[8] By 2022, the show had gained a cult following through social media. Play word games with WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face to build vocabulary. She and Huggy use their crashed spaceship as a secret hideout. Big Left Hand Guy, voiced by Mike O'Connell, is a graduate of the Coach's school. In the episode "Meat With a Side of Cute", after tiring of being defeated by WordGirl, the Butcher chooses a very unlikely ally to help him out, a kitten named Li'l Mittens who was previously known as "Meathook". This is a constant problem but she manages to prove it in the end. Despite her resemblance to her mistress, the Butcher could identify which is Dupey or Lady Redundant Woman. Mysterio named this move after the area code of his hometown of San Diego, California. WordGirl's focus is on great stories, characters, and animation. TV Show: Wordgirl. Head chief, boss and CEO of self-titled Mr. Big Industries (born under the moniker of Shelly Smalls,) this businessman who uses mind-control to get what he usually wants (it's part of his company's mission statement) invented The Thing and the Mega-Thing cubic objects that do absolutely nothing. In "WordGirl Makes a Mistake", Becky confesses to being WordGirl to her father and brother (in spite of Bob's protests) after feeling that she has hidden it from them for too long but neither of them believe her. He usually jumps to conclusions when examining a crime scene, and is named for the assistant of Sherlock Holmes. "Today's my biwthday!" Tobey lost control of it when his robot artist, Artsy, painted a picture of the golden giant. He speaks with either an Irish or British accent. They then tell her, "Eyes on the prize." WordGirl was born on the planet Lexicon, and as an toddler accidentally wandered onto a spaceship, which was piloted by Captain Huggyface. 4 feet 8 inches. In a recent episode, she seems to be able to just look at a picture or painting and create a copy. Enhanced VocabularySuperior IntellectSuper SpeedSuper HearingSonic ScreamArctic BreathSuperhuman StrengthAbility to communicate with her sidekick Captain Huggy Face -Welcome to the Hero/Protagonist wiki! Even though he looks menacing at times, Charlie (whose name was revealed in "Two-Brains Highway") has a big heart and a great love for animals just like his friend. Cree Summer voices the evil little old lady. Sally is voiced by Maria Bamford. This obsession with WordGirl is a bit unnerving to his sister, because he is also the president of WordGirls fan club and does not allow his sister (as Becky) to attend meetings. He and Brent later went into business together selling Peanut butter bread and Jelly bread. For example, in the episode Tobey or Consequences, the child villain Tobey proposes a game show, Crash or Pie? to settle the question of whether his robots would be allowed to destroy the city. She is a new transfer student to Woodview Elementary who seems to be extraterrestrial. -M-NUva. WordGirl can instantly change into her suit, and back again into her adopted human identity (depending on the scenario) by touching her shirt where her emblem would be, and speaking her catchphrase, Word up!. She's basically a expy of of Superman and Supergirl if you think about it, considering the fact that she comes from the planet Lexicon and was sent to Earth as a baby but i digress. Her voice is provided by Kristen Schaal. Her powers are disrupted by Lexonite, a substance from her home planet Lexicon. The "rhyming crime" is usually what gets them caught by the police. She became gradually sarcastic because Mr. Big would not notice all she does for him. QuestionInvisi-BillBig Left Hand GuyCaptain TangentThe LearnererVictoria BestMiss PowerThe Coach ), Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Making Guy, His greatest invention is an all natural solar powered cyborg wheelchair. He likes vegetable stews and is one of the very few people to know Becky's secret identity, telling Becky after a fight with one of Tobey's robots, "Nice flyin' up there, kiddo." Enemies She is joined in her adventures by a . The companion site to WordGirl lives on PBS Kids, and was built by interactive firm Big Bad Tomato. The room itself has sideways doors and upside-down staircases, presumably to make visitors ask questions about it. All you need as input is the current age, gender, and current height. She wears cream-colored knee socks with black and white saddle shoes. Film Festival 2009, NY Festivals' 2009 TV Programming and Promotions award, 2012 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation, 2013 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation, 2015: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program. Even though Two-Brains is not friends with WordGirl, he still sees the girl as an acquaintance. Tim Botsford (adopted father)Sally Botsford (adopted mother)TJ Botsford (adopted younger brother)Bampy Botsford (adopted paternal grandfather) Her favorite book is Princess Triana (a parody of the Harry Potter series of books), while her favorite TV show is "The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour". Youtube is a bitch and I'm highly pissed right now honestly. Wordgirl seems to be a direct parody of Superman: they both came to Earth as infants, they both share powers of superhuman strength and speed, flight, and super hearing, and they are both vulnerable to radioactive fragments from their homeworlds. on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 on most PBS member stations. Her lone setbacks are that she is a horrible singer and dancer, and she struggles with art. Dr. Two-Brainsroyal dandyTobey McCallister IIIChuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guykid