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3	'''Left to Right:''' Cheerleader, So and So, The Ugly One, What's Her Face[[/labelnote]]]]
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5	->''"Owww! My the fact that I was alive a second ago!"''
6	-->-- '''The Ugly One''', Issue 12
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8	''Teen Girl Squad'' is a spinoff sub-series of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', in which (canonically) Strong Bad draws, in [[TerribleArtist comically bad style]], a stick-figure cartoon depicting the misadventures of four [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "teenage girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen"]]. The main characters include Cheerleader (the de facto leader of the group, an AlphaBitch wannabe whose popularity is all in her head), So and So ([[DitzyGenius an overachieving brainiac who lacks common sense]]), What’s Her Face ([[DeadpanSnarker the cynic of the group]], as well as the token poor person, and by far [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the least popular of the four girls]]), and The Ugly One (who seems to possess [[ThePigPen suspect hygiene]] and a [[CloudCuckoolander strained relationship with reality]] among other things, but is still more popular than What’s Her Face).
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10	There are fifteen toons in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJsqv3JStWI&list=PLSFI7mabpYe7rD9ivLo6ZfEI6MA4qQyy5 main series,]] and [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Teen_Girl_Squad a number of other appearances elsewhere]] (most notably, the first three episodes of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' each feature an exclusive ''TGS'' toon, the first two of which are [[{{Gamebooks}} interactive]]).
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12	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...
13	* being "lathe'd" by a miniature samurai with a naginata who jumped out of a bowl of corn chips;
14	* being run over by a race car that makes the sound "TIIIIIIINES" driven by a fork;
15	* being "arrowed" by a giant man who shoots arrows from his mouth;
16	* dying... somehow.
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18	The series is best known for spawning several minor memes, including "ow! my [something unusual]!", and being pwned by something with the caption "[said something]'D!", "It's over!", and others. It also makes fun of various stereotypical high-school/teen/young-adult activities, such as prom, sweet sixteen birthday parties, and [[strike:Valentine's]] Vamlumtimes Day, with a gradually increasing ratio of directed, ridiculing humor to simple absurd humor.
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20	A (so far oneshot) spinoff of this spinoff was created based on the several characters named "Greg" in the series. [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/4_Gregs 4 Gregs]] is a misadventure of four such characters who each embody some sort of nerdy/geeky/dorky stereotype.
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22	!!Ow, my trope examples!:
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27	* AbhorrentAdmirer: In Issue 4, Cheerleader tries to ask out Quarterman, saying, "Hey, Quarterman, how's about you and me?" His only answer is, "Howsabout you get some brains?"
28	* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: The yogurt place the girls go to at the end of Issue 2 is called [[BlandNameProduct TCYBCBY]].
29	* ActingForTwo: An in-universe example (as well as a real-life one). Matt Chapman aside, ''Strong Bad'' voices all of the comics' characters.
30	* AgainstMyReligion: {{Parodied\|Trope}}. According to Cheerleader in Issue 14, sweating goes against "several of [her] religions."
31	* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: The Ugly One celebrates her Sweet Someteenth in issue 10.
32	* AllCheeringAllTheTime: Cheerleader Brian, whose constant cheering ''at the prom'' ends up frustrating (and, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain ultimately, killing) Cheerleader]].
33	* TheAllegedCar: In ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Homestar Ruiner]] Teen Girl Squad'', it's revealed that What’s Her Face's real dad bought her a new car because "he felt guilty about all the wrongs he done". Said car looks like something right out of the early 1900s.
34	* AllGirlsLikePonies: In the [[ChristmasEpisode Decemberween Special]], the text on Cheerleader's intro card is "wants a pony".
35	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: So and So has shown an attraction to Tompkins, considering him a "renegade", though he's more or less your typical high school slacker.
36	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Subverted. Amongst the group, Cheerleader actually gets the ''least'' amount of attention from boys over the course of the series. The "jock/cheerleader couple" trope is also subverted when she hits on Quarterman in Episode 4 and he says, "Hows about you get some brains."
37	* AllWomenAreLustful: All of the girls are rather boy crazy.
38	-->'''Cheerleader:''' What time is it?\
39	'''The other girls:''' IT'S VALENTIMES!\
40	'''Cheerleader:''' What time is it?\
41	'''The other girls:''' IT'S VALENTIMES!\
42	'''Cheerleader:''' What we gonna get?\
43	'''The other girls:''' SEVERAL BOYS!\
44	'''Cheerleader:''' How we gonna get 'em?\
45	'''The other girls:''' [[MissingStepsPlan Uh... um... er...]]
46	* AlphaBitch: Cheerleader is extremely vain and shallow, and berates the other girls constantly. [[SubvertedTrope However]], as noted above, her popularity is all in her head. Most of the boys she hits on seem to think of her as an AbhorrentAdmirer, and the rest of the squad resents her -- when she gets run over by a car in Issue 9, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing they all celebrate her death]] and how they can now act like themselves again.
47	* AmbiguouslyGay: Cheerleader Brian from Issue 15 who seems far more into displaying "spirit" while waving his hands about than getting romantic with Cheerleader.
48	* AmusingInjuries: Characters frequently get injured and/or killed in some bizarre fashion, such as getting kneecapped by an alien, squashed by a sack of potatoes, hit by a "wave o' babies", crushed by a giant twenty-sided die, tossed like a caber, run over by a Formula 1 race-car driven by a fork, and more.
49	* AnachronismStew: ''Cave Girl Squad'' as a whole.
50	-->A dinosaur egg?! [[LampshadeHanging I didn't think that dinosaurs were s'posed to be alive at the same time as Teen Cave Girls.]]
51	* AndCallHimGeorge: Parodied in ''Cave Girl Squad''.
52	-->'''Girl:''' Aw, hi, prit kit! I'll feed you, and take care of you, and call you Miss Jumblepuddins!\
53	'''Strong Bad:''' [[Creator/DavidAttenborough Sensing her young is in danger of receiving a lame name,]] the mother tiger picks up her prey's scent, and closes in...
54	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In Issue 9, Cheerleader dies, and the rest of them celebrate... shortly before dying.
55	* AnimationBump:
56	** Two issues are in color: Issue 10 and ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Baddest of the Bands]]''' ''Teen Girl Squad [[CelebrityStar Meets]] [[FakeBand Limozeen]]!''
57	** Issue 10 has more animation frames than other WebAnimation/HomestarRunner cartoons due to the brief 3D sequence, but ''Teen Girl Squad'''s use of LimitedAnimation makes it impossible to notice until the sequence where Strong Bad is making out with his paper.
58	* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Issue 8 opens with the girls listening to the opening announcements, which mentions that the day's lunch is "a breadtangle of pizza", Tompkins is being called to the principal's office, and there's a BattleOfTheBands coming up.
59	-->'''Cheerleader:''' You hear that, girls?\
60	'''What’s Her Face:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Pizza belongs in a triangle!]]\
61	'''So and So:''' That Tompkins is [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys such a renegade]]!\
62	'''Cheerleader:''' No, yous guys! The Battle of the Bands!
63	* ArmedWithCanon: In-universe. The MindScrew ending of "4 Gregs", where the girls and the Gregs have each been drawing each others' comics. The scene cuts back and forth between them arguing over the accuracy of the preceding shot.
64	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking
65	** In Issue 8, The Ugly One first gets her head bitten off by a Floor Tom. Mrs. So-and-so-erson pours "Ranch Dress" on both The Ugly One and the Floor Tom. Lastly... The Ugly One goes on a date with Pom Pom.
66	--->'''Strong Bad:''' Floor Tommed! Step-mommed! ''[sounding confused]'' Pom-Pommed?
67	** In addition, from "4 Gregs"...
68	--->'''Sci-Fi Greg:''' Tonight, new Earthlings... tonight, we go... TO A VARSITY FOOTBALL GAME!\
69	''[everyone else gasps]''\
70	'''[=Dn'D=] Greg:''' Into the dragon's lair?\
71	'''Japanese Culture Greg:''' Into the robotic dragon's lair?\
72	'''Open Source Greg:''' Into the Apple store?
