Original airdate: February 15th, 2010
Tobey's Tricks and Treats
After losing the costume contest at school, Tobey sets his robots on a candy-stealing spree and vows to ruin Halloween. This part's associated vocabulary words are "eerie" and "supernatural".
"Tobey's Tricks and Treats" contains the following tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Tobey for WordGirl, as usual. In this episode, he carved a pumpkin with a picture of him giving her flowers.
- All Girls Like Ponies: Becky dresses as a princess for Halloween and says that it would be even better if she could ride a pony to school.
- Bedsheet Ghost: A student walks into Mr. Dudley’s class wearing this costume and flips on the lights, ruining his dramatic moment.
- One of Tobey’s robots also dresses as this.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Violet uses WordGirl's catchphrase (“Word up!”) throughout the episode because she’s dressed as her for Halloween.
- Crowd Chant: The rest of the trick-or-treaters chant for WordGirl to come and save the day and Violet, dressed as WordGirl, believes they’re chanting for her.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: While talking to himself, Tobey announces that he’s going to ruin Halloween and follows with an Evil Laugh. He realizes he said all that out loud when he sees the rest of the class giving him a Death Glare.
- Faint in Shock: A star-struck TJ faints when he sees "WordGirl" (actually Violet wearing a WordGirl Halloween costume) at his door.
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Referenced and averted. When Violet wins a costume contest dressed as WordGirl, Tobey accuses her of actually being WordGirl and already having the outfit in her closet. Becky, the actual WordGirl, is dressed as Pretty Princess.
- The Grinch: A Halloween variant. Because Tobey lost the class costume contest, he’s determined to ruin the holiday for everyone.
- Halloween Episode: After Tobey loses a costume contest at school, he decides to have his giant robots steal all the Halloween candy in town so he can have it to himself.
- Horrifying the Horror: The giant robots are terrified of trick-or-treating at a creepy-looking house.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: A cloud of bats is used to transition from the title card to start of the episode proper, then later again to transition from Tobey sending his robots out for more candy to Becky, Bob, and Violet trick-or-treating.
- Idiot Ball: Considering his massive crush on her, you would think Tobey if anyone would be able to tell that Violet in a WordGirl costume is not WordGirl, especially considering Violet is blonde and he specifically gushes about WordGirl's "dark, glossy locks" in "Department Store Tobey".
- I Got a Rock: Tobey is irritated that a soft-bristled toothbrush was included in the pile of candy his robots brought him, but they explained that it was the “treat” that was handed out.
- At the end of the episode when candy is falling out of the sky, Tobey tries to catch some but ends up getting an apple instead and then another toothbrush.
- Jaw Drop: Violet’s cat Fluffy sees Becky turn into WordGirl and is clearly shocked.
- Literal Metaphor: One of the robots steals candy from a kid dressed like a baby.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: The lady in the Bo Peep costume thinks the ginormous robot that stole her candy was just a really tall kid dressed as a cowboy.Bo Peep: A tall metal kid in a cowboy costume stole everything.
- Samurai: Tobey’s Halloween costume.
- Scary Flashlight Face: Mr. Dudley does one along with a Chair Reveal when he’s trying to teach his students the meaning of “eerie.”
- Secret-Keeper: Fluffy, Violet’s cat, ends up being this for Becky. She probably doesn’t need to worry about her telling anyone though.
- Shout-Out: One of Becky’s classmates appears to be dressed as The Incredible Hulk, mid-transformation.
- Spotting the Thread: Despite all of the other glaringly obvious differences, the thing that tips Tobey off to Violet not being the real WordGirl is that she’s not using her powers.
- Torso with a View: WordGirl punches holes through one of the robot’s torsos in the shape of a jack-o-lantern face.
- Worst. Whatever. Ever!: After WordGirl destroys Tobey's robots and makes all the candy they stole rain down over the area, he grumbles that "this is the worst Halloween ever."
