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Moving this over to a new page since I noticed the old page's name had the wrong episode number.
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'''Original airdate:''' September 28th, 2007
'''Jerky Jerk:''' The Butcher steals an ancient necklace that makes him incredibly powerful. This part's associated vocabulary words are "clumsy" and "supreme".
'''Becky's Birthday:''' [=WordGirl=] battles a constantly-growing Energy Monster on her birthday. This part's associated vocabulary words are "appetite" and "expand".
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!!"Jerky Jerk" contains the following tropes:
* AmplifierArtifact: The Beef Jerky and Bacon Earrings of Supreme Power make anyone with power over all meat products, well, supremely powerful.
* CoincidentalDodge: Captain [=HuggyFace=] stumbling around due to the thick glasses he's wearing impairing his vision allows him to dodge the Butcher's meat attacks.
* IdenticalGrandson: It's never brought up, but considering the original owner of the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, Buschermech of Tryptophania, looks exactly like and has a similar name to the Butcher, there's probably a connection.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Once Captain [=HuggyFace=] eats the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, all the meat the Butcher summoned with it disappears.
* PowerEchoes: Parodied. Whenever someone mentions the '''BEEF JERKY''' or '''BACON EARRINGS OF SUPREME POWER''', the words echo dramatically, no matter how casual the conversation otherwise is. Lampshaded when the Butcher mispronounces "supreme" and wonders why there was no echo that time.
* PowerFloats: The Butcher starts floating in the air when he gets the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power on.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When the museum curator gets suspicious about the "disguised" Butcher, the Butcher says that he's "certainly not the guy who stole this necklace." The townspeople being what they are, the curator believes him.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Just as the Butcher laments how he needs more power to defeat [=WordGirl=], his TV displays a special broadcast about the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, which would give him precisely that. It gets taken a step further later in the episode when the special report gets interrupted by ''another'' special report.
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!!"Becky's Birthday" contains the following tropes:
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: For Becky. Of course, the episode's title ''does'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tell you up-front]] that it's about Becky's birthday.
* BigNo: TJ does this when he returns from the bathroom and finds out that he just missed [=WordGirl=] visiting their house.
* EnemyMine: Subverted. [=WordGirl=] needs help keeping a giant power cord plugged in and looks expectantly at Dr. Two-Brains, whom she ran into in the street, but he decides he'd rather just go home and eat cheese on crackers.
* HairReboot: Whenever [=WordGirl=] gets her hair frizzed by the Energy Monster, it goes back to normal the second the camera stops focusing on her.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Bob prematurely does this at Becky's birthday party when she comes to get his help with the Energy Monster.
* ShoutOut: When some townsfolk are trying to think of the word "expand" to describe the Energy Monster growing, one of them suggests "embiggen", a word popularised by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Doubles as a ParentalBonus since ''The Simpsons'' contains more mature content than the kinds of shows the target audience of ''[=WordGirl=]'' would be familiar with.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both the narrator and Scoops think that Becky's attempt at feigning surprise over her birthday party looks like she drank some bad milk.
* SurpriseParty: Becky's friends and family have a surprise birthday party planned for her. Unfortunately, the narrator spoils the surprise for her by accident and she has to fake being surprised when she finally does arrive at her house.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Becky notes how weird it is that the arcade's electricity cut out, Scoops think she's referring to the birthday present he's carrying. He nervously claims that he always carries it around and that it's not for her.
* VillainsOutShopping: [=WordGirl=], while confronting the Energy Monster, encounters Dr. Two-Brains, who's just made a trip to the grocery store. He may steal cheese, but he buys the crackers he puts the cheese on.
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'''Jerky Jerk:''' The Butcher steals an ancient necklace that makes him incredibly powerful. This part's associated vocabulary words are "clumsy" and "supreme".
'''Becky's Birthday:''' [=WordGirl=] battles a constantly-growing Energy Monster on her birthday. This part's associated vocabulary words are "appetite" and "expand".
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!!"Jerky Jerk" contains the following tropes:
* AmplifierArtifact: The Beef Jerky and Bacon Earrings of Supreme Power make anyone with power over all meat products, well, supremely powerful.
* CoincidentalDodge: Captain [=HuggyFace=] stumbling around due to the thick glasses he's wearing impairing his vision allows him to dodge the Butcher's meat attacks.
* IdenticalGrandson: It's never brought up, but considering the original owner of the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, Buschermech of Tryptophania, looks exactly like and has a similar name to the Butcher, there's probably a connection.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Once Captain [=HuggyFace=] eats the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, all the meat the Butcher summoned with it disappears.
* PowerEchoes: Parodied. Whenever someone mentions the '''BEEF JERKY''' or '''BACON EARRINGS OF SUPREME POWER''', the words echo dramatically, no matter how casual the conversation otherwise is. Lampshaded when the Butcher mispronounces "supreme" and wonders why there was no echo that time.
* PowerFloats: The Butcher starts floating in the air when he gets the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power on.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When the museum curator gets suspicious about the "disguised" Butcher, the Butcher says that he's "certainly not the guy who stole this necklace." The townspeople being what they are, the curator believes him.
* WeInterruptThisProgram: Just as the Butcher laments how he needs more power to defeat [=WordGirl=], his TV displays a special broadcast about the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, which would give him precisely that. It gets taken a step further later in the episode when the special report gets interrupted by ''another'' special report.
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!!"Becky's Birthday" contains the following tropes:
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: For Becky. Of course, the episode's title ''does'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tell you up-front]] that it's about Becky's birthday.
* BigNo: TJ does this when he returns from the bathroom and finds out that he just missed [=WordGirl=] visiting their house.
* EnemyMine: Subverted. [=WordGirl=] needs help keeping a giant power cord plugged in and looks expectantly at Dr. Two-Brains, whom she ran into in the street, but he decides he'd rather just go home and eat cheese on crackers.
* HairReboot: Whenever [=WordGirl=] gets her hair frizzed by the Energy Monster, it goes back to normal the second the camera stops focusing on her.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Bob prematurely does this at Becky's birthday party when she comes to get his help with the Energy Monster.
* ShoutOut: When some townsfolk are trying to think of the word "expand" to describe the Energy Monster growing, one of them suggests "embiggen", a word popularised by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Doubles as a ParentalBonus since ''The Simpsons'' contains more mature content than the kinds of shows the target audience of ''[=WordGirl=]'' would be familiar with.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both the narrator and Scoops think that Becky's attempt at feigning surprise over her birthday party looks like she drank some bad milk.
* SurpriseParty: Becky's friends and family have a surprise birthday party planned for her. Unfortunately, the narrator spoils the surprise for her by accident and she has to fake being surprised when she finally does arrive at her house.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Becky notes how weird it is that the arcade's electricity cut out, Scoops think she's referring to the birthday present he's carrying. He nervously claims that he always carries it around and that it's not for her.
* VillainsOutShopping: [=WordGirl=], while confronting the Energy Monster, encounters Dr. Two-Brains, who's just made a trip to the grocery store. He may steal cheese, but he buys the crackers he puts the cheese on.
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