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* AnAesop:
** Do not fall in with the wrong crowd, because you could end up worse than them.
** There is a difference between bullies and criminals.
** The promo for this episode explicitly lampshades that “being bad isn’t so good”.
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*PetTheDog: Despite how Penny was acting, Suga Mama did chase Mr. Moody with her cane when she heard why Penny acted the way she did. Showing despite not liking Penny’s new attitude, she still loves her granddaughter.

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* AesopAmnesia: Played with. Penny has learned well enough to never be a bully again. ''However'', she does start an obsession with being one of the skater kids soon after.

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* AesopAmnesia: Played with. Penny has learned well enough to never be a bully again. again even if it means going undercover for a better story. ''However'', she does start an obsession going undercover with being one of the skater kids soon after.after.
* BecomingTheMask: Penny purposely becomes the bad girl so she can present an article good enough for the school newspaper. As she narrated, she spend less time on the paper and more time being P Gimmie ''for real'' to the point of becoming potentially worse than the Gross Sisters.



* DespairEventHorizon: Penny notably leaps over this line when she learns that she was directly responsible for driving her family and friends away from her, and that her quest was AllForNothing as it essentially destroyed her past life - leaving only P Gimmie. This is eventually undone by the end of the episode when Mr. Moody accepts her article and [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]].

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* DespairEventHorizon: Penny notably leaps over this line when she learns that she was directly responsible for driving her family and friends away from her, and that her quest was AllForNothing as it essentially destroyed her past life - leaving only P Gimmie. This is eventually undone by the end Thankfully, this begins Penny finally shedding out of the episode when Mr. Moody accepts her article P Gimmie persona and [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]].going through boot camp with newfound determination so she can see her family again.



* DivideAndConquer: Sergeant Snelly leaves Penny isolated from the people that care about her, e.g. Oscar and Trudy at home, and her friends opposing Penny’s bullying, making it easier for them to further vilify Penny and turn their backs on her even when she desperately needs help.

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* DivideAndConquer: Sergeant Snelly leaves Penny isolated from the people that care about her, e.g. Oscar and Trudy at home, and her friends opposing Penny’s bullying, making it easier for them to further vilify Penny and turn their backs on her even when she desperately needs help. This was implied to be part of the plan to have Penny realize she misses them a lot and is willing to work herself more just to see them again.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Snelly to Penny Proud. It's implied that this is part of his act in regards to steering Penny back to her old good self and when Penny shouts that she is willing to go through more just so she can see her family again, he actually ''smiled'' from Penny's genuine determination.



* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The newly-minted P Gimmie shows this repeatedly before her parents send her off to boot camp.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The newly-minted P Gimmie shows this repeatedly before her parents send her off to boot camp. It took [=BeBe and CeCe=] being scared of her to finally realize how far she has fallen.



* FaceHeelTurn: Penny invokes this as a way to get an inspiring story for the school newspaper. It works well for her in coming up with the story... only to take her P Gimmie persona [[BecomingTheMask a bit too well]].



* HopeSpringsEternal: Even after Penny is overcome by Sergeant Snelly’s control and the sadness from seeing her family and friends refusing to help her, she eventually returns to her old life after her offscreen return from boot camp.

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* HopeSpringsEternal: Even after Penny is overcome by Sergeant Snelly’s control and the sadness from seeing her family and friends refusing to help her, she eventually returns to her old life after her offscreen return from boot camp. Plus, she even got her story published from it and things with her family and friends are better again after they heard the whole story.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The young, bluey girl who looks similar to Nubia going through the obstacle course in boot camp and being drilled by Sergeant Snelly at the beginning of the episode? That's '''Penny Proud'''. She narrates how she got into this for the episode as her turning behavior shocks her family and her friends.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Mr. Moody complains to the heavens about his fall from being writer for the New York Times to becoming editor for a school newspaper as if this is a way for him to be tested. It's Penny remembering this makes her realize that she needs to come back to boot camp and test herself the same way.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mr. Moody rejecting Penny's previous article led to her attempt at her next one getting approved by going undercover as being within the crowd of the Gross Sisters. It's implied that Suga Mama chased him with a cane after hearing the whole story from it hence why he told Penny to not go undercover again.
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* AdultFear: Penny succumbs to all of her worst qualities and she goes off doing God knows what at night, leaving her parents and Suga Mama to worry about her enough to send her to boot camp.
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* TheDitz: The guard at the tower is easily fooled by penny making a bird and bunny with her hands in the spotlight and thinks they are actually real.

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* TheDitz: The guard at the tower is easily fooled by penny Penny making shadows of a bird and bunny with her hands in the spotlight and thinks they are actually real.
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** The promo for this episode explicitly lampshades that “being bad isn’t so good”.
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* TheDitz: The guard at the tower is easily fooled by penny making a bird and bunny with her hands in the spotlight and thinks they are actually real.
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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. [[GoneHorriblyRight When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life]], her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. [[CharacterNarrator Penny is the narrator for this episode]].

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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. [[GoneHorriblyRight When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life]], her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. [[CharacterNarrator Penny is the narrator for this episode]].
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* CharacterNarrator: The episode is told from Penny’s first person point of view via a voice over.



