History Recap / PennyAndAggieThePopsicleWarDDay

* PutOnABus: This chapter is Helen's final substantial appearance in regular [=P&A=] continuity until the much later, brief arc [[Recap/PennyAndAggieBussedOut Bussed Out]], in which she literally boards a bus to Boston and to ''SomethingPositive''.

* AngerBornFromWorry: Penny, when she sees how bad Michelle's eating disorder has gotten.

* FillerStrip: A [[OnTheNext teaser]] of storylines for the year 2009. This was the first of what became an annual tradition for ''Penny and Aggie'' and, subsequently, for Campbell's other webcomics ''{{Fans}}'' and ''GuildedAge''.

--> There has to be a better way to socialize than the way that produces...this. And we need moral people to help us find it.

* FillerStrip: A teaser of storylines for the year 2009. This was the first of what became an annual tradition for ''Penny and Aggie'' and, subsequently, for Campbell's other webcomics ''{{Fans}}'' and ''GuildedAge''.

* SlutShaming: Bob and Elmer do this to Helen, despite [[{{Hypocrite}} having been]] [[DoubleStandard the ones who took her virginity]], and while she was [[ButLiquorIsQuicker intoxicated]], at that.

* PutOnABus: This chapter is Helen's final substantial appearance in regular [=P&A=] continuity until the much later, brief arc "Bussed Out," in which she literally boards a bus to Boston and to ''SomethingPositive''.

* SlutShaming: Bob and Elmer do this to Helen, despite [[{{Hypocrite}} having been]] [[DoubleStandard the ones who took her virginity]], and while she was [[ButLiquorIsQuicker intoxicated at that]].

* ShipperOnDeck: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Penny and Aggie with regard to Sara, who, as Penny memorably puts it, "has been trying to breed you and me like lesbian mares for most of the year."

* AdultsAreUseless - Played with, in the case of Michelle's parents. On the one hand, they express their concern over her having stopped socializing. On the other, they appear not to notice she's been losing weight at an unhealthy pace until Penny's intervention alerts them. In their defence, one strip early in the chapter shows Michelle avoiding having to join them for dinner by cooking for them while claiming to have eaten already, wearing long oven mitts to conceal her thin hands, and distracting them by feigning interest in her father's business.
* CampGay - Fred.
* ChekhovsGun - At the end of [[Recap/PennyAndAggieThePopsicleWarInterventions Interventions]], Sara is seen having just phoned an unknown person. The beginning of the present arc reveals that she was calling Penny to give her a heads-up about Aggie's plan to turn Marshall against Karen, and to let Penny know where they'd be jogging. This answers the question of how Penny both knew to track Aggie down, at the climax of the previous arc, and figured out what had crushed her spirit.
* EnemyMine - Daphne's apparent attitude towards Penny. In contrast to Aggie, who as of the beginning of this chapter interacts with Penny in a genuinely friendly way, even joking with her, Daphne is civil but more guarded.
* ExtremeDoormat - Once again, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Helen. She falls apart after discovering she's no longer needed as a mole, nor as Bob's and Elmer's sexual partner.
* FillerStrip - A teaser of storylines for the year 2009. This was the first of what became an annual tradition for ''Penny and Aggie'' and, subsequently, for Campbell's other webcomics ''{{Fans}}'' and ''GuildedAge''.
* FriendsWithBenefits - Stan and Brandi again, with a hint that their mutual attraction is becoming more than physical. In contrast, as of this arc Stan is no longer [=FWB=] with Cyndi.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe - Penny's desperate, angry--and successful--attempt to make Michelle see what her self-starvation is doing to her and those who love her.

* ImagineSpot - Katy-Ann pictures herself as Eve, with Aggie as the serpent, offering the temptation of a "pulpit" as ForbiddenFruit.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain - Helen.
* {{Jerkass}} - Bob and Elmer.
* NoMoreForMe - Nick's reaction to his coffee cup when he overhears Penny and Aggie entering the house, as friends.

* PutOnABus - This chapter is Helen's final substantial appearance in regular [=P&A=] continuity until the much later, brief arc "Bussed Out," in which she literally boards a bus to Boston and to ''SomethingPositive''.
* ShipperOnDeck - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Penny and Aggie with regard to Sara, who, as Penny memorably puts it, "has been trying to breed you and me like lesbian mares for most of the year."