History Recap / PennyAndAggieHerPrivateChambers

This arc picks up immediately from the [[Recap/PennyAndAggieModernMaturity previous one]], as Penny, wearing a babydoll nightie, wakes up to find Stan in her bed, albeit fully clothed. As she hits him with a pillow, he explains woozily that he'd passed out ''under'' the bed during her party the previous night, but later found that uncomfortable. Thinking he was using drugs in her home, Penny gets even angrier, but Stan maintains that either Cyndi, or someone acting on her behalf, drugged his soda in order to make him embarass himself, because she's running against him for class president.

* LonelyAtTheTop: In a rare moment of vulnerability, Stan (who is popular at school) tells Penny that Jack and Brandi are his only close friends, since [[SubordinateExcuse Rich]] left. Note the parallel with Penny at the [[Recap/PennyAndAggieTheBestofEnemies start of the comic]] when, despite her alpha girl status, her only close friends were Sara and Michelle.

* ParentsAreUseless: Rob decides that he wants to try to avert this trope.
-->'''Rob:''' So maybe it's time we stopped thinking like her ''jailers'', and ''started'' thinking like ''allies.''

--> I do look out for number one... so you might think looking out for number one is all I ever do.

* MaliciousMisnaming / TheNicknamer: Stan indulges several times here in his habit of calling Penny by the names of blonde celebrities. ([[AvertedTrope Averted]] once when, discussing his genuine and deep concern about Jack, he calls her by her proper name.) Penny generally ignores these, except for calling him "Ralph Lauren" here. (By Pre-History, however, she's had enough and tells him to knock it off.)

* ThatDidntHappen

* AccidentalMisnaming / TheNicknamer: Stan indulges several times here in his habit of calling Penny by the names of blonde celebrities. ([[AvertedTrope Averted]] once when, discussing his genuine and deep concern about Jack, he calls her by her proper name.) Penny generally ignores these, except for calling him "Ralph Lauren" here. (By Pre-History, however, she's had enough and tells him to knock it off.)

* MyNameIsNotDurwood / TheNicknamer: Stan indulges several times here in his habit of calling Penny by the names of blonde celebrities. ([[AvertedTrope Averted]] once when, discussing his genuine and deep concern about Jack, he calls her by her proper name.) Penny generally ignores these, except for calling him "Ralph Lauren" here. (By Pre-History, however, she's had enough and tells him to knock it off.)

Penny doesn't see this as any concern of hers, given that Stan too had run a "sleazy" campaign the previous year. Stan says that's not his concern regarding Cyndi, citing her encouragement of Michelle's eating disorder. Rather, he's concerned about her possibly sabotaging Jack's and Katy-Ann's relationship, and wants Penny's help preventing that. Stan tells her about Cyndi's attempt, in [[Recap/PennyAndAggieOutFront Out Front]], to entice Jack out for drinks and discuss his sexual frustration. [[hottip:*:Although that arc had established Jack as merely one of four people Cyndi was ''pretending'' to seduce, a {{Flashback}} to the ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' closing night shows that Stan misinterpreted Cyndi's angry glare at Sara and Daphne to be directed at Jack and Katy-Ann, who happened also to be in Cyndi's line of sight.]] Noting how important Katy-Ann is to Jack, Stan is afraid his friend would never forgive himself if he blew it by cheating on her.

* ClosetShuffle: Penny does this to Stan. Unfortunately for him, the closet she picks is full of plush animals which bury him.

Penny doesn't see this as any concern of hers, given that Stan too had run a "sleazy" campaign the previous year. Stan says that's not his concern regarding Cyndi, citing her encouragement of Michelle's eating disorder. Rather, he's concerned about her possibly sabotaging Jack's and Katy-Ann's relationship, and wants Penny's help preventing that. Stan tells her about Cyndi's attempt, in [[Recap/PennyAndAggieOutFront Out Front]], to entice Jack out for drinks and discuss his sexual frustration. [[hottip:*:Although that arc had established Jack as merely one of four people Cyndi was ''pretending'' to seduce, a {{Flashback}} to the ''{{Macbeth}}'' closing night shows that Stan misinterpreted Cyndi's angry glare at Sara and Daphne to be directed at Jack and Katy-Ann, who happened also to be in Cyndi's line of sight.]] Noting how important Katy-Ann is to Jack, Stan is afraid his friend would never forgive himself if he blew it by cheating on her.

* AdultsAreUseless - [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. In contrast to the grown-up cast's near-complete obliviousness during "The Popsicle War," here Rob and Lynda both become aware of Cyndi's dangerous games and resolve to do something about them.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness - Stan, unlike Penny, thinks so, viewing them as a means to get into the right college. Cyndi, for her part, apparently views them as at least serious enough business to warrant drugging her opponent.
* BedmateReveal - [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Penny wakes to find Stan in her bed. However, despite the previous chapter's {{Cliffhanger}} it's clear to the reader, from the fact that Stan's fully dressed, that they didn't have sex.
* GondorCallsForAid - Stan, though not especially fond of Penny, nor she of him, enlists her help in stopping Cyndi from (he assumes) breaking up Jack and Katy-Ann.
* GoodParents - Rob and Lynda, for not bursting in on Penny and Stan, and punishing Penny, before they know the facts.
* GreenEyedMonster - Stan suspects Cyndi of jealousy over Jack; in fact, she's jealous over Sara.
* ItDoesntMeanAnything - Penny tells herself this after the kiss.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Despite his self-centered, smart-alecky, often caustic nature, Stan genuinely cares about his best friend, and still feels remorse over his contribution to Michelle's eating disorder.
* LonelyAtTheTop - In a rare moment of vulnerability, Stan (who is popular at school) tells Penny that Jack and Brandi are his only close friends, since [[SubordinateExcuse Rich]] left. Note the parallel with Penny at the [[Recap/PennyAndAggieTheBestofEnemies start of the comic]] when, despite her alpha girl status, her only close friends were Sara and Michelle.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood / TheNicknamer - Stan indulges several times here in his habit of calling Penny by the names of blonde celebrities. ([[AvertedTrope Averted]] once when, discussing his genuine and deep concern about Jack, he calls her by her proper name.) Penny generally ignores these, except for calling him "Ralph Lauren" here. (By Pre-History, however, she's had enough and tells him to knock it off.)
* {{Slapstick}} - When Penny orders Stan to hide in her closet, he picks the wrong one and is buried in plush animals.
* SlippingAMickey - Someone (a {{Flashback}} silhouette suggests it was Tharqa) drugs Stan's soda. Stan suspects it was on Cyndi's behalf, in order to sabotage his election campaign.