appears to be 100 duds in each cheek. Certainly all of this came about so ol' Mac-El-Dee could have Elliott talk about how Juliette likes to have a "mouthful of caramel balls." Otis weaponizes the information by tempting Juliette with Milk Duds and getting her to sing a dirty version of an old TV theme -- one she makes up for him. Don't think too hard about what appears to be a teenager prostituting his girlfriend's mom. It's actually just silly and fun and definitely NOT WEIRD AT ALL. We also see one of the most poorly drawn examples of the Edda-in-a-leotard-in-front-of-a-mirror trope that the old pervert loves so much. And to finish it off, Otis reveals…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman

Topics covered

  • romance
  • comedy
  • improv
  • Milk Duds
  • silly humor
  • cartoon analysis

Keywords

  • Milk Duds
  • romance
  • comedy
  • Chickweed
  • improv
  • Elliott
  • Juliette

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Milk Duds

Books & works: Chickweed strips

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