New Teen Girl Squad: Issue 8
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 cartdrige saying "Road Rash."}
TOMPKINS: Aw, come on prinicpal Strong Bad. I only stole ONE Sega tape!
STRONG BAD: That's just it, Thompkins... 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 to date where all four girls clearly die.
- This is the first appearance of a main character other than
Strong Bad (namely, Pom Pom) in a Teen Girl Squad issue (Outside of an
easter egg).
- Judging from how the girls hold their guitars, Whats Her Face is left-handed. Likewise, Cheerleader is right-handed.
- Other than Issue 1 with "ARROWED", this is the only issue
where nobody is something'd. The Ugly One is floor tommed, step-mommed,
and pom-pommed, but not floor tom'd, step-mom'd, and pom-pom'd.
- As The Ugly One is doing her "16-Hour Drum Solo", her arms wrap around her body a couple of times.
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 Whats Her
Face and Cheerleader are playing basses, possibly Fender basses,
judging from the arrangement of string keys.
Inside References
Real-World References
- "Breadtangle" refers to cafateria pizzas which are rectangular in shape.
- "Fatty's Big Chance," or at least Fatty, is the stereotypical Ska musician, with a shaved head, checkerboard pants, and a chant of "pick it up, pick it up."
- One of the Ugly One's drums bears the inscription, "Mr
Drummond", who was 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 The KLF.
- The Sega "tape" Tompkins steals in the easter egg is "Road Rash".
- The robot who introduces the battle of the bands may be a reference to Saved by the Bell, where the character Screech creates a similar-looking robot friend.
- The speakerbox as the robots head may be a reference to Roundhouse, an early '90s Nickelodeon skit comedy show.
- The song the girls play sounds like the beginning to "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin.
- Cheerleader's line "Or so I have read" is also a lyric from Spinal Tap's "Big Bottoms"
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