73	* ArtisticLicense:
74	** In Issue 5, Thomas the alien is skateboarding and does a "Late 360 Shove-It to Boneless'd", which should be impossible because a boneless is a type of ollie (jumping) move.
75	** Strong Bad describes So and So being "Twelve-Sided Die'd" in issue 8, when the die she's been crushed with clearly has twenty sides.
76	** Science-Fiction Greg brags about his experience points going 'into the triple digits' as if it were a big achievement. In most versions of D&D, characters become level two at 1000 experience points, meaning any triple digits value is still a level one character. Justified as an in-universe example, since [=Dn'D=] Greg accuses him of biting his style, implying he doesn't actually know as much about fantasy as he does about sci-fi.
77	** A Scotsman caber-tosses Cheerleader in Issue 10 and is disgusted that his throw only goes 23 meters. Success in the caber toss is measured by straightness, not distance. The creators point out their mistake in the DVD commentary.
78	** In Issue 6, So and So does a triple salchow into the lion's mouth. However, a triple salchow is actually a figure skating jump; not a dive, as So and So implies.
79	* AscendedExtra: Japanese Culture Greg and Open Source Greg initially had one appearance together in an Easter Egg as unnamed background characters. Later on, they star in the spin-off short "4 Gregs" alongside the Gregs that had already been named.
80	%%* AssholeVictim: Cheerleader can qualify, given [[AlphaBitch her general attitude]]
81	* AttractivenessDiscrimination: What’s Her Face sometimes gets this for her slovenly appearance. In Issue 5, the girls refer to her in a postcard as "the one with baggy pants", and in ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen]]'' one of the band members says to her that she's "never gonna date a rock star with baggy jeans like that".
82	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example. It's well-established early on that [[AlphaBitch Cheerleader]] and What’s Her Face have a very strained relationship, with Cheerleader frequently finding ways to specifically exclude What’s Her Face from things the Squad does together. However, a TGS-themed EasterEgg in "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE141DeathMetal death metal]]" shows the two genuinely getting along.
83	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' ''[looking pleased and surprised]'' Cheerleader! Are you here to see Brainkrieg?\
84	'''Cheerleader:''' [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas.]]\
85	''[they smile at each other]''
86	* BabysittingEpisode: Issue 13 is about So and So trying to babysit Timkins while the other girls' crazy antics cause things to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]].
87	* BaldOfEvil: The Arrow'd Guy, a frequent tormenter of the girls, is a balding man.
88	* BattleOfTheBands: Shows up twice.
89	** Issue 8 sees the girls forming a band called "Kissyboots" to perform in their school's Battle of the Bands in an effort to become "worldwide starlets" and earn "much boys". [[EverybodyDiesEnding It doesn't work out very well.]]
90	** The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE141DeathMetal death metal]]" has a Teen Girl Squad scene where Brainkreig is shown to compete in "The Battle of the Crappy High School Bands".
91	* BeachEpisode: Issue 5 has the girls (bar What’s Her Face) going to the beach to find cute college boys on Spring Break.
92	* BearyFunny: In Issue 11, What’s Her Face and The Ugly One join Counselor Shortshorts in singing "a warbly campfire song" about a "Chumbly Wumbly Bear".
93	* BeautifulAllAlong: The Ugly One in Issue 10 ends up being really attractive after [[SheCleansUpNicely cleaning herself up]].
94	-->'''Strong Bad:''' Whoa! Did ''I'' draw that new hotness?
95	* BellyFlopCrushing: In Issue 7, while kiddie Cheerleader is trying to convince the others that [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext her house has a hundred bafrooms]], a fat wrestler (who [[{{Expy}} bears a likeness]] to [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] King Kong Bundy) appears out of nowhere to squish her.
96	* BerserkButton: Apparently, Judith So-and-So-Erson does not like it when people criticize her fashion sense, which consists of a lot of jogging suits.
97	-->'''Judith So-and-So-Erson:''' [[VoiceOfTheLegion YOU LITTLE BRATS BEST SHUT YER YAPS!!!]]\
98	'''Cheerleader:''' ''[sheepishly]'' Yes, Mrs. So-and-So...erson.
99	* BigBeautifulWoman: "4 Gregs" features a "slightly attractive, slightly overweight color guard maiden", who D&D Greg tries to save from a "shambling krenshar" (actually the school mascot).
100	* BigGame:
101	** ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Homestar Ruiner]]'''s ''Teen Girl Squad'' has the girls all going to a basketball game to flirt with athletes.
102	** In ''4 Gregs'', the Gregs go to a varsity football game to try and blend in with everyone else.
103	* BigManOnCampus: Parodied with Quarterman, who comes to The Ugly One's rescue after some seniors play pranks on her in Issue 14. He confesses his love to her and asks her to accompany him [[LampshadeHanging to the end credits]] after quoting a [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords particularly confusing line]] from ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' -- a total parody of [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe the ending of many a cliché high school story]].
104	* BigShutUp: In Issue 4, What’s Her Face and The Ugly One get squashed by a heavy weight and a sack of potatoes after making a joke about [[LoserArchetype how cool they are]]. An EasterEgg shows this exchange between them:
105	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' Heh, [[TemptingFate we really are coo--]]\
106	'''The Ugly One:''' Shut up!
107	* BlatantLies:
108	** In Issue 15, when Manolios Ugly One tells [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons [=Dn'D=]]] Greg to not lay a finger on his daughter (or he'll gut him like a sheep), a random gutted sheep says that it isn't so bad... when it turns out to be bad.
109	--->'''[=Dn'D=] Greg:''' ''[gutted]'' [[LampshadeHanging Owww! Sheep, you lied!]]
110	** Arrow'd Guy claims that What’s Her Face is not invited to the prom, because she will come into her own in college... and then immediately afterward shoots her down with a flock of sparrows. ''"A new twist on an old classic!"''
111	** In Issue 5, the girls go on vacation and leave What’s Her Face behind. At the beginning of the issue, What’s Her Face gets a postcard from them:
112	--->'''Cheerleader:'''We're on SPRING BREAK!! We tried to call you but we forgot.
113	* BottomlessPits: The girls' school has a bottomless pit (named after its sports team, of course). So and So falls in and gets stuck.
114	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation.
115	* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Manolios Ugly One. In Issue 15, he threatens [=Dn'D=] Greg with "[[TwerpSweating You lay one finger on my daughter, I gut you like sheep.]]"
116	* BrandX: Diet Brown soda.
117	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: What’s Her Face decides to clean out her locker in Issue 14, throwing things out of her locker as she names them.
118	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' Old papers, old pencils, old ''person...'' ''[pulls Mr. Pitters out of her locker]''\
119	'''Mr. Pitters:''' ''[hastily]'' I left a check for last month's rent on the table!
120	* BrickJoke: At the beginning of Issue 15, What's Her Face asks if the "[[TotallyRadical priggidy prizom]]" means "pretty prism". By the end of the episode, Cheerleader's upper half is vaporized by a disco ball's laser with the UnsoundEffect "PRETTY PRISM!"
121	* BrokeTheRatingScale: In Issue 6, Cheerleader's jump into the lion's mouth earns her a "3 noses?"
122	* BrownNote: In ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen]]'', Gary kills Cheerleader with a "two-handed and one-foot tapping solo" so epic it causes her to disintegrate.
123	%%* CampStraight: Cheerleader Brian
124	* CardiovascularLove: PlayedForLaughs in Issue 4. While So and So is thinking about her [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext imaginary boyfriend Brett Bretterson]], one of the small hearts that appears over her head gets pierced with an arrow and shouts in pain.
125	* CanonImmigrant: Peacey P managed to enter the normal Homestar Runner universe after debuting in this series.
126	%%* CatchPhrase - "SO GOOD!"
127	* CelebrityStar: [[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Baddest of the Bands]]' ''Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen!''
