Dude: The Big Book of Zonker #[nn]

In "1 The Phenom: Far Freakin' Out, Cap'n!," Zonker’s chaotic energy pushes the football captain to his limit, while a surreal trip to Vietnam with B.D. and a stint at the Walden Commune add to the madness. When Joanie joins the commune and a substitute mailman shows up, the absurdity only escalates.

When Walden Puddle gets busted for smoking weed, he swaps his college days for a stint tending bar and a wild, stoned-soaked summer of camping, hiking, and accidentally becoming a legend at a sixties revival party. Armed with Roland’s in-depth reporting and a knack for talking to plants, Walden stumbles through a surreal summer of misadventures that blur the line between rebellion and routine.

In "3 The Lt. Governor: Strangeness in Paradise," Duke, now a Rolling Stone writer, finds himself in American Samoa alongside Zonker, where absurdity and satire collide. When Nate Harris the Minuteman—left behind by his wife—shows up seeking answers, the island’s peculiar politics and the question of whether the Revolution truly freed slaves take a bizarre turn.

In "4 The Solar Collector: Lord of the Rays," Zonker dreams of becoming a professional tanner—only to find California’s tanning clinics shuttered. With a little help from the plants, he learns photosynthesis, spins wild tales for Roland, and watches as Duke dives into a laetrile scam, Sammy gains his freedom, and Joanie finally earns her law degree.

In "5 The Gate-Crasher: Beyond the Velvet Ropes," Mark and Zonker dive headfirst into an over-the-top seventies revival party, where Kirby experiments with a radical new lifestyle, and Zeke makes a dramatic announcement about Duke. Amid tanning salons, golf courses, and the absurd Gerald R. Ford Pro-Am Summer Biathlon, J.J. pays a surprise visit to Mike—while Zonker quietly hangs up his tanning tan lines for good.

In "6 The Plant Whisperer: Dances With Daisies," Zonker’s bizarre job fair pitch lands him a spot at a Caribbean medical school, where he’s suddenly thrust into a surreal mix of absurdity and chaos—ranging from Duke and Zeke’s ill-fated marijuana smuggling to Boopsie’s offbeat teen beach movie, all while Uncle Duke’s fate takes a turn no one saw coming.

In "7 The Viscount: Post Haste Thither Anon," Zonker’s life takes a delightfully absurd turn when he purchases a peerage and becomes Viscount St. Austell-in-the Moor Biggleswade-Brixham, plunging into a world of royal weddings, parliamentary drama, and unexpected nannying duties—while a duke slowly regains his senses after a rather unfortunate undead experience.

In "8 The Angel of Mercy: Bringing That Higher Love," Zonker and Cornell navigate a bizarre mix of activism, absurdity, and royal absurdity—distributing weed to cancer patients, hosting a chaotic mailbag, dodging a tanning salon scam, and even imagining a Woodstock flashback, all while serving as a commoner consultant to the royal family. The story’s offbeat blend of satire and surreal humor shines through in its unapologetically weird yet oddly heartfelt take on modern oddities.

In "9 The Nanny: Teaching the Children Well," B.D. and Boopsie return to their roots—literally—when they buy the old Walden Commune, only to find their idealistic past collides with absurd present-day politics. From fighting for beach access to Uncle Duke’s bizarre presidential run, the story spins a wild, satirical tale where every twist feels like a punchline from a dream you’re not sure you want to wake up from.

In "10 The Waitperson: VP in Charge of Station 5," Zonker takes on a series of increasingly absurd jobs to make ends meet after B.D. is wounded, from flipping burgers at McFriendly’s to enrolling at the dubious Trump University. When B.D. finally returns home, he’s not the same—haunted by memories and struggling to readjust, the two must navigate their fractured dynamic in a world that’s lost its sense of normal.