After the intro (which explains that it's a Superhero Episode), the kids (with the exception of Milo) and Martha are seen being made into cyborgs by O.G and working as "Book Bots" (superheroes that save books). Carolina then summons the rest of the Book Bots to their secret lair, where she reveals a mystery: a man bought a book that was missing the word "asteroid", and then moments latter, a man robbed a bank with an actual asteroid. She then adds that other books have had words taken out as well ("raft" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, "table" from King Arthur, and "bears" from Goldilocks).
T.D. then realises that all of those words are nouns, then the rest of them find out that the things from the books are being used to rob banks: one robber used the raft and table to enter a bank window, and another bank was robbed by the Three Bears. Carolina then tells her friends that they'll need to bring the nouns back where they came from with a device called the Textinator.
The Book Bots (except Carolina, who remains at base) teleport to the library and, distracting the bears with porridge, send them back to their book. Then, the robber emerges from the back room and introduces himself as the Announcer. He reveals that he was the host of a game called Insert-a-Word, where a word is removed from a sentence and contestants must guess the missing word, but that he eventually grew weary of it and quit. Then, an alien microphone fell from the sky, and touching it gave the Announcer the power to remove nouns from books and put them in reality.
He then runs off with the money and the Book Bots give chase. He locks them in a closed restaurant, but they're not scared since he has no books to remove nouns from. However, the Announcer then removes "meatballs" from the menus, and fills the room with them, ending part one.
Part two begins with a recap, then the room stops filling with meatballs but the Announcer tells the Book Bots to surrender and work for him. He summons more meatballs, but Martha eats through them, setting them all free. This causes her to do a strange, burp-like cyborg function, and when it's over, they chase after the Announcer. They confront him riding a horse and cart in a forest, but he escapes to the zoo, where he removes the word "eggs" from a flyer. He then makes it rain eggs on them, and escapes.
In the base, Carolina hoses them down, then the kids wonder why the eggs were normal eggs, since he got the word from "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs". Helen notes that since he only removes the nouns, and "golden" is the adjective, the things don't take on the properties they had in the story. Then, Truman gets the idea to change the nouns and make them useless by gaining power over adjectives.
Martha realises that they don't know how to do that, but she thinks her friend Dr. Exactly could help. She goes to him (and he looks just like Skits), and he invents a weapon that comes in the form of headgear worn by Martha. The Book Bots confront the Announcer again, and he brings some farming equipment from a book. Just as a combine is about to fall on Alice, Martha uses the weapon to make it tiny and bouncy. He tries to make anvils fall on the Book Bots' heads, but Martha makes them "feathery", then "weightless". Then, she shrinks the Announcer by calling him a "tiny" villain.
...Then, the whole episode is revealed to have only been a story told by Martha. Skits is hungry, but when he gets fed, he wants steak instead.
This episode provides examples of
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: At the end, the dogs roleplay the story wearing hats.
- Action Girl: Helen, Alice, and Martha are portrayed as superheroes in this episode.
- Animal Jingoism: Dr. Exactly (Skits's doppelganger) chases a cat.
- Anvil on Head: Defied. The Announcer tries to make anvils fall onto the Book Bots' heads, but Martha makes the first one "feathery" (which turns it into feathers) and the rest of them weightless.
- Badass in Distress: The Book Bots, who are all superheroes, get locked into a room that's filling with meatballs at the end of Part One.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: The Three Bears are seen without shoes.
- Bears Are Bad News: Exploited when the villain has the Three Bears rob a bank, knowing that the bank owners would be too scared to fight back.
- Books vs. Screens: The human Book Bots claim that they don't watch TV, they read instead, and when Martha says that she does watch TV, she tries to excuse it by saying she's illiterate. (This is despite the fact that the "real-life" Helen, T.D., Alice, and Truman both watch TV and read).
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- At one point, T.D. asks the audience if they know what the missing words have in common, then the other Book Bots start teasing the viewers.
- The Announcer tells the audience to stay tuned to see what happens at the end of part one.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The Announcer self-identifies as a crook, then when the Book Bots recite their oath, he claims he's sworn to be evil.
- Character Tics: Apparently Skits's doppelganger, Dr. Exactly, scratches when he's deep in thought and rolls on his back while doing complex math equations.
- Chekhov's Classroom: At the beginning, T.D. learns what a noun is. Later, he's the one to figure out that all the missing words are nouns.
- Cyborg: The song at the beginning explains that the reason they're called "Book Bots" is because O.G. enhanced them with technology.
