Episode summaries

WordGirl is presently finishing its second season and to-date has approximately 106 episodes revealed. Recaps are listed by episode number and not by air date.

Tobey or Consequences/High Fat Robbery
Tobey or Consequences: Featured Words: Enormous, Bicker

After WordGirl admits Tobey's enormous army of robots is too much for her, he agrees he'll call of the robots, on one condition - if she can beat him at a battle of words.

High Fat Robbery: Featured Words: Impressive, Diversion

The Butcher carries out impressive diversions: offering free barbecues in order to rob places, such as the bank and the jewelry store. With some help from Todd "Scoops" Ming, the school reporter, WordGirl and Captain Huggyface must track down The Butcher to save the city.

You Can't Crush City Hall/Two-Brain Highway
You Can't Crush City Hall: Featured Words: Doomed, Dash

The city seems to be doomed when Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy invents a way to demolish City Hall by crushing it with his Giant Sandwich Press. WordGirl must find out Chuck's secret password to stop the crushing machine before time runs out. Meanwhile, Captain Huggyface dashes off to District Attorny Botsford's office to find Chuck's file in order to find a clue about the password.

Two-Brain Highway: Featured Words: Coincidence, Guarantee

Dr. Two-Brains escapes a life-sized prison maze that the warden guarantees is escape-proof. Coincidentally, during the same week, many different cheese events occur in town. WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face aim to stop Two-Brains before he steals all the rare cheese in the city, but by one strange coincidence after another, Two-Brains continues to elude capture.

Coupon Madness/When Life Gives You Potatoes...
Coupon Madness: Featured Words: Squint, Coupon

Granny May goes on a crime spree using fake coupons to get stuff for free. WordGirl and Huggyface must put a stop to her fraudulent coupon crimes before she finds a way to take control of the city.

When Life Gives You Potatoes...: Featured Words: Transform, Glum

Dr. Two-Brains escapes from prison by chewing through the walls of his cell and creating a glum-looking dummy carved out of soap. He steals gold and invents a Transformation Ray that is supposed to transform the gold into cheese. However, the ray ends up transforming the gold into potato salad instead. WordGirl is determined to transform Dr. Two-Brains from a scientist to a jailbird before his next crime.

Jerky Jerk/Becky's Birthday
Jerky Jerk: Featured Words: Clumsy, Supreme

When Becky/WordGirl goes on a field trip to the museum, the Butcher tries to steal the ancient "Beef Jerky of Supreme Power" artifact on display there. But he has trouble snatching it due to his supreme clumsiness.

Becky's Birthday: Featured Words: Appetite, Expand

While Becky's parents are planning a surprise birthday party for her, WordGirl and Captain Huggyface must battle an expanding Energy Monster with an appetite for electricity.

Chuck!/Down with Word Up
Chuck!: Featured Words: Traditional, Confusing

When Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy steals gold and other valuables, everyone finds his new non-sandwich-related heists rather confusing. Meanwhile, WordGirl comes across two threats - Chuck's crimes and Mr. Botsford's nauseating traditional family recipe, Beans á la Botsford.

Down with Word Up: Featured Words: Deceive, Idolize

Granny May deceives everyone by convincing them that WordGirl is cold-hearted and not to be trusted. WordGirl must save the town and turn public opinion back to her side.

Book Ends/Mr. Big
Book Ends: Featured Words: Destroy, Predictable

Tobey is very predictable with his robot attacks, so WordGirl uses it to her advantage to predict his next move and catch him in the act. When Tobey's robots hold the town library hostage in attempt to destroy it, he and WordGirl challenge each other in a game of dodge ball to settle the matter.

Mr. Big: Featured Words: Vague, Specific

An evil businessman named Mr. Big, and his assistant Leslie, introduce their new product, "The Thing", a cubic object which does absolutely nothing. Mr. Big's advertisements for "The Thing" are extremely vague and unspecific; yet these useless items fly off the shelves due to Mr. Big's mind-control ray which forces the townspeople to buy them. WordGirl, the only person unaffected by the mind-control ray, must put a stop to the madness before Mr. Big reveals his newest product, "The Mega Thing".

Super Grounded/Mouse Army
Super Grounded: Featured Words: Disappointed, Preposterous

Mr. Botsford is disappointed in his daughter Becky (a.k.a. WordGirl) for not cleaning her messy room, so he grounds her until she cleans everything up, so Captain Huggyface is put in charge of battling the Butcher and his preposterous meat crimes.

Mouse Army: Featured Words: Depend, Stampede

Dr. Two-Brains creates an army of super-intelligent lab mice by increasing their intelligence with a Smart Ray. But when the mice become too smart, they become uncontrollable and form a stampede. When Dr. Two-Brains finds that he is unable to control them and stop them from taking over the city, WordGirl offers to help him. But can she depend on the villainous Dr. Two-Brains?

