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{{quote| Penny was a touchy subject with me. And skin, that's touchy for everybody.}}
As Duane continues to pine for Penny from a distance, Aggie notices Penny snobbishly turning down a nerd's request for a date and tears into her in the school hallway for her treatment of boys. Aggie is, above all, furious over what she assumes was Penny's deliberate brush-off of Duane (in a [[Penny and Aggie
Unlike Penny's and Aggie's previous arguments, this one has serious repercussions. Both girls are sent to Principal Giuliani, who lets them off this time because they're the school's top PPSAT scorers, but warns them that another disruption will entail cleaning the school after hours. As other students, despite Sara's and Michelle's attempts at damage control, ponder whether Penny is in fact racist, a contrite Aggie tries to assure Penny that Aggie only made herself look bad (and indeed, many students now think she's gone insane). Penny calls her on her naivete, pointing out that her reputation too has suffered damage. Aggie then encounters Duane, who's angry with her for making his race more of an issue than Penny ever had, and for lying to him about being Penny's friend. "You're not mine either," he says.
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* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Implied in Aggie's rant.
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: A meta-example: On the comic's forum, a reader claimed that this arc wasn't so much an examination of racial issues as it was about Aggie making a fool of herself. T Campbell responded that while Aggie was wrong about Penny being out-and-out racist, her words had a grain of truth in that, prior to this arc, Duane simply hadn't registered as a dating option for Penny, and that her subsequent interest in him was as much about disproving Aggie's accusation as it was about broadening her horizons.
* [[Elephant in
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Guess.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Aggie, having begun by jumping to conclusions about Penny's attitude toward Black people, ends up doing the same thing regarding Duane's view of gay people. However, the comic never followed up on her suspicion, nor its validity. Years later, Campbell [[Word of God|confirmed]] that Duane's use of the word "gay" here was merely in the teenage slang sense of "stupid."
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* [[Rebus Bubble]]: Three of these, meaning respectively: "[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=194 Penny hates Black people]," "[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=200 Aggie is crazy]," and "[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=205 Duane is homophobic]."
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Principal Giuliani. After warning Penny and Aggie of the draconian punishment--detention spent cleaning the entire school by themselves--in store for them the next time they cause a disruption, he smiles at their horrified reaction and thinks, "I love this job."
* [[Shipper
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Nowhere is Aggie more this trope than in this arc.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Campbell [[Word of God|named]] Principal Giuliani after the former mayor of New York.
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