The BEST episodes of WordGirl

Every episode of WordGirl ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of WordGirl!

WordGirl follows the everyday life and superhero adventures of WordGirl as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage. Disguised as mild-mannered fifth grader Becky Botsford, WordGirl possesses superhero strength with the added benefit of a colossal vocabulary. She is joined in her adventures by a monkey sidekick named Captain Huggy Face. Each episode introduces up to four new vocabulary words in an engaging, humorous way. WordGirl is a superhero spoof so the storylines are funny tales of familiar stories from that genre. For children 6 to 8 years old.

Last Updated: 2/5/2024Network: PBSStatus: Ended
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The Wrong Side of the Law (1)
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10.00
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#1 - The Wrong Side of the Law (1)

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/12/2009

The Birthday Girl steals a priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines from the jewelry store. In an unexpected turn of events Eileen (a.k.a. the Birthday Girl) charms the Police Commissioner and convinces him that WordGirl is the culprit. Vocab words: Examine, Priceless

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Granny-Sitter
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#2 - Granny-Sitter

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/28/2007

Granny May finds an alibi for her next crime when she responds to a wanted ad for a babysitter. But the children she must babysit turn out to be Becky/WordGirl Botsford and her brother TJ. Becky must investigate as WordGirl in order to stop Granny May from stealing the Mazo-Racer (a solid gold-plated race car which accelerates from 0 to 105 miles per hour). Vocabulary Words: Investigate Accelerate

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High-Fat Robbery
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9.40
5 votes

#3 - High-Fat Robbery

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/3/2007

The Butcher is hosting free barbecues as diversions to help him carry out his crimes; WordGirl takes him down, after discovering his meaty powers are neutralized by tofu! Vocab words: Impressive, Diversion

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Two-Brain Highway
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9.00
3 votes

#4 - Two-Brain Highway

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/14/2007

Dr. Two-Brains escapes a life-sized prison maze that the warden guarantees is escape-proof. Coincidentally, during the same week, many different cheese events occur in town. WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face aim to stop Two-Brains before he steals all the rare cheese in the city, but by one strange coincidence after another, Two-Brains continues to elude capture. Vocabulary Words: Coincidence Guarantee

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You Can't Crush City Hall
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8.80
5 votes

#5 - You Can't Crush City Hall

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/2007

The city seems to be doomed when Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy invents a way to demolish City Hall by crushing it with his Giant Sandwich Press. WordGirl must find out Chuck's secret password to stop the crushing machine before time runs out. Meanwhile, Captain Huggyface dashes off to District Attorny Botsford's office to find Chuck's file in order to find a clue about the password. Vocabulary Words: Doomed Dash

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Chuck E. Sneeze
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8.50
2 votes

#6 - Chuck E. Sneeze

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/2008

WordGirl has a contagious cold, but she must put a stop to Chuck's latest evil scheme before resting up. Chuck tries to avoid getting sick, but ends up catching WordGirl's cold when she accidentally sneezes on him. Vocabulary Words: Avoid Contagious

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Tobey or Consequences
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8.09
11 votes

#7 - Tobey or Consequences

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2007

While Tobey has a babysitter, WordGirl and Tobey get into a battle of words on a real-live match of the game show "Crash or Pie." Vocabulary Words: Enormous, Bicker

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Jerky Jerk
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7.67
3 votes

#8 - Jerky Jerk

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/28/2007

When Becky/WordGirl goes on a field trip to the museum, the Butcher tries to steal the ancient "Beef Jerky of Supreme Power" artifact on display there. But he has trouble snatching it due to his supreme clumsiness. Vocabulary Words: Clumsy Supreme

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Tim Botsford: Neighborhood Assistant
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#9 - Tim Botsford: Neighborhood Assistant

Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/31/2015

Mr. Botsford, Becky, and Bob are walking through the park when they hear Pete the Porcupine crying for help. Becky is confident she can climb the tree to save Pete, but Mr. Botsford is convinced that she needs his help and protection. Hurt that Becky refuses his help, Tim becomes the Neighborhood Assistant, determined to help anyone who needs it (or doesn't). Can WordGirl save the city from Chuck's sandwich-making schemes AND keep her well-meaning dad from interfering? Vocab words: Prevent, Assistant

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Who Wants Candy?
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#10 - Who Wants Candy?

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/14/2009

On a field trip to the local candy factory, The Birthday Girl goes on a candy eating spree. WordGirl must find a way to save the city's candy and win back her best friend and field trip buddy, Violet. Vocab words: Awestruck, Mastermind

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The Ordinary, Extraordinary Botsfords
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#11 - The Ordinary, Extraordinary Botsfords

Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/24/2015

Becky's class at school is having fun with their family tree projects and discovering the extraordinary accomplishments of their ancestors. Unfortunately, the most extraordinary Botsford family member that Becky found was a paint inspector whose job was to literally watch paint dry. However, when the Butcher breaks out of jail, Becky realizes that her ordinary, human family possesses special powers of their own. Vocab words: Ordinary, Remarkable

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World's Best Dad
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7.00
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#12 - World's Best Dad

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2015

When Becky orders a gigantic book of world records, she decides it's time to help her dad break one. Unfortunately, Victoria Best finds out about their plan and decides she should be the world record holder, not Mr. Botsford. After being bested by Victoria again and again, Becky comes up with a brand new record - one that isn’t even in the record book! Will Mr. Botsford beat Victoria fair and square, or will she find a way to take the prize? Vocab words: Attempt, Combine/Combination

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House Arrest
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7.00
1 votes

#13 - House Arrest

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/2013

While Chuck's jail cell is being painted, he is put under house arrest at the Botsfords. Becky is stuck spending more time waiting on Chuck rather than fighting the other villains (Dr. Two Brains, Dr. Two-Brains' Henchmen, Big Left Hand Guy, Tobey, Birthday Girl & Energy Monster). Vocab words: Discombobulated, Essential.

