History Recap / PennyAndAggieUptownGirl

--> I know what you say about me. You say I'm "low-rent." Say I'm trapped. Say I'm never gonna have nice, expensive things. Wrong. I'm gonna have you.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Rich claims that wearing a helmet when skateboarding would be, in effect, saying he expects to wipe out, or like shouting "I might lose!" at the beginning of a boxing match.

Eventually, cracks begin to appear within the relationship itself. While Penny can deal--barely--with a Rich fangirl getting her name wrong, she's so bothered by his not wearing a helmet while skating, because it'd compromise his image, that they have their first of several fights. Rich gives in on the helmet issue, annoying Stan and Jack all the more and prompting them to lecture him for losing his "edge." As both lovers become increasingly alienated from their friends, Aggie, overhearing a conversation between Sara and Michelle about Penny and Rich fighting and her "puffy eyes," thinks that Rich is beating her and resolves to offer her help. However, by the time Aggie catches up with her, Penny's already dumped Rich via text message after he stops wearing the helmet. Both Penny and Rich think to themselves that the other will "come crawling back," indicating not only that they still have feelings for each other, but that the ''real'' problem with their relationship was their clashing egos and individual need to be in control.

* BadassBiker

* DanceOfRomance

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys / AllGuysWantCheerleaders - Penny isn't a cheerleader as such but, as an affluent, popular, somewhat elitist girl, otherwise fits the fantasy type where Rich is concerned.

* ConflictingLoyalty - Penny and Rich experience this with regard to their friends and each other. Also Michelle when she initially becomes interested in Rich but fears Penny's scornful reaction ("He, he, he looks dangerous. Boring! I mean boring!").

* DefrostingIceQueen - Penny is initially cool, dismissive and mildly contemptuous toward Rich, but gradually falls for him and shows it.
* DisappearedDad - When Rich tells Penny his father isn't worth talking about, she thinks he means he deserted his family, when all Rich means is that he sees him as an uninteresting factory worker.
* DontYouDarePityMe - Played with in a one-off gag strip at the end of the arc. Aggie, suffering under the hot sun during a protest, hesitates to accept the bottle of water that Penny offers her in passing: "I'm not sure I'm ''that'' thirsty." It doesn't help that Penny can't resist gloating as she does so.
* DressesTheSame - Aggie [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this against Penny in another gag strip at arc's end. She goes shopping during lunch for an uncharacteristically girly outfit, simply because it's the same one Penny's wearing that day.
* HenpeckedHusband - although Rich and Penny aren't married, this trope best describes how Gary, followed by Stan and Jack, and ultimately Rich himself, view his role in the relationship.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy - Michelle, with regard to Rich, in [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=146 this strip]].
* MakeUpOrBreakUp - this arc is just the beginning of Penny's and Rich's stormy relationship.
* SarcasticDevotee - Jack toward Rich.
* ThoseTwoGuys - Rich's wingmen Stan and Jack. They emerge more as personalities in their own right in subsequent arcs, but the seeds of their contrasting characterizations are here.
* UnrequitedLove - Michelle for Rich.
* UptownGirl - [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], despite the arc title. Penny initially dislikes Rich and it takes time for him to win her over. Also, the relationship ultimately doesn't work out.
* YesMan - Stan toward Rich, until he voices his concern that Penny has domesticated him.

* DressesTheSame - Aggie [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this against Penny in a one-off gag strip at the end of the arc. She goes shopping during lunch for an uncharacteristically girly outfit, simply because it's the same one Penny's wearing that day.

* DefrostingIceQueen - Penny is initially cool, dismissive and mildly contemptous toward Rich, but gradually falls for him and shows it.