YMMV / Teen Girl Squad

• Adorkable: All of the girls exhibit this when it comes to boys but What's Her Face can barely get a relatable sentence out when she tries to court someone.
  What’s Her Face: Uh... hi. I like music, and um, cloth.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Many fans believe that the Arrow'd Guy is a shapeshifter or a force of nature, thanks to him appearing in almost every issue, taking on a different form each time. Even the Homestar Runner Wiki believes he may actually be So and So's stepmom. However, given that this is a comic written by Strong Bad...
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The title characters are this within the Homestar Runner body of work.
  • The Arrow'd Guy, mostly because he often appears out of nowhere to kill the girls in hilarious ways.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Why does So and So think of Tompkins as "such a renegade"? She's an overachiever. Any boy who doesn't live up to her extremely high academic standards would be a rebel from her point of view.
  • In Issue 12, Cheerleader gets valentine (sorry, "valemtime") cards from every football player except one. Quarterman is probably the one player who didn't give her a card, considering he turned down her advances in Issue 4.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In an Easter egg from Issue 13, Peacey P is somehow "a guest star on [his] own album, y'all biscuitheads!" Over a decade later, at the end of 2019, Kesha revealed the track list to High Road, including a track where she actually guest stars on her own album.
• Hollywood Homely: The Ugly One, despite her name, isn't really that ugly compared to the other characters. However, she compensates by being unhygienic, eccentric, and generally off-putting.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • This series brought us the various permutations of "[Something]'d!", used to describe things that come out of nowhere to kill or injure the girls (such as "ARROWED!", "MSG'D!", and "MANIAC IN A SPEEDO'D!") Most of the non-sequiturs in Teen Girl Squad are easily quotable, especially "My blood hurts" and "Wave 'O Babies".
  • "X is no place for a mighty warrior."
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: Teen Girl Squad was well-liked by actual teenage girls. Moreover, it was mainly with the unpopular girls that related most to What's Her Face, the Butt-Monkey of the group. It helps that the series mocked the "high school hierarchy" that they were victims of.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Mr. Pitters getting eaten alive by vultures in TGS #9.
  • What's Her Face's raccoon bunkmate in TGS #11 has a sickly appearance and voice. It's made all the worse when she asks What's Her Face to give her multiple shots.
    Hiya, bunkmate...do you love me?
• Unintentional Period Piece: Many references date this series to the early to mid 2000s, such as the girls' gratuitous use of Leet Lingo and Cheerleader texting with a slide phone in Issue 12. The tenth issue from October 2005 has So and So mentioning The WB which would go off the air less than a year later.
• Unpopular Popular Character: What's Her Face is the Chew Toy of the comic and even when she doesn't die still suffers a lot, likely because of that she's the most popular of the girls within the fandom.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: While the cartoon it spun off from was a bit tame, despite the occasional risqué humor, the Nightmare Fuel, and Late to the Punchline moments, this one isn't, if only for the aforementioned Family-Unfriendly Violence.
  • Granted, it's incredibly poorly-drawn Family-Unfriendly Violence, and the ESRB rated the second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People E10+ despite the inclusion of a make-your-own TGS comic, so...
• The Woobie: Given the material, What's Her Face has a surprisingly good claim to this, as she's frequently ostracized or left out by her friend group at the behest of Cheerleader, and was even forced to break up with her boyfriend Sci-Fi Greg. Possibly acknowledged with an even more pointedly cruel scene than usual in #15.