He is also shown to think very highly of himself, going so far as to make himself a hero who can lift a 200-pound weight while writing a concerto, fly, and do karate, even though he doesn't.The Narrator sometimes teases him over his mustache. Violet (voiced by Maria Bamford) conducts herself in a quiet, shy manner and has a flair for art, having met Becky in an art appreciation class after Becky flunked art class three times in a row. Kid Potato has powers similar to his sons, but instead of different types of meat, his attacks use different types of potatoes. In the US, girls are considered tall over 54 but in modern times where teenagers grow taller then their parents i would say that a girl who is 57 or taller . 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 Becky That's roughly how many cm each px should be. Even though he looks menacing at times, Charlie (whose name was revealed in "Two-Brains Highway") has a big heart and a great love for animals just like his friend. Another weapon is his "Wheel of Wonderful Stuff", which he used to trap WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. 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. Her powers are disrupted by Lexonite, a substance from her home planet Lexicon. 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. We are excited to announce that our zine will be releasing in January. He has a slight English accent. [edit]Evil Sally Botsford EEvil DEvil Sally Botsfore, Prof. Boxleitner SuperHeroes And You A Practical Guide. Scoops realizes that Becky doubles as WordGirl when she runs into him, forgetting that she is still wearing the WordGirl cape; Scoops observes that shes also worn the costume frequently, having chosen WordGirl as her Halloween costume. Beckys adoptive mother, a constant optimist. In 223, he appears again when the Whammer is looking for a job. Gilad Kletter. He's a master of robotics, building giant robots to do his bidding. As Becky Botsford, she wears a green V-neck shirt, purple skirt and headband, and knee length socks with black and white shoes. Voiced by Dannah Phirman. She seems incredibly spoiled, wearing the family uniform of a sweater vest with a trophy ensignia, and is the only child on the show with earrings, shaped like blue ribbons. 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. Yet another segment features the interstitials announcer (Rodger Parsons) asking Captain Huggy Face for a visual demonstration of a certain word (such as "strenuous" or "flummoxed"). Her lair is also seen in this episode, it is filled with question mark covered items. Occupation Users who misuse the template will be blocked for a week minimum. In truth, she does a very bit to disguise her true identity. His sidekick and constant companions are his squishy toy rabbit and his assistant, Leslie, to whom he confides his most dastardly plans. Mr. Big tried to become mayor twice, but failed because of WordGirl. Orlando Brown is the voice behind the character. It was proved physically indestructible to WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. But Bampy defeats it by himself. 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! The fact that it'smade so obvious to the viewing audience usually adds to the comic element of the series. Season 8. Don't Press This Button!!! QuestionInvisi-BillBig Left Hand GuyCaptain TangentThe LearnererVictoria BestMiss PowerThe Coach. She and Huggy use their crashed spaceship as a secret hideout. Scoops realizes that Beckydoubles as WordGirl when she runs into him, forgetting that she is still wearing the WordGirl cape; Scoops observes that shes also worn the costume frequently, having chosen WordGirl as her Halloween costume. The Coach stated that his name suited him perfectly, being a play on the word "invisible", and the fact that his first name is Bill. When Tobey kept on persisting his chess-playing champion to win, Checkmate 3000 began to become so frustrated that in the end, he tried to destroy every checker-patterned objects. She has a handful of meanings on her dictionary memorized and is able to define any given word at a moment's notice. Rhyme is a villain who was introduced in the episode "Rhyme and Reason" and one of the final antagonists of the franchise. 663 * 1.8564102564102564102564102564103 = 1230.8. The Botsford family keeps Captain Huggy Face as a pet, naming him Bob. WordGirl follows the every day life and superhero adventures of "WordGirl" as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day's work. I do, and I made a video about it. Even Scoops was enamoured with her in the first episode, though by the second one, he had seen enough of her true colors. He has been called a hedgehog, (flying) rabbit, koala, rat, aardvark, ferret, otter, llama, a hairy kid, and probably others. 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). 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. For example, in the episode Tobey or Consequences, the child villain Tobey proposes a game show, Crash or Pie? to settle the question of whether his robots would be allowed to destroy the city. In gratitude, Eileen hands over her prized necklace [after Violet tells her that "bestest fwiends give each otho pwevwents"], and her greed-induced metamorphosis is reversed, rescuing WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face.) Tobey owns a personal scrapbook of WordGirl decorated with hearts. [citation needed]. He says it's not his real name though, something that marketing came up with. 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). WordGirl is usually a Nice Girl and a fair superheroine towards the villains, but whenever something ticks her off, it's both hilarious and threatening coming from her. While she has an excellent vocabulary, is well-read, and enjoys geography, shes a poor artist, cant dance and cant sing. This ten-year-old girl attempts to acquire the things she wants by using a falsely-polite manner, big eyes, and a lisping voice, along with the statement "Today is my birthday!" 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. Handsome." She has even received many (over 200) keys to the city. 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. John C. McGinley does The Whammer's voice. His main weapons are squirt bottles of condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, honey mustard, pickle relish, honey butter, barbecue sauce, and olive oil. He appears in the various episodes, "Becky's Birthday", "The Pretty Princess Primere," "Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey," and "Becky and the Bard", the latter of which shows that he like things that sparkle. 