History Recap / PennyAndAggieSecondLooks

* DecompressedComic
* DownerEnding
* EroticDream / HomoeroticDream: Penny gets a twofer.

* TheFundamentalist: Charlotte.

* SimultaneousArcs

* ADateWithRosiePalms: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] with Stan after Michelle comes on to him. The comic depicts him entering a washroom as soon as she's left, then exiting the washroom with a sigh of relief.

* TheCassandra: [[spoiler Jack correctly predicts that Stan hooking up with Michelle is going to lead to her getting hurt.]]

** In Sara's ImagineSpot about Stan and Jack: "I wish I knew how to quit quotin' ''[[BrokebackMountain Brokeback]]'' at you." Later, Jack references the movie in response to Stan's idolization of Rich.

As Penny's friend Katy-Ann hangs a puzzle box outside the school, she sings a modified version of Bette Midler's "From a Distance," a song of faith in God's watchfulness despite the world's apparent evils. Lisa mocks her for this belief as Charlotte observes silently. Later, during a TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}} game with Aggie, Helen and Fred, Charlotte claims Penny and her friends are jealous of Aggie because she's "smart" and they're "dumb." Aggie isn't so sure on either point, and specifically defends Sara. Helen, as a former childhood friend of Sara, bitterly disagrees.

As Penny's friend Katy-Ann hangs a puzzle box outside the school, she sings a modified version of Bette Midler's "From a Distance," a song of faith in God's watchfulness despite the world's apparent evils. Lisa mocks her for this belief as Charlotte observes silently. Later, during a {{Scrabble}} game with Aggie, Helen and Fred, Charlotte claims Penny and her friends are jealous of Aggie because she's "smart" and they're "dumb." Aggie isn't so sure on either point, and specifically defends Sara. Helen, as a former childhood friend of Sara, bitterly disagrees.

* ShoutOut
** In [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=311 this strip]], God is whimsically portrayed as Snarky, the {{Websnark}} mascot

--> Sometimes these "looks" give you perspective...and sometimes they're just puttin' things off. You tell yourself you're just taking a sec. And then another. And you feel like you're doin' somethin' by thinkin' ...even if you know better than you feel.

The arc ends cinematically with a narrative reprise of "From a Distance," accompanied by a silent, forlorn look at most of the key characters, followed by a long shot of the school.

* {{Frameup}}

* GrandRomanticGesture

* ImagineSpot

* PaintingTheFourthWall: In an ImagineSpot [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=311 here]], God (in the form of the {{Websnark}} mascot) reads the strip's events in the form of a Sunday NewspaperComic.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied with [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=330 Stan]] after Michelle comes on to him.

* AnachronicOrder - Done to a limited extent, in that the last panel of [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=318 this strip]] references a scene that takes place later in the arc.
* BookEnds - The arc opens and closes with "From a Distance," including Katy-Ann herself briefly reprising it.
* TheBroCode - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Stan and Jack.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn - Lisa, in her first substantial speaking appearance, bears little resemblance to the cheerful, friendly GenkiGirl she's best known as. Instead, she's presented here as a somewhat alienated and angry sort. Campbell [[{{Retcon}} later explained]] [[AllThereInTheManual in the forum]] that Lisa was in a "transitional period" then as a NewTransferStudent, and was also going through a "rebel phase" which put more distance between her and others than she's usually been known to maintain.
* ADateWithRosiePalms - Implied with [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=330 Stan]] after Michelle comes on to him.

* EroticDream / HomoeroticDream - Penny gets a twofer.

* TheFundamentalist - Charlotte.
* GetARoom - Sara shouts this at Stan and Jack, who have no idea what she's talking about.

* HopelessSuitor - Although [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in previous arcs, here it's finally [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subverted]]. Sorry, Duane.
* HoYay - In-universe example with Sara seeing Stan and Jack as secretly mutually attracted.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - Jack, when cautioning Stan to be careful of Michelle's feelings, given how Rich used her to get to Penny: "'[[TheHero [T]he hero]]' led her on and dropkicked her, and now '[[{{Sidekick}} the sidekick's]]' gonna do the same? Kinda bad storytelling."
* PaintingTheFourthWall - In an ImagineSpot [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=311 here]], God (in the form of the {{Websnark}} mascot) reads the strip's events in the form of a Sunday NewspaperComic.
* PutOnABus - Duane essentially disappears from the comic after this arc, making only the occasional, silent background appearance. He finally returns as an active character midway through "The Popsicle War," two years later in real-world time.
* RebusBubble - The standard "[[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=328 screwball]]" gag.
* SaintlyChurch - Katy-Ann, in contrast to Charlotte.

* SuddenPrincipledStand - Helen, when she abruptly sabotages the bomb-threat frameup and tells off Charlotte.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears - Katy-Ann, even if her [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=328 friends]] don't all quite see it that way.
* WritingAroundTrademarks - The arc alters the lyrics of "From a Distance" just enough to preserve the thrust of the original.

* HoYay - an in-comic example with Sara seeing Stan and Jack as secretly mutually attracted.

Meanwhile, Aggie discovers what Charlotte has been up to: she's just posted a puzzle-box bomb threat purporting to be from Katy-Ann, claiming it's "God's will" that everyone die. Aggie is too stunned to react, but Helen steps in, tearing down the forgery. Charlotte angrily cuts her off as a friend and smashes the puzzle box in frustration, while Aggie thinks, with sad, self-disparaging irony, "My name is Aggie D'Amour. I'm an activist."

* CharacterizationMarchesOn - Lisa, in her first substantial speaking appearance, bears little resemblance to the cheerful, friendly GenkiGirl she's best known as. Instead, she's presented here as a somewhat alienated and angry sort. T [[{{Retcon}} later explained]] [[AllThereInTheManual in the forum]] that Lisa was in a "transitional period" then as a NewTransferStudent, and was also going through a "rebel phase" which put more distance between her and others than she's usually been known to maintain.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn - Lisa, in her first substantial speaking appearance, bears little resemblance to the cheerful, friendly GenkiGirl she's best known as. Instead, she's presented here as a somewhat alienated and angry sort.

* ShoutOut - In Sara's ImagineSpot about Stan and Jack: "I wish I knew how to quit quotin' ''[[BrokebackMountain Brokeback]]'' at you." Later, Jack references the movie in response to Stan's idolization of Rich.

* HopelessSuitor - Although [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in previous arcs, here it's finally [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subverted]]. Sorry, Duane.

The arc ends cinematically with a narrative reprise of "From a Distance," accompanied by a silent, forlorn look at most of the key characters, followed by a long shot of the school.

Later, Michelle attempts to pick a fight with Aggie for showing Penny up in English class. As a curious crowd gathers, Aggie notices Principal Giuliani watching her, recalls his warning about causing disruptions, and instead delivers a barb at Penny's expense, thinly veiled as an apology. Undaunted, Michelle calls upon Duane to defend Penny, which he does as diplomatically as possible. Penny is less than comfortable with this.

Meanwhile, Aggie spots Charlotte, Helen and Tharqa stealing and photocopying a student's paper. She calls Nick for advice on choosing friends and overlooking their flaws. However, Nick, in the midst of a workout/makeout with Charisma and fretting about how Aggie will take his relationship, is too distracted to be of much help.