#episode commentary: wordgirl

[cedbrains]

Its nice seeing TB talk with Lady Redundant Woman. I don't think we see these guys interact a whole lot which is a shame. I don't think they ever got a proper villain team up. I don't know if the writers couldn't come up a crime they could do together but oh well.

Also, Seymour talking to Ms Question. God, imagine if those two came quiz show related crime.

[haveyouseenthis-childhoodshow]

Have you seen this childhood show: WordGirl (2007-2015), United States (English)

Commentary/Context/Memories: The only things I remembered when I rediscovered it was Dr. Two Brains’s gloves and for some reason Mr. Big (there’s so many more prominent characters lol), but after rewatching all of it last year, it’s been one of my biggest interests ever. The characters and jokes are smart and witty, with compelling relationships and incredible writing. Even if you don’t personally like the art style, the movement in the show is beautiful. Becky Botsford is one of my favourite protagonists ever and she’s a great superhero and role model. The villains are so fun!

[Mod A: Word Girl was a flash-animated show from Scholastics Entertainment whose goal was to get kids to learn new and longer words. At the beginning of each episode, they would ask for kids to listen for two words (for example diversion or cumbersome) which will pop up through the episode with a definition that is both visual, consise enough to remember or remembered through the role the word plays in the plot. The show was intentionally written to not simplify definitions but rather demonstrate the definitions of words through intellectual jokes and engaging plots. I never really seen the show for more than a couple episodes, so I can’t comment on the characters as well as the submitted did! I however do remember getting a cereal box with Word Girl on the box; it came with a dvd of two episodes! I wish cereal boxes still had prizes like that haha]

[bluepoodle7]

#RiseoftheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #BigMama #BullHop #Househuntedgame #CharactersThatAreRealtorLike #MyThoughts

Watching Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Big Mama gives me Realtor energy.

I mean look at her dude.

She is cute with Bullhop.

Mrs. Thompson from Kids Next Door.

French God of Tennis from Gemusetto could be another realtor when you think about it.

Watch the whole thing to find out.

Big Mama | TMNTPedia | Fandom

1:15:58

The meat house gives me Illbleed vibes like the Meat Man from level 1 and 5.

45:27-45:30

Snek plays Illbleed (No Commentary) (Sega Dreamcast 2001) Part 1 (The Homerun of Death) - YouTube

Thompson Residence | KND Code Module | Fandom

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The Mysterious Meat House | We Baby Bears | Cartoon Network - YouTube

Freaky Fred.

Freak Fred | Antagonists Wiki | Fandom

Dora Smarmy from Crashbox got that REALTORs look.

Found the first episode this character appeared in.

Video and image not mine but link is there.

Dora Smarmy | Crashbox Wiki | Fandom

CrashBox Episode One Distraction News Tornados (youtube.com)

I was watching the new ninja turtles and saw this guy called Roderick Underwood, Sr.

He's pretty cool and gives me big REALTORs vibes.

Images not mine but link is there.

Roderick Underwood, Sr. (Point Grey) | TMNTPedia | Fandom

Roderick Underwood, Sr. (Point Grey)/Gallery | TMNTPedia | Fandom

Made a gif of Roderick Underwood, Sr. doing a business man snap.

I thought it was pretty neat and I wish he got more fanart.

He's my new crush now.

https://gifmaker.me/video-to-gif/viewimage/20240903-13-1t4HHcFemMFxah2Q-4V67UI-hnet

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That's wild that Josefina Bishop and Silico have a similar like backstory of their robot children accidently destroyed by the enemy's body crushing the robots with the hero's fighting a villain off then just have revenge on the wrong person.

But at least Josefina Bishop knew what happened and helped the hero's out while Silico didn't do that.

I still need to finish the new Ninja Turtles show to see if she shows up again.

Silico | Powerpuff Girls Wiki | Fandom

Mr. Big from Wordgirl also gives me REALTORs vibes.

I hope people save all the episodes of Wordgirl just in case the show and other PBS shows get erased.

Mr. Big (WordGirl) | Villains Wiki | Fandom

Also Leslie from Wordgirl gives me REALTORs vibes.

I would love to have a oc in my Infected Realtor Au in this art style with a clip art like house instead of a Ai looking house.