Escape Wham
When both Chuck and the Whammer attempt to steal famous, priceless Henry VIII artifacts, WordGirl fears they've become partners in crime. This part's associated vocabulary words are "boisterous" and "potential".
"Escape Wham" contains the following tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: The Whammer calls Chuck "Chuckie Sandwich-Headed Man" and other variations thereof, and Captain HuggyFace "Chief HairyFeet" and "Captain Monkey-Monkey".
- Continuity Nod: When the Whammer first reunites with Chuck, he reminds him of that one time he was his sidekick.
- Decoy Convoy: WordGirl pretends to transport Chuck to jail in a prison van in order to lure in the Whammer, who promised to come and free Chuck. The real Chuck is in a fake bread truck elsewhere.
- Defensive "What?": When Captain HuggyFace is unimpressed by WordGirl's overly-descriptive name for their operation to take Chuck from the police station to the jail.WordGirl: What? The name covers all the bases.
- Double Take: Chuck's response when the Whammer tells WordGirl that he's not Chuck's sidekick, he's his partner:Chuck: Yeah! Wait, wait, wait, what?
- Ejection Seat: The decoy prison van that WordGirl fakes Chuck being transported in has two of them that the drivers use to avoid the Whammer's shockwave attack.
- Fastball Special: While fighting Chuck and the Whammer at the museum, WordGirl throws Captain HuggyFace at the Whammer. The Whammer returns in kind with a far less enthusiastic Chuck.
- Got Me Doing It: When the Whammer comes to save Chuck and tells him that he's going to wham him out of there, WordGirl shows up to tell him that he's "not whamming anywhere". When Captain HuggyFace points this out, she admits that "the whole whamming thing is kind of contagious."
- Impact Silhouette: The entrance to the Whammer's lair is a hole in the wall shaped like him that was probably made by the Whammer smashing through the wall at some point.
- Knuckle Cracking: The Whammer does when preparing to take on on Chuck when they get into a fight at the end of the episode.
- Operation: [Blank]: WordGirl calls the operation to transport Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy from the police station to the jail... Operation Transport-Chuck-the-Evil-Sandwich-Making-Guy-From-the-Police-Station-To-the-Jail.
- Parachute in a Tree: Used as a Brick Joke. When the Whammer attacks the prison van he thinks Chuck is being transported in, the two guards driving it use ejection seats to get out of it before his attack connecs. At the end of the episode, they're both seen hanging in a tree, and WordGirl picks them up as she's taking Chuck and the Whammer to prison.
- Perp Sweating: WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace use this on Chuck to get him to tell them where the Whammer, whom she incorrectly thinks he's teamed up with, is hiding. They do the classic lamp thing, and WordGirl puts a sandwich on the table that looks to be for Chuck, but that Captain HuggyFace eats before Chuck can get it.
- Saying Too Much: When it's revealed that the prison van "Chuck" was being transported in is a fake, WordGirl boasts that the Whammer can't defeat her and tells him where the actual Chuck is. Unsurprisingly, the Whammer promptly takes off to get him and leaves WordGirl admitting that maybe she shouldn't have mentioned that part.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Chuck realises that both his condiment ray and the Whammer's wham powers are out of juice, he assumes a fighting stance as he glares at WordGirl... and then runs away. After a few moments of indecision, the Whammer decides to join him.
- There Was a Door: The Whammer escapes from museum by blasting a hole in the wall, even though he already made a different hole to get in. The exit hole is also right next to the door, which the curator lampshades he could just have used instead.
- [Verb] This!: When the Whammer angers Chuck by telling him that he keeps messing up and needs training, Chuck tells him to "wham this" before starting to shoot mayo at him.
- Villain Team-Up: A rather one-sided example. WordGirl assumes that Chuck and the Whammer have teamed up when she finds them together in the museum, and the Whammer is happy to be Chuck's partner, but Chuck is against it.
