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".
"Jerky Jerk" contains the following tropes:
- Amplifier Artifact: The Beef Jerky and Bacon Earrings of Supreme Power make anyone with power over all meat products, well, supremely powerful.
- Coincidental Dodge: Captain HuggyFace stumbling around due to the thick glasses he's wearing impairing his vision allows him to dodge the Butcher's meat attacks.
- Identical Grandson: 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.
- No Ontological Inertia: Once Captain HuggyFace eats the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power, all the meat the Butcher summoned with it disappears.
- Power Echoes: 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.
- Power Floats: The Butcher starts floating in the air when he gets the Beef Jerky of Supreme Power on.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: 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.
- We Interrupt This Program: 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.
"Becky's Birthday" contains the following tropes:
- Ageless Birthday Episode: For Becky. Of course, the episode's title does tell you up-front that it's about Becky's birthday.
- Big "NO!": TJ does this when he returns from the bathroom and finds out that he just missed WordGirl visiting their house.
- Enemy Mine: 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.
- Hair Reboot: Whenever WordGirl gets her hair frizzed by the Energy Monster, it goes back to normal the second the camera stops focusing on her.
- Jumping Out of a Cake: Bob prematurely does this at Becky's birthday party when she comes to get his help with the Energy Monster.
- Shout-Out: 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 The Simpsons. Doubles as a Parental Bonus since The Simpsons contains more mature content than the kinds of shows the target audience of WordGirl would be familiar with.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both the narrator and Scoops think that Becky's attempt at feigning surprise over her birthday party looks like she drank some bad milk.
- Surprise Party: 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.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: 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.
- Villains Out Shopping: 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.
