9 Chickweed Lane & Pibgorn Trivia

Questions posed by OTC contributors. Scroll down for answers....

  1. We all know that the 9CWL gang were cast in the A Pibsummer’s Night Dream arc and Thorax had recurring guest roles in The Internal Fairy Harvesting Service and Mozart And The Demon Lover, but who made the first 9CWL cameo in Pibgorn? ~~~ AmriloJim
  2. Dru has trouble faking human ears, so it’s only natural that she’d rather not draw attention to them — they’re often covered by her hair and that’s likely why she never wears earrings... Never? Well, not quite —- we have seen her wear some once. When/where was that? ~~~ invisifan
  3. Name Tom Torquemada's game shows. ~~~ AmriloJim
  4. Dru has trouble controlling her ears — even disguised otherwise as completely human, her staghorn ears scream "demon" — but there have been times she's gotten them human: So the question is: when's the first time we see human ears on Dru? ~~~ invisifan
  5. Dru (being a demon) prefers not to wear more than she has to — and on her hands is no exception... name all the times we’ve seen her with clothing on her hands (i.e.: gloves, etc.) ~~~ invisifan
  6. What were Pibgorn’s original duties as a Professional Fairy? ~~~Joe Minotaur
  7. What items has Dru committed to low Earth orbit? ~~~ AmriloJim
  8. Pib has made a few cameos in 9CWL, but have Geoff, Dru or Oognat appeared in that strip?
  9. Dru has vocalized cravings from time to time; what are they? ~~~ AmriloJim
  10. What life changing event happened on a raft of water hyacinth? ~~~ invisifan
  11. In The Volcano At 77th Street And Park Avenue, Dru is wielding a katana to some effect; what six other human weapons have we seen her wielding? (musical instruments don’t count :-) ~~~ invisifan
  1. Seth and Edda walk by as Thorax and Mozart discuss a poster outside The Met, and Mozart was fascinated by Edda’s short-shorts in Mozart And The Demon Lover.
  2. Oberon: "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania." -- A Pibsummer’s Night Dream, Act 2, Scene 1
    1. Damnation!: The Girl In The Coffee Cup
    2. Who's Ravishing Roger?: Lena The Horrible
    3. What's My Fatal Flaw?: Lena The Horrible
    4. I'll See You In Hell First!: Pibgorn And The Volcano At 77th Street And Park Avenue
    5. Sudden Death!: Pibgorn And The Volcano At 77th Street And Park Avenue
  4. Dru was depicted as having 'normal' ears in The Poltergeist In The Piano (before her inability to alter her ears was established as canon in Drusilla's Daughter).
    1. An axe-wielding, bemittened Dru eyes a regenerating Pib as a possible Christmas tree in A Fairy Merry Christmas. (Republished in The Annotated Pib.)
    2. In The Girl In The Coffee Cup, Dru is still wearing mittens as she checks on Geoff. (Can be considered a continuation of the above.)
    3. On stage as Dinah Cloverly, Dru wears long black gloves in The Volcano At 77th Street And Park Avenue.
  6. Depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms is in the tagline posted at GoComics, but Pib herself described her duties in The Annotated Pib as counting dandelion puffs, lugging around dewdrops and whispering appalling ideas into the ears of disgruntled government employees.
    1. A hunting rifle: The Girl In The Coffee Cup
    2. Geoff's original piano: The Girl In The Coffee Cup
    3. "A secondhand, third-rate crime novel that Dashiell Hammett wouldn't have dignified with an allegation of plaigarism.": The Borgia Cantus
    4. A floor lamp: Lena The Horrible
    5. Not exactly low Earth orbit, but Geoff and a toilet were zapped briefly into the ether near Saturn in The Internal Fairy Harvesting Service.
  8. Francis & Diane's wedding ceremony: Pib, Geoff, Dru or Oognat are seated as friends of the groom.
    1. "Buttered popcorn... I could really use some buttered popcorn," as she watches Mssrs. Willincoe, Tudge and Miss Fellchurch: The Poltergeist In The Piano
    2. "Man! I could do with a cigarette about now," after she and Geoff traverse the portal into The Internal Fairy Harvesting Service.
    3. "... and I need popcorn... lots of popcorn," as she contemplates her growing confusion in Lena The Horrible.
  10. In The Internal Fairy Harvesting Service, it's where Oognat met Pib (certainly changed Oognat's life!!) — as Oog revealed to Dru right before Dru sedated her & threw her to the men in dark suits to be vivisected.
    1. An axe - in A Fairy Merry Christmas.
    2. A raygun - in the space dream sequence of The Poltergeist In The Piano.
    3. A knife - also in Geoff's space dream.
    4. A broadsword - while fighting Willincoe the vampire in The Poltergeist In The Piano.
    5. A handgun - while embracing Nat Bustard, to dispatch Cloche and again in Nat's arms... all as Dinah Cloverly in The Borgia Cantus. Dinah's heater also gets applied to Nat's temple in Pibgorn And The Volcano At 77th Street And Park Avenue.
    6. A dagger - to dispatch The Watcher near the end of The Borgia Cantus.
      [Ed. note: Dru used a piano as a weapon in The Poltergeist In The Piano.]