potatoLady Redundant WomanThe Butchercount cloudyChazzThe WhammerMr. Hobby Fred Stoller plays Chuck. In her usual attire, she wears a cream-colored shirt under a V-neck green sweater with a maroon skirt and a matching headband. Beckys best friend from school. If those methods dont work, she becomes selfish and at times cruel by simply yelling Mine, MINE, !, growing in height and turning a deeper shade of green with each yell , until the owner of the coveted item hands it over in fear. Disguised as mild-mannered 5th grader . Beckyreveals her identity to her dad and TJ in the two-part episode "WordGirl Makes a Mistake", but they dont believe her. As Becky, she spends her time reading, going to school, decorating her dollhouse, collecting ponies and unicorns, and trying to hide her secret identity. The character is a play on the name of the actor Steve McQueen. Akin to her relationship with her as WordGirl, Becky finds a rival in Tobey McCallister III , who tries to outdo her (as well as everyone else) constantly in events such as Field Day or elections. Dr. Two-Brains VOICE. Dont give it away! The Narrator has also been known to intervene in the storys action, and his words and judgments during these circumstances generally lead the viewers to believe that he's not-so-secretly on WordGirls side. She has light brown skin and her face is circular. His main weapons are squirt bottles of condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, honey mustard, pickle relish, honey butter, barbecue sauce, and olive oil. Shes a huge fan of "The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour" TV show as well as the Princess Triana books, even dressing up as the Pretty Princess for Halloween in the episode "Tobey's Tricks and Treats". He fired the whammer because the cake he was helping make was supposed to say "Happy Birthday Kevin",(a pun on his actor's name) not "Happy wham day Whammer." Bigs Big Plan and has a goatee and a slightly squeaky voice. It seems to have somewhat of a personality, unlike Tobey's other robots. He likes to act superior to nearly everyone on the show and seems to have a crush on WordGirl, which would make him a fanboy. The meteor is about 663 px in diameter. Veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor plays Mr. Big. Eventually, they broke apart after Dupey revealed she's a vegetarian. The show's creator, Dorothea Gillim, believes that children's shows often underestimate children's intelligence: Part of my mission is to make kids' television smart and funny. Becky attends Woodview Elementary School, where she is close friends with Violet Heaslip and the school newspaper reporter Todd Scoops Ming. .He has mistaken many places for the police station, screaming all the while and not recognizing his own wife (Oh, I thought you looked familiar). The energy monster is a reference to the friction monster from the Ripping Friends (TV Series), A narcissistic game show host and con artist (voiced by Daran Norris) who debuted in the episode "Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff!" This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 21:06. Question, Mrs. Ripley, Johnson (season 9), Seymour Orlando Smooth, Nocan the Contrarian, Reginald the Jewelry Store Clerk, InvisiBill, Museum Curator, Bill the Grocery Store Manager, Big Left Hand Guy, El Mysterioso, Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 1), Amazing Rope Guy, Mr. Best, Stu Brisket, Dave, Anthony, Officer Jim, Zookeeper, Principal (in "A Few Words from Wordgirl"), Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 2-8), Beatrice Bixby / Lady Redundant Woman (1st Time), 2008 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming, awarded July 19, 2008 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation, Learning Magazine 2009 Teacher's Choice Award for Families, Featured at the KIDS FIRST! The inventor of "Choclo-sandals" who led a tour of his chocolate factory in "Who Wants Candy?" Alias(es) Becky and TJ's grandfather, and Tim's father, first appearing in the episode "Bampy Battles Bots." Voiced by Weird Al Yankovic, this new villain annoys WordGirl with his constant misuse of suffixes (ex; his name is "learnerer instead of "learner"). It is also shown that she can speak Spanish, is a gymnast, collects bugs, plays the recorder, and does many other things. Police Commissioner Watson has a new do and He later jailed WordGirl in "The Wrong Side of the Law" for stealing a figurine after being framed by Eileen, the Birthday Girl. She battles against an assortment of villains that include but are not limited to The Butcher, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy, Dr. Two-Brains, Granny May, Mr. Big, Tobey McCalister III, and Whammer. He's a master of robotics, building giant robots to do his bidding. Two of The Butcher's old friends from elementary school that were known as "The Troublemaking Trio" that reunited for a brief time and pranked National National Bank by stealing free balloons and a pen on a chain, and tricked the Grocery Store Manager with a flour-over-the-door gag in "The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker". His greatest invention is an all natural solar powered cyborg wheelchair, and has a monkey assistant named Bosco. A transfer student from England at Becky's school, voiced by James Adomian, who acted as Romeo in "Becky and the Bard." This character tries to upstage Mr. Big, the resident big business villain in "Mr. Big's Mini-Golf". This misguided and odd pirate (voiced by John Henson of Wipeout fame) with a magnetic hook and parrot sidekick was fired from his job at Blackbeard's Buffet all-you-can-eat