History Recap / PennyAndAggieDarrenDarrenDanforthWhoAreYou

* {{Expy}}: Darren, with his clumsiness, unaccountable attractiveness to girls, and careless habit of booking two dates at the same time, is closely based on [[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie Andrews]], albeit more passive. His friend Needleneck, with his beatnik appearance and cynical disinterest in women, is a Jughead stand-in.

** The arc title alludes to an old Franchise/ArchieComics digest, ''Archie...Archie Andrews, Where Are You?''

** The arc title alludes to an old ArchieComics digest, ''Archie...Archie Andrews, Where Are You?''

* {{Expy}}: Darren, with his clumsiness, unaccountable attractiveness to girls, and careless habit of booking two dates at the same time, is closely based on [[ArchieComics Archie Andrews]], albeit more passive. His friend Needleneck, with his beatnik appearance and cynical disinterest in women, is a Jughead stand-in.

* TheCameo: The strip introducing Darren features an appearance by Kimiko Ross of ''DresdenCodak'' and Paige Fox of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', fighting BettyAndVeronica-style over him.

* TheCameo: The strip introducing Darren features an appearance by Kimiko Ross of ''DresdenCodak'' and Paige Fox of ''{{Foxtrot}}'', fighting BettyAndVeronica-style over him.

Later that afternoon, Penny, passing by the ice cream shop, sees Aggie inside, flirting with Darren. Though unable to see his face from outside, Penny assumes he's a "bad boy" type, especially when he carelessly gets ice cream on her shirt. She decides to drive him off, ostensibly so Aggie won't "get hurt." However, once she gets a look at his face, Penny realizes she had him pegged wrong and backs away in embarassment. As he and Aggie go for a jog, Darren wonders what it is girls see in him. Various girls along the way look fawningly at him, picturing him respectively as a nerd, a cat-lover, a beatnik and a stoner--in other words, as their own preferred "type."

--> Everyone tries to change people. You do it with guilt and I do it with hawtness, because, y'know, that's what we're good at, but we all do it!

* ComingOutStory

* TheKlutz
* NewTransferStudent

* CallBack -- In Penny's dream (see below), Cyndi sprays her with a rainbow hose, recalling her doing so in waking life, with a regular hose, at Karen's party.
* TheCameo - The strip introducing Darren features an appearance by Kimiko Ross of ''DresdenCodak'' and Paige Fox of ''{{Foxtrot}}'', fighting BettyAndVeronica-style over him.
* ClosetKey - Aggie for Penny, reluctant as Penny is at this stage to admit it.
* ChickMagnet - Darren is puzzled by his attractiveness to girls of different personality types and interests. Although he likes girls, he passively lets them pursue ''him''.

* EroticDream - Penny, for the first time since [[Recap/PennyAndAggieSecondLooks Second Looks]], has one about Aggie. More broadly, the dream also reveals her fear that she may be gay, featuring as it does her gay friends offering stereotypical fashion suggestions and Cyndi soaking her with a rainbow-spouting hose.
* {{Expy}} - Darren, with his clumsiness, unaccountable attractiveness to girls, and careless habit of booking two dates at the same time, is closely based on [[ArchieComics Archie Andrews]], albeit more passive. His friend Needleneck, with his beatnik appearance and cynical disinterest in women, is a Jughead stand-in.
* GreenEyedMonster - Penny's abortive attempt to sabotage Aggie's date with Darren, although supposedly with Aggie's best interest in mind, is more likely rooted in Penny unconsciously wanting Aggie for herself.

* WishfulProjection - Girls tend to see in Darren a reflection of their own interests or notion of an ideal man. Even Penny, though not attracted to him, labels him at first sight as a "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]]" type. Recall that her first love was BadassBiker Rich.

* ChickMagnet - Darren is puzzled by his attractiveness to girls of different personality types and interests. Although he likes girls, he passively lets them pursue ''him''.

* TheCameo - The strip introducing Darren features an appearance by Komiko Ross of ''DresdenCodak'' and Paige Fox of ''{{Foxtrot}}'', fighting BettyAndVeronica-style over him.