Teen Girl Squad
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Teen Girl Squad is Strong Bad's comic series, crudely drawn on notebook paper, centered around four blandly named teenage girls — Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, and The Ugly One — and their futile attempts to become popular, attract cute boys, and look "SO GOOD!". Each issue shows the girls performing different stereotypical teenage activities, such as going to the mall, babysitting, or taking exams, often ending in the girls' strange and gruesome deaths thanks to Strong Bad's overactive imagination. Due to the series' loose continuity, the girls always return from their untimely deaths before the next issue, or sometimes later in the episode.
The series began in the Strong Bad Email comic, when a girl named Brittany asked Strong Bad to make a comic strip about her four friends. Strong Bad's spur-of-the-moment comic soon became a series of its own, with fifteen installments, two spin-off shorts, and numerous appearances in unrelated toons. The Brothers Chaps have also admitted to using it as an outlet for new female characters.
The most popular running gags in the series are the girls' catchphrase, "SO GOOD!"; the vocalized onomatopoeias used when a character dies, often ending in -'d as in "MSG'd" or "cerebullum'd"; and the girls' unorthodox exclamations of pain in the format Ow! My X!, such as "my most of me" or "my style". Each issue ends with Strong Bad exclaiming "IT'S OVER!".
Menu Page Title: T33n G1rl Squ4dx0rx!!
Contents |
[edit] Issues
| Screenshot | Issue | Running Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Issue 1 (from comic) | 0:52 | December 2, 2002 |
 | Issue 2 | 1:12 | February 10, 2003 |
 | Issue 3 | 1:37 | May 12, 2003 |
 | Issue 4 | 1:38 | September 15, 2003 |
 | Issue 5 | 1:57 | March 1, 2004 |
 | Issue 6 (Decemberween Special) | 1:22 | July 12, 2004 |
 | Issue 7 (Teeny Tiny Girl Squad) | 1:53 | August 23, 2004 |
 | Issue 8 | 2:24 | January 17, 2005 |
 | Issue 9 | 2:05 | June 20, 2005 |
 | Issue 10 (Tenthennial Extravaganza) | 3:34 | October 10, 2005 |
 | Issue 11 | 3:30 | July 17, 2006 |
 | Issue 12 (Valentimes Day Special) | 3:20 | February 12, 2007 |
 | Issue 13 | 3:25 | June 18, 2007 |
 | Issue 14 | 3:40 | May 12, 2008 |
 | Issue 15 | 4:14 | May 11, 2009 |
[edit] Spin-Offs
These are also listed on the Teen Girl Squad menu despite not being proper issues.
| Screenshot | Issue | Running Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 4 Gregs | 3:20 | February 16, 2009 |
 | Decomposing Pumpkins | 1:35 | October 19, 2009 |
[edit] Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
During the first three episodes of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Strong Bad makes some Teen Girl Squad comics. In the first two episodes, the comics are mini-games where the goal is to kill all four girls before the comic ends; the more Strong Bad laughs, the higher the player's score. This requires using the correct items on the right girls during the right scenes; however, some items are unavailable until Strong Bad finds the corresponding card elsewhere in the game.
In Baddest of the Bands, the Teen Girl Squad issue is non-interactive.
| Screenshot | Issue |
|---|---|
 | Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad |
 | Strong Badia the Free Cave Girl Squad |
 | Baddest of the Bands Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen |
[edit] Other Appearances
- 404'd
- Email privileges (One of The Cheat's privileges is to ghostwrite an issue of TGS)
- Email virus (Issue 3.14159265and the rest)
- Email theme park (Easter egg)
- Email death metal
- HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS! (a segment of Teen Girl Squad is shown)
- Email pizza joint
- Email love poems
- Email magic trick (Easter egg)
- The House That Gave Sucky Tricks
- Really Cool Boat
- Decemberweenvent Calendar (Day 13)
[edit] Fun Facts
- Every episode has a different "description" of each girl on their title cards at the beginning. An extra set of these descriptions is also viewable in the preview of Teen Girl Squad on the TV Time Toons Menu, which can be seen by holding the cursor over the Teen Girl Squad button (swf file here). The descriptions tend to refer to Cheerleader's spoiled nature, So and So's book-smarts, What's Her Face's awkwardness or poverty, and The Ugly One's weirdness or lack of hygiene.
