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Penny, still working for the summer at a clothing store, has a challenging customer in Karen Duvall, an overweight, sloppily-dressed teenager. When Karen inadvertently insults her by asking if she too used to be a "big girl," Penny tells her off. Aggie overhears her tirade and threatens to get her fired for being "shapist." Resisting once more the urge to get revenge on Aggie, Penny instead sets out to prove her wrong by apologizing to Karen, who says resignedly that there's nothing to be sorry for, because "Pretty people get to say what they want."

Now feeling genuinely ashamed, Penny offers to give Karen a no-strings-attached makeover and spends weeks helping her lose weight, teaching her beauty and grooming tips, and having her replace her thick glasses with laser eye surgery. Karen has transformed into a beauty, but is still lacking in confidence. Impressed with Aggie's ability to stand up to Penny while shrugging off her insults, Karen secretly approaches her for an attitude makeover. In the end, the rival "consultants" succeed rather too well: the now-popular Karen ditches both of them, saying she's not inviting people who knew the "old" her to her party. Unsurprisingly, Penny and Aggie blame each other for what Karen has become.

 

* [[Arc Words]]: "Pretty people get to say what they want," at arc's beginning, before Karen's makeover; "Pretty people get to do what they want!" at arc's end, post-makeover. The latter sentence recurs once more toward the end of "The Popsicle War," upon {{spoiler|Karen's social downfall}}.

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. The makeover reveals Karen's outer beauty...and inner ugliness.

* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]

* [[Granola Girl]] / [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Aggie.

* [[I Am Big Boned]]: Penny [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this ironically and [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=28 at length] in her tirade against Karen for asking if she used to be a "big" girl like her.

* [[Makeover Montage]]

 

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