Original airdate: June 2nd, 2014
Big and Brent: Chuck is jealous when Brent hangs out with Mr. Big. This part's associated vocabulary words are "dubious" and "conspire".
Silence of the Whams: The Whammer looks for a new career. This part's associated vocabulary words are "fragile" and "burst".
"Big and Brent" contains the following tropes:
- Big Brother Instinct: Or rather, Little Brother Instinct. The instant Chuck suspects that Brent is under mind control, he wants to save him. When his suspicions get proven right much later, he uses his giant sandwich press to crush Mr. Big's mind control device to stop him from putting Brent out of business.Chuck: Don't worry, Brent! Your baby brother's gonna save the day!
- Crying Wolf: After two instances of Chuck calling WordGirl and accusing Mr. Big of being up to no good with Brent with no evidence, Becky refuses to come to his aid the one time he actually does have proof.
- Disrupting the Theater: WordGirl, Chuck, Mr. Big, and Brent talking loudly during a movie eventually gets them thrown out of the theater.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Chuck keeps calling for WordGirl to arrest Mr. Big for such horrible crimes as hanging out with Brent and talking during a movie.
- False Friend: Mr. Big pretends to be Brent's friend so he can mind control him into giving away all his recipes.
- Hypocritical Humor: Chuck loudly complains about Mr. Big talking during a movie after he himself did so and blocked the view for another moviegoer.
- Never My Fault: After Chuck's loud accusations to Mr. Big and Brent get the group thrown out of the movie theater, he blames them for making him miss the movie.
- New Friend Envy: It takes Chuck less than a minute to go from relieved to jealous when it sinks in for him that Brent is hanging out with someone else than him.
- Not What It Looks Like: When WordGirl hears Mr. Big complaining about his broken roof after Chuck destroys his mind control device and goes to investigate, it looks to her like Chuck attacked Mr. Big unprovoked out of jealousy, and she moves to arrest him. Fortunately, Brent quickly sets her straight.
- Rudely Hanging Up: Chuck does this when Brent asks him if he wants to come play minigolf with him and his friend.
- Seesaw Catapult: Becky accidentally does this when she de-transforms from WordGirl and lands on the seesaw she was sitting on earlier, sending Bob flying. Fortunately, she catches him again when he comes down.
- Split-Screen Phone Call: When Chuck calls Brent at the start of the episode. The dividing line is, naturally, a sandwich.
- Subverted Suspicion Aesop: Chuck assumes that Mr. Big is up to no good with Brent throughout the whole episode, until WordGirl convinces him that Brent is simply making other friends than Chuck and that's okay. However, when Chuck goes to apologise, he finds out that Mr. Big really was up to no good; Brent was just the victim rather than the co-conspirator.
- The Victim Must Be Confused: When Chuck finds out that Brent is hanging out with Mr. Big at the golf course, he assumes that Brent must be under mind control. He isn't... at the moment.
"Silence of the Whams" contains the following tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: Due to the fact that he failed to destroy them with his shockwaves as a child, the Whammer is afraid of bubbles to the point where he can't even stand to hear the word.
- Big "NO!": The Whammer does this whenever he tries to run away from the bubbles that trigger his phobia.
- Bubblegum Popping: WordGirl catches the Whammer at the end by having Captain HuggyFace blow a giant bubblegum bubble that the Whammer indulges his new-found love of popping bubbles on. WordGirl can break free from the resulting mess, the Whammer can't.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Lampshaded.Museum Curator: Oh no! These incredibly fragile glass vases are incredibly fragile! Hence the name!
- Soon afterwards, he yells in frustration over the Whammer's whamming that maybe he should've called the exhibit "The Incredibly Fragile Incredibly Fragile Glass Vases of the Renaissance, Which Are Really Very Incredibly Fragile".
- Face Your Fears: Once WordGirl realises that the Whammer is afraid of bubbles, she helps him do this.
- New Job Episode: After losing his powers, the Whammer tries to find another job. He tries a grocery store, a county fair, and a beach, but his fear of bubbles keeps messing things up for him.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title "Silence of the Whams" is a reference to the film The Silence of the Lambs.
- Power Incontinence: Inverted. The Whammer loses his whamming powers due to the trauma that caused him to develop a fear of bubbles being reawakened. They return once he conquers his fear.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: The Whammer does this when he's scared by bubbles at one of his new jobs.
