Editing Teen Girl Squad Issue 8

[[Image:TGS8.PNG|thumb|Our "heroines" meet So and So's "stepmom".]]

The girls join the Battle of the Bands.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Cheerleader]], [[So and So]], [[What's Her Face]], [[The Ugly One]], [[Intercom]], [[Tompkins]], [[The Man with the Huge Mouth]]/[[Mrs. So-and-so-erson]], [[Pom Pom]], [[Fatty's Big Chance]], [[Strong Bad]] (easter egg)

'''Page Title:''' Soopa Groop

'''Date:''' January 17, 2005

==Transcript==
'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Teen Girl Squad! Cheerleader! ''{top 40 hits!}'' So and So! ''{hooked on classics!}'' What's Her Face! ''{college radio!}'' The Ugly One! ''{listens to pine bark!}''

''{The girls are sitting at their desks in class. What's Her Face's desk has no legs.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' And lunch today will be a breadtangle of pizza. Don't forget the battle of the bands this Friday. Tompkins, point your rear end in the direction of the principal's office.

'''TOMPKINS:''' ''{offscreen}'' Awww, peas!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Y'hear that girls??

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Pizza belongs in a triangle!

'''SO AND SO:''' ''{hearts over head and drooling awkwardly}'' That Tompkins is SUCH a renegade!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{inexplicably drawn wearing a derby, sunglasses, a moustache, a tie, and smoking a cigar}'' No yous guys! The battle of the bands! ''{back to normal}'' We can form a band and become...

'''ALL:''' WORLDWIDE STARLETS!!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Worldwide starlets get much boys!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Or so I have read. Obviously, I'll sing and pretend to play guitar.

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Can I not get stuck playing bass?

'''CHEERLEADER, SO AND SO and THE UGLY ONE:''' NO WAY!!

'''SO AND SO:''' We'll be called "Smartly Pretty".

''{we are shown a CD case with "Smartly Pretty" written in pseudo-mathematical notation}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{vomits}'' Augh! Bleh! Ewww! Grugh! ''{suddenly sotto voce}'' No. ''{cheerfully}'' We're called "Kissy Boots"!

''{a CD case which says "Kissy Boots" and features a huge pair of lips with cowboy boots is shown}''

'''SO AND SO:''' We can practice after school in my step-mom's walk-in closet!

''{Cut to an image of a man carrying a rock that reads...}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' After school!

''{Cut to So and So's step-mom's walk-in closet, as evidenced by a large rack of clothes.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Your step mom has questionable taste.

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' And like a million jogging suits.

''{So and So's step-mother appears from behind the clothes rack. "She" appears to be The Man with the Huge Mouth.}''

'''SO AND SO'S STEP-MOM:''' YOU LITTLE BRATS BEST SHUT YER YAPS!!!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Yes Mrs. So-and-so... -erson.

''{Mrs. So-and-so-erson vanishes. The girls' instruments appear.}''

'''SO AND SO:''' Count us off, The Ugly One.

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' One, two, three and a four.

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{singing as the other girls play}'' Ooncha ooncha! One, two, three-cha! We're Kissy Boots and it's nice to meetcha! Ooncha ooncha! One, two, three-cha! Gonna get a breadtangle of pizza!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' 16 hour drum solo!

''{She starts playing the drums and scatting along, until a large floor tom eats her head.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' FLOOR TOMMED!!!! ''{Mrs. So-and-so-erson returns and pours "Ranch Dress" over The Ugly One and the floor tom}'' STEP-MOMMED!!! ''{Cut to a romantic dinner setting where The Ugly One, with the drum still engulfing her head, stands opposite Pom Pom, who holds a single rose.}'' POM-POMMED??

''{Cut to a huge mouth with "BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!" written on its teeth.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!

''{Cut to the school auditorium, where the Intercom (mounted on a robot body) stands on stage with a microphone, and a handful of stick-figure heads compose the audience.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' Alright, give it up for "Fatty's Big Chance."

''{A large man, presumably Fatty, with a saxophone and checkerboard pants appears from stage right.}''

'''FATTY:''' Pick it up! Pick it up! Hup! Hup! Pick it up! Pick it up!

''{Fatty vanishes.}''

'''INTERCOM:''' Next up is "Kissyboots".

''{Cut to Cheerleader and What's Her Face, probably back stage. Cheerleader holds a heart-shaped guitar with three necks and What's Her Face has a bass.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Where is So and So? We can't play the hits without her!

''{Cut to So and So in a dressing room. Her hair is dyed black and she wears a black t-shirt with Strong Sad's face on it and heavy black makeup.}''

'''SO AND SO:''' I'm going with that gloomy keyboardist look I keep hearing about!

''{A group of goblins enters the dressing room.}''

'''GOBLIN:''' KRA'AGH! KLEET'OH BRANGH CHE'EKOH TAGHQ?

'''SO AND SO:''' My autograph? Why sure!

''{A huge twenty-sided die lands on her from above.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' TWELVE SIDED DIED!! ''{without text}'' Whoa, that's rough.

''{Back in the auditorium, Cheerleader and What's Her Face are the only ones on stage.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I'm Kissyboots and she plays bass. One, two, three, and a four!

''{They start playing. What's Her Face's guitar suddenly turns into a shark.}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' My bass feels seaworthy.

''{The shark eats the entire upper half of What's Her Face in one JGHOWMP!}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' OW! My most of me!!

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{indicating the shark}'' Dis my new backup band... a shark. One, two, three, and a four!

