Teen Girl Squad
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Teen Girl Squad is a purposefully crudely drawn comic series, drawn on notebook paper, which centers around four stereotypical teenage girls' quest to become popular and to look "SO GOOD!", or so they say. Of course, they never appear to succeed due to being always on a different track. Its origins 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; the Brothers Chaps have also admitted to using it as an outlet for new female characters. In each issue, the blandly named girls — Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, and The Ugly One — perform typical teenage activities, such as going to the mall, attracting cute boys, or babysitting, but Strong Bad's overactive imagination often subjects the girls to strange and gruesome deaths. Being killed doesn't seem to be a problem for the girls, however, as they always return for the next issue, or sometimes simply later in the episode. The two most popular gags in the series are the girls' catchphrase, "SO GOOD!", and the onomatopoeia used when a character dies — -'d, for example: "Lathe'd!", used to describe What's Her Face's being killed by spinning near a blade. Another common gag involves the girls exclaiming something in the format Ow! My X! to express pain in an unorthodox area, such as "my most of me" or "my style".
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Contents |
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 |
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 make Strong Bad laugh heartily to get the high score by killing all four girls during the course of the comics. This is achieved by using the correct items on the right girls during the right scenes. However some items are unavailable until Strong Bad finds the cards that provide additional ways to kill the girls.
| Screenshot | Issue |
|---|---|
 | Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad |
 | Strong Badia the Free Cave Girl Squad |
 | Baddest of the Bands Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen |
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)
- 4 Gregs
- Decomposing Pumpkins
- The House That Gave Sucky Tricks
- Really Cool Boat
- Decemberweenvent Calendar (Day 13)
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 Toons page while the rest links back to the Teen Girl Squad Menu.
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 |
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| Shorts
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| Holidays
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| Strong Bad Email
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| Video Stuff
Disk 4 of 12 - Vampire's Castle
| Teen Girl Squad
Issue 15
| Marzipan's Answering Machine
Version 17.2
| YouTube
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