Original airdate: June 19th, 2015
World's Best Dad: Becky and her dad try to break a world record. This part's associated vocabulary words are "attempt" and "combine".
The Good Old, Bad Old Days: The Butcher gets some new moves from a book about how to defeat superheroes. This part's associated vocabulary words are "hazy" and "reminisce".
"World's Best Dad" contains the following tropes:
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: When Becky sees that there are world records for unicycling and for balancing watermelons on your head, but not one for unicycling while balancing watermelons on your head, she decides to help her dad set one.
- Dark Horse Victory: In the end, the one who wins a world record is Victoria's gorilla sidekick General Smoochington, who sets the world record for speed-baking a soufflé on stilts while reciting the alphabet backwards while WordGirl is away saving her dad from Victoria.
- Dope Slap: Captain HuggyFace gives WordGirl one when she almost jeopardizes her secret identity by calling Mr. Botsford her dad.
- Fastball Special: Emergency Plan #2, the old Huggy Face Super Face Hug, involves WordGirl throwing Captain HuggyFace at her opponent and him latching onto their face, knocking them over.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Victoria Best uses her telekinetic eye beams to swing the hypnotized Mr. Botsford at WordGirl.
- Guinness Episode: Becky gets a book of world records and decides that she and her dad should try to break one, only for Victoria Best to overhear them and decide to do so herself.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Victoria says "Yawn" while doing one-finger push-ups to show how easy she finds it.
- Tears of Joy: General Smoochington gets these as he accepts his world record plaque at the end of the episode.
- Tempting Fate: While attempting to set the world record for unicycling while balancing watermelons on your head, Mr. Botsford happily declares that he's found his groove. Right after saying this, he falls to the ground.
- That Poor Cat: Mr. Botsford crashing off-screen after jumping through a hoop at the end of the episode in an attempt to set a world record is accompanied by a cat yelping in surprise.
- That Russian Squat Dance: One of the world records Becky names from her book of records is doing this while blowing bubbles.
"The Good Old, Bad Old Days" contains the following tropes:
- Chirping Crickets: When Sheldon tells WordGirl that he used to be the Blue Blazer, another resident of the retirement home they're at coughs in the background as she stares in confusion to underline how she has no idea who that is.
- Department of Redundancy Department: When the Butcher turns himself in, WordGirl asks how she can know it's not "another trick from [his] tricky book of [...] tricks".
- Dressed in Layers: In his flashback, Myron has his super outfit underneath the suit he's wearing and opens the suit before turning into Razzmatazz, Superman style.
- Evil Cripple: The retired villain Razzmatazz has a Super Wheelchair that can fly, and a flashback reveals that he already had it in his glory days before he retired. Downplayed in that, much like many WordGirl villains, "villain" is more a job description than anything else and he's so friendly that he can barely be called evil.
- Flaming Hair: Retired villain Blue Blazer has blue flames for hair in the flashback to his youth, which has been reduced to just a small flame in the present day as he's grown old and gone mostly bald. He can apparently turn it on and off at will, since he just has normal hair in his civilian outfit.
- Flashback Effects: Myron reminiscing about his and Sheldon's youth is done in the style of a comic book, complete with the screen turning like a page to start the flashback.
- Hand Rubbing: The Butcher does this as he prepares to steal an exhibit from the museum.
- Medium Awareness: At one point while Myron is having his comic book-styled flashback, present-day Sheldon lifts the page to give a remark on the story.
- Retired Monster: This episode features the Home for Retired Heroes and Villains, a retirement home for supers from both sides of the law. In particular, both Sheldon and Myron are revealed in the end to be retired supervillains, but they're both affable old men who are nothing but friendly and try to be helpful to WordGirl. As a matter of fact, they're so retired that it takes them a while to remember that they even were both supervillains.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Sheldon and Myron are downplayed examples. They're perfectly lucid, but they do have trouble remembering the little detail of whether they were heroes or villains back in their youth.
- Super Wheelchair: Myron/Razzmatazz has a wheelchair that can fly.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: In Myron and Sheldon's second flashback, the Peppermint Kid throws his shield at them to make them drop the bags of money they're currently carrying.