- Damsel in Distress: The Announcer almost drowns Helen, Alice, and Martha (and Truman and T.D. in meatballs), then later almost kills Alice with a falling combine and Helen and Martha with falling anvils.
- Damsel out of Distress:
- Martha manages to save herself (and her friends) from the room filling with meatballs by eating a tunnel through them.
- She then saves herself and the others from the falling anvils by changing them.
- Daydream Surprise: The whole episode turns out to have been a story told by Martha.
- Delicious Distraction: Alice uses porridge to distract the bears so they won't notice Helen zapping them home.
- Distressed Dude: The Announcer puts T.D. and Truman (along with Helen, Alice, and Martha) in a room filling with meatballs.
- Dogs Love Fire Hydrants: Downplayed when Martha and several other dogs are seen near a fire hydrant but not enthusing over it or peeing on it.
- Eating Solves Everything: Martha frees herself and her friends from the meatball-filling restaurant by eating a tunnel through them.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When the Book Bots realise that the Announcer has no power over adjectives, they then realise that if they had power over adjectives, they could defeat him.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials: Downplayed for the alien in the flashback, who only wears bracelets and a collar but nothing else.
- Face–Heel Turn: Discussed when the Announcer wants the Book Bots to work for him.
- Filthy Fun: Defied when Martha says that Dr. Exactly is not like most dogs in that he doesn't roll in mud.
- Flashback: When the Announcer is describing his job, we see a scene of him doing it.
- Flashy Teleportation: The Book Bots can teleport, and when they do, they appear in a flash of green light.
- Formally-Named Pet: Skits's Book Bot counterpart is named Dr. Exactly.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Martha is shown wearing her full superhero outfit.
- Funny Animal: Exploited when the villain brings the Three Bears to life and has them rob a bank.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Dr. Exactly is portrayed as Skits in only a lab coat and sunglasses.
- Heel–Face Turn: Subverted when the Announcer says that he's going to reform but then says, "Fooled you!".
- Heroic Dog:
- Martha helps her friends stop the Announcer from committing crimes.
- Dr. Exactly (who is portrayed by Skits) helps the Book Bots gain the power over adjectives.
- Hypocritical Humour: Helen tells the audience not to get distracted, then immediately gets distracted by something.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Invoked when Martha, wearing the adjective weapon, defeats the Announcer by describing him as "tiny", thereby shrinking him.
- Joke of the Butt: When the Book Bots are crawling through the tunnel Martha ate through the meatballs, Alice accidentally bumps into Helen's derriere.
- Kid Hero: Helen, Truman, Alice, and T.D. (who are only ten, or in Truman's case, nine) help to stop crimes by sending the nouns that were taken from books back to the books. Downplayed for Carolina, who's eleven and doesn't do any actual crime-stopping but does provide the Textinator which the others use.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine:
- O.G. is shown in a lab coat when making the kids and Martha into Book Bots.
- Dr. Exactly (Skits's Book Bot counterpart) wears a lab coat.
- Money Bag: The Announcer tries to steal many bags of money with "$" printed on them.
- Oh, Crap!: Truman becomes worried when he realises that the Announcer can remove nouns from any document, not just books.
- Scolding the Fourth-Wall Breaker: When T.D. asks the audience if they realised that the villain was removing nouns to bring the things to life and use them for crimes before the Book Bots did, Helen tells him to stop talking tot he viewers.
- Shaped Like Itself: The Announcer, upon noticing the weightless anvils, says, "'Weightless' mans something has no weight!".
- Shout-Out:
- The books that had words removed include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, King Arthur, and Goldilocks.
- One of the sentences on Insert-a-Word was "You get three wishes when you rub Aladdin's magic ___". (The correct answer was "lamp").
- Show Within a Show: The Announcer is the host of a game show called Insert-a-Word.
- Speak in Unison:
- The Book Bots yell, "Meatballs!" in unison when the room starts filling with them.
- They say their title in unison when confronting the Announcer in the forest.
- Then they say, "Adjectives go!" when they reveal that they need to change the nouns with adjectives to defeat the Announcer.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The villain is called The Announcer.
- Stock Animal Diet:
- The adjective weapon is made for dogs and has a bone shape painted on it.
- At the end of the episode, back in reality, Skits wants steak.
- Strange Minds Alike: When the Book Bots think they'll need disguises, all of them coincidentally want to be pirates.
- Superhero Episode: The majority of the episode stars the characters as Bookbots (book-themed superheroes they made up back in "The Martha Show".)
- Wearing It All Wrong: Discussed when a contestant on Insert-a-Word thinks the missing word in the sentence "It's always polite to remove your ____ from your head" is "pants".
