History Recap / PennyAndAggieThePopsicleWarDramaQueens

* BeautifulDreamer: A non-romantic, parent-child version with Nick smiling as he watches Aggie sleep with a CatSmile on her face. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Aggie, having been told Macbeth's death will occur onstage in this production, is having a not-so-innocent dream of killing Penny in several cartoonish ways.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Calvin Machrie physically resembles comedian Colin Mochrie, while his personality and directing style are modelled after Mochrie's recurring character on ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': the "Hollywood Director," whose schtick was constantly having his actors redo a scene in outrageous ways.

--> I understand boys. Boys show what they feel. Boys' friends are their ''friends.'' Girls are the ones to watch out for.

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Penny: "Exzoont [''sic''] fighting." [[hottip:*:The Latin ''Exeunt'' is actually pronounced ex-ay-unt.]]

On the first day of school, Penny, Aggie and Stan are excited to learn that the school has hired Hollywood director Calvin Machrie for ''{{Macbeth}}'', the first of three school plays for the year. Faced with a disproportionate number of girls auditioning, Machrie decides to disregard gender in his casting, and chooses Penny for the title role, Aggie as her nemesis Macduff, and Stan as the future king Malcolm. The question of whom to cast as Lady Macbeth gives him pause, until he observes Sara brokering a truce between her two closest friends, for the good of the play.

* EroticEating: At Karen's party, Cyndi and Meg give the boys a new twist on FauxYay teasing, by seductively sucking each other's popsicles.

* SchoolPlay: ''{{Macbeth}}'', which serves both in "The Popsicle War" and in the later arc "Final Curtain, First Kiss" as a commentary upon several of the comic's characters and their stories.

* BeautifulDreamer - A non-romantic, parent-child version with Nick smiling as he watches Aggie sleep with a CatSmile on her face. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Aggie, having been told Macbeth's death will occur onstage in this production, is having a not-so-innocent dream of killing Penny in several cartoonish ways.
* ComebackTomorrow - When Aggie overhears Penny saying that playing Macbeth will allow her to express her "inner bitch," she counts to a hundred before yelling out the retort, "Inner??", well after Penny has gone. Presumably this is in order to avoid a fight.
* DrivenByEnvy[=/=]TheResenter - Helen, with regard to her former friends, the Pennies. Here, unlike in other arcs where this trope of hers appears, she expresses it openly, to Sara, rather than via inner monologue.
* EroticEating - At Karen's party, Cyndi and Meg give the boys a new twist on FauxYay teasing, by seductively sucking each other's popsicles.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - Stan rejects Karen's suggestion that he get Michelle to break up with ''him'' by ordering diet salads for her at restaurants, "and put[ting] a little emphasis on the word 'diet.'" He says he can't talk that way to a "lady."
* FauxYay - Cyndi flirts with Sara in front of her friends, possibly in an attempt to out her. (At this point, Penny knows Sara's gay but Michelle and Brandi don't).
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - Sara, ignoring Brandi's warning not to discuss it in front of Michelle, talks enthusiastically and somewhat crudely ("Slrrrp") about Stan having given Brandi oral sex at Karen's birthday party. Recall that she hasn't come out to any of her friends except Penny, although the same strip shows that Cyndi's figured it out (see above under FauxYay).
* InsecureLoveInterest - Jack.
* LargeHam - Fred, playing the [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=689 First Witch]].
* LetsWaitAwhile - Katy-Ann and Jack both agree to this.
* ManipulativeBastard - Karen and Cyndi, the latter of whom begins to show her true colours in this chapter. Her line "I will destroy you!", said as a joke to Michelle, [[spoiler: nearly comes true literally, later in the arc]].
* NWordPrivileges - Samantha invokes this, but Sara cuts her off before she can say the entire word.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Calvin Machrie physically resembles comedian Colin Mochrie, while his personality and directing style are modelled after Mochrie's recurring character on ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': the "Hollywood Director," whose schtick was constantly having his actors redo a scene in outrageous ways.
* PleaseDumpMe - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Stan and Karen, with regard to Michelle. Stan, however, finding Karen's suggestion for [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope too [[EvenEvilHasStandards cruel]], opts to dump Michelle directly.
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud - Penny: "Exzoont [''sic''] fighting." [[hottip:*:The Latin ''Exeunt'' is actually pronounced ex-ay-unt.]]
* SadistTeacher - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Principal Giuliani.

* SchoolPlay - ''{{Macbeth}}'', which serves both in "The Popsicle War" and in the later arc "Final Curtain, First Kiss" as a commentary upon several of the comic's characters and their stories.
* SilentBob - By approaching Katy-Ann with the single word "Okay," Jack lets Katy-Ann know he's made up his mind about dating her seriously.
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage - Machrie suffers through a number of students' inept or inappropriate readings of Lady Macbeth's "Screw your courage to the sticking place" speech, before finally casting Sara.
* UnrequitedLove - Michelle, for Stan.
* WingdingEyes - Penny's, Aggie's and Stan's [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=684 reactions]] to the announcement that Machrie will be directing the school play.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - Sara, ignoring Brandi's warning not to discuss it in front of Michelle, enthusiastically recalls Stan having given Brandi oral sex at Karen's birthday party. Recall that she hasn't come out to any of her friends except Penny, although the same strip shows that Cyndi's figured it out (see above under FauxYay).

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud - Penny: "Exzoont [''sic''] fighting." [[hottip:*:The Latin ''Exeunt'' is actually pronounced "ex-ay-unt."]]

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud - Penny: "Exzoont [''sic''] fighting." (At least she seems to have studied enough Latin to get the pronunciation right.)