Her trademark insignia consists of a red star imposed on a golden shield. Tobey doesnt seem truly evil; rather, he comes across as reckless and mischievous. She then proceeds to steal the trophy that she did not earn. In truth, she does a very bit to disguise her true identity. She has even received many (over 200) keys to the city. Publication date 2007-09-03 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International Topics PBS Kids, Scholastic, PBS Language English. He is also revealed in the episode "Two Brains Quartet" to be a really good barbershop quartetsinger. She's brilliant in the courtroom, though when she sees an actual crime being committed, she tends to freeze and miss her daughter change into Wordgirl. "), Captain Huggy Face / Bob, Timmy Tim-Bo, Harry Kempel, Chip Von Dumor, Hal Hardbargain, The Candlestick Maker, David Driscoll, Raul Demiglasse, Hunter Throbheart, Beatrice Bixby / Lady Redundant Woman (2nd Time), Ms. Through a fortunate turn of events, his memory of this event is later erased. Once captured, he asks: Is this the end of WordGirl? He later officially appeared in his self-titled episode, The Learnerer, where he attempts to steal the Diamond Brain of Santa Tortuga from Ms. Edith van Hoosinghaus. Even though Two-Brains is not friends with WordGirl, he still sees the girl as an acquaintance. At one point, in the episode "Beckys Birthday", her parents begin to make the connection, but just when they are about to figure it out, Captain Huggy Face (a.k.a. Rhyme is a villain who was introduced in the episode "Rhyme and Reason" and one of the final antagonists of the franchise. Each time, however, she manages to put them off the truth. On the note of recorder-playing, she can play so well that she can hypnotize others. 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. Subtitles. However, Becky reveals her identity to her dad and TJ in "WordGirl Makes a Mistake", but her parents didn't believe her. Tobey also has a scrapbook with WordGirl news clippings and other miscellanea. Having put away almost every villain WordGirl has captured (although she doesn't know that it's her adopted daughter), Sally even caught two of them red handed - Granny May and Seymour Orlando Smooth - with WordGirl's help. CheeseThe Energy MonsterSqueakyMr. Kelly Miyahara portrays the character. When WordGirl accuses Tobey of being too predictable with his crimes, he responds by using his robots to hold WG's beloved town library . The trio comes from the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. 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. Fair City's Police Commissioner (voiced by John Kricfalusi) made his debut in the episode "Swap Meat" and exposed WordGirl as not having any knowledge of art, but was corrected the next night by taking The Butcher under arrest for fraudulant forgeries made from chopped liver. She is a superhero whose superpowers and abilities include flying at the speed of sound, super hearing, super strength, and a comprehensive vocabulary, of which she teaches people. Tom Kenny. Mysterio named this move after the area code of his hometown of San Diego, California. 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. He is voiced by Frank Welker. Checkmate 3000's design looks like the Super Robot with regular robot colors and dresses in Scottish style. She was voiced by Dannah Phirman, while Candi Milo (who also voiced Maya Santos, Dexter, Nick Dean, Coco, Madame Foster,Ms. Nora Wakeman, Irma Lair, The Flea, Pulgita,and Snap) voiced her on the WordGirl website on PBSKids.org. She proves to be more powerful than WordGirl, and tries to take over the world. 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. For some of the episode, he rides a gray horse from another painting, named "Horsey". The malicious Wordgirl has all of the real Wordgirl's powers and speaks redundantly like its creator. Word Up! 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. A technology/gadget professional that introduces the audience to both the villains and heroes helpful gadgets. If all those elements are working, then you can hook a child who may come looking for laughs but leave a little smarter. Dont give it away! The Narrator has also been known to intervene in the storys action, and his words and judgments during these circumstances generally lead the viewers to believe that he's not-so-secretly on WordGirls side. WordGirls sidekick, a monkey from Lexicon, who was also responsible for crashing their spacecraft as a pilot of the Lexicon Air Force. She also battles villains in her hometown of Fair City along with her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face. Later, he ran another game show called "Wishful Thinking," and another called "Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car?" 