Editing Teen Girl Squad Issue 8

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[[Image:Kissy Boots.PNG|200px|thumb|"We're Kissyboots and it's nice to meetcha!"]]

The girls join the Battle of the Bands.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, {{Film|What's Her Face}}, {{Film|The Ugly One}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Intercom|Intercom]], {{Film|Tompkins}}, [[Mrs. So-and-so-erson]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Floor Tom|Floor Tom]], {{Film|Pom Pom}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Fatty|Fatty]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Goblins|Goblins]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#A Shark|A Shark]], {{Film|Strong Bad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#The School|The School]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#Mrs. So-and-so-erson's Walk-in Closet|Mrs. So-and-so-erson's Walk-in Closet]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#School Stage|School Stage]], [[Teen Girl Squad Locations#Dressing Room|Dressing Room]]

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

'''Running Time:''' 2:24

'''Page Title:''' Soopa Groop

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==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. Cheerleader's shirt says "Suga Sweet". Cheerleader's desk has a square of paper, So and So's desk has a lamp on it, The Ugly One's desk has an open book on it, and What's Her Face's desk's legs are bent.}''

'''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 mustache, 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!! ''{What's Her Face frowns.}''

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

''{a CD case is shown with <math>\frac{(S)m^ar+ly}{Pr\Sigma(\pi)y}</math> written on it}''

'''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, who bears a very strong resemblance to the [[Arrow'd Guy]], appears from behind the clothes rack.}''

'''MRS. SO-AND-SO-ERSON:''' YOU LITTLE BRATS BEST SHUT YER YAPS!!!

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

''{Mrs. So-and-so-erson vanishes. The girls' instruments appear: Cheerleader with a guitar, So and So on keyboard, What's Her Face on bass, and The Ugly One on drums.}''

'''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! ''{music pauses}'' Ooncha ooncha! ''{music resumes}'' One, two, three-cha! Gonna get a breadtangle of pizza!

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' 16 hour drum solo! doo do boop bop...

''{She starts playing the drums and scatting along, until a large [[Wikipedia:Floor tom|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}'' 

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' 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.}'' 

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' 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's shirt now says "X-girl". 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 is wearing 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 trolls enters the dressing room.}''

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

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

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

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' TWELVE SIDED DIED!! ''{without text}'' Oh, 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.
:''{Tompkins and Strong Bad are in the prinicpal's <!--SIC--> office. Tompkins is standing to the left of Strong Bad. Strong Bad has a sign on his desk reading "PRINICPAL"<!--sic--> and has a Sega cartridge saying "Road Rash". Tompkins is wearing shorts, and has his right hand in his pocket. Tompkins is also wearing a T-Shirt with the word "Truk"<!--sic--> and a poorly drawn truck on it}''
:'''TOMPKINS:''' Aw, come on prinicpal ''{pronounced as prin-ick-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 you're gonna turn out... HG HJHG HAAAALL right!

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*"Yous" is an alternate spelling of "youse", the New York Metropolitan Area dialect second-person plural.

=== Trivia ===
*This is the first Teen Girl Squad issue where all four girls clearly die.
*This is the first appearance of a main character (namely, Pom Pom, as well as Strong Sad if non-physical appearances are counted) in a Teen Girl Squad issue, outside of an Easter egg.
*This is the first time Strong Bad has made an apparently personal comment during narration.
*This is the first time Strong Bad has read the scene transitions (i.e. "after school") out loud.
*This is the first time that someone other than Strong Bad has said "IT'S OVER!"
*This is the first time someone says the word "[[crap]]" in a Teen Girl Squad issue.
*The main stage also appears in both the main email and an Easter egg in [[death metal]].
*Smartly Pretty is spelled using [[Wikipedia:Algebra|algebra]] symbols.
*In the Easter egg, each of the pizza shapes is an actual geometric shape: rectangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, and rhombus.
*This is the first of five consecutive issues featuring a Strong Bad cameo.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this toon is "TGS competes in the battle of the bands."
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===Remarks===
*So and So appears twice in this issue with two sharp [[fangs]].
*Cheerleader, So and So, and The Ugly One have no chairs by or attached to their desks to sit on.
*During their first practice session, What's Her Face looks like she is playing some odd mix between a Gibson Explorer and a Fender Jazz Bass, and Cheerleader is playing a Gibson V-Factor (more commonly known as the Flying V) with a Fender headstock. Also, the necks and heads of the two guitars are the same.
*In Issue 7 of Teen Girl Squad, the girls tell on Tompkins for "making a swear" when he said heck. In this issue, he says "Awww, Peas!", an example of a [[Wikipedia:Minced oath|minced oath]].
*Bread[[tangle]], breadpazoid, breadallelogram, and brhombus are [[portmanteaus]] involving [[bread]].
*What's Her Face holds her bass guitar [[Left Handedness|left-handed]].
*At the actual Battle of the Bands concert, it's quite clear that the only instruments being played are Cheerleader's three-necked guitar and What's Her Face's bass. However, you can easily distinguish the sound of a drumset being played in the background of the song.
*Both The Ugly One's and Cheerleader's count-offs are not the same tempo as the song.
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=== Goofs ===
[[Image:Ugly One Blue Pen Lines.PNG|thumb|Leather Black? We just call that blue.]]
*The blue lines on the paper are misplaced inside Tompkins's speech bubble in the Easter egg.
*When Mrs. So-and-So-erson finishes talking, the piano loop overlaps.
*At the beginning, two of The Ugly One's fingers are dark blue, and when she raises her arms they are both colored dark blue.
*The die that crushes So and So is a [[Wikipedia:Icosahedron|20-sided die]]. [[Wikipedia:Dodecahedron|Twelve-sided dice]] have pentagonal faces.

