History Recap / PennyAndAggieTheLastSummerOfYouthJune

--> '''Daphne:''' Don't sweat it, Sara. I'm a JossWhedon fan, remember? I don't believe in relationships with happy endings.

--> Look, if you saw something that had a one-in-twenty chance of making you a happier, fulfilled person, you'd try it, right?

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Campbell has said that if Katy-Ann hadn't "rebelled" against his initial plan to have her say good-bye to Jack, then she would've ended up with Duane, and Jack with Brandi, for "at least the rest of high school." Beyond that, he says, he hadn't decided whether both of them would remain together by the time of [[spoiler: the ClassReunion in]] the final chapter, but probably would've kept one couple together and split up the other.

* BunniesForCuteness: As [[ShipperOnDeck Sara]] [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1169 gushes]] over Penny and Aggie interacting as a couple ("YOU ARE SOOOO CUUUUUTE"), dancing bunny heads appear around her head.

* ShipperOnDeck: PlayedForLaughs with Sara ([[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1169 YOU ARE SOOOO CUUUUUTE]]), to Penny's and Aggie's mild irritation.

At the same time, Sara has Daphne meet her at the mall to talk. Sensing what's coming, Daphne is already guarded and angry. Sara says that things haven't been the same between them since Hollywood, and that the problem is she doesn't trust Daphne, having met on the show a "friend" she ''can'' trust. She avoids saying it's Lucy. Daphne pleads with her to reconsider, but Sara maintains that although Daphne has tried to be a better person, especially around Penny, she still feels she has to choose between the two of them. As Sara is finally about to mention Lucy, Daphne accuses her of conveniently deciding it's over just as her "first crush," Penny (whom, Sara says, she'd only crushed on for two days at age nine), has come out. Devastated, she cuts off Sara's attempt to apologize and express hope they can still be friends with a "Fuck you."

In this chapter, Penny and Aggie further explore the new phase of their relationship. Just as [[Recap/PennyAndAggieTheLastSummerOfYouthMay May]] ended with Marshall taking notes in Nick's class, so does this chapter open with Nick holding a routine parent-teacher conference with Marshall's mother Charisma, who is also Nick's ex. Gently rebuffing her attempt to get back together with him once Marshall's at college in the fall, he says Aggie still has another year coming up and he hopes it'll be a drama-free one. "Good luck with that," Charisma says coldly.

As Jack drives Katy-Ann to the bus pick-up point for the literacy tour, she notices him acting distant and, as they get out of the car, asks him whether he's trying to break up with her. She wants to know whether it's because he wants something she can't give him, at which he pictures a glittering, sweating Brandi shooting a basket. Keeping that to himself, Jack tells her the other reason he's trying to let her go: he feels he's a bad influence on her, as she's been willing to get drunk and lie for his sake, and that she herself thought at first he'd starting binge-drinking again and that he might have been Cyndi's assailant. Katy-Ann will have none of this: placing his hand on her heart, she insists that he's a good man and worth getting "a little crazy" about. Then she pulls out of the tour at the last moment, telling the priest in charge that trying to salvage what she has with Jack is more important to her.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Campbell originally intended for Jack and Katy-Ann to break up in the bus-boarding scene, whereupon the comic would explore the possibility of relationships between Jack and Brandi, and between Duane and Katy-Ann. However, Campbell said, Katy-Ann "rebelled," as it were, against that outcome during the scripting process, necessitating the rewriting not only of that scene but also of the basketball scene earlier in the chapter.

* TheBeard - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]], jokingly, by Fred. When asking Penny why she invited him to attend graduation with her, he says he doubts it's for that reason.
* CallBack - As Sara and Daphne discuss Sara's brief childhood crush on Penny, a background image shows young Sara looking at a Valentine, recalling [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=496 this strip]] from [[Recap/PennyAndAggieTheFirstManIEverLoved The First Man I Ever Loved]].
* CanNotSpitItOut - As in the previous arc, Sara can't bring herself to tell Daphne about Lucy, even, at first, when breaking up with her. When she finally gathers the nerve to do so, she's too late, as Daphne cuts her off with the accusation that the "other woman" is Penny and subsequently cuts short their conversation altogether.
* {{Foreshadowing}}

* HeroicSelfDeprecation - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Katy-Ann who, though increasingly frustrated with Jack's belief he's a bad influence on her, refuses to give up on him.

* ImagineSpot - Jack has an erotic one featuring Brandi, complete with [[FlowerMotifs shoujo flowers]].
* InsecureLoveInterest - Jack.
* ItsNotYouItsMe

* {{Ladyella}} - Penny, ever since they became friends, has often called Aggie by affectionate nicknames related to her GranolaGirl nature. Here, in reference to that, and to Aggie's decision to make a film rather than get a summer job, she calls her "Bead-ella the Unemployable."
* {{Nudge}} - Penny is particularly fond of this in the present chapter, to Aggie's discomfort.
* PleaseDumpMe - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. Sara confesses that she nearly started a [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] fight with Daphne, over her platonically kissing Fred, in order to precipitate their breakup, but backed off when she realized that would make her a DirtyCoward.
* PrecisionFStrike - Daphne's "Fuck you" to Sara. Note, however, that this is the last instance of the trope in the comic. Already, several strips earlier, Penny drops the word "shit" in conversation quite casually, and subsequent chapters include somewhat more liberal use of profanity by Penny, Sara and Lisa, though never quite reaching ClusterFBomb level.
* RelationshipUpgrade - The title characters.
* RoundedCharacter - Fred, whom the comic had previously depicted as a PerpetualSmiler and PetHomosexual, with slight [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] tendencies, here shows a more cynical and biting side, while retaining the compassion and concern for his friends shown in previous arcs. It's also revealed why he's still single: he has a fear of rejection.
* ShipperOnDeck - PlayedForLaughs with Sara ([[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1169 YOU ARE SOOOO CUUUUUTE]]), to Penny's and Aggie's mild irritation.
* SuperDeformed - Although both Lagacé and Waltrip have made occasional use of chibis throughout the comic, [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1156 this strip]] is composed almost entirely of them.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - Campbell originally intended for Jack and Katy-Ann to break up in the bus-boarding scene, whereupon the comic would explore the possibility of relationships between Jack and Brandi, and between Duane and Katy-Ann. However, Campbell said, Katy-Ann "rebelled," as it were, against that outcome during the scripting process, necessitating the rewriting not only of that scene but also of the basketball scene earlier in the chapter.
* WillTheyOrWontThey - Penny and Aggie finally become a couple.

* ItsNotYouItsMe - Sara, rather disingenuously, to Daphne: "The problem is me. The problem is I don't trust you." (In other words: "The problem is you, because you're not trustworthy.")