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. One of WordGirl's emergency plan numbers, 619 (used in the episode "Kids Action News"), could be a reference to the finishing move, "The 619", used by famous professional wrestler Rey Mysterio in WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). James Adomian voices the crazed cooker. Cree Summer voices the evil little old lady. WordGirl can instantly change into her suit, and back again into her adopted human identity (depending on the scenario) by touching her shirt where her emblem would be, and speaking her catchphrase, Word up!. The name of this character puns off Conan the Barbarian. 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. Despite their uselessness, they fly off the shelves, thanks to a mind-control device that causes people to purchase them. [11], Rather than hiring writers experienced with children's television, the show's original writers' previous credits included The Onion and Family Guy. His known family members are his parents and his grandfather, who are the rivals of The Botsfords. BigGranny MayEileen/Birthday GirlAmazing Rope GuySeymour Orlando SmoothNocan the ContrarianMs. Hobby Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media described the series as having a "brainy heroine [who] uses vocab to outwit bad guys." 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. and "The Invisi-Bill Hand", Invisi-Bill (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) is a graduate from the Coach's school that can turn invisible when he wants. ", along with, "V.B., in!" While he was driving the spaceship, WordGirl woke and startled him, making them collide into an asteroid and forcing him to crash land on Earth in order to save the both of them. 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. The meteor is about 663 px in diameter. His dream of working for The Big City Timescame true to cover a story of Granny May in "Bonkers for Bingo" when he was hired by the paper's editor, Woodward Bernstein (punning off the last names of legendary Washington Post Watergate investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein); he still has a long way to go, though. 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. The article attests that the generation who grew up watching WordGirl later demanded new and diverse Marvel heroes, such as Captain Marvel.[2]. -Welcome to the Hero/Protagonist wiki! His first name means good-looking or beautiful in French, and is voiced by Ryan Raddatz. 4 feet 11 inches. 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. Using the height calculator. [8], Each eleven-minute segment in each episode (except for the first three episodes) begins with verbal instructions to listen for two words that will be used throughout the plot of that episode. A teacher at the Woodview Elementary School, she represents Becky's class at parent-teacher conferences, helps run the debate club, and in the episode "Cleanup on Aisle Eleven", decided after both Becky and Todd wanted a unicorn or an armadillo as the debate club's mascot on a magic turtle instead. He often gives speeches of things (reading them off of index cards akin to Ronald Reagan), sometimes reading the wrong card (i.e. He likes vegetable stews and is one of the very few people to know Becky's secret identity, telling Becky after a fight with one of Tobey's robots, "Nice flyin' up there, kiddo." WordGirl is the titular main protagonist of the PBS animated series of the same name . 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. She has light brown skin and her face is circular. He doesn't seem to take superheroes (or even children) seriously. this took a ton of effortplus i wanted to absorb some childhood nostalgia People often insult him by either saying his name wrong or calling him the wrong animal, most often Granny May. She normally repeats words over in many forms akin to a thesaurus. Veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor plays Mr. Big. The only way to reverse Eileens transformation is to persuade her to give away something she values. (1) 7.1 2015 TV-Y. When told to destroy buildings by Tobey, he just starts painting, much to Tobey's angry dismay. This was a four-part episode that lasted 1 hour. You can convert metric to imperial length units using our length calculator. The Narrator acts as show host, and his final judgment of the games outcome shows his overall bias in WordGirls favor. Full Name Teach people (including the villains) vocabulary, This hero was proposed but rejected by the community for not being admirable enough or lacks what is necessary to be a, WordGirl seems to be an affectionate parody of, The series' title character and her alter ego is voiced by. As is shown in the episode, he is very agile and stealthy, and his eyes can move all the way around his head. Answer (1 of 72): I would say tall for a girl is 510+ because where i live (in Northern europe) there are tall people walking everywhere. He gained his powers when he found the treasure of no-beard, and got a curse giving him his magnetic hook and his bird the ability to talk. Her closest friends include Violet Heaslip and Todd "Scoops" Ming (whom she has a crush on). 4 feet 11 inches. -M-NUva. Worldgi. The companion site to WordGirl lives on PBS Kids, and was built by interactive firm Big Bad Tomato. WordGirl must figure out his secret motive and save the city. He adopted him as his partner in crime. The Learnerer was defeated by Huggy when the sidekick monkey kicked him off of a slide and into a paddy wagon. Phirman was chosen for her knack to nail her scripts in one take. The baker appears in season 2 running a normal business. 27min. Wordgirl also once threw a couple building size robots into the sun, in this episode (around the 8:05 mark). Eventually, they broke apart after Dupey revealed she's a vegetarian. In addition to the English dictionary, she knows most hieroglyphics as well. (3) 7.1 2015 TV-Y. Huggy Face has no superpowers (hence the reason that sometimes he has to take the bus because he cannot fly) and loves to eat almost anything, even the dreaded Beans la Botsford (although he hates the repulsive Chicken Liver Fricassee and beef bouillon the Butcher conjured once). Flashbacks show him defeating an independently-produced 50-foot-tall robot with a screwdriver and whiskers. Stay tuned to celebrate 15 years of Wordgirl with our team. Mr. Big, a slick business man up to no good, introduces his new product: "The Thing" that does "stuff". This is considered as a running gag throughout the series, so much so that WordGirl herself in "The Masked Meat Marauder" stated to millionaire Edith van Hoosinghaus that "Sometimes we need help getting to the next scene." Rhyme needs Reason . However, she outsmarts him by using a WordGirl doll. WordGirl (2007) Beckys best friend from school. Answer (1 of 3): I'd say Wordgirl. 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