Leslie | WordGirl Wiki | Fandom

When I first saw Mrs. Grecht she gives me big REALTORs vibes like she would be the one to keep up with the rankings in the Uncanny Valley.

I imagine her being #3 as a REALTORs and keeps up on the other REALTORs in the Uncanny Valley maybe making Maison Talo sweat when he sees her so he can keep his ranking up.

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[ifbrd]

Episode Commentary for Wordgirl “Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout”

As requested by an anon, I’m going to do an Episode Commentary (that’s what I’m gonna call them, they need a name so I know what to title the post and have people know what the heck it is) of the WordGirl episode “Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout”

I’m going to apologize in advance for the number of times I say “also” “can we just take a moment to appreciate” “I love that...”  and “Me”

Look at Two Brains Drawings! <3

Me as a villain

This is something I love about this show; they have realistic conversations. This is absolutely a slip-up someone would make if they were having an off day. I make stupid mistakes like this all day every day XD This honestly isn’t my favorite example of this, but it’s a good one none-the-less.

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate this very important image of Huggy doing what he does best and rarely gets to do anymore since coming to Earth.

Hey! Wait a minute! 

Well Dr. Two Brains, clearly it works on doubled brained citizens too!

Huggy approves of this crash-land

I have nothing to say about this, it’s just a good bit of dialogue and it must have its moment to shine.

…I have got to start setting reminders for myself like this. Also, I love that she looks at her boots and nods like “yes, yes they are” as if she wasn’t the person who said that in the first place.

And thus, begins an entire episode of Huggy being annoyed and disapproving.

Okay, I’m pretty sure the line was “Change it back” but thanks for trying, I guess. Anyway, I lowkey love this brief tantrum she throws. It reminds us she’s still a kid. She’s a kid taking on adult responsibilities, and moments like this remind us that she’s not perfect, sometimes she just wants to do something for herself and she will still get upset when things go wrong.

I took this screenshot for no other reason than to prove that the line was “Change it back!”

Nothing gets past these two

Do I detect saltiness in that cheese? That was me trying to be clever. (OMG I have Word set to read stuff out loud so I can catch mistakes easier, and idk why but when it said this sentence I LOST IT) Also “often uninvited”—implying that there were a few instances where he did invite her.

LOLLYGAGGERS!!

It’s funny because it’s not the weirdest threat I’ve heard on this show.

You don’t know Wordgirl...at all...

Huggy’s annoyed, but at least he has snacks.

Me doing my homework

We all know Pretty Princess is supposed to represent WordGirl in this episode but let’s acknowledge that the horse is clearly supposed to be Huggy��disapproving of the plan, giving her annoyed looks the entire time, but ultimately doing nothing to stop her from procrastinating.

lol poor Huggy

Amazing, done-before-but-I’ll-never-get-tired-of-hearing-it joke aside, I”m convinced that Huggy already knew what procrastinate means, he just wanted her to define it so she’d realize she’s doing it.

Plan failed.

When I said Pretty Princess was me doing my homework, I meant it.

WordGirl was me watching the Gravity Falls finale. Huggy was my brother watching me watch the Gravity Falls finale.

TBH I just wanted a good shot of this room, but can we appreciate the light coming from the window? Like I feel that there’s no reason to put that much detail into the lighting and they did it anyway. Also, I want to see this window on the outside of the ship.

HE LOOKS AT THE AUDIENCE

I CANT XD

What’s the butterfly room like? Why is there a butterfly room? Why have we never seen this butterfly room because I really want to see the butterfly room!

Me when someone in my family brings home Oreos

Who wants to play spot the episodic easter egg!

This is it. this is my favorite Two Brains line.

Huggy’s been annoyed with her the entire episode because he knew this very thing could happen. He could say “I told you!” he could leap into action, but instead he’s like “I’ve got one last pretzel, just let me finish it…”

Sorry, I didn’t mean to have all this hoo-ha in the screenshot. I thought about retaking it…but you can see the things I want to point out alright so maybe later. I lowkey want to do a separate post on this. Anyway, this is clearly Huggy’s stuff, and the two things I want to point out are the framed picture of Huggy and an unknown superhero on the left, and various pictures and documents on a bulletin board to the right. I wish we had clearer pictures, I’d love to examine them more, but the framed one does certainly imply that Huggy has worked with or at least met other superheroes aside from WordGirl. I’d also really love to know what those documents are.

