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Wacky, immature, postpostmodern Gen-X silliness — or genius? Either way, Teen Girl Squad, a flash cartoon within the world flash cartoon Homestar Runner, usually succeeds in making me pee my pants laughing. To truly appreciate it, you need to know a little about its parent cartoon (the aforementioned Homestar), which co-stars a strange, angry little man in an absurdly large Mexican wrestling mask named Strong Bad. When Strong Bad isn’t checking his email or playing tricks on Homestar’s titular hero, he’s hand-drawing a crude cartoon of his own called Teen Girl Squad. The trouble with Squad — and 90% of the humor — comes from the fact that Strong Bad isn’t much of a storyteller, and as such his narratives are filled with bizarre, inexplicably violent plot twists, and that he voices all of Squad’s four female protagonists, which is about the closest he gets to actual contact with real females on a regular basis. Here’s a typical episode:
Teen Girl Squad #4
Teen Girl Squad #2
Teen Girl Squad #5
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I think I have a chance with this guy!
ARROWED!!!
Homestarrunner (and all it’s spinoffs) are AWESOME!
posted by Whatsherface on 6-25-2007 at 9:54 am
“I have a crush on every boy!”
My friend, Bri, and I will still quote TGS at each other. Good times.
posted by Allanna on 6-25-2007 at 12:36 pm
“When you fall in a bottomless pit you die of starvation.”
Hee-hee.
posted by Jane on 6-25-2007 at 1:14 pm
I have always loved this site- makes me miss my college days and trogdor the burninator
posted by ac on 6-25-2007 at 1:17 pm
Oh wow, old school. I haven’t checked out HSR in years, but it was always a good time. We still add “‘d” to nouns to make verbs all the time :)
posted by Sara on 6-25-2007 at 1:22 pm
Though Homestarrunner quickly bored me, I still look forward to every new installment of Teen Girl Squad.
“Posssssumed” enough said.
posted by Sandra on 6-25-2007 at 6:33 pm
I heart Homestar! The creators were interviewed on NPR a while back on “Fresh-air” I think. The link is on the Homestarrunner Wiki.
posted by Rachel on 6-25-2007 at 9:30 pm