Unfortunately, he had failed to learn the moves of Captain Huggy Face, stating that he was "not worth worryinging about." As well as having the usual superhero traits, such as flying, super strength, and invulnerability, for example, WordGirl also has the dictionary completely memorized, and so has the knack to define, correct, or pronounce any word possible. Voice acting veteran Tom Kenny provides TJ's voice.TJ, in the episode "Wordgirl and Bobble Boy", makes Wordgirl bobbleheads and sells them in all of her battles in the episode. WordGirl must figure out his secret motive and save the city. voiced by Matt Besser. [6][7], The show was created for children ages 49. The Mayor's real name has not yet been revealed, but is voiced by Ron Lynch and in the episode "The InvisiBill Hand" revealed that he has given 199 keys to the city to WordGirl. Question goes back on her crime spree, the Mayor complains that Ms. Botsford is the only one to bring Ms. Other Big Industries products includes Mr. Big's Big Book of Big Words (a dictionary), the Wordsucker (a microphone), the Hero Sucker (a giant vacuum) and a "walking talking WordGirl doll" that does the opposite of the real superheroine, like using the word "strategery" instead of "strategy" and enables them (via mind control) to buy useless spinoff products such as "glow-in-the-dark" suntan lotion. The Learnerer was defeated by Huggy when the sidekick monkey kicked him off of a slide and into a paddy wagon. Tobey doesnt seem truly evil; rather, he comes across as reckless and mischievous. Stay tuned to celebrate 15 years of Wordgirl with our team. This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 21:06. WordGirl follows the everyday life and superhero adventures of WordGirl as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage. They are not dangerous at all and seem not to want to commit crimes, but help Dr. Two-Brains just for the sake of helping him, and at times seemed to have formed a friendship with WordGirl (however, nearly all the villains seem to have a minor friendship with WordGirl, before turning back to the crime they were doing). It usually appears when Wordgirl intends to do something else like celebrate her birthday or go to a movie. WordGirl is the titular main protagonist of the show of the same name. WordGirl was good friends with him before he became a super villain, and once encouraged him to fight the mouse brains control on him. When eaten, these seeds make the eater ask constant questions and be very unsure of themselves. Fred Stoller plays Chuck. In the episode "Bampy Battles Bots", Becky's grandfather, Bampy Botsford, figures out her identity, but promises to keep it a secret only between them. He is voiced by Tim Conway. He is very greedy and he refers to Lady Redundant Woman as his mother. on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off . He once became successful in his crimes by poorly impersonating other more successful villains, but gave it up after he grew sick of the villains he impersonated getting the recognition instead of him. A robot that looks like Tobey that was used to counterattack all of Wordgirl's moves. If all those elements are working, then you can hook a child who may come looking for laughs but leave a little smarter. However, Wordgirl was able to dispose of her copy, had the thesauruses returned, and gained back their trust. No, so it isn't your cake." Family Only a few times have people guessed or discovered her secret. She also possesses the power to create evil copies of other people if she consumes a picture of that person, as she did when she created an evil copy of WordGirl. By age 2 she was completing crossword puzzles. Do-Gooder In the end he betrayed her, but whether this was part of his plan or if his mouse brain took control is never clearly determined. [8] By 2022, the show had gained a cult following through social media. In "Great Granny May", we are introduced to her mom, who keeps an eye on her while under house arrest. However, a drawback to it is the fact that any pictures she copies comes to life. Not only that but the robots reached the sun in like 2 seconds meaning she threw these building sized robots at speeds of around 250 times the speed of light. WordGirl uses her great vocabulary to fend off villains such as The Butcher, Dr. Two-Brains, Granny May, Tobey, and Chuck The Evil Sandwich-Making Guy. Mr. Grinder employs Chuck thanks to WordGirl as the store's spokesperson/mascot due to his sandwich face, and he becomes popular. Beckys adoptive mother, a constant optimist. 