* LetMeTellYouAStory: The episode is, by and large, told via WholeEpisodeFlashback with Penny narrating the events of what happened.

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* LetMeTellYouAStory: The episode is, by and large, told via WholeEpisodeFlashback with Penny narrating the events of what happened.happened.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The episode uses a FramingDevice that is being recounted by Penny, although there are a few scenes in the story that she did not witness (like the scenes with Trudy, Oscar and Suga Mama) and is unlikely to have known the details of.

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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life, her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. Penny is the narrator for this episode.

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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. [[GoneHorriblyRight When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life, life]], her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. [[CharacterNarrator Penny is the narrator for this episode.
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* GoingNative: Penny does an expose on the Gross Sisters, but ends up becoming just as bad as them, if not, worse.



* GoingNative: Penny does an expose on the Gross Sisters, but ends up becoming just as bad as them, if not, worse.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nubia refuses to help Penny because she’s become a real criminal instead of a bully and as she points out, there is a difference.

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* GoingNative: Penny does an expose on the Gross Sisters, but ends up becoming just as bad as them, if not, worse.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nubia refuses to help Penny because she’s become a real criminal instead of a bully and as she points out, there is a difference.difference.
* LetMeTellYouAStory: The episode is, by and large, told via WholeEpisodeFlashback with Penny narrating the events of what happened.

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* HeelRealization: After bullying her fellow students and driving her family and friends away, Penny starts to realize that she's in the wrong and has no other choice but to return to Sargent Snelly’s camp. Thankfully, it all works out in the end.

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* HeelRealization: After bullying her fellow students and driving her family and friends away, Penny starts to realize that she's in the wrong and has no other choice but to return to Sargent Sargeant Snelly’s camp. Thankfully, it all works out in the end.end.
* HopeSpringsEternal: Even after Penny is overcome by Sergeant Snelly’s control and the sadness from seeing her family and friends refusing to help her, she eventually returns to her old life after her offscreen return from boot camp.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Penny notably leap over this line when she learns that she was directly responsible for driving her family and friends away from her, and that her quest was AllForNothing as it essentially destroyed her past life - leaving only P Gimmie. This is eventually undone by the end of the episode when Mr. Moody accepts her article and [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]].

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* DespairEventHorizon: Penny notably leap leaps over this line when she learns that she was directly responsible for driving her family and friends away from her, and that her quest was AllForNothing as it essentially destroyed her past life - leaving only P Gimmie. This is eventually undone by the end of the episode when Mr. Moody accepts her article and [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]].


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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The newly-minted P Gimmie shows this repeatedly before her parents send her off to boot camp.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Penny switches to a white shirt with a pair of black overalls after christening herself P Gimmie and later dons an orange shirt and a pair of camo jeans when she is at boot camp.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Penny to a lesser extent, since her skin becomes blue.
* HeelRealization: After bullying her fellow students and driving her family and friends away, Penny starts to realize that she's in the wrong and has no other choice but to return to Sargent Snelly’s camp. Thankfully, it all works out in the end.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Penny notably leap over this line when she learns that she was directly responsible for driving her family and friends away from her, and that her quest was AllForNothing as it essentially destroyed her past life - leaving only P Gimmie. This is eventually undone by the end of the episode when Mr. Moody accepts her article and [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]].
* DivideAndConquer: Sergeant Snelly leaves Penny isolated from the people that care about her, e.g. Oscar and Trudy at home, and her friends opposing Penny’s bullying, making it easier for them to further vilify Penny and turn their backs on her even when she desperately needs help.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While the Gross Sisters don't hesitate to steal money from the other students, they draw the line at joining Penny when Nubia tells her that they do not associate with real criminals.
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* AdultFear: Penny succumbs to all of her worst qualities and she goes off doing God knows what at night, leaving her parents and Suga Mama to worry about her enough to send her to boot camp.


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* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Reversed. Penny teams up with the Gross Sisters to write her byline. What she experiences from seeing her family after escaping boot camp leads her to assume that her family has forgotten all about her.
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* AesopAmnesia: Played with. Penny has learned well enough to never be a bully again. ''However'', she does start an obsession with being one of the skater kids soon after.
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** There is a difference between crooks and bullies.

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** There is a difference between crooks bullies and bullies.criminals.

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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life, her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. Penny is the narrator for this episode.

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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life, her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. Penny is the narrator for this episode.episode.

* AnAesop:
** Do not fall in with the wrong crowd, because you could end up worse than them.
** There is a difference between crooks and bullies.
* GoingNative: Penny does an expose on the Gross Sisters, but ends up becoming just as bad as them, if not, worse.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Nubia refuses to help Penny because she’s become a real criminal instead of a bully and as she points out, there is a difference.
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Penny tries to be a journalist on the school's paper, but she is turned out because her submissions were too good and innocent. She turns to the Gross Sisters to do a school exposé on bullies so she can get a spot on the school newspaper staff. However, she winds up becoming just like them and starts bullying all her friends. When her bad behavior begins to affect her home life, her parents send her to boot camp to straighten her up. Penny is the narrator for this episode.

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