Cheerleader
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Biography
Cheerleader is the de facto leader of the Teen Girl Squad whose "real" name is either Virginia, Joy, or Jennifer. She, like the others, represents a stereotype of a teenage girl; she obsesses about her appearance (specifically fashion) and focuses her energy on dating older or more popular boys.
Cheerleader aptly leads the Teen Girl Squad with her shrill and domineering manner. While the other girls usually follow her without question, they consider her leadership oppressive. After her demise shortly into Teen Girl Squad Issue 9, the rest of the squad was overjoyed and cheered, "We're free! The tyranny is over!", as they were then able to follow their own pursuits, even though they were killed later in the issue and ended up as Cheerleader's servants once more, this time as ghosts.
Cheerleader's trademark is her dress, which sports a different saying in every episode. Most sayings indicate either her puerile nature ("li'l brat"), vanity ("2 cute"), or her never ending desire for boys ("boy monger"). Many of them contain phrases which are meant to have overtones of these traits, but are barely intelligible, such as "huge bat", after previously wearing a shirt with the phrase "li'l brat". She also has blonde hair, which she wears in pigtails.
Like the rest of the squad, Cheerleader often meets a gruesome or unexpected end. She does not always die, however: she was the sole surviving member in the first issue and was nearly the sole survivor of Teen Girl Squad Issue 8, but was apparently eaten "off camera" by the shark at the end of the toon.
Despite her "boy mongering", Cheerleader has, as of yet, failed to successfully date anyone, with the exception of going to the Friday night dance with Eh! Steve! in HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS! and the Priggidy Prizom with Cheerleader Brian. When she tried to ask Quarterman out in Teen Girl Squad Issue 4, she was promptly CEREBELLUM'D. In Teen Girl Squad Issue 5, she was SAILING MISHAP'D after she yelled at the olda boys for correctly thinking she was the same age as So and So. The trend continues in Teen Girl Squad Issue 10, where her attempts to flirt with a trio of Scots only results in her being CABER-TOSS'D to her death. However, in Teen Girl Squad Issue 12, she goes on a mission to get "Valentimes Day" cards from as many different boys as she can and does, in fact, receive them, even if by force. She only values them for the "Mindy cred", as she immediately dispenses of each boy after getting his card.
In issue 5, when she and So and So were trying to get the "Olda boys" to date them, So and So said they were in 8th grade. If this is accepted as accurate, she can be considered about 14 years old.
Cheerleader's mouth has a tendency to curl to impossible lengths. One such occasion was in Issue 10, upon hearing that The Ugly One was hosting a boy/girl party. This also happened when she was given a Valentimes Day card from Patchbeard in Issue 12, and in Issue 14 when she says 'boys'.
In 4 Gregs, when Sci-Fi Greg asks her if she should be out leading cheers at the football game, she responds "No, I'm more a cheerleader in the way I dress and in the way I treat other girls," suggesting she isn't actually on the cheerleading squad. However, during the next issue of TGS Cheerleader implies that she actually is a cheerleader when Cheerleader Brian lifts her up while dancing, saying she's "off duty". She also performs a cheer for the basketball team if the megaphone is given to her in Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad.
Pre-K Version
In contrast, her pre-K counterpart in Teeny Tiny Girl Squad was the chubby, foodaholic "Fattycakes". She is seen eating a chocolate bar that she claimed she "dipped in salt", although the presence of insects and hair on it suggested otherwise. She wore a dress with two buttons and had freckles.
Title Card Descriptions
- hair products! (TV Time Toons Menu)
- cheer! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 1)
- growth spurt! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 2)
- boy crazy! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 3)
- cool parents! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 4)
- two piece! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 5)
- wants a pony (Teen Girl Squad Issue 6)
- fattycakes! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 7)
- top 40 hits! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 8)
- backyard pool! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 9)
- groovy grapefruit pink (Teen Girl Squad Issue 10)
- cell phone! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 11)
- red undies! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 12)
- $15/hour (Teen Girl Squad Issue 13)
- most likely to! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 14)
- college boys!! (Homestar Ruiner)
- strapless! (Teen Girl Squad Issue 15)
- lumbering! (The House That Gave Sucky Tricks)
Text on Shirts
- diva (Teen Girl Squad Issue 1 and HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!)
