Penny and Aggie/Recap/The Popsicle War/When She Was Good: Difference between revisions

{{work}}

 

In this chapter, Karen comes close to abandoning her schemes against Penny before they've even begun. A [[Flash Back]] to eighteen months previous shows the passive, pre-makeover Karen ignoring a classmate throwing fake dog-doo at her, then returning home to her then diametric opposite, her aggressive businessperson mother. In the present (August before her junior year), she invites Marshall over when she has the house to herself. A second flashback, to the previous summer when Aggie was giving her makeover tips, sees Karen misinterpret Aggie's then-disinterest in boys as an interest in girls. As a result, back in the present, Karen assures Marshall that she's not jealous of her jogging with him. (She also assumes Lisa, with whom Aggie's spending the summer on a house-building mission, is her girlfriend.)

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Marshall, once again, with regard to his girlfriend. Here Karen ''confesses'' that she's a bully and he refuses to believe it.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The chapter title is an allusion to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "There Was a Little Girl":

She was very good indeed,<ref>Often [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|misquoted]] as "She was very, very good"</ref><br />

But when she was bad she was horrid. }}