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Plain Old Mischief Makers
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#14 - Plain Old Mischief Makers

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/2013

When best friends Big Left Hand Guy and Invisi-Bill risk losing their super villain status in the Villain Society, they decide to pull off their biggest heist to date. Can WordGirl stop this determined duo who always manage to escape her at the last minute? Vocab words: Diminish, Declare.

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Villain School
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7.00
1 votes

#15 - Villain School

Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/3/2008

The Coach has a new trio of arch enemies and villains. When he sent them to the whistle museum, the trio couldn't steal Michelangelo's Whistle because WordGirl caught them. Then, the Whammer came with them, then succeeded. Vocabulary Words: Novice Legendary

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Mousezilla
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7.00
1 votes

#16 - Mousezilla

Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/3/2008

When Tobey and Dr. Two-Brains team up, they create a new robot called "Mouse-Zilla" which Dr. Two-Brains immediately named. Tobey gets jealous for the robot to steal cheese and Dr. Two-Brains gets jealous for destroying buildings. Vocabulary Words: Collaborate Quest

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The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker
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#17 - The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker

Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 10/13/2008

The Butcher and his old friends, The Baker, and The Candlestick Maker, try to relive their past of pulling silly pranks. Meanwhile, Becky "WordGirl" Botsford is working on acquiring the perfect birthday cake for her finicky father Tim Botsford; but when she shows up on the scene, can the Butcher resist his evil ways? Vocabulary Words: Finicky Trio

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The Handsome Panther
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7.00
1 votes

#18 - The Handsome Panther

Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/13/2008

Tired of the same old sandwich-related crimes, Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy develops a new persona: The Handsome Panther, who's ferocious, and even has his own theme song. At Becky's house, Tim Botsford is coming up with a design for Bob Botsford's new monkey home. WordGirl and Captain Huggyface go off to battle the Panther, as he goes to steal a sandwich recipe, and he still continues using the same old sandwich-related weapons. Will Chuck's new identity throw off WordGirl and allow him to escape? Vocabulary Words: Ferocious Design

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A Game of Cat and Mouse
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#19 - A Game of Cat and Mouse

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/23/2008

When doing some spring-cleaning, Dr. Two-Brains finds one of his forgotten gadgets, a device that is called "the hairgel to cream cheese inator" that turns hair gel into cream cheese. In spite of that, WordGirl teams up with Professor Tubing, the new resident of Dr. Boxleitner's old laboratory. WordGirl must find out Dr. Two-Brains' weakness and put a stop to his cheese thefts before he ruins the hairstyles of everyone in the city. Vocabulary Words: Texture Weakness

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Lady Redundant Woman
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#20 - Lady Redundant Woman

Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/23/2008

An employee woman named Beatrice Bixby, who hates a nice employee man named Dave, because she wanted to be named manager of the local copy shop where she works. Then one day, when she found a hidden button in a photocopier and press it, she becomes Lady Redundant Woman. Vocabulary Words: Perplexed Redundant

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Heat Wave, Crime Wave
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#21 - Heat Wave, Crime Wave

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/25/2008

In Heat Wave, Crime Wave, on a sweltering summer day, Granny May uses the heat wave as an opportunity to go on a crime spree using her air-conditioned jetpack/suit of armor. The sweltering heat wave just may be too intense for WordGirl; and if she doesn't stop Granny May in time, her family will leave for the water park without her! Vocabulary Words: Swelter Oppurtunity

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Granny's Good Time All-Cure Spritzer
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#22 - Granny's Good Time All-Cure Spritzer

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/18/2008

In Granny's Goodtime All-Cure Spritzer WordGirl must put a stop to Granny May's latest con game - selling phony bottles of 'all-cure' spritzer that restores youth. Vocabulary Words: Hoax Potent

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Swap Meat
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#23 - Swap Meat

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/11/2008

Becky and her friend Violet visit an art gallery, only to find the notorious Butcher auctioning off rare and magnificent works of art, previously thought to have been lost for many years. WordGirl and Captain Huggyface must figure out how the Butcher is pulling off his scheme to auction off forgeries of these famous lost works of magnificent art. Vocabulary Words: Forgery Magnificent

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Princess Triana and The Ogre of Castlebum
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#24 - Princess Triana and The Ogre of Castlebum

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/25/2008

Tobey and Becky are both devoted fans of the Princess Triana book series. But when Tobey arrives late to the midnight release of the newest book, "Princess Triana & the Ogre of Castlebum", he finds that the line is far too long. Unwilling to wait in the back of the line, Tobey plots to steal a copy of the book before it gets released. Using his robots, he attacks the armored van containing the books, snatches a copy, and spitefully tries to reveal the ending to WordGirl before she gets a chance to read it. Vocabulary Words: Reveal Devotion

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Eight Legs vs. Two-Brains
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7.00
1 votes

#25 - Eight Legs vs. Two-Brains

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/2015

Unfortunately for Becky, it's her turn to take home the class pet - a hairy, scary, crawly tarantula named Shaggy. Though she is afraid of the spider, it's her responsibility to care for him, which means when Dr. Two-Brains reveals his latest cheesy crime, Shaggy comes along for the ride. Will WordGirl's fear of the spider get in her way, or will she find a way to overcome her phobia? Vocab words: Volunteer, Habitat

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