- li'l brat (Teen Girl Squad Issue 2)
- huge bat (Teen Girl Squad Issue 2)
- princess (Teen Girl Squad Issue 3)
- boys please (Teen Girl Squad Issue 4)
- purty (Teen Girl Squad Issue 6)
- coolier than thou (Teen Girl Squad Issue 7)
- suga sweet (Teen Girl Squad Issue 8)
- x-girl (Teen Girl Squad Issue 8)
- sperld rott'n (HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!)
- sell fish (Teen Girl Squad Issue 9)
- deady's girl (Teen Girl Squad Issue 9)
- baby daddy (Teen Girl Squad Issue 10)
- hot v2.0 (Teen Girl Squad Issue 11)
- who ♥ed? (Teen Girl Squad Issue 12)
- ms. thang (Teen Girl Squad Issue 13)
- the future ms. thang (Teen Girl Squad Issue 13)
- cheer lee duh (Teen Girl Squad Issue 14)
- growlback's phys. ed. (Teen Girl Squad Issue 14)
- lil' snot (Teen Girl Squad Issue 15)
- lil' snout (Teen Girl Squad Issue 15)
- cute + dum (Homestar Ruiner)
- cute + ded (Homestar Ruiner)
- nite mama (Baddest of the Bands)
- i aint no growla back girl (4 Gregs)
- (s)hallow (t)ween (Decomposing Pumpkins)
- kiss boys (Easter egg in theme park)
- de (Easter egg in death metal)
- poi fect (love poems)
- solid gold (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- party thyme (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- hott type! (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- rich grrl (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- 2 cool 4 u (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- boy monger (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- 2 cute (Teen Girl Squad Menu)
- i'm da zomb (The House That Gave Sucky Tricks)
- caber die (Disk 4 of 12 - World Games)
Hurt and/or Killed by
- Being grasped by a bat (Teen Girl Squad Issue 2)
- The Arrow'd Guy's Giant Brain Mech (Teen Girl Squad Issue 4)
- Struck by the S. S. Inevitable (Teen Girl Squad Issue 5)
- Being squished by a fat man (Teen Girl Squad Issue 7)
- Falling into the Arrow'd Guy's mouth (Teen Girl Squad Issue 7)
- Being chomped on by a shark (offscreen) (Teen Girl Squad Issue 8)
- Being run over by Learner's Permit Girl (Teen Girl Squad Issue 9)
- Being caber-tossed by the Scotsmen (Teen Girl Squad Issue 10)
- Having her body parts rearranged (Teen Girl Squad Issue 10) (Easter egg)
- A "Blinding voip" from Sci-Fi Greg's bare chest (Teen Girl Squad Issue 11)
- Being skewered by The USB Dongle Goblin (Teen Girl Squad Issue 12)
- Crushed by a plunger wielded by a French toilet (Teen Girl Squad Issue 13)
- Getting dirty laundry dumped all over her (Teen Girl Squad Issue 14)
- Being turned to stone by Medusa through a camera (Highest-scoring death in Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad)
- Disintegrated by a guitar solo (Baddest of the Bands)
- Disintegrated by a ray of light emitted from a disco ball (Teen Girl Squad Issue 15)
- Being caber-tossed by the kilted man in the Caber Toss minigame (Disk 4 of 12 - World Games)
Filmography
- Debut: Email comic
- Complete Filmography
Quotes of the Week
Cheerleader's Quotes of the Week |
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Characters | Main: Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, The Ugly One Gregs: Sci-Fi Greg, D n' D Greg, Open Source Greg, Japanese Culture Greg Minor: Arrow'd Guy, The Birds, Brainkrieg, Fighting Growlbacks, Manolios, Mr. Pitters, Mrs. Commanderson, Olympic Man and Coach, Peacey P, Quarterman, she likes cloth, Thomas, Tompkins |
Issues | Main: Issue 1, Issue 2, Issue 3, Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 6, Issue 7, Issue 8, Issue 8½, Issue 9, Issue 10, Issue 11, Issue 12, Issue 13, Issue 14, Issue 15 SBCG4AP: Homestar Ruiner, Cave Girl Squad, Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen Toons: 4 Gregs, Decomposing Pumpkins |
Miscellaneous | Locations, Costumes, Theme Song, Fangs, -'d, Ow! My X!, Captioned Transitions |
Other | Teen Girl Squad Deaths, 404'd, Neon 404'd, Teen Girl Squadcast |