Villains traipsing through his ship warrants almost no reaction, but you touch his stuff and suddenly you’re messing with the devil!

I love that he’s still willing to take over her hideout just because the henchmen love it, despite the fact that they “haven’t been too helpful”

I’ve got a couple of things to say here: 1. In the second picture: Strike a pose Two Brains! 2. I gotta rant because this is honestly scary to me. He doesn’t remember writing a book. It takes him a second to realize he wrote it, and it probably was seeing his old name that triggered it. He doesn’t recognize the title. Who forgets they wrote a book?? Writing a book is a lloooooooonng process that takes months to years, it takes up a good chunk of your life, there’s no way you’d just forget it. The mouse brain has more control than we’ve realized, it's controlling his memories. That’s literally the only explanation for just blanking out on writing an entire damn book. It took me months to write a children’s book and he basically wrote an entire textbook! That’s not something you’re gonna bust out in a weekend and forget about!

Another rant! She got most of her superhero knowledge from Steven’s book. Not from Huggy like I’d always assumed. I still stand by the idea that Huggy gave her a solid foundation of training to start with, and she learned more on her own through books like these and personal wisdom and experience. But she got most of her knowledge and tactics not from her own superhero based culture, but from a book by a guy who never was (that we know of) and isn’t a superhero himself. She got more wisdom from some guy observing superheroes than her own heritage. This pretty much confirms that Steven was extremely popular in the superhero community, for him to be able to observe and probably interview for reference that many heroes to get that much knowledge.

They made a movie on his book! I wanna see this movie! It’d be like the Krusty Krab training video episode of Spongebob!

And apparently, it was better than the book..

If you listen closely, you can hear the screaming of every Steven Boxleitner fan

Okay sound started to get a little off from the captions at the end here but bear with me.

First of all, have some fabulous concentrating-Dr.-Two-Brains images! Secondly, he’s in WordGirl’s hideout, he should be on high alert, and hearing WordGirl scream “NOW HUGGY!” causes no reaction. He doesn’t even flinch.

It took several tries to get this image, but it was totally worth it!!!

Huggy is validated by The Narrator. I love when The Narrator steps in XD

And Two Brains just glaring at everyone XD

Yet again, Huggy doesn’t approve, yet doesn’t do anything about it and participates in the activity. And boy oh boy would I love to see our disembodied narrator try to play Ping-Pong!

That’s all for this episode! The next one I’m doing is Robot Monkey Showdown! I have no idea when that will be up…but I’m hoping very soon, but I gotta crop all the pictures, (or maybe I won’t? would that be a crime? It would significantly cut down on time...) then type out my comments, then put it all into tumblr.

[wordgirlappreciation]

What’s a joke in Wordgirl that just made you crack up, and still does whenever you think of it?

Thanks for the ask, anon. I don’t think I can just list one. The show has so many little funny moments.

“And that’s why I’ve always enjoyed a good potato” ranks as one of the funniest for me. The whole “unsmall” debate with the Narrator’s commentary. Tobey challenging Scoops to a duel and Scoops passing out immediately afterwards. Chuck’s lines, “Sometimes I use hand soap to wash my face! I’m out of control!” and “What is it with you people?” (his VA is hilarious in his line deliveries). Oh, and in Department Store Tobey, when he says the riddle and Wordgirl keeps figuring it out immediately. And I’ve barely scratched the surface of funny moments. I left out a lot of good ones.

The funniest episode for me is “A Hero, a Thief, a Store, and its Owner” (season 2, episode 25). Go rewatch it sometime, it’s hilarious.

What are you guys’ favorite episodes or favorite funny moments?

[cedbrains]

A cute little moment between Wordgirl and Huggy.

Remember this twink security guard?

This is him now! Do you feel old yet? I don’t wan to age shame, but I didn’t think this was that far in the past, 10-15 years at most. What happened to this man?

But yeah Bill, the grocery store manager, is obviously the Masked Bagger.

The fanboying from Hal!

