In addition to bringing home a bag full of doorknobs, Mrs. Twombly also buys herself a dress full of neon colors and tickets to the People Pampering Pets Charity Ball. While unimpressed with the other items (and Zoe visually offended by the new dress), the pets and Blythe get excited over the tickets. Blythe notifies the pets that she'll design new outfits for the event while Penny fantasizes about the fame and recognition she might receive there.
When she comes up to her room with Youngmee dropping by, Roger finds out about the tickets, obtains two, and asks if Blythe can help fix his old jacket and pants. As Roger leaves, he casually mentions about a date while tossing the outfit onto Blythe's sketch pad. She quickly draws up what Roger's clothes might look like on an exposed portion as Youngmee explains the Seven Stages of Coping with Parental Dating: (1) distress and denial, (2) "I didn't mean to," (3) fury and promises, (4) "So lonely I could cry," (5) making adjustments, (6) coming to grips, and (7) "totally okay with it." Blythe immediately feels distressed and denies it until Youngmee points out what Blythe's doing, upon which Blythe slumps over on her chair. The pants slide away, revealing that Blythe accidentally drew Roger's suit over Penny's head on her sketch pad.
Back at the day camp, Penny wonders what color would work best on her when Zoe comes in to provide style advice. In her room, Blythe kicks herself over not having spent enough time with Roger that he has to find a companion, and Youngmee, over the phone, informs Blythe she's on the second stage. In the middle of it all, Penny, Zoe, and Minka come up to Blythe's room via the dumbwaiter and ask to see her designs. Blythe hurriedly hands them the sketchbook and readies herself for school. They like the outfits until they reach Penny's, who gasps. Blythe returns to her room for the sketchbook and dashes off. Penny gets put in a bad mood, and the three go back down.
At the school cafeteria, Blythe rages over why Roger would look for a date. Jasper suggests he may feel Blythe is inadequate, to which Blythe vows to be a better daughter. Youngmee texts Blythe letting her know she's on the third stage. Blythe gets so furious that she scares her friends away, but before she can really vent, Youngmee reminds Blythe over the phone that the next stage is "So lonely I could cry," upon which Blythe weeps in the cafeteria by herself.
As everyone else chats about how great their outfits will be, Penny's mood rapidly deteriorates. She hides behind the armchair in the corner, and Pepper goes in to try to talk to her. Attempts to negotiate end with the armchair bisected, and everyone else flees from Penny as she returns to the center of the room.
In Blythe's room, Blythe is working on fixing Roger's jacket when Roger comes in. Blythe asks about his date, to which he talks about how wonderful his woman is, then goes away. Blythe is ready to put a flower squirter in Roger's jacket when she realizes that this date is making Roger happy. She tells this to Youngmee, who responds that Blythe has reached the fifth stage, adjusting to the situation.
Penny looks at herself in the mirror and intends to tell Blythe how she really feels about the outfit. Blythe puts the finishing touches on Roger's clothes, which she's changed into a more modern three-piece suit. Youngmee drops in on her phone, and Blythe tells her she's ready for taking on any dates Roger may have. Youngmee notifies her that Blythe has reached the sixth stage and that she's at the front door of the building. Blythe excitedly runs out of her room just as Penny enters. Penny discovers Roger's suit and climbs up the rack it's on to see what it's like anyway. She accidentally tears one of the sleeves and retreats back to the day camp room. Blythe comes back in and is shocked to see the damage, though Youngmee initially thinks Blythe tore it herself in rage.
When Penny comes back down, she sees all of the other pets by the dumbwaiter, ready to confront Penny. Russell goes through a checklist of things that may have upset Penny, but it only annoys her further. Penny bursts into tears, and Vinnie tears out a page from Russell's notepad and gives it to Penny as a tissue paper, staying by her side to comfort her. Penny confesses that she dislikes the design Blythe would make for her but is too afraid to say anything negative. Russell tells Penny he'll let Blythe know, and they hug and make up—though Russell's spines get himself stuck on Penny for a moment.
Blythe is back to work fixing up Roger's sleeve when the pets, minus Penny, come up through the dumbwaiter. Blythe shows them their new clothes, and they excitedly put them on. Blythe asks where Penny could be, holding a pink dress for her, and Zoe says that she didn't like the "oversized man suit." Blythe soon realizes what happened, and Blythe finds Penny on the rooftop moping on a lawn chair. Penny yells out how she feels about the oversized man suit, so Blythe shows her the pink dress intended for Penny. Blythe tells Penny that if she let Blythe know how she felt, there wouldn't be all this drama. Roger, in turn, finds Blythe on the rooftop to give her words of gratitude about his suit. He gives Blythe a rose and lets lets her know that she is his date—Blythe then realizes this was a lesson she needed to learn herself. Roger also mentions that Mrs. Twombly bought a dress for Blythe, and she nervously accompanies Roger back down.
This episode contains examples of (YMMV entries go here):
- Beware the Nice Ones: Penny is scary if put in a bad mood.
- Bland-Name Product: Lawnmower Wars, Roger's favorite show, seems to be Downtown City's version of the competitive Discovery Channel and Science Channel programs.
- Break the Cutie: Seeing the accidental design sets the normally meek Penny off on a chain reaction that makes her loud and violent.
- Brick Joke: On the very last scene, Blythe remembers Mrs. Twombly's taste in dresses from the Cold Open.
- Buffy Speak: "Oversized Man Suit."
- Captain Oblivious: When Penny sees Roger's suit, she thinks Blythe's measurements were wildly inaccurate rather than it being intended for someone else.
- Continuity Nod: We see more of Mrs. Twombly's doorknob collection.
- There is brief mention of Penny not finding Pepper funny.
- This is not the first time Minka has rifled through someone's head. Also from "Bad Hair Day," hugging Russell is not a good idea.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Seriously. Think about it. Penny's destroying things. Over a suit.
- Easily Forgiven: Penny destroys and armchair and for all intents and purposes terrifies her friends. Russell simply has her talk it out.
- Five Stages of Grief: Parodied with Youngmee's Seven Stages of Coping with Parental Dating. True to the trope, Blythe goes through the seven steps as quickly as Youngmee can list them, only to get subverted as she reverts back and goes through the steps in a more natural (but still accelerated) pace.
- Foreshadowing: As Youngmee lists off the "Seven Stages of Coping with Parental Dating", Blythe shows facial expressions and movements that allude to them.
- Furry Reminder: Minka, a monkey, is most inclined by far to check for fleas on Penny.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Blythe feels intensely jealous of Roger's date without even knowing anything about her.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Blythe almost reaches this in Act 2, having at least generated tea kettle whistling, but Youngmee stops her in time to turn it into crying.
- Last-Name Basis: Youngmee refuses to refer to Blythe's father as "Roger," only as "Mr. Baxter."
- Noodle Incident: Russell's checklist of why Penny may be angry includes something someone said, then specifies if it's something Zoe said.
- Ocular Gushers: A mild variant is how Blythe acts out the fourth stage. It happens to Penny too, as usual in episodes about her.
- Shout-Out: This episode's title is most likely a direct reference to the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Green Isn't Your Color", considering that it shares writers with that show. Both episodes are also about the shy character expressing dissatisfaction with her new getup and the moral as being honest with one's friends.
- Mrs. Twombly's doorknob painting is most likely based on Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Diptych."
- Snap Back: Not only is the armchair back to normal by the next episode, the armchair features prominently in it.
- Super-Strength: In this episode, Penny can tear an armchair in half.