12. She's very pretty and it is shown that boys are smitten with her at first sight. Contents 1 Background 2 Physical Appearance 3 Secret identity 4 Powers and Abilities 5 Weaknesses 6 Age 7 Becky Botsford 8 Gallery 9 Trivia 10 References As Bob, he is the Botsford family pet, played byJames Adomian at script readings. With the help of our height calculator you can predict the future height of a child patient, your own child, or yourself, if you are still under 18. Tim and Sallys 7-year-old biological child. His sole drawback though is his nebbish voice, voiced by Tom Kenny. Angered by not being able to impress his idol, Glen uses his vicious cats to steal Dr. Two-Brains lab coat and corner him. The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Captain Huggy Face, a chimpanzee who was a pilot in the Lexicon Air Force, piloted the ship, but lost control when WordGirl awoke, and crash-landed on Earth (more specifically in Fair City), a planet that affords WordGirl her superpowers, including flight and super strength. However, this event did not make Eileen turn away completely from her selfish ways. Originally known as Professor Steven Boxleitner, a kind-hearted but distracted scientist, he was turned into the evil Dr. Two-Brains after a botched experiment left his mind merged with an evil lab mouse known as Squeaky. Those who do learn the truth about Becky/WordGirl are: As Becky Botsford, she attends Woodview Elementary and has a few friends. One of these, named Angelface, gets broken a number of times throughout the series, much to her anger. He loves knots and is also shown to be an unsuccessful children's performer. Jerky Jerk. His mother is aware of her childs intelligence, so he cant launch any of his schemes unless she is away on business. As of April 2022, the website is still active.[12]. Beckyreveals her identity to her dad and TJ in the two-part episode "WordGirl Makes a Mistake", but they dont believe her. WordGirl is an American children's animated television series for children aged 9 -12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. Her dream was to appear on a game show (which almost happened in "Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff" but happened in "Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car? A pompous and rude man (who is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and is the owner and operator of Ye Olde Fancy Schmancy Jewelry Shoppe. Eileen wanted his birthday cake in 221 but the baker said, "Hold on, is your name Earth? She even often shouts "I'm THE BEST! The candlestick maker is yet to appear again. Her lair is also seen in this episode, it is filled with question mark covered items. Beckys best friend from school. In the episode "The People vs. Ms.Question," she is taken to court by WordGirl, after stealing an ice cream cone from Bob a.k.a. Granny May's Mother, voiced by Rose Abdoo. She proves to be more powerful than WordGirl, and tries to take over the world. There is no apparent father in her life. girl's height = mid-parental height - 2 in (or 6.5 cm) For a boy's future height, add 2 in (or 6.5 cm): boy's height = mid-parental height + 2 in (or 6.5 cm) You can expect a margin of error of about four inches either way. WordGirl is extremely popular in Fair City, which she protects, and there has been more merchandising and honoring of the heroine. Believe it or not, Wordgirl is a lot stronger than people might think. WordGirl. One of the most serious times her secret has been exposed is in the episode "Two-Brains Forgets", when Dr. Two-Brains overhears a conversation between Becky and Bob regarding new WordGirl and Huggy costumes. A terrible communicator voiced by Mike OConnell who is always trying to find people willing to work at the store. He's a master of robotics, building giant robots to do his bidding. In the standalone show, she is wearing a blue businesswoman's outfit and her face is seen, but added with blonde hair, glasses and jewelry, gaining a thicker size. People often insult him by either saying his name wrong or calling him the wrong animal, most often Granny May. In addition to the English dictionary, she knows most hieroglyphics as well. He usually has a worried and unsure look on his face. Her favorite book is Princess Triana (a parody of the Harry Potter series of books), while her favorite TV show is "The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour". He's constantly trying to prove that he can outsmart WordGirl. A minor evil villain (voiced by Larry Murphy) who dresses in a tight dark blue mask, tight rubber dark blue outfit, tight yellow gloves, and tight dark blue boots. His other bosses included The Amazing Rope Guy and The Coach, but has since gone out on his own, and has a love for home baked apple pie with lots of butter and hot dogs, covered in either mustard or chocolate. 