WordGirl (2007)

Action · Adventure · Animation

Disguised as mild-mannered fifth-grader Becky Botsford, WordGirl arrived on Earth when she and her monkey sidekick Captain Huggy Face crashed their spaceship. Now they fight crime and defend the town from a plethora of madcap villains and scoundrels, while at the same time enriching viewers' vocabulary usage.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (1,736 votes)
Episode average: 6.3 -0.8 vs IMDb
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Ryan Raddatz Various

Seasons

Season 1 (2007)

6.82 avg 26 episodes 8.6 → 6.1 24 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Tobey or Consequences/High Fat Robbery	8.6	31
2	You Can't Crush City Hall/Two Brain Highway	7.1	23
3	Coupon Madness/When Life Gives You Potatoes...	6.1	18
4	Jerky Jerk/Becky's Birthday	6.8	21
5	Chuck!/Down with Word Up	7.2	14
6	Book Ends/Mr. Big	6.2	21
7	Super-Grounded/Mouse Army	6.2	19
8	Tobey's Masterpiece/Chuck the Nice Pencil-Selling Guy	6.1	19
9	The Birthday Girl/Granny-Sitter	6.3	20
10	Shrinkin' in the Ray/Department Store Tobey	6.8	12
11	Mr. Big's Big Plan/Vocab Bee	7.7	13
12	Chuck E. Sneeze/Swap Meat	8.0	12
13	Granny's Goodtime All-Cure Spritzer/Mecha-Mouse	5.6	17
14	Princess Triana & the Ogre of Castlebum/Summertime	6.8	13
15	Meat with a Side of Cute/Mr. Big Words	6.5	20
16	Thorn in the Sidekick/Crime Takes a Holiday	8.1	13
17	Two Brains Forgets/Banned on the Run	7.5	13
18	Have You Seen the Remote?/Sidekicked to the Curb	5.8	17
19	Lady Redundant Woman/A Game of Cat & Mouse	8.0	6
20	The Masked Meat Marauder/Sandwich Land	5.5	19
21	Violet Superhero/Big Business	6.5	20
22	The Handsome Panther/The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker	8.1	13
23	Mouse-Zilla/Villain School	5.7	18
24	Return of the Reprise of Lady Redundant Woman/A Simple Plan	8.1	10
25	Granny Mayor/Tobey Goes Good	5.9	17
26	Bongo Rock/Dr. Three Brains	6.1	19

Season 2 (2008)

5.98 avg 26 episodes 6.1 → 7.2 24 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Vote for Becky/Class Act	6.1	20
2	The Two Brains Boogie/Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey	6.2	24
3	Slumber Party Pooper/Line Lessons with Lady Redundant Woman	5.4	17
4	Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars/Great Granny May	5.5	16
5	Theme Park Wham-Page/Chuck Makes a Buck	6.5	12
6	Highway to Havarti/Tiny Big	4.9	20
7	I Think I'm a Clone Now/Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff	5.4	17
8	Bonkers for Bingo/The Ballad of Steve Mcclean	6.1	14
9	Pretty Princess Premiere/Where's Huggy?	6.2	17
10	Robo-Camping/The Stew, The Proud...	5.8	16
11	Who Wants Candy?/Chuck's Brother	5.8	15
12	Becky and the Bard/Monkey Robot Showdown	6.6	17
13	The Wrong Side of the Law: Part 1/The Wrong Side of the Law: Part 2	6.1	18
14	Two Brains Quartet/Big's Big Bounce	5.8	14
15	The Young and the Meatless/Mr. Big's Colossal Mini-Golf	5.1	17
16	Nocan the Contrarian/Meat My Dad	5.9	13
17	Tobey's Tricks and Treats/Escape Wham	5.6	22
18	Who Is Ms. Question/Lunch Lady Chuck	4.3	15
19	Oh, Holiday Cheese/Change Day	5.4	18
20	WordGirl Makes a Mistake: Part 1/Word Girl Makes a Mistake: Part 2	6.3	20
21	Opposite Day/Granny's Book Club	5.6	15
22	Earth Day Girl/A Hero, a Thief, a Store, and Its Owner	5.5	16
23	Wham Up/Seeds of Doubt	8.2	9
24	Wishful Thinking/Lady Redundant Woman Gets the Blues	5.1	14
25	Win a Shiny New Car/The People vs. Ms. Question	9.0	7
26	Oh, What a Tangled Rope You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy/Kids Action News	7.2	7

Season 3 (2010)

5.18 avg 13 episodes 4.8 → 4.0 26 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bummertime/The Homerun King	4.8	16
2	Granny and Clyde/Too Loud Crew	5.8	16
3	The Invisi-Bill Hand/Birthday Town	6.7	18
4	The Pretty Princess and Mr. Big Power Hour/Clean Up in Aisle Eleven	4.9	15
5	When Chuck's Mom Is Away .../That's Entertainment	5.4	17
6	Victoria Best/Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout	5.5	16
7	Captain Tangent/Chuck and Brent Ride Again	5.4	17
8	Bend It Like Becky/Questionable Behavior	4.3	17
9	Bampy Battles Bots/Truth, Revision, and the Lexicon Way	4.8	18
10	Cherish Is the Word/Granny's Intuition	3.7	15
11	The Straw That Broke Two Brains' Back/Nocan the Evil Ingredient Finding Guy	7.0	7
12	Meat-Life Crisis/Mobot Knows Best	5.0	17
13	A Better Mousetrap: Part 1/A Better Mousetrap: Part 2	4.0	15

