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{{quote|''"[[Ow, My Body Part|Owww! My the fact that I was alive a second ago!]]"''|'''The Ugly One''', Issue 12}}

''Teen Girl Squad'' is a spinoff sub-series of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in which (canonically) Strong Bad draws, in [[Stylistic Suck|comically bad style]], a stick-figure cartoon depicting the misadventures of four [[Department of Redundancy Department|"teenage girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen"]]. The main characters include Cheerleader (the de facto leader of the group, an [[Alpha Bitch]] wannabe whose popularity is all in her head), So and So ([[Ditzy Genius|an overachieving brainiac who lacks common sense]]), What's Her Face ([[Deadpan Snarker|the cynic of the group]], as well as the token poor person, and by far the least popular of the four girls), and The Ugly One (who seems to possess [[The Pig Pen|suspect hygiene]] and a [[Cloudcuckoolander|strained relationship with reality]] among other things, but is more popular than What's Her Face).

 

 

Generally speaking, the characters go on various bizarre misadventures, which usually lead to them dying or otherwise being affected in very strange ways (usually announced loudly) in every episode, which include such things as...

* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Issue 12 gives us the two hipster kids who decide "She Likes Cloth" would make a good band name. Also, when the girls are forming a band, So And So suggests "Smartly Pretty", but is shot down in favour of "Kissyboots".

* [[Against My Religion]]: "Thank groodness. Sweating is against several of my religions!" -Cheerleader in Issue 14

* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]: In the [[Christmas Episode|Decemberween Special]], the text on Cheerleader's intro card is "wants a pony".

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: So and So has shown an attraction to Tompkins, considering him a "renegade", though he's more or less your typical high school slacker.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Cheerleader.

* [[All Women Are Lustful]]

"Erm. Um. Uh..." }}

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Every three seconds.

* [[Animation Bump]]: Two issues are in color: Issue 10 and ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Baddest of the Bands]]''' ''Teen Girl Squad [[Celebrity Star|Meets]] [[Fake Band|Limozeen]]!''

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]

'''Open Source Greg:''' Into the Apple store? }}

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: The Ugly One in Issue 10.

* [[Big Game]]:

** ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Homestar Ruiner]]'''s ''Teen Girl Squad'' (basketball).

** ''4 Gregs'' (football).

* [[Bottomless Pit]]: Their school has one (named after its sports team, of course)

* [[Girl of the Week|Boy of the Week]]/TemporaryLoveInterest - Most of the Girls' boyfriends, though Sci-Fi Greg and What's Her Face seem to have a more off-and-on relationship.

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: So and So

* [[Do Wrong Right]]

'''Prinicpal [sic] Strong Bad:''' "That's just it, Tompkins. You could have stolen ''upwards'' of one Sega tape!" }}

* [[Everybody Lives]]: Only issues 2,3, and the Decemberween special.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Japanese Culture Greg. His eyes briefly pop open in issue #15 when he calls [[Robot Girl|his prom date]] "CHIZUKO!".

* [[Face of the Band]]: Invoked in Issue 8.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: Several deaths are shown as graphic as you can get in poorly drawn stick figures.

** Like an old guy's remains being exposed as he is eaten by vultures, or the 10thiversary where What's Her Face gets lathed.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: The Gregs' reaction to seeing What's Her Face date the Wireless Wizard.

* [[Jumping the Shark]]: Invoked in the "tenthennial extravaganza":

'''Narrator Strong Bad:''' ''(beat)'' "Okay!" *All four die* }}

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Usually. On rare occasions, one or two will survive. On even rarer occasions (issues 2, 3, and 6), none of them die.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]]: What's Her Face is probably the only one with any common sense. For example, she is the only one who refuses to jump into a lion's mouth for the secret Santa.

* [[Or So I Heard]]: In episode 8:

'''Cheerleader:''' Or so I have read. }}

* [[Out-of-Character Moment]]: While So-and-So and The Ugly One stayed relatively as they always were when Cheerleader died in episode 9, What's Her Face took advantage of not having to be the sensible one anymore and [[Too Dumb to Live|ate a heaping bowl of "Staple Sauce".]] This, understandably, killed her.

* [[Rescue Romance]]: {{spoiler|Quarterman saves The Ugly One from an upperclassman's prank and then asks her to accompany him to the end credits}}.

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: The Wireless Wizard, of course.

* [[Running Gag]]

* [[Serious Business]]: Valentime's Day (issue 12). Apparently, Cheerleader risks losing her "Mindy cred" if she doesn't get enough Valentine's cards from enough boys.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: The Ugly One: "Whoa! Did I draw that new hotness?"

** And Dn'D Greg looks awful good in a tux.

** Averted with the 12-sided die that looks nothing like a dodecahedron. This is likely because of Strong Bad [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]].

* [[Show Within a Show]]

* [[They Killed Kenny Again]]: Some number of the Teen Girl Squad almost always die by the end of almost every episode, the exceptions being episodes 2 and 3 and the Decemberween special.

* [[Title Drop]]: Done straight by Strong Bad at the start of every toon. Played with in issue 9:

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] [[In-Universe]]. One of the Gregs ends up getting killed by his robot girl due to this ([[MST3K Mantra|don't try to think too hard on how this works]]).

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Since her father's name is Manolios Ugly One, The Ugly One's first name [[Spell My Name with a "The"|seems to be The]]. (Granted, this is so common in the Homestar Runner universe that [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Integral_article it has its own name] amongst the fandom.)