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Teen Girl Squad is a comedic feature showcased on the Homestar Runner web site.The feature is a crudely drawn comic illustrated by one of the website's central figures, Strong Bad. It began after a girl named Brittany e-mailed Strong Bad and requested that he draw her friends, Virginia, Joy, Kristen and Jennifer. The voices are done by Strong Bad in a strained falsetto. At the very end of each episode, Strong Bad, out of teen girl character, tells the audience that "It's over!"
1 The Characters
The characters are basic high school clichés: four friends who strive to be popular and gain the acceptance of boys, at any cost.
- Cheerleader is the most popular member of the group. She wears her hair in pigtails and usually dons clothing labeled with phrases such as "Diva" and "Boys Please". We are led to believe that this popularity is just in her head, though, as she has very little luck getting football players to notice her.
- So-and-So is second on the proverbial totem pole. We are led to believe that she is very outgoing, although this does not translate into popularity. In fact, the only guy who has noticed her, Brett Bretterson, is a boy she made up in first grade. She is most noted for her fluffy hair and the plaid skirt she wears for every occasion. She was the only member of the group to have a boy notice her, although it ended tragically when a van with the sound effect "Children!" ran over her new beau. We know the most personal information about So-and-So than we do about anyone else in the group. In the very first comic strip, Cheerleader informed her that she looked "burnt, or dead" after she got voiped by a laser-beam; she referred to her as Kristen.
- What's Her Face is the least popular member of the group. The girls aren't subtle in telling her this. They have excluded her from an excursion to the mall, and left her at home while they went to the beach for spring vacation. They wrote her a postcard; they said they would have called her, but they forgot. Her most notable physical feature is that she dresses in baggy pants and has stringy hair, reminiscient of early Avril Lavigne.
- The Ugly One dresses frumpily, with nondescript frills at the end of her dress. She also perms her hair and wears '60s-retro grandma glasses. We are led to believe that she has a problem with hygiene, and that her clothes make her look very unhip. She is ahead of What's Her Face in terms of popularity but not by much.
- The Man With The Huge Mouth is not a member of the Teen Girl Squad; however, he shows up in every single episode to do something drastic to at least one member. Whenever there's a new TGS, you can expect to see this man in it. His talents are many; so far he has been an archer, a "Children!" truck driver, a Chinese restaurant worker, a CEREBELLUM-mech operator, a boat captain, and a contest judge.
- Thomas is your stereotypical alien, who arrived at the Teen Girl Squad's area from "foreign lands" around Pre-K. He hasn't done much in the series, but he can be quite painful with a bat and can pull off an astounding 360-SHOVE-IT-TO-BONELESS when given a skateboard and a half-pipe to use it in.
2 The Episodes (T33n G1rl Squ4dx0rx!!)
There have been seven episodes of Teen Girl Squad that have been posted on Homestar Runner.
2.1 Issue #1 (TEE GEE ESS!!)
The episode starts with titles. The following words ran next to each character's picture.
- Cheerleader: Cheer!
- So-and-So: Fashion Sense!
- What's Her Face: Unpopular!
- The Ugly One: Hygiene?
Cheerleader tells the group that they should get ready to "look so good!" The group answers with "word" all around. She peps up the group one more time with, "Okay, now let's start looking good!" All three respond with "a'ight."
Out of nowhere, So-and-So gets "voiped". Cheerleader informs So-and-So that [Kristen] looks burnt, or dead. As they walk off, What's Her Face says in a light tone, "I miss Kristi...na."
The Ugly One announces, "I have a crush on every boy!" Just as she does that, The Man With The Huge Mouth shoots arrows out of his mouth; they all hit The Ugly One, as the sound effect informs the audience that she has been "arrowed!" The Ugly One responds with, "Ow, my skin!"
A monster punts What's Her Face far away; she responds with "Dag, yo."
At the end of the comic, Cheerleader is standing on top of the site where the three girls are buried. She announces, "I look so good!"
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