128	%%* TheChewToy: All of them. It's drawn by Strong Bad, what do you expect?
129	* ChirpingCrickets: Used briefly in ''4 Gregs'' after [=Dn'D=] Greg's out-of-nowhere explanation of football.
130	-->'''Sci-Fi Greg:''' It's like I don't even know you anymore.\
131	'''[=Dn'D=] Greg:''' Fantasy football still counts as fantasy!
132	* ClicheStorm: [[invoked]]This is Strong Bad trying to write stories that appeal to teenage girls, so pretty much everything that isn't him getting bored and brutally wiping out the entire cast is this.
133	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Ugly One, whose grip on reality is tenuous at best. She's done things such as stick her head in the sand when nervous, and her title card descriptions mostly consist of puns and non-sequiturs; one even explicitly states she's "actually crazy."
134	* CollegeRadio: It's well-established that [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE120Radio Strong Bad does not like college radio]]. This carries over into this series as a BrickJoke of sorts and shows up twice:
135	** What’s Her Face's title card descriptions are intended to paint her as awkward and uncool. Her description in Issue 8 was "college radio!"
136	** In ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen!]]'', Perry mockingly suggests to What’s Her Face that she should "just go listen to some college music in an abandoned warehouse or something" and punts her after she claims to not liking [[HairMetal the kind of music Limozeen plays]].
137	* ContinuityNod:
138	** At the end of Issue 10, Strong Bad ends up crumpling the paper he's drawing on (first when making out with it, and again when he tries to EatTheEvidence). Every issue after this depicts the background as partially crumpled.
139	** Issue 13 references So and So's incarceration in Issue 11.
140	* CouchGag: During the intro, all four girls have different descriptions as they are introduced in each issue. The descriptions sometimes tie in to the issue's theme.
141	* CountingToPotato: Demonstrated in Issue 7, in which the girls are seen as babies, opening with So and So and The Ugly One doing their own version of pattycake:
142	-->'''The Ugly One:''' One inch!\
143	'''So and So:''' Two inch!\
144	'''The Ugly One:''' Three inch!\
145	'''So and So:''' Four inch!\
146	'''The Ugly One:''' Um, that's as high as I can count.\
147	'''What’s Her Face:''' ''[coming in]'' I can count to G!\
148	'''Cheerleader:''' ''[coming in]'' That's nothing. I can count to purple backwards!
149	* CreatorCameo: InUniverse, Strong Bad likes to insert himself into the comics under various roles. He's appeared as the girls' high school "prinicpal", a dancing robot, and a leprechaun, amongst others.
150	* CreepyGymCoach: Parodied in Issue 14, where the coach mentions that the testing portion of the gym class final includes him not making comments about the length of the girls' shorts that could be misinterpreted.
151	* CrossdressingVoices: InUniverse, the girls' (as well as everyone else's) voices are all done by Strong Bad. (Which means the girls are voiced by Matt Chapman in a gravelly Strong Bad falsetto.)
152	* CuteLittleFangs: On occasion, one of the girls will be randomly drawn with fangs, usually So and So.
153	* CutenessOverload: In ''Cave Girl Squad'', giving one of the girls the dog early on causes her to go crazy out of excitement.
154	* DadaComics: This "comic" is Strong Bad's outlet for creativity. Strange humor is to be expected.
155	* DangerousInterrogative: In one comic, the girls are celebrating "Valentime's Day", though So and So pronounces "Valentine's" correctly. Throughout the toon, Cheerleader is hunting for "cards from boys" so she won't lose her "Mindy cred". She becomes desperate when she doesn't seem to be making a lot of headway:
156	-->'''Cheerleader:''' [[SeriousBusiness Valentimes is serious times!]]\
157	'''So and So:''' ''(annoyed) -tines.''\
158	'''Cheerleader:''' ''(angrily) Whaaaat?''\
159	'''So and So:''' Valen[[SuddenlyShouting TINE'S! T-I-N]]--\
160	''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext (A racecar driven by a fork drives up)]]''\
161	'''Narrator Strong Bad:''' ''(imitating a car engine)'' Tines, tines, tines...\
162	''(The racecar runs over So and So, killing her)''\
163	'''Narrator Strong Bad:''' TINES!\
164	'''Cheerleader:''' ...As I was saying, Vamlumtimes Day is serious times.
165	* DeadpanSnarker: What’s Her Face. She was voted Least Likely To Care in high school.
166	* DemotedToExtra: Tompkins's was originally a major recurring character for a few issues until the Gregs were introduced and he gradually stopped appearing. An easter egg in Issue 15 lampshades that "there was a time where [he] would've been massacred as one of those girls' prom dates".
167	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In ''[[HalloweenSpecial Decomposing Pumpkins]]'', the drummer's shirt reads "drummers play a drum."
168	* DiabolusExMachina: Arguably the whole point of the comic, which features the four girls and often others dying from spontaneous incidents. It's drawn by Strong Bad--'nuff said.
169	* DigitalAvatar: In Issue 15, Open Source Greg sends a game avatar to the prom "in his stead". [[MST3KMantra Don't even try to wrap your head around that.]]
170	* DitzyGenius: So and So is a scholastic overachiever, but she also does things like talk to (and break up with) her imaginary boyfriend Brett Bretterson, and in Issue 13 she tries to get Tompkins's baby brother to study for the SAT.
171	* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the first two issues, the girls seemed to be pretty much identical in personality, with the only real distinguisher being that Cheerleader is the leader. Around the third issue, it was established that Cheerleader is the biggest jerk and What's-Her-Face is TheFriendNobodyLikes, and the rest flowed from there.
172	* DoWrongRight: In Issue 8, when Tompkins gets called to the principal's office.
173	-->'''Tompkins:''' Aw, come on, Prinicpal [sic][[note]]Pronounced "prinnick-pal"[[/note]] Strong Bad! I only stole ''one'' Sega tape!\
174	'''Prinicpal Strong Bad:''' That's just it, Tompkins. You could have stolen ''upwards'' of one Sega tape!
175	* DrivenToSuicide: In Issue 13, So and So elects to throw herself in the kitchen sink's garbage disposal rather than [[CallBack go back to jail]].
176	* DrivesLikeCrazy: The "crazy learner's permit girl" in Issue 9, who drives over Cheerleader in less than 2 pages. "10 o'clock and 2 o'clock!!"
177	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
178	** The girls are largely interchangeable in personality in the first couple Issues; they're only distinguished by appearance, some {{Informed Attribute}}s provided by the opening sequence, and Cheerleader clearly being TheLeader. Their distinct personalities don't start showing up until Issues 3-5.
179	** So and So is called Kristen/Kristina (after one of the four girls mentioned in the email sent to Strong Bad) in the first Issue, as if it was her real name. This is completely dropped in all later Issues, and none of the other three girls get assigned the names of the people they were based on.
180	** The first few Issues [[RandomEventsPlot are collections of random scenes with no real plot structure]]. Later issues, while still heavy on the randomness, have defined plots.
181	* EatTheEvidence: Towards the end of Issue 10, Strong Bad is caught trying to make out with a drawing of the "[[SheCleansUpNicely Hotgly One]]", and tries to save face by claiming the picture is a piece of pizza and stuffing it into his mouth. Strong Sad isn't fooled for a moment.
182	-->'''Strong Sad:''' Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first-basin' it with that piece of loose-leaf?
183	* {{Emoticon}}: PlayedForLaughs in Issue 12. While Cheerleader is texting with the class president, she attempts to enter an emoticon that is supposed to look like a heart and a "frontways cupid": '''<B >KO)->''' However, the Class Prez can't understand it.
184	--->'''Class Prez:''' Whaddaya mean I'm less than B?
185	** Nor can the Wireless Wizard.
186	--->'''Wireless Wizard:''' [W]hat's this other text mess?\
187	'''Cheerleader:''' That's a frontways Cupid.\
188	'''Wireless Wizard:''' Looks more like a USB dongle goblin!
