Original airdate: August 6th, 2013
One Last Sandwich: When Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy decides to retire, the Whammer convinces him to team up with him for one last crime. This part's associated vocabulary words are "final" and "pacify".
Caper or Plastic?: Hal Hardbargain tries to get WordGirl to help him retrieve his bag blaster from a mysterious criminal named the Masked Bagger. This part's associated vocabulary words are "muffled" and "flashback".
"One Last Sandwich" contains the following tropes:
- Chronic Villainy: Alluded to. When Chuck bemoans how WordGirl stopped his last crime before he retired, she expresses doubt, saying he "would have tried another one sooner or later".
- Eye Am Watching You: WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace make this gesture towards Chuck and the Whammer, as they're suspicious but can't prove the two are up to no good.
- Got Me Doing It: At one point Chuck catches the Whammer's "wham" Verbal Tic.The Whammer: Didn't Whammer do a whamming job with WordGirl?
Chuck: Yes, Whammer, you did very whamming, I mean, well[...]. - Imagine Spot: When Chuck decides to retire in style, he has one of himself on a tropical island, being served sandwiches by a butler. It reappears once WordGirl foils his plan, with prison bars cutting of his access to the island and the butler turning into an evilly laughing WordGirl.
- One Last Job: The Whammer convinces Chuck to team up with him for one last crime before quitting. They even name-drop the trope name.
- Planning with Props: Chuck does this with condiment bottles and stuffed animals when planning his and the Whammer's heist on the museum.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The Whammer does this when he says that Chuck should do one! Last! Job!
- Shaped Like Itself: While Planning with Props with the Whammer, Chuck explains that the mayonnaise represents them, the mustard represents the museum guards, and the ketchup represents ketchup.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Becky walks up to Chuck and the Whammer in the hardware store, she calls them "sirs I don't know".
- Tempting Fate: When Chuck decides to commit one last crime before retiring, he asks, "What could go wrong?" Things go wrong pretty much from the get-go when he fails to even scale the wall.
- Villain Team-Up: Chuck once again teams up the Whammer after the latter suggests that Chuck commit one last crime before retiring from villainy.
"Caper or Plastic?" contains the following tropes:
- Bad "Bad Acting": Hal's acting when asking WordGirl to help him find his "stolen" bag blaster leaves something to be desired. Unfortunately, it doesn't leave enough to be desired for her to see through it.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Mr. Botsford's suggestions for what Becky could become when she grows up are a nurse, a beekeeper, or a nurse who keeps bees.
- Flashback: Not surprisingly considering it's one of the featured words, this is used and lampshaded heavily. Apparently they make narrators dizzy.
- Foreshadowing:
- Hal's smile upon seeing the Masked Bagger in his flashback foreshadows his motive for pretending the bag blaster was stolen: wanting to meet the villain (or in present day, ex-villain) in person.
- Bill gets visibly nervous when Becky asks him if there's someone in the store who's especially good at bagging things. This is because he's actually the former Masked Bagger.
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: In Hal's flashback, the thin-haired and pencil-moustached Reginald has thick, curly hair down to his neck and a thicker moustache.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: When the Narrator points out how Hal is about to have a flashback, Hal says that he loves flashbacks, before asking what a flashback is.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": A villainous version. The reason Hal hid the bag blaster and pretended it was stolen was so he could meet the Masked Bagger, whom he admires and wanted to emulate in his youth.
- Pun-Based Title: The title "Caper or Plastic?" is a pun on the phrase "paper or plastic?".
- Retired Monster: Downplayed in that he's not much of a monster, but it turns out Bill the grocery store manager used to be the supervillain the Masked Bagger. He enjoyed the bagging much more than the stealing, so he retired from villainy and took a job at a grocery store instead.
- Something Only They Would Say: WordGirl realises that Bill the grocery store manager is the Masked Bagger when he says the villain's catchphrase, "The eggs always go on top."
- The Unintelligible: The Masked Bagger is a partial example; because his costume is essentially a giant paper bag that covers his mouth, nobody can hear what he's saying unless he pulls the edge down.
