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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]].

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* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: It is impossible to name a female character in the McEldowney universe (pregnant nuns included) that isn't obsessed with having sex in some way or another; either they're getting it and happy or not getting any and bitter about it.

* [[May-December Romance]]: When Amos and Gran got into an IM relationship. Amos posed as a military officer, and Gran as a hot Portuguese woman.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Romeo and Juliet|Juliette]], Edda (after grandma Edna).

** Edda's dance partner's boyfriend (as well as [[All the Good Men Are Gay|the girl who was crushing on him]] -- unfortunately they looked like twins).

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Edda and Juliette have a pleasant meeting with their newly-discovered bio-grand/father Kiesel, then they admonish him for wasting his life pining for their grand/mother Edna, then {{spoiler|he travels to Pennsylvania to pay a surprise visit to Edna, then she's shocked and doesn't want to meet his gaze, then they kiss, then Thorax shows up and silently leaves, and finally Edna moves to Vienna with Kiesel where she's promptly mistaken for Kiesel's wife.}}

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