189	* EveryoneHasStandards:
190	** In spite of his tendency to violently kill off the main cast on most occasions, Strong Bad sounds very uncomfortable with killing off any of the young child characters in Issue 7. While Tompkins and Cheerleader both die, Strong Bad doesn't actually show a scene depicting Tompkins' demise (he even sounds unsure of how to kill him off), and Cheerleader's death (see "Belly Flop Crushing" above) is relatively tame by TGS standards.
191	** When Cheerleader shames the girls for only getting the Gregs to take them to prom in Issue 15, they in turn are weirded out when she reveals Cheerleader Brian will be her date. What's Her Face likens that to going to the prom with your dad.
192	* EverybodyDiesEnding: All four girls are usually dead by the end. On rare occasions, one or two will survive. On even rarer occasions (issues 2, 3, and 6), [[EverybodyLives none of them die]].
193	-->'''Cheerleader:''' ''[singing the closing credits over the ending screen]'' It's over! It's over! And everybody died 'cept me!\
194	'''Shark:''' Chomp.\
195	'''Cheerleader:''' Aw, crap.
196	* EverybodyLives: At least one of the main cast (and sometimes all four of them) tends to get killed off in each episode, but the girls all survive in Issue 2, Issue 3, and Issue 6 (the Decemberween special).
197	* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: In Issue 10, a tiny samurai warrior leaps out of The Ugly One's lunch tray piled high with corn, exclaiming, "Corn is no place for a mighty warrior!"
198	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In Issue 3 the girls go for "Pan-Asian cuisine" and order 3 spring rolls...from a place called "3 Spring Rolls", implying that that's their only product, or perhaps even their only ''inventory''.
199	* ExternalCombustion: In [[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Homestar Ruiner]]'s Teen Girl Squad segment, if you use the car on What’s Her Face at the right time, it will reveal that her dad bought her a new car "at a guh'ment auction" that turns out to be rigged with a car bomb. "A SPLODE!"
200	* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: In Issue 15, So and So explains that the "Priggidy Prizom" is the name of this year's prom and adds, with a deranged look, "I was on every committee ever." This fits well with the preppy overachiever stereotype she personifies.
201	* ExtremelyEasyExam: In Issue 14, the girls' gym coach tells them to do a single push-up for their final exam. When they say, "NO!!" he gives them all A's.
202	* EyesAlwaysShut: Japanese Culture Greg's eyes tend to be closed, befitting his otaku personality. They briefly open whenever he randomly utters a Japanese word or name and assumes a Stinkoman-esque face.
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206	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: 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 in Issue 9, or the tenthiversary issue where What’s Her Face [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe gets lathed in two]].
207	* FirstNameBasis: In Issue 11, So and So refers to her stepmom, Judith So-and-So-erson, as "''Judith''" in a very sneering tone.
208	* ForceFeeding: In Issue 13, after Tompkins tries to convince his mother that he doesn't need a babysitter, she admonishes him that he can't even take care of his virtual pet. Cut to Tompkins' Game Boy, where a cartoonishly bloated blob (next to an indicator saying "Food: 600%") is begging Tompkins to stop feeding him. Tompkins just laughs and keeps pushing buttons.
209	* ForeignCultureFetish: Japanese Culture Greg, who is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly who you'd]] [[OccidentalOtaku think he'd be]].
210	* FormerlyFat: "Teeny Tiny Girl Squad" shows that Cheerleader used to be overweight when she was younger.
211	* ForTheEvulz: The reason Strong Bad kills them off -- usually accompanied by his [[EvilLaugh evil chuckle]].
212	* FourGirlEnsemble: Cheerleader is the pretty one, So and So is the smart one, What’s Her Face is the tomboy, and The Ugly One is the naïve one. The roles are blurred a bit, since What’s Her Face tends to have more common sense than So and So.
213	* TheFriendNobodyLikes:
214	** What's Her Face is explicitly called the "pity friend" and is the one the other three are most likely to ditch or relegate to least-desired roles.
215	** It's suggested that the others don't like Cheerleader, but they simply don't have the guts to stand up to her. In Issue 9, Cheerleader dies at the beginning of the strip, and the others are elated at being set free from her tyranny.
216	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Strong Bad likes to insert random events into the background when he gets bored, such as helicopters shooting birds, clouds eating birds or the sun turning into a buzzsaw.
217	* FunTShirt: Cheerleader's dresses, which change in each appearance. Some examples include "Who ♥ed?" on the Valentines special and "(s)hallo (t)ween" on the Halloween special.
218	* GagCensor: The words on Olympic Man's shirt in Issue 13 are blurred out, parodying the ClumsyCopyrightCensorship used in many rap videos of the '90s and early 2000s.
219	* {{Gamebooks}}: The ''Teen Girl Squad'' and ''Cave Girl Squad'' segments from the first two episodes of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' allow players to make up their own Teen Girl Squad adventures by selecting items to see how they interact with the girls (and hopefully kill them off in a way that amuses Strong Bad).
220	* GarageBand: Brainkrieg, who play out of a garage in "[[HalloweenEpisode Decomposing Pumpkins]]".
221	* {{Geek}}: The 4 Gregs are all different stripes of nerd. Science Fiction Greg is a sci-fi fan, D&D Greg is a fantasy and tabletop games fan, Open Source Greg is a self-proclaimed computer expert, and Japanese Culture Greg is an OccidentalOtaku.
222	* GeekPhysiques: Of the Gregs, Open Source Greg is fat while the other three are skinny.
223	* GeekyTurnOn: In Issue 9, What’s Her Face is overjoyed that she can date [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sci-Fi Greg]] again after Cheerleader dies.
224	* [[GenkiGirl Genki Guy]]: Cheerleader Brian is always smiling, waving his arms around, and excitedly shouting about "[[CatchPhrase SPIRIT!]]". He seems genuinely caught off-guard when Cheerleader barks at him to "shut it off", too.
225	* GirlishPigtails: Cheerleader, whose pigtails make her look innocent; though, [[InvertedTrope she is far from that]].
226	* GirlsNightOutEpisode: GenderFlipped with the "4 Gregs" episode.
227	%%* GirlOfTheWeek: Most of the Girls' boyfriends, though Sci-Fi Greg and What’s Her Face seem to have a more off-and-on relationship.
228	* GiverOfLameNames:
229	** Strong Bad, [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE53Comic rather than use the names of Brittany's friends that were included in her email]], he instead opted to give the girls their woefully generic names while writing the first issue.
230	** In ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Cave Girl Squad]]'', you can have a member of the Squad attempt to name a cat "Miss Jumblepuddins". Then the cat's mother -- a saber-toothed tiger -- appears and eats the girl for giving her cub a lame name.
231	* GoldDigger: Tompkins' mom is a bizarrely literal example, being a robotic prospector who needs somebody to babysit her sons while she goes "prospecting for future ex-husbands".
232	* AGoodNameForARockBand: Appears twice.
233	** In Issue 8, when the girls are forming a band, So and So suggests "Smartly Pretty", but is shot down in favour of "Kissyboots".
234	** In [[ValentinesDayEpisode Issue 12]], when What’s Her Face tries to talk to some boys.
235	--->'''What’s Her Face:''' Uh, hi. I like music. And um... cloth.\
236	'''Boy 2:''' Did that dude just tell you she likes cloth?\
237	'''Boy 1:''' "She likes cloth" -- that's a good band name.
238	* TheGreys: Thomas is one of these.
239	* GrossUpCloseUp: "4 Gregs" features a gratuitous close-up of [[MouthScreen Sci-Fi Greg's mouth]], full of crooked teeth.
240	* GuttedLikeAFish: Manolios Ugly One, The Ugly One's father, threatens to gut [=Dn'D=] Greg like a sheep if he lays a hand on The Ugly One.
241	-->'''Gutted Sheep:''' ''[standing nearby]'' It's not so bad.
