Tippy Teen #21

When Ashley schemes to break up Tippy's date with Tommy using darkroom trickery, she enlists her friend Peggy to help create a composite photograph that will make it look like Tommy's been two-timing. But in this 1968 teen comedy caper, the frame-up backfires in the most perfectly ironic way—turning the culprits into the ones who end up exposed.

When Mr. Phineas Phogg volunteers to help the school drama society, he's roped into playing the Mean Green Giant—complete with vegetable dye—in a performance he's desperate to escape. His attempt to back out goes spectacularly wrong, leading to a wild night of mistaken identity that lands him at police headquarters before he can even make it to the theater. By the next day, the principal has sworn off giant plays forever, only to find himself volunteered for an entirely different theatrical disaster.

Tippy's got a problem: her crush's cousin Barry and his twin brother Larry have just rolled into town, and suddenly she's torn between a promise to Tommy and the chance to go dancing with one of the new arrivals. When Tippy decides to ditch Tommy with a creative excuse, she discovers that getting what you want isn't quite as simple as it seems—especially when scheming friends and surprise revelations get in the way. It's a classic teen comedy about mistaken intentions and the hilarious consequences that follow.

Smart Aleck Tommy thinks he's mastered the art of manipulation—all he needs is a fake ailment and an appeal to a girl's motherly instinct to win her heart. But when he tries the same trick twice on Tippy during a school outing on Pinetop Hill, he discovers that even the cleverest schemes have a limit. A humorous tale of a schemer who gets a little too confident in his own con.

When a girl named Lulu decides Tommy is exactly what she wants for her birthday—and her indulgent mother agrees to anything—a bewildered teen finds himself engaged to a wealthy stranger he's never met. Desperate to escape the arrangement, Tommy hatches a scheme to convince Lulu his family is too rough around the edges for high society, enlisting a friend to pose as his disastrous father. This 1968 humor story from Tippy Teen captures the classic teen comedy chaos of mismatched romance and wild schemes colliding with a millionaire's lifestyle.