Tippy Teen #25

Tippy and her friends are swooning over Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, convinced that boys today just don't measure up to literary romance—but when they learn what life was actually like for women in medieval Italy, their starry-eyed fantasies get a reality check. After their romantic ideals land them in hot water with Tommy and Animal, the girls discover that sometimes the real thing beats the storybook version.

Tommy's stomach is in revolt after his girlfriend Tippy enrolled in a creative cooking course—she's been subjecting him to experimental international cuisine every night of the week. When his friend Egghead invites him to enjoy a plain home-cooked meal at his cousin Charlie's place in Alaska, Tommy leaps at the chance, only to discover that "home-cooked" means something very different depending on where home actually is.

When Tommy's girlfriend refuses to ride in his beat-up jalopy anymore, he decides to trade it in for something that'll impress her—leading him to "Honest Injun" Littlewolf's used car lot, where haggling over prices gets increasingly desperate and absurd. What Tommy manages to drive away with might not be exactly what he had in mind, but it's definitely within his budget.

When Tippy, Tommy, and Ashley Hartburn team up for a school field trip to hunt for the elusive Laxibillus Metamorphus butterfly, the promise of homework-free glory sets them scrambling through nature—each with their own schemes and mishaps in mind. As the three compete and clash over who'll catch the prized specimen first, their search becomes a comedy of errors filled with unexpected obstacles and backfiring plans. Will any of them actually succeed in bringing home the best example, or will their bickering cost them the prize?

When Tippy wants to play a prank on her friend, she hires a door-to-door hair-permanent salesman to give the girl an unwanted treatment—but her scheme backfires spectacularly when her boyfriend Tommy gets the wrong idea about who's really behind it all. "Peddle Meddle!" is a delightful romp through mistaken identities and comeuppance, where a clever setup unravels into pure comedic chaos.

A leaky kitchen faucet becomes the source of household chaos when Tippy's father attempts a DIY fix with disastrous results, and an afternoon visit from a helpful neighborhood friend only makes matters worse. This 1969 humor tale is pure slapstick—plumbing mishaps, flooded dishes, and earnest incompetence collide in five pages of comic relief.