Original airdate: December 8th, 2007
The Birthday Girl: WordGirl meets the Birthday Girl - a spoiled brat who enlarges when she doesn't get her way. This part's associated vocabulary words are "generous" and "exaggerate".
Granny-Sitter: Granny May answers an ad to be the Botsfords' new babysitter. This part's associated vocabulary words are "investigate" and "accelerate".
"The Birthday Girl" contains the following tropes:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The store Eileen gets her dresses from is called Debbie's Darling Dresses.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Reginald finds the idea of a house-sized ten-year-old girl running around to be farfetched, even though giant robots regularly cause havoc in the city and he's been robbed more than once by a man with the power to summon meat products from thin air.
- Dragged by the Collar: After Reginald proves to be of no help in Violet and WordGirl's hunt for Eileen, the angry Violet drags a slightly stunned WordGirl away by the arm to continue their quest.
- The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Eileen throws one with Bob as the unwilling guest after she kidnaps him. He's happy about the cookies she's serving, but less so about the pink, frilly dress she makes him wear.
- Food as Bribe: Bob very reluctantly puts on the pink dress Eileen wants him to wear at her tea party in exchange for a plate of chocolate chip cookies.
- "King Kong" Climb: The roles are reversed as Eileen, in her giant green form, climbs a tower with Bob the monkey in her hand. A witness lampshades this, asking if it should be the monkey holding the girl.
- Ludicrous Precision: By smelling the tea in Bob's abandoned coffee cup, WordGirl is somehow able to tell that it's been cold for 32 minutes and 16 seconds.
- Medium Awareness: When Violet asks how WordGirl knew she was at the jewelry store, WordGirl replies that it was thanks to her super hearing. And that they need to keep the story moving.
- Reflective Eyes: When Eileen sees a giant gold star on a building, it gets reflected in her eyes, making them look like star-shaped Wingding Eyes.
- Running Gag: Becky/WordGirl getting more and more frustrated at Eileen's Elmuh Fudd Syndwome.
"Granny-Sitter" contains the following tropes:
- Ambiguous Syntax: Mr. and Mrs. Botsford are going to see the cat art exhibit at the museum. When Becky notes that that's a lot of pictures of cats, Mrs. Botsford replies that it's not paintings of cats, it's paintings by cats.
- Angry Fist-Shake: Granny May does this gesture as she's being arrested.
- Brick Joke: The dummy that Granny May sets up in the Botsford residence to cover for her going to commit crimes comes back at the end of the episode, where Mr. Botsford mistakes it for the real deal and tries to pay it for the babysitting job.
- Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Bob asks this about the dummy of himself he's inflating. Considering the dummies are a good deal rounder than the originals, he's not entirely off.
- Dramatic Drop: Becky drops the book she's holding when she finds out that Granny May is going to be her babysitter.
- Loud Gulp: Bob loudly swallows the grapes he's eating when he first finds out that Granny May is the Botsfords' babysitter.
- Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Mr. Botsford does this when he accidentally knocks over Granny May's inflatable dummy (which he thinks is the real thing).
- The Quiet Game: When a bored TJ says through the wall that he wants to play a game with Becky, she suggests this so she can turn into WordGirl and fly away to stop Granny May without him suspecting anything.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Becky and TJ have been sent to their rooms for a third time by Granny May:TJ: Becky? I'm. Still. Bored.
- Rule of Three: After sending the children she's babysitting to bed, Granny May makes three different attempts at stealing the Maz-o-car, being stopped by WordGirl each time. WordGirl finally apprehends her at the third attempt. WordGirl also has to come up with a new excuse so TJ won't notice her leaving all three times.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Subverted. The solid gold Maz-o-racer car doesn't move at all, which the driver says is because all the gold is weighing it down. Then it turns out the emergency brake is on. Once he releases the brake, the car takes off like any other sports car.
- We Will Meet Again: When Granny May is arrested at the end of the episode.Granny May: You may have gotten me this time, WordGirl, but I'll be back!