restaurant because of his continued use of speaking in tangents instead of serving customers their meals. Tobey's mother (voiced by Dannah Phirman) seems to be a genius like her son. 4 feet 11 inches. "What do bestest fwiends do?" The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Despite Violet's ever-sweet demeanor, she can become enraged and protective when her friends are disadvantaged or harmed. She proves to be more powerful than WordGirl, and tries to take over the world. Eugene stops working with Granny May and becomes friends with Violet. In the same episode, she also seems to be very offended whenever someone says, "No questions asked." Her lone setbacks are that she is not good at dancing, and she struggles with art and charades, but is a great singer. Violet lives in the country apparently not too far from the suburbs in a hippie-styled house with her mother. The series of shorts consisted of thirty episodes, with 130 episodes in the full half-hour series. In her superhero attire, she wears her powerful suit, with her red star embellished on a golden shield on her chest. Tobey's Super Robot is a giant, super huge golden robot that is bigger and stronger than all of Tobey's other robots. However, Wordgirl was able to dispose of her copy, had the thesauruses returned, and gained back their trust. #wordgirl #youtube. Users who misuse the template will be blocked for a week minimum. (This was a trick discovered by Violet in the "Birthday Girl" episode; when as a giant Eileen holds WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face hostage, Violet declares Eileen one of her "bestest fwiend in the whole wide wode." WordGirl (stylized as WRD GIRL) is an American children's Flash animated superhero television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. She's brilliant in the courtroom, though when she sees an actual crime being committed, she tends to freeze and miss her daughter change into Wordgirl. In a recent episode, Becky's grandfather, Bampy Botsford, figures out Becky's identity. He can shoot blue paint out of his hands, and annoyed the city until Lady Redundant Woman defeated him after he used a copier as a trampoline after covering the top with blue paint. A supervillain who definitely does not have a way with words or evil at all, hence his name. Teach people (including the villains) vocabulary, This hero was proposed but rejected by the community for not being admirable enough or lacks what is necessary to be a, WordGirl seems to be an affectionate parody of, The series' title character and her alter ego is voiced by. She is voiced by Jen Cohn in most of her episodes. John C. McGinley does The Whammer's voice. His sole drawback though is his nebbish voice, voiced by Tom Kenny. The Botsford family keeps Captain Huggy Face as a pet, naming him Bob. Powers/Skills Becky, who is age 10, spends her time reading, going to school, decorating her dollhouse, collecting unicorns and trying to hide her secret identity. After three encounters with The Butcher and WordGirl, he was sent to a city known as Meatropolis, where there are twenty-three butcher shops, hamburger parades every Sunday, and no superheroes or superhero monkeys. WordGirl was then adopted by Tim and Sally Botsford, who at that point had not having children of their own (though later they had their own boy, T.J. Botsford, who would be her sibling), and she was given the name "Becky." The oblivious Scoops has a high opinion of himself and does not hesitate to take credit for anything he might possibly have had to do with, such as the time he told the story in "Becky and The Bard" in the role of The Wall when the cast was absent from the theatre at Woodford Elemetary. Handsome." Flashbacks show him defeating an independently-produced 50-foot-tall robot with a screwdriver and whiskers. Comic/actor Patton Oswalt voices Tobey. Her main reason (other than keeping an eye on her daughter while under house arrest) is that she dotes on her and WordGirl. Eventually, she took up her current identification as WordGirl. By touching her nose, she can split off duplicates of herself, one of which named "Dupey", falls in love with The Butcher in "The Young and the Meatless", that is part of forming an army that she sends to do her bidding. He has the ability to see things once and then learn them immediately, and can program his yellow suit to get past those obstacles. In one episode, she tries to steal the 'Question Mark of Socrates', a pin worn by the philosopher in Ancient Greece. ", causing their brains to fuse, and the external mouse part, located on the left side of his head, glows with a greenish light and pulsates sometimes. Because WordGirl has a love for cute animals, she was powerless against The Butcher and the kitten. Her main weapons are knitting needles that shoot purple indestructible yarn, petrified purse mints that burn the eyes, strong-smelling perfume which acts as a sort of stink gas, and her giant but timid grandson Eugene May; she can also produce a cutting-edge steel suit of armor with a jetpack to wear. He also has a graduate named InvisiBill, a man who has the power to turn invisible on command by snapping his fingers. Yet another segment features the interstitials announcer (Rodger Parsons) asking Captain Huggy Face for a visual demonstration of a certain word (such as "strenuous" or "flummoxed"). WordGirl is extremely popular in Fair City, which she protects, and there has been more merchandising and honoring of the heroine. Miss Power and her sidekick Mr. Giggle Cheeks came from another planet like WordGirl, and pretends to be her friend and a new superhero, but in reality tricks WordGirl and all the other