| Issue | Cheerleader | So and So | What's Her Face | The Ugly One |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toons Menu | hair products! | plaid skirt! | baggy clothes! | drill team! |
| Issue 1 | cheer! | fashion sense! | unpopular! | hygiene? |
| Issue 2 | growth spurt! | school spirit! | pity friend! | psoriasis! |
| Issue 3 | boy crazy! | math crazy! | whatev! | actually crazy |
| Issue 4 | cool parents! | student council! | shop lifting? | prepaid lunch! |
| Issue 5 | two piece! | one piece! | same clothes! | three piece?!! |
| Issue 6 | wants a pony | wants a savings bond | wants a new stepdad | wants to be cheerleader |
| Issue 7 | fattycakes! | polite and boring! | lice and more! | boy or girl? |
| Issue 8 | top 40 hits! | hooked on classics! | college radio! | listens to pinebark! |
| Issue 9 | backyard pool! | library! | 24 hour diner! | parking deck? |
| Issue 9 (YouTube version) | pool lifeguard! | math tutor! | sandwich artist! | still goes to camp! |
| Issue 10 | groovy grapefruit pink | viscious violent violet | radacious bodadical razzberry blue | gnarly nursing home green |
| Issue 11 | cell phone! | pager! | rotary phone! | geiger counter! |
| Issue 12 | red undies! | whitman's sampler! | black roses! | pink eye! |
| Issue 13 | $15/hour!! | $4.75/hour! | plain yogurt/hour! | |
| Issue 14 | most likely to! | more than likely to succeed! | least likely to care | like, mostly to secede? |
| Homestar Ruiner | college boys!! | mathlete boys!! | any boys!! | shrimp po'boys! |
| Issue 15 | strapless! | puffy sleeves! | tie and t-shirt! | leftover brine??! |
- Each time the Teen Girl Squad menu page loads, the girls say something different. The message on Cheerleader's shirt also changes. The possibilities are below.
| Quote | Cheerleader's Shirt |
|---|---|
| THE UGLY ONE: teacher just called me "young man" | solid gold |
| THE UGLY ONE: i'm in love with liquid paper. | party thyme |
| WHAT'S HER FACE: nothing is cool. | hott type! |
| SO AND SO: on a roll with Honor Roll. | rich grrl |
| CHEERLEADER: you can't be popular AND smart | 2 cool 4 u |
| CHEERLEADER: lets have a boy/girl party! | boy :P monger |
| ALL EXCEPT CHEERLEADER: SO GOOD! | 2 cute |
- The AhnbergHand font used for Strong Bad's handwriting contains a few European-style slashes, including lowercase 'q' which The Brothers Chaps have been known to "Americanize". However, they have not altered the European seven in the current Teen Girl Squad main menu.
- So and So was originally referred to as Kristen in the first issue, with the name coming from the original suggestion. Shortly afterwards, though, she is called Kristina, making it clear that Strong Bad was already forgetting the names.
- Different toons' back buttons link to different places. Teen Girl Squad issues 1-3, 8-10 and 13 link back to the TV Time Toons Menu while the rest links back to the Teen Girl Squad Menu.
[edit] External Links
- view the Teen Girl Squad menu on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for the Teen Girl Squad menu
| Teen Girl Squad | |
|---|---|
| Characters | Main: Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, The Ugly One Gregs: Sci-Fi Greg, D n' D Greg, Open Source Greg, Japanese Culture Greg Minor: Arrow'd Guy, The Birds, Brainkrieg, Fighting Growlbacks, Manolios, Mr. Pitters, Mrs. Commanderson, Olympic Man and Coach, Peacey P, Quarterman, she likes cloth, Thomas, Tompkins |
| Issues | Main: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 6, Issue 7, Issue 8, Issue 8½, Issue 9, Issue 10, Issue 11, Issue 12, Issue 13, Issue 14, Issue 15 SBCG4AP: Homestar Ruiner, Cave Girl Squad, Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen Toons: 4 Gregs, Decomposing Pumpkins |
| Miscellaneous | Locations, Costumes, Theme Song, Fangs, -'d, Ow! My X!, Captioned Transitions |
| Other | Teen Girl Squad Deaths, 404'd, Neon 404'd, Teen Girl Squadcast |
| Most Recent Toons | ||||||||
| Big Toons
Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold
| Shorts
Zeenin' Into The Night
| Holidays
A Prickly Scary Short
| Puppet Stuff
Talk-It-Yourself Homestar Runner Puppet Plush
| Strong Bad Email
parenting
| Video Stuff
Disk 4 of 12 - Vampire's Castle
| Teen Girl Squad
Issue 15
| Marzipan's Answering Machine
Version 17.2
| YouTube
Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate Launch Trailer
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