663 * 1.8564102564102564102564102564103 = 1230.8. Violet is friends with Becky's crush, Scoops Todd Ming, and in the episode "Cherish Is the Word" the two proved to have feelings for each other when Scoops asked her to be his valentine. While in her alter ego, she has a younger brother, TJ, obsessed with WordGirl, but still unknowingly a typical sibling rival to Becky. In the episode "Who is Ms. That's roughly how many cm each px should be. The energy monster was accidentally created at an energy plant when a ball of electricity expanded and took shape after employees threw soda and sandwiches at it during an experiment and resulting overload of energy. Eventually, she took up her current identification as WordGirl. ", she flunked out of The Coach's School of Villains and Arch Enemies due to the fact she had no super powers until a question-mark shaped cloud zapped her with a bolt of lighting, which gave her the power to float on a question mark like Silver Surfer and give victims selective amnesia by activating her question mark on the sweater and shooting question marks at them, leaving a circle of question marks floating around their heads. Subtitles. In "Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars", Leslie was revealed to be a black belt in karate, and in the episode "Giant Mini-Golf" it seems she knows everything what Mr. Big is going to do maybe because mind control is the only thing he uses. He also complains in a couple of episodes that he "didn't go to any fancy word college and only took business classes" as an excuse of not getting all the words right and once tried to use a mind control ray on the Moon because he wanted his casserole dish back that was borrowed by a neighbor (not realizing that it was returned). WordGirl (stylized as WRD GIRL) is an American children's Flash animated superhero television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. It seems to have somewhat of a personality, unlike Tobey's other robots. The royal dandy was a painting that Lady Redundant Woman copied, but he came to life. Any act of adding this hero to the Pure Good category without a proposal or creating a proposal for this hero without the permission of an administrator will result in a ban.Additional Notice: This template is meant for admin maintenance only. He has the strange habit of mixing up words (such as saying sunbeam instead of supreme, or robbify instead of robbery) or even whole phrases (So, WordGirl, we meet again for the first time!). Her powers are disrupted by Lexonite, a substance from her home planet Lexicon. Becky's fifth-grade teacher (voiced by Jim Gaffigan) who first appeared leading the field trip in "Who Wants Candy?" She appears to have a fondness for maroon, as both her WordGirl and Becky designs wear it. They then tell her, "Eyes on the prize." As "mild-mannered" (though she's actually quite plucky whether she's Wordgirl or not) fifth grader Becky Botsford from Fair City's Wood view Elementary School, she instantly changes into her WordGirl costume by touching her shirt where her emblem would be, and speaking her catchphrase, Word up! The backstory found her and Lexiconian Air Force Captain Huggy Face crashing on Earth after leaving the planet Lexicon in a spaceship for a test flight where she unknowingly crawled aboard the ship as a baby which she still uses as her base of operation away from her adopted parents, Tim and Sally Botsford, who found her on their doorstep reading a Sunday newspaper and doing the crossword puzzle therein, even though another flashback shows that the Botsfords found her in the woods. Wordgirl also once threw a couple building size robots into the sun, in this episode (around the 8:05 mark). (This was a trick discovered by Violet in the "Birthday Girl" episode; when as a giant Eileen holds WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face hostage, Violet declares Eileen one of her "bestest fwiend in the whole wide wode." She never reveals her alter-ego to anyone, including her own family. Having an older adoptive sister annoys him, but he idolizes WordGirl and constantly babbles about her. Teach people (including the villains) vocabularyProtect Fair City from the villainsKeep her identity secret The foppish painting copy is voiced by Sergio Cilli. Also, in the episode "Big's Big Bounce", Becky knows the definition of the word "boost", and Mr. Big becomes suspicious for a while. WordGirl was born on the fictional planet Lexicon (also a