242	* HalloweenEpisode: "Decomposing Pumpkins"
243	* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He is Not My Boyfriend]]: After Cheerleader's death in Issue 9, What’s Her Face expresses joy over how she can date Sci-Fi Greg again. However, in "4 Gregs", What's Her Face laughs at the Gregs for getting wedgies from the football players and denies that she would come to Sci-Fi Greg's defense. This makes sense, considering that Cheerleader is the one drawing the picture, and she is keeping What's Her Face and Sci-Fi Greg apart...
244	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' ''[laughing]'' Those Gregs are such losers!\
245	''[cut to the Gregs drawing the girls]''\
246	'''Sci-Fi Greg:''' Hey! No way! What’s Her Face would totally come to my defense!\
247	''[cut back to the girls drawing the Gregs]''\
248	'''What’s Her Face:''' Eww! Don't put that! No I wouldn't!
249	* HelicopterBlender: In ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen]]'', this happens to What’s Her Face after Perry kicks her out of the stadium and into the air.
250	* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Creator Strong Bad inserts himself into several of the comics, most notably to make out with the beautified The Ugly One.
251	* HiddenDepths:
252	** [=Dn'D=] Greg turns out to be very knowledgeable about football. The other Gregs are surprised by this, and he defends himself by saying "Fantasy football still counts as 'fantasy'!"
253	** An EasterEgg in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE141DeathMetal death metal]]" shows that Cheerleader is a fan of Brainkrieg, much to the surprise of What’s Her Face.
254	--->'''Cheerleader:''' I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas.
255	* HighSchool: Practically a given in a show about teenage girls.
256	* HighSchoolDance: The Priggidy Prizom in Issue 15.
257	* HoldUpYourScore: In Issue 6, the Arrow'd Guy and two others hold up signs with scores on them as each of the girls jump into the lion's mouth. The Ugly One got "two'd", while Cheerleader earned a score of [[BrokeTheRatingScale three noses]].
258	* HormoneAddledTeenager: All four girls qualify, but Cheerleader in particular is an example, perhaps to the point of parody. Her desperate attempts to get "several boys" almost always result in disaster.
259	* HumanPincushion:
260	** In Issue 1, The Ugly One is left with arrows piercing her body after getting ARROWED by the Arrow'd Guy.
261	** In Issue 15, What's Her Face gets "sparrowed" ("A new twist on an old classic!") by the Arrow'd Guy, leaving her impaled by sparrows. An Easter egg at the end sees Tompkins getting "Tenerrowed" by a cardboard cutout of Tenerence Love.
262	* {{Hypocrite}}: In Issue 15, Cheerleader makes fun of the others because they're going to prom with the Gregs. They point out that her going with Cheerleader Brian isn't much better.
263	* HypocriticalHumor: In Issue 3, Cheerleader tries on an elephant mask while at the mall and the other girls disprove. Cheerleader's response is to say that their opinions don't matter because they don't have boyfriends, despite the fact that she herself doesn't have one -- and in fact, receives the least attention from boys throughout the whole series.
264	* IFellForHours: This happens to So and So when she falls into a bottomless pit.
265	-->'''What's Her Face:''' When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation.
266	* IJustLikeSayingTheWord: In Issue 14.
267	-->'''Cheerleader:''' Oh boy, girls! Boys!\
268	'''What’s Her Face:''' Uh, what about them?\
269	'''Cheerleader:''' Nothing, really. I just like to say the word. ''[[[WingdingEyes making a]] [[ManiacTongue weird face]]]'' ...Boys.
270	* IJustWantToBeYou: The Ugly One's title card description in Issue 6 is "Wants to be Cheerleader".
271	* ILied: Inverted in Issue 15: Manolios Ugly One warns [=Dn'D=] Greg not to lay a finger on his daughter or he will "gut [him] like sheep." A sheep, with its innards removed, appears to say, "It's not so bad!" In the end, Manolios makes good on his threat, after which [=Dn'D=] Greg exclaims, "Sheep, you lied!"
272	* IMissMom: One of the Olda Boys in Issue 5. However, in this case, it seems that she's alive and well, nor is she permanently out of reach; the guy is just on vacation.
273	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Averted in Issue 7 where Kid Cheerleader and Kid Tompkins die, but played straight in Issue 13 where Timkins manages to survive while Tompkins gets killed.
274	* INeedToGoIronMyDog:
275	** Cheerleader's excuse to get out of going to The Ugly One's sweet someteen birthday party is to claim the Olympics are that night, though she instantly changes her mind after hearing that it's a boy-girl party.
276	** In the Decemberween Special, What’s Her Face refuses to jump into the lion's mouth because she's vegan.
277	* InformedAttribute: In their first few appearances, the characters were clearly based on teenage girl archetypes (AlphaBitch, GoGetterGirl, {{Cloudcuckoolander}}) but didn't actually display them and mostly just spouted inane dialogue in between being murdered. This was averted later on.
278	* InventingTheWheel: In ''Cave Girl Squad'', So and So can invent the wheel and go on a car date with Ogg Oggerson to outer space. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
279	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Issue 12, Sci-Fi Greg's reaction to seeing What’s Her Face date the Wireless Wizard is to remark "At least she is in the arms of a worthy adversary."
280	* InsultBackfire: In Issue 12, after Cheerleader shoots down her friends' suggestions for getting "several boys":
281	-->'''Cheerleader:''' You three are adorable. Maybe I'll come visit you at the convent or library someday.\
282	'''So and So:''' ''[triumphantly, leaping into the air]'' You'll find me in the reference section!
283	* InterspeciesRomance: What’s Her Face showed interest in Thomas, a short alien inspired by the Grays, at least once. One of the officers in Issue 13 shows interest in Tompkins Robot Momerson.
284	* IsItSomethingYouEat: In Issue 15, three of the girls start fighting over how much each of their prom dresses costed. Meanwhile, tomboyish What’s Her Face interrupts the argument to ask whether "this 'dress' [they] speak of" is a food.
285	* ItCameFromTheFridge: In Issue 14, What’s Her Face finds a slice of cake in her locker so old, it's mutated into a giant monster that eats her. ''"REVENGE OF THE CROSS-COUNTRY BOOSTER CLUB BAKE-SALE!!"''
286	-->'''Cake:''' Tastes like nine-minute miles!
287	* ItsAllAboutMe: Cheerleader and her insatiable hunger for popularity.
288	-->'''Cheerleader:''' The Growlbacks are losin' by seventy three! (Points.) But I don't care 'cuz everyone is lookin' at me! (Doink.)
289	* JiveTurkey: All four teen girls, especially Cheerleader, tend to speak in the preppy kind of jive. Lampshaded in Issue 15 when What’s Her Face admits she's "a bit rusty with [her] white girl gangsta".
290	* JumpingTheShark: Invoked in the "tenthennial extravaganza":
291	-->'''Cheerleader:''' It's our tenth issue-versary!!! Let's do a clip show!!\
292	'''So and So:''' Let's have a wedding!!\
293	'''The Ugly One:''' Let's have a baby!!!\
294	'''What’s Her Face:''' Let's kill someone off!\
295	'''Narrator Strong Bad:''' ''[beat]'' Okay!\
296	(a "splat" sound is heard as we cut to Cheerleader having apparently been cut into segments and randomly re-assembled, So and So being crushed by a giant golf ball, The Ugly One being eaten by a carnivorous plant, and What’s Her Face with a lampshade over her head)''
297	* LastSecondWordSwap: Shows up in Issue 7 while So and So and The Ugly One are playing a game.
298	-->'''Pattycake game:''' Brush your teeth, comb your hair, I saw Tompkins in his under-- where're you going?
299	* TheLeader: Cheerleader, though it seems like she's only the leader because the other three don't really have any better ideas.
300	* LeetLingo: The girls talk in leetspeak on occasion, particularly in some of the older issues. Also, the page title of the [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html Teen Girl Squad Menu]] is "T33n G1rl [=Squ4dx0rx=]!!11".
301	* LighterAndSofter: The other three girls attempt to take the group in this direction following Cheerleader's death in Issue 9. It doesn't work.