Tobey's Masterpiece/Chuck the Nice Pencil-Selling Guy
Tobey's Masterpiece: Featured Words: Masterpiece, Gasp

When Tobey fails to paint a masterpiece in art, his robot turns out to be a much greater artist than he is. But everyone gasps in fear when Tobey reveals his true masterpiece: a Super Robot!

Chuck the Nice Pencil-Selling Guy: Featured Words: Stubborn, Compromise

When Chuck is freed from jail, he starts off straight by selling pencils and rubber bands. But when he finds out that his new boss hates sandwiches, he snaps and holds him hostage for being stubborn and refusing to try just one sandwich. Will the two be able to make a compromise?

The Birthday Girl/Granny Sitter
The Birthday Girl: Featured Words: Generous, Exaggerate

Becky/WordGirl and her friend Violet meet Eileen, a.k.a. The Birthday Girl, who enlarges and turns green whenever she doesn't get her way. When Eileen steals Captain Huggyface out of greed, WordGirl must use Violet's help to teach The Birthday Girl to be generous in order to rescue him. However, in their quest to find Huggy and his captor, they seem to be exaggerating to a lot of busy people.

Granny Sitter: Featured Words: Investigate, Accelerate

Granny May finds an alibi for her next crime when she responds to a wanted ad for a babysitter. But the children she must babysit turn out to be Becky/WordGirl Botsford and her brother TJ. Becky must investigate as WordGirl in order to stop Granny May from stealing the Mazo-Racer (a solid gold-plated race car which accelerates from 0 to 105 miles per hour).

Mr. Big's Big Plan/Vocab Bee
Mr. Big's Big Plan: Featured Words: Decide, Opponent

Mr. Big and Leslie are back, and this time, Mr. Big is running for mayor. Mr. Big says he's reformed, and makes false promises to the townspeople in order to steal the election. WordGirl must find out his evil plan and save the city before Mr. Big wins the election and takes over.

Vocab Bee: Featured Words: Suspicious, Perfect

Becky/WordGirl enters a vocabulary bee, but finds herself only to be distracted by The Butcher's imperfect plot to rob the bank. Meanwhile, as she continues to sneak away from the Vocab Bee to see what the Butcher is up to, Todd "Scoops" Ming, the school reporter, is growing suspicious of her.

Shrinkin' in the Ray/Department Store Tobey
Shrinkin' in the Ray: Featured Words: Increase, Decrease

Dr. Two-Brains invents a Shrink Ray in order to shrink large amounts of cheese, making it easier for him to steal. After he accidently shrinks Scoops and the grocery store manager, WordGirl must put a stop to his cheese shrinking crimes - which is hard to do, as she gets shrunk as well! The problem is, shrinking objects is easy, but restoring them to their original size is much, much more difficult.

Department Store Tobey: Featured Words: Malfunction, Clever

Interrupting the Botsford family's shoe shopping trip, Tobey tries - as usual - to impress WordGirl with his giant robots. However, many of the robots appear to be malfunctioning.

Chuck E. Sneeze/Swap Meat
Chuck E. Sneeze: Featured Words: Avoid, Contagious

WordGirl has a contagious cold, but she must put a stop to Chuck's latest evil scheme before resting up. Chuck tries to avoid getting sick, but ends up catching WordGirl's cold when she accidentally sneezes on him.

Swap Meat: Featured Words: Forgery, Magnificent

Becky/WordGirl and her friend Violet visit an art gallery, only to find the notorious Butcher auctioning off rare and magnificent works of art, previously thought to have been lost for many years. WordGirl and Captain Huggyface must figure out how the Butcher is pulling off his scheme to auction off forgeries of these famous lost works of magnificent art.

Granny's Good-Time All-Cure Spritzer/Mecha-Mouse
Granny's Good-Time All-Cure Spritzer: Featured Words: Hoax, Potent

Granny May sells phony bottles of youth-restoring spritzer, claiming that just one spray will give anyone the strength to escape her cocoons of yarn. Will WordGirl and Captain Huggyface prove this is a hoax?

Mecha-Mouse: Featured Words: Identical, Astonish

Dr. Two-Brains builds a mechanical mouse muscle suit, which he plans to use for robbing the annual 2-for-1 festival. Now that Two-Brains has become much stronger, WordGirl and Captain Huggyface must find a way to defeat his Mecha-Mouse.

Princess Triana and the Ogre of Castlebum/Heat Wave, Crime Wave
Princess Triana and the Ogre of Castlebum: Featured Words: Reaveal, Devotion

Tobey and Becky are both devoted fans of the Princess Triana book series. But when Tobey arrives late to the midnight release of the newest book, "Princess Triana & the Ogre of Castlebum", he finds that the line is far too long. Unwilling to wait in the back of the line, Tobey plots to steal a copy of the book before it gets released. Using his robots, he attacks the armored van containing the books, snatches a copy, and spitefully tries to reveal the ending to WordGirl before she gets a chance to read it.