term referring to the vocabulary of a language or to a dictionary) but was sent away after sneaking onto a spaceship and sleeping there. WordGirl Archetypes White Hair, Monster Features, Duality, Mad Scientist, Uniform, Distinctive Voice, Gay, Villain, Intelligence Years as Class listed 2006-2015, Ongoing WordGirl resurgence Dr. Two-Brains is the anti-heroic tetartagonist of the PBS educational cartoon WordGirl. A bank teller with a New York accent, she is often being robbed by villains. Checkmate 3000's design looks like the Super Robot with regular robot colors and dresses in Scottish style. Lady Redundant Woman used her to steal all the thesauruses in the city, making the people hate her. She loves pegasis, and she can make up poems off the top of her head, even if there is a meteor hurling towards her. The Checkmate 3000 is one of Tobey's prime robots and is specially built to play checkers. Synopsis. The words (examples include diversion, cumbersome, and idolize) are chosen according to academic guidelines. Only seen so far in "Who is Ms. Granny may be the most clever of WordGirls enemies, once convincing the entire city that WordGirl was cruel, heartless, and not to be trusted. Together, with the help of The Whammer, they stole Michaelangelo's Whistle. ", ostensibly hosted by Todd "Scoops" Ming, is a series of vox populi interviews asking random children what their favorite words are and why. This villain from the Kingdom of Contraria, whose booming voice is given by Daran Norris, always speaks in opposites; for example, if someone says "strong," he will respond by saying "weak," followed by a barbaric yell.. When WordGirl accuses Tobey of being too predictable with his crimes, he responds by using his robots to hold WG's beloved town library . He also helped direct the school's play, "Romeo and Juliet.". Her Weakness is Juggling through family and crime-fighting life. Her trademark insignia consists of a red star imposed on a golden shield. However, his suspicions dissipate when Beckypainstakingly misdefines a word in the episode "Vocab Bee". On occasion, he will telegraph upcoming plot developments to viewers; for example, in the episode titled When Life Gives You Potatoes, Dr. Two-Brains captures WordGirl as part of a plot to turn gold into potato salad, and then into cheese. At the same time, she must worry about maintaining her second life as Becky, keeping people from discovering the truth and living normal family situations. She's basically a expy of of Superman and Supergirl if you think about it, considering the fact that she comes from the planet Lexicon and was sent to Earth as a baby but i digress. Voiced by Dannah Phirman. In "Doctor Three-Brains", Glen calls himself by the title of the episode, and uses a Blackout Ray invented by Doctor Two-Brains to escape from prison. Becky attends Woodview Elementary School, where she is close friends with Violet Heaslip and the school newspaper reporter Todd Scoops Ming. Her lone setbacks are that she is not good at dancing, and she struggles with art and charades, but is a great singer. [2], WordGirl began in 2006 as a series of shorts airing immediately after Maya & Miguel, becoming an independent show in September 2007.[8]. Glen takes over for a while as Two-Brains replacement, but with the help of WordGirl, he was arrested and jailed along with his pet cats. Bob) distracts them by getting wrapped up in party decorations. This unseen character can interact with any character, although he most often converses with WordGirl, and can also hear her thoughts, as seen in the Vocab Bee episode. A pompous meat villain (voiced by Elliott Gould) who's a rival of The Butcher whose meat powers are a little fancier and insulted him by calling his uniform "pajamas". Her main weapons are knitting needles that shoot purple indestructible yarn, petrified purse mints that burn the eyes, strong-smelling perfume which acts as a sort of stink gas, and her giant but timid grandson Eugene May; she can also produce a cutting-edge steel suit of armor with a jetpack to wear. what a lovely surprise for a video I seen that many enjoy these types of videos so I made another one. Amanda Plummer provided the villainess' voice in her debut episode, and Grey DeLisle took over afterwards. She, like everyone else in the show (with the exception of Dr. Two-Brains), does not have a specific eye color, except for times that she'sunder mind control (e.g., in the episode "The Pretty Princess and Mr. Big Power Hour"). Handsome." When he was a sidekick, he acted more like a boss which annoyed Chuck. 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