Season 4 (2011)

5.09 avg 12 episodes 4.8 → 4.2 26 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers/Seymour... Right After This	4.8	16
2	The Fill-In/Word (Hicc) Up!	4.9	17
3	Mouse Brain Take-Over/Leslie Makes it Big	4.8	17
4	Chuck with a Sidekick of Brent/Yarn-4-Gold	4.9	19
5	Whammer Anniversary/Rat Trap	4.9	19
6	WordGirl and Bobbleboy/Crime in the Key of V	4.9	17
7	Where Have All the Villains Gone?/Captain Tangent Returns...	5.0	16
8	A World Without WordGirl: Part 1/A World Without WordGirl: Part 2	5.4	17
9	Have Snob, Will Travel/Tobey's Playground Calamity	6.5	15
10	The Learnerer/Mr. Big's Dinner and a Scam	4.6	17
11	The Birthday Girl's Monstrous Gift/Hal the Haggler	6.2	7
12	Wordbot/Mount Rushhere	4.2	17

Season 5 (2012)

4.30 avg 12 episodes 3.8 → 4.2 27 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Seize the Cheese/Ms. Question's Riddle Rampage	3.8	17
2	The Meaty Dimension/The Case of the Copied Mrs. Botsford	3.9	17
3	The Good, the Bad, and the Chucky/Granny's Pet Plan	3.7	16
4	Hard-Learned Money/Gift Pony	3.2	21
5	Scary with a Side of Butter/Talent Show Tobey	4.6	17
6	Don't Mess with the Best/Peanut Butter Battles	5.6	11
7	Hello New Year, Goodbye Moon/Art in the Park	3.9	16
8	Plain Old Mischief Makers/House Arrest	3.6	16
9	Monkey Business/Say it Again, Eileen	4.4	12
10	Best Fan Club Meeting Ever/Day at the Museum	3.7	14
11	Who's Your Granny?/Win a Day with WordGirl	7.0	7
13	Father's Day Dance-a-thon/Big is Botsford's Boss	4.2	16

Season 6 (2013)

7.41 avg 9 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 26 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	One Last Sandwich/Caper or Plastic?	7.4	5
3	Tell Her What She's Won!/Victoria is the Best...Wordgirl?	8.2	5
4	High-Five Sandwich/The Robot Problem	3.9	16
6	The Rise of Miss Power, Part 1/The Rise of Miss Power, Part 2	8.2	34
7	The Rise of Miss Power, Part 3/The Rise of Miss Power, Part 4	8.6	25
8	Invasion of the Bunny Lovers, Part 1/Invasion of the Bunny Lovers, Part 2	8.3	10
9	Big and Brent/Silence of the Whams	7.2	7
10	Dr. Two Brains, Mr. Cheese/Kitty Cat Criminals	7.3	8
12	Fortune Cookie/Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Crime	7.6	6

Season 7 (2014)

8.23 avg 9 episodes 8.0 → 7.8 26 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Kid Math, Part 1/Kid Math, Part 2	8.0	9
2	A Few Words from WordGirl/Ears to You	8.0	8
3	El Queso Mysterioso/Putt with Honor	8.3	7
4	It's Your Party and I'll Cry If I Want To/Becky's Bad-itude	8.3	7
5	First One to Win Wins/A Little Bigger WordGirl	8.2	7
6	A Curious Case of Curiosity/There's No V in Team	9.0	6
7	Sparkling Clean/The Smile Collector	9.3	7
12	News Girl/Diorama Drama: The Scene of the Crime	7.2	5
13	Guess Who's Coming to Thanksgiving Dinner/Judging Butcher	7.8	6

Season 8 (2015)

8.40 avg 11 episodes 8.7 → 8.8 26 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Patch Game/Girls Day Out Throws Chuck	8.7	7
2	A Sticky Situation/Eight Legs vs. Two-Brains	8.7	7
3	World's Best Dad?/The Good Old, Bad Old Days!	7.7	7
5	Pineapple of My Eye/Big Baby	8.7	7
6	Staycation/Dr. No-Voice	8.0	8
7	Trustworthy Tobey/The Tooth Hurts	8.7	7
8	Time-Out with Two-Brains/Dr. WordGirl-Brains	7.3	7
10	The Ordinary, Extraordinary Botsfords/The Penny, the Pony, and the Pirate	8.7	7
11	Tim Botsford: Neighborhood Assistant/Set Sail for the Bake Sale	8.9	8
12	The Best of the Best/Art's Parts	8.2	7
13	Rhyme and Reason, Part 1/Rhyme and Reason, Part 2	8.8	20

WordGirl (2007)

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