Heat Wave, Crime Wave: Featured Words: Swelter, Oppurtunity

On a sweltering summer day, Granny May uses the heat wave as an opportunity to go on a crime spree using her air-conditioned jetpack/suit of armor. The sweltering heat wave just may be too intense for WordGirl; and if she doesn't stop Granny May in time, her family will leave for the water park without her!

Thorn in the Sidekick/Crime Takes a Holiday
Thorn in the Sidekick: Featured Words: Sidekick, Exasperated

Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy gains a sidekick, The Whammer, a supervillain who creates sonic waves by smashing his fists together and uses the word "wham" at the most inoppurtune moments. However, The Whammer is obnoxious and exasperating, and acts more like a boss to Chuck, rather than a sidekick. WordGirl must save the town (and Chuck) from being whammed by The Whammer.

Crime Takes a Holiday: Featured Words: Replacement, Gloat

A super-fan named Glen Furlblam seems to be the replacement for Dr. Two-Brains while he goes on vacation. But Glen's incompetence as a villain and constant gloating makes it easy for WordGirl to track him down and put a stop to the foolish antics he calls crimes.

Meat with a Side of Cute/Mr. Big Words
Meat with a Side of Cute: Featured Words: Frantic, Adorable

The Butcher enlists an adorable kitten named Li'l Mittens as his ally, hoping to conquer WordGirl with cuteness. WordGirl and Huggyface are distracted by the kitten every time they attempt to stop the Butcher's crimes. But when the kitten runs off, the Butcher is franticly trying to find him. Mr. Big Words: Featured Words: Clarify, Proceed

Mr. Big creates a new mind-control ray that makes everyone use complicated vocabulary words. Meanwhile, his assistant Leslie skydives into the city to attach his "Word Sucker" microphones to every building to record WordGirl's clarifying definitions. Soon WordGirl is forced to clarify more words than ever. She proceeds to help the confused townspeople clarify until she finds out what Mr. Big is up to.

Two-Brains Forgets/Banned on the Run
Two-Brains Forgets: Featured Words: Quarrel, Identity

Dr. Two-Brains accidentally discovers WordGirl's secret identity using his latest invention, the "really big mechanical ear", which was supposed to be used in order to find out about specific cheese events going on in the city. After one of his henchmen messed with the device, it accidently fell upon a converstion between Becky and Bob about their WordGirl and Huggy uniforms - leading Two-Brains to believe that Becky is WordGirl!

Banned on the Run: Featured Words: Banned, Restore

Mr. Big finally cheats his way to becoming the town mayor by having him and Leslie disguise themselves, and then have Leslie use his mind-control ray to force the current town mayor into giving him complete control of the city. As a result, WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face are banned from the city. As Becky and Bob, the heroes must restore order to the town and Mr. Big's silly laws.

Have You Seen the Remote?/Sidekicked to the Curb
Have You Seen the Remote?: Featured Words: President, Baffling

In this episode, Tobey's mother "accidentally" sells his master remote and it ends up in the hands of a small boy who presents it to TJ, the president of the International WordGirl Fanclub, as his club dues. When TJ starts arbitrarily pressing the buttons, robots begin behaving strangely, wrecking various buildings and areas as they go. WordGirl and Huggy find Tobey, who explains the situation, and since WordGirl doesn't know what the remote looks like she suggests they work together to find it.

Sidekicked to the Curb: Featured Words: Motivate, Finale

When the Whammer decides he wants to be his own boss, he signs up for the Coach's motivational help program. But has he just become a pawn in the Coach's evil plot? WordGirl must face the Whammer once and for all, and catch the finale of her favorite TV show.

Lady Redundant Woman/A Game of Cat and Mouse:
Lady Redundant Woman:

A Game of Cat and Mouse:

The Masked Meat Maurader/Sandwich World
The Masked Meat Maurader:

Sandwich World:

Violet Superhero/Big Business
Violet Superhero:

Big Business:

The Handsome Panther/The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick-Maker
The Handsome Panther:

The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker:

Mousezilla/Villain School
Mousezilla:

Villain School:

Return of the Reprise of Lady Redundant Woman/A Simple Plan
Return of the Reprise of Lady Redundant Woman:

A Simple Plan:

Granny Mayor/Tobey Goes Good
Granny Mayor:

Tobey Goes Good:

Bongo Rock/Dr. Three-Brains
Bongo Rock:

Dr. Three-Brains:

A Vote for Becky/Class Act
A Vote for Becky: Featured Words: Elect, Cantidate

Becky runs against Tobey in the election for student council president. Becky has many ideas regarding how she would change things for the better for her school. Tobey's only reason for signing up, however, is to impress WordGirl; thus, he steals Becky's ideas in an attempt to steal the election. Becky soon discovers he is cheating, and aims to prove that he is being an unfair candidate. Meanwhile, Becky's mother is running for District Attorney again, with hopes of getting re-elected.