302	* LooksLikeCesare: At camp, What’s Her Face gets a sickly bunkmate who, in what is probably a parody of this trope, is literally a raccoon... [[BeastMan person]]... thing.
303	* LowCountGag: "4 Gregs" has Tompkins's website get "HAXXORED", to which he exclaims, "Ow! All my client!"
304	* LowerDeckEpisode: "4 Gregs" focuses on the Gregs instead of the girls.
305	* MadLibsCatchPhrase: The "[[OwMyBodyPart Ow! My X!]]" and "[SOMETHING]'D!" [[RunningGag Running Gags]]. The former is best shown [[https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual/status/1602658529621544961 here]].
306	-->'''WHOLESOME'D!'''\
307	'''Cheerleader:''' Ow! My saddle shoes!\
308	'''What’s Her Face:''' Ow! My 7PM curfew!\
309	'''So and So:''' Ow! My "brushing my teeth after lunch at school"!\
310	'''The Ugly One:''' Ow! My pet bag of lawn trimmings!
311	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In Issue 1, What’s Her Face dies after getting punted by a dinosaur. Her final words? "[[JiveTurkey Dag, yo.]]"
312	* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Pretty much the whole series.
313	* MasochistsMeal: In Issue 9, What's Her Face dies after eating "a heaping bowl of staple sauce".
314	* MondegreenGag: Towards the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen]]'', So and So remarks that she wants to sing back-up. However, the Limozeen bus driver [[PoorCommunicationKills only hears the "back-up" part and backs up the tour bus, crushing her.]]
315	-->ROADIE MISCOMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN????!
316	* MeaningfulName: Each of the Gregs is named after what their nerdy obsession happens to be.
317	* MicroDieting: Exaggerated in Issue 10. At lunchtime, Cheerleader declares that the girls should get ready to eat "NO FOOD!!" with So and So adding that "eating lunch is for weirdos." The Ugly One then sidles up carrying a tray piled high with corn kernels, declaring that "it's Corn and Corn Alone Day!"
318	* MindScrew: The ending of "4 Gregs." So basically, Strong Bad was drawing the Teen Girl Squad drawing the four Gregs drawing the girls drawing the Gregs drawing the girls drawing the Gregs drawing the girls drawing the Gregs drawing the girls drawing the Gregs!
319	* MundaneMadeAwesome: In Issue 14, So and So takes her final exam by putting on a robot suit and fighting the test as if it were a giant monster.
320	* NameTron: Spoofed in Issue 15 in which So and So preps for final exams by turning into a robot named "[[VisualPun Scantron]]".
321	* NegativeContinuity: It doesn't matter how many of the main characters die violent deaths in one cartoon; they're always back for the next one. Several episodes have had characters die ''in flashbacks.''
322	* NeverGoingBackToPrison: After going there in Issue 11, So and So declares this in Issue 13 upon just ''seeing'' a couple of policemen. She then throws herself into a garbage disposal unit.
323	* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Lampshaded in Issue 8 when the girls try to form a band.
324	-->'''What’s Her Face:''' Can I not get stuck playing bass?\
325	'''The other girls:''' NO WAY!!
326	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Issue 13 introduces a rapper named Peacey P, a parody of Music/SnoopDogg (with visual cues from Ludacris).
327	* NoInnerFourthWall: Characters in the comic will sometimes comment on the events happening to them, like The Ugly One responding to getting "dangled off a hotel balcony'd" in Issue 13 with a disappointed "That's it?"
328	* NonIndicativeName: Despite her name, whether Cheerleader actually ''is'' a cheerleader is inconsistent. In "4 Gregs", she explains that she's more of a cheerleader in the way she dresses and treats other girls. However, in Issue 15, after being thrown into the air by Cheerleader Brian, she claims that she's "off-duty"; and in [[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Homestar Ruiner]]'s Teen Girl Squad segment, if you give her the megaphone at the right moment, she will actually lead a cheer. This suggests that she primarily became a cheerleader in the hopes of attracting boys.
329	* NoRespectGuy: What’s Her Face is [[OnlySaneMan the only one with any sort of common sense whatsoever]], being [[DeadpanSnarker prone to sarcasm]] and the only one of the Squad who isn't a mindless follower of Cheerleader. However, the other girls [[TheFriendNobodyLikes only seem to put up with her out of pity]] and she's always the one they are likely to ignore or exclude from group activities. Other characters don't treat her too well, either.
330	* OccidentalOtaku: Japanese Culture Greg, as the name suggests, is obsessed with Japanese culture to the point of peppering his sentences with GratuitousJapanese while [[ArtShift making an]] {{Animesque}} face, even though he is not Japanese himself.
331	* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Parodied in Issue 10 with "ARROW'D 2".
332	* OhNoNotAgain: In ''Homestar Ruiner,'' giving The Ugly One the candy bar in either of the first two scenes causes a fish to jump up and eat it out of her hand. Her response: "Aw, Leonard! Not again!"
333	* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the Gregs. There's Sci-Fi Greg, [=Dn'D=] Greg, Open Source Greg and Japanese Culture Greg. In the 4 Gregs spinoff, D'n'D Greg also beats on a school mascot that turns out to be Regular Greg.
334	* OnlySaneMan: 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. She is also probably the only one interested in having a real boyfriend, as opposed to picking up boys quickly as is Cheerleader's style.
335	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: So and So's real name is Kristen, and the other three might be named Virginia, Joy, and Jennifer, but beyond that, their real names aren't even mentioned outside of the original email, and they're usually treated as if their nicknames were their only names: "Yes, Mrs. So and So... erson."
336	* OrSoIHeard: In Issue 8:
337	-->'''The Ugly One:''' Worldwide starlets get much boys!\
338	'''Cheerleader:''' Or so I have read.
339	* OstrichHeadHiding: In Issue 5, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} The Ugly One]] burrows her head into the sand because she's too nervous to go up to the Olda Boys and talk to them.
340	* OutOfCharacterMoment: While So and So and The Ugly One stayed relatively as they always were when Cheerleader died in Issue 9, What’s Her Face [[FridgeBrilliance took advantage of not having to be the sensible one anymore]] and [[TooDumbToLive ate a heaping bowl of "Staple Sauce".]] This, unsurprisingly, killed her.
341	* OutOfFocus: Tompkins was introduced for a few cartoons, but gradually stopped appearing. Issue 15 hangs a lampshade on this:
342	-->'''Tompkins:''' Stupid 4 Gregs. There was a time where I would've been massacred as one of those girls' prom dates!
343	* OwMyBodyPart: A frequent RunningGag. Examples include "Ow! My skin!", "Ow! My hopes of reaching first base!" and "Ow! My entire life!"
344	** Variants are used, too, such as the classic "My blood hurts."
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346
347	[[folder:P-Z]]
348	* PeerPressuredBully: Downplayed -- So and So and The Ugly One only ignore or exclude What's Her Face when Cheerleader does. When Cheerleader gets run over in Episode 9, they're perfectly happy to include What's Her Face in their new "Best Friends Squad."
349	* PerfectlyCromulentWord: The name of Peacey P's album, "[[{{Portmanteau}} Deliberance]]".
350	* PerkyGoth: So and So adopts this persona when the girls form a band in Issue 8. "I'm going with that gloomy keyboardist look I keep hearing about!"
351	* PerpetualFrowner: What’s Her Face rarely smiles, and her default expression is an apathetic frown.
352	* PersonAsVerb: Often overlaps with the "--'d" RunningGag.
353	-->STEP-MOMMED!\
354	[[MythologyGag POM POMMED?!]]
355	* PictureDay: In Issue 14, it's revealed that the school picture day was scheduled on the same day as Tape-a-Dead-Thing-to-Your-Face-Day.
356	* ThePigPen: The SpinoffBabies issue of Teen Girl Squad has What’s Her Face as a direct parody of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} the original Pig Pen]], as lampshaded in the commentary.