citizens into bullying each other and takes over the city, jailing anyone that opposes her. She, like everyone else in the show (with the exception of Dr. Two-Brains), does not have a specific eye color, except for times that she'sunder mind control (e.g., in the episode "The Pretty Princess and Mr. Big Power Hour"). While he was driving the spaceship, WordGirl woke and startled him, making them collide into an asteroid and forcing him to crash land on Earth in order to save the both of them. Kid Potato came to the city to try to convince his son to team up with him as a super villain team called "Meat and Potatoes". Through a fortunate turn of events, his memory of this event is later erased. He then has to choose between revealing her, or protecting her identity to help her continue saving the city. He doesn't seem to take superheroes (or even children) seriously. This character was first seen as a sidekick for Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy. While in her alter ego, she has a younger brother, TJ, obsessed with WordGirl, but still unknowingly a typical sibling rival to Becky. Wordgirl/Becky: Thanks Scoops. Credit to Imaginym WordGirl in this shot is approximately 78 pixels tall, by my count. This Energy Monster expands in size when it absorbs electricity. Together, with the help of The Whammer, they stole Michaelangelo's Whistle. Some characters apear to be of more entertainment value than others that may be more obviously for educational purposes, but all have different qualities that make them helpful to the progression, effectiveness, and entertainment of the show. Although his family does not believe it at first, They know it after he defeated Tobey's second look-alike robot. The Baker is voiced by Kevin McDonald, while James Adomian did the voice of The Candlestick Maker. Chuck's boss in "Chuck the Nice Pencil Selling Guy", he was held hostage because of his dislike of sandwiches (except for grilled cheese). WordGirl must track down Dr 2-Brains after he escapes from the Prison Warden's life-size maze, the same week there just happens to be lots of rare cheese to steal from events around town. WordGirl is an American children's animated television series for children aged 9 -12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. In one episode, he learns WordGirl's secret identity and intends on publishing the news, but his plan backfires when Becky misdefines a word wrong to make him believe she can't be WordGirl for such a big vocabulary mistake. As of April 2022, the website is still active.[12]. You can convert metric to imperial length units using our length calculator. This villain from the Kingdom of Contraria, whose booming voice is given by Daran Norris, always speaks in opposites; for example, if someone says "strong," he will respond by saying "weak," followed by a barbaric yell.. Also, in the episode "Big's Big Bounce", Becky knows the definition of the word "boost", and Mr. Big becomes suspicious for a while. etc.). This unseen character can interact with any character, although he most often converses with WordGirl, and can also hear her thoughts, as seen in the Vocab Bee episode. Tobey only unleashes his robots when his mother is away. Only seen so far in "Who is Ms. (Thanks to Wordgirl, he later gets the tie back.) Appearances TV Show Trivia Claire's original design (at least her arm). She then proceeds to steal the trophy that she did not earn. Milt is an assistant librarian who wants to see Becky end her streak of perfect returns of books, and is voiced by Andy Dick. Wordgirl How Tall Is Wordgirl? He also stated that he did magic tricks as a child. When Tobey kept on persisting his chess-playing champion to win, Checkmate 3000 began to become so frustrated that in the end, he tried to destroy every checker-patterned objects. During a flashback in "Monkey-Robot Showdown", we learned that Tobey was in a checkers match that he lost to Violet. Having put away almost every villain WordGirl has captured (although she doesn't know that it's her adopted daughter), Sally even caught two of them red handed - Granny May and Seymour Orlando Smooth - with WordGirl's help. WordGirl | PBS Kids Inspire your child to learn about and celebrate Black leaders. Question?" WordGirlThe Living DictionaryThe Pint-Size PowerhouseThe Super Sweet and Really Strong Princess Who Also Knows VocabularyWordGrump (by Dr. Two-Brains in the episode "The Straw That Broke Two-Brains' Back")WordLassie (by Captain Tangent)Human/Alien Girl (by Squeaky)Pajama Girl (by Squeaky)Becky Tobey also guesses that Becky is WordGirl due to her possessing the remote to his robots, but she convinces him otherwise by the means of a clever plan between her and Huggyface. Each time, however, she manages to put them off the truth. He makes Beans a la Botsford, which only Bob (Captain Huggy Face) will eat, In "The Two Brains Boogie", Mr. Botsford was shown to be master at boogieing and even had a video starring him on how to do so. The clone was created when Lady Redundant Woman consumed a picture of Wordgirl and copied her. At times she seems to have a rather tenuous grasp of reality, even more so than Becky's parents, as she dreams about winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Despite obvious similarities, only a few others have made the connection; in the episode "Two-Brains Forgets", the villain does find out and tells Beckys family, but they all forget when they are hit with his amnesia ray, which is redirected toward a mirror by TJ, thanks to his WordGirl boomerang and hits everyone but WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face.

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