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Recap / Word Girl S 7 E 3 El Queso Mysterioso Putt With Honor

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Original airdate: August 6th, 2014

El Queso Mysterioso: Dr. Two-Brains strikes during Botsford family time. This part's associated vocabulary words are "illusion" and "influence".

Putt With Honor: Eileen cheats against TJ at golf. This part's associated vocabulary words are "tournament" and "concentrate".


"El Queso Mysterioso" contains the following tropes:

  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: As the Botsford family enters the magicians' convention, TJ is impressed by a magician doing card tricks, another pulling a rabbit out of a hat, and a third one sitting in a chair having a snack break.
  • Bilingual Bonus: "El Queso Mysterioso" translates to "The Mysterious Cheese" in English.
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: One of Dr. Two-Brains' henchman proclaims that the sticker factory has all his favorite stickers: unicorns, starfish, daffodils, starfish holding daffodils while riding unicorns...
  • Don't Explain the Joke: When Dr. Two-Brains makes a bad pun about WordGirl "sticking around" because they're in a sticker factory, his unimpressed henchmen decide to leave. Dr. Two-Brains lamely tries to explain his joke before running after them.
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: Captain HuggyFace stops Dr. Two-Brains and his henchmen in the bank by throwing Dr. Two-Brains at the henchmen.
  • Immediate Self-Contradiction: While at the magicians' convention, Mr. Botsford says that he's not one to get easily excited, only to be instantly awed by El Mysterioso's tent.
  • Lame Pun Reaction: Downplayed. As Dr. Two-Brains and his henchmen laugh about having trapped WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace in two piles of stickers, Dr. Two-Brains makes a pun about the heroes are going to have to "stick around". His henchmen, clearly unimpressed, promptly stop laughing and start to make their leave.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Played for laughs. El Mysterioso chooses Becky as the volunteer for his next trick and fires a beam of light at her just as she and Bob fly off to stop Dr. Two-Brains, making it look to him and the crowd like he vaporised them. The audience thinks it's All Part of the Show, but El Mysterioso is horrified.
  • Pooled Funds: Dr. Two-Brains' henchmen do this with dollar bills at the bank for one of the heists they plan, with Two-Brains himself acting as a lifeguard.
  • Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: Several magicians are shown doing this at the magicians' convention.
  • Saw a Woman in Half: Becky's family take part in a three-person variant of this trick at the magicians' convention.
  • Sure, Let's Go with That: After Becky coincidentally turns into WordGirl and flies out and in at the same time as El Mysterioso fires his fake lightning as her seat, making it look like he made her disappear and reappear, Mr. Botsford asks if the reason she kept disappearing during the convention was because she was working on a trick with El Mysterioso. Becky decides to go with it.
  • Saying Too Much: As Dr. Two-Brains and his henchmen are about to get away with robbing the taco shop, the speaking henchman lets it slip that their next target is the sticker factory, apparently unaware that you're not supposed to tell your enemy where you're going next.

"Putt With Honor" contains the following tropes:

  • Artificial Limbs: Mr. Needlemeyer, the owner of the mini-golf course, has a golf club as a peg leg.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Throughout the episode, Bob keeps taking photos of the children competing in the mini-golf tournament. At the end of the episode, he uses these photos to prove that Eileen cheated and doesn't deserve to be in the hall of fame.
  • Instantly Proven Wrong: When Becky declares her intention to enter the mini-golf tournament, TJ tells her that she won't win, because he's unstoppable. Cue his golf cart getting stuck on a rock.
  • Jet Pack: Putt Putt McGillicuddy, the previous winner of the mini-golf tournament, inexplicably flies around with one.
  • Meaningful Name: Unsurprisingly, a boy named Putt Putt McGillicuddy is a mini-golf champ.
  • Mini-Golf Episode: TJ, Becky, and Eileen compete against each other in a mini-golf tournament for a place on the golf course's hall of fame.
  • Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Eileen demands that Mr. Needlemeyer take Becky's picture down from the hall of fame and put her picture up instead, Mr. Needlemeyer staunchly refuses, claiming that he couldn't look himself in the mirror if he let a cheater be on his hall of fame. Becky, who also cheated so she wouldn't have to share the win spot with Eileen, feels guilty when she hears this and decides to confess her wrongdoing.
  • Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Eileen does this as she slowly putts her golf ball towards the hole.
    Eileen: Putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt... putt.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: When Becky tries to defend herself after admitting to cheating by explaining that she only did it so Eileen, who also cheated, wouldn't win, TJ points out that would still mean he lost to a cheater.

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