357	** The Ugly One is sometimes suggested to embody this trope in the main series. Her father seems to be an example as well, given his slovenly appearance and stained wifebeater.
358	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Cheerleader doesn't actually lead cheers much. Whether she's actually a cheerleader is inconsistent. Lampshaded in "4 Gregs" when Cheerleader states that she's like a cheerleader in the way she dresses and treats other girls.
359	* PoliceAreUseless: "Uh, yes, ma'am. We got a report of us wanting to watch the Ola Toya fight. You mind if we investigate?"
360	** He DID bring snack mix. [[spoiler:But it killed What’s Her Face, [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} in Tompkins' Parlor]], [[EdibleBludgeon with the pretzel stick!]]]]
361	* PopularIsDumb: Played with. Cheerleader is arguably the most airheaded of the main cast (impressive, considering that everyone in this series is TooDumbToLive). However, while she acts as a domineering AlphaBitch to the other girls, she is nowhere near as popular as she thinks she is.
362	* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: The girls tend to speak in whatever slang they think is cool, and that this sometimes ends up dipping into AAVE is acknowledged at one point where What's Her Face is confused by the name "Priggidy Prizom" and feels she needs to brush up on her "white girl gangsta".
363	* RandomEventsPlot: The first few issues focus on random and absurd humor without a coherent plot structure.
364	* RapidFireComedy: Characters will randomly get killed off with no explanation, just because all of it is funnier that way.
365	* RebusBubble: Keeping in line with her DitzyGenius characterization, So and So has one in the Decemberween special while deciding whether or not to jump into the lion's mouth.
366	-->'''So and So:''' Let's see... Lion's mouth + Decemberween present ÷ peer pressure × height, equals... TRIPLE SALCHOW!
367	* RelationshipSabotage: It is heavily implied that Cheerleader forced What’s Her Face to dump Sci-Fi Greg at one point. Once Cheerleader dies in Issue 9, What’s Her Face is elated that she can date him again.
368	* RepetitiveName:
369	** Brett Bretterson, So and So's imaginary boyfriend.
370	** For that matter, her last name is apparently So-and-So-erson.
371	* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Quarterman saves The Ugly One from an upperclassman's prank and then asks her to accompany him to the end credits]].
372	* RibcageStomach: They feed themselves to a lion in the Decemberween special, and proceed to exchange gifts inside of its ribcage. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
373	* RobeAndWizardHat: The Wireless Wizard, of course.
374	-->'''[=Dn'D=] Greg:''' Man, sometimes wizards are so awesome, it hurts.
375	* {{Robosexual}}
376	** Apparently, Japanese Culture Greg, who at least attempts to date a robotic woman named Chizuko... but it does not end well for him.
377	** Defied with Sci-Fi Greg. He states that one might expect him to be a Robosexual, being a sci-fi geek. However, Chizuko in particular is so far into the uncanny valley that she literally makes him sick to his stomach. In addition, his heart belongs to What's Her Face, anyway.
378	--->'''Sci-Fi Greg:''' You'd think I'd be into life-size, realistic robots, but that thing makes me wanna barf up my earlier energy drink into the one I'm currently drinking.
379	* RunningGag: The series has quite a few of these, like Cheerleader getting the girls to shout "SO GOOD!" in unison, a flock of birds getting killed/attacked by a random background element, and gratuitous use of the suffix "-'d".
380	* SadistShow: Not only are the main cast usually all dead at the end of each issue (or have some terrible misfortune befall on them), but even extra characters are not safe from such a fate as well. Strong Bad himself just seems to take delight in coming up with creative and hilarious ways to kill off the girls one-by-one.
381	-->'''Strong Bad:''' Ah, Teen Girl Squad... Which one of you wants to get trampled by stampeding Venus flytraps today?
382	* SelfDeprecation: The official description of the "4 Gregs" cartoon calls it "the spin-off nobody was asking for".
383	* SeriousBusiness: Vamlumtimes Day is serious times. Apparently, Cheerleader risks losing her "Mindy cred" if she doesn't get enough Valentine's cards from enough boys.
384	* SeverelySpecializedStore: In Issue 13, So and So gets a summer job at a place called Shirt Folding Store, which is located in a mall. We later get a glimpse of the rest of the mall, which contains other stores such as Jean Folding Store and Thong Folding Store.
385	* ShapedLikeItself: "Teen Girl Squad, the teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 19!"
386	* SheCleansUpNicely:
387	** The Ugly One gets dolled up into "the Hotgly One" at her Sweet Someteenth in issue 10.
388	--->'''Strong Bad:''' Woah! Did I draw that new hotness?
389	** And [=Dn'D=] Greg looks awful good in a tux in issue 15.
390	* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Played with in Issue 12. Cheerleader starts texting the Class Prez while the two are standing right next to each other. The Wireless Wizard lampshades this immediately after he appears:
391	-->'''Wireless Wizard:''' Texting from a few feet away? FOR SHAME!
392	* ShoutOut: So and So's Scantron armor in Issue 14 is based on Anime/{{Voltron}}.
393	* ShownTheirWork: All of [=Dn'D=] Greg's references to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' are accurate and well-researched. Other characters', not so much.
394	* ShowWithinAShow: The show is an amateur comic made (and acted out) by Strong Bad.
395	* SpearCounterpart: The Gregs to the Teen Girl Squad.
396	%%** There's also Cheerleader Brian, Cheerleader's date for the Priggidy Prizom. What’s Her Face considers it akin to going to the prom with her father. Although, he is far more of a GenkiGuy than the AlphaBitch Cheerleader is.
397	* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen: In Issue 11, Camp Counselor Shortshorts tries to win the approval of The Ugly One and What’s Her Face by showing he's hip and cool -- and fails miserably.
398	-->'''Camp Counselor Shortshorts:''' Okay, girls. I'm Camp Counselor Shortshorts. Now, before you ask, "Who's this square?", listen to this: SCHA-WING! {{NOT}}!!! WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!\
399	'''The Ugly One:''' Buh--\
400	'''What’s Her Face:''' --arf.
401	* SpectacularSpinning: Issue 10 is full of this trope. After the camera does a [[AnimationBump 360-degree spin around the girls]] twice, What’s Her Face doesn't stop spinning and stays that way until her death later on in the issue. [[WordOfGod The Brothers Chaps have admitted to leaving her spinning]] so they could get more use out of the animation, which apparently took a long time to make.
402	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Ugly One's first name is apparently "The" (her father's name is Manolios Ugly One)
403	* SpinOffBabies: Issue 7 has Teen Girl Squad as toddlers -- "Teeny Tiny Girl Squad".
404	* StayingAlive: The girls die [[DiabolusExMachina ridiculous deaths]] each issue, but these deaths are [[ResetButton never permanent]].
405	* StealthPun: When Tompkins gets "Tenerrow'd" by a cardboard cutout of Tererence Love. Note that Tompkins gets hit by ten arrows. [[spoiler:In other words, Tompkins gets "Ten-Arrow'd".]]
406	%%* StickFigureAnimation
407	* StylisticSuck: The girls are stick figures on a looseleaf backdrop. Strong Bad provides all the voices himself, so they all speak in falsetto.
408	* SummerCampy: Camp Firstbassawassa in Issue 11.
409	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Cheerleader thinks it's safer to go for a ride with a girl who just got her learner's permit, rather than What's Her Face who's been licensed for a year. The learner's permit girl, who only knows so much as where to put her hands on the steering wheel, runs over Cheerleader.
410	* SurrealHumor: A frequent source of humor in the comics, including bizarre sight gags and characters coming out of nowhere to kill or injure other characters.
411	* TakenForGranite: In ''Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad'', if Cheerleader is given the megaphone in Scene 3, Medusa will appear out of nowhere while Cheerleader is busy leading a cheer and turn her to stone.
412	* TemptingFate: In ''Cave Girl Squad'', if you give a girl the chisel, she'll say this:
413	-->Uh, that's one sharp chisel! Cool. I'm sure nothing bad could happen to me with that.
