Original airdate: August 7th, 2013
Tell Her What She's Won!: After the suspicious disappearance of Beau Handsome, Seymour Orlando Smooth takes his place as host of "May I Have a Word?". This part's associated vocabulary words are "bombard" and "emcee".
Victoria is the Best...WordGirl?: When Scoops comes to the mistaken conclusion that Victoria Best is WordGirl, the villainess decides to go with it. This part's associated vocabulary words are "mistaken" and "fib".
"Tell Her What She's Won!" contains the following tropes:
- By "No", I Mean "Yes": This exchange when Seymour intends to play a game with a trapped WordGirl.WordGirl: Is this going to be unfair and totally rigged?
Seymour: No, but it might be unfair and totally rigged. - Continuity Nod: Great Granny May from the episode of the same name and Timmy Tim-Bo from "Villain School" appear as some of the people watching Seymour's live broadcast.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: Seymour finds it very difficult to stop himself from admiring a poster of himself. Right after he mocks Beau for being vain.
- Driven by Envy: This is Seymour's motivation. He's envious of how successful Beau is as an emcee.
- Genre Savvy: When Seymour traps WordGirl in a room and announces that they're going to play "Go Away, the gameshow that no one wins", she asks if it's going to be rigged.
- Hypocritical Humor: Seymour mocks Beau for being vain while being in a room with pictures of himself plastered on the walls that he finds it extremely difficult to leave.
- Ironic Echo: Efter Seymour loses the emcee-off, WordGirl tricks him into saying "I am not a winner" the same way he did to her earlier in the episode.
- It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: When it's revealed that Seymour's game with WordGirl is being broadcast live, we cut to an excited Mrs. Botsford, who says that it's going to be the best gameshow ever.
- Literal-Minded: When a suspicious WordGirl says that something smells funny, Captain HuggyFace holds his nose.
- Look Behind You: Seymour does this to get away from WordGirl when she confronts him about his sudden appearance on "May I Have a Word?".
- Sensory Abuse: In-universe example. When WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace follow a trail of hair gel left by Seymour through a panel, they're bombarded by blinking lights and loud music.
- Show Within a Show: The "May I Have a Word?" segment that shows up after each part in the show makes an appearance as an in-universe gameshow, with another monkey filling in for Captain HuggyFace.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Seymour is filling in for the missing Beau Handsome, he makes sure to inform the audience that the previous host's disappearance has nothing to do with anything bad he's done.
- Tempting Fate: After being told the rules for the game she has to play with Seymour, WordGirl happily states that they don't sound unfair and totally rigged like she was promised. That's before she hears the questions.
- Twinkle Smile: Seymour uses an exaggerated version of this to try to escape from WordGirl after his plan is foiled. Unfortunately for him, Beau literally outshines him.
"Victoria is the Best...WordGirl?" contains the following tropes:
- Bad "Bad Acting":
- WordGirl when enacting her emergency plan #421.WordGirl: Oh no! Huggy is for some strange reason suddenly frozen! How unexpected and interesting!
- She does it again when she agrees with Scoops that WordGirl's secret identity is still a secret. He asks why she's talking like that.
- WordGirl when enacting her emergency plan #421.
- Body Wipe: When Scoops asks himself if Victoria Best is WordGirl, the camera dramatically zooms in on his face. When it zooms back out, he's at school with Becky next to him.
- Cassandra Truth: Becky keeps trying to convince everyone Victoria Best isn't WordGirl, but nobody believes her even when she actually is in her WordGirl identity.
- The Collector: Downplayed. After pinning WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace to the wall, Victoria decides to keep them as her new trophies, but it's mainly as a way to keep them out of the way rather than her primary goal.
- Didn't Think This Through: Victoria failed to realise that if you're going to impersonate a superhero, sooner or later you're going to be expected to fight villains.
- Dramatic Irony: When Tim and TJ are discussing the "news" that Victoria is actually WordGirl, Tim says that if his daughter was WordGirl, he'd be the proudest dad in the world. Little does he know that his daughter actually is WordGirl.
- Grapes of Luxury: While visiting the WordGirl fanclub, Victoria is reclining on a divan and being fed grapes by Johnson.
- Instant Fan Club: Victoria gets one after falsely claiming to be WordGirl. Being Victoria Best, she's much happier about it than most over-night examples.
- Karma Houdini: Even after having her lie exposed, Victoria is still surrounded by admiring students, having switched tracks to calling herself the best fibber in the world instead.
- Last-Second Word Swap: After Bob barely stops Becky from blurting out in anger that she's WordGirl, she finishes her sentence by saying she's going to her room instead.
- Mistaken Identity: After Scoops sees WordGirl rounding a corner and then Victoria emerging from it, he thinks Victoria is WordGirl's secret identity.
- Rule of Three: After capturing WordGirl, Victoria gets three visitors. The first two are concerned citizens asking her to fight crime, whom she turns away. The third is Dr. Two-Brains.
- Shout-Out: Victoria hooks up her recorder to a guitar amplifier and knocks WordGirl and HuggyFace back. She then gloats, "That'll do, notes. That'll do."
- Spinning Paper: Scoops's article about Victoria Best being WordGirl does this.
