Teen Girl Squad Issue 8

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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, Tompkins, The Man with the Huge Mouth/Mrs. So-and-so-erson, Pom Pom, Robot Teacher, Strong Bad (easter egg)

Page Title: Soopa Groop

Date: January 17, 2005

Contents

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 has no legs.}

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) 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! No. 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 "after school".}

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 stepmom has questionable taste.

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

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

SO AND SO'S 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.}

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! Ooncha ooncha! 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.}

NARRATOR STRONG BAD: 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 a robot stands on stage with a microphone, and a handful of stick-figure heads compose the audience.}

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

{A large man, presumaby Fatty, with a saxophone and checkered pants appears from stage right.}

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

{Fatty vanishes.}

ROBOT TEACHER: 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 an 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 trolls enter the dressing room.}

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

SO AND SO: My autograph? Why sure!

{A huge twenty-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]}

TOMPKINS: Aw, come on prinicpal Strong Bad. I only stole ONE Sega tape!

STRONG BAD: That's just it, Thompkins... 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 to date where all four girls clearly die.
  • This is the first appearance of a main character other than Strong Bad (namely, Pom Pom) in a Teen Girl Squad issue.
  • Judging from how the girls hold their guitars, Whats Her Face is left-handed. Likewise, Cheerleader is right-handed.
  • Strong Sad's face is on So-and-so's gloomy keyboard girl shirt.

Goofs

  • The die that crushes So And So is a 20-sided die. Twelve-sided dice have pentagonal faces.
  • During Kissy Boots' first practice session, both Whats Her Face and Cheerleader are playing basses, possibly Fender basses, judging from the arrangement of string keys.

Inside References

Real-World References

  • Cheerleader's guitar is a reference to "Future Retro", a video by Animusic that features a similar guitar.
  • "Fatty's Big Chance," or at least Fatty, is the stereotypical ska musician, with a shaved head, checkerboard pants, and a chant of "pick it up, pick it up."
  • One of the Ugly One's drums bears the inscription, "Mr Drummond", who was character in the 80's TV show, "Different Strokes".
  • The Sega "tape" Tompkins steals in the easter egg is "Road Rash".
  • The robot who introduces the battle of the bands may be a reference to Saved By The Bell, where the character Screech creates a similar-looking robot friend.

External Links

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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