Original airdate: September 10th, 2012
Seize the Cheese: The Botsfords go on a family hike. This part's associated vocabulary words are "savour" and "seize".
Ms. Question's Riddle Rampage: Ms. Question uses one of Tobey's robots to hold up traffic. This part's associated vocabulary words are "stranded" and "puzzled".
"Seize the Cheese" contains the following tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Dr. Two-Brains is reluctant to go apple picking with his henchmen, thinking it'll be boring. After he actually tries it, he admits that he was wrong. It's even more boring than he thought it would be.
- Balloon Belly: Dr. Two-Brains and his henchmen get these after gorging themselves on all the cheese the Cheese Seizer attracted.
- Big "NO!": Becky does one when Mr. Botsford leaps into the air to take her game controller from her.
- Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: After having spent an unknown amount of time playing video games inside, Becky is blinded for a moment when Mr. Botsford opens the door to take the family out on a hike.
- Extreme Close-Up:
- This is used when Mrs. Botsford dramatically tells her husband to seize Becky's game controller.
- Dr. Two-Brains gets a turn when he declares that he and his henchmen will have to go get some cheese to indulge his new love for cheese and apples.
- I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: After Dr. Two-Brains over-indulges on cheese to the point of getting a Balloon Belly:Dr. Two-Brains: Boys, I never thought I'd say this, but I think we ate too much cheese.
- Idea Bulb: Captain HuggyFace gets one, accompanied by an Idea Ding, when he gets the idea to capture Dr. Two-Brains and his henchmen with the help of the Cheese Seizer. Said bulb is made out of cheese, so he proceeds to reach up and eat it.
- Impossibly Delicious Food: Dr. Two-Brains finds cheese and apples together to be this, to the point of getting apple-shaped Wingding Eyes and a trippy background when he first tries it.
- Lots of Luggage: Mr. Botsford's backpack for the family hiking trip is over twice as big as he is and can barely be moved even with almost the whole family helping. According to him, it contains essentials such as for example patio furniture and a bowling ball.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Dr. Two-Brains picking an apple for the first time is accompanied by a triumphant fanfare and the camera zooming in on the apple on a spotlight background as he holds it aloft.
- Title Drop: Dr. Two-Brains dramatically declares, "Cheese Seizer, seize the cheese!" when he first uses it.
- Verbal Backspace:Mr. Botsford: Becky, TJ, are you still playing that Pretty Princess game?
TJ: Huh? No! I was just looking at the screen and thinking about how fun this game is— isn't. - Wingding Eyes: When Dr. Two-Brains first tastes cheese and apples together, he finds it so delicious that his pupils turn into apples.
"Ms. Question's Riddle Rampage" contains the following tropes:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The riddle book that Mr. Botsford brings to the beach is called The Big Book of Brain Teasers and Puzzling Puzzles.
- Birdcaged: After WordGirl is knocked into the water by Ms. Question's robot and Captain HuggyFace has been disoriented by her question mark blast, she takes the opportunity to have the robot put the good captain in a giant birdcage. After he's been freed later in the episode, WordGirl captures Ms. Question herself in the very same cage.
- Delayed Causality: When Captain HuggyFace points out that one of Tobey's robots is fleeing into the distance, WordGirl flies to quickly attack it before returning, leaving it to break into pieces in the background.
- Double Take: As the Botsfords are going to the beach, Mr. Botsford assures his family that the heavy traffic is normal and that there's nothing unusual going on.TJ: Yeah, except for that giant robot. [The family's eyes widen and Becky gasps.] Whoa, a giant robot!
- Face Palm: Ms. Question does one out of frustration when it turns out that nobody in the bank she's robbing knows who she is.
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps: TJ does this when he claims that he only wears floaty wings because they make him look pumped. A bulge does appear at first, but it soon disappears and is replaced by the cartoony droop.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: As Mrs. McCallister is taking Tobey away at the start of the episode:Mrs. McCallister: Theodore McCallister III, you promised me you would stop with this robot nonsense!
- Laser-Guided Broadcast: Just as Ms. Question is wondering what sort of crime she should commit to get more recognition, she hears a radio DJ talk about how everyone is going to the beach and how if he were a villain, the first thing he would do would be to block the bridge leading there. Ms. Question takes him up on the idea.
- Quizzical Tilt: Tobey's robot does this after Ms. Question uses her powers to take control of it.
- Riddle of the Sphinx: Ms. Question forces WordGirl to answer the "What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" riddle to free the captive Captain HuggyFace.
