Original airdate: June 10th, 2015
Patch Game: Becky and Tobey compete over who can win the most skill badges. This part's associated vocabulary words are "eventually" and "award".
Girls' Day Out Throws Chuck: Mrs. Botsford takes Becky, Violet, and Bob on a spa day. This part's associated vocabulary words are "tranquil" and "haven".
"Patch Game" contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: As the Narrator puts it:Narrator: Winning an award requires more than just talent. It requires hard work and determination.
- Dark Horse Victory: Rather than Becky or Tobey, Violet wins the key to the city in the end. Turns out there are badges for things like playing in a field and tickling chipmunks.
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Despite being in the lead for winning the key for the city, Tobey starts to actively sabotage the second-place Becky's attempts to win badges, leading her to decide to put an end to his cheating when she was earlier considering if maybe he was winning his badges legitimately after all.
- Fantasy Sequence: As Tobey monologues about how winning the key to the city will also win him WordGirl's heart, he has a daydream of himself holding the key as the forest animals and his fellow scouts cheer and WordGirl looks at him in awe.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The montage of Tobey's robots earning badges for him starts and ends with badges sliding across the screen.
- Merit Badges for Everything: The City Scouts have many of them, like for example the Still as a Statue Badge and the Cooking Spice Alphabetisation Badge.
- Scout-Out: The episode has the mixed-gender City Scouts competing to earn the most skill badges in order to win a key to the city.
- Sudden Soundtrack Stop:
- When Becky holds up her failed attempt at an origami dolphin, Mrs. Botsford shows up to give her an Origami Dolphin-Making badge, accompanied by a triumphant fanfare. However, when Mrs. Botsford sees that the "dolphin" isn't up to snuff, the fanfare peters out.
- When Scott Wild admits that the key-giving event is smaller than he expected and maybe not worth paddling 20 miles upstream for, the heroic music that played during his speech to the scouts comes to a stop.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: As Tobey is quick to tell WordGirl when she shows up to confront him while he's relaxing by the lake, he is not really, really happy to see her.
- Tempting Fate: When Scoops tells Becky that she'll have to compete with him in the badge-earning contest, she says that she isn't worried and holds up creation for the Origami Dolphin-Making badge, which doesn't look like a dolphin at all.Becky: [upon realising how badly her origami went] Okay, I'm a little worried.
- Villain Has a Point: Subverted. Becky muses that maybe Tobey did legitimately earn his badges despite using robots to get them, since he did make the robots and thus they technically count as tools. She changes her mind once he actively sabotages her by having his robot step on the baby trees she is planting.
"Girls' Day Out Throws Chuck" contains the following tropes:
- Absurdly Long Stairway: The mountain staircase to the spa reaches above the clouds, and as the camera pans up, a mountain goat can be seen standing on a ledge. Somehow, the group is not dying of exhaustion by the time they reach the top.
- Cucumber Facial: Walter the spa owner tries to give one to Bob, but being the Big Eater he is, Bob eats both the mask mix and the cucumbers, the latter before they've even gotten on his eyes.
- Girl's Night Out Episode: The plot of the episode is Mrs. Botsford, Becky, and Violet (and Bob) going on a girls' day to the spa, though in an inversion of the usual route this kind of episode goes in superhero fiction, Becky wants to use it as an opportunity to avoid fighting crime for the day.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: Chuck's crime spree montage uses images of Chuck looking disappointed due to WordGirl not showing up.
- Running Gag: After making a D.A. joke early in the episode, Mrs. Botsford repeats several time throughout the episode that she's a D.A.
- This Is the Part Where...: After robbing the grocery store, Chuck laughs evilly and declares that no one can stop him. When WordGirl fails to show up (due to being at the spa), he comments that this is usually the part where she comes to stop him.