Class Act: Featured Words: Articulate, Ramble

The Butcher enrolls in an adult-education class on "the art of speaking" to brush up on the word skills he needs to be a top-notch criminal. The class teaches him how to articulate, and as he learns, he becomes more confident in his ability to outsmart WordGirl. When he informs her that she tends to ramble, she realizes that she is distracted by her upcoming speech at the adult-education class.

The Two-Brains Boogie/Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey
The Two-Brains Boogie: Featured Words: Shimmy, Indestructable

Dr. Two Brains threatens to turn all of the city's buildings into cheese with his new cheese ray blaster, and traps WordGirl outside the city limits with a force-field generation device. She enlists Mr. Botsford, a previous Boogie-Oogie-Oogie champion (and unbeknownst to him, WordGirl's dad) to attempt to break the force field and try to stop this evil plan and get to the contest on time.

Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey: Featured Words: Authentic, Competition

Becky is excited about the big field day competition at school. But when Tobey mysteriously displays extraordinary athletic skill when competing in the events, she suspects something is awry. Becky must figure out Tobey's trick, or else lose her chance at winning the coveted super deluxe teachers-only magic markers.

Slumber Party Pooper/Line Lessons with Lady Redundant Woman
Slumber Party Pooper: Featured Words: Blurt, Nuisance Becky finally convinces her parents to let her have her first slumber party. But who invited Eileen, (a.k.a. The Birthday Girl)? Becky must find a way to placate the bratty guest and still have fun at her own party.

Line Lessons with Lady Redundant Woman: Featured Words: Impolite, Oodles

When numerous people (including the mayor himself) rudely cut in front of Beatrice Bixby in the lunch line, she becomes enraged, transforms into Lady Redundant Woman and dispatches her copies to dole out some payback in the form of rude behavior. It's up to WordGirl put a stop to their impolite ways.

Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars/Great Granny May
Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars:

Great Granny May:

Theme Park Wham-page/Chuck Makes a Buck
Theme Park Wham-page:

Chuck Makes a Buck:

Highway to Havarti/Tiny Big
Highway to Havarti:

Tiny Big:

I Think I'm a Clone Now/Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff
I Think I'm a Clone Now:

Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff:

Bonkers for Bingo/The Ballad of Steve McClean
Bonkers for Bingo:

The Ballad of Steve McClean:

Tobey's Tricks and Treats/Escape Wham
Tobey's Tricks and Treats:

Escape Wham:

Pretty Princess Premiere/Where's Huggy?
Pretty Princess Premiere:

Where's Huggy?:

Robo-Camping/The Stew, The Proud
Robo-Camping:

The Stew, The Proud:

Who Wants Candy?/Chuck's Brother
Who Wants Candy?:

Chuck's Brother:

Becky and the Bard/Monkey-Robot Showdown
Becky and the Bard:

Monkey-Robot Showdown:

The Wrong Side of the Law
The Wrong Side of the Law:

Two-Brains Quartet/Big's Big Bounce
Two-Brains Quartet:

Big's Big Bounce:

The Young and the Meatless/Guy Rich
The Young and the Meatless:

Guy Rich:

Nocan the Contrarian/Meat My Dad
Nocan the Contrarian:

Meat My Dad:

Who is Miss Question?/Lunch Lady Chuck
Who is Miss Question?:

Lunch Lady Chuck:

Oh, Holiday Cheese/Ch-ch-change Day
Oh, Holiday Cheese:

Ch-ch-change Day:

WordGirl Makes a Mistake Part 1 & 2
WordGirl Makes a Mistake Part 1:

WordGirl Makes a Mistake Part 2:

Earth Day Girl/A Hero, a Thief, a Store, and its Owner
Earth Day Girl:

A Hero, a Thief, a Store, and its Owner:

Opposite Day/Granny's Book Club
Opposite Day:

Granny's Book Club:

Wham Up!/Seeds of Doubt
Wham Up!:

Seeds of Doubt:

Wishful Thinking/Lady Redundant Woman Gets the Blues
Wishful Thinking:

Lady Redundant Woman Gets the Blues:

Win a Shiny New Car/The People vs. Ms. Question
Win a Shiny New Car:

The People vs. Ms. Question:

Oh, What a Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy/Kids Action News
Oh, What a Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy:

Kids Action News:

Bummertime/The Homerun King
Bummertime: ???

The Homerun King: ???