Original airdate: August 5th, 2014
A Few Words From WordGirl: WordGirl is asked to give an inspirational speech. This part's associated vocabulary words are "dawdle" and "inspiration".
Ears To You: Mr. Big harnesses squishy bunny ears. This part's associated vocabulary words are "original" and "laughable".
"A Few Words From WordGirl" contains the following tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: When Becky is rehearsing her speech:Becky: People ask me, is it my amazing vocabulary that makes me a hero? And I say no. It's also my ability to fly and my super hearing.
- Don't Think, Feel: This is Dr. Two-Brains' advice to WordGirl regarding her speech. He tells her that she's plenty inspirational already and that she should stop over-complicating things and just say what comes naturally.
- Duct Tape for Everything: Apparently Dr. Two-Brains uses duct tape for the construction of his ray guns, as that's one of the things he goes to the hardware store to buy.
- Elderly Blue-Haired Lady: Captain HuggyFace is disguised as one as he and WordGirl wait for Dr. Two-Brains to "steal" the cheese on the park bench they're sitting on.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Before Becky and TJ go to school, TJ gushes over how WordGirl is going to be there, "unless she has to do something more important, like fighting a bad guy or something." This gives Becky the idea to do just that to get out of having to give the speech.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: When TJ gives Becky the idea to fight crime instead so she won't have to make her speech, she tells him to go ahead to school before her, because she just remembered she has to brush her homework.
- Literal Metaphor: When Becky and Violet are discussing WordGirl's upcoming speech, Violet says that she's counting down the days. She proceeds to count on her fingers and inform Becky that there are three days left.
- Literal-Minded: When the principal calls WordGirl an inspiration, she laughs bashfully and says, "I don't know..." The principal takes this at face-value and asks why not.
- Loud Gulp: WordGirl does this when the principal starts introducing her and she still doesn't know what her speech should be about.
- Medium Awareness: Dr. Two-Brains complains that WordGirl is dawdling instead of defining the word "dawdle", and mutters that it's too bad that the word of the day wasn't "ironic".
- Newspaper-Thin Disguise: WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace hide their faces behind a newspaper and a magazine, respectively, while waiting for Dr. Two-Brains to fall for their trap in the park.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: When brainstorming what WordGirl's speech should be about, both Becky and Dr. Two-Brains' first idea is that it should be about her favourite colour.
- Stunned Silence: The audience does the amazement version after WordGirl finally delivers her speech. After TJ does a Slow Clap and declares her more inspiring than ever, they follow suit and start cheering for her.
- Writer's Block: The plot of the episode is that WordGirl is asked to give a speech, but can't figure out what to say for it.
"Ears To You" contains the following tropes:
- Bags of Letters: Mr. Botsford gets a huge pile of fan letters after inadvertently starting the bunny ear fad.
- Conspicuous Consumption: Mr. Big mentions that after his bunny ears took off all on their own, all he had time to do besides selling them was make a bathtub full of money. Cut to his henchmen in a functional bathtub literally made of dollar bills.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Double-subverted. Mr. Big intended to use his bunny ears for mind control purposes, but when Mr. Botsford makes them a trend, they start making him tons of money all on their own. However, just as WordGirl's about to leave him alone, he throws in some mind control after all anyway, just for the heck of it.
- Dread Zeppelin: Phase two of Mr. Big's so-called plan turns out to be to build a blimp. Of course, since it follows his squishy bunny aesthetic, it's a lot less intimidating than most examples of this trope.
- Exact Words: When WordGirl is about to leave Mr. Big alone because he hasn't actually done anything wrong, she asks just to be sure if he's sure there's no mind control lever. He confirms that there isn't... before revealing that there is, however, a mind control velvet rope.
- Failed a Spot Check: WordGirl scans the skies for where Mr. Big could be hiding, completely failing to notice his huge, bunny-shaped blimp until she crashes into it.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: A bunny hopping across the screen serves as a transition to the scene where the news report about Mr. Big's bunny ears.
- Medium Awareness: When WordGirl asks why Mr. Big would start using mind control when she was right there to stop him, he responds that you can't have a Mr. Big story and not have at least a little bit of mind control.
- Series Continuity Error: Becky apparently feels the need to hide from Scoops that she is WordGirl, even though he learned her secret in "Invasion of the Bunny Lovers".
- Villain Ball: Despite already making tons of money off his bunny ears as is, Mr. Big starts mind-controlling the people wearing them for no good reason other than, as he puts it, "you can't get to the end of a Mr. Big story and not have a little mind control." WordGirl lampshades how stupid of him it was to do it when she was right there.
- Virtual Pet: Scoops's Mini Dino, which he started playing with because his cousin was doing the same. He admits that it mostly just eats and complains, and later in the episode he trades it to TJ for a pair of bunny ears.
