Trivia / WordGirl

• Actor Allusion:
  • In the episode "Wham Up", the Baker, who is voiced by Kevin McDonald, bakes a cake that says "Happy Birthday Kevin".
  • Bampy is voiced by Tim Conway. Keep that in mind and watch him play the World's Oldest Man in a Carol Burnett Show sketch.
• All-Star Cast: Nearly every character is played by a famous actor/comedian. Chris Parnell of Saturday Night Live fame, H. Jon Benjamin from Home Movies, Patton Oswalt from Ratatouille, John C. McGinley from Scrubs...just check out the cast page on IMDB.
• Completely Different Title:
  • In Latin America, the show (and the title character) is renamed to Chica Supersabia, which means Super Wise Girl.
  • Likewise Hebrew: The title character is called Milulit (מילולית): the feminine adjective for "Literal", which is also used to mean "Literally...". The show's name is her Activation Phrase, which is "The power of WordGirl!"^note Even though Hebrew is one of those languages where adjectives come before the subject, it's unambiguously "The power of WordGirl!" and not "Literal power!"; The Hebrew word for "power" is in the masculine grammatical gender, so the adjective would be masculine as well if it was. in the dub.
• The Danza: The Energy Monster's real name, Maria, comes from her voice actress, Maria Bamford.
• Dawson Casting: This is played straight in the series proper, but averted in the "What's Your Favorite Word?" segments. Children were interviewed about their favorite words, and the audio was set to animation.
• Early Draft Tie-In: Scholastic's official WordGirl website initially featured WordGirl and Huggyface's second concept designs◊.
• Fake Brit:
  • Tobey's upper-class British accent is provided by American Patton Oswalt. It's been speculated that he is one In-Universe too, as the accent tends to slip when he's talking to his mother, though Word of God has denied this.
  • Same with Reginald and H. Jon Benjamin.
• Kids' Meal Toy: At Wendy's, the series got audiobooks as well as a figure of Captain Huggyface.
• Make-A-Wish Contribution: A young girl named Esme got to write an episode where Becky met a character based off her. Unfortunately, due to Soup2Nuts going bankrupt, the episode never made it past script form.
• No Export for You: The show never aired in Poland or the rest of Central and Eastern Europe, nor did it air in the United Kingdom.
• Out of Order: The season six episode "A Questionable Pair" was aired after "Invasion of the Bunny Lovers," but has an earlier production code number and was clearly intended to air before it, as Scoops learns that Becky is WordGirl in the latter, while it's a Plot Point that he doesn't know in the former.
• Production Posse:
  • Chris Parnell, H. Jon Benjamin, Jeffrey Tambor, and guest star Kristen Schaal later worked on Archer together; Benjamin and Fred Stoller had earlier worked on another Soup2Nuts series, Science Court, and Benjamin had also been a primary voice on the Soup2Nuts/Tom Snyder series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and Home Movies.
  • Tom Kenny and Maria Bamford’s characters frequently interact in Adventure Time, especially as Ice King and whichever minor princess he’s trying to marry, or as some of their many background roles.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In Lady Redundant Woman's premiere episode, she was voiced by Amanda Plummer. Since then she's been voiced by Grey DeLisle.
  • In the "May I Have a Word" segments, Beau Handsome is voiced by Ryan Raddatz, while in the show itself, he is voiced by Tom Kenny.
• Referenced by...: The series' lore was the subject of Athena P's first video in the Lore series, during which, she agonizes over Bob's Vague Age and expresses her dislike of Violet.
• Unfinished Dub: The Latino Spanish dub only covers the first two seasons. This is because parents complained about the violence and Becky's dishonesty on the former Discovery Kids message boards.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Although she's voiced by Dannah Phirman, the producers actually wanted Reese Witherspoon to voice WordGirl.
  • In early concept art, Becky was a blonde white girl with a different costume, and the Butcher was younger and skinnier. Later concept drawings from 2005 had the characters looking closer to their final appearance, though WordGirl didn't have her Chest Insignia yet.
• Word of Gay: According to associate producer Liz Breen on Tumblr, TJ and Johnson are canonically in a gay relationship.

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