History WebAnimation / TeenGirlSquad

* MasochistsMeal: In Issue 9, What's Her Face eats a heaping bowl of staple sauce and promptly dies.

* PeerPressuredBully: Downplayed -- So and So and The Ugly One only 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."

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: In the ''Teen Girl Squad'' segment of [[VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Homestar Ruiner]], you can have a robot penguin appear out of nowhere and [=GuesswhatVOIP=] The Ugly One for [[FelonyMisdemeanor smuggling a candy bar]] [[{{Snacksploitation}} "past concession stand security"]].

* TotallyEighteen: 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.

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* MadLibsCatchPhrase: The "[[OwMyBodyPart Ow! My X!]]" and "[SOMETHING]'D!" [[RunningGag Running Gags]].

* RapidFireComedy

* StickFigureAnimation

* OverprotectiveDad: 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.]]"

* {{Nerd}}:
** So and So is the most book-smart of the four girls, and is shown to prefer more intellectual pursuits from time to time.
** 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.

* ContinuityNod: In a rare example, Issue 13 references So and So's incarceration in Issue 11.

* NameFaceName: What’s Her Face. This trope is also [[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Names_ending_in_-face fairly common]] in the main WebAnimation/HomestarRunner universe as well.

* UncannyValley: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] InUniverse. Japanese Culture Greg ends up getting killed by his prom date (a robotic girl designed to welcome American guests to a Japanese trade show) due to this. ([[MST3KMantra Don't try to think too hard about how this works]]). Lampshaded by Sci-Fi Greg who notes that he'd be expected to like a robotic woman but she makes him want to puke.

* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He is Not My Boyfriend]]: After Cheerleader's death in Issue 9, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing What’s Her Face expresses joy]] over how she can date Sci-Fi Greg again now that Cheerleader's gone. [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor However]], come "4 Gregs"...

''[cut to the Gregs]''\\

''[cut back to the girls]''\\

* 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 recieves the least attention from boys throughout the whole series.

* IMissMom: One of the Olda Boys in Issue 5. However, in this case it seems that she's alive and well; the guy is just on vacation.

* MeaningfulName: Each of the Gregs are named after what their nerdy obsession happens to be.

* NonIndicativeName: Despite her name, whether Cheerleader actually ''is'' a cheerleader is inconsistent. In "4 Gregs", she explains that she's more a cheerleader in they 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.

* 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.

* OstrichHeadHiding: In Issue 5, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} The Ugly One]] burrows her head into the sand because she's too nervous to go up and talk to the Olda Boys.

* {{Robosexual}}: Apparently, Japanese Culture Greg, who at least attepts to date a robotic woman named Chizuko... but it does not end well for him.

* TalkingToHimself: An in-universe example (as well as a real life one): Matt Chapman aside, ''Strong Bad'' voices all of the comics' characters.

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Cheerleader! So and So! What’s Her Face! The Ugly One!

* 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.

** 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". [[KillEmAll It doesn't work out very well.]]

* KillEmAll: 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]].
-->'''Cheerleader:''' ''[singing the closing credits over the ending screen]'' It's over! It's over! And everybody died 'cept me!\\
'''Shark:''' Chomp.\\
'''Cheerleader:''' Aw, crap.

* AttractivenessDiscrimination: What’s Her Face sometimes gets this for her [[HollywoodDressCode 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".

There are fifteen toons in the [[http://homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html 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]]).

* {{Mondegreen}}: 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.]]

* ElectricBoogaloo: Parodied in Issue 10 with "ARROW'D 2".

* HollywoodNerd:
** So and So is the most book-smart of the four girls, and is shown to prefer more intellectual pursuits from time to time.
** 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.

!This series is the trope namer for:
* WaveOfBabies.

!!Ow, my Trope Examples!

** 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.

* 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 begs Tompkins to stop feeding him. Tompkins just laughs and keeps pushing buttons.

** 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 [[UnfortunateName woefully generic names]] while writing the first issue.

* UnfortunateNames: Since her father's name is Manolios Ugly One, The Ugly One's first name [[SpellMyNameWithAThe 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.)

* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Subverted. Amongst the group, Cheerleader actually gets the ''least'' amount of attention from boys over the course of the series.

* InformedAttribute: In their first few appearances, the characters were clearly based on teenage girl archetypes (AlphaBitch, GoGetterGirl, CoolLoser, HollywoodHomely) but didn't actually display them and mostly just spouted inane dialogue in between being murdered. This was averted later on.

* InfantImmortality: 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.

* BrickJoke: At the beginning 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!"