414	* TerribleArtist: Strong Bad isn't exactly the best artist, as he's only capable of drawing stick figures.
415	* ThatsAllFolks: It's over!
416	* ThemeTuneRollCall: OncePerEpisode.
417	-->'''Strong Bad:''' Teen Girl Squad! Cheerleader! So and So! What’s Her Face! The Ugly One!
418	* TheEnd: [[OncePerEpisode Most issues end with]] Strong Bad shouting "It's over!"
419	* ThereWasADoor: In Issue 13, Cheerleader, The Ugly One, and What’s Her Face [[BigEntrance bust through the wall of Tompkins's house]] to get inside.
420	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Some number of the Teen Girl Squad almost always die by the end of almost every issue, the exceptions being Issues 2 and 3 and the Decemberween special. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at the end of Issue 8 when the girls have all died except for Cheerleader:
421	-->'''Cheerleader:'''\
422	It's over! It's over!\
423	Strong Bad says it's over!\
424	It's over! It's over!\
425	[[TemptingFate Everybody died 'cept me!!]]\
426	[chomp sound]''\
427	Aw, crap!
428	* TitleDrop: Done straight by Strong Bad at the start of every toon. Played with in Issue 9:
429	-->'''So and So:''' You guys, I think this might be the start of a kinder, gentler squad of teen girls.
430	* TitleScream: TEEN GIRL SQUAAAAD! [[ThemeTuneRollCall CHEERLEADER! SO AND SO! WHAT’S HER FACE! THE UGLY ONE!]]
431	* ThreateningShark: In Issue 8, What’s Her Face's bass turns into a shark. "My bass feels seaworthy." And then the shark proceeds to eat most of her and take her place in Kissyboots.
432	* ThrowTheDogABone: Here and there, Strong Bad cuts one of the Teen Girl Squad a break. Examples include What’s Her Face managing to get a date on (as well as survive) "Vamlumtimes Day" and a few occasions of The Ugly One having things work out for her (such as accompanying Quarterman to the end credits while the guys who pranked her get their comeuppance). Although this sometimes is done in a [[BlackComedy darkly comedic manner]], such as The Ugly One getting a photo to commemorate her awesome prom experience, with the remains of her friends around her.
433	* TogetherInDeath: Played for laughs in Issue 9. When Cheerleader gets run over by an older girl with a learner's permit, the other girls celebrate being free of her. Then, of course, they die too and get stuck with her in heaven.
434	-->'''Cheerleader''': Okay, my art galleries, let's get ready to be...\
435	'''Other girls''': ''(sadly, while hanging their heads)'' SO DEAD!!!!
436	* Totally18: When Cheerleader and So and So are trying to impress the college boys in Issue 5, Cheerleader insists that she and So and So are in college. So and So, however, undermines this by simultaneously admitting to being in eighth grade. Cheerleader tries to backpedal by claiming that So and So is her younger sister by five years, but the boys don't buy it.
437	-->'''Cheerleader:''' I'M FIVE YEARS OLDER AND I'M IN COLLEGE!!
438	* TotallyRadical: Done deliberately in Issue 10 with the girls' title card descriptions. "Radacious Bodadical Raspberry Blue!"
439	* UnexplainedRecovery: Most (if not all) of the girls are either dead or have sustained serious injury by the end of each issue. However, as noted above, [[StatusQuoIsGod they're always back]] [[ResetButton for the next one]], as if nothing had ever happened.
440	* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Amongst fans and the creators of the show, What’s Her Face may be the most popular character. In-universe, the opposite is true.
441	* UnusualEuphemism: Two instances:
442	** Issue 15 has Cheerleader say to her prom date, "Feel free to get slightly less appropriate with those hands, Cheerleader Brian."
443	** Tompkins's {{Catchphrase}} is also an example: "Aw, peas!"
444	* UnsoundEffect: Some sound effects include things such as "UncannyValley'd" and "Sparrow'd".
445	* VacationEpisode: Issue 5, which also doubles as a BeachEpisode as mentioned above.
446	* VagueAge: The Teen Girl Squad are described as "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment teenage girls between the ages of 13 and 19]]", with What’s Her Face being fifteen at the youngest, since she's had her license for a year.[[note]]In some states, mostly Midwestern ones, you can get your license at fourteen.[[/note]]
447	** The Ugly One's birthday is her "Sweet Someteenth".
448	** "We're in eighth grade!"
449	*** "I'M FIVE YEARS OLDER AND IN COLLEGE!!!!!"
450	* ValentinesDayEpisodes: Issue 12 has the girls trying to pick up "several boys" and get as many Valentine cards as they can. HilarityEnsues.
451	* VerbalTic: Japanese Culture Greg has a habit of inserting lots of GratuitousJapanese into his sentences.
452	* VisualPun: Scantron in Issue 14 -- the HumongousMecha identity So and So assumes while she takes her final exams -- whose name is a pun on both Anime/{{Voltron}} and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_answer_sheet actual scantron sheets]].
453	* VocalEvolution: Strong Bad's falsetto is higher pitched (particularly with Cheerleader's voice) from Issue 6 onward. By Issue 9 or 10, the girls also develop subtle distinctions in their voices that reflect their personalities -- Cheerleader's becomes higher pitched and peppier, So and So's stays more or less the same, What’s Her Face develops a TomboyishVoice, and The Ugly One's grows more guttural.
454	* VoiceOfTheLegion: Judith So-and-So-Erson, at least when telling the girls to keep quiet when they criticize her fashion sense.
455	* VoodooDoll: PlayedForLaughs in Issue 12. Early in, The Ugly One is seen sticking a series of pins into a doll resembling the Arrow'd Guy. Later on, the Arrow'd Guy jumps up from behind [[DemBones Mrs. Embalmo]] with a [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]] Ugly One voodoo doll that he's sticking pins into.
456	-->'''Strong Bad:''' BAD JUJU!!
457	* WaveOfBabies: The TropeNamer. What’s Her Face gets randomly hit by one in Issue 6.
458	* WaxingLyrical: In Issue 14, Quarterman quotes "What I Have Been Looking For", a song from ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', by telling The Ugly One, "All this time I was looking around, and you weren't right there in front of me. But I realized... when I was looking around... that you were right there in front of me... all this time...".
459	-->'''The Ugly One:''' That makes so much sense!
460	* WeirdSun: The sun randomly turns into a buzzsaw in Issue 3 to [[RunningGag kill some birds]] that were part of the background.
461	* WickedStepmother: Judith So-and-So-erson (So and So's stepmom), who looks suspiciously similar to the Arrowed Guy. In Issue 11, she makes So and So get a summer job at Shirt Folding Store.
462	-->'''Cheerleader:''' [[LampshadeHanging Your stepmoms is teh fascist.]]
463	* TheWildcats: Parodied with the Fighting Growlbacks.
464	* WingdingEyes: The crazy learner's permit girl from Issue 9 has scribbly spirals for eyes.
465	* WithFriendsLikeThese: None of the girls actually seem to like each other much. Cheerleader is [[AlphaBitch obnoxious, bossy and domineering]] to everyone, So and So is an [[ExtremeDoormat aggressively bland doormat]] when she's not being a pushy overachiever, [[ButtMonkey nobody likes What’s Her Face]], and The Ugly One is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} insane]] and [[ThePigPen unhygienic]].
466	* WorthyOpponent: Sci-Fi Greg and [=Dn'D=] Greg consider the Wireless Wizard to be one for claiming What’s Her Face's heart [[FridgeBrilliance because]] he's a [[MagiTek combination of both Science Fiction and Fantasy.]]
467	* WrittenSoundEffect: Stuff like "ARROWED!" and "SHAKESPEARED!"
468	* YouKilledMyFather: An astronaut punches out So and So's overbearing manager at Shirt Folding Store because she killed his dog. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Then, he just flies away.]]
469	[[/folder]]
470	----
471	[[TheStinger IT'S OVER!]]

Context WebAnimation / TeenGirlSquad