Original airdate: September 9th, 2007
Tobey or Consequences: Tobey challenges WordGirl to a high-stakes gameshow he invented, "Crash or Pie". This part's associated vocabulary words are "enormous" and "bicker".
High-Fat Robbery: The Butcher uses free barbecues to distract people and go on a crime spree. This part's associated vocabulary words are "impressive" and "diversion".
"Tobey or Consequences" contains the following tropes:
- Argument of Contradictions: WordGirl and Tobey do this when they start arguing over if "unsmall" is a word.
- Continuity Nod: "Crash or Pie" is based on "Cash or Pie", the game show WordGirl and Tobey watch in the shorts that introduce him.
- Contrived Clumsiness: During the gameshow, Tobey makes his robots cause destruction for WordGirl to stop so she can't buzz in, claiming his finger slipped.
- Didn't Think This Through: Tobey fails to consider that his gameshow opponent has Super-Speed, meaning that she can press the buzzer much faster than he can.
- Distracted by the Sexy: A G-rated version. Tobey is so entranced by the sight of WordGirl destroying his robots that it takes him a few moments to remember that he doesn't want her to destroy his robots.
- Hologram Projection Imperfection: Tobey makes a holographic projection of himself to trick the babysitter, but it always seems to fizz out a little bit when she isn't looking.
- I Have This Friend: Part of Tobey's terms for WordGirl is that if she loses (or wins) their game, she has to give him a photo signed, "Tobey, all my love, WordGirl." For a friend of his. Who's also named Tobey.
- Ironic Echo: When WordGirl calls Tobey's robots enormous, he admonishes her for using such an "ordinary" word and suggests a few synonyms. Soon afterwards, as he's telling her to stop wrecking his robots, she tells him that "stop" is such an "easy" word and suggests "cease" instead.
- Motor Mouth: Tobey's babysitter, which keeps her from noticing that she's talking to a hologram.
- Oblivious to Love: Tobey's massive crush on WordGirl flies way over her head.
- Speed Round: "Crash or Pie" ends in a lightning round.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Non-audio example: The hologram Tobey set up to distract the babysitter nods after she asks it questions.
- Wingding Eyes: Tobey gets heart eyes as he watches WordGirl destroy his robots.
"High-Fat Robbery" contains the following tropes:
- Answer Cut: After Becky asks who reads the Daily Rag outside of elementary school, the scene cuts to a security bank guard reading the article about the bank giving away free toasters.
- Bait-and-Switch: After The Butcher is stopped, Scoops starts heavily complimenting the person who foiled him, to WordGirl's lovestruck delight. Then it turns out he was talking about himself, not WordGirl.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Subverted. When Scoops asks if Becky hated his article, she replies that "hate" is such a strong word. Accurate, but strong.
- Brutal Honesty: Becky pretty much admits right away that yes, she did hate the article Scoops wrote.
- Hypocritical Humor: The rich old lady yells about how The Butcher has his "grubby paws" all over her diamond while her own hands are covered in sauce from the barbecue.
- I Was Just Joking: When Scoops jokes about how impressive his reporter's instincts are since both places he wrote about got robbed later, WordGirl realises that this is because The Butcher is using the Daily Rag to plan his crimes.
- Is It Something You Eat?: When WordGirl calls The Butcher's barbecue a diversion he gets confused, saying he only served ribs and chicken.
- Look Behind You: WordGirl does this to the bank guard and bank teller to demonstrate what a diversion is. It takes them a few seconds to catch on.
- Lost My Appetite: This happens to the patron at the vegetarian restaurant when The Butcher says tofu looks like his stomach and lifts his shirt to demonstrate.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After Captain HuggyFace defeats The Butcher by pelting him with tofu, the two restaurant patrons he took the tofu from approach him, demanding he pay for it.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Scoops jokingly asks Becky if she has super hearing, she nervously denies it, saying she'd have to be WordGirl to have super hearing, which she certainly is not.
- Tempting Fate: When Becky brings up how the bank was robbed while everyone was distracted by a barbecue the previous day, Reginald, who is currently eating such a barbecue, says that he's far too smart to fall for that. Cue the alarm in his jewelry store going off.
- White Flag: After he's been defeated at the end of the episode, The Butcher waves one from off-screen.
