Original airdate: July 1st, 2015
Accordion Tradition: Becky inherits her mother's old accordion. This part's associated vocabulary words are "hesitate" and "select".
Can't Touch This: The Botsford family and the Whammer find WordGirl's secret hideout. This part's associated vocabulary words are "property" and "tinker".
"Accordion Tradition" contains the following tropes:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: During her crime montage, Granny May steals a statuette from a museum, bags of money from a bank vault, and Exposition Guy's ice cream.
- The Easy Way or the Hard Way: After WordGirl wins her air chase with Granny May, she tells the villainess that they "can do this the easy way or the hard way".
- Evil Is Petty: Granny May steals Exposition Guy's ice cream during her crime montage, leaving his tongue tangled in yarn.
- Flashback Cut: While explaining how she got her knitting needles from her mother, Granny May has a flashback of herself as a little girl, receiving the knitting needles and encasing all the cats in her mother's living room in yarn while laughing maniacally. Soon afterwards, she has another one of her mother using the needles to make clothes for the cats instead, to young Granny May's amazement.
- Freeze Sneeze: A squirrel does this in the park, causing Granny May to knit it a jumper and a tissue.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The montage of Granny May stealing various items while Becky is practicing her accordion uses her flying across the screen in her robotic suit as transitions.
- I Surrender, Suckers: Granny May tries to pull this after she's been caught and had her jet suit neutralised by WordGirl. Captain HuggyFace puts a stop to it by taking her knitting needles.
- Kill the Lights: Granny May does this in the jewelry store by throwing a metal coupon at a lamp, breaking it, in order to give herself an opportunity to steal the Magnify Diamond.
- Monochrome Past: Granny May's flashbacks to when she first received her knitting needles is in black and white.
- Pet the Dog: Granny May's mastery with her knitting needle is shown via her using them to make a cold squirrel a jumper, a tissue, and a rubbish bin to throw the tissue in.
- Prefer Jail to the Protagonist: At one point during Becky's practice montage with her accordion, the Amazing Rope Guy is just about to escape from prison, only to think better of it when she walks past in front of him, playing the accordion.
- Pun-Based Title: The title is a pun on the phrase "according to tradition".
- Thief Bag: After Granny May's crime montage, she flies over the city in her jet suit while carrying her loot in a burlap bag.
- This Is Gonna Suck: When WordGirl finally catches up with Granny May after an extended air chase and removes her rocket, Granny May's only response before starting to fall to the ground is a resigned "Oh boy".
- Wronski Feint: WordGirl evades the two yarn missiles Granny May launches at her by leading them into a water tower and a billboard instead.
"Can't Touch This" contains the following tropes:
- Double Take:Mr. Botsford: It's just not right to barge into someone's secret hideout and tinker with all their stuff without their permission.
Becky: I totally agree.
Mr. Botsford: So I say we stand over here in the corner and wait for WordGirl.
Becky: Yes, that's a— Wait, what? - It Was Here, I Swear!: When the Whammer finds WordGirl's secret hideout, he runs off to fetch the other villains. By the time they get there, Bob has gotten the spaceship's engines started and piloted it away, leaving only a crater behind.
- Look Behind You: When the Whammer starts getting suspicious about how WordGirl seems to be hiding something when she doesn't want to let him chase after the squirrel that stole his sandwich, she distracts him by claiming that the squirrel is behind him.
- Oh, Crap!: Becky has a moment of this when she realises that her family is heading straight towards the rocket that brought her to Earth.Becky: [in response to Bob shrieking in alarm] What, Bob, what?! [Bob points at WordGirl's rocket in the distance. Becky looks alarmed.] That's what.
- Tempting Fate: At the beginning of the episode, the narrator says that the Botsfords are enjoying "the tranquility of nature". Cue TJ yelling to their mother that Becky won't share her water.
- Titled After the Song: The episode title is a reference to the song by MC Hammer.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The Whammer initially doesn't find a spaceship crashed in the woods to be very noteworthy. It's only when he realises that it has WordGirl's colours and symbol that he's interested.
- Villain Has a Point: When WordGirl scolds the Whammer for breaking trees that aren't his property, he points out that he's only doing that to catch the squirrel who took his sandwich, which is his property. She concedes that he has a point about the squirrel being the one in the wrong.
- What Does This Button Do?: When WordGirl finally gives the Botsfords permission to play with one thing in her spaceship at the end of the episode, TJ pushes a button that causes the airborne spaceship to fall straight to the ground.
