Editing Teen Girl Squad Issue 8

[[Image:TGS8.PNG|thumb|Our "heroines" meet So and So's "stepmom".]]

The girls join the Battle of the Bands.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Cheerleader]], [[So and So]], [[What's Her Face]], [[The Ugly One]], [[Intercom]], [[Tompkins]], [[The Man with the Huge Mouth]]/[[Mrs. So-and-so-erson]], [[Pom Pom]], [[Fatty's Big Chance]], [[Strong Bad]] (easter egg)

'''Page Title:''' Soopa Groop

'''Date:''' January 17, 2005

==Transcript==
'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Teen Girl Squad! Cheerleader! ''{top 40 hits!}'' So and So! ''{hooked on classics!}'' What's Her Face! ''{college radio!}'' The Ugly One! ''{listens to pine bark!}''

''{The girls are sitting at their desks in class. What's Her Face's desk's legs are melted.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' And lunch today will be a breadtangle of pizza. Don't forget the battle of the bands this Friday. Tompkins, point your rear end in the direction of the principal's office.

'''TOMPKINS:''' ''{offscreen}'' Awww, peas!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Y'hear that girls??

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Pizza belongs in a triangle!

'''SO AND SO:''' ''{hearts over head and drooling awkwardly}'' That Tompkins is SUCH a renegade!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{inexplicably drawn wearing a derby, sunglasses, a moustache, a tie, and smoking a cigar}'' No yous guys! The battle of the bands! ''{back to normal}'' We can form a band and become...

'''ALL:''' WORLDWIDE STARLETS!!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Worldwide starlets get much boys!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Or so I have read. Obviously, I'll sing and pretend to play guitar.

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Can I not get stuck playing bass?

'''CHEERLEADER, SO AND SO and THE UGLY ONE:''' NO WAY!!

'''SO AND SO:''' We'll be called "Smartly Pretty".

''{we are shown a CD case with "Smartly Pretty" written in pseudo-mathematical notation}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{vomits}'' Augh! Bleh! Ewww! Grugh! ''{suddenly sotto voce}'' No. ''{cheerfully}'' We're called "Kissy Boots"!

''{a CD case which says "Kissy Boots" and features a huge pair of lips with cowboy boots is shown}''

'''SO AND SO:''' We can practice after school in my step-mom's walk-in closet!

''{Cut to an image of a man carrying a rock that reads...}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' After school!

''{Cut to So and So's step-mom's walk-in closet, as evidenced by a large rack of clothes.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Your step mom has questionable taste.

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' And like a million jogging suits.

''{So and So's step-mother appears from behind the clothes rack. "She" appears to be The Man with the Huge Mouth.}''

'''SO AND SO'S STEP-MOM:''' YOU LITTLE BRATS BEST SHUT YER YAPS!!!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Yes Mrs. So-and-so... -erson.

''{Mrs. So-and-so-erson vanishes. The girls' instruments appear, Cheerleader with a guitar, So and So on keyboard, What's Her Face on bass and The Ugly One on drums.}''

'''SO AND SO:''' Count us off, The Ugly One.

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' One, two, three and a four.

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{singing as the other girls play}'' Ooncha ooncha! One, two, three-cha! We're Kissy Boots and it's nice to meetcha! ''{music pauses}'' Ooncha ooncha! ''{music resumes}'' One, two, three-cha! Gonna get a breadtangle of pizza!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' 16 hour drum solo!

''{She starts playing the drums and scatting along, until a large floor tom eats her head.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' FLOOR TOMMED!!!! ''{Mrs. So-and-so-erson returns and pours "Ranch Dress" over The Ugly One and the floor tom}'' STEP-MOMMED!!! ''{Cut to a romantic dinner setting where The Ugly One, with the drum still engulfing her head, stands opposite Pom Pom, who holds a single rose.}'' POM-POMMED??

''{Cut to a huge mouth with "BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!" written on its teeth.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!

''{Cut to the school auditorium, where the Intercom (mounted on a robot body) stands on stage with a microphone, and a handful of stick-figure heads compose the audience.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' Alright, give it up for "Fatty's Big Chance."

''{A large man, presumably Fatty, with a saxophone and checkerboard pants appears from stage right.}''

'''FATTY:''' Pick it up! Pick it up! Hup! Hup! Pick it up! Pick it up!

