History Recap / PennyAndAggieUndertow

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[Franchise/ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''Narbonic's'' Dave.

This arc, like [[Recap/PennyAndAggieOmegaSisters Omega Sisters]], is a Helen story with guest art by Randy Milholland of ''SomethingPositive''. Helen goes to see ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth'' with Aggie, Lisa, Fred and Daphne and tries, awkwardly, to participate in their mutual friendly snarking. As they leave the theatre, Aggie and Lisa kid each other about their respective celebrity crushes, when Marshall comes by with Karen, at which Aggie jumps into a bush in panic. The couple make friendly small talk with Helen, disregarding Lisa's open contempt for Karen. Afterward, as Aggie re-emerges, Lisa explains teasingly to Helen that Aggie's in love with Marshall, and says more seriously that Aggie would be a better match for him, prompting an angry warning from her friend to drop the subject. Aggie advises Helen not to get too friendly with Karen, not just because of her crush, but because Karen uses people. "How's that different from anyone else?", Helen asks.

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[Franchise/ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''Narbonic's'' Dave.

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''Narbonic's'' Dave.

This arc, like [[Recap/PennyAndAggieOmegaSisters Omega Sisters]], is a Helen story with guest art by Randy Milholland of ''SomethingPositive''. Helen goes to see ''AnInconvenientTruth'' with Aggie, Lisa, Fred and Daphne and tries, awkwardly, to participate in their mutual friendly snarking. As they leave the theatre, Aggie and Lisa kid each other about their respective celebrity crushes, when Marshall comes by with Karen, at which Aggie jumps into a bush in panic. The couple make friendly small talk with Helen, disregarding Lisa's open contempt for Karen. Afterward, as Aggie re-emerges, Lisa explains teasingly to Helen that Aggie's in love with Marshall, and says more seriously that Aggie would be a better match for him, prompting an angry warning from her friend to drop the subject. Aggie advises Helen not to get too friendly with Karen, not just because of her crush, but because Karen uses people. "How's that different from anyone else?", Helen asks.

--> If I'm being used... at least I have a use.

Although Helen initially feels out of place at Karen's sleepover, she changes her mind when Karen flatters her by telling her friends Helen looks like [[HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] and then gently probes her for dirt on her former childhood friend Penny. Helen is well aware that Karen's merely using her, as Aggie had warned, but doesn't care because she now feels she's fitting in somewhere.

* ManipulativeBastard: Karen befriends Helen so as to gather intelligence on Helen's FormerChildhoodFriend Penny.

* FishOutOfWater

* ManipulativeBastard: Karen.

* {{Slapstick}}

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''Narbonic's'' Dave.

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''{{Narbonic}}'s'' Dave.

* FillerStrip: At the end of the arc is an out-of-continuity gag strip paying tribute to Shaenon Garrity, who had just completed ''{{Narbonic}}''. It features [[TheCameo cameos]] by [[ArchieComics Betty Cooper]], [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] and the time-travelling [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=13510 future teenage daughter]] of ''Narbonic's'' Dave.

* CelebCrush - Aggie on Al Gore, Lisa on Tobey Maguire. Lisa's ever-changing celebrity crushes are a RunningGag in the comic.
* DeadpanSnarker - Aggie, Lisa, Fred and Daphne. Helen tries to be one but doesn't quite get it right.
* {{Emo}} - Although not an example of the trope herself, Lisa admits to finding this sort of celebrity attractive.
* ExtremeDoormat - [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Helen ''wants'' others to use her.
* FeeFiFauxPas - The socially awkward Helen commits two, albeit apparently without signficant consequence. As Aggie and her friends tease each other in the theatre, Helen says with a grin, "We're judgemental bitches!", and then adds in embarassment, "Too on the nose?" Later, having learned of Aggie's crush on Marshall, she asks her, "[C]an I tell Fred you're not gay? He and Daphne have a bet."

* HopelessSuitor - Aggie for Marshall, as [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lisa.
* {{Jerkass}} - Tharqa.
* ManipulativeBastard - Karen.
* ShoutOut - Helping Aggie out of the bush, Lisa comments on her "abusive non-relationship" with Marshall, asking her, "Did the brambles feel like a kiss?" This is an allusion to the Crystals' controversial 1962 single, "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)."

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Helen, given her view of friendship as an opportunity to use or be used, falls solidly on the cynical end of the scale. However, that doesn't stop her from desperately trying to fit in socially.

This arc, like [[Recap/PennyAndAggieOmegaSisters Omega Sisters]], is a Helen story with guest art by Randy Milholland of ''SomethingPositive''. Helen goes to see ''AnInconvenientTruth'' with Aggie, Lisa, Fred and Daphne and tries, awkwardly, to participate in their mutual friendly snarking. As they leave the theatre, Aggie and Lisa kids each other about their respective celebrity crushes, when Marshall comes by with Karen, at which Aggie jumps into a bush in panic. The couple make friendly small talk with Helen, disregarding Lisa's open contempt for Karen. Afterward, as Aggie re-emerges, Lisa explains teasingly to Helen that Aggie's in love with Marshall, and says more seriously that Aggie would be a better match for him, prompting an angry warning from her friend to drop the subject. Aggie advises Helen not to get too friendly with Karen, not just because of her crush, but because Karen uses people. "How's that different from anyone else?", Helen asks.