''{Cut to the end title which reads "it's over!". Cheerleader sings over it and the lyrics are shown at the top of the screen.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over! It's over! It's over! Everybody died 'cept me!! ''{a chomping sound is heard.}'' Aw, crap!

==Easter Eggs==
*At the end, click the "o" to see a breadtangle, breadpazoid, breadallelogram, and brhombus of pizza (click each one to see the next. Click the brhombus to go back to the IT'S OVER! screen.)
*Click the "!" to see what happened to Tompkins.

===Transcript===
''{Tompkins and Strong Bad are sitting in the principal's office. Strong Bad has a sign on his desk reading "PRINICPAL" [sic] and has a sega cartridge saying "Road Rash."}''

'''TOMPKINS:''' Aw, come on prinicpal ''{pronounced as prin-IC-pal}'' Strong Bad. I only stole ONE Sega tape!

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's just it, Tompkins... You could have stolen UPWARDS of one Sega tape.

'''TOMPKINS:''' Awww PEAS!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Kid, I think youre gonna turn out... HGHJHGHAAAALL right!

==Fun Facts==
=== Trivia ===
*This is the only Teen Girl Squad issue where all four girls clearly die.
*This is the first appearance of a main character (namely, Pom Pom) in a Teen Girl Squad issue (Outside of an easter egg).
*What's Her Face uses a left-handed guitar
*So and So appears twice in this issue with two sharp teeth.
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*This is the first time Strong Bad has made an apparently personal comment during narration.
*This is the first time that someone other than Strong Bad has said "IT'S OVER!"
*In geometry, the twelve-sided shape that fell on So-and-So would be called a dodecahedron.
*What's Her Face's desk is resting on her lap, and this is a reference to the DVD commentary for the email "[[date]]."

=== Goofs ===
*The die that crushes So And So is a 20-sided die. Twelve-sided dice have pentagonal faces.
*During Kissy Boots' first practice session, both What's Her Face and Cheerleader are playing basses, possibly Fender basses, judging from the arrangement of tuning pegs.

=== Inside References ===
*"Ooncha ooncha one, two, three-cha"  and Tompkins debuted in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*Sega tapes are also mentioned in [[anything]].
*The "-erson" tacked onto Mrs. So and So's name is a bit of a running gag.  Other "ersons" include [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 4|Issue 4]]'s [[Brett Bretterson]], Emerson from "[[the process]]," Mrs Commanderson in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]] and the [[Strongbadia National Anthem]] Mr. Cheaterson.
*When So and So talks about Tompkins being a renegade, she has an expression on her face reminiscent of [[Doreauxgard]] in [[lackey]].
*What's Her Face being labelled as "College Radio" is probably a reference to [[radio]].
*Strong Bad is called a "prinicpal" (note the misspelling) by his nameplate and Tompkins, just like in the [[Homestar Quiz]] and [[CGNU]].
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===Real-World References===
*"Breadtangle" refers to cafeteria pizzas which are rectangular in shape, and very bready.
*One of The Ugly One's drums bears the inscription, "Mr Drummond," who was a character in the 80's TV show, "Different Strokes". It may also have been a reference to Bill "King Boy" Drummond of the techno band [[Wikipedia:The KLF|The KLF]].
*The Sega "tape" (technically a cartridge) Tompkins steals in the easter egg is "Road Rash."  Road Rash was a [[Wikipedia:Sega Genesis|Sega Genesis]] game where you race on motorcycles and knock other racers off their motorcycles by punching them or using clubs.
*The Intercom, who introduces the battle of the bands, may be a reference to [[Wikipedia:Saved by the Bell|Saved by the Bell]], where the character Screech creates a similar-looking robot friend.
*The speaker box as the robot's head may be a reference to Roundhouse, an early '90s [[Wikipedia:Nickelodeon (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]] skit comedy show.
*The song the girls play sounds like the beginning to "Communication Breakdown" by [[Wikipedia:Led Zeppelin|Led Zeppelin]].
*Cheerleader's three-necked guitar is a reference to [http://www.jemsite.com/axes/model/vai_triple.htm Steve Vai's guitar].  Incidentally, Steven Vai is the subject of the article for [http://www.theonion.com The Onion] page-a-day tear-off calendar on January 17th
*The "16 hour drum solo" brings to mind the epic drum solos of  "[[Wikipedia:In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida|In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida]]" by Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin drummer Jon Bonham's solo in [[Wikipedia:The Song Remains the Same|The Song Remains the Same]]
*Cheerleader's close-up of her with a hat, moustache, glasses, and a tie is similar to that of the [[Wikipedia:Blues Brothers|Blues Brothers]], though the way she says "yous guys" also directs the reference towards Edward G. Robinson. 
*The classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon [[Wikipedia:Jabberjaw|Jabberjaw]] also had a shark as a band member. 
*The goblins and the gamers multi-sided die are staples of [[Wikipedia:Role_playing_game|RPGs]] such as [[Wikipedia:Dungeons_and_dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]
*The opening quote for So and So "[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063T50/002-1408612-1164808?v=glance Hooked on Classics]" refers to a real compilation album. It consists of classical musical themes set against rock beats.
*Adrian Belew uses a three-necked, heart-shaped guitar in his 1989 video "Oh Daddy."
*The pose for the shark at the end is remarkably similar to the pose of the Shark enemy in Final Fantasy 1.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs8.html watch "Teen Girl Squad Issue 8"]
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*[http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?t=1770 forum thread re: "Teen Girl Squad Issue 8"]

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