Place · from book 2

The Penis Parade

One of the lit signs in the Desperado Club beside Bitches, which Carl takes for the restrooms: the male strip club and brothel, which Mordecai tells Carl and Donut to stay out of.

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

Through book 8

The hill's figures in heat two look like the parade's backstage (B8 ch. 19); Beast à la Mode is on the menu again (B8 ch. 22); the brawl that split Corcunda in two happened there (B8 ch. 24).

Through book 2

A lit sign beside Bitches that Carl takes for the restrooms (B2 ch. 15).

Through book 3

Free handies on the wheel (B3 ch. 9); boas and a cowboy hat on the Sledge (B3 ch. 19).

Through book 4

Hats for a gold coin; Sledgie likes it too (B4 ch. 7); boas after a storm (B4 ch. 8).

Through book 5

A coupon for a dance (B5 ch. 58).

Through book 6

Carl goes in alone: Author Steve Rowland, Dong Quixote, Anaconda, Damascus Steel reading at the dark end of the bar, and a purple-shag cubicle that is a portal to the Guild of Suffering (B6 ch. 23). Its dancers are Astrid's sons and their friends, hired as an army when the club closes (B6 ch. 34).

Through book 7

Reopened with new dancers (B7 ch. 56); its people at the Madness castle (B7 ch. 65).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	1/26	Ch. 15 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	2/35	Ch. 9, Ch. 19 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	2/35	Ch. 7, Ch. 8 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	1/78	Ch. 58 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	8/74	Ch. 5, Ch. 11, Ch. 19, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 33, Ch. 34, Ch. 48 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	4/89	Ch. 16, Ch. 30, Ch. 56, Ch. 65 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	4/99	Ch. 19, Ch. 24, Ch. 58, Ch. 60 · the book's own page

By book

The Penis Parade in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

A lit sign in the Desperado Club beside Bitches, which Carl takes for the restrooms until he sees the restroom sign (ch. 15).

The Penis Parade in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

'Unlimited Free Handies over at Bitches or Penis Parade' on the wheel (ch. 9); Donut and the Sledge come back with feather boas and a cowboy hat (ch. 19).

The Penis Parade in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

'They give out hats if you tip them a gold coin. Sledgie likes it too' (ch. 7); boas for Katia and Mongo after two hours of storm (ch. 8).

The Penis Parade in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

A coupon for a dance, and the Penis Palace on a lower floor (ch. 58).

The Penis Parade in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Anaconda is one of its lead dancers (ch. 5); a coupon for a massage at the Penis Parade or the Penis Palace Back Room Relaxation Spa — the seedier club on the first floor, where Donut usually goes (ch. 11). Katia places it on the top floor of the Desperado Club, its entrance the front for the Guild of Suffering (ch. 19, ch. 22); coins fall like hail and a skinny young crocodilian in a Penis Parade T-shirt gathers them in a bucket (ch. 23); Samantha wonders whether Anaconda is working tonight (ch. 33).

The Penis Parade in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Bucket Boy, the crocodilian kid, is a former attendant of it (ch. 16); Doctor Bones was its DJ (ch. 30). It has reopened with all new dancers, and so has Bitches, and nobody knows where the old ones went; Splash Zone means to go back and keep looking for them (ch. 56). Gluteus Maxx and Doctor Bones are summoned with the team's soldiers (ch. 65).

The Penis Parade in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

The hill's figures in heat two look like the parade's backstage (ch. 19); Beast à la Mode is on the menu again (ch. 22); the brawl that split Corcunda in two happened there (ch. 24).