=== Inside References ===
*"Ooncha ooncha, one, two, three-cha" and Tompkins debuted in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]].
*The "[[-erson]]" tacked onto Mrs. So and So's name is a running gag also previously used on Teen Girl Squad Issue 7.
*Strong Bad is called a "prinicpal" (note the misspelling) by his nameplate and by Tompkins, just like in the [[Homestar Quiz]] and [[CGNU]].
*What's Her Face's desk is resting on her lap, which could be a reference to the DVD commentary for the email [[date]].
*When What's Her Face points out that Mrs. So-and-so-erson has "like a million jogging suits", What's Her Face's mouth looks like one of her earlier versions with large lips, seen in the [[Sketchbook (video)|DVD Sketchbook]]. However, this could just be the way the mouth is filled in.
*Cheerleader's inexplicable change of dress when she says "No yous guys" is similar to what happens to a pile of marshmallows in [[Meet Marshie]] (gaining a [[bowler hat]], a [[mustache]], and a [[Smoking|cigar]]).
*When So and So talks about Tompkins being a renegade, she has an expression on her face reminiscent of [[Doreauxgard]] in [[lackey]].
*Smartly Pretty is spelled using the [[pi]] symbol.
*What's Her Face's title card descriptions are usually meant to portray her as uncool; therefore, the "college radio!" caption probably refers to the email [[radio]], in which Strong Bad described college radio as "utter misery".
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===Real-World References===
*"Or so I have read" is most likely a reference to the [[Spinal Tap]] Song "Big Bottom".
*The [[Sega Tapes|Sega "tape"]] (technically a ROM cartridge) Tompkins steals in the Easter egg is "Road Rash". [[Wikipedia:Road Rash|Road Rash]] was a [[Wikipedia:Sega Genesis|Sega Genesis]]/Sega MegaDrive game where you race on motorcycles and knock other racers off their motorcycles by punching them or using clubs.
*One of The Ugly One's drums reads "mr. drummond", a reference to Philip Drummond, a character in the '70s/'80s TV show ''[[IMDB:tt0077003|Diff'rent Strokes]]''.
*Cheerleader's three-necked guitar is a reference to [http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/vai_triple.htm Steve Vai's guitar], which he played in the video for "Just Like Paradise" by David Lee Roth.
*The "16 hour drum solo" brings to mind the epic drum solos of many songs from the [[Wikipedia:Classic rock|classic rock]] era including "[[Wikipedia:Moby Dick (song)|Moby Dick]]" by [[Led Zeppelin]] and "[[Wikipedia:In A Gadda Da Vida (song)|In A Gadda Da Vida]]" by [[Wikipedia:Iron Butterfly|Iron Butterfly]].
*Cheerleader's close-up of her with a hat, mustache, 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 toward Edward G. Robinson.
*The goblins and the gamer's multi-sided die are staples of {{w|tabletop role-playing game}}s such as [[Dungeons & Dragons]].
*The opening quote for So and So "{{w|Hooked on Classics (series)|Hooked on Classics}}" refers to a series of compilations albums. They consisted of classical musical themes played over disco beats.
*Fatty's Big Chance is presumably a [[Wikipedia:ska|ska]] band, with his checkered pants and the phrase "pick-it-up".
**This is likely a specific reference to the 1970s British ska band [[Wikipedia:Bad Manners|Bad Manners]] and its fat, shaven-headed singer [[Wikipedia:Buster Bloodvessel|Buster Bloodvessel]]. The checkered pants match the standard set by the British ska label [[Wikipedia:Two Tone|Two Tone]], on which Bad Manners recorded. Additionally, Bad Manners recorded the song "Lip Up, Fatty".
*What's Her Face's bass transforming into a shark is a reference to the 1997 TV special, "[[IMDB:tt0218329|Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees]]". During a musical sequence, Mike's guitar turns into a shark.
*So and So's wardrobe for the Battle of the Bands is a reference to [[Wikipedia:emo|emo]] culture.

