Yes, half a dozen by our count -- not enough to solve the alleged problem: Andy Lippincott, his employer Congresswoman Lacy Davenport, her husband Dick, their friend Alice P. Schwartzman, Mark Slackmeyer's father, Phil, and Mike's mom, Daisy, aka "The Widow Doonesbury." As it happens, two characters died in ways that you suggest, so let's pay homage by revisiting those. In 1986 Dick Davenport suffered a heart attack in his old age, and in 1990 Andy Lippincott died of AIDS.

Quite. In the mid-80s, as Mike and J.J. prepared to move to Manhattan, the denizens of Walden gathered to ponder the fate of their beloved abode. The Sunday strip included in the series echoed events depicted in the 1983 Broadway show Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, specifically the song "Just A House." Enjoy.

Zonker Harris's strong ties with the botanical world proved extremely productive during the early years at Walden Commune, and his conversational skills bloomed considerably thereafter. Unfortunately, his photosynthetic charges suffered when he left them in the care of Mike while serving as lieutenant governor of Samoa, as chronicled in this series.

Zonker may actually be hallucinating about having hallucinated, but he was surely in deep legal doo-doo. We are happy to re-experience his 1973 ordeal.

While hitchhiking in 1974, Mark Slackmeyer was picked up by trucker J.W. Snead, en route to a blockade to protest the then-outrageous gas price of 85 cents a gallon. Snead was happy to recruit the former campus radical as a confrontation consultant. Though Zonker's role was limited to that of postal liaison, the episode you recall is well worth revisiting. Enjoy.

Thanks for wondering. It's hard to imagine Alex and Toggle's soon-to-deploy "army of two" matching the welcome-to-the-world drama of being born in a performance art piece, or in the middle of birth class, but we'll find out in a few months.

With pleasure. Back in 1977, Joanie had just finished law school and moved to Washington, D.C. to work for Congresswoman Lacey Davenport. This time the helpful push to change is coming from her granddaughter, but back then it came from her much-older boss.

Fortunately the partnership has not been as unpleasant for them as it has been for you. The two cheerful and enthusiastic future pals were cast together by the Walden College room-assignment gods a mere thirteen years ago, as chronicled in this series.

Yes, the 21,000-year-old warrior known as Lord Hunk-Ra was very much involved. Let us take you back...back...back to a quiet coastal village, in the summer of 1987.