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Line 2: [[File:eddasolange_5998.png\|frame\|Edda and Solange]] The comic strip ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' was started by Brooke McEldowney in 1993. Originally a gag-a-day strip about three generations of women in the Burber family: biology professor Juliette Burber; her teenage daughter, Edda, and her mother, Edna O'Malley, whom everyone calls Gran. (Gran has been written out of the strip after the end of a year-long flashback.) It gradually turned into a platform for the creator to express his views on culture, politics, religion and gender relations. Since 20-year-old Edda seems to have been promoted to being the central character, it also allowed McEldowney to indulge in his love of odd camera angles and [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness\|polysyllabic words]]. {{tropelist}} Line 9: * [[Author Appeal]]: McEldowney loves the female form (especially the legs) and isn't shy about it. * [[Author Tract]]: Once Thorax, the dairy farmer from another galaxy, became prominent, the readers were treated to strip after strip detailing McEldowney's take on the world. Lately it seems that Seth is taking over that role. ** {{spoiler\|The ~~current~~ arc about Edda possibly being pregnant seems to have exposed Brooke's pro-life stance: ''Seth'' is telling her to get married and have kids, a straw-woman thinks abortions are the only solution to unplanned pregnancies, Edda's grandma Edna is there to remind her that Edda's mother was unplanned (the sentiment is kind of weakened if one remembers that it basically ruined Edna's life: love for her children aside, she went from being an opera singer in New York City to a housewife in a tiny Midwestern town in a passionless marriage, which is implied to have turned her into the sour old woman we know and love). It's possible this is a response to ''Doonesbury's'' satirical week of strips about abortion.}} * [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: {{spoiler\|Not for Juliette and her now-ex-husband; unknown for Edna and Bill (AKA Gam-ma and Gam-pa); quite probably for Edda and Amos.}} * [[Batman Gambit]](?): {{spoiler\|Apparently Edda's tyrannical director has been wanting to get rid of her for a while, so he pushed her to the Nicolette Cygnet guys hoping she'd either ditch ballet for fashion or screw up so badly she wouldn't be welcomed back. Neither happened but she did give a scathing interview to a magazine, which the director hopes will be enough to fire her.}} * [[Beat Panel]]: [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Thorax]] is prone to taking up beat panels, and once used [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210035916/http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2006-03-16/ a double beat panel] to great effect. * [[Beautiful All Along]]: Who would've thought that the semi-feral Edda and complete nerd Amos would've turned out to be a gorgeous ballet dancer and a talented cellist? * [[Big Guy, Little Guy]] / [[Fat and Skinny]]: [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Thorax]] (big and fat) and his [[Straight Man\|Pap]] (little and skinny). Line 42: * [[December-December Romance]]: Gran/Keisel. Gran/Thorax before that. * [[Defrosting Ice Queen\|Defrosting Ice King]]: Kiesel. * [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: During the trip to the music competition in Brussels, Edda and Amos finally do the deed (the infamous "hand-sex"), with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100329140350/http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2008-11-08/ corresponding moment-after smiles.] * [[Disappeared Dad]]: Edda's. [[Blond Guys Are Evil\|He's blonde]], has a trophy wife, and is despised by Edda and Juliette. Kiesl left after being told that Bill is the better choice. * [[The Ditz]]: Roger ([[Alternate Character Interpretation\|unless]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity\|he's trolling Seth]]). "We need to talk." A minute later: "So, what did you want to talk about?" Line 120: * [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: A frequent knock on McEldowney's art: grinning characters appear to have triple the normal number of teeth. Also, women charcters frequently bare their teeth and/or snarl when they're in a sexy mood, so whenever the characters get frisky, the women always look like they're about to tear out the men's throats. * [[Name's the Same\|Name's]]... [[They Just Didn't Care\|Similar Enough]]: {{spoiler\|Kiesl is mistakenly given an obituary after a man named K'''ei'''sel dies. This wouldn't be quite so [[Egregious]] if their respective names weren't Peter and ''Johannes''.}} * [[New Neighbors As the Plot Demands\|New Relatives As The Plot Demands]]: Looked that way with the mention that Juliette has a sibling (Bill's biological child) who's never been mentioned before. Turns out her brother Roger has been established as such (but never seen) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110525011434/http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2004-02-21/ as far back as 2004.] But as far as anyone can tell, he's been mentioned less than a dozen times, and not since 2005. * [[The Nicknamer]]: Edda nicknamed her teacher/principal "Sister [[The Caligula\|Caligula]]", her aunt "Penny-Auntie" and her roommate "App-Sethalby". * [[No Bisexuals]]: Seth still insists that he's gay despite being very, ''very'' attracted to Fernanda. He claims he's actually in love with her skills as a dancer despite constantly complimenting her on her beauty {{spoiler\|oh, and he sleeps with her.}} Line 193: Very likely {{spoiler\|Seth, his boyfriend, and Fernanda - nope, Seth and Fernanda just end, and his boyfriend has hardly said anything about it}}. [[Love Dodecahedron]] (now retired): Edda, Amos, Isabel, Burkhardt, and Janice. Violist Burkhardt Kriegl was first introduced as the boyfriend of Edda's fellow ballerina Janice; he later focused his attentions on Edda, who was not dating Amos van Hoesen at the time, leaving him "fair game" for his accompanist, pianist Isabel Florin. This was later resolved by [[Pair the Spares\|pairing Isabel with Burkhardt]] and allowing Janice to pull a [[Brother Chuck]]. * [[Trickster God]] / [[Trolling Creator]]: God/"God", an incredibly smug, wormy-looking little man in a suit who previously decided to replace humans with cockroaches because he couldn't stand that such petty things resembled him, starting with a pregnant ex-nun's fetus {{spoiler\|she gave birth to a perfectly normal baby human girl}}. He's ~~currently talking~~talked about quitting his job and letting "the suits" take over and claiming that he prefers the "small talk" of said ex-nun's prayers to "Sister Caligula's" strict performance reviews. * [[Twist Ending]]: Bill, [[Memetic Mutation\|you're not the father!]] But is it really a twist [[Anticlimax\|if everyone saw it coming?]] The only surprising thing about the ending was its abruptness after months of Edna and Kiesl's romance. * [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: A flash-forward showed Edda and Amos as a [[Happily Married]] couple reminiscing about their childhood. Line 207: {{reflist}} [[Category:Newspaper Comics]]▼ ~~[[Category:Comic Strip]]~~ [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] ▲[[Category:Newspaper Comics]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1990s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2000s]] [[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2010s]]