''{Fatty vanishes.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' Next up is "Kissyboots".

''{Cut to Cheerleader and What's Her Face, probably back stage. Cheerleader holds a heart-shaped guitar with three necks and What's Her Face has a bass.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Where is So and So? We can't play the hits without her!

''{Cut to So and So in a dressing room. Her hair is dyed black and she wears a black t-shirt with Strong Sad's face on it and heavy black makeup.}''

'''SO AND SO:''' I'm going with that gloomy keyboardist look I keep hearing about!

''{A group of goblins enters the dressing room.}''

'''GOBLIN:''' KRA'AGH! KLEET'OH BRANGH CHE'EKOH TAGHQ?

'''SO AND SO:''' My autograph? Why sure!

''{A huge multi-sided die lands on her from above.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' TWELVE SIDED DIED!! ''{without text}'' Whoa, that's rough.

''{Back in the auditorium, Cheerleader and What's Her Face are the only ones on stage.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I'm Kissyboots and she plays bass. One, two, three, and a four!

''{They start playing. What's Her Face's guitar suddenly turns into a shark.}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' My bass feels seaworthy.

''{The shark eats the entire upper half of What's Her Face in one JGHOWMP!}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' OW! My most of me!!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{indicating the shark}'' Dis my new backup band... a shark. One, two, three, and a four!

''{Cut to the end title which reads "it's over!". Cheerleader sings over it and the lyrics are shown at the top of the screen.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over! It's over! It's over! Everybody died 'cept me!! ''{a chomping sound is heard.}'' Aw, crap!

==Easter Eggs==
*At the end, click the "o" to see a breadtangle, breadpazoid, breadallelogram, and brhombus of pizza (click each one to see the next. Click the brhombus to go back to the IT'S OVER! screen.)
*Click the "!" to see what happened to Tompkins.

===Transcript===
''{Tompkins and Strong Bad are sitting in the principal's office. Strong Bad has a sign on his desk reading "PRINICPAL" [sic] and has a sega cartridge saying "Road Rash."}''

'''TOMPKINS:''' Aw, come on prinicpal ''{pronounced as prin-IC-pal}'' Strong Bad. I only stole ONE Sega tape!

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's just it, Tompkins... You could have stolen UPWARDS of one Sega tape.

'''TOMPKINS:''' Awww PEAS!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Kid, I think youre gonna turn out... HGHJHGHAAAALL right!

==Fun Facts==
=== Trivia ===
*This is the only Teen Girl Squad issue where all four girls clearly die.
*This is the first appearance of a main character (namely, Pom Pom) in a Teen Girl Squad issue (Outside of an easter egg).
*This is the first time Strong Bad has made an apparently personal comment during narration.
*This is the first time that someone other than Strong Bad has said "IT'S OVER!"
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===Remarks===
*So and So appears twice in this issue with two sharp fangs; The Ugly One also grew fangs in [[Decemberween Teen Girl Squad|Issue 6]].
*When Mrs. So-and-so-erson tells them to "SHUT YER YAPS", What's Her Face's mouth is stretched to halfway up the side of her face!
*Cheerleader, So and So, and The Ugly One have no chairs by or attached to their desks to sit on.
*During Kissy Boots' first practice session, both What's Her Face and Cheerleader are playing basses, possibly Fender basses, judging from the arrangement of tuning pegs.
*20-sided dice are important in D&D. See also Goofs.
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=== Goofs ===
*The die that crushes So And So is a 20-sided die. Twelve-sided dice have pentagonal faces.
*The blue lines on the paper are misplaced inside Tompkins' speech bubble in the easter egg.
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=== Inside References ===
*"Ooncha ooncha one, two, three-cha"  and Tompkins debuted in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*Sega tapes are also mentioned in [[anything]].
*The "-erson" tacked onto Mrs. So and So's name is a bit of a running gag.  Other "ersons" include [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 4|Issue 4]]'s [[Brett Bretterson]], Emerson from "[[the process]]," (as "Emtarkanderundersgunderson" and "Emerson"). Mrs Commanderson in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]] and the [[Strongbadia National Anthem]] Mr. Cheaterson. 
*When So and So talks about Tompkins being a renegade, she has an expression on her face reminiscent of [[Doreauxgard]] in [[lackey]].
*What's Her Face being labelled as "College Radio" is probably a reference to [[radio]].
*Strong Bad is called a "prinicpal" (note the misspelling) by his nameplate and Tompkins, just like in the [[Homestar Quiz]] and [[CGNU]].
*What's Her Face's desk is resting on her lap, and this could be a reference to the DVD commentary for the email "[[date]]."
*When What's Her Face points out that Mrs. So-and-so-erson has "like a million jogging suits" her mouth looks like one of the earlier versions of What's Her Face when she had huge lips.  This early version is in Matt and Mike's sketchbook on the DVD.
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*"And like a million jogging suits." as an abrupt addition to a statement may be a reference to the end of [[replacement]].