=== Fast Forward ===
[[Image:TGS8-DeletedScene.gif|thumb|I'm floataway crushin'...]]
*On June 17, 2019, Strong Bad [[twitter:StrongBadActual/status/1140760758407630848|revealed a deleted scene]] from this issue [[@StrongBadActual|on Twitter]]:

:''{The scene immediately follows Pom Pom's cameo.}''

:''{Cut to [[Cheerleader]] with her guitar and [[So and So]] at her synthesizer keyboard.}''

:'''SO AND SO:''' That sounded SLOOOW GOOD!

:'''CHEERLEADER:''' I like boys so much!

:''{Cheerleader dreamily drifts away. [[Nebulon]]'s sound effect plays faintly.}''

:''{The rest of the toon continues from the Battle of the Bands title card.}''

== DVD Version ==
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===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' So, we got our man Ryan Sterritt up in the house! Ryan, give a shout-out!

'''RYAN:''' Yo, yo!

'''MATT:''' Um, what is The Ugly One doing listening to pinebark, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Does What's Her Face never have an apostrophe?

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, y{{--}} I noticed that this week you added one for number ten. And she usually doesn't have one.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' And she's never had one before? I mean, it ''should'' have one, right?

'''MATT:''' I mean, sometimes "it's over", yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Didn't we fix all the "it's over"s?

'''RYAN:''' We did, but only two of the nine had apostrophes.

'''MIKE:''' On the website?

'''RYAN:''' Yes.

'''MIKE:''' But on the DVD they've all got 'em. I've finally learned the difference. Because of your Strong Bad's, uh, Rhythm and Grammar song!

'''MATT:''' Well, there you go!

'''MIKE:''' So... these days, one of the Teen Girl Squad's members almost always has fangs, at some point in the cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Tha{{--}}  that's always Mike. Mike loves to add the fangs. You know that Mike drew those frames if they have fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{sotto voce}'' I drew that. ''{normal volume}'' And I played bass! Like{{--}}  like What's Her Face! I know what she's going through.

'''MATT:''' Like Kim Gordon! And{{--}}

'''MIKE:''' D'arcy!

'''MATT:''' Laura! Laura from Superchunk, and D'arcy from Smashing Pumpkins.

'''RYAN:''' Jabucks had a girl bass player.

'''MATT:''' Did they? Look at that poor guy.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Kim Deal? Girl bassists... I'm not a girl, just to be clear! ''{laughs}'' I don't know how we got on girl bass players.

'''MATT:''' Hey guys, look at how creepy Mrs. So-and-so-erson is.

'''MIKE:''' I remember going to friends' houses and, like, their{{--}} the walk-in closet was kind of a fun place to play.

'''MATT:''' The, uh{{--}} the New You used to play in a walk-in closet I had at the Plaza Apartments! And we played for months and months and months and the day before I moved out was the only day someone came and complained about the noise... which was really surprising. Umm, so, I'm not believing that stuff about a bombing sixteen-hour drum solo, you guys.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' You can't{{--}}  ha{{--}}

'''MATT:''' Uh, so now, we've personified that speaker, uh, into some kind of speaker robot.

'''MIKE:''' Kinda looks like Screech's best friend robot that's in one episode of Saved by the Bell.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Um, Kevin is his name.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Fatty there, of course, being{{--}} representing the ska contingent.

'''MIKE:''' Were you ever into ska, Ry?

'''RYAN:''' Uh, yeah. Ska punk.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah? ''{laughs}'' Pick it up, pick it up, BossTones? Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' So what...

'''RYAN:''' Yeah. There's some Magadog on— there's some others with other catchy names.

'''MATT:''' ''{sings}'' Sound system gonna bring me back up right. Op Ivy, guys? That were I first heard "pick it up, pick it up".

'''MIKE:''' Eh, Op Ivy?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. ''{laughs}'' Dis my new band.

'''MATT and MIKE:'''  Dis Marky... and the Bitsy Boys!

'''MIKE:''' So were those people— were those supposed to be people in the foreground?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Or black lollipops?

'''MATT:''' Oh no.

'''MIKE:''' Oh wait, did she die then?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

===Fun Facts===
*The "Strong Bad's Rhythm and Grammar" song Mike refers to is from [[local news]].
*[[Wikipedia:Kim Gordon|Kim Gordon]], [[Wikipedia:D'arcy Wretzky|D'arcy Wretzky]], [[Wikipedia:Laura Ballance|Laura Ballance]], and [[Wikipedia:Kim Deal|Kim Deal]] are all mentioned as female bassists in alternative rock bands.

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