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 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. Veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor plays Mr. Big. She also has a love for animals and is a vegetarian. Latest News. Although his family does not believe it at first, They know it after he defeated Tobey's second look-alike robot. Play word games with WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face to build vocabulary. She battles against an assortment of villains that include but are not limited to The Butcher, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy, Dr. Two-Brains, Granny May, Mr. Big, Tobey McCalister III, and Whammer. (1) 7.1 2015 TV-Y. In the episode, "Seeds of Doubt" she is able to create the title product by changing poppy seeds on a bagel. Buy SD $1.99. Question, Mrs. Ripley, Johnson (season 9), Seymour Orlando Smooth, Nocan the Contrarian, Reginald the Jewelry Store Clerk, InvisiBill, Museum Curator, Bill the Grocery Store Manager, Big Left Hand Guy, El Mysterioso, Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 1), Amazing Rope Guy, Mr. Best, Stu Brisket, Dave, Anthony, Officer Jim, Zookeeper, Principal (in "A Few Words from Wordgirl"), Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 2-8), Beatrice Bixby / Lady Redundant Woman (1st Time), 2008 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming, awarded July 19, 2008 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation, Learning Magazine 2009 Teacher's Choice Award for Families, Featured at the KIDS FIRST! ", we learned that he has a mouse orchestra and loves kids' puzzle books, especially those with mazes in them. As Becky, she spends her time reading, going to school, decorating her dollhouse, collecting ponies and unicorns, and trying to hide her secret identity. Debuting in the episode "Villain School", she wears a red sweater with a yellow question mark and a green mask and tights similar to the Riddler. "What do bestest fwiends do?" Charlie never talks out loud in the show but has been seen whispering to his unnamed co-worker, and is also twice as big as his boss. A man who always goes to the wrong place - usually wherever WordGirl happens to be - thinking it is the police station.He always screams helpthen saying the news with it. 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. A bank teller with a New York accent, she is often being robbed by villains. His name was revealed in "Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy" on his name tag and he will often fire workers for very slight reasons. Captain Huggy Face/Bob However, a drawback to it is the fact that any pictures she copies comes to life. Granny may be the most clever of WordGirls enemies, once convincing the entire city that WordGirl was cruel, heartless, and not to be trusted. It seems to have somewhat of a personality, unlike Tobey's other robots. A supervillain who definitely does not have a way with words or evil at all, hence his name. 4 feet tall. Rhyme needs Reason . [2], The series was positively received. 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". It was seen in the episode "Monkey-Robot Showdown" and played Bob at checkers. WordGirl. When the Energy Monster runs out of energy or is defeated, he either shrinks into a tiny creature, is pushed into water, or gets burnt out. Despite growing up in a normal life, WordGirl displayed her keen intelligence at an early age, shown when she once read a Sunday newspaper and doing the crossword puzzle therein on the front doorstep of the Botsford residence, where she was found by Tim and Sally (even though another flashback shows that the Botsfords found her in the woods). 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. Tim and Sallys 7-year-old biological child. 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. She and Huggy use their crashed spaceship as a secret hideout. 12. When Dr. Two-Brains seeks out a replacement villain to take over for him in "Crime Takes a Holiday" for a vacation cruise he won from Dairy Villains Monthly, Glen Furlblam (voiced by Brian Posehn), his self-proclaimed number one fan, shows up. Creators Jack Ferraiolo (co-developer) Dorothea Gillim Stars Dannah Feinglass Phirman Chris Parnell Maria Bamford See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video A job-site accident merged her with a copier and transformed her into Lady Redundant Woman, a villain who is half woman, half copy-machine. Those who do learn the truth about Becky/WordGirl are: As Becky Botsford, she attends Woodview Elementary and has a few friends. When he was a sidekick, he acted more like a boss which annoyed Chuck. by trying to steal the contestant's money unbeknownst to them by making their answer sheets reveal by way of invisible ink that he would withdraw all the money from their bank accounts. 4 feet 8 inches. WordGirl has a wide array of characters including heroes, villains, and average supporting characters. Sally is voiced by Maria Bamford. Voiced by Weird Al Yankovic, this new villain annoys WordGirl with his constant misuse of suffixes (ex; his name is "learnerer instead of "learner"). ), Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Making Guy, His greatest invention is an all natural solar powered cyborg wheelchair. This episode also reveals Granny May's full name for the first time: Grandolyn Edna May. English [CC] Credit to Imaginym WordGirl in this shot is approximately 78 pixels tall, by my count. First seen in "Tobey's Masterpiece", she teaches art and adult education seen in from Class Act, and voiced by Jen Cohn. At times she seems to have a rather tenuous grasp of reality, even