Original airdate: September 21st, 2007
Coupon Madness: Granny May uses fake coupons to get people to give her things. This part's associated vocabulary words are "squint" and "bargain".
When Life Gives You Potatoes...: Dr. Two Brains develops and uses a machine that turns gold into mashed potatoes, and another that turns mashed potatoes into cheese. This part's associated vocabulary words are "glum" and "transformation".
"Coupon Madness" contains the following tropes:
- Blowing a Raspberry: TJ does this when Becky teases him for having cookie crumbs on his face.
- Calling Your Attacks: When Granny May sprays stinky perfume at WordGirl, Captain HuggyFace, and Reginald, she calls out, "Granny perfume!"
- Competition Coupon Madness: TJ wants his mother to buy 32 boxes of Snappy Snaps so he can get enough boxtop coupons to win a WordGirl utility belt.
- Continuity Nod: The false coupon Granny May gives the bank teller entitles her to, among others, a free toaster, referencing the bank's actual offer in "High-Fat Robbery".
- Department of Redundancy Department: Lampshaded.Granny May: That meddlesome smarty-pants WordGirl almost had me that time! Luckily, I'm older and wiser! And also wiser!
Narrator: You said that already.
Granny May: Mind your manners now!
Narrator: Yes, ma'am. - Evil Laugh: Granny May does this when she announces her plan to print a coupon that gives her permanent control of the city. Then she starts coughing and decides to put a kettle on.
- Exactly What I Aimed At: Granny May shoots her yarn at WordGirl, but seemingly misses. Then she pulls the strings, toppling a large pile of pickle jars onto the heroine.
- I Heard That: When Reginald snarks that Granny May should get her eyes checked after she calls her wanted poster "a mighty fine young lady", Granny May, who's played hard of hearing multiple times throughout the episode, replies that she heard that one.
- Noodle Incident: The Botsford family goes shopping at, to quote the Narrator, "the only grocery store in town that still allows monkeys".
- Paying for the Action Scene: Downplayed. After WordGirl's battle with Granny May, Ye Olde Fancy Schmancy Jewelry Store is a mess, and she admits to she should probably clean up after she sees Reginald glaring at her.
- Source Music: Granny May turns on a self-playing piano so it can provide sad music for her sob story about how hard it is in the world for an old lady.
- Terms of Endangerment: Granny May mockingly calls WordGirl "angel" before flying off to continue her "shopping spree".
- Utility Belt: TJ is collecting Snappy Snaps coupons for a WordGirl utility belt with a grappling hook, a flashlight, and a "special secret compartment to hold your Snappy Snaps", none of which WordGirl actually uses.
"When Life Gives You Potatoes..." contains the following tropes:
- Big "NO!": Dr. Two-Brains does this when he accidentally turns his cheese ray into potato salad.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Lampshaded when Dr. Two-Brains' henchmen ask him why he doesn't just use the gold he steals to buy things, instead of turning it into potato salad and then into cheese. Dr. Two-Brains instantly rejects this idea because it doesn't fit his cheese theme.
- Insult Backfire: When WordGirl calls Dr. Two-Brains a fiend.Dr. Two-Brains: And proud of it!
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Captain HuggyFace does this to get WordGirl to announce that "the Official WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace Hideout is complete", despite her protests that the name is too long.
- Sleeping Dummy: Dr. Two-Brains makes one out of a lab coat and some carved soap to hide his escape from prison. The warden, being as ditzy as the rest of the town, still hasn't seen through it even days after the escape.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Once WordGirl finds out about Dr. Two-Brains' plan to turn gold into potato salad into cheese, she comes up with several less complicated ways he could go about things.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Dr. Two-Brains' henchmen asks to have some of the gold they steal, as they have to pay rent and their landlord doesn't accept cheese as payment anymore.
