044: All Mandibles Glaring!

044: All Mandibles Glaring!

From 9 Chickweed Rage by Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman

August 19, 2025 · 1h 56m

About this episode

The episode explores themes of romance and self-image through humorous interactions between characters in a water setting.

For this episode, we spend basically all of our time in the water, a Mac-El-Dee classic! But we begin with Edda staring at her reflection in a mirror, because of COURSE that's what she's doing. Edda provides multiple opportunities for the Brooke-ster to draw crazy teeth, for reasons that are completely unclear. Turns out, she's trying out various monster faces to look sexier for Amos -- like that would make any fucking difference with him. Amos points out that she has spinach in her teeth (which she somehow missed while staring at her mouth in the mirror) and Edda is despondent from shame. He makes up for it by calling her "the sweetest girl in all the world." Edda and Amos kiss in front of Polly and Lolly who hope that Amos "doesn't pick up her cold sore." Yep. That's a normal phrase: "pick up a cold sore." Edda then grabs Amos's legs underwater causing him to scream "like a little girl," which she then shames him for over the course of several strips. Proving, naturally, that she is indeed "the sweetest girl in all the world." Later, when Polly and Lolly are older, they again have a conversation with Edda about being sexy, which is a totally normal conversation moms have with…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brooke, Jeff Drake, Brooke Dillman

Topics covered

  • romance
  • self-image
  • family dynamics
  • improv comedy
  • water activities

Keywords

  • Edda
  • Amos
  • romance
  • Chickweed Lane
  • self-image
  • cold sore
  • improv comedy

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