more so than Becky's parents, as she dreams about winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Mr. Big, a slick business man up to no good, introduces his new product: "The Thing" that does "stuff". He also stated that he did magic tricks as a child. In "Sidekicked to the Curb", when The Whammer signed up for The Coach's program, The Coach realized he could trick The Whammer into stealing anything he wants. Only seen so far in "Who is Ms. Voiced by Tom Kenny. Her main reason (other than keeping an eye on her daughter while under house arrest) is that she dotes on her and WordGirl. Subtitles. But Bampy defeats it by himself. In her usual attire, she wears a cream-colored shirt under a V-neck green sweater with a maroon skirt and a matching headband. The Checkmate 3000 is one of Tobey's prime robots and is specially built to play checkers. She has a golden cape, a 2-way communication belt, dark red boots and gloves. 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"). When WordGirl arrived to recover the diamond, she was powerless against The Learnerer because he had been studying her every move. The host of the game show "May I Have a Word?" The same things Captain Marvel was doing in the Marvel Universe, WordGirl. Tobey also guesses that Becky is WordGirl due to her possessing the remote to his robots, but she convinces him otherwise by the means of a clever plan between her and Huggyface. Chuck's more famous and successful brother, voiced by Tom Kenny, is the inventor of crustless bread and came to the city to accept The Golden Sandwich Award, which made Chuck jealous. (stylized as MAYIHAVEAWORD in the text bubble on Beau Handsome's wall) airs following each eleven-minute segment. The differences between the two WordGirls were their streaks of energy when they fly (Wordgirl's streak of energy was yellow while the clone's was green), and their voices: while WordGirl spoke normally, the evil clone spoke only in a robot-like monotone. He often gives speeches of things (reading them off of index cards akin to Ronald Reagan), sometimes reading the wrong card (i.e. QuestionInvisi-BillBig Left Hand GuyCaptain TangentThe LearnererVictoria BestMiss PowerThe Coach. 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. His attitude is poor, and serves as a parody on Willy Wonka. The father of The Butcher, voiced by acting veteran Ed Asner. [8] By 2022, the show had gained a cult following through social media. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media described the series as having a "brainy heroine [who] uses vocab to outwit bad guys." 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. When Captain Huggy Face correctly demonstrates the meaning of the word, a definition is given, followed by a victory dance by the chimpanzee sidekick. Beckys adoptive and cheerful father encourages Becky and is very supportive of his family, although hes quite indecisive and has been called weird. She is partners with Reason, as they have been friends for 15 years. Crime happens randomly causing her to omit her family and friends to stop that particular crime for some reasons while leading into conflict with her family life and most likely her time alone. Amanda Plummer provided the villainess' voice in her debut episode, and Grey DeLisle took over afterwards. Question at the bank and pretends to be trapped, Ms. Botsford uses a rope pole to redirect Ms. We hope you are having a happy holiday so far. They then tell her, "Eyes on the prize." However, WordGirl surprisingly exposes him as a mere Texan con-man who switches places with his brother as the rich guy and the caddy in another city. The wheel is made of a titanium alloy which is completely soundproof, although while Huggy cuts it up with one of Seymour's diamond rings, he tells them beforehand that the wheel can make them incredibly dizzy. That's roughly how many cm each px should be. When eaten, these seeds make the eater ask constant questions and be very unsure of themselves. He lives in his mothers basement, except for the time he created a new lair away from her residence in "Sandwich World", only to go back after feeling lonely. Answer (1 of 3): I'd say Wordgirl. 5.8 (39) Rate. A terrible communicator voiced by Mike OConnell who is always trying to find people willing to work at the store. At the end of the episode, a little girl offered to take care of Li'l Mittens while the Butcher went to jail. In spite of his name, he isn't that good with his rope, as in his first appearance when he is about to "take down" WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face by trying to "lasso" them up, he is unsuccessful, to which WordGirl replies that he's "not so amazing." "What do bestest fwiends do?" 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. Disguised as mild-mannered fifth grader, Becky Botsford, WordGirl possesses superhero strength with the added benefit of a colossal vocabulary. The baker appears in season 2 running a normal business. Captain Huggyface was also "adopted" as a pet and given the name "Bob." Amy Sedaris voices the teacher. The reporter for Woodview Elementary School's newspaper The Daily Rag, voiced by Ryan Raddatz. 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