===Real-World References===
*"Breadtangle" refers to cafeteria pizzas which are rectangular in shape, and very bready.
*One of The Ugly One's drums bears the inscription, "Mr Drummond," who was a character in the 70's/80's TV show, [[Wikipedia:Diff'rent Strokes|Diff'rent Strokes]]. It may also have been a reference to Bill "King Boy" Drummond of the techno band [[Wikipedia:The KLF|The KLF]].
*The Sega "tape" (technically a cartridge) Tompkins steals in the easter egg is "Road Rash."  Road Rash was a [[Wikipedia:Sega Genesis|Sega Genesis]] game where you race on motorcycles and knock other racers off their motorcycles by punching them or using clubs.
*The Intercom, who introduces the battle of the bands, may be a reference to [[Wikipedia:Saved by the Bell|Saved by the Bell]], where the character Screech creates a similar-looking robot friend.
*What's Her Face plays a left-handed bass guitar. [[Wikipedia:Paul McCartney|Paul McCartney]] of [[Wikipedia:The Beatles|the Beatles]] also played a left-handed bass guitar.
*The speaker box as the robot's head may be a reference to Roundhouse, an early '90s [[Wikipedia:Nickelodeon (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]] skit comedy show.
*The song the girls play sounds like the beginning to "Communication Breakdown" by [[Wikipedia:Led Zeppelin|Led Zeppelin]].
**Although the riff heard here is similar in style, it is not identical to the one featured in the Zeppelin song (compare with the "Communication Breakdown" clip on [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002J01/002-9367781-1919262?v=glance this Amazon.com page]).  It may or may not be a reference to that particular song.
*Cheerleader's three-necked guitar is a reference to [http://www.jemsite.com/axes/model/vai_triple.htm Steve Vai's guitar].  Incidentally, Steven Vai is the subject of the article for [http://www.theonion.com The Onion] page-a-day tear-off calendar on January 17th.
*The "16 hour drum solo" brings to mind the epic drum solos of  "[[Wikipedia:In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida|In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida]]" by Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin drummer Jon Bonham's solo in [[Wikipedia:The Song Remains the Same|The Song Remains the Same]].
*Cheerleader's close-up of her with a hat, moustache, glasses, and a tie is similar to that of the [[Wikipedia:Blues Brothers|Blues Brothers]], though the way she says "yous guys" also directs the reference towards Edward G. Robinson. 
*The classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon [[Wikipedia:Jabberjaw|Jabberjaw]] also had a shark as a band member. 
*The goblins and the gamers multi-sided die are staples of [[Wikipedia:Role_playing_game|RPGs]] such as [[Wikipedia:Dungeons and dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]].
*The goblins' language may also have been contrived to sound vaguely "Gothic" (in the ethnic sense of the word) to go with So and So's image.
*The opening quote for So and So "[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063T50/002-1408612-1164808?v=glance Hooked on Classics]" refers to a real compilation album. It consists of classical musical themes set against rock beats.
*Adrian Belew uses a three-necked, heart-shaped guitar in his 1989 video "Oh Daddy."
*The pose for the shark at the end is remarkably similar to the pose of the Shark enemy in Final Fantasy 1.

*Fatty's Big Chance is clearly a Ska band, what with his checkered pants and the phrase "pick-it-up".
*When Cheerleader says "Obviously, I'll sing and pretend to play guitar." Her face looks exactly like Bubbles from "The Powerpuff Girls".

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*[http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?t=1770 forum thread re: "Teen Girl Squad Issue 8"]

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