Tippy Teen #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTippy Teen attempts to finish her math homework by watching television commercials, but is interrupted when the housemaid nearly collides with her while chasing after Tippy to catch the third act of a show. Later, Tippy surprises a young boy with a shrieker toy, which delights him. Subsequently, Tippy and her friend encounter a man with a flat tire and decide to help him change it, convincing him to let them assist despite his initial reluctance, ultimately winning his gratitude for their aid.
Tippy and Tommy argue over buying a friendship ring, and after Tippy finds one that fits perfectly, Tommy reluctantly shells out eight dollars—only for the ring to mysteriously disappear while they're out rowing on the lake. As Tippy insists Tommy recover her precious keepsake, the two get tangled up in a comedy of errors involving a park officer, a search gone hilariously wrong, and a sneeze that sets off a chain reaction of misunderstandings.
Tommy scrambles to find the perfect birthday gift for Tippy, and a dusty attic diary seems like just the thing—until his present backfires spectacularly when Tippy realizes her life has been disappointingly dull and decides to abandon town altogether. Desperate to prove that staying put can be thrilling, Tommy hatches an increasingly wild scheme to manufacture some excitement, with chaotic results that neither he nor Tippy quite anticipated.
When Tippy promises her mom she'll clean house, her friend Tommy tries to convince her to skip the chores for a show they've been planning—but a promise is a promise. As Tommy reluctantly pitches in to speed things along, the two discover that housework is far messier and more exhausting than either bargained for, turning their afternoon into an increasingly comedic battle against dust, furniture, and the clock.
When the tall and athletic Stretch Hopkins asks Tippy out on a date, she eagerly accepts—much to the dismay of Tommy, who's been trying to win her affection. As the evening unfolds, Stretch's obsession with his training regimen and athletic conditioning puts a damper on every romantic activity Tippy suggests, from movies to dancing to ice cream. By night's end, Tippy discovers that sometimes the most impressive physique can come with the least impressive personality.
When Go-Go receives a homemade portrait as a birthday gift from a friend, what starts as a sweet gesture spirals into an increasingly chaotic chain of accidents that threatens to wreck the entire house. As one mishap tumbles into the next—from crashing through plaster to sparking an electrical fire to summoning the fire department—Go-Go frantically tries to contain the damage before her mother returns home. But just when things seem irredeemably destroyed, she wakes to discover it was all a dream... only to face the exact same gift-giving moment again.
Tippy decides to impress her boyfriend Tommy by knitting him a sweater—but her efforts at domesticity hit snag after snag, from dropped stitches to wildly incorrect measurements. When she finally presents her handiwork, it's so catastrophically oversized that Tommy can barely move in it, leading to a chain of comic disasters and town-wide mockery. Through a lucky accident (and some magical laundry day shrinking), Tippy learns that sometimes the effort matters more than the result—and that her heart's in the right place, even if her knitting needles aren't.
When Tommy Trippet's band is hired to play the school dance, a jealous classmate sabotages their sheet music, hoping to humiliate them—but the scrambled arrangements turn out to sound like the coolest modern jazz anyone's ever heard. As the crowd goes wild and Tommy basks in unexpected success, he discovers his accidental triumph came from something he never saw coming. A fun spin on how even disasters can turn into victories when you're willing to face the music.
Tippy lands the presidency of the Central Girls Do-Gooders Club and throws herself into performing good deeds for strangers—with results that range from misunderstood to downright disastrous. As Tippy and her fellow club members discover that good intentions don't always lead to grateful recipients, they learn what it really means to help others without expecting thanks in return.
Tippy promised to prepare a turkey for dinner—but when the bird arrives with soulful eyes and an endearing personality, she can't bear to go through with it and desperately recruits her boyfriend Tommy to handle the job instead. What unfolds is a hilarious clash of wills as Tippy's guilt wins out, Tommy becomes the unlikely villain, and poor Ambrose the turkey lands squarely in the middle of the chaos.
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Reprinted in Tippy Teen Special Collector's Edition #[nn] (1969), Vicki #1 (1975), Gwandanaland Comics #2923 (2021)
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