Hal got arrested, cause you can���t fake a theft/ use super hero resources to track down your old crush.

Oh this is absolutely a crush! Old man yaoi fans, get on this!

[cedbrains]

Season 6 episode 2.

These might be two of the gayest episodes in the whole series.

[cedbrains]

Granny: Excuse me sonny, could you bend over-

Goodnight everybody.

Its oddly cute Granny said "poof" before spraying that thing. Also random dudes hand fan saved the day.

"So whats the standard tip for superheroes? 20%?"

Tipping culture has gone too far.

Granny May, refuses to retire, refuses to give up the gold plated watch, is everyone else's problem now. Honestly senior goals.

[cedbrains]

Butcher: Hey she caught Wordgirl! Now she doesn't have to respire!

Wordgirl: You mean retire. Respire means "to breath".

Would respire be a bonus word this episode?

Granny May gives them the retirement watch back, goes in for a hugs, steals Two Brains' wallet and the watch back. Two Brains is like, "I'm not even mad! Game recognizes game."

The boys are giving big sibling energy here.

TB: Still says Chuck is gay!

[cedbrains]

This man bursts in, wearing a paper bag and pink spikey hair, a steals Reginald’s faberge eggs, winks at Hal, and buggers off. And Hal is like, “I am enchanted by you stranger.” It’s that confidence that drew him in.

Also first time we see this Super Hero. I call “Octo Guy”.

Flash forward to the present-

I now this is just a random background detail but, who the hell is this?

[cedbrains]

It’s “Caper or Plastic?”, time!

Hal Hardbargin calls Wordgirl after “The Bag Blaster” is stolen from his shop.

And Hal is, less than subtly, pushing her to find someone called “The Masked Bagger”. Time for a flash back!

Baby Chuck hi 🥹. And young Tim and Sally 😊

I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned it but I think Wordgirl takes place in the early to mid 90s. Everyone’s clothes are giving late 70s early 80s.

[cedbrains]

Becky: So why do you need crowbars?

Chuck: That’s …in case the doors of our mind are jammed shut.

Honestly, there are so many good little jokes and moments in this episode I don’t think I can list them all here.

Of course this crime is sandwich related.

Look at them the criminal masterminds of the century.

Chuck: Just when I think I got out, THEY PULL ME RIGHT BACK IN!!!!

The “they” that pulled him back in.

[cedbrains]

Honestly, I know some people that wouldn't mind if Butcher popped out of a cake for them.

So this is the episode where the villains find out Granny May is 75 and the official villain rule book says she has to retire. She's not having it.

The official watch they give retiring villains is pretty sweet. Baddies have all the best fashion I swear.

[cedbrains]

Wow, the plans already going sideways cause Chuck can’t throw for shit.

And Whammer can’t help but wham.

I love Whammer’s face here. “How dare you disrupt my man’s dreams Wordgirl!!!”

Thank god the world’s biggest finger trap was on loan to the museum.

Imagine showing this scene to someone with no context.

Wordgirl: Come on Chuck, you sure you don’t want to go to jail. They’re got grilled cheese and pickles for dinner tonight.

Chuck: Okay let’s go!

Oh my god Chuck is such a baby boy here. I kind of understand, I do love me a good grilled cheese. Though, does Wordgirl have the prison menu memorized?

Whammer: How about we do one more crime, and then we go straight.

Chuck: Okay sure.

Unfortunately, you two will never be straight.

[cedbrains]

I’m impressed they kept Chuck’s sandwich stuff while he was in jail. Either it was in cold storage or he wasn’t in jail for that long.

Chuck’s giving up on crime. But it’s interesting that the Whammer is the first person Chuck called up to tell this too. Whammer is probably the safest villain for Chuck to talk to about this but still.

And Whammer is genuinely sad about this too!

Luckily ice cream will chase away the sadness.

Whammer gives Chuck the idea to commit one final crime before retiring.

Chuck: Sure what can go wrong?

Famous final words.

Also, where is this mythical sandwich island Chuck is dreaming of? A beautiful place where sandwiches grow on trees.

[cedbrains]

IS THIS NOT YOUR SEXY MAN, TUMBLR? ARE YOU NOT ENTICED BY HIM?????