History Recap / PennyAndAggieFinalCurtainFirstKiss

* UpToEleven: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Penny: "And if I have to keep this play from crashing by turning myself up to eleventy-hundred, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis then. I. Will!]]"

* AlternateSelf: Meighan [=McDowell=] the Hollywood producer, who plays a supporting role in a few arcs, is the ''Penny and Aggie''-universe version of Meighan [=McDowell=] the business major from ''{{Fans}}''. Although both look similar and are lesbians, the ''[=P&A=]'' Meighan lacks the ethical CharacterDevelopment that her ''Fans'' counterpart gradually undergoes.

During intermission, Lisa, in costume as the Porter, tries conveying her worries to Aggie (playing Macduff) by suggesting a last-minute run-through of their scene together and improvising a line about regretting having wasted her first kiss on someone she won't remember in a year. As Aggie walks off offended, Lisa tries to backtrack, only for a furious Penny to pull her into a closet and warn against upstaging her by ad-libbing in their scenes together. At the same time, Cyndi yanks Sara into the art room and attempts to seduce her, this time for real. She says that watching her performance just now, she felt a genuine attraction to someone for the first time, because it's "like looking right into my own soul." Sara, although tempted once again, breaks away from her and runs out to find Daphne, to Cyndi's shock and then anger.

--> I know you'll think I'm just playing. I do like to play. But...you were just playing, out there.

* LargeHam: comically, Fred and Lisa (as witches, although Fred sticks to the script more faithfully than Lisa); melodramatically, Penny as Macbeth, in the final act as she tries to single-handedly save the production.

During the final school performance of ''{{Macbeth}}'', several characters make discoveries about themselves and their relationships with others. In the school hall before opening curtain, Penny and Brandi are discussing Stan, his concerns about Cyndi, and his FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with Brandi, when they overhear Hollywood producer Meighan [=McDowell=] mention on the phone that she's there on a talent scouting mission, due to Calvin Machrie's direction. Penny, who's playing the title role, goes starry-eyed and gives herself a private pep-talk in which she advises herself to continue cooperating with her fellow actors as she's done up to now, and not to be a diva.

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* TheScottishTrope: The purported curse on Shakespeare's tragedy comes into play as three people (two of them in the audience) end up in hospital.

--> '''Penny''' (''to Lisa''): It is important to me that this performance go well. So. In our scenes together...[[ThisIsSparta STICK...TO...THE...SCRIIIIIIIIPT!]]\\

* AlternateSelf - Meighan [=McDowell=] the Hollywood producer, who plays a supporting role in a few arcs, is the ''Penny and Aggie''-universe version of Meighan [=McDowell=] the business major from ''{{Fans}}''. Although both look similar and are lesbians, the ''[=P&A=]'' Meighan lacks the ethical CharacterDevelopment that her ''Fans'' counterpart gradually undergoes.
* AnachronismStew - Most of the costumes in the play are medieval, but the costumes of Fred as the Doctor and Lisa as the Porter are modern (in fact, Lisa wears a bellhop costume for the latter role). That's apart from the "gender-bending" casting, as Penny later terms it.

* FauxYay - [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Whereas in the previous arc this was played straight concerning Cyndi's overtures to Sara, here Cyndi becomes genuinely attracted to her, or more precisely to Sara-as-Lady-Macbeth. Also [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in that Cyndi acknowledges Sara may think she's faking again (see page quote).
* FemmeFatale - Sara plays Lady Macbeth this way, before the intermission.
* FirstKiss - [[AvertedTrope Averted]], despite its presence in the arc title. Aggie plans to enjoy her first kiss with Darren after the performance, but after realizing she's just been talking herself into feeling something for him, she gives him a platonic kiss on the cheek instead. Similarly, although Sara plans on kissing Daphne for the first time, even buying sparkly lipstick for the occasion, and although they do become a couple during the evening, they don't actually kiss on-panel in this arc.
* FreudianSlip - "No, not to lip" (live). Aggie's lucky it wasn't worse.
* GreenEyedMonster - Cyndi has a heavy case of this when Sara rejects her for Daphne.
* ICallHimMisterHappy / IsThisThingOn - When Sara flees from her, Cyndi's initial reaction is to tap her own breasts, as if unsure whether they're functioning, and address them: "G...G...Girls?"
* TheKlutz - Darren.
* LargeHam - comically, Fred and Lisa (as witches, although Fred sticks to the script more faithfully than Lisa); melodramatically, Penny as Macbeth, in the final act as she tries to single-handedly save the production.
* ThePrimaDonna - Penny, despite her stated intent beforehand not to be one.

* RelationshipUpgrade - Sara and Daphne.

* {{Slapstick}} - Both staged (Duncan being murdered with multiple daggers, an arrow, a cleaver to the head and a [[AnachronismStew miniature rocket]]) and accidental (Darren's chain-reaction-causing pratfall, the set collapsing on Aggie and simultaneous reveal of stagehands Jack and Katy-Ann making out).
* TemptingFate - Minutes before opening curtain, Penny, Aggie, Meighan, Calvin and Sara all express their hope that the performance (or their first kiss) will be perfect. As a harbinger of how the evening ''actually'' will go, they all accidentally mispronounce the word "perfect."

* UnsoundEffect - Darren's "EPIC PRATFALL."
* UpToEleven - [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Penny: "And if I have to keep this play from crashing by turning myself up to eleventy-hundred, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis then. I. Will!]]"
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim - Lisa, with regard to Aggie and Darren.
* WingdingEyes - Penny gets stars in her eyes when she learns there's a talent scout in the audience, whereas Cyndi gets skulls in hers when Sara chooses Daphne over her.

At the hospital, as Rob and Lynda lead a guilt-stricken Penny out of her room, Darren, with a bandaged head, visits Aggie, with a broken arm. Aggie confesses that she's been using him to get over Marshall and as a would-be "practice pillow" for her first kiss. Darren reflects on how this is part of a pattern in his dating history where, due to his good-natured passivity, girls tend to view him as a blank slate whom they try to shape into what they want him to be. Aggie tells him he needs to assert the person he is, and parts with him on good terms, giving him a friendly kiss on the cheek. As he leaves, she unconsciously clutches at her pillow, suggesting she has sexual or romantic tension yet to be resolved.

* UpToEleven - [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Penny: "And if I have to keep this play from crashing by turning myself up to eleventy-hundred, [[ThisIsSparta then. I. Will!]]"